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PERN Cyberseminar on Culture, Beliefs and the Environment - 15-19 May 2017
This cyberseminar will take place from Monday-Friday, 15-19 May 2017 using the PERNSEMINAR discussion list. A short description is provided below. For a list of panelists, and to sign up to join the discussion, go to https://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/cyberseminars.
A background paper to this cyberseminar will be posted by 12 May.
In addition, this cyberseminar will feature a webinar that summarizes the background paper, and introduces the themes being addressed by the other expert panelists. The Webinar presenters are Dr. Vegard Skirbekk of the Columbia Aging Center and the PERN coordinators, Drs. Susana Adamo and Alex de Sherbinin. The webinar will be held on Monday, 15 May 2017, from 14:00-15:00 UTC (9:00 - 10:30 AM Eastern Time in US & Canada). You do not need to register in advance, but simply join the webinar at https://futureearth.adobeconnect.com/r2walvu0s5j/ (500 person capacity).
Summary: This Population-Environment Research Network (PERN) cyberseminar focuses on culture, belief systems, values, and the environment. The world is facing dramatic demographic shifts, and these are associated with different cultural values and belief systems that have implications for the environment. Industrialized countries face rapid aging while developing countries have large children and youth populations. These different patterns, and the cultural values and beliefs associated with them, have implications for population dynamics and how societies relate to the environment and how they are impacted by environmental changes and hazards. This relatively little studied area of the population-environment nexus is ripe for new discoveries.
Culture, belief systems and values are central to environmental decision making and behavior and to how people perceive and respond to risks and crises. Census, survey, focus group and other demographic data collection methods are central to understanding belief systems as they relate to the demographic makeup of society, including racial and ethnic groups, age and s*x distribution, education attainment, and geographic factors. The cyberseminar will address a number of topics, including: (1) cultural attitudes and values as they relate to perceptions of the environment (and risk perception); (2) culture, belief systems, values and environmentally significant consumption patterns; (3) religious beliefs and their implications for age structure and population growth; (4) how religious and other beliefs vary by population composition; and (5) vulnerability and perceptions of risk as they relate to different demographic groups.
This PERN cyberseminar is co-organized with the Columbia Aging Center. We would like to thank Future Earth for their cooperation in providing the webinar capability.

Cyberseminars | Population Environment Research Network The purpose of cyberseminars is to provide a forum for scientists from the social and natural sciences to debate and discuss cutting edge population-environment research topics.

Oportunidad de Trabajo! Asistente en centro de investigación demográfica:

Recrutement d'un.e assistant.e en démographie - Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique)
Opportunités de carrière : ESPO - Un mandat d'assistant (100%) - domaine de la démographie (n°2102) (14142)
Numéro de demande 14142 - Publié 01/05/2017 - Personnel scientifique - temps plein - Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication - Contrat à durée déterminée (assistants)
Date limite de candidature : 22 mai 2017
Toute personne désirant faire acte de candidature à l'un ou plusieurs de ces mandats est instamment invitée à faire parvenir sa candidature exclusivement à l'aide du formulaire électronique en ligne le plus rapidement possible à partir du 1er mai 2017 et pour le 22 mai 2017 à minuit (23h59) au plus t**d en suivant ces lien:
• les personnes externes à l'UCL et les étudiant·e·s cliquent sur ce lien
• les personnes internes à l'UCL s'identifient sur ce lien
Description de la fonction
Encadrement :
- L’assistant·e accomplira des tâches d’encadrement de cours de méthodologie d'analyse de données quantitatives et de cours relevant du domaine de la démographie aux premier et deuxième cycles.
- Les tâches peuvent comprendre la conception de supports pédagogiques.
Recherche :
- L’assistant·e développera des activités de recherche dans le domaine de la démographie dans la perspective de la réalisation d’une thèse de doctorat dans ce domaine.
- Le ou la candidat·e est invité·e à joindre, dans la mesure du possible, un projet de thèse à son dossier.
Qualifications requises
• Diplôme de Master en sciences de la population et du développement ou diplôme équivalent obtenu avec mention, au minimum équivalente à la distinction.
• Qualités pédagogiques nécessaires à l'encadrement des étudiants.
• Une expérience d'assistanat constitue un atout.
• Compétences en méthodes quantitatives en sciences sociales.
• Capacité et motivation à s’intégrer dans une équipe d’enseignement ainsi que dans une équipe de recherche.
• Capacité et motivation à développer des aptitudes pédagogiques dans le cadre de l’enseignement universitaire.
• Parfaite maîtrise de la langue française.
• Bonne maîtrise de l'anglais.
• Aptitude de communication.
• Sens de l’initiative et des responsabilités.
• Une bonne expérience des logiciel·s SPSS, Stata et/ou R est un atout.
Divers
• Contribution à la dynamique de la faculté et de l’institut à travers la réalisation de tâches institutionnelles et logistiques diverses à convenir et participation aux réunions et évènements jalonnant l’année académique.
Contact: Olivier Servais : [email protected]

