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SUMMARY:Thematic Workshop: How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)
DESCRIPTION:The history of infectious disease mortality is far from over\, neither in the western world nor the non-western world. Yet\, the steep increases in life expectancy since the 19th century in the western world were the result of overcoming (non-)epidemic infectious diseases. These massive reductions of mortality due to diseases such as diphtheria\, scarlet fever\, tuberculosis and whooping cough\, began before the introduction of modern curative medicine after the 1940s.  This presents an important explanatory challenge for historians and historical demographers: what drove this important change in mortality and life expectancy and how did it come about? What explanatory factors can help us understand the great leaps forward? In addition\, in order to elucidate the driving factors in this process we also need to have a good understanding of the epidemiological profile of the transformation process. Which diseases were driving the decline in mortality\, and which diseases were impervious to improvement before the 1940s and how can that be explained? The epidemiological transition was  a complex and dynamic process which did not happen everywhere at the same time or in the same way. Time\, place and socio-economic dynamics could differ within smaller regions or countries\, or for that matter\, even within a single city or town. How can we use these characteristics to say anything about the driving forces behind the epidemiological transition? And how did the experiences compare between the frontrunners in the epidemiological transition\, such as the Scandinavian countries and England\,  and those who came later? \nMortality and health are always\, not only in the nineteenth century\, the outcomes of complex and multi-causal processes. In this historic extension of life expectancy beyond age 30-40 many factors have played a role\, ranging from increased personal hygiene\, public health policies\, higher incomes\, improved nutrition\, reduced exposure to infectious diseases\, behavioural change\, infant feeding practices\, and improved education for the majority of the population. How did these factors interact and enhance each other? In recent years there has been a particular stress on sanitary interventions\, such as piped water and sewerage. However\, reduced infant mortality levels can often not be linked to the instalment of piped water\, moreover\, mortality often declined before these sanitary innovations became available. Hence\, the debate continues. We would like to encourage paper authors to contribute to the debate in this international conference.  \nWe welcome all sorts of contributions\, theoretical\, empirical and methodological. In particular\, we welcome papers from areas and regions of Europe and the world that not belong to the so-called frontrunners in mortality decline in the north-western part of Europe.  \nThe conference is organized by the COST-Action network GREATLEAP\, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen\, the HiDo network\, and the IUSSP Panel ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’. The conference serves as a closing event of the NWO-funded research project Lifting the burden of disease. The modernisation of health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam\, 1854-1926. It also marks the end of the academic career of professor Angélique Janssens\, who directed this research project. The conference will therefore be concluded by a farewell reception. \nApplications should contain an abstract (500-600 words) as well as a title\, and the names of all authors involved. Deadline: 31st March 2025. Please submit your application via the form.
URL:https://greatleap.eu/event/thematic-workshop-how-did-we-lift-the-burden-infectious-disease-mortality-in-the-western-and-non-western-world-1800-now/
LOCATION:Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:GREATLEAP,IUSSP
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Tim Riswick":MAILTO:For inquiries, please contact Dr. Tim Riswick, tim.riswick@ru.nl
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SUMMARY:Thematic Virtual Workshop 'New ways of transcribing\, visualizing\, publishing\, and providing access to data on epidemics and contagious diseases'
DESCRIPTION:As part of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’\, we will be hosting a one-day online-only workshop on the topic of ‘New ways of transcribing\, visualizing\, publishing\, and providing access to data on epidemics and contagious diseases” at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) on 18 June 2025. \nThe aim of the event is to bring together experts from various disciplines who are working directly or indirectly on methodological questions of how to transcribe\, visualise and publish tabular or otherwise structured or unstructured data in research with handwritten or printed historical sources as effectively as possible using innovative and modern methods. The focus is on methods and sources\, and workflows along the entire pipeline are of interest. Participants can focus on one of these aspect\, or present work in progress\, experiences or lessons learned. The aim is also to learn from each other and to provide each other with insights into best practice\, and\, as an overarching goal\, to start new collaborations and build a community that will meet more regularly afterwards. \nThe event will be open to all interested listeners when registered: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/T2pRGVL9QgyFszc42_gX3Q \nProgramme \nLocation: Online\, exclusively. \nOrganizer: Kaspar Staub\, University of Zurich. \nIf you have any questions regarding the workshop\, please contact Kaspar Staub (kaspar.staub@iem.uzh.ch).
