Events

Annual workshop organised by the Economic Demography research unit This workshop will begin with a keynote speech by Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University). Three interdisciplinary scientific sessions will follow: "Childcare and early schooling", "Childhood health and development" and "The effects on maternal employment".   Registration is mandatory via the Ined website   [...]

The 25th Annual Postgraduate Population Studies Conference (PopFest) will take place in Stockholm May 31st - June 2nd 2017. PopFest is an annual Population Studies conference for PhD students organized by fellow PhDs. It aims to provide a relaxed and supportive environment for students to come together to present their work and provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various Social Science disciplines.  More information: http://www.sociology.su.se/popfest2017 [...]

The Conference is organized by the Centre of Migration Research and will be hosted by the University of Warsaw. It aims at discussing major challenges faced by rapidly ageing societies and, in particular, presenting main outcomes of Mig/Ageing project (entitled Unfinished migration transition and ageing population in Poland. Asynchronous population changes and the transformation of formal and informal care institutions), financed between 2013 and 2017 by the Poland’s National Science Centre (http://migageing.uw.edu.pl/). [...]

The Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference on the 8-9th of June 2017 in Budapest on issues related to institutional reforms in ageing societies.   [...]

The 20th Nordic Demographic Symposium will be held on June 14–16, 2017 in Turku (Åbo), on the southwest coast of Finland. The biannual symposium brings together researchers, students and other experts especially from the Nordic and Baltic countries. [...]

As part of the Demography Today lecture series, Jean Marie Robine (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) will be giving a talk on "The revolution of adult longevity".   [...]

The workshop "Joint welfare and self-interest in families: Striking a balance between the individual, the family, and the community" is organised by a team from the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS and the NCCR LIVES at the University of Lausanne in the framework of the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, which will take place from 21 to 23 June 2017 in Zurich. Deadline for submission is February 25. [...]

Deutschland altert. Aber wie verteilen wir die Lasten?   Podiumsdiskussion aus Anlass der Veröffentlichung des „Grünbuchs Alternde Gesellschaft – Wie das „Neue Altern“ unsere Gesellschaft verändert“   [...]

GGP User Conference Call for Papers (6-7 July 2017, Berlin) [...]

The 16th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL homepage) ‘Family Law and Family Realities’ will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 25 July to 29 July 2017 at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. The Conference will be dedicated to the subject whether existing national family laws adequately reflect the rapidly changing realities of family life. In various parts of the world both academic lawyers and practitioners are no longer content with focusing on family law alone. [...]