Network Representatives:
CFP: Family History/Demography Network of the Social Science History Association
The family history/demography network of the Social Science History Association seeks panel, single-paper, and poster proposals for the 35th annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 November 2010. A revised list of suggested panels can be found at the bottom of this email. As ever, papers and panels on themes not suggested below are also welcome.
The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2010. Submissions are now being accepted at the SSHA website (http://www.ssha.org/). Individuals may either login to submit a conference proposal directly or contact an organizer of one the suggested panels. Individuals that are new to SSHA will need to create an account.
The 2010 conference will be held in downtown Chicago, in the Palmer House Hilton. The theme for this year’s conference is Power and Politics.
J. David Hacker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Mikolaj Szoltysek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , are this year’s network co-chairs.
Suggested Sessions
1. Daniel Scott Smith: A tribute to and critical reappraisal of his scholarship (organizer: J. David Hacker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
2. Typologies of families and households: old and new approaches (Steve Ruggles, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
3. Household and family transitions: Comparing Results from Bitudinal Censuses and Longitudinal Sources (Steve Ruggles, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
4. Comparative perspective on family change in 20th century (Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
5. Book session on Stem family in Eurasian perspective (Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Emiko Ochiai) (Organizers: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Mary-Louise Nagata, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Mikolaj Szoltysek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
6. In hommage of Richard Wall and the 25th anniversary of Continuity & Change: Household, family and marriage panel (Mikolaj Szoltysek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Phillipp Schofield, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
7. Persistence of the past? ‘New’ Europe and historical divergences in demographic behavior (Joshua Goldstein, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Sebastian Kluesener, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
8. Borders, border-regions and frontiers in historical demographic research (Seba stian Kluesener, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Joshua Goldstein, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
9. Fertility declines in the past, present and future: what we know, what we do not know, what we need to know? (Organizer: J. David Hacker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
10. Roundtable on the Intermediate Data Structure: Results of the foregoing year (Organizer: Kees Mandemakers, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
11. Aging and health in historical perspective (Organizer: Soren Edvinsson, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
12. Legal systems in shaping data about the family (Organizer: Mary-Louise Nagata, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
13. Book session on the Eurasia fertility volume (Organizer: Jan Kok, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
14. Biological and social aspects of kinship (Organizer: Patrick Heady, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) In this session we hope to bring together (a) papers that use evolutionary ideas to explain fertility levels or patterns of cooperation between kin; (b) papers that relate variations in household organisation to wider kinship networks and classification systems and (c) papers that link the biological and socio-cultural perspectives.
15. Indigenous demography (Organizer: Steve Hackel, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
16. Joint family systems revisited (Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
17. Hispanic and Iberian populations in comparative perspective (Organizer: David Reher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
18. Marriage and cohabitation: Historical perspectives on changing partnerships processes (Organizer: Cathy Fitch, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
19. Masculinity, femininity, and fertility [also as: Were women present at demographic transition?] co-sponsor with Gender network, Culture network. (Suggested organizer: Angélique Janssens, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
20. Cause of death registration. (Organizer: Peter Sköld, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
21. Urban demography I – Mortality (Organizer: Diego Ramiro Fariñas, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
22. Urban demography II – Social change and family change: The impact of urbanization and industrialization (Mikolaj Szoltysek, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Arne Solli, Georg Fertig, Konrad Wnek)
23. Mortality Clustering (possible emphasis on mortality clustering in bastardry-prone societies). (Organizers: David Reher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Soren Edvinsson, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) CANCELLED.
24. Early life course, educat ion and economic growth (Organizer: Richard Steckel, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
25. Demography and power dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean (ca. 500 BCE - 500 CE) (Organizer: Saskia Hin, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
26. Combining data sources (e.g., Methods of linking census records with parish registers, intersection of census and longitudinal data) (Organizer: Kris Inwood, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
27. Consequences of marital exogamy – past and present (Organizers: Martin Dribe, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and Bart van de Putte, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). This session will focus on the consequences of various kinds of exogamy (or heterogamy, e.g. ethnicity, country of birth, age, education, social origin etc) for individual life courses in terms of demographic and socioeconomic outcomes (social and occupational attainment, income, divorce, education, etc). Studies of both contemporary and historical populations are welcome. We especially encourage contributions discussing the mechanisms linking exogamy to socioeconomic and demographic outcomes.
Other suggested sessions (without organizers)
Note: These sessions were suggested at the 2009 Family History/Demography Network meeting in Long Beach. Although no organizer is listed, we encourage single-paper or panel submissions on these topics.
Demography of Power and the Power of Demography (e.g., historical antecedents of policies to encourage fertility. Demographic patterns of power groups. Power relations in families.)
Postmodern historical demography
Politics of (historical) demography
Widows and female-headed households
Intermarriage (esp. homogamy, effects of intermarriage on occupational mobility)
Demography of Childhood
Influence of siblings on life course transitions (e.g., marriage timing; fertility levels; migration; mortality)
Producing and sharing genealogical records
Population History and GIS: Spatio-temporal diffusion of changes in family and demographic behavior
