IUSSP Bulletin ● Issue 37, Sept 2017 In this issue: 2017 Elections for Council and Committee on Nominations ● Constitutional revision ● International Population Conference ● Data Revolution activities ● Recent publications ● New IUSSP Panels ● Seminars and workshops ● News from the members ● Regional population associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training opportunities ● Job opportunities ● Calendar Elections 2017 – Last week to vote! Elections for the 2018-2021 Council and to select candidates for the 2021 Committee on Nominations will close on 1 October 2017. Full members who were in good standing on 30 June 2017 were included the electoral list and received electronic ballots by email. The final reminder was sent on 25 September (from [email protected]). (read more) Constitutional revision A proposal to amend the Constitution was sent to members on 24 July. This proposal will be discussed at the General Assembly in Cape Town. Members are invited to send their comments by 15 October toconstitutionalrevision@iussp. These comments will be compiled and transmitted to the Revision Committee. (read more) IPC 2017 One month to Cape Town Next 29 October, the 28th International Population Conference will open for an exciting week of scientific discussion and debate with researchers and policy makers from around the globe in a city that offers a rich natural and cultural heritage for all to explore. (read more) Data Revolution activities Preconference workshops at IPC2017 Training workshop on Social Media, Big Data and Digital Demography. Sunday 29 October 2017, 8:30-16:00 (registration open) Training Course on Bayesian Population Projections: Theory and Practice. Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October 2017, 8:30-16:00 (registration closed) Seminar on: Geospatial Demography. Combining Satellite, Survey, Census and Cellphone Data to Provide Small-area Estimates. Sunday 29 October 2017, 8:30-16:00 (registration closed) Data Revolution News Feed Tom Moultrie, "In the quest to meet the SDGs, there’s a danger that some may be left behind", in The Conversation, 10 Sept 2017. Open Data Watch and Data2X report on "Indicators Available to Monitor the SDG Gender Targets and Gender Data Query Tool". Stefaan G. Verhulst, "How open data can help the Global South, from disaster relief to voter turnout", in The Conversation, 20 July 2017. 1 IUSSP Scientific Panels The IUSSP Council accepted proposals for two new Scientific Panels: Family Demography and Family Law, chaired by Benoît Laplante. New and Emerging Family Forms around the Globe, chaired by Brienna Perelli-Harris. IUSSP seminar reports Mortality: Past, Present and Future The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifespan Extension with Varying Cause-of- death Trajectories organized a seminar on "Mortality: Past, Present and Future", in Campinas, Brazil, 7-8 August 2017, followed by a one-day training. Urban Health Transformations The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography organized a seminar on "Urban Health Transformations" in collaboration with and hosted by the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 11-12 July 2017. Climate, Migration & Health The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Migration, Climate and Health organized a “Workshop on Climate, Migration & Health with a focus on refugee movements” in Boulder, Colorado, 25-26 May 2017. Recent Publications Article in a peer-reviewed journal (based on the 2016 PERN Cyberseminar on Water and Population Dynamics) Dos Santos, S., E. A. Adams, G. Neville, Y. Wada, A. de Sherbinin, E. Mullin Bernhardt and S. B. Adamo. 2017. Urban growth and water access in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, challenges, and emerging research direc- tions. Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 607–608. Pages 497-508. Tools for Demographic Estimation The online manual Tools for Demographic Estimation is now available in PDF in French: Moultrie TA, RE Dorrington, AG Hill, K Hill, IM Timæus et B Zaba (eds). 2017. Outils pour l’estimation démographique. Paris: IUSSP. Download at demographicestimation.iussp.org. News from the members Members’ new publications Model-Based Demography. Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory, by Thomas K.Burch. Africa’s Population: In Search of a Demographic Dividend, by Hans Groth and John F. May. Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States: 1850-1950, by Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati and T.V. Sekher. (read summaries) 2 New IUSSP members 154 new members and 141 new student associates joined the IUSSP between 1 July and 1 September 2017. (see list) In memory Juan Chackiel (1944-2017) John Oyaro Oucho (1943-2017) Carlo Corsini (1935-2017) Regional population associations 2018 PAA Annual Meeting in Denver Online submissions for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA), to be held in Denver, United States, 26-28 April 2018, will close soon. Deadline for submissions: 29 September 2017. 