2024 DEM PRO

1. Domenico Maddaloni, Professor, University of Salerno, Italy & Jessica Maglio, Independent Researcher, Italy.
   Title: Assistance to Migrants and Refugees in Italy in an Age of Crisis: Policy Contradictions and Solidarity Practices.
2. Barbara Zagaglia, Associate Professor, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy.
   Title: Demographic Transitions in Mediterranean Africa. Similarities or Differences?
3. Valery Buinwi Ferim, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
   Title: The Politics of Exclusion in South Africa: A Dilemma for Permanent Immigrants.

1. Robert Cox, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
   Adolfo Garcé, Professor, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
   Title: Political-Knowledge Regimes: Expertise and Politics in France and Uruguay in times of COVID-19.
2. Sonia Salari, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
   Title: US Violent Death Mortality: Global Pandemic and Firearm Access.
3. Tony Whiffen, Higher Statistical Officer, Welsh Government, UK.
   Title: Estimating Households Containing Those Most at Risk from COVID Using Linked Administrative Data and SQL Algorithms.
4. Victoria San Juan, Postdoc, University of Florence, Italy.
   Herney Fernando Ruiz Vallejo, Associate Professor, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia.
   Title: The Behavior of Fertility in Colombia in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. An Approach Based on Uncertainty.
5. Patrizio Lodetti, Postdoc Researcher, University of Florence, Italy.
   Victoria San Juan Bernuy, Postdoc Researcher, University of Florence, Italy.
   Title: COVID-19 and Uncertainty in Italy. Exposure to High Mortality and Fertility, the Case Study on the City of Bergamo.

1. Domenico Maddaloni, Professor, University of Salerno, Italy.
   Title: Demographics and Politics in Italy.
2. Renato Flores, Director, FGV IIU International Intelligence Unit & Professor, FGV EPGE Graduate School of Economics, Brazil.
   Title: Demographics and Global Governance: Something is Rotten in the State of Intergovernmental Institutions and Fora.
3. Sonia Salari, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
   Title: Demographics of Age, Aging and Politics in the U.S.
4. Valery Buinwi Ferim, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
   Title: Demographics of Political Party Leadership in South Africa.
5. Sriparna Dutta, Associate Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Title: Political Demography and Youth – Perspectives on West Bengal, India.
6. Martina Rašticová, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Management, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Digitalization and Demographic Shifts: Political Strategies for Integrating Older Workers.

Interventions:

• Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
• Jose Antonio Ortega, Associate Professor, University of Salamanca, Spain.

1. Sriparna Dutta, Associate Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Shilpa Nandy, Assistant Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Title: Patriarchy, Taliban and Political Issues: Challenges Faced by the Afghan Women in Contemporary Times.
2. Martina Rasticova, Head, Department of Management, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Štěpán Konečný, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Jakub Šácha, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Martin Lakomý, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Redefining Age and Gender in Digital Recruitment Amidst Population Ageing: A Multifaceted Analysis of Stereotypes, Inequalities, and Perceptions in the Modern Workplace.
3. Ilona Leitner, PhD Student/Consultant, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Exploring the Impact of Demographics and Job Status on Technostress Dimensions in the Consulting Industry.
4. Julia Meszaros, Associate Professor, Texas A&M Commerce, USA.
   Title: Intimate Industries and the Extraction of Women’s Labor.

1. Egle Kumpikaite, Associate Professor, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
   Title: Variety and Traditions of Lithuanian Women’s Folk Headdresses.
2. Daiva Milasiene, Senior Researcher, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
   Title: Traditions of Manufacturing Techniques of Lithuanian Folk Aprons.
3. Nompumelelo Radebe, Senior Lecturer and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Induku Enhle Igawulwa Ezizweni as a Premise for Curriculum Transformation.

1. Brian Due, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
   Title: A Video Ethnographic Study of Youth Football Matches.
2. Sylvia Thompson, PhD Candidate, RMIT University, Australia.
   Title: Romani Resilience: Stories of Resilience of Romani Refugees from Ukraine.

1. Nancy Stiegler, Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
   Tomiwa Fapohunda, PhD Student, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
   Title: Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence from a Demographic Point of View.
2. Jose Antonio Ortega, Associate Professor, University of Salamanca, Spain.
   Title: Patterns and Age-Homogamy in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages in Spain.
3. Elisa Cisotto, Researcher, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
   Eleonora Meli, Researcher, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy.
   Giulia Gavrini, Full Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
   Cecilia Tomassini, Full Professor, University of Molise, Italy.
   Title: Educational and Geographical Disparities in Intergenerational Care: Insights from Italy.

1. Pietro Marzo, Assistant Professor, TELUQ University, Canada.
   Title: International Democracy Promotion in an Era of Authoritarian Regression. The Case of German Political Foundations in North Africa.
2. Dionysios Stivas, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
   Title: The Dragon in the Cradle of Democracy: A Tale of the post-2006 Sino-Greek Relations.
3. Yunus Emre Ozigci, Deputy Head of Mission, Deputy Permanent Representative to UNEP and to UN Habitat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Kenya.
   Title: On the Intentionality of the State.