Overview

Seminar Series

The Research Group Kinship Inequalities hosts various kinds of seminar talks. Here, there is an overview of past lectures, in the calendar you find future events.

Seminar Talks 2024

Family Influence or Individual Experience? Social Determinants of Migration Across Generations
Marielle Cote-Gendreau (Princeton University)
November 26, 2024 More

Heterogeneity in Population Projection: Local to Global perspective
Samir KC (IIASA/ WIC/ Shanghai University)
November 5, 2024 More

The Colombian armed conflict: Using statistical methods to unveil the truth
Maria Gargiulo (LSHTM)
October 30, 2024 More

Impact of Family Background and Household Composition on Internal Migration: Historical Evidence from the Netherlands
Andrea Colasurdo (MPIDR)
September 4, 2024 More 

The labor market consequences of political imprisonment in the former GDR
Karsten Hank & Nicole Gürtzgen (University of Cologne | IAB & University of Regensburg)
August 22, 2024 More  

The importance of understanding kinship structures and kinlessness for left behind older adults in Puerto Rico
Amilcar Matos-Moreno (Center for Healthy Aging at the Pennsylvania State University & Carlos Albizu University)
June 26, 2024 More 

A kinship perspective on shared lifetime and years of life lost by socioeconomic status
Amanda Martins de Almeida (MPIDR)
June 25, 2024 More 

Escess mortality in early 20th century Africa: the Spanish influenza, conflicts and draughts
Robert Stelter (University of Basel)
April 24, 2024 More 

Generational placement trajectories in Norway: Combining empirical and simulated data 
Bettina Hünteler (MPIDR & University of Cologne)
March 12, 2024 

Seminar Talks 2023

The impact of kinship networks on occupational mobility
Christoph Hess (University of Cambridge)
October 19, 2023 More

The Global Variability & Recurrence of Kinship Terminology
Samuel Passmore (Australian National University)
September 5, 2023 More

Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks
Sha Jiang (Stanford University) 
March 22, 2023 More

Leveraging Crowdsourced Online Genealogical Data to Study the Evolution of Fertility
Riccardo Omenti (University of Bologna) 
March 15, 2023 More

Using Register Data to Study Heterogeneity in Kinship Structures: Socioeconomic Status, Nativity, and Age
Linus Andersson (Stockholms universitet) 
January 18, 2023 More

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