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📢 Last week we shared our January 2026 newsletter!
Visit our website younghistoricaldemographers.… to subscribe or read the newsletter directly.
Have anything you want to share in upcoming editions? Please let us know by DM or email one of the board members!
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How can AI help (or hinder) historical research? Join us at UCL on 30 October for the EHS Women’s Committee Training Event, featuring a roundtable and a collaborative hackathon using real historical sources and datasets.
Free to attend and open to all.
To book:
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🏆 Know a demographer making a difference in the profession? Nominate a colleague (or yourself!) for a PAA 2027 award.
📅 Deadline: Dec. 14, 2026 (earlier than usual!)
Help us celebrate excellence in demography: buff.ly/B47V3vi
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Application deadline approaching!
The deadline for the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students is 1 November
The EHS considers applications for grants up to £1,000 to help postgraduate students gather research data & source materials, including travel and accommodation expenses
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📣 Call for Papers, Sessions & Workshops: 2027 Applied Demography Conference
Submit your papers, sessions, and workshops for the PAA 2027 Applied Demography Conference, Feb. 17–18 in Washington, DC.
🗓️ Submission deadline: November 7
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We kick off the first of two webinars on Friday with @IUSSP exploring how AI is already used in demography—and how it may shape the field. Join the conversation on opportunities, challenges, and emerging applications: buff.ly/7qCSyBT
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Remember to join us this Monday for our 1st seminar!
Hampton Gaddy will discuss missing data, Indigenous mortality during the 1918 flu, and the Alaskan census 📊
Our weekly seminars are back!
📅 Mondays
🕐 12.45pm
💻 Hybrid
See our termcard below and find out more on our website 👇
sociology.ox.ac.uk/seminars
ALT Termcard for Michaelmas Term 2026 Seminars
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1/ Workshop CFP
Resilient Societies: Shocks, Adaptation and the Persistence of Inequality in Historical Perspective.
How have societies responded to historical shocks, and why have some individuals or societies proved more resilient than others?
LSE, 20–21 May 2027
ALT LSE Historical Economic Demography Group Logo
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New Data Prize! Application Deadline 1 December 2026.
The EHS is pleased to offer a new biennial prize for outstanding contributions to creating, compiling, and sharing data and information in economic history.
#EHS100
Further info and to apply:
ehs.org.uk/award/data-prize/
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The EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students, application deadline 1st November.
The EHS considers applications for grants of up to £1,000 to help postgraduate students gather research data and source materials, including travel and accommodation expenses.
ehs.org.uk/award/research-fu…
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Extended Deadline, Next Monday!
The Call for Papers for the 2027 EHS Conference has been extended.
The conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, 2 – 4 April 2027.
The new deadline for academic papers, sessions and new researcher papers is 21 September 2026.
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Upcoming Deadline! Nomination Deadline 30 September 2026.
The EHS awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for an outstanding book in Economic and/or Social History. The winner of the Outstanding Book Prize will be announced at the annual conference.
#EHS100
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Application Deadline Friday! 16:00 (UK), 11 September 2026.
The EHS offers 12 part-funded places on an annual, intensive residential course designed to raise the quality and analytical rigour of doctoral dissertations. To be held this year 2–5 December 2026, at the Uni of Warwick
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📢 Call for Papers: Business & Financial History of Colonialism
Only 4 days left to submit!
Deadline: 16 August 2026
Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/s…
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The EHS is part of the partnership supporting the BME Events and Activities Small Grants Scheme. The joint scheme provides small grants to support activities and events run by BME historians working in the UK OR to support events and activities exploring histories of BME people.
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📢 Applications are now open for the PhD Programme in Life Course Research!
We offer 10 fully funded PhD scholarships in Demography & Social Statistics.
🗓️ Deadline: August 6, 2026.
A great opportunity to join an international research environment! 🌍
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🎯Only a week left to register for the course Social Indicators: Theory and Applications.
Course details and registration: ced.cat/en/bcn4seasons/socin…
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Be sure to follow the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society @WComEHS for the latest updates on its work, which includes an annual workshop, training day, networking event and a dedicated session at the Annual Conference.
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New working paper on "How to deal with machine learning bias in economic history" by @ChristianVedel, @JuliusKoschnick, and Torben S. D. Johansen! 🖥️
👉You can read it here:
arxiv.org/abs/2606.28063
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The EHS Initiatives & Conference Fund supports otherwise unfunded workshops, special meetings & other interesting initiatives in economic & social history.
The next application deadline is 1 November.
Grants will not be made for more than £5,000 or £1,000 for a 1day workshop.
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The EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students, next application deadline 1 November
The EHS considers applications for grants of up to £1,000 to help postgraduate students gather research data and source materials, including travel and accommodation expenses
ehs.org.uk/award/research-fu…