Preliminary Programme

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Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
A-9 FAM30 Child abandonment in Western Europe (19th-20th century)
Room A
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Catherine Rollet
Organizer: Virginie De Luca Discussant: Virginie De Luca
Guy Brunet, Alain Bideau & Nora Nader & Mathieu Debritto : The foundling, the foster parents and the inspector. Long-term relations.
Ivan Jablonka : The Fictive Kinship of French Foundlings and Their Foster Parents (1874-1939)
Julie Miller : 'Children of Accident and Mystery': Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City


B-9 ETH12 Strangers in the eyes of Scandinavians
Room B
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Organizers: - Discussant: Idesbald Goddeeris
Mikael Byström : The Nordic Privilege. Interpreting policy practice and public debate
Pär Frohnert : Socialist refugees under Social Democratic control. The Labour Movement’s Refugee Committee and political refugees in Sweden, 1933-1945.
Christina Johansson : Red Light? Swedish Refugee Policy Discourses of the late 1980s.


C-9 SOC05 Microfinances, Poor Law and Urban Sustainability, 19th-20th centuries
Room C
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini : The middle class against poverty. Legislative interventions and credit institutions in the Kingdom of Naples in the first half of 19th century.
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller : Microfinance and Poor Laws in an urban Mediterranean context. The case of Barcelona in the XIX century
Duncan Ross : Poverty and Individualism: Savings Banks as Capitalist Institutions
Sakari Saaritsa : Credit, welfare and sustainable proletarianization: Microeconometrics of the urban family economy in early 20th century Helsinki


D-9 FAM20 Gender differences in infant, childhood and teenage mortality
Room D
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Theo Engelen Discussant: Jan Kok
Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui : The Massacre of the Innocent. Infant Mortality in Nijmegen and Lu-kang
Lucia Pozzi, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin : Gender mortality selection in the first years of life in Italy during the demographic transition
Christine Théré, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser : Facing death in the early days of life :Inequality between sexes in Enlightenment demographic thought.
Evelien Walhout, Frans Van Poppel : Sex differences in child mortality in a Dutch town, 1860-1920: Did social class and religion play a role?


E-9 RUR10 The environmental factor: agriculture, landscape and ecology
Room E
Network: Rural Chair: Janken Myrdal
Organizers: - Discussant: Janken Myrdal
Dhirendra Datt Dangwal : Colonialism, Commodity Production and Commons: Extension of the State Control over the Commons in the Central Himalaya (India)
Antonio Linares : The forest planning in the South-West of Spain (1875-1925)
Kenneth Sylvester, Geoff Cunfer : An unremembered diversity: mixed husbandry and the settling of Kansas grasslands, 1860-1940
Meri Vuohu : Environment and Rural Administration in the Early Modern Tuscany


F-9 GEO04 Spaces of Exception 1. Bodies
Room F
Network: Chair: Gerry Kearns
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Stephanie Egan : Geographies of Resistance and Domination: States of Exception.
David Nally : Faminescapes: the state of excpetion and the Great Irish Famine


G-9 LAB30 Responses to Recent Changes in Global Capitalism
Room G
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Anikó Eszter Bartha : Ideas in transition: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
Julie Guard : Canada’s Steel Union Responds to the New Economy: Organizing Call Centres
Paula Mulinari : Racializing and genderizing labour processes in the restaurant and hotel branch.
Jonas Sjölander : The Detours of Solidarity: Labour Internationalism in the Third Industrial Revolution. The Swedish Metal Workers’ Federation in Colombia 1976-1986.


H-9 SEX05 Disruptive Women in Interwar Britain
Room H
Network: Sexuality Chair: Hera Cook
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lucy Bland : Hung for Adultery? The Condemnation of Edith Thompson in the Aftermath of the Great War
Lesley Hall : 'Vexed human beings who suffered intensely from male-adaptation of life': queering female sexuality in early twentieth century Britain
Alison Oram : Decadent Seducer or Mannish Woman?: Class and Representations of Lesbianism in the British Popular Press 1910s-1939


I-9 REL01 The Reformation in European Historical Consciousness, 1817-1917
Room A-2
Network: Religion Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Michael Bentley : The Lutheran Reformation in English Historiography and Public Memory 1817-1917
Peter Kushner : The Reformation in German Historiography, 1817-1917
Hendrik Paul, Bart Wallet : Luther and Calvin in a Dutch Context: The Reformation in Dutch Protestant Memory Culture, 1817-1917


J-9 ETH27 Migration and Identity formation in Canada
Room J
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Nora Faires
Organizers: - Discussant: Nora Faires
Betsy Boer : Identity and contacts of orthodox protestants Dutch emigrants in Canada
Amal Madibbo : A socio-historical context of the immigration of Black French-speaking to Canada (1960-2000)


