It has been over a year since the COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic and a public health emergency of global concern. While researchers in all disciplines and from all parts of the world have increasingly turned to the question of how we confront today’s unfolding epidemiological crisis, using broad historical lenses and a long empirical research tradition of historical demography can contribute substantially to this debate. With this in mind, they would like to announce that the 4th ESHD conference leading theme is
Human–environmental nexus in the past: understanding links between demographic variability, ecology and disease.
Participants are encouraged to engage with and link across three different streams of historical social science analysis:
- The diversity of historical demographic behaviour across space and time
- The study of historical health, disease and morbidity conditions
- Human-environmental interactions in the past