Preliminary Programme

Showing: Family and Demography (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
Q-1 FAM01 Familial Determinants of Mortality
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jörg Vögele
Organizer: Ingrid van Dijk Discussant: Jörg Vögele
Sören Edvinsson, Göran Broström : Increasing the Mortality Gap? Social Inequality in Mortality among Adults in Northern Sweden 1850-1960
Rick Mourits : Spatial Variance in Longevity. The Effect of Agricultural Tradition, Disease Environment, Modernisation, and Urban Penalties on Longevity in Drenthe, Groningen & Zeeland, 1813-1957
Angela Muir : Did Baby Daddies Matter? Illegitimacy, Identifiable Paternity and Infant Mortality in Eighteenth Century Wales
Ingrid van Dijk : Lucky Survivors? The Impact of Scarring on Adult Survivors of High-mortality Families
Evelien Walhout : Female Infanticide: Exploring Evidence in the Netherlands



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
Q-2 FAM02 Non-Nuclear Families
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Nanna Floor Clausen : Widows and spinsters and their households in 19th century Denmark
Irfan Kokdas : Is there an Inevitable Transition from Large Households to Nuclear Families at the Dawn of Modernity? Human Capital Formation and Demographic Trends in the Ottoman Balkans (1700-1860)
Beatrice Moring : Widows in Late 19th century Urban Northern Europe- Family Co-operation and Female Networks
Damaris Rose, Lisa Dillon & Marianne Caron : Surfacing the Singles: a Mixed Methods Adventure into the Living Arrangements of the Non-married in 1920s-1940s urban Canada


Y-2 FAM24 Eastern Infant Mortality: Religion, Ethnicity, Location
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizers: Luminita Dumanescu, Gunnar Thorvaldsen Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Iulia Borovik, Elena Glavatskaya & Gunnar Thorvaldsen : Infant Mortality in Late 19th to Early 20th Century Ekaterinburg
Luminita Dumanescu, Daniela Marza, Mihaela Haragus : New Data on Infant Mortality in Transylvania in the 19th Century based on the HPDT
Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Hilde L. Sommerseth : Once Upon a Time in the East? Spatial Distribution of Infant Mortality in the North East of Norway in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
Q-3 FAM03a Siblings and Life Transitions I
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Tim Riswick Discussant: Isabelle Devos
Robyn Donrovich : Sibling Death in Early Life: the Long-term Fate of Survivors of High-risk Households
XingChen ChiaChi Lin, Tim Riswick : The Influence of Family Composition on Infant Mortality in Single Parent Families in Taiwan (1900-1945) and the Netherlands (1870-1920)
Heejin Park, Sangwoo Han & Byunggiu Son : Sibling Effects and Infant Mortality in Korea, 1910-1977 : Evidence from Family Register and Land Register
Tim Riswick : Between Rivalry and Support: Differences in the Mortality Chances of Brothers and Sisters in the Netherlands (1860-1910)



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
Q-4 FAM03b Siblings and Life Transitions II
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Tim Riswick Discussant: Ineke Maas
Lisa Dillon, Alain Gagnon & Marianne Caron : Shared Fertility Histories: Biosocial Influences of Siblings on Intergenesic Birth Intervals, 18th-century Québec
Stephanie Klages, Christine Fertig : The Impact of Sibling Composition on Family Strategies in 19th Century Westphalia
Diogo Paiva, Paulo Teodoro de Matos : To Stay or to Migrate: Siblings and Life Transitions in 19th Century Ribeira Seca, Azores
Joana-Maria Pujades-Mora : Siblings and Intergenerational Transmission of Social Status and Occupations in the Preindustrial Area of Barcelona, 16th – 17th Centuries
Alice Velková : Selection of Heir to Rural Property and its Influence on Marige Conditions of his Siblings, Štáhlavy 1650-1850



