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The Demography of Famines: Perspectives from the Past and the Present

Les Treilles, 25-31 May 1999
Organised by the IUSSP Committee on Historical Demography and the 'Fondation Les Treilles'

Programme

Tim Dyson (London School of Economics), ‘Famine in Berar, 1896-7 and 1899-1900: echoes and chain reactions’

Tim Guinnane (Yale university) and Cormac ó Gráda (university College Dublin), ‘Workhouse mortality during the Great Irish Famine’.

Kari Pitkänen (university of Helsinki), ‘Mortality by age and by gender: Finnish famines in the nineteenth century’.

Kate MacIntyre (Tulane university), ‘Gender and famine mortality’.

Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi university), ‘The frequency of famines as demographic correctives in the Japanese past’.

Violetta Hionidou (Southampton university), ‘The Greek famine of 1941-42'

John Seaman (Save the Children Fund), ‘Household entitlements and famine prediction’

Serguei Adamets (INED, Paris), ‘Russian famines in the 19^th and 20^th centuries’.

Michel Garenne and Pierre Cantrelle (ORSTOM, Paris), ‘Famine and food shortages in Africa’.

Joel Mokyr (Northwestern university) and Cormac ó Gráda (university College Dublin), ‘Famine disease and famine mortality: lessons from the Irish experience’.

Arup Maharatna (Burdwan university), ‘Famines and epidemics: an Indian historical perspective’.

Barbara Sands (university of Arizona), ‘Some demographic puzzles of China’s Great Leap Forward Famine’

Stephen Wheatcroft (university of Melbourne), ‘On greatly leaping forward: famines resulting from over-ambitious development projects, the uSSR 1927-33 and China 1947-62'.

Markos Ezra (Addis Ababa), ‘Household vulnerability to food crises and mortality: a case study of the drought-prone areas of Northern Ethiopia’.

Christian Thibon (université de Pau), ‘Famines d’hier et d’aujourd’hui au Burundi’.