Michail Raftakis – Association for Young Historical Demographers

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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FROM THE BOARD – 2020-3

December 18, 2020 Michail Raftakis

On Friday 18 December we had our latest board meeting, you can find the minutes below

FROM THE BOARD – 2020-2

May 5, 2020 Michail Raftakis

On Tuesday 5 May we had our latest board meeting, you can find the minutes below

FROM THE BOARD – 2020-1

January 17, 2020 Michail Raftakis

On Friday 17 January we had our latest board meeting, you can find the minutes below

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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