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Programme

First day 31.10.2013

Place: HSE, Main building (Myasnitskaya, 20), room 311

 

Registration (Main building, 3d floor lobby)

8.30-9.00

Opening session

 

Officials from the HSE

Welcome speeches

9.00-9.05

 

Andreas Edel (Population Europe)

9.05-9.15

 

Anatoly Vishnevsky

(Institute of Demography)

9.15-9.20

 

Session 1. The phenomenon of low fertility

9.20-11.20 [1]

 

Chairmen: Z. Pavlik (Czech Republic), S. Zakharov (Russia)

 

Anatoly Vishnevsky (Russia)

Low fertility as a global imperative

9.20-9.50

2

Massimo Livi Bacci (Italy)

Low fertility: a view from history

9.50-10.20

3

Barbara Anderson (USA)

Projecting low fertility: some thoughts about the plausibility and implications of assumptions

10.20-10.50

4

Tomas Sobotka (Austria)

Migration, fertility and population replacement in the developed world

10.50-11.20

 

Coffee break

 

11.20-11.35

 

Session 2. Perspectives of low fertility

11.35-13.35

 

Chairmen: M. Livi Bacci (Italy), V. Shkolnikov (Germany)

 

5

Laurent Toulemon  (France)

Total fertility rate, birth rate, and future population trends in Europe

11.35-12.05

6

Sergey Zakharov (Russia)

Lowest low fertility in Russia: Reality or problems of measurement?

12.05-12.35

7

Sunnee Billingsley (Sweden)

Fertility differentials across post-socialist countries

12.35-13.05

8

Sergey Ivanov (Russia)

Contemporary types of population reproduction: perceptions, rhetorics, policies, coordination.

13.05-13.35

 

Lunch

 

13.35-14.5

 

Session 3. Demographic policy and fertility

14.15-16.15

 

Chairmen: B. Anderson (USA), S. Ivanov(Russia)

 

9

Gerda Neyer (Sweden)

Family policies and their impact on fertility

14.15-14.45

10

Irina Kurylo (Ukraine)

Determinants of reproductive activity: Ukraine against the European background

13.05-13.35

11

Olga Isupova (Russia)

IVF: Patterns of advantage, or next demographic transition?

15.15-15.45

12

Mark Tolts (Israel)

Some lessons for demographic policy that can be learned from fertility and mortality changes among ex-Soviet migrants in Israel

15.45-16.15

 

Coffee break

 

16.15-16.25

 

 

Round table, Panel 1 [2].

Demographic policy and fertility in the Post-Soviet space

Chairmen: G. Neyer (Sweden), V. Elizarov (Russia)

Panelists: Zdenek Pavlik (Czech Republic), Viktoria Sakevich (Russia),
Natalia Zvereva (Russia), Oxana Sinyavskaya (Russia)

16.25-18.00

 

Anniversary Session

18.00-19.00

 

Anniversary Dinner (Reception). Main building (Myasnitskaya, 20)

19.00-21.00


Second day 01.11.2013

 

Session 4. Low mortality phenomenon

9.00-11.00

 

Chairmen: G. Wunsch (Belgium), E. Andreev (Russia)

 

1

Jacques  Vallin (France)

Are there any limits of human longevity?

9.00-9.30

2

Jon Anson (Israel)

Long term trends in adult mortality decline: Two mortality transitions?

9.30-10.00

3

Vladimir Shkolnikov (Germany)

Measures of inter-individual disparity in mortality and fertility

10.00-10.30

4

Olga Penina (Moldova),
France Meslé (France),
Jacques Vallin (France)

Is mortality low in Moldova?

10.30-.1100

 

Coffee break

 

11.00-11.15

 

Session 5. Divergence-convergence process: family and fertility

11.15-13.15

 

Chairmen: L. Toulemon (France), A. Vishnevsky  (Russia)

 

5

France Meslé (France),
Jacques Vallin (France)

The sequence of the divergence-convergence process. A contribution to health transition theory.

11.15-11.45

6

Mikhail Klupt (Russia)

Low fertility: diversity under the mask of unity

11.45-12.15

7

Brienna Perelli-Harris (UK)

Universal or unique? Understanding diversity in family behaviour in Europe and the US.

12.15-12.45

8

Alain Blum (France)

East and West – convergency or conservation of demographic heterogenity in family formation

12.45-13.15

 

Lunch

 

13.15-14.00

 

Round table, Panel 2.

Low fertility and low mortality

Chairmen: A. Blum(France), M. Klupt(Russia)

Panelists: Liudmila Shakhotska (Byelorussia), Katherine Keenan (UK),
Eugeniy Andreev (Russia), Olga Gagauz (Modova), Ward Kingkade (USA)

14.00-16.00

 

Coffee break

 

16.00–16.10

 

Session 6. Information collection and processing

16.10-18.10

 

Chairmen:F. Meslé (France),  M. Tolts (Israel)

 

9

Guillaume Wunsch (Belgium),
Catherine Gourbin (Belgium)

Low morbidity and mortality: what implications for data collection?

16.10-16.40

10

Sergey Scherbov (Austria)

Remeasuring 21st century population ageing

14.45-15.15

11 

Dmitri Jdanov (Germany), Aiva Jasilioniene (Germany)

Human Mortality and Human Fertility Databases - databases of a new type for demography

17.10-17.40

12

Domantas Jasilionis (Lithuania/Germany),
Aiva Jasilioniene (Germany),
Vlada Stankuniene (Lithuania)

Lithuanian census-linked data and their use in research on death, fertility and family events

17.40-18.10

 

Final speeches

 

 

Farewell cocktail

Institute of Demography (Myasnitskaya, 40 bld.1)

19.00-20.30

 

 


[1] For a session presentation it is supposed that 15-20 minutes will be used for the presentation proper  and 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion.

[2] For a Round table panel intervention please limit yourself to 10 minutes.