K-9 HEA10 Nutrition
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Hilary Marland
Organizers: - Discussant: Catherine Cox
Josep Lluís Barona : Nutrition and Health: the International Sanitary Movement and Spain (1920-1939)
Francisco Muñoz Pradas, Roser Nicolau : Milk consumption, health and survival in infancy in contemporary Spain (1860-1950)
Chad Ross : Food for Thought: Diet, Health, Morality and the Reform of Life
Ulrike Thoms : West versus East? Nutritional policy in the two Germanies 1945-1964


L-9 WOM09 Roundtable: Varieties of Feminism III: International Perspectives
Room L
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Carolyn Eichner : Getting the Dowry and Keeping Your Name: Feminist Perspectives on Race, Agency, and Empire in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Hasmik Khalapyan : Defining Feminism in Ottoman Armenian Women's Movement, 1875-1914
Maria Martinez Gonzalez : The feminist movement in the basque country: problems and challenges
Sharifa Wright : Lionheart gyal, and what of radical feminism? - How gender inequality became the feminist agenda in Caribbean Nationalism


M-9 SOC10 Social inequalities in health I
Room M
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Astri Andresen : Health differences and the policies to reduce them: Norway 1900s-1950s
Martin Gorsky : "For the treatment of sick persons of all classes?" Social inequality and the transformation of the British hospital system in the 20th century
Bernard Harris : Gender, Health and Welfare in England and Wales since 1800
Anne Løkke : Patients at the Danish Royal Hospital (Rigshospitalet) 1757 - 2000 .
Peter Razzell : The Hazards of Wealth


N-9 TEC04 Postwar Images of Science and Technology
Room N
Networks: Culture , Technology Chair: Thomas Misa
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dolores Augustine : Boldly going where no socialist has gone before: Engineers and industrial scientists in East German popular culture and propaganda
Guillaume De Syon : From Pyramids to Time Travel: The scientists as controller of fate
Jaakko Suominen : Machines in Duckburg. Inventing in Walt Disney’s Comic Book ‘Donald Duck’ in Finland during the 1950’s


O-9 ETH17 Migration of domestic servants
Room O
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Sjoukje Botman : The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Marina de Regt : "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti : Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Monica Smith : Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon


P-9 POL05 Political Outsiders in Swedish History 1848-1932
Room P
Network: Chair: Lars Edgren
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Hilson
Victor Lundberg : Captain Julius Mankell’s Vision – Arming the People in Struggle for Democracy
Stefan Nyzell : Contentious Politics and Social Democracy: Social Democracy, the Threat of Violence and Contentious Politics in Sweden 1848-1932
Magnus Olofsson : Tullbergs Contention and the New Liberals: Forgotten Struggles


Q-9 CUL09 Was there a Cultural Turn? Representation, Discourse, and the Politics of Cultural History
Room N1-O1
Network: Culture Chair: Joan W. Scott
Organizers: - Discussant: Joan W. Scott
Brian Connolly : Historicizing the Incest Prohibition: The Deceased Wife's Sister Controversy in Nineteenth Century America
Jennifer Milligan : Cultural History and the Archive: The Case of the Archives Nationales in the Nineteenth Century
Sandrine Sanos : The Aesthetics of Far-Right Political Discourse in 1930s France
Jean Terrier : Culture and international exchange in the work of Marcel Mauss


R-9 ELI09 Rising to the top: the formation of elites in times of political reform.
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Cecilia Rosengren
Organizer: Doina Pasca Harsanyi Discussant: Cecilia Rosengren
Mikael Alm : The Making of the Bernadotte Dynasty
Doina Pasca Harsanyi : Working for Napoleon. The case of Moreau de Saint-Méry, general administrator of Parma and Guastala.
Heli Rantala : Finnish cultural elite: an example of dynamic 19th century network


S-9 EDU05 Migration and Displacement
Room S
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeffrey Mirel : Confronting an "Invasion" of Immigrants: Americanization Education in the United State, 1890-1950
Annette Richardson : Moving Beyond Beslan: Strategies and Preparedness Against Terrorist Acts
Sian Roberts : "In the Margins of Chaos": children's experiences of refugee colonies in the Spanish Civil War


T-9 CRI09 Child Murder in North-Atlantic Europe 1700-1900
Room T
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Alysa Levene
Organizer: Katherine Watson Discussants: -
Eva Bergenlöv : Infanticide and Overlaying in Sweden c. 1680-1800
Anne-Marie Kilday : ‘Monsters of the Vilest Kind’: Attitudes towards Child Killers in Eighteenth Century Scotland
Richard Mc Mahon : Children, Homicide and the Law in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Katherine Watson : Crimes of the Blackest Dye? Judicial Responses to Child Murder in England and Wales, 1700-1900


