GLO JOPE Bonn 2025 PROGRAM – draft October 16, 2025; 6:00 am CET Bonn
Preliminary – will be updated continously & completed after the submission deadline.
Standard time schedule given below is CET (Berlin) if not noted differently.
Zoom links for online participants to all in-person sessions will be made available in time.
NOTE:
- This page provides an overview of the time-structure of the event. The detailed conference program is currently pass-word protected and made available when the program is ready under LINK.
Online-only timelines offer convenient meeting times for all continents and are marked grey.
All in-person academic sessions are also accessible online and are marked green.
December 3, 2025. All sessions are online-only (grey). CET Berlin
8:30 – 10:30 GLO VirtYS Session
— Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent)
10:30 BREAK
11:00 – 13:00
— Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen)?
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 16:00
16:00 BREAK
16:30 – 18:30
18:30 BREAK
19:00 – 21:00
21:00 BREAK
21:30 – 23:30
December 4, 2025. In-person green. Science Center Bonn – Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn. Grey is online-only.
8:00 Registration
8:30 – 10:30 Parallel sessions P-S1-1, P-S2-1, P-S3-1
10:30 BREAK – Foyer
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions P-S1-2, P-S2-2, P-S3-2
13:00 LUNCH BREAK – Casino
14:00-15:00 CHAIR: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen) – Plenary Conference Room
GLO Research Seminar provided by Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University), monthly GLO Seminar, presented online: The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor
15:00-16:00 CHAIR: Maloob Piracha (University of Kent) – Plenary Conference Room
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen)
Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities
16:00 BREAK – Foyer
16:30-17:30 CHAIR Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & JOPE) – Plenary Conference Room
– Report on the Journal of Population Economics
– Kuznets Award Ceremony
Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize for his FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) article Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing, which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2025), 38, article 51. The annual prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics in the previous year.
17:30-18:30 Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances – Plenary Conference Room
– Ferdinand Dudenhöffer (Director CAR, Bochum)
– Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University)
– Xuewu Gu (International Relations/Center for Global Studies, Bonn University)
– Wenxuan Hou (University of Edinburgh)
– Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & Senator Leopoldina), CHAIR
18:30 BREAK
ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025. CET.
19:00-21:00 = 13:00-15:00 EST “Philadelphia” USA – East & Amerikas I
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania)
19:30 INFORMAL DRINKS – Foyer
20:00-21:00 SEATED BUFFET DINNER – Casino
21:00-22:00 Alison Booth (Writer & Australian National University) speaks about her new book Death at Booroomba. Online from Australia, available for all ONLINE participants and all dinner participants in the Casino of the Science Center Bonn.
22:30 EVENING EVENT ENDS – Casino
ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025. CET.
22:30-00:30 = 11:00-13:00 „Sydney“. Australia-New Zealand-US West Coast/else I
— Chair: Max Tani (UNSW Canberra)
22:30-00:30 = 16:30-18:30 EST “Philadelphia” USA – East & Amerikas II
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania)
ONLINE ONLY. December 5, 2025. CET.
0:30 BREAK
1:00-03:00 = 11:00-13:00 „Sydney“. Australia-New Zealand-US West Coast & else II
— Chair: Liwen Guo
3:00 BREAK
3:30-5:30 CET = 8:00-10:00 am New Dehli time India Invited Session
— Chair: Leena Bhattacharya (GLO)
6:00 – 8:00 CET = 13:00 – 15:00 Beijing time IESR (China) Invited Session
— Chair: Xue Sen (IESR)
December 5, 2025. In-person. Science Center Bonn – Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn
8:00 Registration
8:30 – 10:30 Parallel sessions P-S1-3, P-S2-3, P-S3-3
10:30 BREAK – Foyer
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions P-S1-4, P-S2-4, P-S3-4
13:00 LUNCH BREAK – Casino
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel sessions P-S1-5, P-S2-5, P-S3-5
16:00 BREAK – Foyer
16:30-18:30 Parallel sessions P-S1-6, P-S2-6, P-S3-6
18:30 Conference Ends
Optional trips to Christmas Markets in Bonn & Bonn – Bad Godesberg