Lunch Seminars
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2025–2026 Calendar of the Lunch Seminars at the Demographic Research Center
- September 2, 2025, Chaimae Drioui (DEMO, UCLouvain), Male Fertility Around the World: Comparative Insights on Childlessness and Age at First Birth
- September 9, 2025, Bruno Lankoandé (ISSP, JKZ University of Ouagadougou), Forced Displacement and Under-five Mortality: The Costly Price for Host Communities in Burkina Faso
- September 23, 2025, Ashira Menashe-Oren (DEMO, UCLouvain), The Effect of Cyclone Freddy on Mortality in Malawi
- October 14, 2025, Tania Moutai (Sciences Po Paris, INED), Tourism at Home: Determinants of Mobility to the Country of Origin of Immigrants and Their Descendants
- November 4, 2025, Grace Cruz (University of the Philippines), Growing Old in the Philippines: Realities, Challenges, and Policy Responses
- December 16, 2025, Bram Vanhoutte (School of Public Health, ULB), How old do you feel? The evolution of subjective age
- January 28, 2026, Research Reception, Birgit Van Hout (UNFPA), The real fertility crisis. Maria Rita Testa (LUISS University), A Shrinking Future: Rethinking Fertility in an Age of Uncertainty.
- February 3, 2026, Hequn Wang (DEMO, UCLouvain), Healthcare disruption among older Europeans with mental disorders and chronic conditions during COVID-19: The role of family ties
- February 24, 2026, Ilya Klimkin (DEMO, UCLouvain), Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium, 2000–2019
- March 17, 2026, Juliette de Vestel (VUB), Shifting norms, shifting desires? Gender attitudes, fertility ideals, and the role of context among young women in Sub-Saharan Africa
- April 7, 2026, Emmanuel Pont (INED), Population and the environment at the individual level: the carbon footprint of childbearing
- April 14, 2026, Detlev Lueck (Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany), How do modes of data collection affect the measurement of key demographic indicators?
- April 16, 2026, Maria Rita Testa (LUISS University), Fertility ideals, intentions, and actual fertility.
- May 12, 2026, Jenny Garcia (INED), Demography of a Country in Crisis: Venezuela in the 21st Century
- May 26, 2026, Carren Ginsburg (School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand), Health on the Move: Effects of Internal Migration in South and Sub-Saharan Africa
- June 23, 2026, Marie-Laurence Flahaux (IRD), Bruno Schoumaker (DEMO, UCLouvain), Results of the ROAM-BE survey, a study among people of African origin in Belgium
The presentations will take place in person from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM in Room L190 on the first floor of the Jacques Leclercq Building, 1 Place Montesquieu, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
To participate online (via Zoom), please click here.
Contacts: Marie-Laurence Flahaux (marie-laurence.flahaux@uclouvain.be), Didier Ndombe Mbombo (didier.ndombe@uclouvain.be), Valentin Bope (valentin.bope@uclouvain.be).
