ESHD Webinar series
Seminars of the European Society of Historical Demography
Population and Family History 2023
Tuesday at 3 pm Central European Time
28 February 2023
Speaker: Svenn–Erik Mamelund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
Title: Indigenous peoples and pandemics
Discussant: Kaspar Staub (University of Zurich,Switzerland)
Host: Mathias Mølbak Ingholt (Roskilde University,Denmark)
28 March 2023
Speaker: Gabriel Brea Martinez (Lund University, Sweden).
Title: Beyond the traditional “father and class”: Long– term social mobility in Catalonia (1570–1880) and Southern Sweden (1947–2015)
Discussant: Lionel Kesztenbaum (INED,France)
Host: Michel Oris (University of Geneva,Switzerland)
25 April 2023
Speaker: Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Title: The Demography of the Qing Civil Service
Discussant: Jan Kok (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
23 May 2023
Speaker: Matthias Rosenbaum–Feldbrügge (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
Title: The Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao: Enhancing our Knowledge of Colonial Demography and Slavery
Discussant: Barbara Revuelta Eugercios (Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet), Denmark)
Host: Elisabeth Mjaaland (University of Cambridge, UK)
27 June 2023
Speaker: Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research,France)
Title: In and out of the couple in interwar Paris
Discussant: Glenn Sandström (Umeå University.Sweden)
Host: Hideko Matsuo (KU Leuven)
26 September 2023
Speakers: Martin Dribe (Lund University, Sweden)
Title: Were all the good men married? Investigating the marriage premium in Sweden, 1947–2015
Discussant: Neil Cummins (London School of Economics,England)
Host: Irina Troitskaya (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
24 October 2023
Speaker: Hannaliis Jaadla (Cambridge University, England)
Title: Subnational mortality patterns in Great Britain
Discussant: Michail Raftakis (University of Sassari, Italy)
Host: Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
21 November 2023
Speaker: Joana Maria Pujades (University Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Title: Constructing The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database
Discussant: Rick Mourits (International Institute for Social History, the Netherlands)
Host: Luciana Quaranta (Lund University, Sweden)
12 December 2023
Speaker: Sarah Walters (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, England)
Title: Counting souls in East Africa: population history using church records, 1890– 1990
Discussant: Dino Sevdalakis (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Host: Joris Kok (International Institute for Social History, the Netherlands)
Population and Family History 2022
Tuesday at 3 pm Central European Time
18 January 2022
Speaker: Leandro Prados de la Escosura (University Carlos III, Madrid)
Title: Well-Being beyond GDP: What Data on Life Expectancy Show
Discussant: Guido Alfani (Bocconi University, Milan)
Host: Diego Ramiro Fariñas (Spanish Research Council, Madrid)
15 February 2022
Speaker: Daniel Ramírez Smith (CSIC, Madrid, Spain).
Title: The Long Arm of Conflict: How Exposure to War During Critical Windows Shapes Prevalence and Age of Onset of Chronic Diseases
Discussant: Lambert Lumey (Columbia University)
Host: Diego Ramiro Fariñas (Spanish Research Council, Madrid)
22 March 2022
Speaker: Paulo Teodoro de Matos (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
Title: Widowhood and remarriage in the Azores in the 18-19th centuries
Discussant: Paul Puschmann (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Host: Hideko Matsuo (University of Leuven, Belgium)
12 April 2022
Speaker: Albert Esteve Palós (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Title: Long-term trends in intergenerational coresidence in Spain
Discussant: Mikolaj Szoltysek (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute)
Host: Diego Ramiro Fariñas (Spanish Research Council, Madrid)
17 May 2022
Speaker: Isabelle Devos (Gent University, Belgium)
Title: War, Peace and Epidemics: the Spanish flu in Belgium, 1918-19
Discussant: Svenn-Erik Mamelund (Oslo Met, Norway)
Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
14 June 2022
Speakers: Michael Raftakis (University of Sassari, Italy)
Title: Maternal mortality in Greece and Italy
Discussant: Francesco Scalone (University of Bologna, Italy)
Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
20 September 2022
Speaker: Nicolas Todd (CNRS, France)
Title: Environmental factors of fertility in the 18th century
Discussant: Sebastian Kluesener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiebaden, Germany)
Host: Mikolaj Szoltysek (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute)
18 October 2022 (For Technical Reasons this video is not available)
Speaker: Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Title: Verdicts from the city coroner’s court, and registered cause of death: Dublin c1900-1902
Discussant: Lucia Pozzi (University of Sassari, Italy)
Host: Chris Dibben (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
15 November 2022
Speaker: Kaspar Staub (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Title: Learning from the past or forgetting the past? Past and present pandemics and how to prepare for future challenges
Discussant: Maarten van Wijhe (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Host: Michel Oris (University of Geneva)
13 December 2022
Speaker: Grazyna Liczbinska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)
Title: The short and long-term biological, demographic, and health effects of the cholera epidemic in Poznan in 1866
Discussant: Romola Davenport (Cambridge University, U.K.)
Host: Irina Troitskaya (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Population and Family History 2021
Tuesday at 3 pm Central European Time
16 March 2021
Speaker: Tommy Bengtsson (Lund University)
Title: When did the health gradient emerge? Social class and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813-2015
Discussant: Lionel Kesztenbaum (INED, Paris)
Host: Diego Ramiro Fariñas (Spanish Research Council, Madrid)
13 April 2021
Speaker: David Hacker (University of Minnesota), with Jonas Helgertz, Matt Nelson and Evan Roberts
Title: The influence of kin availability on the reproductive success of American couples, 1900-1910
Discussant: Kai Pierre Willführ (University of Oldenburg)
Host: Luciana Quaranta (Lund University)
18 May 2021
Speaker: Sarah Rafferty (Cambridge University)
Title: Class or place? A quantitative analysis of child mortality in early twentieth century London
Discussant: Barbara Revuelta Eugercios (University of Copenhagen)
Host: Michel Oris (University of Geneva)
8 June 2021
Speakers: Mikolaj Szoltysek (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute), Francisco Beltran Tapia, Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber
Title: Patriarchy, family types and child sex ratios in historical Europe, 1750-1930
Discussant: Jan Kok (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Host: Irina Troitskaya (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
14 September 2021
Speaker: Catherine Guirkinger (University of Namur)
Title: The effect of pro-natalist policies (implemented by catholic missions) on fertility in colonial Congo
Discussant: Sarah Walters (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Host: Mikolaj Szoltysek (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute)
19 October 2021
Speaker: Ingrid K. Van Dijk (Lund University)
Title: The reproductive career and later life survival: Women’s post-reproductive survival in Scania, Sweden, 1813-2015
Discussant: Matteo Manfredini (University of Parma)
Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
23 November 2021
Speaker: Hilde Bras (Groningen University)
Title: Starting, Spacing, Stopping, or Postponing? Women’s Childbearing Trajectories in Niakhar, Senegal, 1948-present
Discussant: George Alter (University of Michigan)
Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
14 December 2021
Speaker: Bartosz Ogorek (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
Title: The Fertility Decline in the Interwar Poland
Discussant: Dr Yuliya Hilevych (University of Groningen)
Host: Michel Oris