From the AYHD Board
Two Workshops at Cambridge University
There will be two workshops hosted by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 2026 to which young/early career historical demographers are encouraged to apply! The first is ‘An Informal Introduction to Formal Demography’ run by Robert Chung (Berkeley) 23-27 March 2026. The workshop is free, but attendees will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation. Space is limited, so if interested send your CV and a 250-word statement of motivation to campop@geog.cam.ac.uk by 19 January 2026. And/or come to Cambridge 6-17 July 2026 for the ESHD Summer Training School: ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility.’ Some funding is available for PhD students or recent graduates. The application deadline is 2 February 2026, more info below!
“One Epidemic, Many Estimates” (1EME)
One of our Board members, Hampton (h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk), is organising a “many analysts” project on excess mortality modelling. Researchers are welcome to sign up, by themselves or in groups, to receive the same harmonised set of mortality data related to the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States and then to model the pandemic’s excess mortality using the model of their choice. Then, participants will be invited to attend a workshop at the London School of Economics on 21–22 May 2026 (bursaries available) and to contribute to a joint journal article that reports the excess mortality estimates and recommends best practices. You can find out more details here!
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:
What’s in a (Jewish) Name?
Identifying Jews in Dutch Civil Certificates, 1811–1932
Published in Historical Methods by Joris Kok (Radboud University). You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2025.2568956.
Upcoming events and deadlines
CPop Workshop “A Unified Perspective on Formation and Dissolution Processes in Demography”
📍 Location: University of Southern Denmark
📆 Date: 9-11 March 2026
⏰ Deadline: 19 December 2025
ℹ️ More information: SDU
GreatLeap 2nd Call for Project Proposals Host Institutes
📆 January – October 2026
⏰ 1 January 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Call for Papers: LSE Economic History Graduate Seminar
⏰ 6 January 2026
ℹ️ LSE
15th Annual Workshop on Growth, History and Development
📍 University of Southern Denmark
📆 13-14 March 2026
⏰ 11 January 2026
ℹ️ SDU
MPIDR Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program
📍 Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock
📆 8 June – 21 August 2026
⏰ 14 January 2026
ℹ️ MPIDR
Call for Sessions and Strands: British Society for Population Studies Conference
📍 University of Kent, Canterbury
📆 8-10 September 2026
⏰ 16 January 2026
ℹ️ LSE
London Population Seminar: “Correcting Distorted Human Population Data from Mobile Phone Location Data” (Francisco Rowe)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 20 January 2026 (14:00-15:00 CET)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
Barcelona Past Networks Summer School
📍 Barcelona
📆 16-19 June 2026
⏰ 26 January 2026
ℹ️ PastNetworks
ERC Conference 2026: Frontier Research for One Health
📍 London
📆 28 January 2026
ℹ️ ERC
51st Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference
📍 Washington, D.C.
📆 28-30 May 2026
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ EBHS
GreatLeap Workshop: “Putting Mortality on the Map: A Workshop on the Use of Spatial Methods to Study the Urban Mortality Transition”
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
📆 20-21 August 2026
⏰ 1 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
ESHD and GreatLeap Summer Training School: “Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility”
📍 Cambridge, UK
📆 6-17 July 2026
⏰ 2 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
London Population Seminar: Title TBA (Liliana Andriano)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 26 February 2026 (13:45–15:00 CET)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
📍 London School of Economics
📆 21-22 May 2026
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ LSE
London Population Seminar: Title TBA (Shuang Chen)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 17 March 2026 (13:00–14:00 CET)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
Vacancies
Researcher in Population Analysis and Forecasting
📍 Statistics Norway
⏰ 30 December 2025
ℹ️ Statistics Norway
Two Postdoctoral Fellows in Economic History
📍 Lund University
⏰ 31 December 2025
ℹ️ Lund University
Two Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Society of Fellows (2026-Economics)
📍 Dartmouth College
⏰ 4 January 2026
ℹ️ Dartmouth
Postdoctoral Fellow in ERC-funded project SINGLE
📍 Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona
⏰ 4 January 2026
ℹ️ CED
Two Research Fellows in the project “Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953”
📍 University of Warwick
⏰ 5 January 2026
ℹ️ UoW
Five Postdoctoral Fellowships in Economics and African Economic History
📍 Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP), Stellenbosch University
⏰ 5 January 2026
ℹ️ X
Postdoctoral Researcher
📍 Max Planck-University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health
⏰ 11 January 2026
ℹ️ MPIDR
Postdoctoral Research Survey Methodology in the SINGLEdem project
📍 Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED), Barcelona
⏰ 12 January 2026
ℹ️ CED
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Labor History
📍 Brown University
⏰ 15 January 2026
ℹ️ Brown University
Postdoctoral Researcher on the Social History of Capitalism
📍 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ VUB
Faculty Position in Computational Sociology
📍 Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ CREST
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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