3rd June
10am-12noon: Migration
Guillaume Blanc, University of Manchester “Malthusian Migrations”
Andrea Colasurdo, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research “Long term trends in transnational kin networks in Europe and the US: 1700-1900”
Alex Newnham, Universite Paris-Saclay “Fields and Foreign Lands: Pre-industrial Climate Risk and International Migration”
Tianning Zhu, LSE “Kinship Networks and Persisting Outmigration Patterns: A Case Study of 19th and Early 20th Century Guangdong, China”
12.15-1.30pm: Inheritance
Tommaso D’Amelio, Université Libre de Bruxelles “Inheritance and Migration: Evidence from 19th Century Italy”
Matt Curtis, Southern Denmark University “Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment”
Xizi Luo, LSE “Ethnic Similarities and Disparities in Intergenerational Mobility during the Qing Dynasty, 1614-1854”
1.30-2.30pm: Lunch
12.30-4pm: Marriage and Wealth
Erling Häggström Gunfridssona, Umeå University “Detecting Inbreeding, Consanguinity and Endogamy using Swedish Registers”
Auke Rijpma, Utrecht “Family Trees and Taxes: Marriage and Wealth in the Cape Colony”
Felix Selgert, Universität Bonn and Daniel Göttlich, Oxford "The survival of the richest in early modern Germany"
4-4.30pm: Coffee Break
4.30-5.15pm: Keynote
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado “Long-run Longitudinal Data from Chinese Genealogies for Family Research”
5.15pm: Drinks at the White Horse followed by Dinner
4th June
10am-12noon: Sources and Bias
Sijie Hu, Renmin University of China “Unlocking Historical Insights: Exploring Chinese Demography with the Chinese Genealogy Database”
Stéphane Jettot, Sorbonne “The commercialisation of genealogical data in the 18th century book market”
Nathaniel Darling “The nature and magnitude of bias in complete crowd-sourced genealogies”
Jim Oeppen, Southern Denmark University “Ascendant Genealogies as a Source for Demographic and Genetic Studies: some estimates of bias and incompleteness”
2.15-1.30pm: US and UK
Adrian Haws, Cornell University “Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project”
Alice K. Adams, University of South Carolina “Changing Spatial Connections in the US from 1779 to 1930: A genealogical view”
Aurelius Noble, LSE "The Persistence of the Aristocracy: Financial and Social Measures, England and Wales (1858-1907)"
1.30-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30pm-4pm: Health
Jan Kok, Radboud University “Genealogical explorations in anthropometric history, Texel island, The Netherlands, 1790-1940”
Thomas Baudin, IESEG School of Management “Historical life expectancy in Africa - new evidence on trends and major mortality crisis from online genealogies”
Saverio Minardi, University of Bologna “Historical Patterns in the Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan and Longevity: A Research Note on the United States, 1700-1900"
4-4.30pm: Coffee Break
4.30-5.15pm: Keynote
Gregory Clark, Southern Denmark University “Genealogy as an instrument for Social Science investigation”
5.15pm: Drinks Reception