Preliminary Programme

Showing: Family and Demography (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
L-1 FAM01 International Families I. Aristocratic Networks and Court Societies
Room L
Network: Family and Demography Chair: David Warren Sabean
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Simon Teuscher
Katrin Keller : Permanent Ties? Familial Networks at the Courts of Dresden and Vienna
Ciaran O'scea : The Assimilation and Identity Formation of an Irish Minority in Early Seventeenth-Century Castile
Gabriel Piterberg : Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of Kinship
Matt Vester : The Courtly Ties of a Renaissance Transalpine Dynasty: The Savoie-Nemours


O-1 FAM09 Specific mortality patterns
Room O
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizers: - Discussant: Olof Gardarsdottir
Gayle Davis : Stillbirth Registration and Conceptions of the Newborn, c.1900-1950
Andrew Hinde, Michael Edgar : Death on a strange isle: mortality among the stone workers of the Isle of Purbeck in southern England, 1850-1900
Alice Reid : Infant life chances in nineteenth century urban and rural Scottish communities
Robert C.H. Shell : Poverty and Aids or is it Aids and poverty? The historical demography of HIV in the poorest province of South Africa, 1988 to 2001
Maria Wisselgren : Victim or Pioneer? The Role of the Mother in the Hospitalization of Childbirth in Sweden


P-1 FAM05 Jack Goody revisited
Room P
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Organizer: Mary Louise Nagata Discussants: Anne-Lise Head, Isabel Moll-Blanes
Christa Matthys, Eric Vanhaute : A ‘silent class’ and a ‘quiet revolution’. The role of female domestic servants in Flanders’ fertility decline.
David Luke Robichaux : Jack Goody and John Hajnal in Mexico: The Mesoamerican developmental cycle and its demographic implications



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
A-2 FAM23 Children and childhood in European Institutions
Room A
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Kirsi Warpula
Organizer: Kirsi Warpula Discussant: Kirsi Warpula
Ida Bull : Children in orphanage – between religion and work training
Sara Hansson : Institutional functions meet individual rights. The care for mentally retarded children in 1950's Sweden
Djurdja Hrzenjak : Delicate residents of Laibach. Analysis of a foundling hospital protocol.


L-2 FAM02 International Families II: Transnationality and the Nation-State 1700-1850
Room L
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jon Mathieu
Organizer: Christopher H. Johnson Discussant: Christopher H. Johnson
Jacqueline Letzter : The Emigration of the Stier Family from Antwerp: Sizing Up American-style Happiness in an Age of Revolution (1794-1804)
Arnout Mertens : Religion, State, and Nation. Belgian Pedigreed Nobles in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1814-1830/9
Christine Philliou : Families of Empires and Nations: Transforming Ottoman Politics in Southeastern Europe One Family at a Time, 1750-1850
Jonathan Spangler : Spreading the Bets: Multi-National Aristocratic Kinship Networks in a Changing Political Environment (1500-1815)



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
C-3 FAM35 Children mortality in European Institutions
Room C
Networks: Education and Childhood , Family and Demography Chair: Kirsi Warpula
Organizers: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Kirsi Warpula Discussants: -
Carlo Corsini : Infant abandonment in Florence, 1840-1842
Vicente Pérez-Moreda : "How many foundlings were abandoned in Spain?"
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas : Childhood mortality and foundlings in Madrid, 1900-1930.


F-3 FAM22 Spiritual kinship in urban context
Room F
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Virginie De Luca
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Guido Alfani : Spiritual Kinship and the others. Ivrea, 1480-1620
Annick Foucrier-Binda : Baptisms at Notre-Dame des Victoires, San Francisco, California, and the networks of a community of French immigrants (1856-1880)
Francisco García González, Cosme Jesús Gómez : Fictive kinship and social networks in meridional Spain ( Albacete, 1750-1850)
Vincent Gourdon : Families and baptisms in great cities : Paris and Rome in the XIXth century.


H-3 FAM03 International Families III. Contested Nationality
Room H
Networks: Family and Demography , Oral History Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Organizer: Christopher H. Johnson Discussant: Nancy L. Green
Mary Chamberlain : Family, Identity and Nation: Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean, 1937-1967
Paloma Gay Y Blasco : Intercountry Adoption Patterns and the Creation of Novel Diaspora
Cyril Grange : The Marriages of Upper-Class Jewish Parisian Families: From a European to a National Matrimonial Market 1800-1940


K-3 FAM27 Marriages and social networks in rural and "rurban" context
Room K
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon : Pyrenean migrants living and marrying in Paris in 1900
Anne-Lise Head : Marriage, social networks and the occupational mobility of sedentary and migrant families in a Swiss urban context (19th - early 20th c.)
Margareth Lanzinger : Kinship Marriages and Social Networks in the Diocese of Brixen in the 19th Century
Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Danièle Rébaudo : What had become the children of rural parents ?



