Reproductive morbidity and poverty
Workshop announcement + Call for papers
6th November 2010
London School of Economics

Poverty reduction is a core target in the international development agenda. Reproductive morbidities include physical disorders such as fistula and infertility, as well as maternal depression and mental ill-health. For every maternal death, there are an estimated twenty women with maternal morbidities. Although these morbidities cause widespread disability and reduce the quality of life, they receive little attention as public health problems. The burden of reproductive health morbidities falls heaviest on the poor who often do not have access to essential health care and services.

This one day multi-disciplinary seminar will bring together public health experts, medical practitioners, social scientists and policy makers to discuss the links between reproductive morbidities and poverty. This is one in a series of four seminars on “Poverty and Sexual and Reproductive Health: Towards Unravelling the Vicious Circle” funded by the ESRC. The seminars bring together a mix of multidisciplinary expertise involving academics and practitioners to synthesise evidence from cutting-edge research in the field and to identify gaps for further scientific research, policy, and practice.

Papers are invited which address one or more of these questions:
1. What are the pathways through which poverty affects reproductive morbidity outcomes?
2. How does reproductive morbidity impact on poverty?
Theoretical, substantive, methodological contributions and case studies are welcomed. Early career
researchers and PhD researchers are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration as papers or posters.
How to submit a paper
We invite you to submit a structured abstract containing the title, aims, data & methods, results,
conclusions and this should be not more than 2 pages. Please send your submission to
Health.Reproseminar@lse.ac.uk by 31/07/10.
How to Register
This workshop is open to all, and there is no charge. However, pre-registration is required
(Health.Reproseminar@lse.ac.uk). Early registration is recommended.
Funding
Limited partial funding is available to meet travel and accommodation expenses for those whose abstracts have been selected but have no means of funding. UK-based early career researchers with innovative and high quality abstracts have priority for partial funding. Successful applicants will be sent invitation letters by 16/08/10.
Seminar series collaborators: University of Southampton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, City University, Loughborough University, and University of Warwick.

Call for Papers
In Memoriam of Professor Daniel J. Hogan
Special Issue of Population and Environment
Guest Editors:
• Roberto do Carmo, University of Campinas, Brazil
• Eduardo Marandola Jr., University of Campinas, Brazil
• Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia University, USA

The population and environment research community recently lost a wonderful leader, colleague and mentor when Daniel Hogan passed away in April. Professor Hogan was part of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. Distinguished in the field of demography, he served as Provost for Graduate Studies from 2002 to 2005. He was also a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, former president of Brazilian Population Association (ABEP) and served as Professor and Founding Researcher of the Unicamp Population Studies Center (NEPO) and the Environmental Studies Center (NEPAM). Hogan was also an active member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Population Geography commission of the International Geographical Union (IGU), and Population & Environment’s editorial board.

In recognition of Dr. Hogan’s many contributions to the field, the editorial board of Population & Environment has agreed to dedicate a special issue to his memory. The guest editors for this issue will be Roberto do Carmo (IFCH, NEPO, Unicamp), Eduardo Marandola (NEPO, Unicamp), and Alex de Sherbinin (CIESIN, Columbia University). The editors are soliciting original research papers by former students or colleagues of Dr. Hogan, those who were influenced by his work, or by Brazilian and Latin American colleagues more generally. Contributions, within the broad framework of population-environment studies, may address the spatial distribution of population, migration, urbanization, water use, deforestation, climate change, vulnerability and risk. The editors also welcome contributions by demographers outside these themes who were influenced by Dr. Hogan’s work. Submissions must be in English and adhere to the journal guidelines.
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/population+studies/journal/11111.

Submissions should be accompanied by a letter outlining the connection between the paper (or the author) and Dr. Hogan’s work or legacy. Submission deadline: November 30, 2010. Please write Dr. Roberto do Carmo with any questions: roberto@nepo.unicamp.br. All submissions should be submitted via the online submission system http://www.editorialmanager.com/poen/

The Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior: Comparative Perspectives
Leuven, June 9 and 10, 2011

The Scientific Research Community on Historical Demography (Research Foundation Flanders - Belgium) is organising an international seminar on "The Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior: Comparative Perspectives", to be held in Leuven (Belgium), June 9-10, 2011. The aim of this seminar is to examine the intergenerational transmission of reproductive behavior from new perspectives: comparing social-environmental and genetic factors (and their interplay), and comparing the familial transmission of reproductive behavior across subgroups and contexts.

Call for papers

QMSS2 Seminar on ‘Measuring Integration and Discrimination’
Paris, July 5 and 6, 2010

Call for papers

This seminar is organized jointly by Patrick Simon of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris and Han Entzinger of Erasmus University Rotterdam as part of the European Science Foundation’s programme to support research networks in quantitative social sciences (QMSS2). It will take place in Paris on July 5-6, 2010. Like earlier seminars in this series, this seminar is small-scale and attendance is upon invitation only. A maximum of twelve papers will be accepted, preferably written by young scholars.

Call for papers

AFRICAN DISSERTATION SERIES
AFRICAN POPULATION STUDIES VOL 25
CALL FOR DISSERTATION MANUSCRIPTS
The Union for African Population Studies is launching African Dissertation Programme to enable young scholars in African academic and research institutions to get their doctoral and masters dissertations translated into publishable Journal articles.

