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Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006
 
 
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All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
 
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Wednesday 22 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Thursday 23 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Friday 24 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30

All days


 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

L-1  -  FAM01: International Families I. Aristocratic Networks and Court Societies
Room L

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Sabean
Chair: David Sabean
Discussant: Simon Teuscher
Gabriel Piterberg Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of Kinship
Matt Vester The Courtly Ties of a Renaissance Transalpine Dynasty: The Savoie-Nemours
Katrin Keller Permanent Ties? Familial Networks at the Courts of Dresden and Vienna
Ciaran O'scea The Assimilation and Identity Formation of an Irish Minority in Early Seventeenth-Century Castile

 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

P-1  -  FAM05: Jack Goody revisited
Room P

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Mary Louise Nagata
Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Discussant: Isabel Moll-Blanes
Discussant: Anne-Lise Head-König
David Luke Robichaux Jack Goody and John Hajnal in Mexico: The Mesoamerican developmental cycle and its demographic implications
Christa Matthys, Eric Vanhaute A ‘silent class’ and a ‘quiet revolution’. The role of female domestic servants in Flanders’ fertility decline.

 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

O-1  -  FAM09: Specific mortality patterns
Room O

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Olof Gardarsdottir
Alice Reid Infant life chances in nineteenth century urban and rural Scottish communities
Maria J. Wisselgren Victim or Pioneer? The Role of the Mother in the Hospitalization of Childbirth in Sweden
Gayle Davis Stillbirth Registration and Conceptions of the Newborn, c.1900-1950
Robert C.H. Shell Poverty and Aids or is it Aids and poverty? The historical demography of HIV in the poorest province of South Africa, 1988 to 2001
Andrew Hinde, Michael Edgar Death on a strange isle: mortality among the stone workers of the Isle of Purbeck in southern England, 1850-1900

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

L-2  -  FAM02: International Families II: Transnationality and the Nation-State 1700-1850
Room L

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Christopher Johnson
Chair: Jon Mathieu
Discussant: Christopher Johnson
Arnout Mertens Religion, State, and Nation. Belgian Pedigreed Nobles in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1814-1830/9
Jonathan Spangler Spreading the Bets: Multi-National Aristocratic Kinship Networks in a Changing Political Environment (1500-1815)
Jacqueline Letzter The Emigration of the Stier Family from Antwerp: Sizing Up American-style Happiness in an Age of Revolution (1794-1804)
Christine Philliou Families of Empires and Nations: Transforming Ottoman Politics in Southeastern Europe One Family at a Time, 1750-1850

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

A-2  -  FAM23: Children and childhood in European Institutions
Room A

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Kirsi Warpula
Chair: Kirsi Warpula
Discussant: Kirsi Warpula
Djurdja Hrzenjak Delicate residents of Laibach. Analysis of a foundling hospital protocol.
Ida Bull Children in orphanage – between religion and work training
Sara Hansson Institutional functions meet individual rights. The care for mentally retarded children in 1950's Sweden

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

H-3  -  FAM03: International Families III. Contested Nationality
Room H

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Christopher Johnson
Chair: Christopher Johnson
Discussant: Nancy Green
Paloma Gay Y Blasco Intercountry Adoption Patterns and the Creation of Novel Diaspora
Cyril Grange The Marriages of Upper-Class Jewish Parisian Families: From a European to a National Matrimonial Market 1800-1940
Mary Chamberlain Family, Identity and Nation: Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean, 1937-1967

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

F-3  -  FAM22: Spiritual kinship in urban context
Room F

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Vincent Gourdon
Chair: Virginie De Luca
Discussant: François Joseph Ruggiu
Vincent Gourdon Families and baptisms in great cities : Paris and Rome in the XIXth century.
Francisco García, Cosme Jesús Gómez Fictive kinship and social networks in meridional Spain ( Albacete, 1750-1850)
Guido Alfani Spiritual Kinship and the others. Ivrea, 1480-1620
Annick Foucrier-Binda Baptisms at Notre-Dame des Victoires, San Francisco, California, and the networks of a community of French immigrants (1856-1880)

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

K-3  -  FAM27: Marriages and social networks in rural and "rurban" context
Room K

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Gérard Béaur
Chair: Joseph Goy
Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Margareth Lanzinger Kinship Marriages and Social Networks in the Diocese of Brixen in the 19th Century
Anne-Lise Head-König Marriage, social networks and the occupational mobility of sedentary and migrant families in a Swiss urban context (19th - early 20th c.)
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon Pyrenean migrants living and marrying in Paris in 1900
Jean-Pierre Pélissier , Danièle Rébaudo What had become the children of rural parents ?

