1. Infrastructures and Mortality in Italy at the End of the 19th Century • Giulia Corti , Centre for Demographic Studies (CED); Emanuele Fedeli , University of Trento.

2. From Sick Bed to Death Bed: Morbidity and Mortality in the Amsterdam Hospital, 1856-1896. • Nadeche Diepgrond, Radboud University; Tim Riswick , Radboud University.

3. Representation Is Crucial for Deriving Inferences from Online Genealogies: Evidence from Lifespan Dynamics • Robert Stelter , University of Basel; Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

4. Life Tables of the Entire Surinamese Enslaved Population, 1848-1863: Insight in the Enslaved Lives and Population Dynamics in a Tropical, Colonial Society • Coen Van Galen, Radboud University; Rick J. Mourits , International Institute of Social History; Thunnis Van Oort, Radboud University; Björn Quanjer, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; Jan Kok, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

5. Why Pandemics Rhyme: The Spatial Distribution of Mortality during the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 • Sander Wagner , Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science; Felix C. Tropf , University of Oxford.