Past events

PhD Position at BRISPO: Application Deadline on 31/08/2025

31 August 2025 23:59 -

We are looking for a PhD Researcher position in the scientific project on the demographic behaviour of migrant communities in Belgium.

6th Summer Institute in Urban Studies

7 July 2025 12:00 - 11 July 2025 14:00

The Summer Institute in Urban Studies provides an opportunity to investigate leading-edge theoretical and methodological questions, along with a range of associated career development issues, in the field of urban studies.

Deadline for expressions of interest for MSCA proposal with BRISPO as host institution: Deadline on 30/06/2025

30 June 2025 23:59 -

We are looking for talented researchers to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 grant.

PhD Position at BRISPO: Application Deadline on 22/06/2025

22 June 2025 23:59 -

Join an international research project on education-based social identities, co-led by VUB and the University of Groningen.

Precarious employment and unpaid labour in the 21st century labour market

14 May 2025 09:00 - 14 May 2025 12:00

Half-day conference organised by the Sustainable Work Research Unit (BRISPO).

Lecture: Prof. Alejandra Vives | Extreme Heat at Home, at Work and in Between

13 May 2025 14:00 - 13 May 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Interdisciplinary Conference CSW2025: Creating Sustainable Work

7 May 2025 09:00 - 9 May 2025 21:00

The interdisciplinary conference with academics, policymakers and stakeholders will take place in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lecture: Dr. Haodong Qi | Modeling Climate-Induced Migration with Big Data and Explainable Machine Learning

6 May 2025 14:00 - 6 May 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Seminar: Nowcasting Human Migration Intentions Using Internet Search Data

6 May 2025 10:30 - 6 May 2025 11:30

The seminar will take place on 06/05/2025, from 10h30 to 11h30, in room PL 5.5.05 (Le Fallstaf, Pleinlaan 5, 5th floor).

Lecture: Prof. Carlos Arcila-Calderón | From Hate Speech to Hate Crime: Detecting Harmful Messages at Scale (ONLINE)

29 April 2025 14:00 - 29 April 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Prof. Caroline Zickgraf |Climate Change, (Im)mobility and Migration [Keynote speaker at the Belgian Demography Day, KULeuven]

25 April 2025 14:00 - 25 April 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series at the Belgian Demography Day, KULeuven...

Belgian Demography Day

25 April 2025 08:00 - 25 April 2025 17:00

The 5th edition of the Belgian Demography Day is organised by the Société Démographique Francophone de Belgique (SDFB) and the Vereniging Voor Demografie (VVD) in Leuven.

Lecture: Dr. Franz-Ferdinand Rothe | Automated inequalities: Questioning the sanctity of data in the age of AI

22 April 2025 14:00 - 22 April 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Johan Surkyn | Irregular Migration: Combining Existing Datasets and Demographic Methods to Tackle a Debated Issue

1 April 2025 14:00 - 1 April 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Paul De Vroede Award Ceremony for Dr. Jessie Gevaert

26 March 2025 16:00 - 26 March 2025 18:00

The award was presented for the doctoral dissertation "Job Quality and the Mental Well-being of (Solo) Self-employed Workers".

Lecture: Prof. Alina Sîrbu | Big Data and Cultural Integration (ONLINE)

25 March 2025 14:00 - 25 March 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

MIrreM Spring School

19 March 2025 17:30 - 21 March 2025 17:00

Approaching irregular migration from a quantitative perspective: data, estimates, methods...

Lecture: Dr. Laure Tall | Human Mobility and Agricultural Resilience in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change (ONLINE)

18 March 2025 14:00 - 18 March 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar with Iris Egea

13 March 2025 12:00 - 13 March 2025 14:00

Iris Egea (from BRISPO) will talk about "Sustainable Rural Communities: Comparing migrant receptivity and the revitalisation of two rural towns in Spain and Ireland".

Lecture: Prof. Patrick Deboosere | World Population Dynamics and Our Planet

4 March 2025 14:00 - 4 March 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Tuba Bircan | Beyond the Hype: What Can and Cannot Do AI for Social Research

25 February 2025 14:00 - 25 February 2025 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

ECSR workshop on cumulative discrimination in Europe

25 February 2025 09:00 - 26 February 2025 17:00

EqualStrength partner institutions assemble in Brussels to discuss a comparative experimental design to examine cumulative discrimination in Europe.

