From the AYHD Board
Work in Progress Seminar Series launching soon!
We are excited to be launching a quarterly seminar series for early-career historical demographers to share research ideas and work in progress in a friendly and informal setting. We are starting to put together the presentations for the first meeting in June and you can sign up to contribute to that or other dates throughout the coming year by filling out → this form ←! Stay tuned for more information about the first meeting, and get in touch with the board with any questions or suggestions!
AYHD AT EPC
AYHD board members Serena Vigezzi and Hampton Gaddy will be at the upcoming European Population Conference in Bologna (3-6 June) and are looking forward to connecting to early-career researchers there! AYHD will be represented at the EAPS PhD network event on Wednesday 3rd at 10:00 at the Belmeloro complex and at the EDSD party on Thursday June 4th, at Spiller from 19:30/20:00.
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 (j.kok@qub.ac.uk) with information on the research you would like to see shared.
This newsletter, rather than spotlighting an individual article, we’d like to spotlight the Special Issue:
‘Chasing Moving Targets’
Published by The History of the Family marking the 30th anniversary of the journal, and in honour of Jan Kok (Radboud University). You can read the full issue here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/31/2.
Events and deadlines
Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’
📍 Utrecht, NL
📆 6-10 July 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
Call for Papers of the Joint Ineqkill & Quetelet Conference
‘How Inequality Kills. Health Inequalities across time and space’
📍 Université Catholique de Louvain, BE
📆 18-20 November 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026
ℹ️ UCL
WaSH Workshop
‘Faecal-oral diseases and Sanitary Revolutions – the long view’
📍 Cambridge, UK
📆 15-16 June 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026 (registration)
ℹ️ Registration form and draft programme
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
⏰ 3 June 2026 | 27 May 2026 for independent scholars
ℹ️ BA
European Population Conference
📍 Bologna, IT
📆 3-6 June
ℹ️ EAPS
ESTER Research Design Course for PhD Candidates
📍 Leuven
📆 26-28 October 2026
⏰ 15 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus Institute
Workshop: The Economics of Demographic Shocks in the Long Run
📍 Wageningen University
📆 29-30 October 2026
⏰ 26 June 2026
ℹ️ CEPR
Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference
📍 Leeds
📆 30 June – 3 July
ℹ️ SSHM
Master of Science Degree in Demography
📍 Florida State University
⏰ 1 July 2026
ℹ️ FSU
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
Call for Papers Special Issue Demographic Research
Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities
⏰ 15 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
Vacancies
Postdoctoral position in Historical Political Economy
📍 Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics and World Economy at the University of Barcelona
⏰ 5 June 2026
ℹ️ University of Barcelona
Fellowship: Unlocking the National Trust Sound Archive
📍 National Trust Sound Archive
⏰ 5 June 2026
ℹ️ National Trust
Postdoctoral Scholar “Migratory Expertise and Practices of Knowledge Transmission”
📍 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
⏰ 7 June 2026
ℹ️ Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Postdoctoral Position in Social and Cultural History of Europe, or of Europe in the World, 19th-20th Century
📍 Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna
⏰ 1 July 2026
ℹ️ Vienna University
Frank Hahn Research Fellowship and College Lectureship in Economic History
📍 Churchill College, University of Cambridge
⏰ 24 June 2026
ℹ️ Churchill College
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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