Call for Papers for a Special Collection ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run’ at Demographic Research

The Special Collection ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run’ in Demographic Research aims to bring together research investigating long-run changes

Call for Papers in ESSHC Sessions: ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases’, ‘Spatial Perspectives of Mortality’, ‘ Socioeconomic gradients in cause-specific mortality’, ‘Gender differences in mortality’

The 16th European Social Science History Conference will take place 21–24 April 2027 in Lyon, France, and is hosted by ENS. We are aiming for sessions on ‘Epidemics and Con

Open Call for Publication Support

GREATLEAP members have the opportunity to publish their research free of charge in the Open Research Europe Special Collection “Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health

Call for Papers Workshop ‘Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view’

Cambridge, June 15-16 2026 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions have saved millions of lives over the last century. The WHO estimates that three-quarters of the globa

Call for Papers: International Workshop ‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’

Dates: 2–3 July 2026Venue: University of the Balearic Islands (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters) The consequences of epidemics extend far beyond their immediate effects on publi

Call for Proposals: Workshop ‘Putting mortality on the map. A workshop on the use of spatial methods to study the urban mortality transition’

University of Copenhagen, August 20th to 21st 2026 It has long been recognized that the mortality transition was shaped by spatial dynamics. The idea of the ‘urban penalty’, fo