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
Q-5 FAM05 Modernization and Infant Health in Europe during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ingrid van Dijk
Organizers: Nynke van den Boomen, Jörg Vögele Discussant: Isabelle Devos
Rina Kralj-Brassard, Kristina Puljizevic : The Impact of Modernisation of Public Health on Infant Mortality in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Dubrovnik
Verena Limper : The periphery of Europe at the forefront of modernization? – Swedish Pediatrics and their relationship with Germany in the first half of the 20th century
Nynke van den Boomen, Paul Rotering : The Regionality of Infant Mortality Patterns in the Netherlands, 1875-1899
Jörg Vögele : Infant Mortality and Infant Welfare in Germany during Twentieth Centuries



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
Q-6 FAM06 Do Welfare Regimes Matter? Migration and Care/Domestic Work
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Margarita León
Organizers: María Sánchez-Domínguez, Inmaculada Serrano Discussant: Margarita León
Zenia Hellgren : Financial Crisis and Migrant Domestic Workers in Madrid and Barcelona: Labor Market Integration and Social Inclusion during the Great Recession
Barbara Hobson : Do Welfare Regimes Matter: Migrants, Markets and Employment Regimes
María Sánchez-Domínguez, Susanne Fahlén : Determinants of the Social Mobility among Domestic Workers in Spain and Sweden
Karen Shire : The Politics of Household Service Provision in the Context of Conservative Welfare Capitalism: the German and Austrian Cases



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
Q-7 FAM07 Plague in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Social-economic, Medical and Demographic Aspects
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ewout Frankema
Organizers: Guido Alfani, Isabelle Seguy Discussants: -
Daniel Curtis : The Many Faces of Plague: Plague Epidemiology and Economic Divergence in the 17th-century
Idamaria Fusco : Managing a Plague Epidemic. The Case of the Kingdom of Naples in the 17th Century
Pavla Jirková : Documenting of Identities of the Plague-Victims in the Early Modern Bohemia
Isabel Moll : The Last Mediterranean Plague? Mallorca, May 1820 - January 1821


R-7 FAM21 Why Care? – Intergenerational Support from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tine De Moor
Organizer: Anita Boele Discussant: Jan Kok
Patrick Heady, Siegfried Gruber : How Much of a Priority is Intergenerational Support?
Yuliya Hilevych : Later, if Ever: Family Influences on the Transition from First to Second Birth in Ukraine, 1950-1975
Jesús Javier Sánchez-Barricarte : The Historical Decline of Fertility and the Development of the Welfare States
Charlotte Stormer : ‘Honour your Father and Mother, that your Days may be Long’. Moral Obligations and Family Values in the Early Modern Period (16th-19th Century)



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
Q-8 FAM08 Longterm Changes and Godparent Practices (15th-21th Centuries)
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizers: Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon Discussant: Guido Alfani
Davide De Franco : Godparenthood Strategies at the Royal Court of Savoy (XVIIIth Century)
Margreet Dieleman : Protestants and Godparent Practice in the Western Provinces of France, 1560-1685
Antonio Irigoyen : Godparenthood in Cordoba (Argentina) during the Eighteenth Century
Claudio Lorenzini, Lucio Biasiori : Rules from the Pulpit. Godparenthood in Preaching in Italy (XV-XVIII Centuries)
Markéta Skorepová : The Role of Godparents in Czech Rural Environment in the Nineteenth Century.


R-8 FAM25 Prehistory of Family Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Networks: , Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Jan Kok
Laura Fortunato : The Nuclear Family in the History of Indo-European-speaking Societies: a Phylogenetic Comparative Approach
Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek : Family, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in preindustrial Europe



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
Q-9 FAM09a Family Crisis and Life-course Development (15th-21th Centuries): the Impact on Individuals and Families I
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Claudia Contente : Facing Family Crises in Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires Countryside: the Case of Widowhood
Helena da Silva : World War I Wounded Portuguese Soldiers and their Families: Living with their Handicap
Matt Nelson : Improving the Big Woods: Families, Farm Laborers and Neighbors in Nineteenth Century Minnesota
Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Assessing Fertility and Mortality Patterns among Social Groups in Late Colonial Brazil. A Case Study of Four Captaincies, 1798-1805



