Preliminary Programme

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Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
A-5 LAB01 Labour Internationalism I
Room A
Network: Labour Chair: Geert Van Goethem
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Dave Lyddon
Andrew Dawson : “Bring Hollywood Home!” Studio Labour, Internationalism, and Runaway Production, 1998-2005.
Magaly Rodríguez García : Views on Internationalism: Socialists vs Liberals
Victor Silverman : "Green Unions in a Grey World"
Robert Waters, Gordon O. Daniels : The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana


B-5 SEX01 Sexual Rebellions and Emotional Experiences in Interwar Britain
Room B
Network: Sexuality Chair: Alison Oram
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Stephen Brooke : Writing New Worlds: Love, Emotion, Sex and Politics in the Work of Naomi Mitchison and Dora Russell in the 1920s and 1930s
Harry Cocks : Private Reading: Pornography and its Readers in Britain, c 1918-1955
Hera Cook : Masculine Sexual Ethics: Champagne Socialism and Sexual Adventuring in Interwar Britain


C-5 HEA09 Health in the Middle East
Room C
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Kenneth Collins : Britons, Arabs and Jews: Three Approaches to Trachoma in British Palestine: 1918-1948.
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : Medicine between the Universal and the Cultural -- The Ottoman Case
Sachlav Stoler-Liss, Shifra Shvarts : “Does Mother Works for Tnuva Dairy?”: Breastfeeding, National Ideology, Public Health Nurses and the Mass Immigration to Israel during the 1950's
Patrick Zylberman : Coping with a weak state. The Ottoman Empire, cholera and the Muslim Pilgrimage


D-5 FAM33 Secular trends in regional population
Room D
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tamas Faragó
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Wall
Péter Öri : Regional Patterns of Demographic Behaviour in 18-19th Century Hungary
Levente Pakot : Patterns of demographic behaviour in the long nineteenth century
Ferenc Sohajda : The long-term demographic pattern of a micro-region. (The population development of the noble villages in county Zala(Hungary), 1828-1920.)
Peter Teibenbacher : Inherent variances or failed transitions? Fertility and mortality in a long run and micro-regional perspective


E-5 ELI06 Conservatism, Modernism and Early 20th Century Elites
Room E
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez Román
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaana Gluschkoff
John Ellis : Celticism and Conservativism; Cultural Nationalism and the Landed Elite in Edwardian Ireland and Wales
John Trygve Has-Ellison : Imperial knights and Artistic Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Munich
Michael Jonas : “Can one go along with this?” Conservative German Diplomats and the Changes of 1918/19 and 1933/34
Konstantinos Raptis : Strategies of Survival and Forms of Social Resistance: Central European high nobles and nobility networks in the first half of the 20th century.


F-5 FAM19 Permanent female celibacy and social mobility
Room F
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre Discussant: Sheila Cooper
Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre : Permanent female celibacy and social mobility in the Pyrenees :The Basque case in the nineteenth century
Sarah Pech : Matrimonial situation and possibilities of social rise of the maidservants in Madrid in the second half of the XVIIth century
Grazyna Ryczkowska : Beyond the proper age at marriage: social trajectories to final celibacy in early nineteenth century Geneva


G-5 RUR06 Welfare and standards of living in the rural world
Room G
Network: Rural Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Organizers: - Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Antonio D. Cámara : Living standards in the rural world during the transition to the industrial society: a case study from the South of Europe
Lucienne Neraud : Mexican and Mexican-American farmworkers and the war of poverty in Texas (1960s-early 1970s)
Josep Pujol, Roser Nicolau : Food and standards of living in a Catalan industrial town, 19th-20th centuries.
Lanero Táboas : Looking for "consensus": the spread of social assurances into Galician rural world (1940 - 1975)


H-5 LAB11 Horseracing and Gambling II: Labour relations
Room H
Network: Labour Chair: Wray Vamplew
Organizer: Mats Greiff Discussant: Mats Greiff
Susanna Hedenborg : Betting, technical development and work in Swedish horseracing
Joakim Tranquist : Catch drivers - a new phenomenon in Swedish harness racing
Janet Winters : “We still don't want to frighten the horses”: Lessons from the 1975 stable lads' strike


I-5 MID02 Solving conflict in the Medieval city I
Room A-2
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Peter Stabel Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert : Urban patriciate and social order in late medieval Ghent
Jan Dumolyn : The language of negotiations between subjects and princes in late medieval Flanders
Peter Stabel : From Noble Vendetta to Commercial Arbitration. Mechanisms and Strategies of Solving Conflict in the Medieval City


J-5 POL03 Consensualism I ( in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Austria)
Room J
Network: Chair: Christianne Smit
Organizers: - Discussant: Henrik Stenius
Johanna Rainio-Niemi : Re-thinking varieties of European small states´ consensual political cultures: the Finnish and Austrian post-war societies in perspective
Andrea Strutz : Hesitating cooperation: Historical path and roots for consensual politics in Austria in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Adrian Zimmermann : From early modern Confederal Republics to 20th century liberal corporatism : Historical path and roots for consensual politics in the Netherlands and Switzerland compared


K-5 ECO06 From Economics to History - and back? Looking for feedback into theory
Room K
Network: Economics Chair: Dorothee Crayen
Organizers: Alexander Engel, Ulf Christian Ewert Discussants: -
Alexander Engel : A Tale of Two Disciplines. The Story of Price History in the 1920s and 30s
Ulf Christian Ewert, Stephan Selzer : The Hansa as a Virtual Organisation: Some Historical Remarks on the Network Paradigm
Douglas Puffert : Paths Through History: Contingency in Economic Outcomes
Jochen Streb : Incentives versus Transaction Costs: Regulating Construction in the Third Reich


