In this issue: Countdown to IPC2025! ● Call for Research Leader Session Proposals ● Call for host country proposals for IPC 2029 ● Call for 2025 Early Career Awards nominations ● Call for 2025 IUSSP Laureate Award nominations ● Call for 2025 IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award nominations ● Members news ● Regional population associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar
International Population Conference Countdown to IPC2025!  The call for papers for the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025), in Brisbane, Australia, 13 to 18 July 2025, received submissions from 2,320 authors. Each submission will undergo a double review by two of the 316 volunteer population experts from the IUSSP membership, before consideration by Session Organizers and Theme Conveners for session proposals. Read more on the programme, side meetings, Research Leader Sessions, booths and other sponsorship opportunities. (Read more)
Call for Research Leader Session Proposals 
Become a knowledge partner and raise awareness of your organization’s research and work in the population field. A limited number of Research Leader Sessions are available on the IPC2025 conference programme. Deadline to submit: 1 December 2024. (Read more)
Call for host country proposals for IPC 2029 The IUSSP Council invites national population associations and other national institutions to consider hosting the XXXI International Population Conference in 2029. Formal bid proposals are requested for 15 March 2025, but in the meantime, expressions of interest are welcome. (Read more)
IUSSP awards Call for 2025 Early Career Awards nominations The IUSSP Early Career Awards, established in 2023, are offered in the following world regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. One award will be bestowed per region in a unique collaboration with UAPS, APA, EAPS, ALAP and the PAA. Deadline for nominations: 1 October 2024. (Read more)
Call for 2025 IUSSP Laureate Award The IUSSP Laureate Award honours exceptional achievements in the population field. Nominate a deserving colleague for the 2025 IUSSP Laureate Award. Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2024. (Read more)
Call for 2025 IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award  This Award honours a mid-career scientist of high international renown for the contribution of his or her work to the development of studies of population that draw on the perspectives of different disciplines and for the importance that this work has accorded to international comparisons. Deadline for nominations: 2 December 2024.
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Members news Members' new publications - Regulating Abortion: The Politics of U.S. Abortion Policy, by Deborah R. McFarlane and Wendy L. Hansen
- Enfance et famille au Mali. Trente ans d’enquêtes démographiques en milieu rural, edited by Véronique Hertrich and Olivia Samuel
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Members' published software This section advertises members’ software packages. These packages, which enhance the study of population, must be published in established repositories with rigorous peer testing and review. - Jeronimo O. Muniz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG) has published two Stata software packages for demographic estimation:
1/ mslt calculates the functions of a multistate life table and plots a graph of conditional and unconditional life expectancies by time.
2/ ilt calculates single decrement life tables and the net flow of migrants by age.
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New IUSSP members Fourteen new members and 22 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 June and 31 August 2024. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list)
Regional population associations 2024 APA conference in Kathmandu, Nepal  The 6th Asian Population Association Conference will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 27-30 November 2024. Note that the IUSSP Panel on Panel on Early Career Perspectives will organize an Early Career Researcher Symposium on 26 November as a side event.
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2024 ALAP congress in Bogota, Colombia 
The 11th Latin American Population Association (ALAP) Congress will be held in Bogota, Colombia, 9-13 December 2024 on "New" demographic scenarios: the contribution of population studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Read more)
2025 PAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC  The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) will be held in Washington, DC, United States from 10 to 13 April 2025 (from Thursday to Sunday). Deadline for Submissions: 29 September 2024.
(PAA Website)
Other Announcements Pursue a PhD in Demography at Princeton  The graduate program offered by the Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University welcomes applications from strong candidates around the world. For more information on the training program in Population Studies, read the attached flyer or visit the OPR website. The application deadline for Fall 2025 admission is 1 December 2024.
Developing an inclusive demography language  Students from the Master in Population Studies, University of Groningen, are working on a project to develop an inclusive demography language useful to the global demography community. The students are now looking in particular (but not exclusively) for researchers or students who have a visual impairment themselves. If you are interested in being interviewed by or brainstorming with the students please fill out the form by 30 September.