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
Q-10 FAM09b Family Crisis and Life-course Development (15th-21th Centuries): the Impact on Individuals and Families II
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Mary Nagata
Béatrice Craig : Preventing Crisis, Planning for Widowhood; Nineteenth Century Northern France Textile Manufacturers Face Death
Sangwoo Han, Heejin Park, Byunggiu Son : Adoption as Solving Family Succession Crisis in 17-18th Century Korea and its Consequences on Adopted Sons’ Life Course
Donggue Lee, Youjin Lee : Natural Disasters and the Survival Strategies of Individuals and Families in 1730’s Korea
Mitsuhiro Nakajima : A Study of the Life Courses of Legitimate and Illegitimate Children in the Later Tokugawa Period: a Case Study of a Fishing Village in Southwestern Japan



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
Q-11 FAM11 Marriage during War
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizers: Ioan Bolovan, Marius Eppel Discussant: Luminita Dumanescu
Andreas Guidi : Interconfessional Marriages During the Post-Ottoman Transition - Rhodes 1878-1940
Saskia Hin, Koen Matthijs : Marriage under Stress: Partner Choices in WWI Belgium
Ana Victoria Sima : Being a Husband and Wife in Wartime. A Transylvanian Cultural Perspective
Valeria Sorostineanu : Families at War. The Archdiocese of Sibiu during the Great War
Peter Teibenbacher : Demography in Austria during WW I


R-11 FAM27 New Approaches to Mortality and Longevity
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Angelique Janssens Discussant: Hilde L. Sommerseth
Corry Gellatly, Charlotte Störmer : ‘Til Death us do Part: a Comparative Study of Marriage and Longevity
Angelique Janssens, Ben Pelzer : Intergenerational Mortality Risks in Adult Years during the Nineteenth Century in the Sundsvall and Skellefteå Area in Northern Sweden
Gabrielle Rouleau, Marc Tremblay : Demogenetic Analysis of the Saguenay (Quebec, Canada) Population
Kaspar Staub, Joël Floris, Ulrich Woitek : Changes in Mortality in Switzerland, 1870-1910
Tina Van Rossem, Patrick Deboosere & Isabelle Devos : From Residence to Disease. From Disease to Grave. The Relation between Brussels’ Urban and Industrial Features and Disease-specific Mortality at the Turn of the 20th Century



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
K-12 RUR01 Assessments of Food Intake, Food Intake and Height at the Local, Regional and National Level
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chair: Niccolò Mignemi
Organizers: Laurent Herment, Laurent Heyberger Discussant: Niccolò Mignemi
Brian A'Hearn : The Anthropometric History of the Mediterranean World
Ulf Christian Ewert : Food Production and Rural-urban Differentials in Nutritional Status: the Case of Early-industrial Saxony
Hector García Montero : Height, Food and Inequality in Rural Central Spain, 1765-1840
Laurent Heyberger : Stature, Nutritional Availabilities and Population Censuses in 19th-century Algeria: a Calling into Question of the Classic Vision of Demographic History


Q-12 FAM12 Property and Things: the Logics of Transferring and Safeguarding Wealth
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Margareth Lanzinger
Organizers: Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith Discussant: Michaela Hohkamp
John Broad : Women, Property and Wills in England 16th–19th Centuries
Christian Hagen : Awarding and Receiving Things. Transfer of Valuables by Marriage and Inheritance in Southern Tirol
Birgit Heinzle : Family Business – the Distribution of Inheritance between Siblings in the Estate of the St. Lambrecht Monastery c. 1490–1550
Janine Maegraith : Negotiating Property and Securing a Living: Early Modern Widow’s Endowment Contracts in Southern Tirol



