FloPS – Florence Population Studies – is delighted to invite submissions for the 2019 Divorce Conference, to be held in Florence, Italy, 17-19 October, 2019.
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2019.
Please see the attached Call for Papers for further information.
Additional information on the conference can be found at:
https://2019divorceconference.
Keynote speakers:
Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland
Aart Liefbroer, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI
Two-week intensive course on Living Conditions and Demographic Change in Pre-Industrial Societies.
Lund, Sweden, 2-12 September 2019.
Deadline of application: 1 May 2019.
The Center for Economic Demography and Department of Economic History at Lund University will host a two-week intensive course on Living Conditions and Demographic Change in Pre-Industrial Societies from September 2-12, 2019.
This advanced course in economic demography equips students with sources and methods for analysing living standards in the past. Using event-history analysis and combining longitudinal individual level demographic data with information on socioeconomic factors at household level, and macro data on food prices, wages, temperature, and rainfall, we investigate short and long-term economic stress and early life exposures on later life outcomes as well as intergenerational social and biological transfers.
How to apply:
Apply via email to jeanne.cilliers.7367@ekh.lu.se, by sending:
Application deadline is 1 May 2019.
More information can be found here and here. Questions regarding application can be directed to jeanne.cilliers.7367@ekh.lu.se
Information of admittance will be sent on 31 May 2019. A maximum of 20 students will be admitted.
Please feel free to circulate within your respective networks.
CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: 30 APRIL 2019)
Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia
| DATE | : | 20-21 August 2019 |
| VENUE | : | AS8, Level 4, Seminar Room 04-04 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 National University of Singapore @ Kent Ridge Campus |
| WEBSITE | : | https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/1d37771d-f672-4bf2-8c40-54a4df26e8de |
Organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and supported by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Migration matters are spatial and temporal matters. Under increasingly unstable global conditions, migration is not only increasing but also diversifying. Although there remains much to be learnt from European and North American contexts, existing conceptualizations of urban diversity also remain inadequate for capturing the distinctive diversity of Asian cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong (Roy and Ong, 2011). Arrival cities, such as those in Asia, are shaped by wide-ranging temporal and spatial dimensions of migrant-driven diversification (Lai, Collins and Yeoh, 2013; Saunders, 2010). Transnational migrants from an ever-increasing range of backgrounds are moving into cities as low-waged labour migrants, high-status expatriates, student migrants and marriage migrants (Yeoh, 2013). These closely related processes of migration and diversification have prompted greater scrutiny of how contemporary arrival cities incorporate increasingly diverse groups of newcomers. Further, the expansion of cities is increasingly premised upon the expansion of migrant management. Various modes of migrant management include and exclude in different ways, generating different migrant subjectivities (Ye, 2017; 2018). It can be argued that the productive power of migrant management at the scales of policy and the everyday plays a significant role in reproducing migrant-led diversification (Nail, 2015; Ye, 2018). These processes of inclusion and exclusion that are integral to migrant-led diversification also unfold unevenly across the cityscape, inhering in specific sites and locales with different outcomes. Places such as the lawn (Watson, 2009), public transport (Wilson, 2011), weekend enclaves (Goh, 2014), retail spaces (Yeoh and Huang, 1998) and markets (Terruhn and Ye, under review) are spaces where both newcomers and longer term residents co-exist with difference of various configurations. Examining these everyday spaces of urban life, social science scholarship is now raising new questions about the study of social difference. On the one hand, these are spaces of exclusion, discrimination, and prejudice and on the other, they can also be spaces of mixing, integration and living with difference.
Indeed, migrant-led (super)diversification in these cities is transforming how difference is generated, experienced, and managed (Amin, 2012; Nayak, 2017; Vertovec, 2007). That is to say, the diversification of peoples in the city is also paralleled by the diversification of migrant management and, consequently, how various migrants themselves challenge and reinscribe the dominant use of spaces in the city. Instead of beginning with the conventional focus on exclusion and expulsion, the key theoretical point of departure for this workshop is that inclusion and exclusion are both sides of the same coin. Our conversations will think through the constitution of “diversity” by examining how various migrant groups are differently included.
Paper proposals might respond to the following questions in the context of arrival cities across Asia:
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Submissions should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email contact. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. By participating in the workshop, you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organizers. The organizers will provide hotel accommodation for three nights and a contribution towards airfare for accepted paper participants (one author per paper).
Please submit your proposal using the provided template to Ms Tay Minghua at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg no later than 30 April 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in mid May 2019. Participants will be required to send in a completed draft paper (5,000-8,000 words) by 31 July 2019.
WORKSHOP CONVENORS
Dr Junjia YE
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
E | jjye@ntu.edu.sg
Prof Brenda S.A. YEOH
Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
E | geoysa@nus.edu.sg
Call for papers
International Workshop on Subnational Life Tables
15-17 October 2019 at the Australian National University, Canberra
Extended deadline for submission of abstracts : 15th April, 2019
The School of Demography at the Australian National University and the Human Mortality Database team invites submissions for an International Workshop on Subnational Life Tables. The seminar will focus on mortality at the subnational level, with particular interest in studies using country-specific databases related to the Human Mortality Database (HMD). The HMD is the leading source of mortality and population data at the national level and contains detailed data for over 40 populations.
See attachment for detailed call for papers.
