Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis • Guido Alfani, Università Bocconi

Disaster at a distance: demographic consequences of the Tambora 1815 eruption on Italian towns in the Appenines • Katherine M. Condon, Independent Researcher

Tolerance label — justified or not? (Withdrawn, not presented at the meeting) • Sabira Kulsariyeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University ; Anel Sharipova, Kazakh National Pedagogical University Abai

Estimating the reproductive numbers of influenza pandemics from multiple historical data sources • James E. Oeppen, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Carlo G. Camarda, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research