YSI @ 20th Diamantina Seminar

The Diamantina Seminar is an important academic event that happens every two years in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The seminar promotes debates in several areas, such as economic theory, history of economic thought, demography, economic policy, and international relations. This year, the Seminar reaches its 20th edition.

Participants may choose between six areas to submit a full paper. Authors with approved papers will be granted two days of accommodation and transportation from Belo Horizonte to Diamantina upon payment of the seminar registration fee. The paper submission deadline is May 13th.

To get more information about the event and submission, please follow the seminar’s official website: https://diamantina.cedeplar.ufmg.br/2024/.

The YSI Keynesian Working Group will have a special session at the main event. Young scholars living outside of Belo Horizonte may apply for a travel stipend from YSI in this form before June 21st.

The six areas to be debated are:

1. ECONOMICS

Areas of economics of science, technology, and innovation, development, regional and urban economics, labor economics, economics of education and health, poverty and inequality, public finances, agriculture, industry and services, cultural economics, environmental economics, applied macroeconomics.

2. DEMOGRAPHY

Migration, reproductive behavior, mortality, population and health, economic demography, population and climate change, family demography, aging, education demography, pension systems, indigenous peoples, among other topics.

3. ECONOMIC HISTORY, ECONOMIC THOUGHT, AND HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY

Topics such as slavery systems, family and everyday life, urbanization and trade, industry and labor processes, economic space and demographic dynamics in different temporalities from the 18th to the 20th century, as well as research related to the history of economic and social thought broadly.

4. PUBLIC POLICIES: GENDER, RACE, INCLUSION

Evaluation of public policies; population and public policies; public policies and development; impacts on gender, race, and their implications for inclusion and social insertion; urban planning, regional planning, and territorial policies.

5. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

International Political Economy, global geopolitical transformations, economic blocs and integration, multilateral institutions, international trade, and international migrations, among other topics.

6. GEOPOLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Impacts of profound geopolitical transformations in the current world and their economic, social, and demographic implications for Latin America, Brazil, and Minas Gerais.