Applied Remote Sensing Training Programs: registration open for 2 webinars
Advanced Webinar: Methods in Using NASA Remote Sensing for Health Applications.
Deadline for registrations 19 May 2017
Thursdays, June 1-15, 2017
10:00-11:00 a.m. or 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT (UTC-4)

In three, one-hour webinars, participants will learn how to access and apply NASA data relevant to public health. The webinar will include a presentation on tools available for evaluating the relationship between environmental conditions and health outcomes, followed by lectures on pollen dispersal and heat stress mitigation.
Register Now

Remote Sensing of Land Indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 15
Deadline for registration 16 June 2017
Tuesday, June 20 - Thursday, June 22
1:00-2:00 p.m. or 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT (UTC-4)

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a series of 17 goals set to end global poverty and protect the planet, with the aim of achieving successes by 2030. This training will deal with addressing SDG 15, whose focus is to “protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.” This webinar series will take place for one hour, over three consecutive days.
Register Now

Call for papers:
4th Asian Population Association Conference
Shanghai, China , 11-14 July 2018
Submissions website will open on 1 June 2017
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2017
The Asian Demographic Research Institute will host the 4th Asian Population Association (APA) in Shanghai, China, at Shanghai University from 11 July to 14 July 2018.
The Asian Population Association Conference has become a major international event drawing over 1,600 participants from over 50 countries around the globe. The Conference is held every three years, providing opportunities for experts and students to share and discuss their scientific study of population issues. The key topics of interest shared by our members and participants include but are not limited to the following; Fertility, Reproductive Health, Mortality, Child Health, Migration, Refugees, Population Ageing, Labour foce and Employment, Population and Education, Poverty, Population and Development, Gender Issues and Techniques of Demographic Analysis.
For more information on the Conference please visit: http://www.asianpa.org/

1. Call for papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Population Studies
Theme: Family Trends and Dynamics and Their Impacts in the 21st Century
Submission deadline: 31 October 2017
Submission website: http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/ijps
Guest editor: Rongjun Sun, Ph.D. (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
As the world enters the 21st century, with socioeconomic transformation and the formation of new cultural norms, families and generational relations are undergoing profound changes and taking on new forms and shapes. For example, with the rising longevity, four or more generations living at the same time, though not necessarily living in the same household, has increasingly become commonplace. It is worth exploring the impacts of such a new demographic reality on personal relations and individual member’s well-being. Furthermore, the global divide in population prospects between the developed and developing countries points to different challenges faced by societies. While population aging and below replacement fertility have to be dealt with in rich countries, with urbanization gaining momentum, massive rural-urban migration has been witnessed in many developing countries. These socio-demographic changes may put various strains on families and it is important to understand how families are capable or incapable of responding to these challenges. Each society has its unique experience and dynamics. We herein would like to invite researchers from the international community of family studies to contribute to this special issue, to shed light on new trends in family or intergenerational relations, and their social, economic, and cultural impacts.
IJPS is an open access, multidisciplinary journal that aims to publish high quality original research and reviews of recent advances and emerging issues in population processes, including dynamics of fertility, mortality, and migration, and linkages with socioeconomic and environmental change across time, space, and cultures.
The journal is committed to rapid and high-quality refereeing for all research that is submitted to the journal. We would like to encourage researchers from different countries to consider IJPS as a venue to present your research, and encourage researchers to keep the open access spirit by sharing with IJPS readers all necessary information to replicate and reproduce their research.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published, nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double-blind, rigorous peer review process. All manuscripts must be written in English. Before you start to prepare your paper, please read the Author Guidelines. All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to the Online Submission System. Publication fees can be waived. No publication fee is needed if the primary author is from the low income countries.
The submission is already open and will be closed on October 31, 2017.
Thank you for your attention and we look forward to your submissions
The IJPS Editorial Office
http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/ijps

