Overview
Seminar Series
The Department of Digital and Computational Demography hosts various kinds of seminar talks. Here, there is an overview of past lectures, in the calendar you find future events.
To the calendar
Seminar Talks 2025
The Enduring Influence of Family Networks on Migration: A Study of Male Heads of Households from Mexico
Abigail Tun Mendicuti (MPIDR)
May 21, 2025 More
Heterogenous impacts of climate change on morbidity
Tamas Hajdu (HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies)
May 14, 2025 More
CenSoc: Public Linked Administrative Mortality Records for Individual-level Research
Casey Breen (University of Oxford)
May 8, 2025 More
Digital Gender Gaps Project: Measuring the Digital Divide and Explaining its Demographic Consequences
Casey Breen (University of Oxford)
May 7, 2025 More
Fertility: the impact of social norms after forced migration
Giacomo Battiston (Berlin School of Economics)
April 30, 2025 More
The joint use of remote sensing data and text data for migration research
Johannes Mast (University of Würzburg)
April 23, 2025 More
Clustering all-cause country-level mortality data
Pedro Menezes de Araujo (University College Dublin)
April 16, 2025 More
Investigating the Association between Emotional and Self Reported Health Trajectories and Entry into the Menopausal Transition
Irena Chen (MPIDR)
April 2, 2025 More
Online obituaries for mortality monitoring in Canada
Pietro Violo (Université de Montréal)
March 26, 2025 More
Changes in Conception Rates Influence Preterm Birth Rates at the Population Level
Marco Cozzani (MPIDR)
March 12, 2025 More
Exploring Social Media recruitment for Survey Research: Innovations, Challenges, and Quality Considerations
Jessica Donzowa (MPIDR)
February 26, 2025 More
Analyzing Country-Level Heterogeneity in Public Attitudes Toward Migration Topics on Bluesky
Jiho Kwak (MPIDR)
Februaray 19, 2025 More
Mobility as a tool to understand dynamic society: reimagine segregation, border regions and (transnational) multilocality from digital traces
Olle Järv (University Helsinki)
February 12, 2025 More
Data donation on social media: tools and datasets
Kiran Garimella (Rutgers University)
February 11, 2025 More
Predicting Life Course Sequences: Addressing Uncertainty in Career Transitions
Linda Vecgaile (MPIDR)
February 5, 2025 More
Life-trajectories in high-dimensional spaces
Germans Savcisens (Northeastern University)
January 29, 2025 More
Modeling and forecasting healthy life expectancy with Compositional Data Analysis
Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher (University of Southern Denmark)
January 22, 2025 More
Navigating Aging with Limited Kin in China: The Role of Education in Family Support Networks
Sha Jiang (MPIDR)
January 15, 2025 More
Seminar Talks 2024
Must Whatever Goes up Come Down? Mortality Gradients in the Emergence of COVID-19
Jordan D. Klein (MPIDR)
November 20, 2024 More
Workers, jobs and the way they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch
Lina Tobler (University of Cologne)
November 13, 2024 More
The Colombian armed conflict: Using statistical methods to unveil the truth
Maria Gargiulo (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
October 30, 2024 More
Age, Gender and Regional Differences in the Migration of Scholars
Thiago Zordan Malaguth (MPIDR)
October 23, 2024 More
Beyond residential and extra-local environments: The emergence of neighborhood networks as a higher-order ecological scale in urban research
Noli Brazil (University of California)
October 16, 2024 More
EDSD students’ lightning talks
EDSD students
October 9, 2024 More
Information Theory: A Third Perspective on Updating Distributions
Boris Barron (MPIDR)
October 2, 2024 More
Migrant Disaster Victim Identification Through Social Media: Is it possible?