U-9 SEX07 Historical (mis)representations
Room U
Network: Sexuality Chair: Anne Lopes
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nina Attwood : Re-thinking ‘Walter’: 'My Secret Life' and the pornographic representation of Victorian prostitution
Josie McLellan : Selling Sex under Socialism: East German erotica
Annette Timm : Lebensborn: The Sexualization of the Nazi Past in Popular Culture


W-9 LAB23 Workers' organisations in the US (1937-1970s)
Committee Room 2
Network: Labour Chair: Brian Kelly
Organizers: - Discussant: Gail Malmgreen
K. Kevyne Baar : The Motion Picture and Television Industry: Their Major Trade Unions and the McCarthy Era Blacklist
Patrick Saunders : Too Many Rail Chiefs and not enough Workers: The decline of the Railroad Unions in the U.S.
Seth Wigderson : Les Demoiselles Grévistes:” Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Shoe Strike



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
A-10 THE01 Meet the Author session with Avi Tucker: Our knowledge of the past: a philosophy of historiography and Martin L. Davies: Historics. Why History Dominates Contemporary Society
Room A
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussants: Martin Davies, Paul Roth, Karsten Stueber, Aviezer Tucker


B-10 ETH31 Voices and narrators
Room B
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Brian Gratton
Organizers: - Discussant: Brian Gratton
Jutta Birmele : Who is the Narrator? Voices of Emigrants in W.G.Sebald's Writing.
Sirin Dilli : New Sounds from Europe
Lotta Weckström : To whom are you talking?


C-10 SEX06 Homosexuality in France since 1945
Room C
Network: Sexuality Chair: Judith Schuyf
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Philippe Chassaigne : The Road to Le Marais : Gay Paris from Secrecy to Visibility in the 20th Century
Eric Fassin : Marriage Matters: The inversion of the homosexual question.
Julian Jackson : Homophile Politics in France 1954-1982
Michael Sibalis : Changing Public Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Post-1945 France


D-10 ECO08 Human Capital and Engineering
Room D
Network: Economics Chair: Jan-Pieter Smits
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Simon Niklas Hellmich : A Co-evolutionary Approach to Institutional and Technological Change in Industrial Regimes: Vocational Training, Technologies and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany 1900-1933
Camilla Josephson : The productivity slowdown and the catching up in Swedish manufacturing industries 1952-2001
Nikolaus Wolf, Steve Redding & Daniel Sturm : Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany


E-10 HEA05 Financing Health
Room E
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Godelieve van Heteren
Organizers: - Discussants: -
K.P. Companje : Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply
Bruce Fetter : The quest for clean numbers: The intersection of historical demography and classic methods for historical criticism
Stephanie Neuner : State insurance and welfare policy for "war-neurotics" of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c. 1920-1939.
Joost van Genabeek, Leo Van Bergen : Dutch history of social insurance medicine


F-10 SOC12 Social inequality in Europe's oversees empires
Room F
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Frances Gouda
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lynn Lees : Different styles of Colonial Rule: Town and Plantation in British Malaya, 1880-1930
Richard Price : Missionary Culture, Race and Inequality in early nineteenth century South Africa
Jewel Spangler : Poisoned Relationships: Slave Rebellion, Evangelical Religion, and Household Mastery on the American Plantation Periphery in the Age of Revolution
Kristy Warren : Race and Class in Bermudian Society


G-10 ASI04 Asian Historiographies
Room G
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Remy Delage : Ethnography of Ancient Records for Exploring Historical Geography of Pilgrimage in Uttaranchal (North India)
Zoe Headley : Structure and functions of the past(s) amongst a denotified caste (Tamil Nadu)
Ratna Saptari : The Uses and Limits of Event-Based History: An Industrial Strike on Jakarta's Urban Fringe
Subir Sinha : Subalterns, Trans-nationality, Globalisation: On the crises of historiographies of resistance


H-10 SOC11 Social Inequalities in health II
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Bernard Harris
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, Richard Levins : Historical impact on social inequalities that lead to health disparities
Teemu Sakari Ryymin : Social and ethnic considerations in the Northern Norwegian antituberculosis campaign, app. 1900-1940
Signild Vallgårda : Social inequality in health – a comparative study of problematisations
John Welshman : Inequalities in Health in the UK, 1940-76: The Issue of Resource Allocation
Sam Willner : Change and continuity in the regional mortality pattern in Sweden from pre-industrial to post-industrial society.