2018 APA Conference in Shanghai Online submissions for the 4th Asian Population Association (APA) Conference, to be held in Shanghai, China, 11-14 July 2018, will close soon. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2017. 2018 AIDELF Conference in Louvain la Neuve Online submissions for the 20th Conference of the Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue Française (AIDELF), to be held in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 28-31 August 2018, in conjunction with the 2018 Chaire Quetelet, will close soon. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2017. 2018 European Population Conference in Brussels Online submissions for the 2018 European Population Conference, to be held at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium, 6-9 June 2018 will close soon. EPC 2018 is a general population conference with a focus next year on “Population, Diversity and Inequality”. Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2017. 3 Other announcements 15th Annual Conference of IASSH The Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH) will organize its 15th Annual Conference in Hyderabad, India, 16-18 November 2017. The 2nd Prof. John Caldwell Memorial Lecture will also be held. Register by 30 September 2017. Population journal Young Author Prize 2018 The Population Young Author Prize is open to PhD students and young researchers working in the field of population studies and will be awarded to the most outstanding original paper submitted to the competition jury. Deadline for submission: 15 November 2017. Advanced STATA: A five day course at LSHTM The Population Studies group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) organizes since 2008 a five-day course entitled “Advanced STATA: Programming and other techniques to make your life easier.” The course will be held this year from 6 to 10 November and costs £1,315. N-IUSSP N-IUSSP's recent articles Children born to a lone mother and their well-being in the UK, by Elena Mariani and Alice Goisis. Sharing routine housework and desire for more children in East Asia, by Man-Yee Kan and Ekaterina Hertog. Fertility in the time of economic crisis, by Ludovica Comolli. Persistent high fertility in rural Africa, by Michel Garenne. Majority to minority: the declining U.S. white population, by Dudley L. Poston Jr. and Rogelio Sáenz. Internal migration drives population change in Asia, by Gavin Jones. Surrogacy: a multi-faceted phenomenon, by Virginie Rozée and Laurent Toulemon. The world’s next 4 billion people will differ from the previous 4 billion, by David Lam. Family planning in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, by Donatien Beguy, Alex C. Ezeh, Blessing U. Mberu and Jacques B.O. Emina. The rise of divorce, separation, and cohabitation in the Philippines, by Jeofrey B. Abalos. Recent trends in premarital fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, by Shelley Clark, Alissa Koski and Emily Smith-Greenaway. Think race and ethnicity are permanent? Think again, by Carolyn A. Liebler, Sonya R. Porter, Leticia E. Fernandez, James M. Noon and Sharon R. Ennis. Calls Calls for Papers 2018 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Denver, United States, 26- 28 April 2018. Deadline for Submissions: 29 Sept 2017. 4th Asian Population Association (APA) Conference, Shanghai, China, 11-14 July 2018. Deadline for submissions: 30 Sept 2017. XX Colloque de l'AIDELF 2018, Louvain La Neuve, Belgique, 28-31 August 2018. Deadline for submissions: 30 Sept 2017. 4 Session on Health Inequalities and Urbanization, 17th-20th centuries, at the 18th World Economic History Congress (WEHC 2018), Boston, United States, 29 July-3 August 2018. Deadline for submissions: 30 Sept 2017. 2018 European Population Conference (EPC 2018), Brussels, Belgium, 6-9 June 2018. Deadline for submissions: 1 Oct 2017. Special Issue of International Journal of Population Studies. Deadline for submission: 31 Oct 2017. International Sociological Association, Joint Conference for the Research Committee on Family (RC06) & Population (RC 41) on the theme “Changing Demography–Changing Families”, Singapore, 17-19 May 2018. Deadline for submissions: 1 Nov 2017. 9th Demographic Conference of "Young Demographers, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 February 2018. Deadline for submissions: 15 Nov 2017. Call for session proposals for the World Social Science Forum 2018, Fukuoka, Japan, 25-28 September 2018. Deadline for submissions: 30 Nov 2017. Training opportunities Advanced STATA: Programming and other techniques to make your life easier, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 6-10 November 2017. Fees: £1,315. Deadline for applications: 12 Oct 2017. 9e Université d’été du RéDoc/AISLF: