From the AYHD Board
SUMMER HIATUS
After a busy spring, the board will be taking a break during the summer, meaning there won’t be a newsletter in July. We wish you all a relaxing summer break and we’ll see you again in August!
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 September 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 BSPS
The AYHD will be at the BSPS this year, and we’re looking forward to seeing you there! If you’d like to meet other historical demographers, come join us at the conference pub quiz on Wednesday 9 September.
Spotlights
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’s spotlight article is:
‘Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450’
Published by Economic History Review by Anna Molnár (University of Reading). You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70102.
This month, we also would like to spotlight the following:
- Child stunting: lessons from global history
(a blog by Eric Schneider for the IUSSP) - A Cup of Tea Podcast
(a UCL podcast hosted by Judy Stephenson, including historical demography and economic history topics)
Events and deadlines
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
Cambridge Workshop
Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility
📍 Cambridge
📆 6-17 July 2026
ℹ️ Campop
CED Course — Social Indicators: Theory and Applications
📍 Barcelona (UAB Campus)
📆 28 September – 1 October 2026
⏰ 15 July 2026
ℹ️ CED
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
NBER Conference on the Economics of Religion
📍 San Francisco
📆 14 November 2026
⏰ 1 September 2026
ℹ️ NBER
Workshop ‘Aftermath of a Pandemic: Changes in Mortality and Health’
📍 Oslo
📆 28-29 January 2027
⏰ 11 September 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students
📍 University of Warwick
📆 2-5 December 2026
⏰ 11 September 2026
ℹ️ EHS
Call for Submissions BMJ Medical History Special Issue
‘Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures’
⏰ 31 October 2026
ℹ️ mh.bmj.com
EHS Carnevali Small Research Grants Scheme
⏰ 1 November 2026
ℹ️ EHS
Call for Papers XII International Conference on Iberian Cliometrics
Iberometrics 2027
📍 Barcelona
📆 29-30 April 2027
⏰ 20 November 2026
ℹ️ University of Barcelona
Call for Papers Special Issue Demographic Research
‘Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities’
⏰ 15 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students
⏰ 1 November 2026
ℹ️ EHS
Vacancies
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
Call for Applications for NNF-IAS Fellowship Programme (5 Positions)
📍 The Nordic Institutes for Advanced Studies
⏰ 1 October 2026
ℹ️ CAS-NOR
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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