From the AYHD Board
AYHD at SSHA
Brayden and Emma will be at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) annual conference in Atlanta this November! They encourage everyone to go to the Family and Demography network meeting at noon on Friday, and in our November newsletter, we will also try to include details about a social event that AYHD members are welcome to join.
Young Demographers’ Conference
The 18th Conference of Young Demographers has been announced for 3–5 February 2027 at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (as usual). This is a great introductory conference for students in historical demography to attend, especially as an opportunity to meet students from other universities and other subfields of demography! More details here.
Special Issue in Population Studies
Hampton is co-organising a special issue of Population Studies, focused on methodological debates related to excess mortality estimation. The perspectives of (young) historical demographers are very much welcome! Anyone potentially interested in contributing should reach out to him at hampton.gaddy@magd.ox.ac.uk. More details here.
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:
Bayesian Indirect Estimation of Historical Fertility in Europe and US Using Online Genealogical Data
Published in Sociological Methods & Research by Riccardo Omenti (University of Bologna), Monica Alexander, and Nicola Barban. You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261463559
We would also like to spotlight three other exciting new papers:
- “‘The Proper Data’: Numerical Information and Mathematical Governance from the Revolution to the Constitution” by Edward J Blum in William and Mary Quarterly
- “Historical Development and Persistence of the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy in Estonia From the 19th to the 21st Century” by Mark Gortfelder in Historical Life Course Studies
- “Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth-century Italy” by Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis and Mauro Rota in Economic History Review
Events and deadlines
London Population Seminar ‘Exposure to local violent crime and abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth in Mexico: A study from the SeRO project’
📍Online
📆 20 October 2026
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Call for Papers: 5th Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History
📍 Barcelona
📆 28 January 2027
⏰ 23 October 2026
ℹ️ CfP
Annual Conference: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
📍 Trinity College Dublin
📆 4-5 December 2026
⏰ 23 October 2026
ℹ️ CfP
IHR Seminar ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’
📍Online
📆 23 October 2026
ℹ️ IHR
18th Conference of Young Demographers
📍 Faculty of Science, Charles University
📆 3-5 February 2027
⏰ 26 October 2026
ℹ️ CfP
EHS Women’s Committee Training Event ‘AI in Economic and Social History: Opportunities and Pitfalls’
📍 University College London
📆 30 October 2026
ℹ️ UCL
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
EHS Initiatives & Conference Fund
⏰ 1 November 2026
ℹ️ EHS
EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students
⏰ 1 November 2026
ℹ️ EHS
PAA Applied Demography Conference
📍Georgetown University
📆 17-18 February 2027
⏰ 7 November 2026
ℹ️ PAA
London Population Seminar ‘Missing data and demographic structure obscure the inequality of Alaska Natives in the 1918 influenza pandemic’
📍Online
📆 10 November 2026
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PANSOC Seminar ‘Parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts changed during the COVID-19 pandemic’
📍Online
📆 12 November 2026
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Annual Conference: Economic History Society
📍 University of Liverpool
📆 2-4 April 2027
⏰ 16 November 2026 (New Researcher Posters)
ℹ️ EHS
XII International Conference on Iberian Cliometrics
Iberometrics 2027
📍 Barcelona
📆 29-30 April 2027
⏰ 20 November 2026
ℹ️ University of Barcelona
LSE Historical Economic Demography Workshop ‘Resilient Societies: shocks, adaptation, and the persistence of inequality in historical perspective’
📍 London School of Economics
📆 20-21 May 2027
⏰ 23 November 2026
ℹ️ LSE
PANSOC Seminar ‘Yellow fever in Gibraltar’
📍Online
📆 26 November 2026
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Conference ‘Fertility and Family Dynamics in Migrant and Minority Groups: Social Inequalities, Reproductive Rights and Family Formation in Contemporary Europe’
📍 University of Salamanca
📆 27-28 May 2027
⏰ 30 November 2026
ℹ️ CfP
EHS Data Prize
⏰ 1 December 2026
ℹ️ EHS
London Population Seminar ‘The Global Burden of Disease Study. Should we be more critical?’
📍Online
📆 1 December 2026
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Call for Papers: Special Issue in Population Studies
‘How do we estimate excess mortality? Current problems and methodological solutions’
⏰ 1 December 2026 (Deadline for pre-submission enquiries)
ℹ️ Population Studies
Call for Papers: Special Issue in Demographic Research
‘Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities’
⏰ 15 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
Call for Papers: Special Issue in Demographic Research
‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run’
⏰ 31 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
Call for Papers: Special Issue in European Review of Economic History
‘In Honour of Stephen Broadberry on Long-Run Economic Growth’
⏰ 31 January 2027
ℹ️ EREH
Virtual Workshop on French Economic History ‘Inheritance, Fertility, and Son Preference: Evidence from Pre-Industrial France’
📍Online
📆 9 February 2027
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London Population Seminar ‘Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey’
📍Online
📆 9 March 2027
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Virtual Workshop on French Economic History ‘The Political Legacy of Displacement: Evidence from the Spanish Republican Exile’
📍Online
📆 11 May 2027
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Virtual Workshop on French Economic History ‘Escaping Deportation: Evidence from Wartime France’
📍Online
📆 8 June 2027
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Vacancies
Career Development Research Fellowship in Human Sciences
📍St John’s College, University of Oxford
⏰ 23 October 2026
ℹ️ SJC
Researcher / Research Scholar – Education, Human Capital and Demography in Rwanda
📍 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
⏰ 25 October 2026
ℹ️ IIASA
Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science
📍Social Research Institute, University College London
⏰ 30 October 2026
ℹ️ UCL
Assistant Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, or Research Fellow
📍 Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
⏰ 31 October 2026
ℹ️ jobs.ac.uk
Doctoral Fellowship in Demography
📍 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
⏰ 1 November 2026
ℹ️ Call
Postdoctoral Researcher ‘Combatting mistrust in healthcare: a psychological approach’
📍Magdalen College, University of Oxford
⏰ 4 November 2026
ℹ️ Magdalen
Research Fellow
📍Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOD ICH), University College London
⏰ 9 November 2026
ℹ️ UCL
PhD Position in Climate Change and Demography
📍 UCLouvain
⏰ 16 November 2026
ℹ️ UCLouvain
Carolina Population Center BioSoc Post-Doc Trainee
📍University of North Carolina
⏰ 20 November 2026
ℹ️ UNC
Assistant Professor
📍 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
⏰ 20 November 2026 (priority deadline)
ℹ️ JHU
Postdoc in Historical Demography (Juan de la Cierva Fellowship Open Call)
📍 Open University of Catalonia
⏰ 26 November 2026
ℹ️ X
Assistant Professor in International Development (Quantitative Social Science)
📍 London School of Economics
⏰ 1 December 2026
ℹ️ LSE
Two Research Fellowships in Economic History
📍 Linköping University
⏰ 1 December 2026
ℹ️ LIU
Four DPhil Positions in Demographic Science
📍 Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
⏰ 8 December 2026
ℹ️ Oxford
David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowships
📍 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
⏰ 8 December 2026
ℹ️ Harvard
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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