Other Events

The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars

In his latest book, which forms the basis of this event, O'Grada argues that previous estimates of civilian deaths in two world wars are almost certainly too low. By careful evaluation of the available evidence, he estimates that these wars cost nearly twice as many lives as previously estimated.  As he shows, this matters as it enables us to argue with those who try to deny, minimise, or exaggerate wartime savagery.

The event will be Chaired by Eric Schneider.

For more information, including how to attend, please see the event page here.

This student-led seminar series continues this term with presentations at LSE in the coming weeks by Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna on 21 January and Mireille Le Guen on 11 February. Email Hampton Gaddy (h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk) or Midanna de Almada (M.De-Almada@lse.ac.uk) to be added to the Pop@LSE mailing list.

The internal early career demography seminar also continues this term with the first seminar given by Johann Ohler on 29 January at 15:00 in CON.1.01 about his project 'Build Back Better Health: Public Housing and the late-19th Century Mortality Transition’.

The HED Group holds a termly reading group where we discuss a general interest paper that contributes methodologically or intellectually to our understanding of historical economic demography. Eric Schneider chairs the group, but the sessions start with a PhD student and a faculty member summarising and commenting on the paper respectively.  The papers for this academic year (2024-25) are posted below, and past reading group paper subjects are available here.

• Winter Term - midday, 4 March 2025 (CKK 117):
  

  Frankema, E (2024). From the Great Divergence to South-South Divergence: New comparative horizons in global economic history. doi: 10.1111/joes.12609

  Faculty: Kent Deng
  Student: Tom Learmouth

• AutumnTerm - midday, 22 October 2024:
  

  Kerby, E., Moradi, A., & Odendaal, H. (2024). African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? The Economic History Review. doi: 10.1111/ehr.13344. The paper conducts text analysis on historical travelers accounts in precolonial Africa.

  Faculty: Leigh Gardner
  Student: Nick Fitzhenry

A list of past reading group topics can be found here.