Friday, May 29
9:00 am Welcome
9:15 am - 12:00 noon
Panel I: Discourses and Perspectives
Chair: Corinna Unger
Thomas Schulte-Umberg (University of Münster)
Catholic Population Discourse and Policy: The Case of Heinrich Muckermann
Ian Innerhofer (University of Vienna)
The Discussion About “Agricultural Overpopulation” in South-Eastern Europe, 1930-45
Eric Limbach (Michigan State University)
Overcrowded West, Underpopulated East: Refugee Migration and Demographic Discourse in 1950s West Germany
Joseph Ehmer (University of Vienna)
Comment
1:30 - 4:00 pm
Panel I (cont’d): Discourses and Perspectives
Chair: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)
Sandrine Bertaux (Maramara University Istanbul)
Recasting “Third World” in the First World: Alfred Sauvy, Fascist Legacies, Colonial Domination and the Rise of American Social Demography
Patricia Deuser (University of Leipzig)
The Concept of “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” (SRHR) in German Development Programs and the Colonial Roots of Women Oriented Development Policies
Peter Xenos (University of Hawaii)
The Long Term in Southeast Asian Demography and Population Policy
Marc Frey (Jacobs University Bremen)
Comment
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Panel II: Methods and Institutions
Chair: Uta Balbier (GHI)
Raul Necochea (McGill University)
Optimism in the Peruvian Census of 1940
Per Axelsson (University Umeå, Sweden)
Abandoned Constructions? Statistical Enumeration of Indigenous Swedish Sami
Paul Schor (University of Paris)
Comment
Saturday, May 30
9:00 -11:00 am
Panel II (cont’d): Demographic Methods and Institutions
Chair: Marc Frey
Oscar Edoror Ubhenin (Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria)
Demographic Norms and Population Dynamics in Nigeria
Patrick Sharma (UCLA)
The Birth, Life, and Death of Population Control at the World Bank
Heinrich Hartmann
Comment
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Panel III: Demography in Practice
Chair: Ines Prodöhl (GHI)
Annika Berg (Uppsala University)
Planning Families in Travancore-Cochin: An Early 1950s "Swedish" Pilot Project in Relation to Interwar Domestic Population Policy and Later Bilateral Population Aid
Digambar Chimankar (Fakir Mohan University, India)
Pre- and Post-Independence Population Dynamics in India
Eric Ross (University Den Haag/Georgetown University)
Comment
2:30 - 4:30 pm
Panel III cont’d: Demography in Practice
Chair: Heinrich Hartmann
Thomas Robertson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Population Programs in Nepal in the 1960s and 1970s
Eva-Maria Silies (University of Hamburg)
Contraception Against ‘Overpopulation’. West German
Perspectives on Birth Control at Home and Abroad in the 1960s
Corinna Unger
Comment
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Panel VI: Comments and Final Discussion
Chair: Heinrich Hartmann and Corinna Unger
Matthew Connelly (Columbia University)
Josef Ehmer (University of Vienna)
Susan Watkins (University of Pennsylvania)
6:30 pm
End of Conference
With the generous support of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung