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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).

 

  • 17 septembre, Marco Tosi (University of Padua), 'Kinlessness', social connectedness, and subjective wellbeing in Europe
  • 15 octobre, Guilaume Wunsch, Catherine Gourbin (DEMO, UCLouvain), Do demographers use Big Data? Searching for relevant papers
  • 19 novembre, David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain), 70,000 Europeanuniversity professors and academicians: Human capital, mobility, families, and religion from 1000 CE to 1800 CE
  • 10 décembre, Alice Rees (DEMO, UCLouvain), Marika Jalovaara (University of Turku), Staying home, staying childless? Investigating the influence of the ways young adults leave the parental home on childlessness in Belgium and Finland
  • 14 janvier, Fanny D'Hondt (University of Gent), Understanding ethnic inequalities in education: Microaggressions, white privilege, and their impact on adolescents and teachers
  • 28 janvier, Ester Rizzi (DEMO, UCLouvain), Maïlys Goetschy (University of Strasbourg), The influence of legal frameworks and social acceptance on developing same-sex cohabitation in Europe
  • 18 février, Luca Pensieroso (IRES/LIDAM - UCLouvain), Fertility and family type in the United States: A historical analysis
  • 11 mars, Ester Rizzi (DEMO, UCLouvain), Hequn Wang (DEMO, UCLouvain), Do younger adults feel more insecure in times of crisis? Future expectations for personal socio-economic circumstances across Europe
  • 15 avril, Natacha Zimmer (DEMO, UCLouvain), Between economic and residential settlement: How internal migrations interact with asylum migrants’ employment in Belgium
  • 13 mai, Julia Descamps (DEMO, UCLouvain), Legal trajectories of immigrants in France: Consequences on professional paths and discrimination at work
  • 10 Juin, Rafael Costa (Federal Planning Bureau), Inequalities in Belgium's energy transition
  • 24 Juin, ROAM-BE Team (DEMO, UCLouvain), Survey among people of Sub-Saharan African origin in Belgium