URL:https://greatleap.eu/event/thematic-workshop-new-ways-of-transcribing-visualizing-publishing-and-providing-access-to-data-on-epidemics-and-contagious-diseases/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:GREATLEAP,IUSSP,WG3
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Kaspar Staub":MAILTO:kaspar.staub@iem.uzh.ch
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SUMMARY:Thematic Workshop: From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers – From Influenza to COVID. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Factors of Inequality\n\nIn Europe\, the average lifespan has increased from around 47 years in 1900 to nearly 80 years today. Globally\, there has been a rise from 46.5 years in 1950 to almost 72 in recent years. However\, paradoxically\, the 20th century was dubbed the “pandemic century” (Honigsbaum\, 2020). The influenza pandemic\, one of the most significant mortality crises ever experienced by humanity\, marked the beginning of a period that has recently been overshadowed by COVID-19. In between\, the AIDS pandemic posed another major challenge. Despite progress and convergence\, several deadly episodes have been overlooked by the media and underexplored by the scientific community\, such as the Hong Kong influenza in 1968-70. \nAlthough pandemics have existed for centuries\, as evidenced by plagues and cholera\, globalization and increasing population density and mobility in the last hundred years have created new dynamics of viral exchanges and exposures\, resulting in significant differences in the ability to prevent and manage epidemic outbreaks. The resulting spatial and social inequalities are subjects of debate in the scientific community. Exploring these dynamics and their consequences is the goal of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’. The Madrid Workshop aims to contribute to this by focusing on the continuities and discontinuities in factors of inequality. \nEpidemic diseases not only expose vulnerabilities but also play a crucial role in shaping social inequalities and reproduction. Researchers can examine the uneven distribution of resources to prevent and manage viruses by considering individual positions in social structures (gender\, age\, socioeconomic status\, ethnicity\, etc.)\, familial dimensions\, and environmental or spatial factors. Social norms and policies also influence outcomes. These factors and their interactions may (or may not) be particularly influential during epidemic outbreaks\, leading to specific differential mortality rates. The effects on survival can be immediate\, but delayed impacts\, affecting survivors’ life trajectories and population composition in terms of selection versus fragilization\, can also be considered. \nContributions are invited not only on major pandemics but also on overlooked epidemic episodes. Comparisons across space\, time\, and diseases are encouraged. \nProgramme & Poster \nLocation:  \nInstitute of Economy\, Geography and Demography-Center for Human and Social Sciences- Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CCHS-CSIC)\, Albasanz Street\, 26\, Madrid 28037\, Spain. \nOrganisers: \n\nDiego Ramiro-Fariñas (Spanish National Research Council\, Spain).\nMichel Oris (Spanish National Research Council\, Spain).\nAlain Gagnon (University of Montreal\, Canada).\n\nIf you have any questions regarding the workshop\, please contact diego.ramiro@cchs.csic.es and michel.oris@cchs.csic.es.
URL:https://greatleap.eu/event/call-for-papers-from-influenza-to-covid-continuity-and-discontinuity-in-the-factors-of-inequality/
LOCATION:Institute of Economy\, Geography and Demography-Center for Human and Social Sciences- Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CCHS-CSIC)\, Albasanz Street 26\, Madrid\, 28037\, Spain
CATEGORIES:GREATLEAP,IUSSP
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SUMMARY:Thematic Workshop: Tuberculosis: The White Death as a Social Disease
DESCRIPTION:Background:\nTuberculosis has been a significant public health concern\, affecting millions of people worldwide throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, and even nowadays in certain parts of the world. It has captivated attention due to its profound impact and intriguing debates. Tuberculosis held a dominant position as the leading cause of death at various stages of life\, especially during young adulthood. Additionally\, the persistent nature of tuberculosis led to a high prevalence and burden of the disease. Unresolved discussions have centred around the key factors influencing geographical\, gender\, age\, and temporal disparities in mortality\, with a particular focus on the role of resistance (which can be affected by nutrition as well as other interfering diseases) versus exposure. These debates encompass differentials in tuberculosis mortality between men and women\, disparities in urban-rural and other geographical patterns\, and the underlying factors contributing to the decline in mortality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One central point of contention concerns the reasons behind higher death rates from tuberculosis among women compared to men\, and whether this disparity was attributable to inherent female susceptibility\, inadequate nutrition\, or differential exposure. A prominent viewpoint posited that the elevated tuberculosis rates among women resulted from their weaker bargaining power within households\, leading to inferior nutrition (McNay\, Humphries and Klasen 2005). The geographic patterns of tuberculosis mortality were not straightforward either. Researchers have suggested that high tuberculosis rates in rural areas could be attributed to the return migration of individuals (especially women) who had contracted the disease in urban settings (Cronje 1984; Hinde 2015). Nutrition also emerged as a factor implicated in the substantial decline of tuberculosis during the late nineteenth century (McKeown 1976). The decline in tuberculosis has traditionally been also attributed to improving living standards\, better housing\, hygiene and sanitary reforms\, and improvements in environmental conditions (among others\, Gronjé 1984; Pooley and Pooley 1984; Puranen 1991; Vögele 1988). \nDespite the severity and significant mortality associated with tuberculosis in historical populations\, the investigation of the disease’s demographic characteristics has unfortunately received relatively limited attention. Significant gaps exist in the available evidence concerning the trend of tuberculosis mortality and morbidity\, with a predominant focus on historical North-Western Europe\, specifically Britain and/or North America. This leaves a noticeable dearth of information from Eastern and Southern Europe\, but also beyond Europe (i.e.\, South America\, Asia\, and Africa)\, hindering a comprehensive understanding of the disease’s impact in these regions. \nThe workshop is organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’\, in collaboration with the University of Sassari\, Italy and our COST-Action GREATLEAP. \nThe workshop will be held in Alghero\, Sardinia\, 26-27 September 2024\, hosted by the Department of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of Sassari. \nFull programme  \nOrganisers:\n\nLucia Pozzi (University of Sassari\, Italy)\nMichail Raftakis (University of Bologna\, Italy)\nGabriele Ruiu (University of Sassari\, Italy)\n\nIf you have any questions regarding the workshop\, please contact lpozzi@uniss.it\, michail.raftakis@unibo.it\, and gruiu@uniss.it.
URL:https://greatleap.eu/event/call-for-papers-tuberculosis-the-white-death-as-a-social-disease/
LOCATION:School of Architecture\, Design\, and Urban Planning (University of Sassari)\, Bastioni Marco Polo 77\, Alghero\, Sassari\, Italy
CATEGORIES:GREATLEAP,IUSSP,WG2
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