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
N-4 FAM06 Infant mortality and gender
Room N
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sølvi Sogner
Organizers: - Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Kristina Bohman : Infant mortality in Ådalen, Sweden 1870 – 1910
Anders Brändström, John Rogers & Sören Edvinsson : Who were the winners - infant girls or infant boys? A study of infant mortality in nineteenth century Sweden
Janet McCalman : ‘Social Parenthood’ and Adult Survival Time in Australia: 1857-1985
Patricia Thornton, Sherry Olson : ‘This wicked city’ : intra-urban and urban / rural contrasts in sex-differences in youth mortality in late 19th century Montreal.


O-4 FAM17 Marriage patterns according to death in parental generation
Room O
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Richard Wall
Organizer: Richard Wall Discussant: Richard Wall
Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies : Death knell and wedding bells’; the relationship between parental death and the timing of marriage in nineteenth century Scotland, an urban-rural comparison.
Carola Lipp, Astrid Reinecke : Marriage, death and division in a region with partible inheritance
Beatrice Moring : Family organisation and re-organisation in the pre-industrial Nordic countries
Paulo Teodoro De Matos : The Demography of Portuguese Goa, India: 1720-1830. Subsidies for its study.


U-4 FAM26 Marriages and social networks in urban context
Room U
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Gérard Béaur
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Joseph Goy
Tom Ericsson : Integration and social networks. The lutherans in revolutionary Paris 1789-1797
Christine Fertig : Urban markets and rural marriage networks: Social Networks in two Westphalian parishes (19th century).
Harm Nijboer, Yme Kuiper : Merchants, Mennonites & Marriage. Commercial, social and family networks in the Dutch port town of Harlingen in the 17th and 18th century.
Sylvie Perrier : Remarriage and Social Networks in the Toulouse Region in the XVIIIth Century
François-Joseph Ruggiu, Vincent Gourdon : The choice of witnesses at the civil wedding in the XIXth Century among the countries with Napoleonic Code heritage



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
D-5 FAM33 Secular trends in regional population
Room D
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tamas Faragó
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Wall
Péter Öri : Regional Patterns of Demographic Behaviour in 18-19th Century Hungary
Levente Pakot : Patterns of demographic behaviour in the long nineteenth century
Ferenc Sohajda : The long-term demographic pattern of a micro-region. (The population development of the noble villages in county Zala(Hungary), 1828-1920.)
Peter Teibenbacher : Inherent variances or failed transitions? Fertility and mortality in a long run and micro-regional perspective


F-5 FAM19 Permanent female celibacy and social mobility
Room F
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre Discussant: Sheila Cooper
Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre : Permanent female celibacy and social mobility in the Pyrenees :The Basque case in the nineteenth century
Sarah Pech : Matrimonial situation and possibilities of social rise of the maidservants in Madrid in the second half of the XVIIth century
Grazyna Ryczkowska : Beyond the proper age at marriage: social trajectories to final celibacy in early nineteenth century Geneva



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
K-6 FAM10 Family situation, foster children and young paupers
Room K
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Olof Gardarsdottir
Organizer: Olof Gardarsdottir Discussants: Olof Gardarsdottir, Richard Wall
Elisabeth Engberg : Master or substitute parent? Household structure and motives for fostering in a 19th century Scandinavian context
Johanna Sköld : For love or money? Fosterparent´s motives to take in fosterchildren 1891-1925. A Swedish example.


