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Call for Papers: International Congress of Historical Demographers, Jinan,
PRC 2015
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From: Philip Brown <hokurikukenkyu@gmail.com>
*XXIInd International Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH) *
*XXIIe Congrès International des Sciences Historiques (CISH)*
* *
*Call for papers from – Appel à contributions de*
* *
*International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD)*
*Commission Internationale de Démographie Historique (CIDH)*
* *
*Jinan, China - Chine*
*August 23th - 29th, 2015 / 23-29 août 2015*
* *
*Deadline for paper proposals / Date limite d'envoi des propositions*
*January 31st, 2013 – 31 janvier 2013***
*Send proposals to session organizers*
*Envoyer les propositions aux organisateurs de session***
1. «Demographic Changes and the Family in Disaster-prone Areas »,
organized by Satoshi MURAYAMA
2. «Are all Joint Family Societies the Same? Comparing Complex Residence
Patterns in Europe and Asia, Past and Present», organized by Mikolaj
SZOLTYSEK
3. «Abortion and Infanticide in Comparative Historical Perspective : Crime
and/or Demographic Technique ?», organized by Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX &
Ioan BOLOVAN
4. «Marriage Strategies among Transcontinental Migrants», organized
by Marie-Pierre
ARRIZABALAGA & Claudia CONTENTE
5. «Life Expectancies and Gender in a Comparative Perspective,
18-20thCenturies»,
organized by Enriqueta CAMPS and Claudia CONTENTE
6. «Women and Migration (16th – 21st Centuries», organized by Claudia
CONTENTE & Cristina CACOPARDO
7. «Gender and Genetics in Historical Mortality Studies», organized
by Angelique
JANSSENS
8. «Illegitimacy and Non-Marital Partnerships. Past and Present - a Global
Comparison», organized by Peter TEIBENBACHER
9. «Understanding High Fertility Regimes in History», organized by
Ravindran Gopinath
10. «Late Marriages», organized by Ofelia REY-CASTELAO
11. «The Development of Historical Demography in China and the World»,
organized
by Zhongwei ZHAO
* *
*Session descriptions and organizers*
*Session 1. **Demographic Changes and the Family in Disaster-Prone Areas*
Organizer: Satoshi MURAYAMA, Kagawa University, Japan
E-mail: *muras@ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp*<
https://imp.u-cergy.fr/imp/message.php?index=19788&start=76&actionID=delete_message
>
We generally recognize nature-induced disasters as unpredictable outbreaks
of elemental forces that have an unexpected, destructive impact on human
society. On the one hand, disasters such as droughts, epidemics, and
famines often precipitate long-term crises of the family and local society.
On the other hand, unpredictable natural disasters such as frosts, floods,
storm tides, windstorms, volcanic eruptions, landslides, earthquakes, and
tsunamis characterize natural history of disaster-prone areas on the earth
differentially. The impact of natural disasters has always been and will
continue to be enormous, not only in direct demographic changes caused by
the death of family members during calamities but also in the effects on
national, regional, and local systems that had been constructed to cope
with the disasters, because especially pre-modern or traditional societies
could not "conquer" nature. The Tohoku earthquake in Japan on March 11,
2011, has heightened our awareness of natural disasters that affect both
human society and culture intricately. The ensuing disaster at Fukushima
taught us that we cannot "conquer" nature in modern developed societies
either, that safety was a myth. Natural disasters should no longer be
conceptualized as sudden, destructive, isolated, and exceptional natural
events. They are recurring social experiences brought on by agents of
change, which mark the intersection between nature and culture. To analyze
the intersection precisely, we would like to focus on demographic evidence
that can be recognized as resulting from the interactive processes between
nature-induced disasters and family formation.