J-10 POL08 Human rights & Cold war in Europe
Room J
Network: Chair: Dimitris Kousouris
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Floribert Baudet : Human rights and the Cold War
Robin De Bruin : `Europe' and the Recovery of Justice: Post-War Dutch Political Visions


K-10 ETH08 Continuity and change of spatial mobility around World War I (1)
Room K
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Tobias Brinkmann : Germans and Transmigrants: The Impact of American Immigration Policies in Europe before and after the First World War
Elizabeth Bright Jones : Mobilizing Veterans: The Resettlement of Disabled
Thomas Klug : “Work or Fight”: Employers, the State, and Bureaucratic Methods of Controlling the Labor Market in the United States during World War I
Christiane Reinecke : Governing the Alien: Administrative Techniques and Migration Control in Great Britain and Germany, 1905-1930


L-10 NAT06 Nations, Regions, Minorities
Room L
Network: Chair: John Breuilly
Organizers: - Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Oscar Jané Checa : France and the Catalan Identity in the XVIIth century
Pille Petersoo : Scotland and its (non-)national Others: comparing 1979 and 1997
Paula Portas : Marxist Minority Nationalism: how the Galicians narrate the nation from the margins.
Janusz Ryzner : Different Problems, The Same Solution? Central European Minority Policies Under The Communist Rule.


M-10 FAM32 International Families VI: Cultures of Diaspora
Room M
Network: Family and Demography Chair: David Warren Sabean
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Elizabeth Bishop : No Global Sisterhood, This: Soviet Women in Aswan
Elizabeth Macknight : Cultural Strongholds of the Parisian Nobility in France of the Third Republic
Mario A. F. Rutten, Pravin J. Patel : Contested Family Relations and Government Policy Linkages among Patel Migrants in Britain and India


N-10 GEO05 Spaces of Exception 2. Subjects
Room N
Network: Chair: Stephen Legg
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Mats Deland : War Crimes Trials and the State of Emergency according to Agamben
Denise Eileen Mccoskey : Gladiators, Slaves, and Tribunes: Reading Roman Law, Exclusion, and Agamben’s Homo Sacer
Ulf Strohmayer : Suburban spaces of civic exception


O-10 CRI10 Police and Press in Historical Perspective
Room O
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizer: Haia Shpayer-Makov Discussant: Clive Emsley
John Drabble : Ensure that the group is disrupted, ridiculed or discredited’: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Media Campaign against Black Power Organizations, 1967-1971
Haia Shpayer-Makov : The Intricate Relationship between Journalists and Police Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian England


P-10 POL10 French democracy
Room P
Network: Chair: Matthijs Lok
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Annelien De Dijn : Critizing democracy: a theme in nineteenth-century political thought
Anne Epstein : Moral Authority, Gender, and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual: Respectability as a Political Resource, ca. 1900
Charles Walton : From Lèse-majesté to lèse-nation: the limits of free speech in democratic transition, the case of the French Revolution


Q-10 CUL10 Witnesses in Early Modern England
Room N1-O1
Network: Culture Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Malcolm Gaskill : Witnesses, witches and the problem of proof in early modern England
Alexandra Shepard : The ‘worth’ of witnesses and the language of self-description in early modern England
Andy Wood : Narrative, community and custom in English court depositions, c.1500-1750


R-10 ELI08 A foot in the door: Netherlands immigrant strategies to target European Elites, 16th- 17th centuries
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Hans Cools
Organizers: Maartje van Gelder, Michiel van Groesen Discussants: -
Marie-Charlotte le Bailly : A Dutchman in Rome: Cornelius de Fine of Bergen op Zoom (ca 1494-1570)
Maartje van Gelder : Together apart? Netherlandish attempts to carve out a place in early modern Venetian society
Michiel van Groesen : Pleasing the elite: The tailor-made construction of the De Bry collection of voyages (1590-1634)


S-10 LAB17 Labour relations at the end of the 20th century
Room S
Network: Labour Chair: Patricia Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Thane
Lars Hansson : Against the neoliberal wind. The Swedish Paper Workers Unions defensive strategies from the 1990s .
Troy Sarina : The Call for Reform: Explanations for the Introduction of Non-Union Collective Agreement Making
Carol Stephenson, Jean Spence : Women, community and the British Miners' Strike 1984-5:


T-10 ORA09 Social Memory and Constructing the Self
Room T
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gunilla Bjerén : Social memory and generations: forgetting (oral) history.
Daniela Koleva : Daughters' stories: gender, generation and memory
Mísia Reesink : Being the last. The memories of a Lakondê woman of her people and on becoming its sole real member
Graham Smith : Collective and individual memories: older women remembering in group and in individual interviews
Radmila Svarickova Slabakova : The "noble“ values of the descendants of Austro-Czech nobility – a trap of oral history?


