The 13th Conference of Young Demographers took place between 1–4 February 2022, organized by association of Young Demographers with the support of the Department of Demography and Geodemography of Faculty of Science, Charles University. Debuting in 2009 as a one-day event for doctoral students from Czechia and Slovakia, this annual conference has evolved into a four-day international event with impressive collaborations and varied thematic content related to demography. Thus, the conference has become a good opportunity for demographers at the beginning of their careers to share and exchange ideas in the numerous research areas that demography has to offer. This year, the Association for Young Historical Demographic has been involved again. The collaboration with Young demographers started already in 2019, when the whole Day for the Young Historical Demographers, full of workshops and discussions, was organized. Promising collaboration also planned for the future, which would confirm the important position of historical demography in the general demographic field.
Given the on-going epidemiological situation, the conference was organized in a hybrid form. Thus, while the first and last day of the conference were comprised of presentations held only in the digital space, during the second and the third day the participants met offline in-person as well. There were different types of presentations as well, from keynotes with advice for the young demographers to oral presentations and posters with flash presentations. Thematically, the presentations have encompassed subjects from classical demography, mental and physical health, migration, epidemiology, environment, historical demography, gender studies, education, social inequalities, etc. The geographical diversity didn’t lack either, the presentations focusing on different countries from Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, South and North America, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Western Europe.
One of our team members, Georgi Diana Lutz, has participated with a poster regarding a comparison about different demographic aspects in Bohemia and Transylvania between 1867–1918. The poster and more information can be found here. Another member of the EXPRO team, Klára Hulíková, chaired one of the oral sessions focused above all on demographic analysis and methodology. With Barbora Janáková Kuprová, they both belong traditionally to the organizing team of the conference.
More details regarding the presentations of the other participants can be found in conference the program and on the conference’s website.
