Seminar offered by Dondena Research Center (Fall 2026 seminar series) ----- September 21st 2026 12:45-2:00pm (UTC+1) ------ CIVICA ESR can attend ONLINE only. Zoom meetings link will be available upon registration. ------ SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: The Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated territories in the world, has experienced recurring escalations of political violence. On 7 October 2023, a Hamas-led attack in Israel killed approximately 1,200 people and took 251 hostages; the ensuing Israeli operation has resulted in 70,000 direct deaths reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health between 2023 and 2025--a number widely considered to be an undercount. We use demographic models to quantify the family bereavement in Gaza resulting from political violence between 2000 and 2025. ----- BIO: Diego Alburez-Gutierrez leads the Kinship Inequalities Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. His work explores kinship structures, family bereavement, and intergenerational relations. Diego helps develop the R packages DemoKin and rsocsim for modeling kinship dynamics using mathematical and simulation models. He earned his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics in 2019.
Teachers:
- Diego Alburez-Gutierrez ()