From the AYHD Board
QUARTERLY SEMINAR SERIES
It’s official, we are kicking off our new seminar series!
Are you interested in presenting anything from a research idea to a full paper in a friendly and informal setting? Fill in this → form ← and we will add you to our programme, there are times available throughout the year.
We will meet online and have half an hour for each presentation, including discussion. Whether you are looking to present or only want to attend, stay tuned for more information in the next newsletter!
PAA SOCIAL EVENT
If you are attending PAA this year, please join us for a social event on Friday, 8th May! We will meet from 19:30 at the BLT’s at 626 N 6th Street, together with people from IPUMS, the Life Course Center and the Minnesota Population Center. We look forward to seeing you there!
Spotlight Article
Every newsletter we will spotlight one article or working paper by a young historical demographer or researcher in an adjacent field. Would you like to have your work shared or do you know a recent paper that deserves to be spotlighted? Send an email to Joris (joris.kok@iisg.nl) with information on the research you would like to see shared.
This newsletter’s spotlight article is:
Multigenerational and Gender-Symmetric Transmission of Migration Behaviors in Historical Quebec
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by
Marielle Côté-Gendreau (Princeton University). You can read the full article here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522792123.
Events and deadlines
Early-Career Researcher Prize, Population Journal
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ Population Journal Website
Barcelona Summer School of Demography
Module 2: Demography with R
📍 CED, Barcelona
📆 6-10 July 2026
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ CED
Posthumus Research Workshop
‘Mortality, Morbidity, and Medicine: Historical Health and Demography across the Atlantic’
📍 Groningen
📆 8 June 2026
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
GreatLeap WG5 Communications Masterclass
📍 Riga
📆 24-28 August 2026
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Economic History Society Research Fund for Graduate Students
📍 United Kingdom
⏰ 1 May 2026
ℹ️ Economic History Society
GreatLeap Workshop
‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’
📍 University of the Balearic Islands
📆 2-3 July 2026
⏰ 1 May 2026
ℹ️ IUSSP
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA 2026)
📍 St. Louis, Missouri
📆 6-9 May 2026
ℹ️ PAA
Workshop: Modern British History and the ‘Environmental Turn’
📍 University of Oxford
📆 16-17 September 2026
⏰ 15 May 2026
ℹ️ BlueSky
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Early Career Workshop
‘Decentring the Medical Humanities’
📍 University of Stirling
📆 29-30 October 2026
⏰ 15 May 2026
ℹ️ NNMH
Annual Workshop on Formal Demography
📍 UC Berkeley
📆 1-5 June 2026
⏰ 26 May 2025
ℹ️ UC Berkeley
Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’
📍 Utrecht
📆 6-10 July 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
WaSH Workshop
‘Faecal-oral diseases and ‘Sanitary Revolutions’ – the long view’
📍 Cambridge
📆 15-16 June 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026 (registration)
ℹ️ FamilyNex
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
⏰ 3 June 2026 | 27 May 2026 for independent scholars
ℹ️ BA
ESTER Research Design Course for PhD Candidates
📍 Leuven
📆 26-28 October 2026
⏰ 15 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference
📍 Leeds
📆 30 June – 3 July
ℹ️ SSHM
HEDG and SDU PhD Summer School
‘Historical Perspectives on Current Economics Issues: Big Data and Applications’
📍 Odense
📆 10-21 August 2026
⏰ 1 July 2026
ℹ️ SDU
Hybrid Conference
‘Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches’
📍 Hybrid: Online and Monash University
📆 23-24 July 2026
ℹ️ Monash
Call for Papers, Journal for the History of Environment and Society
Special issue
⏰ 31 August 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
Call for Submissions BMJ Medical History Special Issue
‘Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures’
⏰ 31 October 2026
ℹ️ mh.bmj.com
Vacancies
Health Disparities Research Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
📍 University of Wisconsin-Madison
⏰ Open
ℹ️ Link to more information
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Spatial History
📍 Binghamton University, New York
⏰ Open until filled
ℹ️ Link to more information
Postdoctoral Researcher on Family Formation Among Sexual Minorities
📍 NIDI
⏰ 5 May 2026
ℹ️ NIDI KNAW
PhD scholarship in Sociology and Social Research
📍 University of Trento
⏰ 14 May 2026
ℹ️ Link to call
Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Quantitative Sociology of Work & Labor Markets
📍 University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
⏰ 17 May 2026
ℹ️ Link to call
PhD position in Economic History
‘Health Inequalities Across Time and Space in Sweden, 1968–2023: Long-Term Regional, Social and Environmental Perspectives’
📍 Lund, Sweden
⏰ 18 May 2026
ℹ️ LU jobs
PhD position in Economic History
‘Greenspace Across the Life Course: Inequality, School Outcomes, and Later Health’
📍 Lund, Sweden
⏰ 18 May 2026
ℹ️ LU jobs
Professor/Associate Professor of Computational Social Sciences
📍 The University of Hong Kong
⏰ 31 May 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information
Would you like to contribute?
The AYHD welcomes suggestions for collaboration or cross-promotion with researchers and institutions across the landscape of historical demography and its allied fields! Whether you are looking to promote your own research, suggest a conference social, or volunteer time on our Board, please get in touch!
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