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XXIInd International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS)
XXIIe Congrès International des Sciences Historiques (CISH)
August 23rd - 29th, 2015 / 23-29 août 2015
The International Affiliated Organizations’ meetings
(Conferences and General Assemblies) /
Les réunions des organisations internationales affiliées
(colloques et assemblées générales)
International Commission for Historical Demography /
Commission Internationale de Démographie Historique
27-28 August 2015 / 27-28 août 2015
Preliminary program
Organizer: The Board of the ICHD/CIDH
THURSDAY 27 AUGUST AFTERNOON
Room A 1:45 PM : Plenary session
Welcome Address: Kees Mandemakers, President
Room A 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 1: Life expectancies and gender in a comparative perspective, 18th-19th centuries
Organizers: Enriqueta CAMPS (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Claudia CONTENTE (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra)
Chair: Claudia CONTENTE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Discussant: Peter TEIBENBACHER (Karl-Franzens-Universität)
Nynke VAN DEN BOOMEN, Maaike MESSELINK and Angélique JANSSENS (Radboud University of
Nijmegen): Suffer the little girls. Excess female mortality in the Netherlands between birth and age 20,
1850-1930
Helena HAAGE and Lotta VIKSTRÖM (Umeå University): Gendered death differentials reflect the labeling
impact of disabilities on people’s life expectancies: a study of past population in Sweden
Adébiyi Germain BOCO (University of Lethbridge, Canada): Patterns of sex differentials in under-five
mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross national meta-analysis of 30 demographic and health
surveys
Zhongwei ZHAO et al. (Australian National University): Historical changes in sex differentials of mortality
in East Asia
Sylvia SCHRAUT (Universiät der Bundeswehr, München), Gender and mortality: widowhood as mortality
hazard (19th / 20th Centuries)
Room B 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 3: Abortion and infanticide in comparative historical perspective: crime and/or demographic
technique? (PART 1)
Organizers: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris) and Ioan BOLOVAN (University of BabesBolyai, Romania)
Chair: Ioan BOLOVAN (University of Babes-Bolyai, Roumania)
Discussant: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI (Tezukayama University): Death before life: impact of the legal obligation to report
miscarriage and stillbirth on Buddhist funeral service after 1880 in Japan
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Manami YASUI (Tenri University): From the temple to the internet: changing practices of abortion and
memorial services for aborted fetuses in Japan
Garance DUCROS (Maison Française de Tokyo), TBA
Ruijing WANG (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): Prohibited abortion and expected
infanticide in Akha society, Southwest China
Fabrice CAHEN (INED, Paris, France): Abortion in the French population studies during the late 1940s:
towards a symbolic decriminalization?
Room C 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 2: Demographic changes and the family in disaster-prone areas
Organizer: Satoshi MURAYAMA (Kagawa University)
Chair: Mikolaj SZOLTYSEK (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle)
Discussant: Philip C. BROWN (Ohio State University)
Mizoguchi TSUNETOSHI (Nagoya University): Disasters guessed from Buddhist temple death registers in
Japan
Kazuyuki WATANBE (Ristumeikan University): Who evacuate and why remain here? Decisions about
nuclear accident among some families of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Satoshi MURAYAMA (Kagawa University), Noboru HIGASHI (Kyoto Prefectural University), and Taro
YAMAMOTO (Nagasaki University): Geographic expansions and demographic changes by smallpox
disasters in 18th and 19th century Amakusa islands, Kyushu, Japan
Xia MINGFANG (Remin University, China): The disintegration and revival of families: the great TangShan
earthquake in a historical perspective
Hong MI (Zhejiang University, China) and Mingxu YANG (Zhejiang University, China): A study of
population change led by China’s great famine (1958-1961)
THURSDAY 27 AUGUST AFTERNOON
Room A 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Session 4: Are all joint family societies the same? Comparing complex residence patterns in Europe
and Asia, past and present
Organizer: Mikolaj SZOLTYSEK (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle)
Chair: Kees MANDEMAKERS (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Discussant: Mary Louise NAGATA (History Department, Francis Marion University)
Beatrice MORING (University of Cambridge): Women and joint families in the 19th century on the RussianFinnish border
Chuan-Kang SHIH (University of Florida): A comparative study of domestic organizations of the Moso and
Han in Yongning, China
Mei ZHU and Byung-giu SON (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea): The character of Korean family in 1719th century by household headship
Mikolaj SZOLTYSEK (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle) and Siegfried GRUBER
(Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research): Are all joint family societies the same? Measuring
patriarchy in Eastern European complex family systems
Filipa RIBEIRO DA SILVA (University of Macau, China): Extended family patterns in urban Mozambique,
c. 1800 - Determining household composition and complex residency
Room B 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Session 5: Abortion and infanticide in comparative historical perspective: crime and/or demographic
technique? (PART 2)
Organizers: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris) and Ioan BOLOVAN (Babes-Bolyai
University, Romania)
Chair: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Discussant: Ioan BOLOVAN (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
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Violeta HIONIDOU (Newcastle University): Abortion in twentieth century Greece: continuity or Change?