L-5 ETH05 Central European transatlantic migration in context
Room L
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Josef Ehmer
Organizer: Josef Ehmer Discussant: David Gerber
Zuzana Polackova : Between assimilation and integration; the struggle for the Czech-language school in Vienna. (1900-1920)
Dorota Praszalowicz : Ethnic Mix of Overseas Migration Streams from Eastern Europe: Collective Memory and Facts
Annemarie Steidl : Transatlantic, European, and Internal Migration in Late 19th Century Galicia
Hermann Zeitlhofer : Vienna: Co-existing migration systems in Bohemia, 1870-1914


M-5 URB02 Imaging the City
Room M
Network: Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Leif Jerram : Bureaucratic Passions and the Colonies of Modernity: An Urban Elite and the Rural Other in Germany, 1890-1920.
Alexander Vari : Between Local Realities and Global Aims: Paris and Budapest’s Location in the Transnational Urban Networks of the 1920s and 1930s
Wim Willems : A Sense of Place: Urban Stories in postwar Dutch Cities


N-5 TEC02 Designing Modern Childhood: Educational Architecture
Room N
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood , Technology Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussant: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Catherine Burke, Ian Grosvenor : Designed Spaces and Disciplined Bodies: E.R. Robson's Grand Architectural Tour.
Amy Ogata : Designing Education in Postwar American Schools
Lesley Whitworth : School Children, Domestic Skills and Future Consumption in a British Midlands City: a 1930s case study


O-5 EDU03 Childhood in a religious setting
Room O
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Organizer: Annemieke Van Drenth Discussant: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Marjet Derks : Prudence and excellence. Gender and physical education at catholic boarding schools and institutes in pre-war Netherlands.
Elizabeth Smyth : Loretto Academy Niagara (1861-1969) : Education Below the Rainbow.
Annemieke Van Drenth : Religious inspiration and professionalism in the care for the 'feebleminded'in the Netherlands around 1900.


P-5 LAB14 Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 I
Room P
Network: Labour Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: Nina Fishman, Chris Williams Discussants: Ben Gales, Quentin Outram
Nina Fishman : Checkweighers, Works Committees and Union Fragmentation: The Role of the State in Facilitating Union Density. A British-German Comparison, 1880-1930
Keith Gildart : Industrial Relations in the Cumberland Coalfield, 1921-1926
Leighton James : A stark contrast or underlying continuity? Miners' unions' attitudes to the state in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1933
Brian Mccook : The Face of Mining: Markets, Labour Regimes, and State Regulation in the Coal Industries of the Ruhr Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914


Q-5 CRI06 New Trans-national Approaches to the History of Drugs
Room N1-O1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizers: Robert Stephens, Klaus Weinhauer Discussants: -
Isaac Campos Costero : The Transnational Origins of Marijuana Madness in North America
Paul Gootenberg : The Pre-Colombian Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Cocaine, 1945-1973
Robert Stephens : Toward a Global History of Illicit Drug Markets


R-5 ORA08 Constructing the Body
Room R
Network: Oral History Chair: Hugo Manson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeff Friedman : "My Story is Like a Body": A Theoretical Framework for the Embodiment of Oral History Narratives
Silvia Ruschak : ”Tints of Western Style” – Female Body Perception in Transition. An Oral History Project in South Ghana
Saara Tuomaala : Scars - Embodied experience as a site of narration and history


S-5 NAT05 Diasporas and Nations
Room S
Network: Chair: Ton Zwaan
Organizers: - Discussant: John Breuilly
Kathy Burrell : Performing and Consuming the Nation in the Polish Diaspora
Ruxandra Trandafoiu : Tales of Strawberry Pickers: The Symbolic Geography of Romanian Migrant Workers and Diasporas


T-5 THE13 Nethistory
Room T
Network: Theory Chair: Wulf Kansteiner
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Georg Christoph Berger Waldenegg : The net's "bomb war": World War II as internet history
Madeleine Herren : From knowledge to information - a historical sea change
Peter Meusburger : Power, Knowledge and Space


U-5 POL09 Banal militarism: Towards a militarization of political culture
Room U
Network: Chair: Joy Damousi
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Carsten Hennig : The Militarization of the American Cinema of War after September 11th 2001
Katja Scherl : “Show your Decorations, Elvis!”: How the Military Service was Whitening and Masculinizing Elvis Presley
Tanja Thomas : Military as Ordinary Experience? - Popular Culture and Banal Militarism
Fabian Virchow : Banal Militarism and the Culture of War


V-5 SOC04 Institutional care in Europe
Committee Room 1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Ton Kappelhof, J.P. de Valk : Ideas, ideals and practice in social politics: the example of the first Dutch minister for Social Affairs
Martin Scheutz, Alfred Stefan Weiss : Order and disorder. Hospitals (("Bürgerspitäler") in Austrian and South German towns 1500-1800
Aline Steinbrecher : Voices from Inside - internal perspectives of the Zurich Hospital in early modern times
Sabine Veits-Falk : Social inequality in "hospitals" of the 19th century


W-5 ASI03 Contesting Asian Identities
Committee Room 2
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Pritam Singh : Political Economy of the Cycles of Violence and Non-violence in the Sikh Struggle for Survival and Political Power
Sawarin Suwichakornpong : History of Education and the Making of Identity: The Case of Southern Thailand
Natasa Visocnik : The role of food in identity processes in Japan


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