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
2 Great migration of African-Americans from the South to Hartford, Connecticut, 1910-
1930: An HGIS analysis at the neighborhood and street Level - Kurt Schlichting
(Fairfield University, USA)
3 The Athenaeum Movement: the case of St John’s, Newfoundland - Angela Ashworth
(University of Birmingham, UK)
32 Disease and demography
M3 | RSM-G41
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/32
Chair
Julia Ross Cummiskey (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
1 Elements of historical geography reflected in the anthroponomy of Olt Country in the
1500-2004 period - Ionel Boamfă, Gabriel Camară, Iosif Camară (Universitatea Alexandru
Ioan Cuza din Iași, Romania)
2 Population and land-use change on Noarootsi Parish (Nuckö) in North-West Estonia
during the transition from Feudal Society to Capitalism (1590-1940) - Hele Kiimann
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
3 Historical geography of a noxious place: the “Vieux port” of Marseilles and its
environmental effects on the surrounding lands (southern France, XVth-XIXth
century) - Nicolas Maughan (Aix-Marseilles Université, France)
4 Smallpox victims in urban and rural areas in central Japan, 1880-1900 - Hiroshi
Kawaguchi (Tezukayama University, Japan)
5 Escaping the fate of the Elm? Exploring the relevance of Dutch Elm Disease to
understanding Ash Dieback - Isobel Tomlinson (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
33 Making post-war Britain: mobility, planning and the modern
nation
M3 | RSM-G05 View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/33
Convenors
Chair
Ruth Craggs (King’s College London, UK), Hannah Neate (University of
Central Lancashire, UK)
Hannah Neate (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
1 Global geographies of the British New Town - Ruth Craggs (King’s College London, UK),
Hannah Neate (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
2 Post-war planning and policy tourism: the study tours of the Town and Country
Planning Association 1947-1961 - Ian R. Cook (Northumbria University, UK)
3 Artworks in "schools of every kind": the Pictures for Schools exhibitions 1947-1969 -
Natalie Bradbury (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
4 New universities in familiar environments? Locating a fifth university in Scotland -
Heike Jons (Loughborough University, UK)
5 Post-war British New Towns, spatial mobility, strangerdom and belonging - Ben
Rogaly (University of Sussex, UK), Rebecca Taylor (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)