The next Local Population Studies Society Conference will be an online meeting to be held on 30 November 2024 from 1.00 – 3.15 p.m. Details are given below and may be downloaded by anyone who is interested.
Recent conference: Women in History
The most recent conference of the Local Population Studies Society took place in-person at the University of Cambridge on Saturday 8 June 2024.
The programme was as follows:
11:00 Conference welcome
11:15 What did women do all day?
Charmian Mansell (Faculty of History, Cambridge) ‘Ubiquitous but invisible’?: Writing a history of female service in England, 1550-1650’
Amy Erickson (Faculty of History, Cambridge) Female occupations and where to find them
12:40 Buffet Lunch
13:15 Gender, poverty, crime and mental health
Stephanie Brown (Institute of Criminology, Cambridge) Crime or male crime? The importance of gender in homicide studies
Jenny Smart (Faculty of History, Cambridge) ‘”Probably Climacteric”: Mental illness and the menopause in nineteenth-century asylum records and medical texts’
Samantha Williams (ICE, Cambridge) ‘Locating poor women in the English archive, 1700-1850’
15:15 Coffee and cake
15:40 Flash talks
5 minute presentations – please see details below
16:30 Academic writing and publishing
Andy Hinde (University of Southampton; Editor, Local Population Studies)
17:30 End of meeting
The conference included a training element (a class on academic writing and publishing by the Editor of Local Population Studies Dr Andy Hinde) as well as an opportunity for attendees to present their own research as a flash talk.
A flash talk is an opportunity to present an overview of your research project. You have 5 minutes to describe your project, using images and any other format you choose, followed by 1 minute of questions. It is a great opportunity to let people know what you are working on and to get feedback from other attendees. If you are interested in presenting a flash talk at a future conference then please contact Romola (rjd23@cam.ac.uk) and she will provide more information and suggestions.