Preliminary Programme

Showing: Family and Demography (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
E-1 FAM13 European Censuses and NAPP Harmonization
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Per Axelsson Discussant: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Marianne Erikstad : Variability in Coding Occupation in Norwegian Censuses
Zengyi Huang, Peter Razzell, Chris Dibben & Paul Boyle : Linking Scottish Civil Registration Records into Individual and Family Histories: A Pilot Study
Francesco Scalone, Martin Dribe & David Hacker : Socioeconomic Status and Net Fertility during the Fertility Decline in Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and USA: A Comparative Analysis Based on 1900 Censuses Data
Maria Wisselgren, Sören Edvinsson & Maria Larsson : Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
C-2 FAM01 Historical Demography in Comparative Perspective: Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Alice Reid
Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jørgen Marker : Did the Transformation of Denmark in the 19th Century Influence the Marriage Pattern and Age of First Marriage?
Mimoza Dushi : Marriage: Need or Request?
Hilde L. Sommerseth : Consanguineous Marriage in Norway, Late 19th Century


E-2 FAM14 Godparenthood Strategies: A Long Term Perspective, 15th to 20th Centuries I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizers: Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Guido Alfani : Selection of Godparents from within Kin in Europe (1500-2000 ca.)
Etienne Couriol : Choice of the Godparents in an Urban Structure: A Long-term Analysis in Lyon
Davide De Franco : Godparenthood Strategies in a Mountain Region of North-western Italy
Stéphane Minvielle : Baptism and Godparenthood Strategies in Bordeaux between the Council of Trent and the End of the Old Regime



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
C-3 FAM02 Historical Demography in Comparative Perspective: Mortality
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Angelique Janssens
Organizers: Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid Discussant: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid & Simon Szreter : The Geography of Child Loss: Belfast, Ireland, 1911
Tamar Hager : Legal and Medical Maneuvers: The Attitude of the British Legal and Medical Systems towards Ellen Harper who killed her Newborn Baby in 1877
Andrew Hinde, Martin Gorsky & Aravinda Guntupalli & Bernard Harris : Morbidity and Mortality in England, 1850-1950
Jim Oeppen : Decomposing the Evolution of Mortality Frailty in the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, 1749-1909.
Kai Willführ, Alain Gagnon : Are all Step-parents Evil? Parental Death, Remarriage, and Child Survival in Saturated (Krummhörn, 1720-1859) and Expanding (Québec, 1670-1750) Demographic Contexts


E-3 FAM27 Godparenthood Strategies: A Long Term Perspective, 15th to 20th Centuries II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Gourdon
Myrto Dimitropoulou, Eugenia Bournova : Networks of Godparenthood in Athens, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Agustin G. Grajales : Practices and Strategies of Godparenthood in the Life of a Mexican Neighborhood in the Eighteenth Century
Juuso Marttila, Merja Uotila : Godparenthood Defined by a Location, an Occupation, a Social Class, a Kinship and a Strategy in Finnish Countryside in 1810-1914
Cristina Munno : Contemporary Godparenthood in Northern Italy (1830-2000)


R-3 FAM17 The Founders and Survivors Research Project
Maths Building: 203
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Timothy Cuff
Organizer: Rebecca Kippen Discussant: Bernard Harris
Damminda Alahakoon, Sue Bedingfield & James Bradley & Sandra Silcot & Len Smith : TextCat:: A Text Mining Tool for Deriving Categories from Unstructured Text
John Cranfield, Professor Kris Inwood : Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914–1918 War in Comparative Perspective
Rebecca Kippen, Janet McCalman : Gold and Freedom: Convicts and the Victorian Gold Rush, 1851–1861
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart : Work, Punishment and Death in Convict Australia


Y-3 WOM03 Domestic Disturbances: Political Implications of Domestic Violence in Early Modern Europe
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Family and Demography , Women and Gender Chair: Satu Lidman
Organizer: Marianna Muravyeva Discussant: Michelle Marrese
Lynn Lubamersky : Vigilante Justice vs. the Noblewoman's Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Love: The Foray/Zajazd in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th Century
Marianna Muravyeva : "A King in his Own Household": Domestic Discipline and Family Violence in Early Modern Europe Reconsidered
Raisa Maria Toivo : Violence between parents and Children in early modern Finland: Cultures of authority and taboo.
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : The Sexuality between Sin and Shame along the Ecclesiastical Courts in the 18th Romanian Society



