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Ural Federal University
Institute of Humanities and Arts
International Demographic Unit
PROGRAM
Seminar
Religious Communities and Demography
in Church records: Statistical analysis
Ekaterinburg, 17-21 June 2015
Ekaterinburg 2015
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The seminar is organized within the framework of the research project
“Religious diversity in a Eurasian city: statistical and cartographic analyses of 20th
century Ekaterinburg” sponsored by the RFBR grant № 15-06-08541 A
It is additionally supported by RFBR grant «Religious Communities and Demography in church records: Statistical analysis» № 15-06-20366 G
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Organizing committee
Dmitrii Bugrov – First Prorector, Director of the Institute of Humanities and Arts,
Ural Federal University
Gunnar Thorvaldsen – Director of the Norwegian Historical Data Centre, Tromsö
University; Director of the International Demographic Unit (IDUN), Ural Federal
University
Leonid Borodkin – Chair of the Department of Historical Informatics, Moscow
State University
Vladimir Vladimirov – Chair of the Department of Source studies, Archival and
Historical informatics, Altai State University
Elena Glavatskaya – Professor, Department of History, Institute of Humanities
and Arts, Ural Federal University
Oleg Gorbachov – Professor, Department of History, Institute of Humanities and
Arts, Ural Federal University
Ljudmila Mazur – Chair of the Department of Document studies and information
support, Institute of Humanities and Arts, Ural Federal University
Conference languages: English and Russian
Turgenev St. 4.
Auditorium 501-509
http://www.hist.igni.urfu.ru/
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Seminar program
Presentations – 20 min
Discussion – 10 min
17 June 2015 (Wednesday)
Informal day of arrival
14.00 – 14.30
Registration
14.30 – 14.40
Opening of the seminar
14.40 – 15.00
Gunnar Thorvaldsen (Norwegian Historical Data Centre)
“European Historical Demography Network overview”
15.00 – 17.00
Presentation of the Eurasian historical demography centers
Gunnar Thorvaldsen (Norway)
Elisabeth Engberg (Sweden)
Leonid Borodkin (Moscow, Russia)
Luminita Dumanescu (Romania)
Artur Gorak (Poland)
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir (Island)
Eugenii Rozenblat (Byelorussia)
Joana Maria Pujades Mora (Spain)
Irina Cherniakova (Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia)
Elena Glavatskaya (Ekaterinburg, Urals, Russia)
Vladimir Vladimirov (Barnaul, Siberia, Russia)
17.00 – 19.00
Excursion to Laboratory of Archaeographical Studies
(Ural Federal University) and Excursion to the Nev’iansk Icon
Museum
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18 June 2015 (Thursday)
Session 1. European Demographic projects:
research tasks and technologies
Chair: prof. Elena Glavatskaya
10.00 – 10.30
Elisabeth Engberg
Director at the Centre for demographic and aging research
Umeå University (Sweden)
”Data Processing of Catechismal and other Church Records”
10.30 – 11.00
Joana Maria Pujades Mora
Postdoc Researcher, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
”The Five Hundred Years of Marriages Project”
11.00 – 11.30
Ioan Bolovan
professor, vice-rector of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
(Romania);
Luminita Dumănescu
Phd, Senior researcher, Excutive Director of Centre for Population Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Сluj-Napoca, Romania, manager of EEA project Historical Population Database of
Transylvania
”Challenges and Expectations. Running the HPDT project”
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 12.30
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Professor in social history, Coordinator of the doctoral program at the School of Education, University of Iceland
”Church records and longitudinal sources for studying historical demography in Island”
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12.30 – 13.00
Ioan Bolovan
Professor, vice-rector of Babes-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca (Romania);
Marius Eppel
PhD, senior researcher, Head of Museums Department,
Babes-Bolyai University, Сluj-Napoca (Romania)
”The Parish Registers as sources for the Historical Population
Database of Transylvania”
13.00 – 13.30
Eugene Rozenblat
Docent, Department of History, Brest State
University (Byelorussia).
