From the AYHD Board
Changes in AYHD board
We are pleased to share an update on the composition of the AYHD board.
Following last summer, long-standing board members Mads Villefrance Perner (Roskilde University) and Mathias Mølbak Ingholt (Cambridge University) stepped down after three years. We would like to thank them for their commitment and contributions to the AYHD during their time on the board these past three years!
At the same time, we are excited to welcome a new board member. Serena is a postdoctoral researcher at CPop (University of Southern Denmark) and SUDA (Stockholm University), working on the long-term demographic consequences of mortality crises. Looking forward to having you on board!
You can read more about the current board members on the board page of our website.
‼️ Poll: AYHD activities 2026-27
The AYHD is exploring new ways to support early career researchers and foster connections outside of conferences. We would like to organise a recurring virtual paper workshop to allow PhD students and early career researchers in historical demography and related fields to share work in progress and get feedback from peers in a relaxed and supportive environment.
But first, we want to hear from you!
Please fill out → this poll ← to indicate whether you would be interested in participating in a paper workshop as presenter or participant and what format would suit you best. We are also eager to hear any suggestions for how to make these meetings most useful to the community of early career researchers. You can also email Emma Diduch (egd28@cam.ac.uk) with any other questions or suggestions.
“One Epidemic, Many Estimates” (1EME)
One of our Board members, Hampton (h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk), is organising a workshop following a “many analysts” project on excess mortality modelling. Even if you did not participate in the project, you are invited to apply before 15 March! The workshop will take place 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:
Geography of Lust: Spatial Patterns of Illicit Sex in
Eighteenth-Century Stockholm
Published in Urban History by Paul Borenberg (Stockholm University) and Inez Mannerstedt. You can read the full article here: doi:10.1017/S0963926825100497.
Upcoming events and deadlines
Workshop on Economic & Business History of the Global South
📍 Lima, Peru
⏰ 28 February 2026
📆 27-29 April 2026
ℹ️ Economic History Working Group BlueSky
Applications for Social History Society Small Grants Fund
📍 United Kingdom
⏰ 1 March 2026
ℹ️ Social History Society
Call for Papers for Social Science History Association Conference
📍 Atlanta
📆 19-22 November 2026
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ SSHA
Annual Workshop on Formal Demography
📍 UC Berkeley
📆 1-5 June 2026
⏰ 1 March 2026
ℹ️ Berkeley Population Center
Workshop: “Unequal war: demographic and social-historical perspectives”
📍 Tampere University
⏰ 1 March 2026
📆 9-11 September 2026
ℹ️ Tampere University
Institute for Historical Research Migration and Mobility Seminar. Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
(Connie Thomas)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 3 March 2026
ℹ️ IHR
Crafts Lecture and Workshop on the Economics of Education and Institutions
📍 University of Warwick
📆 3-4 March 2026
ℹ️ University of Warwick
Call for GreatLeap STSM Candidate: “A Demographic Kernel Framework for Predicting Psychosis Risk Across Urban Space”
📍 Lancaster University
📆 Autumn 2025 (for up to 2 months)
⏰ 4 March 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
GreatLeap Searchaton. Health Inequalities in History: A Searchathon
📍 Online
📆 4 March 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Campop Seminar: “Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past” (Colin Pooley)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 4 March 2026 (16:15 – 17:45 GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
British Academy SHAPE Conference
📍 London
📆 4 March 2026
ℹ️ Eventbrite
Women’s History Network Seminar. “Panel: Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production” (Irina Malinina, Julita Oetojo, and Simona Valeriani)
📍 Online
📆 10 March 2026 (16:00 GMT)
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky
Cambridge Quantitative History Seminar. “Mapping the French Gabelles: Fiscal Fragmentation, Tax Evasion, and Social Conflict” (Joseph Enguehard)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 11 March 2026 (from 5 pm GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
International Conference “Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus”
📍 Brussels (Hybrid)
📆 13-14 March 2026
ℹ️ VUB SHOC