2. Call for papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Population Studies
Theme: Population Aging and Challenges in Asia
Submission deadline: 30 September 2017
Submission website: http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/ijps
With support from colleagues around the world, we launched the a couple of issue of International Journal of Population Studies (IJPS) so far. We would like launch a special issue related to population aging and challenges in Asia.
Asia is the most populous continent in the world with great diversities in population growth and socioeconomic development. Many Asian countries have been witnessing or will witness a faster pace of population aging than most today's developed countries; and most of them will likely grow old before they grow rich. However, the poor health care system, inadequate pension coverage, relatively low life expectancy, unhealthy practice (e.g., high to***co use), and poor living environments will impose tremendous challenges for Asian countries.
This special issue will focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Growth of population aging
Mortality at old ages
Changes of family support system
Successful aging
Aging-friendly city
Social mobility and health/mortality
Urbanization, climate change, and health
Economics of aging
Population aging and healthcare challenges
We especially welcome multi-culture or cross-nation comparative studies.
IJPS is an open access, multidisciplinary journal that aims to publish high quality original research and reviews of recent advances and emerging issues in population processes, including dynamics of fertility, mortality, and migration, and linkages with socioeconomic and environmental change across time, space, and cultures.
The journal is committed to rapid and high-quality refereeing for all research that is submitted to the journal. We would like to encourage researchers from different countries to consider IJPS as a venue to present your research, and encourage researchers to keep the open access spirit by sharing with IJPS readers all necessary information to replicate and reproduce their research.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published, nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double-blind, rigorous peer review process. All manuscripts must be written in English. Before you start to prepare your paper, please read the Author Guidelines. All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to the Online Submission System. Publication fees can be waived. No publication fee is needed if the primary author is from the low income countries.
The submission is already open and will be closed on September 30, 2017. If the accepted papers are more than what can be included in a single issue, we will run multiple issues for this special theme. In addition to this special call for papers, we also welcome other regular submissions.
Thank you for your attention and we look forward to your submissions,

The IJPS Editorial Office
http://ojs.whioce.com/index.php/ijps

International Journal of Population Studies (IJPS) is an open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes high quality original research and timely reviews of recent advances and emerging issues in population processes; dynamics of fertility, mortality, and migration; and linkages with socioeconomic and environmental change across times,...

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to build a wall to stop undocumented, i.e., “illegal” immigration from Mexico and other Central American countries to the U.S. This operation will be costly and protracted. But will it be effective? Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Peter A. Morrison contend that it will not stop or reduce undocumented immigration to the U.S. It may very well lead to the opposite result, causing would-be circular migrants to settle and stay in the U.S.
The demography of Trump’s wall
Le mur de Trump et ses conséquences démographiques
N-IUSSP is an IUSSP news magazine, which disseminates scientific findings from demographic research carried out all over the world. The practical implications of current trends, the risks and potentialities of emerging situations, the pros and cons of specific laws are discussed in rigorous but plain language.

Importante:

A recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report examined the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration in the US. The report revealed a range of important benefits — including on economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship — with little to no negative effects on the overall wages or employment of native-born workers in the long term. Where studies did detect negative wage impacts, native-born high school dropouts and prior immigrants were most likely to have been affected. The fiscal picture is more mixed, with negative effects frequently evident at the state level when the costs of educating the children of immigrants are included. However, Francine D. Blau and Christopher Mackie observe, these children, on average, go on to be the most positive fiscal contributors in the population.
The economic and fiscal impact of immigration in the US
L’impact économique et fiscal de l’immigration aux États-Unis
N-IUSSP is an IUSSP news magazine, which disseminates scientific findings from demographic research carried out all over the world. The practical implications of current trends, the risks and potentialities of emerging situations, the pros and cons of specific laws are discussed in rigorous but plain language.

Call for contributions:

Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications Montreal, Canada, 15 May 2017
Deadline for submissions: 16 March 2017
This Research Workshop, sponsored by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is a side event at the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM-17, taking place in Montreal, Canada, 16-18 May 2017.

Organizers: Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Tom Le Grand

Direct access to the workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/

The IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes invites contributions from colleagues interested in Computational Demography. The Panel encourages submissions from researchers who wish to present their work, as well as the attendance of scholars interested in broadening their exposure to the topic.

Demography has been a data-driven discipline since its birth. Data collection and the development of formal methods have sustained most of the major advances in our understanding of population processes. The global spread of Social Media has generated new opportunities for demographic research, as individuals leave an increasing quantity of traces online that can be aggregated and mined for population research. At the same time, the use of Social Media and Internet are affecting people's daily activities as well as life planning, with implications for demographic behavior.

There are clear benefits inherent in connecting demography and data science. As ever more complex population-level data become available, demography can offer rigorously-developed concepts, measures and methods to those involved in the 'big social data' revolution. As social media services become a major source of social scientific data, the interaction with data science holds great potential to advance demographic research as well. Despite the great potential involved in these interactions, there is unfortunately very limited communication between population researchers and data scientists. This workshop is intended to favor communication and exchange between the two communities and would revolve around the main theme of applications and implications of social media for demographic research.

