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.