”Byelorussian Jews in early 20th century demographical
sources”
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch
14.00 – 15.00
Irina Cherniakova
Research fellow, Petrozavodsk State University
Oleg Cherniakov
Docent, Department of Russian History,
Petrozavodsk State University (Russia)
“Database ‘Marriage, family, household of Karelian peasants’”
15.00 – 17.00
18.30
Walking tour in Ekaterinburg’s downtown
Opera “The Tsar’s bride” (Set in Ivan the Terrible’s time)
by Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov in Opera and Ballet House
(optional, depending on preliminary booking)
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19 June 2015 Friday
Session 2. Russian Demography and Social history:
Nominative church book analyses
Chair: Prof. Oleg Gorbachev
10.00 – 10.30
Leonid Borodkin
Prof. Chair of the Historical Informatics Department,
Moscow State University;
Olga Khabarova
PhD, Moscow State University (Russia)
”19th century church book databases: source criticism”
10.30 – 11.00
Vladimir Vladimirov
Prof. Chair of source studies, Archival and historical informatics Department, Altai State University, Barnaul (Russia)
”Church registers as source material in demographic and social studies”
11.00 – 11.30
Arthur Gorak
Adjunct of the Archival Studies Department,
Maria Skladovskaia-Kuri University, Lublin (Poland)
”Kazan' Catholics’ church books”
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.30 – 13.00
Dmitrii Sarafanov
Docent of source studies, Archival and historical informatics
Department, Altai State University, Barnaul (Russia)
”Demography in the 19th century Altai urban population according to the church books”
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch
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14.30 – 15.00
Elena Brjukhanova
Docent of source studies, Archival and historical informatics
Department, Altai State University, Barnaul (Russia)
”Analyzing Barnaul population social status on the bases of
church books”.
15.00 – 15.30
Svetlana Golikova
Research fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology of
the Russian Academy (Russia)
”Industrial population in the late 19th – early 20th century
Urals as reflected in church materials”
15.30. – 16.00
Oleg Gorbachev
Prof. Department of History, Ural Federal University;
Ljudmila Mazur
Prof. Chair of the Document studies and information support,
Ural Federal University (Russia)
”Russian historical demographic data bases”
16.00 – 18.30
19.00
Excursion to mineral show
EverJazz Club: Sergei Pron’ s quartet and Irena Aravina
(optional, depending on preliminary booking).
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20 June 2015 (Saturday)
Seminar “European Demography and Social History:
computer methods”
10.00 – 11.30
Arne Solli
Associate Professor, Department of History,
University of Bergen (Norway)
“Urban GIS and church records”. Part 1
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 13.30
Arne Solli
“Urban GIS and church records”. Part 2
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch
Session 3. Urals Social History and Demography:
Nominative church books analyses
Chair: prof. Gunnar Thorvaldsen
14.30– 15.00
Elena Glavatskaya
Prof. Department of History, Ural Federal University (Russia)
“Ekaterinburg Catholic community according to the church
books”
15.00 – 15.30
Julia Borovik
Research fellow, Laboratory of Archaeographical Studies,
Ural Federal University (Russia).
”Ekaterinburg Old Believers migrations in the early 20th
century according to the church books”
15.30 – 16.00
Aleksei Starostin
Docent, Department of History,
Ural Federal University (Russia)
“Muslim church books in the Ekaterinburg region”
Poster session
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16.00-17.00
Benjamin Matuzak
MA, visiting research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
”Mortality in the early 20th century Verkhotur'e according to
the church books”
Iana Muzafarrova
MA student, Department of History, Ural Federal University
(Russia)
”Database ‘The Communist Party Census in 1924’”
Tatiana Semenova
MA student, Department of History, Ural Federal University
(Russia)
”Database ‘The Ural State University students’”
Dzhanet Rustamova
undergraduate student, Department of History, Ural Federal
University (Russia)
”The Soviet Union Census of 1959: creating database”
Alexander Palkin
Research fellow, Laboratory of Archaeographical Studies,
Ural Federal University (Russia).
"Edinoverie priests of Ekaterinburg diocese in the late 19th
century (according to the clergy registers"
17.00
Closing and Dinner.
21 June 2015 (Sunday)
10.00 – 13.00
Excursion to the Europe-Asia Border and the Last Russian
Emperor’s family memorial places
Departure day
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