Christiane Reinecke (Network "Population, Knowledge, Order, Transformation")
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Welcome
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
9:00 – 9:30: Introduction
9:30 - 11:00: Discussing Colonial Figures: Demographic Knowledge and Colonial Experts
Discussants:
- Samuël Coghe on: “A Colony on the Brink of Demographic Collapse? Henrique Galvão, the Colonial Administration and the Problem of African Emigration in Portuguese Angola, 1930s-1940s”
- Alexandra Widmer on: “Of Population Decline and Problems with Pigs: The Uses of Imbalanced Sex-Ratios in the Colonial Regulation of Reproduction in the New Hebrides”
Commentary: Uoldelul Chelati Dirar
11:30 – 13:00: Discussing the Norms of Development: Population Knowledge and Development Experts
Discussants:
- Corinna Unger on: “'The ‘Small Family Norm’: A Precondition for Modernization? Development Debates and Family Planning in 1960s India”
- Maria Dörnemann on: “The Population Growth Rate: The Story of an Index to Determine Kenya’s Degree of Development, 1960s-1980s”
Commentary: Morten Jerven
15:00 – 16:30: Discussing National Figures: Statistical Knowledge, Censuses and the Nation-State
Discussants:
- Axel C. Hüntelmann on: “The Construction of Population and Practices of Counting: Census and Population Statistics in the late 19th and early 20th Century in Prussia”
- Paul Schor on: “Race and Ethnicity in the 20th Century US-American Census”
Commentary: Silvana Patriarca
17:00 – 18.30: Population Statistics and the Media
- Keynote: Massimiano Bucchi
Commentary: Christiane Reinecke
Thursday, June 19, 2014
9:30 – 11:00: Discussing the Globalization of the Social: Travelling Knowledge and the Construction of Social Problems
Discussants:
- Teresa Huhle on: “Travelling Survey Data: The Transnational Production and Multiple Use of Fertility Knowledge from Colombia”
- Heinrich Hartmann on: “‘Attitudes’ towards ‘Values’. Evidence on a Demographic Paradigm in the 1970s from the Turkish perspective"
Commentary: Theodore M. Porter
11:30 – 13:00: Crisis Tales: Demographic Experts and the Topoi of Decline and Crisis
Discussants:
- Thomas B. Robertson on: “Population Growth, Ecological Models, and Environmental Crisis: How Biologists and Conservationists Conceptualized and Represented the ‘Population Bomb’”
- Petra Overath on: “Discussions on the Decline of Birth Rates in Different Spheres: Historical and Actual Perspectives”
Commentary: Emmanuel Betta
14:45 – 15:30: Final Discussion
Introduced by Emmanuel Didier