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
C-4 FAM03 History of Historical Demography Further Explored
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Bruce Fetter, Andrejs Plakans, Sølvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig : Canadian Historical Demography - A Tale of Two Solitudes
Alexander Pinwinkler : "Population History"/"Historical Demography" in Germany, c. 1950-1980
Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Maria Norberta Amorim : Historical Demography in Portugal, 1960-2010: An Acount of the Historiography and Major Challenges


E-4 FAM18 Ethnicity, Migration and Family
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Valeria Sorostineanu
Organizer: Aycan E. Celikaksoy Discussant: Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora
Aycan E. Celikaksoy : Intergenerational Transmission of Interethnic Marriage in Sweden.
Danielle Gauvreau, Patricia Thornton & Helene Vezina : Immigration and Intercultural Marriages: Trends and Determinants in Québec, 1880-1940
Mihaela Grancea, Cornel Moșneag : Biconfesional Funerary Monuments in Transylvania and Banat, the Result of Mixed Marriages


R-4 SOC16 Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizer: Lynn Botelho Discussants: -
Lynn Botelho : ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler : ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway : Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
C-5 FAM04 European Long Term History of Family without Marriage: From the Bastardy-Prone Sub Society to PACS
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Béatrice Craig
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussants: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Bruce Fetter
Guy Brunet : Unwed Mothers and Fatherless Children in the City: Families without Marriage during the 19th Century
Daniela Detesan : The Position of Illegitimate Heirs in the Romanian Successoral Practices in Transylvania (1850-1900)
Rui Maia, Maria João Guardado Moreira & Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Illegitimacy in 19th Urban Portugal. A General Approach
Isabelle Seguy : The "Proportion of the Illegitimate Births in France" from 1670 till 1739 according to the INED’ Projects: Revisiting an "Historical" Indicator
Sølvi Sogner : Illegitimacy in Norway in Historical Perspective


E-5 FAM19 Social Networks and Historical Change
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Christine Fertig Discussant: Alice Kasakoff
Christine Fertig : Social Networks and Family Strategies: Kinship, Godparents and Class-building in 19th Century Westphalia (North-western Germany)
Pierre Francois, Claire Lemercier : Everything Changes So That Nothing Changes? The French Economic Elite Networks, 1840-2009
Fábio Faria Mendes : Social Networks, Succession and Inheritance in Guarapiranga, 1780-1880



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
C-6 FAM05 State Formation and Family Formation
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Arne Solli
Organizer: Arne Solli Discussants: -
Helene Carlbäck : Divorce à la Russe – Public or Private Matter?
Toms Kikuts : Development of the Peasant Migration in the Baltic Provinces of Russian Empire: Authocratic Monarchy and Family Decisions (1840s-1905)
Maija Runcis : The Sovietization of Everyday Family Life in Soviet Latvia


E-6 FAM20 Finding 'Ie' in Western Society
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Beatrice Moring
Organizer: Moto(yasu) Takahashi Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Shoko Hirai : Rethinking Theories and Realities of the ‘Ie’ in Japan
Janine Maegraith : Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Household Structure in Southwest Germany – Evidence from the Inventories
Craig Muldrew : The Role of Family Earnings in the English Industrious Revolution 1650-1780
Moto(yasu) Takahashi : Introduction for Finding ‘Ie’ in Western Society: Historical Demonstrative Study for the Paralleling and Contrasting between Japan and Europe



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
C-7 FAM06 House, Farm and Field: Agricultural Production and Population History in North Orkney after 1750
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Timothy Murtha Discussant: Guido Alfani
Julia Jennings : Occupational Diversity and Household Structure in Nineteenth Century Orkney, Scotland
Patricia Johnson : The Owner-Occupancy Revolution in Westray, Orkney, and Modernization of the Farm
Timothy Murtha : Changing Patterns of Production and Tilled Fields in Orkney from 1750 to Present Day
James Wood : Soil And Its Social Knock-On Effects In Northern Scotland Before And After 1850


E-7 FAM21 Family Sizes Fit for Modernity: Demography, Family Planning and Modernization Theories in the 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Corinna Unger
Organizer: Heinrich Hartmann Discussant: Virginie De Luca Barrusse
Maria Doernemann : “Plan Your Family – Plan Your Nation“: Efforts to Transfer Western Family Norms to Kenya, 1965-1980
Heinrich Hartmann : Anatolian Families – European Experts. Inquiring Family Attitudes in the Context of National Programs on Family Planning in Turkey, 1970s to 1980s.
Claudia Roesch : Americanizing the Family Size: Population Growth, Social Welfare Counseling and Mexican Immigrant Families in California, 1920-1940.



