December 09, 2011 | News | Suessmilch Lecture

Five Centuries of Marriage

Demographer Anna Cabré from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB), Centre of Demographic Studies, will give a lecture at the MPIDR on "Five Centuries of Marriage (5CofM). A project of Historical Demography in the Barcelona Area."

Vita

Anna Cabré i Pla is director of the Centre for Demographic Studies and professor of Human Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Prof. Cabré studied Political Economy and Demography in Paris and Geography in Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis was on "The reproduction of the Catalan cohorts 1856-1960. A hundred years of singularity". From 1969 to 1982 she was a Professor of Demographic Analysis at the universities of Montreal, Paris X, and El Colegio de Mexico. Since 1977 she has been a member of the Department of Geography of the UAB, where she is senior professor of Human Geography and head of the Doctorate in Demography since 1995. She was twice elected member of the council of the  International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and is presently member elected of the council of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). She is member of the Board of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) and member of the Board of Trustees of the MPIDR. In 2011, Prof. Cabré has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for the project "Five Centuries of Marriages".

Anna Cabré is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MPIDR.

Time and venue
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 3:00 p.m., in the Institute's Auditorium