To this end, African Population Studies Journal invites young African scholars, researchers, junior faculties in African Universities and Research entities to submit manuscripts based on their PhD or advanced Masters degree dissertations. Manuscripts must be devoted to issues of population and development in Africa. All dissertation manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Authors of manuscripts will be assisted in refining the quality of their manuscripts.

Call for papers

SERIES THÈSES ET MÉMOIRES AFRICAINS
ETUDE DE LA POPULATION AFRICAINE VOL 25
APPEL À MANUSCRITS POUR THÈSES ET MÉMOIRES
L'Union pour l'Étude de la Population Africaine lance un Programme de valorisation des thèses et mémoires africains en vue d'aider les jeunes chercheurs dans les institutions africaines d'enseignement et de recherche à traduire leurs thèses et mémoires en des articles publiables dans des revues avec comité de lecture.
Pour cela, l'Union pour l'étude de la Population Africaine invite les jeunes enseignants et chercheurs dans les universités et institutions de recherche Africaines à soumettre des manuscrits basés sur leur thèse de doctorat ou leur mémoire de master.
Les manuscrits devront porter sur des questions de population et développement en Afrique. Tous les manuscrits serontévalués par un comité de lecture. Les auteurs seront assistés dans l'amélioration de la qualité de leurs manuscrits.
Appel à communications

International Colloquium of the Network on Family and Schooling in Africa (FASAF)
in collaboration with the Unité de Recherche Démographique (URD) at the Université de Lomé
Schooling of vulnerable populations in Africa: State of Knowledge and Policy Responses
Lomé, December 13-15, 2010

Call for papers

Colloque international du réseau Famille et Scolarisation en Afrique (FASAF)
en collaboration avec l’Unité de Recherche Démographique (URD) de l’Université de Lomé
Scolarisation des populations vulnérables en Afrique :
bilan des connaissances et réponses politiques
Lomé, 13-15 décembre 2010

Appel à communications

Call for papers on local and small area demographic modelling

The Journal of Population Research will be publishing a special issue in December 2010 on “Advances in local and small area demographic modelling” to be edited by Tom Wilson and Martin Bell (The University of Queensland). Papers are being sought on new and improved methods for modelling and projecting small and local area populations. Whilst considerable effort has been devoted to national demographic projection methods in recent years, research into modelling at the small and local area scale has received less attention. This is unfortunate given the considerable use of projections at this level by government and business and the advances in demographic modelling generally. The special issue aims to bring together some of the latest work in the field, hopefully stimulating further debate and research.

All aspects of small and local area demographic modelling are welcomed; coverage is not restricted geographically. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: multiregional methods, microsimulation, probabilistic models, reviews of research needs, models for sub-populations and ethnic groups, experimental geocomputational approaches, extrapolative models, integrated economic-demographic models, comparative assessments of different models, and methods for handling limited data situations.

Papers should be submitted electronically to the Journal’s Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jpor/. When you are asked to ‘Please select an article type choose ‘Sp. Iss. Local and Small Area Modelling’. Submissions will be reviewed in the usual way.

Deadline for submissions: 31st July 2010.

Word limit: 7,000 words.

Instructions for authors may be found at
http://www.springer.com/sociology/population+studies/journal/12546

BSPS Annual Conference 2010
13-15 September 2010, The University of Exeter

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 30 April 2010.
The 2010 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Exeter from 13-15 September. The University campus is on the outskirts of Exeter with wonderful views over the Exe Valley. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available at very reasonable rates. There will be a full programme of simultaneous strand sessions of submitted papers. Proposals or abstracts for papers and posters are invited across the entire demographic and population studies spectrum. For organizational purposes, strand organizers have been allocated to specific themes, but if you wish to submit a paper that does not appear to come under any of the headings given, please enter either ‘to be agreed’ in the relevant space on the online submission form, or leave the space blank . If accepted, the paper will be allocated to an appropriate strand session when the programme is timetabled.
Submissions of quantitative and qualitative papers are welcome.

The call for papers and further information about the Conference are available at
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/BSPS/annualConference/2010/Call%20for%20papers.aspx

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Call for papers: Journal of Population Research Special Issue:
‘Estimating maternal mortality from census data’

The last few years have seen an increasing demand for more accurate estimates to mark progress in development. In particular the widely acknowledged lack of progress in MDG 5 – improving maternal health - has highlighted the importance of providing good and accurate estimates of mortality. Census data has been recommended as a possible way forward to estimate maternal mortality in the absence of a complete or near complete vital registration system. The number of countries that have included maternal mortality questions in their decennial census is increasing and more have pledged to include it in the current census round. With the increasing availability of data it is necessary to gather more information on what works and what doesn’t in terms of both data collection and estimation. This is therefore an important time to gather country experiences in order to inform the debate. In light of the ongoing census round and upcoming census-taking, the aim of this special issue is to collect the state of the art knowledge on the topic thus far.
We welcome submissions from any aspects of measurement of maternal mortality from census data. Papers may be empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology in the general field of maternal mortality estimation from census data. Submissions may take the form of original research papers (8000 words max) and shorter technical research notes (4000 words max). The articles will be peer reviewed.
The deadline for submission is the 1st of April 2010.
For any queries please email Dr Tiziana Leone at t.leone@lse.ac.uk

For more information on submission guidelines :
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/population+studies/journal/12546