U-10 AFR02 Gender, Health and Migration in Colonial Africa
Room U
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussant: Tundé Zack-Williams
Isabel Jiménez-Lucena, Jorge Molero-Mesa & Francisco J. Martínez-Antonio : On Oasis and Mirages: Emergent Spaces and Hybridization in Spanish Morocco's Health System
Olakunbi Olasope : Differential Equations: Bride-price and dowry in ancient Roman and Yoruba Cultures
Rachel Spronk : ‘Kenya has become a society inflamed by sexual desire’. Transformations in sexuality over three generations


V-10 ELI10 The Bernadotte Dynasty: Change and continuity in the representation of an upstart royal family in post-Napoleonic Sweden and Norway
Committee Room 1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Britt-Inger Johansson
Organizers: - Discussant: Torkel Jansson
Nils Ekedahl : Celebrating the King: The Role of Panegyric in the Representation of the Bernadotte Dynasty
Karin Hallgren : The Role of the Opera in Royal Image Building in Early 19th Century Sweden
Cecilia Rosengren : Journalism in the service of Karl XIV Johan
Per Sandin : The World of Associations – a Meeting Place for the Swedish-Norwegian Monarchy and the Bourgeois Society during the First Part of the 19th Century


W-10 SEX09 Global differences in sexuality
Committee Room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Geertje Mak
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paramita Banerjee : Shifting standards. Sexuality and Indian Popular Culture in the New Millennium
Cigdem Bugdayci : Sexualities in the grip of Romantic Love
Saskia Eleonora Wieringa : Globalization and women's same sex practices in Asia



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
A-11 LAB02 Labour Internationalism II
Room A
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Constance Bantman : Anarchist internationalism: theory and practices
Ralph Darlington : Revolutionary Syndicalist Opposition to the First World War: A Comparative Assessment
Wayne Thorpe : Seeking New Paths: Anti-Authoritarian Labour and the Defense of Revolutionary Internationalism, 1914-1918
Geert Van Goethem : Class versus Gender


B-11 ETH14 Roles of immigrant and minority organisations in European cities
Room B
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Floris Vermeulen
Organizers: - Discussant: Floris Vermeulen
Gamze Avci : Does policy matter?: A study of Turkish migrant organizations in the Netherlands and Germany
Tiziana Caponio : Policy Networks and Immigrants’ Associations in Italy: The Cases of Milan, Bologna and Naples
Pontus Odmalm : Institutional effects on migrant voluntary organisations: a comparison between Sweden, France and the UK
Sanna Saksela : Shifting between ethnic mobilization and mediation: Immigrant associations as bridge builders between local policy-makers and immigrants in Finland


C-11 FAM18 Marriage and remarriage in Eurasian perspective
Room C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tommy Bengtsson
Organizer: Satomi Kurosu Discussant: Jan Kok
George Alter, Cameron Campbell & Renzo Derosas : Household context and the timing of first marriage in Eurasian comparative
Satomi Kurosu, Marco Breschi & Christer Lundh : Economic and Household Factors of Remarriage in Eurasian Perspective
Matteo Manfredini, Martin Dribe & Michel Oris : Marriage and migration in Eurasia


D-11 GEO06 Spaces of Exception 3. Geopolitics
Room D
Network: Chair: Ulf Strohmayer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nadia Abu-Zahra : Population control for exclusion and expropriation: Why do states control people they reject as citizens?
Mathew Coleman : Exceptionality as the Rule: Liberal Geopolitics and US Immigration Policing After 9/11
Derek Gregory : Vanishing points: seriality, spaces of exception and the "war on terror"
John Morrissey : Shaping the Middle-East for the 21st Century: US Centcom's 'States of Exception'


E-11 EDU06 Understanding childhood
Room E
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Annemieke Van Drenth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Johannes Fredriksson : From education to maternal care: the discursive conditions of the transformation of pre-school governmentality in Sweden, 1830-1930
Dirk Schumann : The Paradox of Realism. How the “Realistic Turn” in Pedagogy Affected West German Schooling from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.
André Turmel : Children of the margins: lessons from the past
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson, Bengt Sandin : Swedish Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - treatment and policies in a historical perspective


F-11 SOC08 Social Endogamy in Comparative Perspective
Room F
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paul Lambert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen : Social endogamy in a comparative perspective
Bart Van De Putte, Andrew Miles : Demographic class formation in 19th century England and Belgium
Richard L. Zijdeman : Status attainment through marriage in an industrialising agricultural seaprovince, 1800-1920


G-11 THE12 Comparison in History: the case of small countries
Room G
Networks: , Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Matthieu Leimgruber : The Business of Social Policy. Commercial Insurers and the Development of Welfare States in Comparative Perspective (1890-1970)
Martin Lüpold, Gerhard Schnyder : Protecting insiders against foreigners? Aspects of corporate governance in three small states, Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands, 1900-1960


H-11 SOC14 The Welfare State: past, present and future I
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lars Magnusson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jenny Andersson : Discursive strategies of welfare state modernisation. Rethinking the social democratic and the liberal model.
Helene Brodin, Helén Strömberg : Making a Market of Care? Visions and Divisions of Responsibilities in Swedish Health and Eldercare during the late 20th century
Sofia Murhem : Privatisations of Swedish elder care- how are industrial relations affected?