Muhammed Fevzi Esen (University of Health Sciences, İstanbul)
September 25, 2024 More
Family Constellations over Time. Modelling and Estimating Past, Present and Future Kinship Networks
Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal (MPIDR)
September 18, 2024 More
Wildfire smoke and impact on health at birth and mortality at old age
Risto Conte Keivabu (MPIDR)
September 11, 2024 More
Impact of Family Background and Household Composition on Internal Migration: Historical Evidence from the Netherlands
Andrea Colasurdo (University of Groningen)
September 4, 2024 More
Leveraging Facebook Tagging to examine regional migration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Victoria Prieto-Rosas (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
February 21, 2024 More
Analyzing the Discourse around Ukrainian war in Germany: Understanding Variances in Public Stances
Kyoungin Baik (University of Sungkyunkwan)
February 14, 2024 More
Ethnic Discrimination: Field Experiments in Search of Clues
Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchâtel)
February 7, 2024 More
Seminar Talks 2023
Children experiencing parental death due to drugs and firearms in the United States, 1999 - 2020
Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter (University of Toronto)
November 30, 2023 More
Kinship Structure and Bequest Inequalities between Black and White Households in the United States, 1989-2019
Ole Hexel (MPIDR)
November 22, 2012 More
The use of web scraping to measure gender and class disparities on digital plattforms
Jasper Tjaden (University of Potsdam)
November 15, 2023 More
A finite mixture approach with Interval-Censored Data for the analysis of digital divide through Facebook data
Dalila Failli (University of Florence)
November 6, 2023 More
Smoothing trends and seasonality in short term baseline mortality forecasts
Ainhoa-Elena Leger (University of Southern Denmark)
October 25, 2023 More
How Hot is too Hot and How Cold is too Cold? Estimating County-Level Relationships between Temperature and Mortality in California Counties
Eugenio Paglino (University of Pennsylvania)
October 18, 2023 More
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities
Ana Cristina Gomez Ugarte Valerio (MPIDR)
October 8, 2023 More
Mapping and analyzing the built environment and its evolution over long time periods: Lessons learned
Dr. Stefan Leyk (University of Colorado Boulder)
October 4, 2023 More
On the Up and Up: Occupational Upgrades for Return Migrants
Elizabeth Jacobs (MPIDR)
September 6, 2023 More
Implications of assigning nationality to names using machine learning on the scholarly migration rates worldwide
Faeze Ghorbanpour (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
August 30, 2023 More
Displacement and Return in the Internet Era: Social Media for Monitoring Migration Decisions in Northern Syria
Erin Elizabeth Walk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
July 26, 2023 More
Uncertainty of Fertility Intentions in the United States: Levels, Trends, and Patterns
Luca Badolato (Ohio State University)
July 12, 2023 More
The effect of temperature on cognitive abilities and expressed sentiment: evidence from text data
Risto Conte Keivabu (MPIDR)
May 10, 2023 More
Exact and approximate algorithm for accurate clustering of mid-sized networked datasets
Samin Aref (University of Toronto)
May 3, 2023 More
Climate Migration Amplifies Demographic Change and Population Aging
Matthew Hauer (Florida State University)
March 29, 2023 More
Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks
Sha Jiang (Stanford University)
Organized by the Kinship Inequalities Research Group
March 22, 2023 More
Leveraging Crowdsourced Online Genealogical Data to Study the Evolution of Fertility
Riccardo Omenti (University of Bologna)
Organized by the Kinship Inequalities Research Group
March 15, 2023 More
Disparities in Quality of Life in the 21st Century: Demographic Insights from Spain
Octavio Bramajo (Center for Demographic Studies/CED at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
March 1, 2023 More
Sociological Explanations of Researcher Mobility – Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Grit Laudel (TU Berlin)
February 22, 2023 More
Origin and Destination Attachment: Study of Cultural Integration on Twitter
Jisu Kim (MPIDR)
February 15, 2023 More
Generational Economy in Africa: Theories and Results in West and Central Africa
Latif Dramani (Université de Thiès)
January 25, 2023 More
Using Register Data to Study Heterogeneity in Kinship Structures: Socioeconomic Status, Nativity, and Age
Linus Andersson (Stockholms universitet)
Organized by the Kinship Inequalities Research Group
January 18, 2023 More
Methodological Monotheism Across Fields of Science in Contemporary Quantitative Research