Sylwia KUZMA-MARKOWSKA (University of Warsaw): From clandestine family planning technique to
demographic measure: abortion in communist Poland (1945-1960)
Marius EPPEL (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania): State intervention on the control of midwifes (19th-20th
centuries)
J. David HACKER (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): The campaign against induced abortion in the
nineteenth-century United States and its impact on fertility
Luminița DUMĂNESCU, Traian ROTARIU, and Ioan BOLOVAN (Centre for Population Studies, BabesBolyai University): New data and interpretations on abortion in communist Romania
Isabelle SEGUY (INED-CNRS) and Isabelle RODET-BELARBI (INRAP-CNRS): Babies in the well
Room C 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Session 13 Business meeting: Electoral Commission
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST MORNING
Room A 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 6: Marriage strategies among transcontinental migrants
Organizers: Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) and Claudia CONTENTE
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Chair: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Discussant: Mikolaj SZOLTYSEK (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle)
Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA (University of Cergy-Pontoise): Gender and marriage among the French in
California in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century
Carmen ALVEAL and Dayane DIAS (Universidades Federal do Rio Grande del Norte): National and
international immigrants settlement in Goianinha village (Brazil) in the nineteenth century: analysis
of social relationships through parish records
Silvana MAUBRIGADES (University of the Republic of Uruguay): When the marriage is more than a
personal choice. Development and marriage patterns in Latina America during the twentieth century
Room B 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 13: Abortion and infanticide in comparative historical perspective: crime and/or demographic
technique? (PART 3)
Organizers: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris) and Ioan BOLOVAN (Babes-Bolyai
University, Romania)
Chair: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Discussant: Fabian DRIXLER, Yale University, USA (To be confirmed)
Gregory HANLON (Dalhousie University): Infanticide « à la chinoise » in early modern Europe in
comparative perspective
Dalia LEINARTE (Vilnius University): Unwanted children. Infanticide in Lithuania in a historical
perspective
Stephane MINVIELLE (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Noumea) and Christophe Regina (Université
d’Aix-Marseille): Between transgression and repression: infanticide in Europe from the late Middle
Ages to the present in comparative perspective
Paulo Teodoro DE MATOS (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Infanticide in Goa (Portuguese India) through
sex ratios (1776-1900)
Evelien WALHOUT, (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Female infanticide: exploring
evidence in the Netherlands
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Room C 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 7 Chinese session
(Under construction)
Room A 10:45 AM – 12:45 AM
Session 8: Women and migration (16th – 21st Centuries) (PART 1)
Organizers: Claudia CONTENTE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Cristina CACOPARDO (Universidad
Nacional de Luján)
Chair: Ioan BOLOVAN (Babes-Bolyai University, Roumania)
Discussant: Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Veronica VILLARESPE and Carlos Quintanilla YERENA (UNAM): Women and Poor Laws: England
(16th-18th centuries)
Corneliu SIGMIREAN (University Tirgu Mures, Romania): Migration and its impact upon the family. A
case study: the Romanians from Spain
Dana-Maria RUS (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) : La migration des femmes roumaines en France
contemporaine. Etude de cas : devenir gardiennes d’immeuble à Paris
Room B 10:45 AM – 12:45 AM
Session 9 Illegitimacy and non-marital partnerships, past and present: a global comparison
Organizer: Peter TEIBENBACHER (Karl-Franzens-Universität)
Chair: Peter TEIBENBACHER (Karl-Franzens-Universität)
Discussant: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Mónica GHIRARDI, Dora CELRON, María del Carmen FERREVRA and Sonia COLANTONIO
(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba): Illegitimacy and non marital partnership in Argentina, 18th-21st
centuries
Alice VELKOVÁ (Institute of History, Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic): Mothers of
illegitimate children in preindustrial rural Bohemian society and today – identical or different
motivations and perspectives?