N-IUSSP  Recent articles
- Are migrants healthier than non-migrants? The case of Albanians in Italy, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Eralba Cela and Eleonora Trappolini
- Heatwaves and birthweight in Africa
Liliana Andriano - Effects of forest environment construction on physical activity, Huameng Tang, Dianqi Yuan and Chao Guo
- The crisis-driven shifts of Venezuelan migration patterns, Jenny Garcia Arias
- Disability-free grandparenthood in Italy: changes between 1998 and 2016, Margherita Moretti, Elisa Cisotto and Alessandra De Rose
- Older people’s age reporting: the case of Uganda, Alice Reid, Allen Kabagenyi, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Joshua Beinomugisha and Sarah Walters
- Europe’s COVID-19 death toll in 2020 and 2021: stark regional differences, Florian Bonnet, Pavel Grigoriev, Markus Sauerberg, Ina Alliger, Michael Mühlichen and Carlo-Giovanni Camarda
- A new method for measuring the educational gradient of period fertility in Europe, Angela Greulich and Laurent Toulemon
- Future fears: societal pessimism and fertility choices, Katya Ivanova and Nicoletta Balbo
- Return migrants: more children than migrants, fewer than nonmigrants, Marine Haddad and Ariane Pailhé
- Female education and fertility stalls in sub-Saharan Africa, Bruno Schoumaker and David A. Sánchez-Páez
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Calls Calls for papers - 2025 Annual Meeting, Population Association of America (PAA), Washington DC, United States, 10-13 April 2025. Deadline for Submissions: 29 September 2024
- 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference - Decentering migration studies, Paris & online, 1-4 July 2025. Deadline for submissions extended to 8 October 2024 (midnight CEST)
- Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on "Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas". Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024
- Symposium: Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity, Rostock, Germany, 19–21 March 2025. Deadline for submissions: 18 October 2024
- Special issue in Demographic Research on "Families’ resilience and the well-being of children and youth in contexts of global socioeconomic crises". Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2024
- Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione – PopDays 2025, Cagliari (Sardinia), Italy, 4-6 June 2025. Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2024
- Symposium: Measuring Migration in Latin America: Leveraging digital traces, registers, censuses, and surveys, Montevideo, Uruguay, 25-26 February 2025. Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2024 (23:59 CET)
- Special Issue of China Population and Development Studies on Low Fertility and Population Aging in Asian Countries. Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2024
Training Training courses and workshops - The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is offering an open course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography (4-8 November 2024) and encourages qualified candidates to apply. The course will be offered in a hybrid format: in-person for students in the PHDS network who are already in Rostock; online (via Zoom) for everyone else. Deadline for applications: 24 September 2024
- Formation régionale en genre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 18-29 novembre 2024. L'Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) de l'Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo offre cette formation vise à favoriser la prise en compte de la problématique du genre dans l’enseignement, la recherche, les politiques, les programmes et projets de développement. Date limite de candidature : 25 octobre 2024
- Barcelona Four Seasons School of Demography. Provided by the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), the Bcn4Seasons School consists of intensive courses offering the opportunity to acquire essential knowledge of sociodemographic topics and associated techniques.
Career and study opportunities Jobs/Fellowships/PhD Positions/Post-Docs - Assistant Professor of Sociology - Sex, Gender, and/or Sexuality University of Washington (United States). Deadline for applications: 14 October 2024
- Assistant Professor of Sociology - Health, Health Inequality, and/or Medical Sociology University of Washington (United States). Deadline for applications: 14 October 2024
- Assistant Professor, Social Dimensions of Hazards and Disasters Institute of Behavioral Science with Department of Sociology & Department of Geography University of Colorado Boulder (United States). Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024
- Senior Population Affairs Officer (P-5), United Nations Population Division (New York). Deadline for applications: 19 October 2024
- Post-Doc on “The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults’ life-course events”, Population Research Centre, of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Deadline for applications: 20 October 2024
- PhD position on “The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults’ life-course events”, Population Research Centre, of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Deadline for applications: 20 October 2024
- Post-doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University (United States). Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024
Calendar Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events - IUSSP Seminar: Tuberculosis: The White Death as a Social Disease, Alghero, Italy, 26–28 September 2024
- Quetelet Seminar 2024 - Behind and Beyond Numbers: Population Research Through Critical Lenses, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 7-8 November 2024
- IUSSP Seminar: From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality, Madrid, Spain,14-15 November 2024
- IUSSP Seminar: Improving measurement of abortion incidence and safety: Innovations in Methodology and recent empirical studies, Mombasa, Kenya, 19-21 November 2024
- Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2024 on “Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects", Vienna, Austria, 21-22 November 2024
- Early Career Researcher Symposium, organized by the IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives at the APA Conference, Kathmandu City, Nepal, 26 November 2024
- 6th Asian Population Association Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 27-30 November 2024
- 11th Latin American Population Association (ALAP) Congress, Bogota, Colombia, 9-13 December 2024
- 2025 International Population Conference (IPC2025), Brisbane, Australia, 13-18 July 2025
Submit your announcements Feel free to share news from your institution and region so that we can keep all IUSSP members informed about recent or forthcoming events and opportunities in the population field. IUSSP members are welcome to submit information on conferences, calls for papers, training, career or study opportunities as well as their recent publications or peer-reviewed software for inclusion in the newsletter and IUSSP website. Please send the information to contact@iussp.org and remember to include important dates for application deadlines (and photos when appropriate). Information should be sent by email or in a Word document so that it can be edited. For inclusion in the next Bulletin, please send information by 1 December 2024. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
IUSSP Bulletin / Bulletin de l’UIESP Publication Director: Mary Ellen Zuppan, IUSSP Executive Director ISSN: 2427–0059 |