14th Supercentenarian Seminar Paris, November 2019
Call for papers
In the prolongation of the series started in Rostock in 2000, the 14th International Seminar on Supercentenarians will be organized by the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) in Paris on November 28-29, 2019.
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2019
Collecting and analysing international data on supercentenarians (individuals who lived 110 years or more) is crucial to gather information needed to measure the age-specific mortality risks at very old age and to select the best models to adjust life tables at the oldest ages. Two challenges have to be faced: how to increase the number of observations at ages when they become very rare, and to strictly check the quality of the information at ages when age exaggeration can be frequent. For two decades an international group of researchers explored that field, by building the International Database on Longevity (IDL) and producing papers and books through their participation to the first 13 seminars. Time has come to open this collective work more widely to all interested researchers by launching a general call for papers for the 14th seminar.
To be sure that most important items are covered the following list of themes (short, but not exclusive) is proposed:
Please send proposals to super100_seminar@listes.ined.fr as soon as possible and not later than May 15 indicating the title and a short abstract (compulsory). Of course adding a longer summary or even a full paper if available is not forbidden!
A small scientific committee will select the most interesting proposals. It will make decisions before the end of June.
Please note that INED will cover collective expenses (meeting rooms, facilities, etc.) but not for individual travel and living expenses (with only very few exceptions under justified requests).
France Meslé, Jean-Marie Robine, Jacques Vallin and Jim Vaupel
Genus call for papers: Thematic Issue on “Changes in the sexual behavior of young people”
Submission deadline: 30 September 2019
This thematic series will assess recent changes in the sexual behavior of young people, and is particularly interested in contributions that address the topic from a life course perspective, or that consider gender dynamics, at-risk behaviors, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual satisfaction, sexual harassment, sexuality and peers, sexuality and parenting and age norms, non-heterosexual orientation and behaviors, or methods to collect and verify data on youth sexual behavior, both in developed and developing countries.
Authors are kindly invited to submit their manuscript through the journal submission system, following the standard requirements detailed in the submission guidelines for Genus.
For more information please see https://genus.springeropen.com/changes-sexual-behavior
Call for papers
International conference: Demographic Challenges in Africa: The Contributions of Census and Civil Registration Data
Paris, 16-18 October 2019
Organized by DEMOSTAF in partnership with INED, AFD, IUSSP, UNFPA, and MEAE
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2019
This conference aims to shed light on current research into sociodemographic dynamics in Africa by drawing on public statistics data, in particular censuses and CRVS.
Proposals should be submitted by 15 April in the form of a short abstract and a long abstract (or manuscript) in French or English via email to contact_demostaf@listes.ined.fr
More information about the conference and the submission process : https://demostaf.site.ined.fr/en/news/conference/
Join the debates about interrelationships between aging and technologies:
Nick Alexander Guldemond
Netherlands
Anu Siren
Denmark/Finland
Jonathan Rutherford
Czechia/UK
The conference is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague and is attended by Minister of Health of the Czech Republic.
Using modern technology can undoubtedly improve the lives of the older people. However, technological progress also comes with a dark side, as older people can be at risk of insufficient technological skills and are vulnerable to abuse.
Preliminary conference program available here. Working language of the conference is English.
CSDE Affiliate Jody Early, Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and Health Studies at University of Washington – Bothell, has just received a national award recognizing her excellence as a mentor. Early received the Karen Denard Goldman Mentor Award from the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), a nonprofit association that represents health education professionals and students. The award honors SOPHE members who have distinguished themselves as mentors through professional development and by linking research and practice.
Early’s former students and colleagues nominated her for the award. One of them, Sloane Burke Winklemann, now a professor at California State University Northridge, wrote: “As a first generation college student, and now public health professor, who is part Latina, I am astutely aware of the importance a mentor can make in one’s life. Dr. Early tirelessly gives of herself to mentor and guide students as they progress from early scholars to career professionals in public health and beyond.”
Early is a social scientist and health education specialist. Her research, teaching and praxis span over 20 years and are greatly influenced by Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, Uri Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, and bell hooks’ writings on radical education and transnational feminist. Her work with and in communities is rooted in principles of community-based participatory research and the influence of socio-ecological factors on health and health disparities.
In 2015, high rates of microcephaly were reported in Northeast Brazil following the first South American Zika virus outbreak. CSDE Affiliate Ali Mokdad, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health, is part of a large collaborative effort to understand the association between the Zika outbreak and microcephaly in Brazil between 2015 and 2017. The article, published in PLoS Medicine, merges data from multiple national reporting databases in Brazil to estimate exposure to 9 known or hypothesized causes of microcephaly for every pregnancy nationwide since the beginning of the Zika outbreak, analyzing over 4 million births.
The association between Zika and microcephaly was statistically tested against models with alternative causes or with effect modifiers. The authors found no evidence for alternative non-Zika causes of the 2015-2017 microcephaly outbreak. They estimate an absolute risk of microcephaly of 40.8 per 10,000 births and a relative risk of 16.8 given Zika infection in the first or second trimester of pregnancy. The study therefore strengthens the evidence that congenital Zika infection, particularly in the first 2 trimesters of pregnancy, is associated with microcephaly and less frequently with other birth defects. The finding of no alternative causes for geographic differences in microcephaly rate leads authors to hypothesize that the Northeast region was disproportionately affected by this Zika outbreak, with 94% of an estimated 8.5 million total cases occurring in this region.