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8th European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
 
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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 13 April 8.30 

W-1  -  FAM01: Fertily and Migration
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Peter Teibenbacher
Chair: Tamas Faragó
Discussant: Peter Teibenbacher
Sarah Moreels Immigration to the port city of Antwerp (1846-1920). A detailed analysis of immigrants’ spacing behaviour in an urbanizing context
Siegfried Gruber The influence of migration on fertility in Albania around 1900
Péter Öri Ethnicity, integration and fertility differences in 19th century Hungary in the neighbourhood of Budapest
Hanna Snellman To More Barren Spaces: The Case of Rural Finns in Urban Sweden

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

W-2  -  FAM02: Family Transmission Systems: From Customs to Civil Codes I
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Kiyoko Nishi The Japanese Civil Code and custom
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Pyrenean customs and the Civil Code: conflicts and continuity in the nineteenth century
Daniela Detesan The Influence of the Napoleonic Code on the Family Laws of the Romanians from Transylvania (1850–1900)
Margarida Durăes, Emília Lagido To get married and to die: a Portuguese family’s legal rights
Fábio Faria Mendes Social Networks, Succession and Inheritance in Guarapiranga, 1780-1880

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

D-3  -  FAM20: The Power of Fathers
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Anna Bellavitis
Discussant: Anna Bellavitis
Sandra Cavallo Varieties of fatherhood: the weak father among the non-propertied classes in early modern Italian cities
Margareth Lanzinger Paternal authority and patrilineal power in marriage contracts of the eighteenth century
Nikolaus Benke On the Roman father’s right to kill his adulterous daughter
Angiolina Arru Power games in the contemporary age: the fathers' last wills in the twentieth century
Alberto Mario Banti Fathers of the Nation: Father Figure and Political Power in Contemporary Europe

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

P-3  -  FAM21: Family Foundations I. Anchoring the Family: Property Strategies of Migrants
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: David Warren Sabean
Discussant: Beshara Doumani
Astrid Meier Between Balkh and Damascus
Nurfadzilah Yahaya The Arab under English Law in the British Straits Settlements
Katalin Prajda Acting as one: Common action, collectivity and property strategies in the case of a double-rooted Florentine kinship network
Isaac Xerxes Malki The Transnational Politics of the West African Lebanese and the Pursuit of ‘Community’, c.1925-1962

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

A-4  -  FAM05: Measles and Other Childhood Diseases
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Renzo Derosas
Chair: Alice Reid
Renzo Derosas Measles epidemics in nineteenth-century Venice: dynamics and risk-factors
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, María Eugenia Galiana And Josep Bernabeu-Mestre And Angela Cremades Epidemiological factors and childhood in contemporary endemic trachoma in Spain 1900-1960
Sara García Ferrero, Jim Oeppen & Diego Ramiro Farińas Estimating Reproductive Numbers for the 1889-90 and 1918-20 Influenza Pandemics in the city of Madrid.
Ólöf Garđarsdóttir Measles in virgin soil regions in Nordic countries during the 19th century

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

P-4  -  FAM22: Family Foundations II. Gender and Property Devolution
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Discussant: Jon Mathieu
David Warren Sabean Revival of Patrilineage and Family Foundations in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany
Randi Deguilhem Women’s Family Foundations in Late Ottoman Damascus: Identifying the Endowers, Understanding their Objectives
Nada Moumtaz Family and Philanthropic Waqfs in 19th century Beirut
Beshara Doumani The Waqf Foundation as a Family Charter

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

Q-4  -  RUR05: Wills and Marriage Contracts in impartible Inheritence System
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Joseph Goy
Chair: Joseph Goy
Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Gertrude Langer-Ostrawsky, Margareth Lanzinger Joint or separate? Marriage contracts and the consequences of different marital property regimes in the Habsburg Empire in the 18th Century
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon From macro to micro, marriage contracts a key for social history
Anne-Lise Head-König The undivided farm in Switzerland before and after the implementation of the 1912 Swiss Civil Code: ways and means to attain this objective
Rosa Ros The decline of impartible inheritance system. The example of Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia), 1780-1860

