Call for Papers

Family and Demography Network

Social Science History Association 40th Annual Meeting

Baltimore, MD, November 12-15, 2015

 

Submission Deadline:  February 1, 2015 (to session organizer), February 15, 2015 for full panels submitted through ssha.org

 

The Family and Demography Network of the Social Science History Association issues a call for papers for a variety of panels that have been proposed by network members, and for proposals for additional panels.

We especially appreciate receiving entire panels, consisting of four papers, with panel chair and commentator, but also invite proposals for roundtables, book sessions, or single papers.  The list of panels that have already been proposed appears below.  Please contact the panel organizer directly if you wish to submit a paper to it.

Proposed Panels

 

1.  Rethinking Long-term Continuities and Changes in Immigration Policies:  UK, Europe, US (Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Lloyd Bonfield, fauve@msh-paris.fr)

2.  Demographic Behaviors of Immigrants and Minorities (J. David Hacker, hacker@umn.edu)

3.  Health and Mortality Studies using Individual-level Data (Diego Ramiros-Fariñas and Bárbara Revuelta Eugercios, lwq600@hum.ku.dk)

4.  The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (Diego Ramiros-Fariñas, diego.ramiro@cchs.csic.es)

5.  The Unites States Census of 1840 (Steven Ruggles, ruggles@umn.edu) (This session could also be enlarged to something like “Early 19th-Century Censuses” or just “Early Censuses”)

6.  Inter-generational effects of Nutrition on Mortality (death clustering) (Stefan Öberg, Stefan.oberg@econhist.gu.se)

7.  Marriage and Family Patterns among different Social Classes (Mary Louise Nagata, mnagata@fmarion.edu)

8. Women without Men:   Widows, Spinsters and their Families (Beatrice Moring, bke.moring@ntlworld.com)

9. Policies on Illegitimate and Abandoned Children in Comparative Perspective (Katherine Lynch, kl18@andrew.cmu.edu)

10.  Exploring Heterogeneity in Sex Ratio at Birth using Macro and Micro Historical Data (Francesco Scalone, francesco.scalone@unibi.it)

11.  Spatial Analysis in Historical Demography (Hélène Vezina, helene.vezina@uqac.ca)

12.  The Baby Boom (Danielle Gauvreau, danielle.gauvreau@concordia.ca)

13. Harmonization and Analysis of Historical Census and Vital Registration Sources (Kees Mandemakers, kma@iisg.nl)

14. Record Linkage (Kees Mandemakers, kma@iisg.nl)

15. Kinship influences on reproduction and longevity (Lisa Dillon, ly.dillon@umontreal.ca)