I-11 LAT01 LAT01 Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Global South: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Room A-2
Network: Latin America Chair: Steven Hirsch
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien Van Der Walt Discussants: -
Arif Dirlik : Anarchism in China or Chinese Anarchism: The Importance of Local Articulations in Anarchist Practice
Dongyoun Hwang : Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitan Outlooks: Korean Anarchism in the 1920s-1930s
Kirwin Shaffer : Taking the Struggle North: Latin American Anarchists in the United States, 1890-1930
Lucien Van Der Walt, Steven Hirsch : Comparing Anarchist and Revolutionary Syndicalist Movements in the Periphery: Peru and South Africa, 1905-1928


J-11 TEC03 Water in the City
Room J
Networks: Technology , Urban Chair: Thomas Misa
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Misa
Hans Buiter : Transforming water infrastructures in Amsterdam and Utrecht, 1860-2000: power relations, social functions and urban identities.
Cornelis Disco : Living with Urban Water. “Inner” water and “outer” water in Amsterdam 1200-2000
Dieter Schott : Urban Water systems and the metamorphosis of a city: the case of Mannheim


K-11 HEA08 Health and Sexuality
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Roger Davidson
Organizers: - Discussant: Roger Davidson
Eva Canaleta Safont, Joana Maria Pujades Mora : Medical speech and municipal policy about the prostitution. Palma de Mallorca, 1862-1900
Herwig Czech : Sex and the Gender of Infection: Venereal Disease, Prostitution and Medical Control of Sexuality in Nazi Vienna
Hans Neefs : From moralism to pragmatism? A historical comparison of Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) prevention during the interwar period and the last decades of the 20th century in Belgium.
Kamila Uzarczyk : Hereditary burdened ? Discussion on the causes of prostitution in interwar Poland


L-11 ETH29 The management of migrants: Case studies from the US and Canandian Borders (1830-1930)
Room L
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizer: Barbara Lüthi Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Lisa Chilton : Managing Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada
Barbara Lüthi : “Invading bodies” and the construction of disease: Medical border control and Immigration in the USA, 1880-1920
Dorothee Schneider : Women Immigrants confront the Border


M-11 ORA10 Memory and Testimony: Between Public and Private
Room M
Network: Oral History Chair: Leyla Neyzi
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ene Kõresaar : The politics of memory in a transition society: conflicting narrative templates in Estonian post-Soviet life stories
Hugo Manson, Terry Brotherstone & Owen Logan : Claiming the memory of the North Sea: enterprise, tragedy and representation
Miroslav Vanek : Political Elites and Dissidents in the years 1969 - 1989. Biographical interviews.
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz : Prisoner to Her Own Memories: Repressed Memory vs. Official History


N-11 CUL11 Borders and Multiple Identities
Room N
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova
Zehra Ayman : Border as the space of memory and its beyond: Arakel Eloyan’s Boundary and Migration Experience
Christine Delhaye : Diversity in the cultural field of Amsterdam (working title)
Jyrki Korkki : Border identities. Ethnicity, Nationality and Conflict in Village of Raivola, 1870-1930.
Katerina Pouliasi, Maykel Verkuyten : Bicultural identities in cultural divergencies
Roxann Prazniak : Trecento Tuscany in Eurasian Context


O-11 NAT07 Genocide, Anti-Semitism, Jewish Activism
Room O
Network: Chair: John Breuilly
Organizers: - Discussant: Ton Zwaan
William Brustein : Comparative and Empirical Examination of anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
Bernardas Gailius : The Concept of Genocide - Back to Lemkin
Maurice Zeitlin : Les Resistants Juives: Who Were They?


P-11 ECO05 Role of Gender in Economic and Social development
Room P
Network: Economics Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maria Ågren : Protecting Women Through Their Legal Property Rights -- Or In Other Ways? Sweden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compared to some other European countries
Amy Erickson : Identifying women's occupations in early modern London
Ariadne Schmidt : Female access to the labour market and guilds in the early modern Netherlands.
Maria Sjöberg : "Mutter Courage" - Facts and Fiction


Q-11 CRI11 Criminal Justice in the Early Modern Era
Room N1-O1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maria R. Boes : Suicides by Unwed Mothers in Early Modern Germany
Elmar Henrich : Jurisdiction, Communal Conflict and Bounty Hunting: the Destabilization of a Central Italian Mountain Frontier in the Early Modern Period.
Olli Matikainen : "Raving madness or "Devil´s plot?" Intentionality in Early Modern Finnish Homicide Trials, 1500 - 1800


R-11 ELI12 Political and cultural exchanges in early modern Europe
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Peter Hallberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Hallberg
Marc Lerner : Conceptions of Republicanism in Eighteenth Century Switzerland.
Kirstie Mcclure : John Locke and Republican Letters
Helen Mcmanus : Beyond the Masham-Astell Dialogue: Wit, Enthusiasm, and Anonymity in Mary Astell’s Political Writings
Stefania Tutino : Political network, scientific discussions and confessional controversy: the case of Thomas White.


