ESHD Webinar series
Seminars of the European Society of Historical Demography
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: TBC
Host: Michel Oris