*Session 2. 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 Demographic
Research, Germany
E-mail: *Szoltysek@demogr.mpg.de<
https://imp.u-cergy.fr/imp/message.php?index=19854>
*
Despite the lack of clear terminological clarification, the term 'joint
family' has often been used to describe the laterally extended
multiple-family domestic groups found in societies widely dispersed across
historic Eurasia, from nomadic tribes of the Middle East, Slavic serf
agriculturalists, to ancient civilizations of the Far East, most notably in
China and India. The scholarly descriptions of the 'joint family
coresidence in traditional and contemporary societies have been inherently
linked with the notion of 'patriarchy', the term that has included many
different elements, such as the dominance of patrilineal descent,
patrilocal or patrivirilocal residence after marriage, power relations that
favour the domination of men over women and of the older generation over
the younger generation, customary laws that sanctioned these patterns, the
absence of an interfering state that could mitigate their influence, and an
inert traditional society that emanated from these conditions.
But are/were joint-family societies all the same? How is it possible to
think of societies differing by their cultural metric, environmental
characteristics and place-specific historical trajectories as adhering to
all the same rules of joint family living, and even more so – to having
chance to apply all these rules to the same extent in the everyday lives of
their members?
Without denying that it is possible to identify some essential and
generally accepted features of the laterally extended multiple-family
groups, this session intends to re-addresses the nature of joint-family
systems in Eurasia by looking at differences between various forms of
residential 'jointness' across time and space. By delving into comparative
dimensions of various joint family systems, the session welcomes
interdisciplinary contributions dealing with the 'morphology' of
patriarchal family settings. As various combinations of 'patriarchal'
elements have been used to explain the peculiarity of the residence
patterns of some Eurasian societies, but in a manner that generally does
not allow researchers to measure comparatively the 'intensity' of
patriarchy, attempts at measuring it in quantitative terms using census and
census-like materials are particularly welcome. Scholars are encouraged to
take a comparative approach to such indicators of patriarchy as the gender
of household heads, the kin composition of the households, sex ratio, age
heaping, missing information about women, age at marriage, and household
complexity (see more in the exemplary case study available at *
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2012-017.pdf*<
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2012-017.pdf>
).
*Session 3. Abortion and Infanticide in Comparative Historical Perspective:
Crime and/or Demographic Technique?*
Organizers: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX, EHESS/CRH, Paris, France
Ioan BOLOVAN, University of Cluj, Rumania
E-mail: *fauve@msh-paris.fr* <fauve@msh-paris.fr>;
*bolovani@yahoo.com*<bolovani@yahoo.com>
This session intends to highlight the way societies, all over the world,
considered the practice of abortion and infanticide in the modern era and
the way they consider it today: tolerating, accepting with regulations,
imposing, refusing etc. according to their culture and identity (customs
towards pregnancies out of wedlock, controlling/spacing births within
marriage, eugenic and maternal health protection legislations, unwanted
pregnancies, etc.).
How did the Church, the state, societies and families (and now NGO facing
sex selective abortions) succeed/or fail to deal with the problem of
abortion, be it accidental, induced or forced? The panel that we propose
transcends history, comprising an interdisciplinary approach: anthropology,
historical demography, theology, history of mentalities and gender. In such
a context, the approach should combine hard demography statistical data,
family reproduction studies, legislative knowledge and theology/religious
believe (from crime, sin, individual, family planning or collective
strategies, to a simple medical technique of sex selection, etc.)
The organizers expect selected panelists from various disciplines and
countries to present the complex European, Asian, American, Australian and
African experience so that the session will be an exciting challenge,
comparing models of abortion and infanticide in space and time and their
demographic and family consequences.