N-6 FAM04 International Families IV. The management of Capital
Room N
Networks: Economics , Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: Ghislaine Lydon Discussant: Laurence Fontaine
Oscar Gelderblom : Family Capital and the Expansion of Trade in Pre-Industrail Europe
Ghislaine Lydon : Family Finance or the Limits of Cooperative Behavior in nineteenth Century Trans-Saharan Trade
Huibert Schijf : International Jewish Bankers 1850-1914, the Case of the Koenigswarters in Amsterdam
Francesca Trivellato : Marriage, Dowry, and Diaspora: Sephardic Merchant Families in Livorno (17th and 18th Centuries)


P-6 FAM25 Inheritance and family patterns in rural societies with seasonal and temporary migrations
Room P
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Margarida Durães
Organizer: Bernard Derouet Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Luigi Lorenzetti : Professional Reproduction and Family Patterns of Temporary Migrants in Italian Alps (17th-19th Centuries)
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Emigration from North Western Spain: family and labour, 18th-19th centuries
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : Temporary Migration and Romanian Family in the Eighteenth Century


T-6 FAM08 Life course and family relations
Room T
Network: Family and Demography Chair: David Luke Robichaux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Yda Schreuder
Lionel Kesztenbaum : Who invests in who ? Migrants and their family in France, 1870-1940.
Cristina Munno : Relative life-course dependance from family networks and kinship": an Italian community (1854-1881)
Sian Pooley : Sisters in service: a case study of domestic servants and family relations in Lancaster, England, 1880-1914
Vera Sollova : The growth of female labor force participation and fertility; the case of metropolitan zone of Toluca, 1970-2005



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
C-7 FAM16 Migration and demographic impact
Room C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Organizer: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade Discussant: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Tarcisio Botelho : Immigration and family demography within urbanization contexts, Belo Horizonte (MG, Brazil), 1890-1940
Maude Letendre, Louis Houde & Hélène Vezina & Marc Tremblay : Demographic and genetic impact of Irish settlement in Quebec (Canada) : Evidence from deep-rooted genealogies.
Rui Maia : Migrants and natural in urban way: differentiated behaviours of the marriage and the reproduction
Mary Louise Nagata, Kiyoshi Hamano : Mortality in Early Modern Kyoto: mortality in a mobile population


L-7 FAM21 Family strategies and the Church
Room L
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Organizer: Llorenç Ferrer Alos Discussant: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Benedetta Borello : Italian and european siblings in aristocratic families: church and family destiny (16°-19° centuries)
Llorenç Ferrer Alos : Younger Sons in Church. A Strategy of Reproduction of the small Nobility in Central Catalonia (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
Antonio Irigoyen : Family Networks and Social Networks in an Ecclesiastical Institution. The Murcia Cathedral Chapter in the Seventeenth Century
Isabel Moll-Blanes : The role of the church in controlling family reproduction in Majorican Society: A "long duree perspective", 17th-19th centuries


U-7 FAM07 Power and dependance in the family: intergenerational relationships
Room U
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Margarida Durães : Being Bourgeois:family, patrimony, hereditary behaviours and mobility (1800 - 1911)
Leonardo Fusé : Ageing and Children Network. Ageing and Household Structure: Intergenerational Relationships and Living Arrangements of Old People in the 19th Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden
Hans Jørgen Marker : House holds structure in Denmark in 1801
Steven Ruggles : Intergenerational coresidence and economic opportunity of the younger generation in the United States, 1850-2000



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
A-9 FAM30 Child abandonment in Western Europe (19th-20th century)
Room A
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Catherine Rollet
Organizer: Virginie De Luca Discussant: Virginie De Luca
Guy Brunet, Alain Bideau & Nora Nader & Mathieu Debritto : The foundling, the foster parents and the inspector. Long-term relations.
Ivan Jablonka : The Fictive Kinship of French Foundlings and Their Foster Parents (1874-1939)
Julie Miller : 'Children of Accident and Mystery': Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City


D-9 FAM20 Gender differences in infant, childhood and teenage mortality
Room D
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Theo Engelen Discussant: Jan Kok
Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui : The Massacre of the Innocent. Infant Mortality in Nijmegen and Lu-kang
Lucia Pozzi, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin : Gender mortality selection in the first years of life in Italy during the demographic transition
Christine Théré, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser : Facing death in the early days of life :Inequality between sexes in Enlightenment demographic thought.
Evelien Walhout, Frans Van Poppel : Sex differences in child mortality in a Dutch town, 1860-1920: Did social class and religion play a role?



