1. Exposure at Workplace and Excess Mortality in Sweden during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic • Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University; Martin Dribe, Lund University; Björn Eriksson, Lund University.

2. Direct and Indirect Effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu on Infant and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth-Century Madrid • Diego Ramiro Fariñas, IEGD-CCHS Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); Stanislao Mazzoni, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Michel Oris, University Of Geneva.

3. The Improvement of Ottoman Population Statistics under the Challenge of 19th. Century Epidemics • Emine Tonta Ak, Fatih Sultan Mehmed Vakif Üniversitesi.

4. Consanguinity, Epidemics and Early Life Survival in Colonial Quebec, 1720-1830 • Jessica Gagnon-Sénat, Université de Montréal; Alain Gagnon, Université de Montréal; Lisa Dillon, Université de Montréal.