PROGRAMME NEW CHALLENGES REQUIRE NEW DATA. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 9:00 to 17:00, Online Simultaneous translation services will be made available

Opening Session 9:00 to 9:30

Dr Andreas Edel, Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, & Executive Secretary, Population Europe, Berlin

Drs Nico van Nimwegen, Honorary Fellow, NIDI, & Secretary General and Treasurer, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, The Hague

Population Ageing in an unconventional demographic regime: Evidence from India Prof. James Sebastian Kuriath, PhD, Director and Senior Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai

Migration 9:30 to 10:30

Combining social media and survey methods for migration research Prof. Emilio Zagheni, PhD, Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock & Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle

Prof. Dr Rainer Münz, Visiting Professor, Central European University, School of Public Policy, Budapest and Vienna Family & Fertility 11:00 to 12:00

Family dynamics in Latin America: the measurement challenge Prof. Dr Albert Esteve Palós, Director, Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), and Adjunct Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona

The social and economic impact of fertility change Dr Eliya Zulu, Executive Director and founder of the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Nairobi

Lunch Break 12:00 to 13:00

Human Capital 13:00 to 14:00

The power of multi-dimensional : changing education distributions and sustainable development Prof. Dr Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, & Scientific Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences & Professor of Demography,

How likely is Africa to exceed its projected size of 4.3 Billion people by 2100? Prof. Dr Alex Chika Ezeh, Dornsife Professor of Global Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia & Former (Founding) Director of African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, and the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)

Mortality 14:00 to 15:00

Mobile phone surveys for mortality surveillance in settings where CRVS are deficient Prof. Georges Reniers, PhD, Professor of Demography, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Population Studies Group

Prof. Samuel Clark, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus

Coffee Break 15:00 to 15:30 Gender 15:30 to 16:30

Can the digital revolution promote gender equality? Prof. Dr Ridhi Kashyap, Professorial Fellow and Associate Professor of Social Demography, Co-Leader of the Programme Digital & Computational Science, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University

Understanding Gender and Its Role Using DHS Data Dr Sunita Kishor, Director, Demographic and Health Surveys Program, Rockville, Maryland

Closing Remarks 16:30 to 17:00