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

W-5  -  FAM07: Environmental History, Water Construction and Family
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Satoshi Murayama
Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Discussant: Guido Alfani
Josef Grulich The Influence of the Living Environment on the Human Life and the Structure of the Family and its Household (The fishpond region – South Bohemia, from the 16th to the 19th centuries)
Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi Marriage System and Migration in Tangail, Bangladesh
Noboru Higashi, Satoshi Murayama A Seashore Village, Sakitsu. Population Register and Disaster Management in the 19th Century, Kyushu, Japan
Hiroka Watarai Daily life of women and children in a mountain village of Japan in Edo and Meiji Era

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

P-5  -  FAM23: Family Foundations III. Occupying Religious Institutions
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Jon Mathieu
Discussant: Simon Teuscher
Sabine Mohasseb Saliba The Development of Maronite Family Monasteries in Mount Lebanon (17th- 19th centuries)
Hans Hummer Institutionalizing Kinship: Monasteries and Families in Early Medieval Europe
Monica Miscali Life, death and money. A analysis of the Sardinian post-mortem inheritance system

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

Q-5  -  RUR06: Wills and Marriage Contracts in Partible Inheritance System
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Gérard Béaur
Chair: Joseph Goy
Discussant: Joseph Goy
Gérard Béaur Wills and marriage contracts in partible inheritance system
Fabrice Boudjaaba Marriage contracts, donations and wills in Normandy (18-19th centuries): Answers to problems of succession?
Paul Servais Family relations and wills in the Liege area during the 18th century
Ofelia Rey Castelao Neighbours but different: wills and marriage contracts in two territories of occidental Spain (18th-19th centuries)

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

W-6  -  FAM09: Obesity in Historical Context
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Anne Lřkke
Chair: Ólöf Garđarsdóttir
Discussant: Ólöf Garđarsdóttir
Anne Lřkke Obecity in History From a privilege of the few to health issue and hate object – a research overview
Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen Perceptions of Body Sizes in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century European Medical Literature.
Antonio D. Cámara, Anna Cabré, Jeroen Spijker & Joan Garcia Robustness and BMI in 20th-century Spain. Cultural and Socioeconomic Determinants
Tenna Vestergaard Jensen, Ida Rosenstand Lou What did the Danes Eat in the 20th Century from Cradle to Grave? Two Perspectives on Food and Nutrition in Denmark, across Age and Social Status

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

P-6  -  FAM24: Family Foundations IV. Settlement: Strict and Unstrict
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Simon Teuscher
Discussant: Christopher H. Johnson
Nathalie Büsser Collective property and individual claims in the families of Mercenary Entrepreneurs (16th–18th century)
Thomas Max Safley Wills, Transfers, Foundations and ‘Trust’ among South-German Merchant-Finaciers in the Early Modern Period
Michael Gilsenan Settlements and wills among migrant Muslims in colonial singapore
Ali Yaycioglu Power and Wealth of Ottoman Provincial Elite Households (1699-1838)

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

O-7  -  FAM25: Family Foundations V. Familial Property and Political Culture/Political Conflict
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Discussant: Michael Gilsenan
Hasan Karatas Between State, Disciples and Progeny: A Sheikh's Tough Decision in Fifteenth Century Anatolia
Yuen-Gen Liang Property, Foundations, and the Grounding of Familial Identity in Spain's Transition from Local Society to Empire: Evidence from the Fernández de Córdoba lineage
Regina Poertner Modernisation and Elite Survival: Family Entails and Legal Reform in Britain, 1770-1848
Martina Winkler From a Culture of Giving to a Concept of Keeping: The Russian Elite´s Property Politics, 18th and 19th Centuries

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

P-9  -  FAM06: New developments with large historical databases
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Kees Mandemakers
Chair: Onno Boonstra
Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Francisco Chacon, Raquel Sanchez Computer tools for the reconstruction of families applied to the Didactics of the History and the historical research
Edward Higgs, Kevin Schurer The British Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project
Paulo Lopes Matos The Portuguese Population Data System for the Overseas Territories (1766-1820)
Gunnar Thorvaldsen A discussion of two longitudinal databases

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

C-9  -  FAM08: How to Fight or How to Pray Away Disease
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Discussant: Alice Reid
Hiroshi Kawaguchi Did peasants have agood choice of treatments for diseases?
Peter Sköld Sami causes of death in the nineteenth century
Anna Lundberg Of a sorrowful constitution – sadness and selfperception among mental patients at Furunäset asylum in Sweden 1893-1912

