October
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Symposium

Migration and Mobility Symposium

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, October 15, 2024

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research invites to attend a one-day symposium (8 am to 6 pm) in Rostock on October 15, 2024. The symposium aims to promote lively exchange and collaboration among a group of interdisciplinary scientists (from areas such data science, scientometrics, demography, science of science, sociology, migration studies, and more) with interests related to scholarly migration and scientific mobility

Program

08:30 – 09:00  Registration

09:00 – 09:15  Welcome speech

09:15 – 10:00  Keynote speech + Q&A
Prof. Dr. Vincent Larivière – Université de Montréal,Canada Research Chair in Transformations of Academic Communication, UNESCO Chair in Open Science

10:00 – 10:30  Photoshoot/Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00  Featured speaker + Q&A
Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika – Department for Migration and Globalisation, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Austria

11:00 – 12:30  Session I
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Zippel – Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
International Return Migration from a Gender Perspective

Dr. Miguel Flores – School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
On the Internal Mobility of Scholarly and Knowledge Intensive Occupations: Evidence for Mexico

Dr. Yi Bu – Data Science at the Department of Information Management, Peking University, China
Understanding the Diminishing Disparity among Nations in Scientific Mobility

Dr. Mariana Macedo – CoMENS Faculty - Data Science, Northeastern University, London, UK
Unequal Ground: Understanding Gender Disparities

12:30 – 13:30  Lunch in the cafeteria

13:30 – 14:00  Networking meetings

14:00 – 14:30  Featured speaker + Q&A
Valeria Aman – Research System and Science Dynamics, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

14:30 – 16:00  Session II
Prof. Dr. Peter van den Besselaar – Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Determinants of Cognitive Mobility

Ruth Neville – Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool, UK
Advancing Forecasting Methods for International Student Applications: A Comparative Analysis and Scenario Exploration

Tom Theile – Max Planch Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Scholarly Migration Database

16:00 – 16:30  Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30  MPIDR Lightning Session and Posters

  • Aliakbar Akbaritabar, PhD
  • Jisu Kim, PhD
  • Daniela Perrotta, PhD
  • Ebru Sanliturk, PhD
  • Xinyi Zhao, PhD
  • Thiago Zordan Malaguth

17:30 – 18:30  Concluding remarks & Discussion

19:00 Dinner 
20:00 – 20:30 Roundtable 

Provided that there is enough interest from participants, we will consider making arrangements for a special issue of a highly reputable journal on the topic of scholarly migration and mobility.  

Participation

To participate in the symposium online or in person, register here.

More information: You can find more information on the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) by visiting the respective web pages.

For questions, please get in touch with Ebru Şanlıtürk (sanlituerk@demogr.mpg.de), Tom Theile (theile@demogr.mpg.de), or Aliakbar Akbaritabar (akbaritabar@demogr.mpg.de)

The Scholarly Migration and Mobility Symposium is organized in collaboration with the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Digital and Computational Demography Panel.

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Migration and Mobility Symposium

When: 
October 15, 2024
Where:
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany
Participation: 
To participate in the symposium online or in person, register here.

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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.