Call for Papers Workshops ‘Transcribing the Past: Citizen Scientists and Automation in Historical Demography’

10:00-17:00, 29 January 2026, MS Teams 9:30-17:00, 26 March 2026, Ghent University, Belgium We are pleased to invite contributions for an one-day virtual workshop and one-day in-pe

Call for Papers: Workshop ‘Accuracy of Cause-of-Death Registration: Everyday Conditions, Crises, and Epidemics

Thursday 19 – Friday 20 March 2026 | Barcelona, Spain The accurate registration of deaths has long been a challenge for researchers. Crises, such as epidemics, often led to

Call for Papers: Workshop ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time’

27 February 2026 | Akoesticum, Ede, the Netherlands There is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depen

2nd Call for Thematic Workshops (co-organised)

Description  To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Thematic Workshop proposals to officially co-organise events. This call is open for scholars who would like

Call for Registrations: Workshop ‘Challenging the Leviathan of individual death records (1800-1950). A walk-in-clinic on automatic transcription’

The workshop is part of the COST Action project – The Great Leap  and is aimed at scholars who are at an early stage of collecting individual-level death certificates (1800–19