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

W-9  -  FAM11: Families in Crisis
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Elisabeth Engberg
Chair: Ólöf Garđarsdóttir
Discussant: Johanna Sköld
Discussant: Ingrid Söderlind
Elisabeth Engberg Caring for the fatherless: epidemic influenza and family dissolution in Sweden, 1920
Asbjoerg Westum Handling a Desperate Situation: The Impact of the Spanish Flu on Families in Northern Sweden
Olivier Faron Orphans and grand-parents. A case-study, Paris 1810-129
Guy Brunet How to face so many orphans? Familial arrangements in the French province of Dombes in the fist half of the 19th century
Catherine Sumnall Illegitimacy and quality of life in the Gurk valley, Austria.

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

O-10  -  ANT07: The Life Course from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Karin Dannehl
Mary Harlow Late Antiquity, Later Roman Lives: The reception and Christianisation of life course models in late antiquity
Shaun Tougher Bearding Byzantium: Masculinity and the Byzantine life course
Francesco Trifilo Stages of Life, Age at Death and the Numerical Logic of the Roman Life Course

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

W-10  -  FAM12: Cohabitation and Economic Cooperation Between Generations
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Beatrice Moring
Chair: Richard Wall (1944 -2011)
Discussant: Richard Wall (1944 -2011)
Beatrice Moring Transfer of economic resources and welfare in the past
Tracy Dennison The Institutional Determinants of Household Structure in Imperial Russia
Dan Bäcklund, Kristina Lilja Children and widows’ wealth
Moto(yasu) Takahashi, Hiroshi Hasebe & Futoshi Yamauchi The Social and Economic Function of Kin Groups with the Household in Village Community

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

M-10  -  FAM26: Family Life under Soviet Rule
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Nikolai Vukov
Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Maija Runcis The State and the Family in Soviet Latvia
Irina Chongarova International Marriage and Identity Adaptation. The Soviet Russian Women in Bulgaria
Helene Carlbäck “In real life a child always has a father”. Voices and discourses on family norms in Soviet Russia, 1945-1970
Alena Eskridge-Kosmach Communist Morality and Notions of Private Life in the Soviet Union in Post-Stalinist Years (1953-1964)

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

C-11  -  FAM03: Family Transmission Systems: From Customs to Civil Code II
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Christine Dousset French Civil Code and widows in southern France
Dalia Leinarte And only if he married Agota, everything would remain as was before: Inheritance and Marriage in the XIXth Century Lithuania
Manoela Pedroza, Carmen Alveal The persistence of a moral economy in common lands in a Brazilian civil parish, in the XIX century
Béatrice Craig Relicts of Former Economic Partners? Widows in the English Common Law and the French Civil Code

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

W-11  -  FAM13: Physical Environment and the Shaping of Social Networks
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Guido Alfani
Chair: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Discussant: Vincent Gourdon
Guido Alfani Physical environment, common lands and social networks (Nonantola, Italy, 1500-1800)
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb Space organization, kinship patterns and social networks in the Alps, 18th – 19th centuries
Matthijs Gerrits Feuding and party strife in a vacuum? The spatial factor in noble conflict in late medieval Frisia
Renato Sansa No man's land. Malaria and the shaping of social structures in the Latium region (17th-19th cent.)
Timothy Murtha, James Wood, Patricia Johnson & Stephen Matthews Spatial Dynamics of Population History, Settlement, Social Networks and Landscape in Orkney from 1750 to 2000

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

M-11  -  FAM27: Factors Influencing Fertility in the Modern Age
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Hilde Bras
Cristina Munno Reading kinship role on demographical transitions. A Venetian countryside example: 1830-1940
Vasilis Gavalas The proximate determinants of marital fertility in a transitional population: the island of Paros in the first half of the 20th century
Irena Rožman, Peter Teibenbacher “From Structure to Tradition”: is the Continuity in Regional Fertility Patterns a Case of Continuity in Cultural Differences?
Mimoza Dushi Changes in Fertility in Kosova and Influential Factors

