ECPD Events

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Europe, how are we doing?

    Wie geht's uns, Europa? Die Forschung weist zunehmend auf die Bedeutung enger sozialer Beziehungen für die Resilienz hin. Menschen, die mit ihren Partnerschaften und ihrem unmittelbaren Netzwerk aus Freundschaften und Familie zufrieden sind, erzielen tendenziell höhere Werte beim Wohlbefinden. Aber wie gut sind Europäerinnen und Europäer in ihren sozialen Netzwerken aufgestellt, insbesondere im höheren Alter?

  • LECTURE SERIES: Intimate partner violence: Data challenges and policy solutions

    Forum Hertie School Friedrichstraße 180, Berlin, Germany

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue with serious and far-reaching consequences for individuals and societies. Beyond physical violence, IPV involves patterns of psychological violence and coercive control that obstruct victims’ wellbeing, safety, and autonomy. Yet, much of this violence remains hidden and insufficiently understood, since we lack reliable data that sheds light on

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Berlin Demography Days: Demography and Democracy

    Berliner Demografie-Tage: Demografie und Demokratie Panel Debate with: Dr. Petra Bahr, Staatssekretärin im Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMBFSFJ) | State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, Direktorin des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) | Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria,

  • LECTURE SERIES: Families Beyond Now: Diversity, Change, and Belonging

    Museum für Naturkunde - Berlin Invalidenstraße 43, Berlin, Germany

    Families are changing - across generations, cultures, and borders. Join us to explore, play and imagine together how diversity shapes belonging today and what families of tomorrow might look like. What to expect: Families are more diverse than ever before. Migration, aging, new household forms, and shifting cultural values are reshaping what “family” means across

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Demographic concerns and migration control: A look at debates and legal developments over the past 50 years

    Bevölkerungssorgen und Migrationskontrolle: ein Blick auf Debatten und Rechtsentwicklung in den letzten 50 Jahren Speaker: Dr. Dana Schmalz, LL.M., Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg Nicht nur die tatsächlichen demographischen Veränderungen, sondern auch die sie begleitenden Bevölkerungsdiskurse prägten und prägen unsere Gesellschaften. Speziell in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren stand

  • LECTURE SERIES: Gender inequality in life courses, financial resource accumulation, and later life outcomes

    Forum Hertie School Friedrichstraße 180, Berlin, Germany

    This lecture will discuss the interplay between work and caregiving across the life course, and their implications for financial well-being and wealth accumulation, as well as working time preferences and subjective well-being. The analytical framework is grounded in a life course policy model that integrates redistribution though the welfare state and the family. The analysis

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Old age security in Europe – fair and sustainable pension reforms for heterogeneous ageing

    Alterssicherung in Europa – faire und nachhaltige Rentenreformen für heterogenes Altern Speakers: Prof. Dr. Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Deputy Director at the Vienna Institute of Demography, and Professor of Mathematical Economics, TU Vienna. Dr. Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Research Scientist at the Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW and Univ. Vienna), Vienna Institute of Demography, the Technical University of Vienna (TU

  • ECPD at the Sophie-Charlotte Salon 2026: Conflicts — Exploring Paths to Resolution

    Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Markgrafenstraße 38, Berlin, Germany

    The Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD) will be part of the Sophie-Charlotte Salon 2026, hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) on January 17, 2026. The Sophie-Charlotte Salon is a public interdisciplinary event that brings together perspectives from science, history, culture, politics, and society. Under the overarching theme “Resolving Conflicts”, the 2026

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: We need to talk about transition to adulthood

    Wir müssen über das Erwachsenwerden sprechen Speaker: Prof. Dr. Arnstein Aassve, Professor of Demography, Department of Social and Political Science, Bocconi University, Milan | Principal Investigator of the EU-funded FutuRes project Die Veranstaltungen finden jeweils online von 13:00 Uhr bis 14:00 Uhr MESZ/MEZ statt. | The Tuesday dialogues always take place online (Zoom) from 1-2 pm, CEST/CET. Während

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Ukrainian refugees in Germany four years on

    Ukrainische Geflüchtete in Deutschland nach vier Jahren Speakers: Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, Director, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) Dr. Andreas Ette, Head of Research Group International Migration, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) Im Februar dieses Jahres jährt sich die russische Invasion in der Ukraine zum vierten Mal. Seit Ausbruch des Krieges haben etwa 1,2

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Title to be announced

    Titel wird bekanntgegeben Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gertraud Stadler, Professor for gender-sensitive prevention research at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Die Veranstaltungen finden jeweils online von 13:00 Uhr bis 14:00 Uhr MESZ/MEZ statt. | The Tuesday dialogues always take place online (Zoom) from 1-2 pm, CEST/CET. Während der Veranstaltung wird eine Simultanübersetzung Deutsch-Englisch angeboten. | Simultaneous translation German-English will be provided throughout

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