ECPD Events

  • 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 Besides actual demographic changes, debates over population issues have shaped and continue to shape our societies. Especially in the 1960s and 1970s, the topic of “birth rates” was high on the international agenda, with ambivalent interpretations and consequences. In her talk,

  • 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 Europe is experiencing a demograhic shift towards an older society. This makes young people a new political minority. Arnstein Aassve, head of the EU-funded FutuRes Policy Lab, will outline possible consequences of this, based on demographic data for the near future - before inviting a discussion of what could

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Ukrainian refugees in Germany four years on

    Ukrainische Geflüchtete in Deutschland nach vier Jahren This February, the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks its fourth anniversary. Since the outbreak of the war, approximately 1.2 million Ukrainian nationals have sought protection in Germany—more than in any other European country. Four years later, how are they doing in Germany? Which groups have been more successful,

  • 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

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Children with Disabilities in Families and at School

    Kinder mit Behinderungen in Familien und in der Schule Children with disabilities are all too often an invisible population, despite numbering more than 240 million worldwide and around 3.5 million in Europe. What does it mean to live day to day with a child or a sibling with a disability within the family? And what

  • TUESDAY DIALOGUES: Migration and the Media

    Migration und Medien Migration has a significant demographic, political, and social impact on Germany—and is also a central topic in media coverage. This talk presents the findings of a study conducted by the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism for the EU-funded We-ID: Identities - Migration - Democracy  project, which links reporting on migration in

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