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ESHD webinars Spring 2024

February 20, 2024 Mads Perner

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…

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14th Conference of Young Demographers

February 14, 2023 Mads Perner

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:

Open Call for New Board Members

February 23, 2022 Michail Raftakis

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,…

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Young historical demographers at the ESHD Conference-June 2019

July 12, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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FROM THE BOARD-NEWSLETTER 2019-2

May 14, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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FROM THE BOARD– NEWSLETTER 2019-1

March 13, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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Day for Young Historical Demographers & Conference of Young Demographers (6-8 February 2019)

October 15, 2018 Tim Riswick

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…

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From the board – Newsletter 2017-3

September 11, 2017 Tim Riswick

Behind the scenes a lot of things are happing again in our association. And of course we would like to share the most important issues with you too. We are trying to create more opportunities to interact both online and offline with all young historical demographers. While the final efforts are made to organize an informal event at the International Population Conference of the IUSSP in Cape Town on Monday 30 October (keep an eye out on the Facebook page…

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Research Methods in Historical Demography Summer School, Barcelona 4-8th Sept 2017

May 15, 2017 Edward Morgan

Dear colleagues, The Association of Historical Demography of Spain and Portugal will hold a summer school in Historical Demography in Barcelona from 4th to 8th September 2017. The course aims at providing tools for the construction of Databases in both transversal and longitudinal designs, as well as teaching the main analytical techniques currently used. The school will be taught by the best researchers in historical and contemporary research and will include presentations by Anna Cabré (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Elisabeth Engberg…

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