Our last newsletter of the year is here! Find it over on the newsletter tab. We revived the newsletter this Spring to reach all of you young historical demographers outside of conferences and social media. It’s safe to say that it’s been a great success so far. We want to thank all of you who are already following along on our mailing list, and to those of you not yet on it, you can sign up here. We will be…
Our November newsletter is now live! Visit the “Newsletter” page to read it. If you’d like to feature an event, job opening, or an early-career researcher’s paper—published or pre-print—in the next edition, please reach out to Joris (joris.kok at iisg.nl) or Emma (egd28 at cam.ac.uk) with the details. We’d love to hear from you!
The fifth edition of our newsletter is now live! Head over to the “Newsletter” page to check it out. If you have an event, job opening, or an early-career researcher’s paper—published or pre-print—that you’d like featured in the upcoming edition, please send the details to Joris (joris.kok at iisg.nl) or Emma (egd28 at cam.ac.uk). We’d love to hear from you!
Our friends at the European Society for Historical Demography have announced the themes of their monthly webinars for this Spring. You can find them below and on their website. 27 February 2024 Speaker: Gabriele Ruiu (University of Sassari, Italy) Title: The diffusion of kindergartens in Italy at the end of the 19th Century Discussant: Luminita Dumanescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, the Netherlands) 26 March 2024 Speaker: Bogdan Mateescu (RomanianAcademy, Romania) Title: Beyond the traditional “father and class”: The Study of Romanian Rural…
We had a blast in Prague, where the 14th Conference of Young Demographers took place on February 8th-10th. Of the many great contributions, there was a good handful of papers/posters with historical perspectives on demography. We are thankful to Anna and the other local organizers for including us. If you weren’t there, you can get a glimpse of the highlights from this Twitter thread:
To be able to strengthen the field of historical demography, it is important that junior researchers (including PhD candidates and/or early-career postdoctoral fellows/associates) also have a platform to interact with each other. The Association for Young Historical Demographers (AYHD) is looking for new executive board members, who will contribute in addressing important issues, and questions in the field of historical demography. If you are interested in any of the following positions, please get in touch with our secretary, Evelien Walhout,…
It was great to see so many young demographers at the 3rd European Society of Historical Demography Conference in Pécs last week! Engaging presentations, fruitful discussions, comments on the future of our association and a wonderful social. Our President Tim Riswick was also awarded the Roger Schofield Award to recognise the best paper presented by a young demographer at the ESHD Conference – congratulations! To remind everyone… Have you you have recently published an article? Or feel there is a…
Since our last newsletter we have mainly focused on organizing formal and informal events to take place at the European Society for Historical Demography Conference in Pécs, Hungary. In the preliminary program of the conference, there is already a round table on ‘The Future of the Association for Young Historical Demographers’ scheduled to take place on Friday, 28 June, between 14:00-15:45. However, we will kick-off the conference with two one-hour informal sessions on Wednesday 26 June, between 14:00-16:00. The first session is ‘Building an Academic…
A few weeks ago we organized a very successful ‘Day for Young Historical Demographers’ together with the LONGPOP-INT project, the European Society for Historical Demography, the Young Demographers and all their partners at Charles University in Prague. This was part of the 10th Conference for Young Demographers. More than 40 young (historical) demographers participated by giving oral and poster presentations or by attending the workshops by Vlad Popovici and Petr Tureček on how to deal with historical demographic sources and…
On behalf of the Young Demographers, Department of Demography and Geodemography, the Geographical Institute (Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science), LONGPOP-INT, the European Society for Historical Demography, and the Association for Young Historical Demographers we would like to invite you to the the Day for Young Historical Demographers (6-02-2019) and 10th Demographic Conference of Young Demographers (7&8-02-2019) in Prague! Check out the call and program for the Day for Young Historical Demographers! Check out the call for the 10th Demographic Conference…