Increased cooperation with regional associations
At their most recent meeting, IUSSP Council members, led by the five “regional representatives” on the board, reiterated their wish to see the IUSSP reinforce its cooperation with the regional population associations, all of which share the IUSSP’s ultimate goal of promoting the scientific study of population, encouraging exchange between researchers around the globe, and stimulating interest in population issues.
The IUSSP contacted the regional population associations to offer to share the booth IUSSP booked at the Annual Meeting of the PAA and decided to hold a meeting to explore potential areas of cooperation.
From left to right: Gervais Beninguissé (UAPS); France Meslé, IUSSP Secretary general & Treasurer; Samuel Codjoe (UAPS); Enrique Pelaez, President of the ALAP, Latin-American Population Association; Jean François Kobiané, President of UAPS, the Union for AfricanPopulation Studies, at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in San Diego, 30 April-2 May 2015.
The IUSSP also decided to create a dedicated “corner” on the IUSSP home page listing the regional population associations, with a page for each of them to provide information in English and in French, on their organization and its activities. The Francophone demographers' association, AIDELF, was added to this list of regional associations.
Furthering its decision to help UAPS collect its membership dues, the IUSSP website also now allows UAPS members to pay their UAPS dues independently from any transaction for IUSSP dues, using the IUSSP virtual payment platform. This has been set up on a trial basis. To pay your UAPS dues, click here.
Several regional associations are organizing their Conference in the near future: • APA: Third Asian Population Association Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-30 July 2015 • UAPS: 7th African Population Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 November-4 December 2015. (Call for Papers deadline: 31 July 2015) • AIDELF: 19th international conference, Strasbourg, France, 21-24 June 2016. (Call for Papers deadline: 15 Sept. 2015) • PAA: PAA 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., United States, 31 March-2 April 2016. • EAPS: 2016 European Population Conference, Mainz, Germany, 31 August-3 September 2016. (Call for Papers deadline: 15 Dec. 2015) • ALAP: VII ALAP-XX ABEP Congress, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 17-21 October 2016. (Read concept note)
Terry Hull (left), President of the Asian Population Association; Paul Monet, IUSSP Deputy Executive Director (centre); Enrique Pelaez, President of the ALAP, Latin-American Population Association (right) at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in San Diego, 30 April-2 May 2015. |
The IUSSP and regional population associations will also share a booth at the forthcoming conference of the Asian Population Association in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-30 July 2015.