ICHG-2015-Programme-Book

Mon
Timeslot 1 Timeslot 2 Lunch Timeslot 3 Plenary Evening
09:15 – 11:00 11:30 – 13:15 13:15 – 14:15 14:15 – 16:00 16:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 19:30
5 The contribution of visual evidence to the study of damage cause by earthquakes -
Motti Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Geological Survey of Israel, Israel), Rehav
(Buni) Rubin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Amos Salamon (Geological Survey of
Israel, Israel)
5 Evolution, place and space
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/5
M1 | RGS-CR
Chair
Pavel Chromý (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
1 The case for an Evolutionary Historical Geography - Jonathan Martin (University of
Western Australia, Australia), Matthew Tonts (University of Western Australia, Australia)
2 Understanding the Ethiopian spatial configuration of the middle ages: locating and
mapping the territories of the Southern Blue Nile (Ethiopia, 13th-16th centuries) -
Ayda Bouanga (IMAF - Institut des mondes africains, France)
3 Do voting patterns in the Czech Republic after 1989 have any historical roots? -
Tomas Kostelecky, Martin Simon, Renata Mikesova (Institute of Sociology of the Czech
Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
4 Historical precursors of daughter deficit in India: the neighbourhood effect revisited -
Ritwika Mukherjee (Independent Scholar), Shamindra Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
India)
5 Periodic rural market centers and urbanization process in Nigeria: the Tiv Experience
- Elijah Terdoo Ikpanor (Benue State University, Nigeria)
6 International organisation in the twentieth century
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/6
M1 | RGS-LR
Chair
Ruth Craggs (King’s College London, UK)
1 Mapping living standards of children and the effects of international aid in post WW1
Vienna - Mary Cox (University of Oxford, UK), Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford, UK)
2 Prostitution and the League of Nations: a historical geographic reconstruction of the
Law on Prostitution and Trafficking in Women and Children during the interwar
period - Thomas S Carhart (University of Freiburg, Germany)
3 Forging Pan-Europe: constructing a new spatiality of European politics in the
interwar period - Benjamin Thorpe (University of Nottingham, UK)
4 Requests for spatial protection during World War II: a review of correspondence from
the International Committee of the Red Cross Archive - Margo Kleinfeld (University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)
5 Social aspects of sustainable development: an historical geography of UNESCO
Biosphere Reserves - Christine Grossutti (Queen’s University, Canada)