*Session 4. Marriage Strategies among Transcontinental Migrants*
Organizers : Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Claudia CONTENTE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
E-mail : *Marie-Pierre.Arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr*<
Marie-Pierre.Arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr>;
*claudia.contente@upf.edu* <claudia.contente@upf.edu>
Transcontinental migrants have elaborated marriage strategies in order to
integrate the new culture where they and their family settled and/or
maintain their cultural and family traditions. Such strategies may explain
why some immigrants blend into the welcoming culture and others form
separate communities within the nation where they settled. This was the
case during the nineteenth century when Europeans massively emigrated and
settled in America, Africa, or Asia but it has been the case since then
worldwide so much so that migration, marriage and culture were and are
major, intertwined issues to understand ethnic and cultural differences
within communities and societies today. What types of marriage strategies
have migrant individuals and groups elaborated in the context of their
settlement? What impact have the different strategies had on the immigrant
communities and on the country of settlement? What effect have these
strategies had on the survival of the immigrant community and their
identity?
*Session 5. Life Expectancies and Gender in a Comparative Perspective, 18-20
th Centuries *
Organizers: Enriqueta CAMPS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Claudia CONTENTE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
E-mail : *enriqueta.camps@gmail.com* <enriqueta.camps@gmail.com>; *
claudia.contente@upf.edu* <claudia.contente@upf.edu>
This session will emphasize the differences in all aspects regarding health
care, nutrition and access to medical services according to gender in
different regions of the world and even in different regions inside a
country. The Nobel Laureate of Economics, Amartya Sen, emphasized in the
past years how life expectancies' achievements according to gender depend
on the culture and the social perception on the value of women. According
to his estimations in South and East Asia, women die prematurely. This is
caused by the cultural perception that women have a very low economic and
social value.
In this session we propose to use life expectancies and infant
mortality according to gender as measures of women health and well being
relative to men. In contemporary societies life expectancies are the
variable that measures health achievements more accurately. We want to
imply that women's premature death is a sign of lack of equity and
discrimination. We also want to reach dynamic results trying to capture the
evolution of life expectancy differentials from the 18th to 20th centuries.
On the other hand we propose to make across country comparisons in order to
identify the most gendered and also the most egalitarian societies and
economies of the world.
*Session 6. Women and Migration, 16th – 21st Centuries*
Organizers: Claudia CONTENTE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Cristina CACOPARDO, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina
E-mail : *claudia.contente@upf.edu* <claudia.contente@upf.edu> ; *
cacopard@mail.unlu.edu.ar*
The historiography had traditionally ignored women's roles in the labor
market. This trend reflects the way society has perceived women's roles,
often limited to the private sphere. Such perception emerges in the same
way in the study of migration movements. What has probably contributed to
the perpetuation of this historiographic trend was the fact that documents
have often listed male household heads and laboring men. As a consequence,
migrating women, despite their number and their contribution in the labor
market, have been undermined. Their participation in the public sphere
appears invisible though their importance has expanded in population
movements, whether they migrated as families or alone.
In order to complete our knowledge on this issue, we wish to
study the aspects which determined women's migration, their trajectories
and perhaps their strategies using sources which allow us to understand
better the specificities of their migration movements.
*Session 7. Gender and Genetics in Historical Mortality Studies*
Organizer: Angelique JANSSENS, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
E-mail : *a.janssens@let.ru.nl*
In recent years there has been an urgent call for a much greater engagement
with genetics in the study of contemporary population processes in view of
the great scientific advances made by the Human Genome Project. Such an
approach is equally called for in the field of mortality studies.
Traditionally historical demographers have concentrated on a variety of
social, economic, and ecological determinants of infant and child survival
in the past. Recent studies have moved genetic factors to the top of the
research agenda in historical demography as well. It has for instance been
demonstrated that infants' and children's deaths were not randomly
distributed over families but were strongly clustered within only a limited
number of families. In addition, the intergenerational transmission of
social and demographic behaviour is beginning to attract increasing
attention in a wide variety of fields, ranging from economic inequality to
marital and fertility patterns. There has been comparatively little focus
however on the intergenerational transmission of death and survival, and
how this can be explained by the interplay between social, economic and
cultural factors and the genetic make-up of families. No doubt this is
partly related to the scarcity of adequate data sources since this type of
investigation requires the existence of multi-generational data bases.
In this session I intend to bring together scholars from various countries
to address the issue of the role of genetic factors in the historical study
of mortality and how to incorporate this in historical studies.
