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Wed 24 March
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10:45
14:15
16:30

Thu 25 March
8:30
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14:15
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Fri 26 March
8:30
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Sat 27 March
8:30
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All days

Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45

R-2 ORA02 The Holocaust Survivor's Memories b
Room S

Network: Oral History	Chair: Sally Alexander
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Judith Gerson : German Jewish Immigrants, Not German Jewish Survivors
Grigorios Psallidas : 'Heroes' and 'Victims' among the Greek survivors of the Mauthausen Camp

Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15

R-3 ANT01 Comparative approaches to the study of ancient and pre-modern states
Room S

Network: Antiquity	Chair: Neville Morley
Organizer: Walter Scheidel	Discussants: -

Peter Fibiger Bang : Segmentary empire: Mughals and Romans compared
Khaled Hakami : Kinship and Evolution: Roman and Irish Society Compared
Joe Manning : The “hydraulic” state, social power and state formation: Egypt and China, and the contraction of the Wittfogel thesis
Walter Scheidel : Coercion, capital, and ancient Mediterranean states: expanding the Tilly thesis

Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30

R-4 TEC01 European Cities
Room S

Networks: Technology , Urban	Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizer: Cornelis Disco	Discussant: Dick Van Lente

Hans Buiter : The transformation of the street: specialisation, segregation and conjoined networks and systems. Dutch streets and European examples, 1870-1970
Cornelis Disco : Partners in Prosperity, Partners in Crime: Cities on the Rhine 1850-1990.
Barbara Schmucki : Engineering the Traffic Flow. Urban Transport Planning as European Phenomenon or Buchanan was everywhere
Dieter Schott : Empowering Cities: The incorporation of gas and electricity in the European urban environment 1890-1950

Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30

R-5 LAB29 Colonialism and Labour: Asia and America
Room S

Network: Labour	Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch
Organizers: Gareth Austin, David Clayton	Discussant: Gareth Austin

David Clayton : The regulation of labour standards in colonial Hong Kong, c.1920-60
Frank Tough : Native labour and paternalism: the mercantile fur trade and frontier capitalism in Canada
Nicholas White : Labour and the End of Empire in Malaya c. 1930s-1960s.

Thursday 25 March 2004 10:45

R-6 AFR02 West African Migrants and their Hometowns
Room S

Network: Africa	Chair: Peter Jones
Organizers: -	Discussant: Peter Jones

Dmitri van den Bersselaar : Igbo migrants and their hometowns
Tundé Zack-Williams : West African migrants and African Diaspora Agency: the case of Liverpool

Thursday 25 March 2004 14:15

R-7 CUL07 Politics and Identity II
Room S

Network: Culture	Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: -	Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova

Jaffary Awang : The Formation of Religious Identity: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Muaddimah's Ibn Khaldun
Éva Blénesi : The Cultural Context of Identity Politics
Nalan Soyarik Şentürk : The Thorny Path of Citizenship in Turkey: Dilemma Between State and Individual
Nikolai Vukov : The Imagination of Vital Remains: Death and Vitality of the Monuments of the Socialist Past in Bulgaria after 1989

Friday 26 March 2004 8:30

R-9 ORA01 The Holocaust: Survivor Memories a
Room S

Networks: Criminal Justice , Oral History	Chair: Helga Embacher
Organizer: Steve Hochstadt	Discussants: -

Steve Hochstadt : Personal Experiences of Persecution and Refugee Decision-Making: Jews Who Fled to Shanghai
Eric Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband : Jewish Experiences of Persecution and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany: Social Scientific Survey Evidence
Sabine Kittel : Ways of Coping in Different Countries: Two Jewish Former Prisoners of Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp Talk about Their Experiences Today
Selma Leydesdorff : Holocaust and Survivors memories

Friday 26 March 2004 10:45

R-10 ETH29 Theory and method in Migration studies
Room S

Network: Ethnicity and Migration	Chair: Jan Kok
Organizers: -	Discussant: Jan Kok

Margo Anderson : The Decision to Incarcerate the Japanese American Population: The role of population data
Josée Bergeron, Marc Tremblay & Hélène Vézina : Contribution of Acadian migrants to the gene pool of the population of Quebec (Canada)
Alice B. Kasakoff, John W. Adams & Inez Egerbladh : Did Men or Women Live farther from their Kin ? Sweden vs American North,1850

Friday 26 March 2004 14.15

R-11 MID10 Oligarchy and Patronage in Spanish and Portuguese Late Medieval Urban Society: 2. Social constructions
Room S

Network: Middle Ages	Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues	Discussant: Marc Boone

Adelaide Costa : The urban oligarchies of the Northern Portugal in the fifteenth-century
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Attributing Social Spaces and Satisfying Social Expectations: the Urban System as a Circuit of Power Structuring Relations (Castile in the Fifteenth-Century).
Germán Navarro, José Ángel Sesma : Prosopography of the urban societies of Aragon in the XIV-XVth centuries. Social strategies and individual behaviour within the urban ruling groups
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero : Urban oligarchic networks in Navarra

Friday 26 March 2004 16.30

R-12 SEX05 Crises of Male Sexuality in 20th Century Europe
Room S

Network: Sexuality	Chair: Angus Mclaren
Organizers: -	Discussant: Chris Waters

Elena Mancini : Boys in the City: Homoerotic Desire and the Urban Refuge in Fin de Siècle Culture
David James Prickett : Body Crisis, Identity Crisis: Discourses on Masculinity and Homosexuality in the Early Twentieth Century

Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15

R-15 THE06 Methodological issues in social science history
Room S

Network: Theory	Chair: Gary Roth
Organizers: -	Discussant: Gary Roth

Gidon Cohen, Kevin Morgan & Andrew Flinn : Towards a Mixed Method Social History: combining qualitative and quantiative methods in the study of collective biography
Paul Kerry : An Investigation of Possible Influences on national Socialist Party Membership Using Multivariate Statistics
Philipp Mueller : Explanation or Fiction? Reflections on the Concept of Narrative in Historical Writing
Matti Peltonen : Lebensmethodik and Dispositifs. A Comparison of Weber's and Foucault's Central Concept

Saturday 27 March 2004 16:30

R-16 CUL15 Culture in Complex Societies
Room S

Network: Culture	Chair: Miglena Ivanova
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

John Helsloot : The triumph of St Valentine' s Day in the Netherlands -after fifty years
Anita Horkai : Screenagers in Hungary
Carlos Eduardo Rebello De Mendonça : From Donald Duck to Xena: Marxist Notes on the historical changes in the ideological content of Mass Culture
Zilvytis Saknys : Roots in West, trunk in East: Birth of St. Valentine Day in Lithuania