Useful information from the student society "Demographer"
Schools, Seminars
PhD workshop "Research in Health and Healthcare: methodological
approaches"
Place: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 18 April 2018
Deadline: 09.02.2018
https://www.europeansociology.org/opportunities/announcements/phd-workshop-research-health-and-healthcare-methodological-approaches
The Rostock Retreat on Causality (no fee + stipend)
Place: Rostock, Germany
Date: 2-4 July 2018
Deadline: 28 February 2018
http://www.rostock-retreat.org/
Workshop "Parental life courses after separation and divorce"
Place: Berlin, Germany
Date: 3-4 May 2018
Deadline: 15 January 2018
https://www.hertie-school.org/en/research/research-directory/research-project-pages/absent-fathers/
The social impact of epidemics: A workshop marking 100
years of the Great Flu Epidemic
Place: Oslo, Norway
Date: 3-5 September 2018
Deadline: 15 March 2017
Organized by the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo and
Akershus University College, the Norwegian Demographic Society and
the EAPS Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality (HMMWG)
Epidemics are the natural meeting ground between human civilisations
and microscopic organisms. When they meet, some members of the human
social group may die, others develop immunity, and the organism
may subsequently mutate to the point where it can overcome that
immunity. Neither human groups nor those of microorganisms are homogenous,
however. For example, some sections of the human group will be more
affected and others less, both immediately and over time, as the
result of going through the disease itself, or because of social
adversities following bereavement and disruption. Consequently,
major epidemics are likely to have major effects on the subsequent
evolution of society.
The purpose of this workshop will be to focus on these social consequences
of major epidemics – the influenza epidemic of 100 years ago and
others. We wish to address questions such as: What types of social
groups were more and which less, affected by the epidemic? What
are the most important factors that influenced the differential
impact of the epidemic among groups? What effect, if any, did the
epidemic have on social relations and future social developments?
Specifically, did it have an impact on marriage, fertility and migration?
How did the survivors of the disease and the bereaved spouses and
children cope socially and economically later in life? Also, did
the knowledge of differential social susceptibility during historical
epidemics affect subsequent preventive actions? And how do these
insights help us prepare for avoiding socially unjust epidemics
in the future?
As in previous HMMWG workshops, there is no participation fee,
but participants are expected to cover their own fares and accommodation.
Closing date for abstracts: 15 March 2018
Please submit to: Svenn-Erik Mamelund Svenn-Erik.Mamelund@afi.hioa.no
Responses and tentative programme by the end of April 2018
Prague Summer Schools 2018: Applications Open
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 1-8 July 2018
http://www.praguesummerschools.org/
Workshops from Longpop
http://longpop-itn.eu/training-2/
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