*Session 8. Illegitimacy and Non-Marital Partnerships. Past and Present - a
Global Comparison*
Organizer: Peter TEIBENBACHER, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria
E-mail : *peter.teibenbacher@uni-graz.at*
Illegitimacy and marital status are formal categories, based on societal
norms. During the centuries and across the cultures in this world and due
to different reasons such norms often had been introduced, but on the other
hand many women gave births to children out of a marital status, whatsoever
it might have meant "to be married". Either the mother stayed alone or she
lived in a non-marital partnership and often she and their children faced
some discrimination. Thus the session deals with various kinds of
illegitimacy and non-marital partnerships and the ways how society, namely
the "married" ones, handled it. In pre-modern societies illegitimacy and
non-marital partnership generally were spread among social underclasses. We
guess, that illegitimacy and non-marital partnerships were connected
tightly to societal hindrances and restrictions. In more western societies
the process of modernisation, industrialisation and secularisation usually
entailed a decrease in illegitimacy and an increase in options to marry.
Howsoever in the recent period of so-called post-modernity illegitimacy and
non-marital partnerships did ascend again. The main objectives of this
session therefore will be a historical and global comparison, oriented on
questions like: is this "post-modern" effect based on the availability of
even new material and immaterial options for or even desires of a woman and
mother to live as a single or in a non-marital partnership or is it still a
structural problem of social disadvantaging and inequality, like in
pre-modern times? Can we recognize comparable changes in cultures and
societies outside Europe and the European off-springs? Is there a
globalization of illegitimacy and non-marital partnerships?
*Session 9. Understanding High Fertility Regimes in History*
Organizer: Ravindran GOPINATH, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
E-mail: *rgopinath@jmi.ac.in*
This session invites contributions that will attempt to explain high levels
of fertility in different pre-transitional demographic regimes with
reference to two large structures of reference-- past processes and
trajectories and the engendered spaces within which high fertility regimes
developed. The following are some of the more specific themes, that are,
inter alia, of direct interest:
1. By way of gathering specific historiographies, on the question of high
fertility contributions are invited on how demographers, historians,
economists and administrators (both modern and contemporary) have commented
on high fertility in past times in specific contexts and its implications
for deciphering the structural constraints under which these discourses
developed.
2. Papers seeking to explore the proximate and non-proximate determinants
of high fertility in specific historical contexts (or in a comparative
discussion) would be interest. Focussing on the structural and conjunctural
determinants in terms of institutions and shorter-term movements would be
helpful and illuminating.
3. Disaggregating high fertility in terms of class, occupation and other
social classifications will be of particular interest
4. Presenting long-run estimates (the length of the series being
determined by its being long enough to cover well defined social and
economic epochs or period) of fertility and its various correlates to
enable comparison across a variety of contexts and historical period.
*Session 10. Late Marriages*
Organizer: Ofelia REY-CASTELAO, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: *ofelia.rey@usc.es*
In recent years, late marriages –for men and women- seem to have become a
more recurring phenomenon. The economic crisis explains the difficulty of
building a new family. But there are other socio-economic reasons for later
marriage as for example women's work, the predominance of the nuclear
family -without grandparents to care for children-, the absence of domestic
service, etc. It is also necessary to take into account new social
attitudes and priorities: personal independence, the fear of
responsibility, etc. Late marriage is voluntary in today's society. But has
it always been the case? Is it the same everywhere?
Historical demography studies have made important contributions in this
domain. Late marriages were prevalent in large parts of Western Europe in
the Early Modern Age, both in rural and urban environments. But there were
major differences between rich and poor social groups; between areas of the
stem family and the nuclear family; between mountain and valley areas;
between different migration models, etc.
The purpose of this session is to study late marriages in a comparative
perspective and over time, and analyse its causes and its consequences in
various periods and areas.