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
M-10 FAM32 International Families VI: Cultures of Diaspora
Room M
Network: Family and Demography Chair: David Warren Sabean
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Elizabeth Bishop : No Global Sisterhood, This: Soviet Women in Aswan
Elizabeth Macknight : Cultural Strongholds of the Parisian Nobility in France of the Third Republic
Mario A. F. Rutten, Pravin J. Patel : Contested Family Relations and Government Policy Linkages among Patel Migrants in Britain and India



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
C-11 FAM18 Marriage and remarriage in Eurasian perspective
Room C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tommy Bengtsson
Organizer: Satomi Kurosu Discussant: Jan Kok
George Alter, Cameron Campbell & Renzo Derosas : Household context and the timing of first marriage in Eurasian comparative
Satomi Kurosu, Marco Breschi & Christer Lundh : Economic and Household Factors of Remarriage in Eurasian Perspective
Matteo Manfredini, Martin Dribe & Michel Oris : Marriage and migration in Eurasia


S-11 FAM31 International Families V: Labour Migration
Room S
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elizabeth Bishop
Organizer: Jose Moya Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Marcelo Borges : Migratory Strategies and Gender Relations among Portuguese Transnational Families 1850s-1920s
Jennifer Miller : At Home with the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Jose Moya : International Families and Labor: A Global and Historical Perspective
Raffaella Sarti : Family Ties over Borders: Transnational Families of Slaves and Migrant Domestic Workers (Past and Present in Comparative Perspective)



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
P-12 FAM28 Family strategies I
Room P
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sølvi Sogner
Organizer: Béatrice Craig Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig : Surviving mechanization: inter-generational occupational strategies among skilled workers during the French industrial revolution.
Claire Dolan : Collective biographies : the success and failure of family strategies. The « procureurs » in urban Southern France, 1550-1650
Nathalie Ostroot : Love and Money: Family and gender patterns in the choice of occupations in 19th century France
Noriko Tsuya, Satomi Kurosu : The Demographic Effects of Household Socioeconomic Status in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Farming Villages 1716-1870



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
C-13 FAM29 Family strategies 2
Room C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sally Bould
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre
Ildikó Aszztalos Morell : Gender patterns of transfer of cultural, economic and social capital among farm family enterprises during the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Hungary
Danielle Gauvreau, Sherry Olson & Patricia Thornton : Ambitions and restraints: Work and marriage in Montreal, 1880-1900
Aoi Okada : The cycle of household structure in early modern Japan
Mikolaj Szoltysek, Konrad Rzemieniecki : Slavic tendency to the “communal way of life” and the evidence on family patterns from historical Polish territories, 18th century


E-13 FAM11 What did the peasants do when they got ill?
Room E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Ann Jannetta
Olof Gardarsdottir : Measles in a virgin soil environment. The case of Iceland and the Faroe islands during the 19th century with a special attention to infant and childhood mortality
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : From the faith cure activities to the vaccination, the first step to the decrease of the child deaths in the 19th century, Japan
Satoshi Murayama, Higashi Noboru : Smallpox quarantine houses in 18th and 19th century Amakusa Islands, Kyusyu, Japan.



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
D-14 FAM12 Family and every day life
Room D
Networks: Culture , Family and Demography Chair: Emiko Ochiai
Organizers: - Discussant: Emiko Ochiai
Sally Bould, Sania Sultan : Woman's Wages and Economic Power within the Family
Paolo Cornaglia : Chinese fashion, architecture and everyday life in Piedmont in 18th century
Jens Henrik Koudal : 19th Century Archives of Popular Culture and the History of Everyday Life
Fiona Smith : Exhibiting the postsocialist archive: the cultural geographies of German contemporary history museums


V-14 FAM34 The Demography of Indigenous Populations
Committee Room 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizer: Per Axelsson Discussants: -
David G. Anderson : Governmentality and the Measurement of Indigenous Populations in the 1926 Polar Census
Per Axelsson : The Consequence of colonization – demographical and cultural explanations of changes in mortality in northern Sweden 1813-1900
Gabriella Edholm : Marriage and Fertility among Southern Sami Population: A Demographical Survey of two Sami Parishes at the end of Nineteenth-Century Sweden



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
D-15 FAM15 Divorce and remarriage in comparative perspective
Room D
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Satomi Kurosu
Organizer: Satomi Kurosu Discussant: Christer Lundh
Nanna Floor Clausen : Widowhood in Denmark 1801
Marie Digoix : Reforming divorce in the Nordic countries in the 1920s
Gentiana Kera : Marriage and Divorce in Tirana (the interwar period)



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
N-16 FAM24 Coresidence of siblings in adulthood and old age
Room N
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Hilde Bras Discussant: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Hilde Bras : Sibling ties in old age: Proximity, contact and support among brothers and sisters in twentieth-century Netherlands
Siegfried Gruber : Co residence of brothers in rural Serbia in the 19th century
Michel Oris, Gilbert Ritschard : Eduring Ties? Proximities among adult siblings in Geneva, 1816-1843


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