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
C-9 FAM07 The Role of the State in Shaping Family Decisions
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Discussant: Mary Nagata
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : French and US Laws and their Impact on Pyrenean Emigrants’ Succession Practices in the US since 1850
Maria Angelica Corva, Claudia Contente : The Argentinian Civil Code (1871) and its Impact on Families
Luminita Dumanescu : State and Family in Communist Romania


S-9 RUR09 Dowries or Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside? Social and Economic Effects of Familial Choices and Legal Choices
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Tiphaine Barthelemy : Dowries, Preciputs and Gifts to the Newmarried Children: Comparative Cases Studies about Peasants and Noble Families in Brittany (19th-20th Centuries)
Gérard Béaur : Dowries in Chartres Countryside and their Effects on Society and Economy (18th Century)
Anne-Lise Head-König : The Legal Constraints on Dowries and Advances on Inheritance: Their Influence in Shaping Different Swiss Rural Societies (19th-mid 20th Century)
Laurent Herment : Why People did not Provide their Children with a Dowry?
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo, Alexandra Esteves : The Dowries of Marriage of Peasant Families of Minho in the Modern Age



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
C-10 FAM11 Fertility and Reproduction in Comparative Perspective
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Reid
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary Louise Nagata : Urban Reproduction and Fertility: Kyoto in Late Tokugawa Japan
Sian Pooley : Parenthood, Child-rearing, and Fertility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century England
Lucia Pozzi, Liam Kennedy : Marriage and Fertility Patterns in Urban Ireland in the Edwardian Era
Peter Sköld, Gabriella Nordin : Indigenous Fertility in Transition? The Sami in Sweden During the Era of Colonization.


S-10 RUR10 Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Changes
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rosa Congost : Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Change
Richard Paping : ‘Making a Living of their Own’. Succession, Inheritance and Child Career Strategies of Households in the Dutch Rural Economy in the 18th and 19th Century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Female and Male Dowries in Galicia (Spain): Tierra de Santiago in XVIII Century
Rosa Ros : Transformations in Women's Position in a Single Heir System: Dowries and Widowhood-usufruct in the Girona Region (Catalonia), 1750-1860
Albert Serramontmany : Dowries and Socioeconomic Grups: An Example of Use of an Indicator of Social Groups’ Wealth in a Rural Proto-industrial Area. The Besalú corregimiento, 1771-1841



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
C-11 FAM12 Interfaith, Interethnic and International Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Organizer: Ioan Bolovan Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Peter Teibenbacher
Constantin Barbulescu : Mixed Marriages in the medical discourse in Romania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Marius Eppel : At the Border of the Empire and at the Confluence of Confessions: The Mixed Marriages in Oradea Area (Western Romania) in the Modern Times
Cyril Grange : Alliances between Jewish and Christian Aristocratic Elites in Paris in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Marriage Contracts


E-11 FAM24 Round table European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizers: Anders Brändström, Kees Mandemakers Discussants: Anders Brändström, Siegfried Gruber, Kees Mandemakers, Gunnar Thorvaldsen



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
C-12 FAM08 The Effects of Public Health Control against Infectious Diseases
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Lotta Vikström
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Peter Sköld
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Sören Edvinsson : Regional Differences in Measles Mortality during the Demographic Transition. The Case of Northern Sweden 1750-1900
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : The Effects of Vaccination Legislation against Smallpox in 1875, Japan
Diether Kramer : Fighting Smallpox in Styria (Austria) The Impact of Public Interventions in Late 19th Century


E-12 FAM25 Family Factors and Infant and Child Mortality
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Angelique Janssens Discussant: JeanMary Walker
Angelique Janssens : Family Factors and Children’s Mortality Risks in the Past. Some Results from Different Demographic Regimes in the Netherlands, 1880-1930
Maaike Messelink : Siblings: A Blessing or a Curse? Family and Child Survival in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett : "Who you are, where you stay or what you know?" Factors Influencing Infant and Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Scotland
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas & Sara García Ferrero : Infectious Disease and Mortality among Urban Children: Madrilenian Children and Foundlings at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Peter Teibenbacher : Infant and Child Death on the Countryside



