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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 Durães, 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 

W-3  -  THE02: Do Levels of Interpretation Matter?
M210, Marissal

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Chris Lorenz
Discussant: Willeke Los
Andrea De Vincenti, Michael Geiss Shaping Schools: Agency and structure in historical research practice
Anne Bosche Governing School Reforms: Choosing determinants of explanation in historical research
Carla Aubry Financing schools: Money and Morals
 

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

W-4  -  CUL04: Oral Communication in History: Problems and Methodology
M210, Marissal

    Network: Culture
Chair: Frank Bösch
Discussant: Frank Bösch
Filippo De Vivo Studying communication in early modern Italy: Possibilities and pitfalls
Arjan Van Dixhoorn Intermediality of oral communication in the early modern world
Brigitte Mral Methodological Problems Concerning Women's Rhetoric in the 19th Century
Joris van Eijnatten Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Audiences: Diffuse, Simple and Mass
 

 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 10.45 

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

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Anne Løkke
Chair: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Anne Løkke 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 14.15 

W-7  -  REL08: The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming & Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950 I
M210, Marissal

    Network: Religion
Chair: Evert Peeters
Discussant: Evert Peeters
Rajesh Heynickx Space, art and mystic contemplation. The Catholic self-fashioning of converted avant-gardists
James Chappel The Poetics of Sainthood in Interwar Catholic Literature: A Reading of Sous le soleil de Satan and The Power and the Glory
Tine Van Osselaer Mystics of a modern time? Public mystical experiences in Belgium in the 1930s
 

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

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

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Elisabeth Engberg
Chair: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
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 

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 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 16.30 

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

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Peter Sköld
Chair: Peter Sköld
Discussant: Peter Sköld
Åsa 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
 

 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 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