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
Programme
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‘Social Parenthood’ and Adult Survival Time in Australia: 1857-1985
| In the first cradle-to-grave population study of nineteenth-century European Australians, fertility as recorded on the death certificate, was one of most significant indicators of longevity. But a death certificate’s information depends on the informants present at the registration of the death. The detail and accuracy of their remembered family history can indicate the quality of communication over time within the family. Therefore the family structure recorded at death can be interpreted as the measure of a ‘social parenthood’—the formation of a family that has remained in contact with the deceased and has knowledge of itself. A number of individuals in this dataset of 3347 working-class Australian adults born in the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital between 1857 and 1900, are known to have become estranged from families they had founded and their survival time, like that of those who never married, was shorter. Therefore ‘social parenthood’, in particular for men in this dataset, suggested that there was a reciprocal relationship between biological and psychological fitness that was manifest in their ability to establish, materially support and earn the esteem of an enduring family.
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