S-11 FAM31 International Families V: Labour Migration
Room S
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elizabeth Bishop
Organizer: Jose Moya Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Marcelo Borges : Migratory Strategies and Gender Relations among Portuguese Transnational Families 1850s-1920s
Jennifer Miller : At Home with the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Jose Moya : International Families and Labor: A Global and Historical Perspective
Raffaella Sarti : Family Ties over Borders: Transnational Families of Slaves and Migrant Domestic Workers (Past and Present in Comparative Perspective)


T-11 LAB22 Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour I
Room T
Network: Labour Chair: Nina Fishman
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Ad Knotter
Philippe Lefebvre : A persistant enigma for business history and organization theories : the emergence and rise of factory hierarchy in big business (end of XVIIIth century-beginning of XXth century)
Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jérôme Bourdieu : Wage forms and hierarchy in late 19th-century industry
Philip Slaby : Gender, Family, and Managerial Control: Immigrants and the French Coal Industry between the World Wars


U-11 WOM02 Gender, Islam, and European Multiculturalism
Room U
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Frances Gouda
Organizers: - Discussant: Karen Vintges
Linda Duits, Liesbet Van Zoonen : Headscarves and porno-chic: Disciplining girls’ bodies in the European multicultural society
Jytte Klausen : The Sexual Politics of Islam in Europe
Sonja van Wichelen, Marc de Leeuw : "Please, Go Wake Up!" Submission, Hirsi Ali, and the War on Terror in the Netherlands
Judith Vichniac : Other Reactions: Christian and Jewish Responses to the Foulard Controversy


V-11 WOM04 Women Interpret Historical Change
Committee Room 1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Hanneke Hoekstra
Organizers: - Discussant: Hanneke Hoekstra
Isabela Campoi : Gender and politics: Adalgisa Nery in the Brazilian political jornalism
Marianna Muravyeva : History at crisis: Gender studies, national identity and contemporary Russian history profession
Rosemarie Schade : Looking at America: Alice Salomon and Charlotte Lütkens


W-11 ASI02 Globalization and change
Committee Room 2
Network: Asia Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nandini Gooptu : The Indian Civil Service and Changing Conceptions of Work
Anna Lindberg : “‘Modernization’, Globalization and Change: Marriage, Gender Relations and Traditions
Nikita Sud : The global face of new Hinduism in Gujarat



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
A-12 THE07 What are books on the historians's methodology written for?
Room A
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Aronsson
Pertti Haapala : The Method and National History: method books in Finland
Markku Hyrkkänen : What is historical method and what is it for?
Jorma Kalela : Politics of History and the Methodology of Scholarly Historians
Matti Peltonen : In Defence of History: Three Generations of Historical “Method Books” from Marc Bloch to Richard J. Evans


B-12 SEX03 Intersex in a long-term perspective
Room B
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ulrike Klöppel : Hermaphroditism as paradigmatic case for the new sexual sciences at the beginning of the 19th century
Geertje Mak : The legal position of hermaphrodites in the 19th century. A legal-medical interplay.
Alison Redick : What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols, 1950-55


C-12 WOM16 Roundtable: Gender and the Politics of Representation
Room C
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Allaine Cerwonka
Organizers: - Discussant: Allaine Cerwonka
Carlota Coronado Ruiz : Italian women representation during war time: The Luce film news programs (1940-1945)
Joan E. Greer : Untying the Bonds in Late Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: a Male Artist's Radical Visual Language in an Early Feminest Periodical
Elizabeth Menon : Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France
Aurora Morcillo : Body Politics and Spanish Transition to Democracy
Francisco Segado : Spanish women in the late Franco dictatorship: an approach through political cartoons
María Del Carmen Suescun Pozas : Modern Feminity, Shattered Masculinity: The Scandal of the Female Nude During Political Crisis in Colombia, 1930-1948


D-12 LAB03 Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour II
Room D
Network: Labour Chair: Ad Knotter
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Cristina Borderías : Skill, work organization and gender in Catalan self-acting spinning
James Jaffe : Managing the Effort Problem: The Ambiguities of Workplace Supervision during British Industrialization
Peter Scholliers : "Meestergasten": work, wages and authority in the Ghent cotton mills
Patricia Van den Eeckhout : Customs and contracts: firing foremen in 19th century Ghent


