Jubilee Conference: '25 years of Family Forms and beyond: revising geographies, methodologies, explanations'

20-21st May 2008

Organiser: Mikolaj Szoltysek.

20 May 2008, Room 101 in the Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site, 10am - 5.10pm

Timeframe for the presentation consists of 30 minutes speech plus 20 minutes discussion.

R. SMITH (10.00-10.15): Introduction

R. WALL (10.15-10.30): 'Limitations on the role of British households as economic units'.

D.S. REHER (10.30-11.20): Revisiting High and Low Pressure Demographic Regimes in Historic Europe

Coffee

B. MORING (11.40-12.30): Households in Northern Europe in the past: economy, inheritance and kinship ties

Lunch (sandwiches and coffee provided): 12.30-13.30

P.P. VIAZZO (13.30-14.20): Family forms and kinship patterns across Europe: commonalities and divergences, continuity and change

P. HEADY (14.20-15.10: Scope, scale and time - methods for researching contemporary kinship, and their implications for our understanding of the past

Tea/Coffee 15.10-15.30

A.VELKOVA (15.30-16.20): Influence of inheritance law on transformations in family strategy. Western Bohemia 1700-1850

M. CERMAN (16.20-17.10): Village land transfer registers and the peasant family in late medieval East-Central Europe

7.00 PM - conference dinner

21 May 2008, Room 101 in the Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site, 10am - 5.15pm

M.-P. ARRIZABALAGA (9.30-10.20): The stem family, ageing and welfare in the Pyrenees after the French Revolution

J. EHMER (10.20-11.10): Urban and rural differences in living arrangements of the elderly in early modern Central Europe

Coffee 11.10-11.40

M. SZOLTYSEK (11.40-12.30): The Eastern European predicament: three household formation rules and two family welfare systems in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Lunch 12.30-1.30

K. KASER (1.30-14.20): Gender Relations in the Balkans and in Turkey (20th and 21st cent.): From Patriarchy to Patriarchy?

14.20-15.20 General discussion