Workshop: “One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)”
📍 London School of Economics
📆 21-22 May 2026
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ LSE
Workshop: “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view”
📍 Cambridge
📆 15-16 June 2026
⏰ 16 March 2026
ℹ️ Campop
Population and Development Review Application for Editors
⏰ 16 March 2026
ℹ️ PopCouncil
London Population Seminar: Title TBA (Shuang Chen)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 17 March 2026 (13:00–14:00)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
Institute for Historical Research Training Session: Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers
📍 Online
📆 18 March 2026 (2pm – 3pm GMT)
ℹ️ IHR
Campop Seminar: “Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain” (Toke Aidt)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 18 March 2026 (16:15 – 17:45 GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
GreatLeap Workshop: “Accuracy of Cause-of-Death Registration: Everyday Conditions, Crises, and Epidemics”
📍 Barcelona
📆 19-20 March 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Women’s History Network Seminar: “Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s” (Ellen Hope Durban)
📍 Online
📆 24 March 2026 (16:00 GMT)
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky
History Lab Conference. Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience
📍 University of Birmingham
📆 17 July 2026
⏰ 27 March 2026
ℹ️ HistoryLab BlueSky
Applications for European Doctoral School of Demography
📍 Warsaw University
⏰ 27 March 2026
ℹ️ EAPS
Workshop “Sowing the Seeds VIII:” A Workshop for Early Career Medieval Economic and Social Historians
📍 LSE
📆 5-6 November 2026
⏰ 31 March 2026
ℹ️ LSE
Applications for two-year Master Programme in Global Demography
📍 University of Vienna
📆 1 October 2026
⏰ 7 April 2026
ℹ️ Vienna University
Women’s History Network Seminar: “The Role of Women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016” (Samuel Beckton)
📍 Online
📆 7 April 2026 (19:00 GMT)
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky
Demo Lunch SeminarL “How do modes of data collection affect the measurement of demographic key indicators?” (Detlev Lueck)
📍 Leuven (Hybrid)
📆 14 April 2026 (13:00 – 14:00 CET)
ℹ️ Demo LLN BlueSky
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon
📆 21-24 April 2027
⏰ 15 April 2026
ℹ️ ESSHC
Workshop: “From Matrimonial Ads to Dating Apps: Unraveling the Partnering Market”
📍 Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona
📆 4-5 June 2026
⏰ 15 April 2026
ℹ️ ADEH
Women’s History Network Seminar: “Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914” (Kellie Bradshaw)
📍 Online
📆 21 April 2026 (16:00 GMT)
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky
Institute for Historical Research Training Session: Researching the History of Emotions
📍 Online (Zoom)
📆 28 April 2026
ℹ️ Institute for Historical Research
Early-Career Researcher Prize, ‘Population’ Journal
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ Population Journal website
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
Workshop: Modern British History and the ‘Environmental Turn’
📍 Oxford
📆 16-17 September 2026
⏰ 15 May 2026
ℹ️ Andrew Seaton BlueSky
Call for Submissions. BMJ Medical History Special Issue: “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures”
⏰ 31 October 2026
ℹ️ mh.bmj.com
Vacancies
Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
📍 University of Helsinki
⏰ 28 February 2026
ℹ️ University of Helsinki
Two PhD positions in the History of Medicine
📍 Charité Berlin
⏰ 28 February 2026
ℹ️ Gender Insight
Two PhD positions in “Africa @ Work: Transformation of employment 1920 – 2020”
📍 University of Groningen
⏰ 2 March 2026
ℹ️ University of Groningen
Two Senior Researchers in History in the project “All the names: Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past”
📍 NTNU (Trondheim)
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ Jobbnorge
PhD position in History in the project “All the names: Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past”
📍 NTNU (Trondheim)
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ Jobbnorge
Two PhD studentships in the project “𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬”
📍 University of Exeter
⏰ 26 March 2026
ℹ️ BlueSky
Predoc in Historical Economics and Development
📍 University of Southern Denmark
⏰ 1 April 2026
ℹ️ SDU
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Spatial History
📍 Binghamton University, New York
⏰ Open until filled
ℹ️ Binghamton University
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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