Ólöf GARĐARSDÓTTIR (University of Iceland): An Icelandic marriage pattern
Peter TEIBENBACHER (Karl-Franzens-Universität): Illegitimacy and marriage hindrances in 18th century
Syria. Anticipating preventive check policy
Ioan BOLOVAN (University of Babes-Bolyai, Roumania): Illegitimacy in Transylvania before WW
Ana Victoria SIMA (University of Babes-Bolyai, Roumania): The church and the phenomenon of
illegitimacy in Transylvania during World War I
Room C 10:45 AM – 12:45 AM
Session 14 Poster session
(Under construction)
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST AFTERNOON
Room A 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 12 Women and migration (16th – 21st Centuries) (PART 2)
Organizers: Claudia CONTENTE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Cristina CACOPARDO (Universidad
Nacional de Luján)
Chair: Ioan BOLOVAN (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Discussant: Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Jacqueline RAVELOMANANA (Université d’Antananarivo Madagascar) : Voyage dans le temps : les
femmes de Bourbon à Fort-Dauphin à l’époque d’Estienne de Flacourt, les ancêtres du peuple
réunionnais (1648-1658)
Maria Silvia C.B. BASSANAZI (University of Campinas): Migrant-women to and from Brazil
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Mary Louise NAGATA (Francis Marion University): Women, gender, migration and mobility in 19th
Century Kyoto
Room B 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 11 The development of Historical Demography in China and the world
Organizer: Zhongwei ZHAO (The Australian National University)
Chair: Zhongwei ZHAO (The Australian National University)
Discussant: Zhongwei ZHAO (The Australian National University)
Wen-shan YANG (Institute of Sociology) and Xing-chen C.C. LIN (Institute of European and American
Studies, Academia Sinica): Household registration database and the social configuration of colonial
Taiwan: 1905-1945
Cesar Yáñez GALLARDO (Barcelona University) and Rodrigo J. Rivero CANTILLANO (Barcelona
University): The Latin American demographic expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
From recovery after the catastrophe to population explosion
Hao DONG (Hong Kong University of Science and technology) and Youjin LEE (Seoul National
University): From EAP I to EAP II: Advances in comparative population history, 1994-2004
Cameron CAMPBELL (UCLA) and Satomi KUROSU (Reitaku University): Historical demography in Asia
Room C 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 10 Late marriages
Organizer: Ofelia REY CASTELAO (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Chair: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX (EHESS, Paris)
Discussant: Ofelia REY CASTELAO (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Michel POULAIN (Université catholique de Louvain), Anne HERM (Tallinn University, Estonia), Dany
CHAMBRE (Université catholique de Louvain) and Gianni PES (Università degli Studi di Sassari,
Italy):The role of late marriage alongside the different phases of the fertility transition in a village of
Sardinia: Villagrande (1800-2012)
Dora CELTON, Mónica GHIRARDI, Sonia COLANTONIO and Andrés PERANOVICH (Universidad
Nacional de Córdoba): Two hundred years of late marital behavior in Argentina
Tantely RAVELOMANANA (INALCO) : Les mariages tardifs. Le cas de l’île de Madagascar
Llorenç FERRER-ALOS (Universitat de Barcelona) : Casarse mayor para ahorrar dotes. Las estrategias de
los herederos en Catalunya (siglos XVII-XIX)
Xiaochun QIAO (Peking University): Late marriage and never married in 20th century China
Room A 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM Plenary session
Session 15 General Assembly- Assemblée Générale
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