Demography revisited. The past 50 years, the coming 50 years.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of demography at UCL, the 2013 Quetelet Seminar will focus on changes in the field of demography over the past 50 years and in the coming 50 years.
Topics:
• Theories and paradigms (usefulness, relevance,
lack/excess...)
• Demographic science in the social and health sciences (e.g.
isolation/integration, strengths/weaknesses...)
• Information systems (censuses, surveys, registers...)
• Tools and methods (quantitative, qualitative, mixed)
• Population policies (e.g. usefulness, effectiveness)
• The teaching of demography (what, how, for whom?)
• The long-term evolution of demographic phenomena (errors,
uncertainties, reversals...)
• Utopias and illusions in demography.
Call for papers before the 30th of May 2013.
