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In this issue: Registration is Open for IPC2025! ● Call for Research Leader Session Proposals ● Call for host country proposals for IPC 2029 ● Welcome to the new Affiliated Institutions ● ECR rehearsal session at APA 2024 ● Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development Workshop ● Scholarly Migration and Scientific Mobility Symposium ● The White Death as a Social Disease ● From Influenza to COVID ● PERN's updated website ● Forthcoming Workshop on Multiple Cause-of-Death Analysis ● Members news ● Regional population associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar International Population Conference Registration is Open for IPC2025!  To allow you to use 2024 funds, book your airfare and accommodation and plan your travels, the IUSSP decided to open registration for the 2025 International Population Conference in Brisbane early. The preliminary programme is being finalized and we will try to notify authors as soon as possible, beginning with those of papers accepted in the regular (oral) sessions. Call for Research Leader Session Proposals
Become a knowledge partner and raise awareness of your organization’s research and work in the population field. There are still some Research Leader Session slots on the IPC2025 conference programme. Deadline to submit: 1 April 2025. 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. IUSSP outreach Welcome to the new Affiliated Institutions The IUSSP is proud to announce its first six Affiliated Institutions: the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), NYU Abu Dhabi, the Population Foundation of India, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. We hope many more population centers across the globe will join IUSSP in 2025 as an Affiliated Institution to foster cooperation and increase the voice and relevance of population sciences. (Learn more about IUSSP Institutional affiliation and join.) IUSSP Panel activities ECR rehearsal session at APA 2024
Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development Workshop  Under the umbrella of the IUSSP Digital and Computational Demography Panel, the Digital Gender Gaps team at the University of Oxford hosted a workshop on 30 Sept-1 October 2024 on ‘Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development’. The workshop provided a space for discussions on the intersection of digital technology, gender inequality, and sustainable development. Scholarly Migration and Scientific Mobility Symposium  Under the umbrella of the IUSSP Digital and Computational Demography Panel, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research hosted on 15 October 2024 a Scholarly Migration and Scientific Mobility Symposium, which brought together 32 in-person participants and more than 110 online attendees. The White Death as a Social Disease  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on “Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past”, in collaboration with the University of Sassari and the EU-COST Action ‘The Great Leap’, organized this workshop on "Tuberculosis: The White Death as a Social Disease", in Alghero, Italy, 26–27 September 2024.  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on “Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past”, in collaboration with the EU-COST Action ‘The Great Leap’ and the Network “Retosdemográficos 2023-2025, organized this International Seminar "From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality" in Madrid, Spain on 14-15 November 2024.  After months of intense work, the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN)’s website has been upgraded, updated, and completely rebuilt. Please take a look at the redesigned website at its usual address. (https://populationenvironmentresearch.org/) Forthcoming International Workshop on Multiple Cause-of-Death Analysis  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death is pleased to announce that the 6th International Workshop on Multiple Cause-of-Death Analysis will be held in Barcelona (venue to be confirmed) on 16-17 October 2025. Submissions of presentation proposals are due by 31 March 2025. Members news
• Susan Cotts Watkins (1938-2024)  Susan Cotts Watkins died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Santa Monica on August 26, 2024, at the age of 85. Susan was an eminent demographer and sociologist and a leader in research on social networks, gender, fertility, and AIDS in Africa. She had joined the IUSSP in 1981 and served as a member of the Committee on Anthropological Demography (1998-2002). • Pierre Cantrelle (1926-2024)  Pierre Cantrelle, demographer at ORSTOM/IRD, died on November 7 at the age of 98. He played an important role in the development of African demography and was a long-time active member of the IUSSP, which he had joined in 1960. He helped organize the 1st African Regional Conference on Population, in Accra in 1971, organized by UNECA and IUSSP. Twenty-six new members and 28 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 September and 30 November 2024. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list) Regional population associations 2024 APA conference in Kathmandu, Nepal
2024 ALAP congress in Bogota, Colombia
The 11th Latin American Population Association (ALAP) Congress was held in Bogota, Colombia, from 9 to 13 December 2024 on "New" demographic scenarios: the contribution of population studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Read more on the ALAP 2024 website) Other Announcements Interested in a PhD in Demography at the LSE?  This PhD programme aims to provide you with the skills and competencies that will enable you to successfully undertake original primary research worthy of publication in the field of demography. You will begin on the MPhil, and will need to meet certain requirements to be upgraded to PhD status. Scholarships are available. Apply by the deadline of 15 January 2025.  Applications are now open for postgraduate study in Demography and Reproductive and Sexual Health with the Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). N-IUSSP
Calls
Training Training courses and workshops
Career and study opportunities Jobs/Fellowships/PhD Positions/Post-Docs
Calendar Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events
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 March 2025. 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 |
