Roger Schofield Memorial Conference

Saturday 4th April 2020, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Our Annual Conference in 2020, in collaboration with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, will be in memory of Roger Schofield, who directed CAMPOP for 20 years and was instrumental in the foundation of LPSS. Additional funding is kindly provided by the British Society for Population Studies, the Economic History Society and the Social History Society.

Everyone is welcome. The conference will be free to attend (with a charge for lunch and refreshments) but you must register in advance. You can find a pre-booking form here as a PDF or an editable MSword document.

Programme

9.30-10.00: Registration & Coffee

10.00-10.10: Introduction

10.10-10.50: Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge)

Roger Schofield, historian and demographer: an appreciation  

10.50-11.30: Professor DeLloyd Guth (Manitoba)

Taxation and writs, populations and piss-pots: Roger Schofield measures history

11.30-11.45: Comfort Break

 11.45-12.15: Dr. Rosemary Leadbeater (Oxford Brookes)

“I think it highly necessary to have it done before they go out into the World;” inoculation, responsibility and patterns of familial transmission of smallpox

12.15-12.45: Dr. Samantha Williams (Cambridge)

Plague and poor relief in Cambridge, 1665-66

12.45-14.15: Lunch Break (Lunch to be served at 13.15)

LPSS members please note the society’s AGM will be held 12.45-13.15. We hope non-members will use this period as an opportunity to network

 14:15-14:55: Professor David Cressy (Ohio, Claremont Graduate University)

Literacy, Social Structure, and Local Social Dramas

14:55-15.35: Professor David Levine (Toronto)

The Rich Past and Desiccated Future of Parish Register Demography

15.35-16.05: Tea

16.05–16.45: Associate Professor Jim Oeppen (Odense)

Genealogies as a Source for Demographic and Genetic Studies: some estimates of bias.     

16.45–17.25: Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge)

Early modern family, demography, economy and government policy

17.25–17.30: Closing remarks

17.30–18.30: Drinks reception

May Pickles fund

Thanks to the generosity of one of our former members, we can offer a limited number of student bursaries to cover the refreshment costs and reasonable travel expenses from the May Pickles Fund. For further details please contact conferences[at]localpopulationstudies.org.uk