Our friends at the European Society for Historical Demography have announced the themes of their monthly webinars for this Spring. You can find them below and on their website.

27 February 2024

Speaker: Gabriele Ruiu (University of Sassari, Italy)

Title: The diffusion of kindergartens in Italy at the end of the 19th Century

Discussant: Luminita Dumanescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)

Host: Tim Riswick (Radboud University, the Netherlands)

26 March 2024

Speaker: Bogdan Mateescu (Romanian
Academy, Romania)

Title: Beyond the traditional “father and class”: The Study of Romanian Rural Households in Historical Times: An Emerging Field in Historical Demography

Discussant: Siegfried Gruber
(University of Graz)

Host: Crinela Holom (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)

23 April 2024

Speaker: Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University, Sweden)

Title: Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony

Discussant: Yuliya Hilevych (Groningen University, the Netherlands)

Host: Lionel Kesztenbaum (INED, France)