Lunch Seminar: Reflections on Privilege and Positionality in Academia

24 January 2025 12:30 - 24 January 2025 14:00

The main speaker at the seminar organized by the BRISPO AIMS Lab team will be Dr. Thais França from the Lisbon University Institute.

Innovative Data Sharing: Pioneering Solutions for Societal Challenges

29 November 2024 10:00 - 29 November 2024 14:00

Registration for the event hosted by Needs Map and VUB is now open.

TARGETED-MPI Final Conference – Business and Management Schools for Inclusive Workplaces

15 October 2024 09:00 - 15 October 2024 15:30

The event will highlight the achievements of the TARGETED-MPI project and explore the critical role Business and Management schools play in fostering inclusive workplaces.

BAPH Symposium 'Tackling inequities in public health'

14 June 2024 09:00 - 14 June 2024 16:30

On Frida,y June 14, 2024, the Belgian Association for Public Health (BAPH) is organizing, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the symposium: Tackling inequities in public health The morning of the symposium will be organized around three plenary sessions during which Belgian speakers will disc...

GreeNexUS training: Green regeneration of consolidated urban contexts

27 May 2024 14:00 - 30 May 2024 13:00

The first GreeNexUS training week in Imola, Italy and free remote participation option.

Lecture: Abram De Swaan, The Mentality of Mass Murder

21 May 2024 18:00 - 21 May 2024 20:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Raquel Rolnik, The risk of risks: dispossessions and the right to the city [online only]

14 May 2024 14:00 - 14 May 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Gruia Badescu, Revisiting cosmopolitanism in contemporary Europe

7 May 2024 14:00 - 7 May 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

SEAD Concluding Symposium: Digitalisation and the world of work

6 May 2024 12:00 - 6 May 2024 16:30

The culmination of four years of research on digitalisation in the Belgian labour market and the associated opportunities and threats for sustainable work.

Lecture: Marco Colagrossi, The transmissions of inequalities across generations

30 April 2024 14:00 - 30 April 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Giselinde Kuipers, Beauty and Inequality. Charting new sociological territory

23 April 2024 14:00 - 23 April 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

2024 Workshop: Good Practices in the Implementation of Gender Equality Plans

23 April 2024 13:00 - 23 April 2024 15:00

As part of the TARGETED-MPI project, consortium partner ULANC will organize a workshop in April 2024 about good practices in the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEP).

VVD Pierre-François Verhulst Prize Award Ceremony 2024

18 April 2024 13:45 - 18 April 2024 17:00

The thesis prize is awarded biennially by the Vereniging Voor Dmografie (VVD) and the Société Démographique Francophone de Belgique (SDFB) for a high-quality thesis within the domain of population studies.

Voorbij de valse tegenstelling: ras, klasse en solidariteit (in Dutch)

18 April 2024 13:00 - 18 April 2024 15:30

Keynote door Prof. Miriyam Aouragh (University of Westminster) Donderdag 18 april om 13u in lokaal I.2.02

Lecture: Caterina Mauri, Loneliness and social connectedness in the European Union

16 April 2024 14:00 - 16 April 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Rémy Bonny, Scapegoating the LGBTQI+ community in international anti-democratic movements

26 March 2024 14:00 - 26 March 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

PhD public defense of Rebeka Balogh

21 March 2024 15:00 - 21 March 2024 17:00

The PhD thesis: “The Quality of Employment (Trajectories) and the Mental Health and Mortality of Women and Men. Evidence from Belgium and the UK.”...

2024 Policy Event for Migration Scholars and Policy-makers

21 March 2024 09:00 - 21 March 2024 18:00

On March 21st, 2024, the EU Horizon 2020 HumMingBird Project will host a Policy Event, bringing together migration scholars, policy policymakers and practitioners from around Europe.

De-Conspirator research methods workshop: Call for abstracts deadline

18 March 2024 00:00 - 30 April 2024 23:59

Workshop: Psychological, Social and Behavioral Approaches to Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) Studies | Deadline: 30/04/2024

Lecture: Karin Nilsson, Management by algorithms: the fourth industrial revolution [online only]

12 March 2024 14:00 - 12 March 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar, Exploring the Necessity and Challenges of Migration Data

5 March 2024 14:00 - 5 March 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...

Lecture: Alex Wolf, Inequality at the household level from a European perspective

27 February 2024 14:00 - 27 February 2024 16:00

European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series...