• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
• Timing: Thursdays at 14:00
• Web Address: http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Demographic change – the evolving health challenges’.
  Prof Sarah Harper (Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing), Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Childlessness, cohabitation and partnership history in Great Britain’
  John Haskey (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Marrying out’ for love: women’s narratives of polygyny and alternative marriage choices in contemporary Senegal’
  Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Oxford Diaspora Programme Project Leader, University of Oxford and Lecturer in African Studies, University College London)

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Commitment and the changing sequence of cohabitation, childbearing, and marriage’
  Professor Ann Berrington (ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton)

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Divergences between the law of marriage and its social meaning: are same-sex marriages unique?
  Dr Scot Peterson (Department of Politics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - CANCELLED 'Cohabitation, Bigamy and Irregular Marriage in Scotland, 1855-1939'
  Please be advised that this seminar has been cancelled due to illness. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope that you will join us next week for the next seminar as part of this series.
  TBA

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Focus on Partnerships: Discourses on cohabitation and marriage throughout Europe and Australia’
  Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris (Associate Professor in Demography, University of Southampton)

Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Family context and marriageability: how one's parents, siblings and past family history affect one's attractiveness to marriage partners in Japan’
  Dr Ekaterina Hertog (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)