IIASA researchers are part of the organizing team for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on 'Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century,' which will take place from 19–21 November 2025 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

The conference invites researchers from various disciplines, including demography, economics, sociology, geography, and environmental sciences. Submissions should focus on current and forward-looking analyses, methodological innovations and modelling of migration as well as comparative research investigating the demographic outcomes of migrants in both origin and destination societies.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2025

Read more about the conference and submit your paper here.

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