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