Andrés Felipe Castro Torres (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and MPIDR)
January 11, 2023 More
Seminar Talks 2022
Internal and International Migration of Scholars Worldwide: Trends, Patterns, and Inter-Relationships
Aliakbar Akbaritabar (MPIDR)
December 7, 2022 More
New Opportunities to Enhance or Replace Conventional Web Survey Data
Melanie Revilla (Universitat Pompeo Fabra)
November 30, 2022 More
Temporary Labor Mobility and War Refugee Inflow from Ukraine to Poland: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Different Data Sources to Study Migrant Fertility
Weronika Kloc-Nowak (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
November 23, 2022 More
To Rest on One´s Laurels: Effectiveness and Sustainability of Status Orders
Mario Molina (NYU Abu Dhabi)
November 16, 2022 More
The Human Migration Database (HMigD)
Maciej Dańko (MPIDR)
November 9, 2022 More
Applications of Data Mining Approaches to Demographic Data within the Context of Attitudes
Ayse Abbasoglu Özgöre (Hacettepe Üniversitesi)
November 2, 2022 More
War and Migration: Quantifying the Russian Exodus with Digital Trace Data
Athina Anastasiadou (MPIDR)
October 26, 2022 More
Deep Learning for Longevity Projections. State of Art and Future Directions
Andrea Nigri (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
October 19, 2022 More
Life Expectancy Forecast in São Paulo City, Brazil, in the Context of Covid-19
Maria Laura Miranda (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
October 12, 2022 More
Evaluation of Small-area Estimation Methods for Mortality Schedules
Esther Denecke (MPIDR)
October 5, 2022 More
Gendered Patterns of Global Scholarly Migration: Evidence on Mobile Researchers from Bibliometric Data
Xinyi Zhao (MPIDR)
September 21, 2022 More
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19
Ilana Ventura (University of Chicago)
September 14, 2022 More
Some Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad (Sharif University of Technology)
July 5, 2022 More
Three Talks
Sofia Beatriz Gil, Jisu Kim, Asli Ebru Sanlituerk (MPIDR)
June 21, 2022 More
The Possible Case for Web Scraping and Natural Language Processing in Family Demography
Ross Barker (Vienna Institute of Demography)
June 7, 2022 More
A Study of Human-Mobility Leveraging Shared-Mobility Data
Pietro Rampazzo (Technical University of Denmark)
May 31, 2022 More
Multi-level Evolutionary Simulation for Anthropology and Demography
Kenji Itao (University of Tokyo)
May 17, 2022 More
Lee-Carter Cohort Mortality Forecasts
Ugofilippo Basellini (MPIDR)
May 12, 2022 More
Using Facebook to Estimate Migrant Stock in Latin American and Caribbean Countries
Victoria Prieto (Population Program UDELAR, Uruguay)
May 4, 2022 More
Human-Human and Human-Mosquito Networks: Inferring Degree Distributions and Assessing Implications for Disease Dynamics
John Palmer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
May 3, 2022 More
A Critical Perspective on Measurement in Digital Trace Data and Machine Learning, and Implications for Demography
Momin M. Malik (Mayo Clinic's Center for Digital Health)
April 26, 2022 More
Network Stability and Threats to Self and Others
Liann Tucker (Duke University and IMPRS-PHDS)
April 19, 2022 More
Functional Concurrent Regression with Compositional Covariates to Study the Time-Varying Effect of Causes of Death on Human Longevity
Emanuele Giovanni Depaoli (University of Padova)
April 12, 2022 More
A Hot Topic in Hot Times: Studying the Dynamics of Public Attention and Media Coverage of Climate Change
Silvia Pianta (European University Institute, Florence)
March 22, 2022 More
Online Social Integration of Migrants: Evidence from Twitter
Jisu Kim (MPIDR)
March 15, 2022 More
Insights in the Relationship of Science and Society Based on Altmetrics Data: Three Exemplary Studies
Lutz Bornmann (Max Planck Society)
March 8, 2022 More
Who Will Remember COVID-19? Demographic Memory after a Global Pandemic
Mallika Snyder (University of California, Berkeley)
March 1, 2022 More
Polarized Social Media Users or Polarized Ads? Mechanisms That Shape the Sample Composition in Social Media Recruited Surveys
Zaza Zindel, Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University)
February 16, 2022 More
EU-15 Immigrants Language Acquisition on Twitter
Sofia Gil-Clavel (MPIDR)
February 8, 2022 More
Modeling Human Mobility Patterns from Big Geodata
Yihong Yuan (Texas State University)
January 18, 2022 More
Seminar Talks 2021
The Interplay Between Refugee Inflows and Media Coverage in Determining Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Germany
Chia-Jung Tsai (MPIDR)
November 23, 2021 More
Original Time-Use Data Collection and the COVID-19 Pandemic
R. Gordon Rinderknecht (MPIDR)