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

C-3  -  FAM35: Children mortality in European Institutions
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Kirsi Warpula
Organiser: Diego Ramiro Fariñas
Chair: Kirsi Warpula
Diego Ramiro Fariñas Childhood mortality and foundlings in Madrid, 1900-1930.
Carlo Corsini Infant abandonment in Florence, 1840-1842
Vicente Perez-Moreda "How many foundlings were abandoned in Spain?"

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

N-4  -  FAM06: Infant mortality and gender
Room N

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Solvi Sogner
Discussant: Solvi Sogner
Anders Brändström, John Rogers & Sören Edvinsson Who were the winners - infant girls or infant boys? A study of infant mortality in nineteenth century Sweden
Patricia Thornton, Sherry Olson ‘This wicked city’ : intra-urban and urban / rural contrasts in sex-differences in youth mortality in late 19th century Montreal.
Janet McCalman ‘Social Parenthood’ and Adult Survival Time in Australia: 1857-1985
Kristina Bohman Infant mortality in Ådalen, Sweden 1870 – 1910

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

O-4  -  FAM17: Marriage patterns according to death in parental generation
Room O

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Richard Wall
Chair: Richard Wall
Discussant: Richard Wall
Paulo Teodoro De Matos The Demography of Portuguese Goa, India: 1720-1830. Subsidies for its study.
Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies Death knell and wedding bells’; the relationship between parental death and the timing of marriage in nineteenth century Scotland, an urban-rural comparison.
Carola Lipp, Astrid Reinecke Marriage, death and division in a region with partible inheritance
Beatrice Moring Family organisation and re-organisation in the pre-industrial Nordic countries

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

U-4  -  FAM26: Marriages and social networks in urban context
Room U

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Gérard Béaur
Chair: Gérard Béaur
Discussant: Joseph Goy
Christine Fertig Urban markets and rural marriage networks: Social Networks in two Westphalian parishes (19th century).
François Joseph Ruggiu, Vincent Gourdon The choice of witnesses at the civil wedding in the XIXth Century among the countries with Napoleonic Code heritage
Sylvie Perrier Remarriage and Social Networks in the Toulouse Region in the XVIIIth Century
Harm Nijboer, Yme Kuiper Merchants, Mennonites & Marriage. Commercial, social and family networks in the Dutch port town of Harlingen in the 17th and 18th century.
Tom Ericsson Integration and social networks. The lutherans in revolutionary Paris 1789-1797

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

F-5  -  FAM19: Permanent female celibacy and social mobility
Room F

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Sheila Cooper
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Permanent female celibacy and social mobility in the Pyrenees :The Basque case in the nineteenth century
Grazyna Ryczkowska Beyond the proper age at marriage: social trajectories to final celibacy in early nineteenth century Geneva
Sarah Pech Matrimonial situation and possibilities of social rise of the maidservants in Madrid in the second half of the XVIIth century

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

D-5  -  FAM33: Secular trends in regional population
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Tamás Faragó
Discussant: Richard Wall
Péter Öri Regional Patterns of Demographic Behaviour in 18-19th Century Hungary
Ferenc Sohajda The long-term demographic pattern of a micro-region. (The population development of the noble villages in county Zala(Hungary), 1828-1920.)
Levente Pakot Patterns of demographic behaviour in the long nineteenth century
Peter Teibenbacher Inherent variances or failed transitions? Fertility and mortality in a long run and micro-regional perspective

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

N-6  -  FAM04: International Families IV. The management of Capital
Room N

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Ghislaine Lydon
Chair: Simon Teuscher
Discussant: Laurence Fontaine
Ghislaine Lydon Family Finance or the Limits of Cooperative Behavior in nineteenth Century Trans-Saharan Trade
Huibert Schijf International Jewish Bankers 1850-1914, the Case of the Koenigswarters in Amsterdam
Francesca Trivellato Marriage, Dowry, and Diaspora: Sephardic Merchant Families in Livorno (17th and 18th Centuries)
Oscar Gelderblom Family Capital and the Expansion of Trade in Pre-Industrail Europe

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

T-6  -  FAM08: Life course and family relations
Room T

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: David Luke Robichaux
Discussant: Yda Schreuder
Siân Pooley Sisters in service: a case study of domestic servants and family relations in Lancaster, England, 1880-1914
Lionel Kesztenbaum Who invests in who ? Migrants and their family in France, 1870-1940.
Cristina Munno Relative life-course dependance from family networks and kinship": an Italian community (1854-1881)
Vera Sollova The growth of female labor force participation and fertility; the case of metropolitan zone of Toluca, 1970-2005

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

K-6  -  FAM10: Family situation, foster children and young paupers
Room K

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Olof Gardarsdottir
Chair: Olof Gardarsdottir
Discussant: Olof Gardarsdottir
Discussant: Richard Wall
Elisabeth Engberg Master or substitute parent? Household structure and motives for fostering in a 19th century Scandinavian context
Johanna Sköld For love or money? Fosterparent´s motives to take in fosterchildren 1891-1925. A Swedish example.