Topics that are relevant for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Population research with social media data
* Demographic features of online communities or services
* Sentiment analysis associated to demographic events like immigration
* Implications of social media and Internet for demographic behavior
* Nowcasting fertility, mortality or migration with online data
* Understanding population health with social media data
* Methods for extracting information from non-representative samples
* Applications of demographic methods to online populations

Submissions:
Participants who would like to present must submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) or a full paper via EasyChair by March 16, 2017 (see https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/important-dates). The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. Accepted abstracts and papers will be presented as short presentations, lightning talks or posters. Participants who are interested in attending but do not submit a research paper or a position paper should submit a paragraph explaining why they are interested in participating, what they would gain from participation, and how they can contribute to the workshop.

There will be no formal Proceedings for the abstracts and papers submitted. However, authors of high quality submissions will be invited to submit their papers to a special issue on Social Media and Demographic Research of the open access journal Demographic Research (), one of the top journals in the field. The issue would include a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at workshops organized in collaboration with the IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes.

Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications There are clear benefits inherent in connecting demography and data science. As ever more complex population-level data become available, demography can offer rigorously-developed concepts, measures and methods to those involved in the ‘big social data’ revolution. As social media services become a…

Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina en FLACSO - Argentina.

Mayores informes: flacso.org.ar/formacion-academica

Programas para doctorados!

PhD position at PRDH (Programme de recherche en démographie historique, Université de Montréal)
Under the supervision of Professors Lisa Dillon and Alain Gagnon
Deadline for application: March 31 2017
Topic: Historical demography
Starting date: 1 September 2017 (negotiable)
Duration: 3 years
Salary and requirements: see original job announcement attached (en français & in English)

Job description
The doctoral student will use historical Québec microdata to produce a Ph.D. thesis based on a set of research articles publishable in international refereed journals.
This doctoral scholarship is offered as part of a research project, « Kinship Influences on Fertility and Longevity in Quebec and Utah: a comparative study of two historic founder populations, » financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). This project studies demographic responses to socio-economic shocks and pressure in pre- demographic transition Quebec and Utah, exploring the mediating role of kinship networks on fertility and mortality outcomes. The project draws upon longitudinal data from the historic populations of Quebec (1800-1849), Saguenay Lac St.-Jean (1837-1900) and Utah (1800-1900).

The doctoral student will explore: 1) kinship networks and kin availability in Quebec ; 2) long-term trends, demographic interactions and the impact of economic and environmental change; and 3) the relative influence of kinship, environment and economic opportunity.

Importante!
Call for applications: Summer School “Demography, Human Capital and Economic Growth”

Application deadline: 24 March 2017
The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) in collaboration with the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) is hosting the first Asian Summer School on how demographic trends and improving educational attainment impact on economic growth around the Asia region. This will also include discussions about the so-called first and second Demographic Dividends and on the role of human capital as a determinant of economic development. Leading international scholars from the US, Europe and Asia will give lectures providing overviews of the state of knowledge in these fields.

Participants in the summer school will typically be pre-docs or recent PhDs. Applications will be considered from around the world. The number of participants is limited to 20 and acceptance is highly competitive. A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request). There is no tuition charge.

How to apply:
Students at the pre-doc level/recent PhDs are invited to apply with a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and their CV.
Two persons should be named who can potentially serve as referees.
There are 20 places on the course. The main selection criterion is the quality of the application.
The list of participants will be announced by 6 May 2017.
Please send your application to Samir KC [email protected] or Yu Zhang [email protected]
A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request).
Event details
Summer School on "Demography, Human Capital and Economic Growth"

Dates: 19-23 June 2017
Location: Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI), Shanghai University
Application deadline: 24 March 2017
Contact: Samir KC [email protected] or Yu Zhang [email protected]

Importante!!

Competition for the conferral of 4 collaboration contracts at the Dondena Research Centre of Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" of Milan (Italy) financed by the European Commission (H2020-ERC)

Deadline for applications: 9 March 2017

The Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" of Milan is launching a competition based on qualifications and tests for the conferral, by means of an appropriate contract, of 4 researchers with the following characteristics:

Duration: 36 months
Research Centre: DONDENA
Financed by: European Commission - H2020-ERC Scientific
Coordinator: Francesco Billari
Research Project: DisCont -"Discontinuities in Household and Family Formation" - a project that studies the impact of macro-level discontinuities such as the Great Recession and the Digital Revolution on household and family formation (including fertility) in post-industrial societies.
Admission requirements:
In order to participate in the competition, the candidates must have the following requirements:
Qualification: PhD or, alternatively, similar experience in demography, economics, sociology or statistics/data science.
Solid quantitative skills and familiarity with statistical packages such as R and/or Stata.
Relatives (up to the forth degree of kinship) of professors in the University Council, the University Rector, or the Director General may not apply.

For complete information: https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/41f47318-476b-4722-a316-99e18750a06b/Bando_EN_Discont.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

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