*Session 11: The Development of Historical Demography in China and the World
*
Organizer: Zhongwei ZHAO, The Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia
E-mail: *Zhongwei.Zhao@anu.edu.au*
Historical demography was established as a new research discipline in the
mid-twentieth century and has made a significant progress ever since. This
session aims at reviewing major developments and research findings in
historical demography in the world in the last half century. The session
will pay a particular attention on the study of Chinese historical
demography and recent developments made in Mainland China and Taiwan.
*Deadline for paper proposals / Date limite d'envoi des propositions*
*January 31st, 2013 – 31 janvier 2013***
*Send proposals to session organizers*
*Envoyer les propositions aux organisateurs de session***
*Organizers' affiliation*
ARRIZABALAGA, Marie-Pierre
Université de Cergy-Pontoise
33 boulevard du Port
95011 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex
France
E-mail : *Marie-Pierre.Arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr*<
Marie-Pierre.Arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr>
BOLOVAN, Ioan
Romanian Academy and Babeş-Bolyai
University of Cluj
Center for Population Studies,
Romania
E-mail: *bolovani@yahoo.com* <bolovani@yahoo.com>
CACOPARDO, Cristina
Especialista en Demografía social
Universidad Nacional de Luján
Argentina
E-mail: *cacopard@mail.unlu.edu.ar* <cacopard@mail.unlu.edu.ar>
CAMPS, Enriqueta
Economics, Tenured Associate Professor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Affiliated Professor.
Ramón Trías Fargas 25-27
08005 Barcelona
Spain
E-mail: *enriqueta.camps@gmail.com* <enriqueta.camps@gmail.com>
CONTENTE, Claudia
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department d'Humanitats
Ramón Trías Fargas 25-27
08005 Barcelona
Spain
E-mail: *claudia.contente@upf.edu* <claudia.contente@upf.edu>
FAUVE-CHAMOUX, Antoinette
EHESS, Centre de Recherches Historiques
190-198 avenue de France
75244 Paris cedex 13
France
E-mail: *fauve@msh-paris.fr* <fauve@msh-paris.fr>
GOPINATH, Ravindran
Chair of the Department of History and Culture
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi
India
E-mail: *rgopinath@jmi.ac.in* <rgopinath@jmi.ac.in>
JANSSENS, Angélique
Radboud University of Nijmegen
Department of History
Nijmegen Area
The Netherlands
*a.janssens@let.ru.nl* <a.janssens@let.ru.nl>
MURAYAMA, Satoshi
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Humanities and Environmental Studies
Kagawa University
Japan
E-mail: *muras@ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp*<
https://imp.u-cergy.fr/imp/message.php?index=19788&start=76&actionID=delete_message
>
REY-CASTELAO, Ofelia
*Departamento de *Historia Medieval y Moderna
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Spain
E-mail : *ofelia.rey@usc.es* <ofelia.rey@usc.es>
SZOLTYSEK, Mikolaj
Research Scientist/ Deputy Head
Laboratory of Historical Demography
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1, 18057 Rostock
Germany
E-mail: *Szoltysek@demogr.mpg.de*<
https://imp.u-cergy.fr/imp/message.php?index=19854>
TEIBENBACHER, Peter
CUKO-Vorsitzender Masterstudium Global Studies
Institut für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Unternehmensgeschichte
Department for Economic, Social and Business History
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Universitätsstraße 15/E/2, 8010 Graz
Austria
E-mail: *peter.teibenbacher@uni-graz.at*<
https://imp.u-cergy.fr/imp/message.php?index=370>
ZHAO, Zhongwei
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
The Australian National University
Canberra
Australia
E-mail: *Zhongwei.Zhao@anu.edu.au* <Zhongwei.Zhao@anu.edu.au>
*Deadline for paper proposals / Date limite d'envoi des propositions*
*January 31st, 2013 – 31 janvier 2013***
*Send proposals to session organizers*
*Envoyer les propositions aux organisateurs de session**s*
--
Philip C. Brown
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