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
C-13 FAM15 Suburban Populations, 16-20th Centuries I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizers: Fabrice Boudjaaba, Virginie De Luca Barrusse Discussant: Guido Alfani
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Civil Marriages and Choice of Witnesses in a Suburban Commune in Ile-de-France 19th Century
Sandra Bree : The Fertility of the Inhabitants of the Parisian Suburbs in the Late 19th Century
Romola Davenport : Survival in the Suburbs: Infant Mortality by Social Status in St. Martin-in-the-Fields,1750-1824.
Gill Newton : Death in the Suburbs: Mortality in London and its Hinterland Between 1550 and 1700


E-13 FAM26 Bursting with New Historical Data on Residence Patterns and Living Arrangements: First Results from the MOSAIC Project
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizers: Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Michel Oris
Rolf Gehrmann : Does Urban Life Lead to Different Forms of Coresidence? Germany at the Eve of Industrial Revolution (1846)
Joshua R. Goldstein : Rationale of the MOSAIC Project
Dalia Leinarte : Lithuanian „Nuclear Family“: Consequence or Precondition of a Great Agrarian Change of 1860s?
Péter Öri, Levente Pakot : Patterns of Marriage and Household Structure in 19th Century Hungary



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
C-14 FAM16 Suburban Populations, 16-20th Centuries II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Virginie De Luca Barrusse
Organizers: - Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Eugenia Bournova : The Creation of New Cities in Greater Athens during the 20th Century
Laurent Heyberger : Between Town and Country, the Height of Suburbanites
Luca Mocarelli : The Suburbs of Milan in the Long Run (XVIIIth to XXth Centuries)


E-14 FAM22 Can Family Systems Explain Regional Economic and Political Disparities in Europe: Historica and Comtemporary Perspectives
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Siegfried Gruber
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Arne Solli
Sarah Carmichael, Jan Luiten van Zanden & Jan Kok : Family Systems, Agency and Economic Development in Global Perspective
Renzo Derosas, Alice Kasakoff & Mikolaj Szoltysek : Uses and misuses of the notion of ‘family system’ in recent scholarship on contemporary economic and political disparities in Europe
Hannes Grandits : Family Systems within European Welfare State Developments in the second half of the 20th century
Pier Paolo Viazzo : Temporary Deflections or Persistent Contrasts? Assessing the Role of Family and Kinship Structures on the Two Shores of the Mediterranean



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
C-15 FAM09 Women, Family Income and Expenditure in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Eilidh Garrett
Cristina Borderias, Pilar Pérez-Fuentes & Carmen Sarasúa : Gender Inequalities in Consumption. Spain 1850-1930
Nigel Goose : Local Labour Markets and Family Budgets in Victorian England
Kristina Lilja, Dan Bäcklund : To Depend on one's Children or to Depend on Oneself: Saving Behaviours for Old-age in 19th and Early 20th Century Sweden
Beatrice Moring : Women, Income and Household Budgets in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Richard Wall (1944 -2011) : Widows, Budgets and Poverty in the English Past, Presented by Beatrice Moring


E-15 FAM23 Academies of Sciences and Population in European Countries in the 18th century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jacques Veron
Organizers: Nathalie Le Bouteillec, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Discussant: Jacques Veron
Eric Brian : The "Essai pour connaître la population du royaume" at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. New Scientific and Political Coup
Nathalie Le Bouteillec : Tabell-Verket : The Project of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
Jean-Marc Rohrbasser : Wargentin, the Swedish Academy of Sciences and Mortality
Christine Théré : French Learned Societies



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
C-16 FAM10 Family Networks and Family Welfare
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Kasakoff
Organizer: Alice Kasakoff Discussant: Patrick Heady
Eleanor Gordon, Annmarie Hughes : The Way We Were: Families and Family Structure in theLlate Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek : Quantifying Patriarchy: Two Joint Family Systems Compared
Mary Nagata : The Network Family? Family and Business as a Network of Households in Tokugawa Japan
Sherry Olson : Assessing the Dimensions of Family in Nineteenth-century Montreal


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