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

P-6  -  FAM25: Inheritance and family patterns in rural societies with seasonal and temporary migrations
Room P

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Bernard Derouet
Chair: Margarida Durães
Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Ofelia Rey Castelao Emigration from North Western Spain: family and labour, 18th-19th centuries
Constanta Ghitulescu Temporary Migration and Romanian Family in the Eighteenth Century
Luigi Lorenzetti Professional Reproduction and Family Patterns of Temporary Migrants in Italian Alps (17th-19th Centuries)

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

U-7  -  FAM07: Power and dependance in the family: intergenerational relationships
Room U

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Steven Ruggles Intergenerational coresidence and economic opportunity of the younger generation in the United States, 1850-2000
Margarida Durães Being Bourgeois:family, patrimony, hereditary behaviours and mobility (1800 - 1911)
Leonardo Fusé Ageing and Children Network. Ageing and Household Structure: Intergenerational Relationships and Living Arrangements of Old People in the 19th Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden
Hans Jørgen Marker House holds structure in Denmark in 1801

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

C-7  -  FAM16: Migration and demographic impact
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Chair: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Discussant: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Rui Maia Migrants and natural in urban way: differentiated behaviours of the marriage and the reproduction
Maude Letendre, Louis Houde & Hélène Vezina & Marc Tremblay Demographic and genetic impact of Irish settlement in Quebec (Canada) : Evidence from deep-rooted genealogies.
Tarcisio Rodrigues Botelho Immigration and family demography within urbanization contexts, Belo Horizonte (MG, Brazil), 1890-1940
Mary Louise Nagata, Kiyoshi Hamano Mortality in Early Modern Kyoto: mortality in a mobile population

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

L-7  -  FAM21: Family strategies and the Church
Room L

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Ferrer Alos Llorenç
Chair: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Discussant: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Ferrer Alos Llorenç Younger Sons in Church. A Strategy of Reproduction of the small Nobility in Central Catalonia (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
Antonio Irigoyen Family Networks and Social Networks in an Ecclesiastical Institution. The Murcia Cathedral Chapter in the Seventeenth Century
Isabel Moll-Blanes The role of the church in controlling family reproduction in Majorican Society: A "long duree perspective", 17th-19th centuries
Benedetta Borello Italian and european siblings in aristocratic families: church and family destiny (16°-19° centuries)

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

D-9  -  FAM20: Gender differences in infant, childhood and teenage mortality
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Theo Engelen
Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Jan Kok
Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui The Massacre of the Innocent. Infant Mortality in Nijmegen and Lu-kang
Lucia Pozzi, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin Gender mortality selection in the first years of life in Italy during the demographic transition
Evelien Walhout, Frans Van Poppel Sex differences in child mortality in a Dutch town, 1860-1920: Did social class and religion play a role?
Christine Théré, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Facing death in the early days of life :Inequality between sexes in Enlightenment demographic thought.

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

A-9  -  FAM30:Child abandonment in Western Europe (19th-20th century)
Room A

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Virginie De Luca
Chair: Catherine Rollet
Discussant: Virginie De Luca
Guy Brunet, Alain Bideau & Nora Nader & Mathieu Debritto The foundling, the foster parents and the inspector. Long-term relations.
Julie Miller 'Children of Accident and Mystery': Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Ivan Jablonka The Fictive Kinship of French Foundlings and Their Foster Parents (1874-1939)

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

M-10  -  FAM32: International Families VI: Cultures of Diaspora
Room M

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Sabean
Chair: David Sabean
Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Elizabeth Bishop No Global Sisterhood, This: Soviet Women in Aswan
Mario A. F. Rutten, Pravin J. Patel Contested Family Relations and Government Policy Linkages among Patel Migrants in Britain and India
Elizabeth Macknight Cultural Strongholds of the Parisian Nobility in France of the Third Republic