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-13 FAM20 Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Lyndan Warner
Organizer: Lyndan Warner Discussant: Lyndan Warner
Gabriella Erdélyi : Marriage between Step-kin and Half-kin in Early Modern Hungary
Margareth Lanzinger : Emotional Bonds and Living Arrangements: Stepfamilies in the Catholic Dispensation Records of Eighteenth–Century Austria
Cathryn R. Spence : ‘Now Her Spouse’: Subsequent Marriages and Stepfathers in late Sixteenth– and Early Seventeenth–Century Scotland
Tim Stretton : Stepmothers at Law in Early Modern England


Q-13 FAM13 Household Formation and Postmarital Residence: Historical Cross-cultural Perspectives on Eurasia
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir : Household Formation and Marriage Prospects in Early 18th Century Iceland
Mary Nagata : Household Formation and Post-Marital Residence in Kyoto and Japan: a Survey and Discussion of Change over Time, 794-1868
Péter Öri : Leaving the Parental Household (Timing and Determinants). Evidence from the Hungarian Mosaic Sample
Mikolaj Szoltysek, Siegfried Gruber : Household Formation and Postmarital Residence: Historical Cross-cultural Perspectives using Mosaic Data



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
Q-14 FAM14 Demography, Health and Colonisation – a Global Perspective
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Organizer: Per Axelsson Discussant: Paulo Teodoro de Matos
Per Axelsson, Emma Lundholm & Glenn Sandström : Mapping and Examining Assimilation and Health in Swedish Sapmi 1800-1900
Anders Haglund : The Swedish Welfare State, Public Health and the Colonization of Sápmi 1863-1960
Janet McCalman, Len Smith & Rebecca Kippen & Sandra Silcot : The Colonisation of Victoria and the Koori Health Research Data Base



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
A-15 FAM23 Roundtable: Coding Historical Occupations
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Network: Family and Demography Chairs: -
Organizer: Elisabeth Engberg Discussants: Christopher Dibben, Peter Meyer, Juanjo Romero


Q-15 FAM16 Fertility Transition, Religion and Popular Movements
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizer: Sören Edvinsson Discussant: Angelique Janssens
Renzo Derosas, Elisa Rizzo : Religion and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Reappraisal
Johan Junkka : The Popular Movements and Fertility Decline in the Skellefteå Region 1850-1950
Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs : Like Mother, like Daughter? Impact of Intergenerational and Social Drivers on First Marriage and First Birth Pattern in Northern Flanders (Antwerp, Belgium) in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
I-16 FAM15 Roundtable European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizer: Kees Mandemakers Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Anders Brändström, Nanna Floor Clausen, Koen Matthijs, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Gunnar Thorvaldsen


Q-16 FAM18 Families and their Archives: Ways of Remembering and Creating Family Histories and Identities
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jane Hamlett
Organizer: Laura King Discussant: Jane Hamlett
Christine Grandy : ‘Baby’s First Birthday Party’: Boredom, Home Movies, and the Family on Film
Laura King : The Food Cupboard Door was a Family Archive’: Families and their Archives in Britain, c.1918-50
Anna Woodham : We are What we Keep: Curated Personal Possessions and Family Identity in the 21st Century


Y-16 FAM26 Towards New Perspectives on the Articulation of Socio-Economic and Demographic Change in Early Modern Europe: Exploring the Possibilities of STREAM – A Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Flanders and Brabant
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Angelique Janssens
Organizer: Isabelle Devos Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Isabelle Devos, Patrick Deboosere & Tina Van Rossem : Trajectories of Mortality Across Brabant and Flanders Since the Seventeenth Century
Nick Van den Broeck, Thijs Lambrecht & Anne Winter : Between Regional Change and Local Inelasticity. Articulations between Poor Relief and Economic and Demographic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Brabant and Flanders
Torsten Wiedemann, Ruben Demey & Sven Vrielinck & Glenn Plettinck & Michiel Van den Berghe & Philippe De Maeyer & Erik Thoen & Thijs Lambrecht & Anne Winter & Isabelle Devos : STREAM: Sources, Data and Methods
Anne Winter, Nick Deschacht : Between Space and Structure. Migration, Economic Change, Population Growth and Connectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brabant and Flanders


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