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Virtual Mentoring Event
The first virtual event for future mentors and mentees of the COST Action Great Leap will take place on Monday 26 August 2024 at 15:00 CET. The goal is to give both...
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Thematic Workshop: Tuberculosis: The White Death as a Social Disease
School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning (University of Sassari) Bastioni Marco Polo 77, Alghero, Sassari, ItalyBackground: Tuberculosis has been a significant public health concern, affecting millions of people worldwide throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and even nowadays in certain parts of the world. It...
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Online Lecture 2: Understanding inequalities in health
Lecturer: Prof. Jonas Minet Kinge, University of Oslo Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture combines theoretical content with active learning to help students understand inequalities in health in a global...
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Online Lecture 1: The epidemiological transition (rescheduled)
Lecturer: Prof. Isabelle Devos, Ghent University Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture combines theoretical content with active learning to help students understand the epidemiological transition theory in a global...
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Online Lecture 3: Life course determinants of mortality
TeamsLecturer: Prof. Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University Content of the lecture/ workshop: The lecture starts with an overview of the long-term mortality decline contrasting underlying period and cohort factors. It reviews the studies...
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Thematic Workshop: Funding Oppertunities for Studying Inequality in Health
ALDEMAR KNOSSOS ROYAL RESORT Limenas Hersonissou, Chersonissos, Crete, GreeceWe are excited to announce the Thematic Workshop: ‘Funding Oppertunities for Studying Inequality in Health’. This will be a dedicated workshop in which participants can brainstorm about funding opportunities tailored...
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Online Lecture 4: Intergenerational transmission of health and behaviors
TeamsLecturer: Dr. Emre Sari, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture presents the complex mechanisms of nature and nurture in persisting health and health behaviors across...
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Thematic Workshop: From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality
Institute of Economy, Geography and Demography-Center for Human and Social Sciences- Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CCHS-CSIC) Albasanz Street 26, Madrid, SpainCall for Papers - From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality In Europe, the average lifespan has increased from around 47 years in 1900 to...
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First Virtual Meeting ICD10h Classifications (WG2)
TeamsThe first meeting of the subgroup ICD10 Classifications of Working Group 2: Methods and tools for standardization, coding and classifying causes of death takes place on Thursday 21 November 10:45-11:45...
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Online Lecture 5: Medical perspectives
Lecturer: Prof. Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University (ZOOM) Content of the lecture/ workshop: This lecture uses a history of Irish mental health to help students understand the impact that chronic mental...
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First Virtual Meeting ICD10h Historic Strings (WG2)
The first meeting of the subgroup 'ICD10h Historic Strings' of Working Group 2: Methods and tools for standardization, coding and classifying causes of death takes place on Friday 29 November...
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Online Lecture 6: Public Health
ZoomLecturer: Prof. Ivan Miškulin, University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine Content of the lecture: This lecture aims to clarify and illuminate the field of Public Health. Many people are still...
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Young Demographers Conference & Masterclasses on Inequality in Health
Charles University Albertov 6, Prague, Czech RepublicThe annual international Conference of Young Demographers is held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University traditionally in the first half of February. We welcome submissions from all fields of demography, as well as...
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Online lecture 1: Best practices for data management
ZoomLecturer: Prof. Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Ireland Content of the lecture: This lecture aims to enable the students to think critically about key issues around data management, situated in the...
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Online lecture 2: Using automatic transcription for processing historical sources
Lecturers: Adrià Molina (Computer Vision Center) & Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia & Center for Demographic Studies) Content of the lecture: The aim of the lecture is to...
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Mentoring and Networking Event at European Social Science History Conference
Einstein Nieuwe Rijn 19, Leiden, NetherlandsAre you looking to expand your academic network and gain valuable mentorship? We invite you to a Mentoring & Networking Event on March 27, 2025, from 18:00 to 20:00 at Einstein This event provides a...
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Online lecture 3: The creation of cause-of-death databases
ZoomLecturers: Prof. Angelique Janssens (Radboud University) and Prof. Isabelle Devos (University of Ghent) Content: Automated transcription of cause-of-death records can be impractical for many researchers due to unscanned or improperly formatted...
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Lessons learned using a chatbot to assign ICD-10 codes to historical causes of death
ZoomLecturer: Prof. Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Content: I will present our lessons learned using the ChatGPT chatbot to assign International Classification of Diseases (ICD)...
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Historical International Classification for Diseases
ZoomLecturers: prof. Alice Reid, University of Cambridge, dr. Mayra Murkens, University of Groningen Content: The recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical...
