The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2022 aims to bring together researchers from around the world, focusing on demography and climate change from diverse perspectives, including - but not limited - to demography, economics, sociology, environmental sciences and geography. Contributions with a...

The world is facing a concurrence of crises: the war in Ukraine and the ongoing recovery from COVID-19 on top of the effects of climate change. While differing very much in nature, these crises all have a decisive effect on economic and monetary policy. With our conference, we seek to develop a...

Welche Auswirkungen hat Digitalisierung auf Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Arbeitswelt? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Geschlechterstereotype? Welche Zusammenhänge und Wahrnehmungen zeigen sich dazu bei Jugendlichen, in der Berufsorientierung und in der betrieblichen Praxis unterschiedlicher...

The pandemic, the crisis in many geopolitically diverse areas and the resulting migration flows, environmental and economic changes extend the range of social challenges to be faced by welfare states. We can observe several paths of change and adaptations that differ across countries,...

An in-person conference, with hybrid access. The current pandemic has brought attention to the need for international cooperation to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic and produce an inclusive recovery. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on local, national, and global economies have...

The conference will take place at the University of Graz. All submissions remain valid for the new date. The research conference will focus on social policy research in Austria and social policy research on Austria, analyses from a regional, national or comparative perspective as well as in a...

This conference deals with selected gender-related topics in money and finance: Does gender diversity affect economic outcomes? Would a more balanced gender mix in policy institutions such as central banks make for different or better decisions? Would a balanced gender mix in financial firms...

Topics: - Life expectancy based indicators of wellbeing; - Wellbeing over the life course and over time; - Applying demographic metabolism model to forecast wellbeing along cohort lines; - Demographic differentials/inequalities in wellbeing; - What matters more for wellbeing: age or gender,...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...