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Useful information from the student society "Demographer"
Schools, Seminars
Training Workshops on Leveraging Big Data for Sustainable Development (French)
Place: Dakar, Senegal
Time: 6-8 March 2018
Deadline: 26 February 2018
http://www.unssc.org/courses_pdf?nid=134984
Training Workshops on Leveraging Big Data for Sustainable Development (English)
Place: Bangkok, Thailand
Time: 27-29 May 2018
Deadline: 26 February 2018
http://unssc.org/courses_pdf?nid=135041
A five-day intensive course “Causal Inference with Graphical Models”
Place: Rostock, Germany
Date: 25-29 June 2018
Deadline: 28 February 2018
http://www.rostock-retreat.org/
ESA PhD Summer School 2018: "Reinventing sociology in uncertain times"
Place: Paris, France
Time: 27-29 June 2018 г.
Deadline: 28 February 2018
https://www.europeansociology.org/esa-phd-summer-school-2018
The European Doctoral School of Demography
Place: Odense, Denmark
Date: 3-5 September 2018
Deadline: 15 March 2018
http://www.eds-demography.org
The social impact of epidemics: A workshop marking 100 years of the Great Flu Epidemic
Place: Oslo, Norway
Date: 3-5 September 2018
Deadline: 15 March 2018
Organized by the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo and Akershus University College, the Norwegian Demographic Society and the EAPS Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality (HMMWG)
Epidemics are the natural meeting ground between human civilisations and microscopic organisms. When they meet, some members of the human social group may die, others develop immunity, and the organism may subsequently mutate to the point where it can overcome that immunity. Neither human groups nor those of microorganisms are homogenous, however. For example, some sections of the human group will be more affected and others less, both immediately and over time, as the result of going through the disease itself, or because of social adversities following bereavement and disruption. Consequently, major epidemics are likely to have major effects on the subsequent evolution of society.
The purpose of this workshop will be to focus on these social consequences of major epidemics – the influenza epidemic of 100 years ago and others. We wish to address questions such as: What types of social groups were more and which less, affected by the epidemic? What are the most important factors that influenced the differential impact of the epidemic among groups? What effect, if any, did the epidemic have on social relations and future social developments? Specifically, did it have an impact on marriage, fertility and migration? How did the survivors of the disease and the bereaved spouses and children cope socially and economically later in life? Also, did the knowledge of differential social susceptibility during historical epidemics affect subsequent preventive actions? And how do these insights help us prepare for avoiding socially unjust epidemics in the future?
As in previous HMMWG workshops, there is no participation fee, but participants are expected to cover their own fares and accommodation.
Closing date for abstracts: 15 March 2018
Please submit to: Svenn-Erik Mamelund Svenn-Erik.Mamelund@afi.hioa.no
Responses and tentative programme by the end of April 2018
The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD)
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Time: 25 June – 27 July 2018 г.
Deadline: 31 March 2018
http://ced.uab.es/courses/barcelona-summer-school-of-demography/
"Life Table and Decomposition Analysis for Population Health Research (using R)
Place: Rostock, Germany
Date: 11-20 June 2018
Deadline: 10 April 2018
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/education_career/international_advanced_studies_in_demography_3279/
upcoming_courses_3762/life_table_and_decomposition_analysis_for_population_health_research_using_r_5559/default.htm
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