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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Sociology of Population RC41

Main theme
Changing population age structures: Components, perspectives and policy implications


Programme Coordinator
Encarnación Aracil, Universidad Complutense, Spain, enaracil@cps.ucm.es

Venue of RC41 sessions:

Edifici Rambla de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
La Rambla 32
08002 Barcelona, Spain, map

Session 1: : Economics, history and culture in the movements of population

Part I
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Organiser: Organiser: Begoña Arregi. University of the Basque Country, Spain,
begoa@euskalnet.net

Part II
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Organisers: Elena Bastida,  University of Texas-Pan American, USA, bastida@utpa.edu and Encarnación Aracil,  Complutense University, Spain, enaracil@cps.ucm.es      

Session 2: The persistence of subreplacement fertility, age structure and public policy

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Organiser: Bali Ram, Statistics Canada, Canada, bali.ram@statcan.ca

Session 3: A society for all ages: Meeting the challenges of population ageing

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Organiser: Joseph Troisi, University of Malta, Malta, joseph.troisi@um.edu.mt

Session 4: Youth and population age-structural change

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Organiser: Rosa María Camarena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, rcamaren@servidor.unam.mx


Session 5: The globalization of labor and changes in family structures

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Organiser: Elena Bastida, The University of Texas PanAmerican, USA, bastida@utpa.edu


Session 6: Links of population with natural disaster

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Organiser: Gloria L. Nelson, The University of Philippines at Los Banos, The Philippines, glmnelson2001@yahoo.com.hk


Session 7: The fourth stage of epidemiological transition: Social and policy implication of the changing health and illness pattern

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Organiser: Ofra Anson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, ofra@bgu.ac.il


Session 8: Open session

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Organiser: E. Aracil, Universidad Complutense, Spain, enaracil@cps.ucm.es