From the AYHD Board
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:
‘Reconstructing birth histories using linked household data and the 1911 Census fertility survey‘
Published by Population Studies by Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge). You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2026.2681475.
We would also like to spotlight three other exciting new papers:
- “What We Gained that Time We Lost so Much: Demographic Trends and Territorial Control in Mexico After the War with the United States” by Diego Castañeda Garza and Sergio Silva Castañeda in the European Review of Economic History (https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heag019)
- “Enumerating Indigenous populations at the turn of the twentieth century” by Donn Feira, Rob Gillezeau, Kris Inwood, and Maggie Jones in Historical Methods (https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2026.2671668)
- “The pig in the python: U.S. decennial labor flows and economic opportunity, 1910–2040” by Steven Ruggles in PNAS (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2601716123)
Events and deadlines
NBER Conference on the Economics of Religion
📍 Oslo
📆 14 November 2026
⏰ 1 September 2026
ℹ️ NBER
PANSOC Seminar ‘Crisis Control: Market Regulation after the Black Death’
📍 Online
📆 10 September 2026
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Workshop ‘What was in a name? Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past’
📍 Trondheim
📆 12-13 October 2026
⏰ 10 September 2026
ℹ️ CfP
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
Economic History Society Annual Conference
📍 Liverpool
📆 2-4 April 2027
⏰ 14 September 2026 (Paper deadline)
⏰ 16 November 2026 (Poster deadline)
ℹ️ EHS
Population Association of America Annual Meeting
📍 Seattle, Washington
📆 21 March – 3 April 2027
⏰ 20 September 2026
ℹ️ PAA
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
📍John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island
📆 15-17 April 2027
⏰ 1 October 2026
ℹ️ Bluesky
PANSOC Seminar ‘Age-specific mortality patterns across influenza pandemics: evidence from all-cause mortality data across multiple populations’
📍Online
📆 8 October 2026
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PANSOC Seminar ‘What can the Collier letters from the mid-1970s tell us about 1918 influenza bereavement?’
📍Online
📆 15 October 2026
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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
PANSOC Seminar ‘Parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts changed during the COVID-19 pandemic’
📍Online
📆 12 November 2026
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Call for Papers XII International Conference on Iberian Cliometrics
Iberometrics 2027
📍 Barcelona
📆 29-30 April 2027
⏰ 20 November 2026
ℹ️ University of Barcelona
PANSOC Seminar ‘Yellow fever in Gibraltar’
📍Online
📆 26 November 2026
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Call for Papers Special Issue Demographic Research
‘Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities’
⏰ 15 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
Call for Papers Special Issue Demographic Research
‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run’
⏰ 31 December 2026
ℹ️ Demographic Research
Call for Papers Special Issue European Review of Economic History
‘In Honour of Stephen Broadberry on Long-Run Economic Growth’
⏰ 31 January 2027
ℹ️ EREH
Vacancies
Lecturer in Social Science and Social Theory
📍King’s College London
⏰ 2 September 2026
ℹ️ KCL
Lecturer in Computational Social Science
📍King’s College London
⏰ 15 September 2026
ℹ️ KCL
PhD Position at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History
📍Radboud University
⏰ 15 September 2026
ℹ️ Radboud
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts)
📍Nuffield College, Oxford
⏰ 21 September 2026
ℹ️ Nuffield
NNF-IAS Fellowship Programme (5 Positions)
📍 Nordic Institutes of Advanced Studies
⏰ 1 October 2026
ℹ️ CAS-NOR
Northern Star Fellowship / Assistant Professorship (10 Positions)
📍 Umeå University
⏰ 1 October 2026
ℹ️ Umeå
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science
📍 London School of Economics
⏰ 11 October 2026
ℹ️ jobs.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in Demography
📍 University of California, Berkeley
⏰ 15 October 2026
ℹ️ Berkeley
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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