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Causes of death sources around the world
ZoomLecturers: Dr. Elena Crinela Holom, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; Dr. Grażyna Liczbińska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań; Dr. Michail Raftakis, University of Bologna Content: This lecture will provide an overview of available...
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Workshop Challenging the Leviathan of individual death records (1800-1950). A walk-in-clinic on automatic transcription
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém Avenida da Universidade, 4800-058, Guimarães, PortugalThe 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 (1800–1950)....
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Online lecture 7: Health Inequality in the Long Run: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Mortality
MS TeamsLecturers: Dr. Hannaliis Jaadla, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Content: This lecture examines the long run patterns of health inequalities, with a focus on the social and spatial patterns...
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Thematic Virtual Workshop ‘New ways of transcribing, visualizing, publishing, and providing access to data on epidemics and contagious diseases’
VirtualAs part of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’, we will be hosting a one-day online-only workshop on the topic of ‘New ways...
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Workshop and Hackathon ‘Analysing historical mortality and cause of death data’
University of Zurich, Switzerland Rämistrasse 71, 8006, Zurich, SwitzerlandThe aim of this 2-day-event is to use an exemplary historical data set to explore different ways of statistically analysing and presenting mortality and causes of death data, including with...
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Online Workshop Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health
MS TeamsAre you planning to apply for an individual research grant and wondering how to craft a strong proposal? Join us for an online workshop on 25 June 14:00-15:30 CET, where...
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Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death
University of Cambridge The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge, United KingdomThe recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical causes of death. Widespread adoption of this system across diverse countries and linguistic...
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Working Group 2 Meeting on ICD10h
University of Cambridge The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge, United KingdomThis event is only for invited scholars who contributed to the ICD10h. More information will follow.
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Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death & Death, Demography and Digital History Symposium
Caulfield Campus, Monash University Melbourne, AustraliaThe ‘Training Course on Coding Historical Causes of Death’ & ‘Death, Demography and Digital History Symposium’ are organized on 22-23 July 2025 at the Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia....
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Summer Training School ‘Harmonising and Visualising Data in Research on Health Inequalities’
Charles University Albertov 6, Prague, Czech RepublicThis Summer School is designed for early-career researchers engaged in the study of health inequalities through the lens of historical data. Participants will develop advanced skills in data harmonisation and...
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Thematic Workshop: How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)
Radboud University Nijmegen, NederlandThe history of infectious disease mortality is far from over, neither in the western world nor the non-western world. Yet, the steep increases in life expectancy since the 19th century in...
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Workshop Sources and Databases on Causes of Death in Historical Societies (1800–1950)
Sala dei Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna, ItalySince the 1800s, causes of death have been systematically recorded in various types of historical registries, including parish registers, civil records, and hospital logs. Registration of causes of death was...
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Management Committee Meeting
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Via Andreatta 8, Bologna, ItalyMore information will follow.
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Thematic Workshop: Inequality in Myeloproliferative Diseases and Acute Leukaemia Mortality and Surveillance. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
The workshop will address key issues, including disparities in mortality and treatment access for myeloproliferative diseases (MPDs) and acute leukemias. It will also include discussions on methodologies for managing mortality...
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Online lecture 8 – Session 1: OLS regression models and causal inference
MS TeamsLecturers: Dr. Auke Rijpma, Research Institute for History and Art History, Utrecht University Content:Historical demographers often rely on survival models to analyze events like mortality and health outcomes. While these...
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Online lecture 8 – Session 2: Multinomial regression models by and for historians/historical demographers
MS TeamsLecturers: Dr. Mayra Murkens, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Content: One of the main issues historical demographers face, is the lack of a proper estimation of the population at...
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Information Session and Launch ‘How to publish your GREATLEAP COST Action research with Open Research Europe’
MS TeamsWe warmly invite you to join us for the launch and information session of the new Open Research Europe Special Collection “Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health inequalities, 1800–2022”. Registration link:...
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Online lecture 9 – Family reconstitution application in event history models
Lecturers: Dr. Péter Őri, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute Content: The lecture provides an overview of infant and child mortality prior to the demographic transition, paying particular attention to differences by...
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Online lecture 10: Retrospective modelling of epidemics using historical mortality data
ZoomZOOM link Lecturer: Dr. Katarina Matthes, University of Zurich Content: The aim of this lecture is to provide an introduction to how mortality data can be used for retrospective modelling...
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Training Workshop ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time’
Hotel de Wereld 5 Mei Plein 1, Wageningen, NetherlandsThere is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the...
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