November 16, 2021 More
Safer if Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
Luca Maria Pesando (McGill University)
November 11, 2021 More
Estimating Digital Gender Gaps in China Using Sina Weibo Audience Estimates
Ole Hexel (MPIDR)
October 26, 2021 More
When do Parents Bury a Child? Uncertainty of Offspring Loss Across the Demographic Transition
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR)
October 19, 2021 More
Voting for Tomorrow: Climate Change, Environmental Concern, and Green Voting
Raya Muttarak (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital)
October 13, 2021 More
Sibling Availability and Adult Subjective Well-being: The Demographic Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy
Haowei Wang (Pennsylvania State University)
September 21, 2021 More
Mixed-Methods Research into Migration and Mobility
Miranda Lubbers (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
June 15, 2021 More
Openness to Migrate Internationally for a Job: Evidence from LinkedIn Data
Sarah Johnson (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
June 1, 2021 More
The Genetic Architecture of Human Longevity Using Massive Scale Crowd Sourcing of Web 2.0 Data
Yaniv Erlich (Eleven Therapeutics & MyHeritage.com)
May 26, 2021 More
Extreme Temperatures, Birth Outcomes, and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity
Risto Conte Keivabu (European University Institute, Fiesole)
May 20, 2021 More
Revealing Semantic and Emotional Structure of Suicide Notes with Cognitive Network Science
Sofia Teixeira (Hospital da Luz Learning Health, Luz Saúde)
May 18, 2021 More
COVID-19 Related Bereavement and Mental Health: Demographic Insights and Applications
Ashton Verdery (Pennsylvania State University, State College)
May 12, 2021 More
The Penalized Likelihood for Detecting Mortality Deceleration
Silvio Cabral Patricio (Autonomous University of Barcelona and MPIDR)
April 20, 2021
Progress and Puzzles in the Study of Migration Aspirations
Kerilyn Schewel (University of Amsterdam)
April 14, 2021 More
Demographic Change and Development from Crowdsourced Genealogies in Early Modern Europe
Guillaume Blanc (Brown University)
April 7, 2021 More
Sexuality Education in the Digital Age
Emmanuel Olamijuwon (University of Witwatersrand)
March 17, 2021 More
Predicting Global Migration with Social Media Data: Potential and Limits
Jordan Klein (Princeton University)
March 9, 2021 More
Inoculating Against an Infodemic: COVID-19 News, Social Media, and Misinformation
Anatoliy Gruzd (Ryerson University, Canada)
March 2, 2021 More
Residential Decisions of High-skilled Migrants: Barcelona’s Case
Gonzalo Garcia (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
February 23, 2021 More
Machine-Assisted Human Decision Making
Nina Grgić-Hlača (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
February 2, 2021 More
Harnessing the Potential of Big Data for Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Intimate Partner Violence in Italy
Valentina Rotondi (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland)
January 12, 2021 More
Seminar Talks 2020
Can Technology Help Address Loneliness in Later Life? Lessons Learned from Research in Sensitive Settings
Barbara B. Neves (Monash University, Australia)
November 24, 2020 More
Multigenerational Social Mobility: A Demographic Approach
Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
November 17, 2020 More
Regional Mortality Analysis during the Outbreak of COVID-19: Two Case Studies
Ugofilippo Basellini (MPIDR)
October 21, 2020 More
Human Mobility: from Data to Models and Back
Luca Pappalardo (University of Pisa)
October 20, 2020 More
Measuring the Mobility of Researchers Using Data on Scholarly Publications
Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal)
October 14, 2020 More
Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities
Ethan Raker (Harvard University)
October 7, 2020 More
Monitoring Psychological Processes Underpinning Mental Disorders using Social Media Data
Lucia Lushi Chen (University of Edinburgh)
September 30, 2020 More
How Much Do Gender and Party Matter when US Representatives Collaborate?
Zachary P. Neal (Michigan State University)
August 18, 2020 More
Supporting Youth and Family Wellbeing in Digital Environments: Key Opportunities and Challenges
Katie Davis (University of Washington)
July 21, 2020 More
Deadly Variation: The Effect of Temperature Variability on Mortality
Isabel Hovdahl (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
June 30, 2020 More
The Sandwich Generation: A Family Recipe
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR)
June 9, 2020 More
Using Machine Learning and Twitter Data to Profile Attitudes Towards Immigration
Francisco Rowe (University of Liverpool)
March 10, 2020 More