Committee on Historical Demography (2002-2006)

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Committee on Historical Demography

IUSSP Workshop on Space and Time in Historical Demographic Research: New Methods and Models.

Minneapolis, Minnesota October 31 - November 1, 2006

Draft Programme

Tuesday, October 31

Morning Sessions (Migration)

"Reconsidering the roles of distance and selectivity in mass migrations: The case of the twentieth-century U.S. South"
Trent Alexander, University of Minnesota

"Spatial and temporal analyses of surname distributions to estimate mobility and changes in historical demography: the example of Savoy (France) from the XVIII to XX century"
Pierre Darlu, INSERM, Villejuif, France

"Finding Frontiers in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Great Depression"
Myron Gutmann, University of Michigan, Glenn Deane, SUNY Albany, and Kristine Witkowski, University of Michigan

Afternoon Sessions (Fertility)

"Mapping Demographic Change across Place and Time"
Ravindran Gopinath, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

"The Role of Spatial Diffusion in Fertility Transition "
Hani Guend, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Urbanisation Culture et Société, Montreal

"Spatial Aspects of the American Fertility Transition in the Nineteenth Century"
Michael Haines, Colgate University

"Spatial and Temporal Relationships in Brazilian Fertility, 1960-2000"
Joseph Potter and Carl Schmertmann, University of Texas and Florida State U.

Wednesday, November 1

Morning Sessions (Social Status and Social Mobility)

"Population and Schooling in Norway, 1860s - World War II"
John E. Craig, University of Chicago

"Widening horizons? Social class and the extension of the geographic horizon in nineteenth-century Netherlands"
Frans van Poppel and Peter Ekamper, NIDI, The Netherlands

"Economic Transition and Social Inequality in Early 20th Century Puerto Rico" Katherine White, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Afternoon Sessions

Mortality

"Social and spatial dimensions of mortality: Southern Sweden 1766-1895"
Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, Lund University

"Using historical GIS to explore infant mortality decline in England and Wales from 1851 to the present day"
Ian Gregory, Queen's University, Belfast

Urban Analysis

"Commonalities and Contrasts in the Development of Major United States Urban Areas: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis from 1910 to 2000" Andrew Beveridge, Queens College (New York)

"Spatial Dimension of Hindu-Muslim Riots and Composition and Growth of India's Religious Population : A Historical Study" Ram B. Bhagat, International Institute for Population Sciences (Mumbai, India)