The IUSSP International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on population issues. First organized in 1927 and held every four years since 1965,
the conference brings together over 2,000 scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the globe to present and discuss the latest scientific research on contemporary
population and development issues.
The Conference will include 880 oral presentations and up to 1,000 posters selected from research submitted to the call for papers. There will also be plenary sessions, debates and invited panel discussions featuring leading experts in the field, as well as exhibits, and meetings and workshops before and during the Conference.
If you are working in population and related fields, you are warmly invited to submit an abstract of recent research for presentation in an oral or poster session.
All abstracts must be submitted online via the IPC2021 website, which is scheduled to open for submissions on 01 March 2021. Individuals can submit no more than 2 abstracts. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2021.
Submissions must include a short, 200-word abstract and an extended (2-4-page) summary describing the topic including theoretical focus, data, research methods, and expected findings. All submissions will be reviewed by 2 anonymous experts on the topic area. Theme conveners will select abstracts for inclusion in the programme based on reviews and the paper’s relevance/appropriateness for sessions created in the theme.