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

W-12  -  FAM14: The Aging Population
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Peter Sköld
Chair: Peter Sköld
Discussant: Peter Sköld
Ĺsa Andersson Activity or Disengagement? A Historical Perspective on the Disagreement about Aging in 20th Century's Social Gerontology
Ganna Gerasymenko, Pavlo Shevchuk The Population Ageing in Ukraine: Historical Roots and Prospects
Sören Edvinsson Mortality and Class in Old Age. Social Differences in Health in 19th Century Northern Sweden

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

M-12  -  FAM28: Family and Modernity
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Rembrandt Scholz, Mikolaj Szoltysek & Barbara Zuber-Goldstein Family and modernisation in the Eastern European urban context: Rostock 1819-1867
Gayle Davis Private lives and the ‘information state’ in early-twentieth-century Scotland
Martin Dackling Land and family – an old system in new form
Hans Jřrgen Marker Age at first marriage Denmark 1801

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

M-13  -  FAM10: Birth Attendance and Birth Outcomes I
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Alice Reid
Chair: Anne Lřkke
Discussant: Ólöf Garđarsdóttir
Alice Reid Midwives, doctors, and infant survival in early twentieth century Derbyshire
Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant Birth attendance in XIXth Century Belgium
Signe Nipper Nielsen From the 'Workshop of Wonder': Thomas Bartholin, products of generation and the order of Nature
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Ramiro Farińas, Diego Differentials in Maternal Mortality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Spain.
Robert Woods Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: birth attendants and their patients in the eighteenth century

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

W-13  -  FAM15: Household Typologies, Coresidence and Care Across the Life Course
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers Co-residence and proximity of kin in the case of elderly and single people in rural Holland, 1860-1940
Mikolaj Szoltysek Land of hope? Household formation rules and family welfare in the eighteenth-century Eastern Europe.
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary-Louise Nagata Household Typologies, Co-residence and Care in Late Tokugawa Kyoto, 1843-70

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

W-14  -  FAM17: Family Demography Beyond the Household
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Hilde Bras
Chair: Christa Matthys
Discussant: Michel Oris
Hilde Bras Kin Ties and Old-Age Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
Nanami Toishi, Atsushi Yoshida Did a network of neighboring households mitigate the socio-economic crisis? :Empirical examples of a rural community near Tokyo in the Great Tempo Famine
Mattijs Vandezande Intergenerational clustering of infant and child mortality

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

M-14  -  HEA10: Birth Attendance and Birth Outcomes II
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Helene Laurent
Discussant: Helene Laurent
Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir Male midwifery and accoucheur in Iceland
Dipti Tripathi Birth Control Movement in Colonial India: Exploring Reproductive Health Issues
Elisabeth Lobenwein The Resurrection and Baptism of Stillborn Babies in Carinthia between the 15th and 18th Century

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

W-15  -  FAM16: Care Across the Life Course
M210, Marissal

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Katherine A. Lynch
Discussant: Katherine A. Lynch
Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jorgen Marker Were the Elderly a Burden in 1801?
Hilde Leikny Jaastad Northern Cohabitaiton across Generations
Jeffery Deal, Alice Bee Kasacoff Living arrangements of elderly women: women’s agency among the present-day Dinka of the Southern Sudan and the 19th century US North America

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

P-15  -  FAM18: Methodological Tools for the History of the Economic Role of Siblings in Traditional Societies
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Francisco García González Brothers in the Household. Relationship and Corresidence in the Ancien Regine of Castile.
Gérard Le Bouedec Dynasties and siblings in the coastal navigation (golf du Morbihan 18th century)
Stéphane Minvielle The economic role of kinship : brothers and sisters in merchants families (Bordeaux, 18th century)
Llorenç Ferrer Alos Younger sons, economic progress and social mobility in Catalonia (XVIII-XIXth century)

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

Q-15  -  FAM19: Culture and Demography
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Bart Van De Putte
Chair: Bart Van De Putte
Discussant: Hilde Bras
Martin Dribe, Bart Van De Putte Seasonality in marriage and changing work intensity: Southern Sweden
Theo Engelen, Xingchen C.C. Lin Culture and demography. Marriage as a cultural phenomenon in historical Taiwan and the Netherlands
Velislava Botova Family Models of Turks in Bulgaria