Titel Deelnemers "Korte inhoud" "A history of historical demography in Belgium" "Christa Matthys" "Belgium's unique population history and the ready availability of exceptionally rich source material have placed it at the cutting edge of developments in historical demography, and attracted scholars from around the world since the 1950s. The aim of this chapter is to take into account recent methodological adaptations as well as thematic shifts in the field, thus providing a complete synopsis of Belgian historical demography that will allow for comparisons with developments elsewhere." "The future of historical demography. Upside down and inside out" "This volume aims to provide inspiration for the future of historical demography. Prominent scholars were invited to ect critically on where the discipline of historical demography stands now, to reproach us for what we have missed, to indicate key trends in research we must engage with, and to stimulate us to link our future work to other disciplines. Authors were asked to write a provocative pamphlet for the future and to think outside the normal academic boxes. Here the authors present 60 provoking ideas." "Applications of probabilistic sensitivity analysis and agent-based models to historical demography" "W. De Mulder, André Grow, Geert MOLENBERGHS, Geert VERBEKE" "Measuring fertility control in historical demography using cohort parity analysis: application and evaluation" "Jan Van Bavel" "Evolutionary approaches to historical demography and agent based modeling" "Jan Van Bavel" "Urban-rural differences in historical demography : introduction" "Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping" "Historical demography and climatic niches of the Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) in the Zambezian region" "Alexandra Hanova, Josef Bryja, Joëlle Gouy de Bellocq, Stuart J.E. Baird, Laura Cuypers, Adam Konecny, Ondrej Mikula" "The Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) is the most widespread rodent species in sub-Saharan Africa, often studied as an agricultural pest and reservoir of viruses. Its mitochondrial (Mt) phylogeny revealed six major lineages parapatrically distributed across open habitats of sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we used 1949 sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene to elaborate on distribution and evolutionary history of three Mt lineages inhabiting the open habitats of the Zambezian region (corresponding roughly to the African savannas south of the Equator). We describe in more detail contact zones between the lineages-their location and extent of co-occurrence within localities-and infer past population trends. The estimates are interpreted in the light of climatic niche models. The lineages underwent reduction in effective population size during the last glacial, but they spread widely after that: two of them after the last glacial maximum and the last one in mid-Holocene. The centers of expansion, i.e., possible long-term savanna refugia, were estimated to lie close to the Eastern Arc Mountains and lakes of the Great African Rift, geomorphological structures likely to have had long-term influence on geographical distribution of the lineages. Environmental niche modeling shows climate could also affect the broad scale distribution of the lineages but is unlikely to explain the narrow width of the contact zones. The intraspecific Mt differentiation of M. natalensis echoes phylogeographic patterns observed in multiple co-distributed mammal species, which suggests the mammal communities in the region are shaped by the same long-term processes." "The 2016 European Society for Historical Demography (ESHD) Conference in Leuven and the years before and after A peek behind the scenes" "Hideko Matsuo" "Building bridges. Scholars, History and Historical Demography. A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Theo Engelen" "Ahead, not aloof. Frans van Poppel’s contribution to agenda-setting in historical demography" "Jan Kok"