The Vienna Institute of Demography is organising the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on November 19th to 21st 2025.
About Vienna Institute of Demography
The Vienna Institute of Demography strives for the combination of scientific excellence with proactive relevance in analysing and projecting demographic trends and in evaluating the social and economic consequences of population ageing.
Thus, the VID combines innovative methodological work with empirical analysis and communication of scientifically based insights. It gives special attention to the demography of Austria and to European comparative analysis. The Institute is embedded in the structure of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
About the Call for Submissions
The Wittgenstein Centre Conference on “Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century” invites scholars from around the world to explore these critical intersections and to foster discussions on the demographic drivers of migration and the profound demographic transformations it sets in motion in both origin and destination societies.
We welcome research from various disciplines, including but not limited to demography, economics, sociology, geography, and environmental sciences. Submissions should focus on current and forward-looking analyses, methodological innovations and modelling of migration as well as comparative research investigating demographic outcomes of different groups of migrants in both origin and destination societies.
Themes
- Novel methods for estimating and forecasting migration
- Migration and (subnational) population change
- Life course transitions and migration
- Comparative studies of immigrants’ demographic behaviour
- Climate and environmental migration, and immobility
- Demographic and labour force outcomes of migration processes
Submission Guidelines
- a short abstract (250–300 words) and
- An extended abstract (2–5 pages) or the full paper.
- The short abstracts will appear on the conference website if accepted.
- Please make sure your extended abstract includes the title, full name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) of each author.
How to Submit?
Interested candidates can submit their work through this link.
Important Dates
- The submission deadline is 31st May 2025.
- Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30th June 2025.
Contact Information
For any queries, please contact at conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at.