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

C-11  -  FAM18: Marriage and remarriage in Eurasian perspective
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Satomi Kurosu
Chair: Tommy Bengtsson
Discussant: Jan Kok
Satomi Kurosu, Marco Breschi & Christer Lundh Economic and Household Factors of Remarriage in Eurasian Perspective
George Alter, Cameron Campbell & Renzo Derosas Household context and the timing of first marriage in Eurasian comparative
Matteo Manfredini, Martin Dribe & Michel Oris Marriage and migration in Eurasia

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

S-11  -  FAM31: International Families V: Labour Migration
Room S

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Jose Moya
Chair: Elizabeth Bishop
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Jose Moya International Families and Labor: A Global and Historical Perspective
Raffaella Sarti Family Ties over Borders: Transnational Families of Slaves and Migrant Domestic Workers (Past and Present in Comparative Perspective)
Jennifer Miller At Home with the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Marcelo Borges Migratory Strategies and Gender Relations among Portuguese Transnational Families 1850s-1920s

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

P-12  -  FAM28: Family strategies I
Room P

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Béatrice Craig
Chair: Solvi Sogner
Discussant: Solvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig Surviving mechanization: inter-generational occupational strategies among skilled workers during the French industrial revolution.
Claire Dolan Collective biographies : the success and failure of family strategies. The « procureurs » in urban Southern France, 1550-1650
Noriko Tsuya, Satomi Kurosu The Demographic Effects of Household Socioeconomic Status in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Farming Villages 1716-1870
Nathalie Ostroot Love and Money: Family and gender patterns in the choice of occupations in 19th century France

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

E-13  -  FAM11: What did the peasants do when they got ill?
Room E

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Chair: Peter Sköld
Discussant: Ann Jannetta
Hiroshi Kawaguchi From the faith cure activities to the vaccination, the first step to the decrease of the child deaths in the 19th century, Japan
Olof Gardarsdottir Measles in a virgin soil environment. The case of Iceland and the Faroe islands during the 19th century with a special attention to infant and childhood mortality
Satoshi Murayama, Higashi Noboru Smallpox quarantine houses in 18th and 19th century Amakusa Islands, Kyusyu, Japan.

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

C-13  -  FAM29: Family strategies 2
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Sally Bould
Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Mikolaj Szoltysek, Konrad Rzemieniecki Slavic tendency to the “communal way of life” and the evidence on family patterns from historical Polish territories, 18th century
Aoi Okada The cycle of household structure in early modern Japan
Ildikó Asztalos Morell Gender patterns of transfer of cultural, economic and social capital among farm family enterprises during the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Hungary
Danielle Gauvreau, Sherry Olson & Patricia Thornton Ambitions and restraints: Work and marriage in Montreal, 1880-1900

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

D-14  -  FAM12: Family and every day life
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Emiko Ochiai
Discussant: Emiko Ochiai
Jens Henrik Koudal 19th Century Archives of Popular Culture and the History of Everyday Life
Paolo Cornaglia Chinese fashion, architecture and everyday life in Piedmont in 18th century
Fiona Smith Exhibiting the postsocialist archive: the cultural geographies of German contemporary history museums
Sally Bould, Sania Sultan Woman's Wages and Economic Power within the Family

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

V-14  -  FAM34: The Demography of Indigenous Populations
Committee Room 1

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Per Axelsson
Chair: Peter Sköld
Per Axelsson The Consequence of colonization – demographical and cultural explanations of changes in mortality in northern Sweden 1813-1900
David G. Anderson Governmentality and the Measurement of Indigenous Populations in the 1926 Polar Census
Gabriella Edholm Marriage and Fertility among Southern Sami Population: A Demographical Survey of two Sami Parishes at the end of Nineteenth-Century Sweden

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

D-15  -  FAM15: Divorce and remarriage in comparative perspective
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Satomi Kurosu
Chair: Satomi Kurosu
Discussant: Christer Lundh
Nanna Floor Clausen Widowhood in Denmark 1801
Marie Digoix Reforming divorce in the Nordic countries in the 1920s
Gentiana Kera Marriage and Divorce in Tirana (the interwar period)

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

N-16  -  FAM24: Coresidence of siblings in adulthood and old age
Room N

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Hilde Bras
Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Hilde Bras Sibling ties in old age: Proximity, contact and support among brothers and sisters in twentieth-century Netherlands
Siegfried Gruber Co residence of brothers in rural Serbia in the 19th century
Michel Oris, Gilbert Ritschard Eduring Ties? Proximities among adult siblings in Geneva, 1816-1843