E-12 POL13 Totalitarianism
Room E
Networks: Labour , Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Federigo Argentieri : Hungary 1956: historiography and interpretative debate
Uwe Backes : What does totalitarianism mean? Reformulating the Concept in the Framework of a Universal Typology of Political Systems
Maryse Ramambason : From USSR to the Federation of Russia : a democratisation process and emergence of a competitive political area
James Ryan : Tinkering with Totalitarianism: The American Communist Party's Attempts at Liberalization, 1934-1949
Mike Schmeitzner : Criticism of Totalitarian Regimes from the Left. The Council-Communist Totalitarianism Theory of Otto Rühle


F-12 NAT04 Nations and Nationalism in Northern Europe
Room F
Network: Chair: John Breuilly
Organizers: - Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Martin Estvall : Shipping on stormy seas - the Swedish maritime industry faced with the threat of nazism 1932-1936
Ilona Kemppainen : National heroes and national character
Catarina Lundström, Anna Lindkvist : Internal mission and internal colonization in 19th and 20th century Sweden
Jennica Thylin : The Standardization of the Finland-Swedish Language 1809 - 1922 from a Nation-Building Perspective


G-12 CRI12 Policing and Civil Liberties
Room G
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Joanne Klein
Organizers: Anja Johansen, Chris A. Williams Discussants: -
Margo De Koster : What did the police do? New visions on policing and day-to-day activities and strategies of the Antwerp municipal police, 1890-1914
Anja Johansen : Getting away with murder? Police accused of causing death and injury in Berlin, Paris and London c.1900-1914
Paul Lawrence : Vagrants, the Police and ‘Civil Liberties’ during the Interwar Period
Chris A. Williams : Constables for hire: the long and significant history of private 'public' policing in the UK


H-12 SOC15 The Welfare State: past, present and future II
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lars Magnusson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Klas Amark : Scaninavian Welfare Politics - universalism or wage-earners paradise?
Urban Lundberg : Social Democracy Lost: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform, 1978-1998
Klaus Petersen : Welfare reforms in Denmark 1891-2005


I-12 THE08 Newspapers and the construction of national identiy
Room A-2
Network: Theory Chair: Alun Munslow
Organizers: - Discussant: Alun Munslow
Mark Hampton : Objectivity in British Journalism 1880-1980
Paul Kerry : Zionist Ideology in Die Welt
Troy Paddock : Contested Communities: Newspapers and National Identity in Imperial Germany


J-12 HEA11 Health in Northern Europe
Room J
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Anne Hardy
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Hardy
Anne Cameron : The Establishment of General Registration in Scotland
Katarina Piuva : Mental hygiene in Sweden- Biopolitics of body and mind
Cecilia Riving : A madman in the family. Conceptions and definitions of mentally ill in the community and the asylum during the second half of the nineteenth century
Jens Widding : Conflict and Negotiation. The introduction of public health legislation in 19th century Sweden


K-12 ECO10 Historical Economic Geography
Room K
Network: Economics Chair: Oscar Gelderblom
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elisende Paluzie, Miren Lafourcade : European Integration, FDI and the Internal Geography of Trade: Evidence from Western-European Border Regions
Joan R. Roses, Daniel A. Tirado : Regional Convergence and Industrialization in Spain: a long-run


L-12 URB06 Drugs and Big Cities, 1960s - 1980s
Room L
Network: Urban Chair: Virginia Berridge
Organizers: - Discussants: -
John Davis : The topography of drug use in London, 1960-1980
Alex Mold : The Development of a National Drug Problem and the Funding of Services for Drug Users in Britain During the 1980s
Klaus Weinhauer : Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Drugs in the Media: Press Images of Drug Consumption in London and Berlin during the 1960/70s


M-12 ETH28 Migration to and within the Americas
Room M
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Donna Gabaccia
Organizers: - Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Margo Anderson : Race and Ethnic Classification and the McCarran Walter Act
Jennifer Bickham Mendez : Suburban Space Invaders: Globalization, Gender, and Latino/a Migration
Christopher Paetzold : Cuba, Spain and transatlantic nationalisms, 1885-1930


N-12 CUL12 Relationship with the Past among Youngsters
Room N
Network: Culture Chair: Ed Jonker
Organizers: - Discussant: Ed Jonker
Keith Barton, Alan W. Mccully : Secondary students’ perspectives on school and community history in Northern Ireland
Lies Klerkx : How do youngsters cope with the past?
Kees Ribbens : A historical canon for whom?


O-12 WOM14 Gender and Professionalism
Room O
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Katrin Schultheiss
Organizers: - Discussant: Katrin Schultheiss
Michelle Denbeste : Russian Women Physicians 1867-1905: Professionalism, Feminism, Radicalism
Sonja Matter : Contested Experts. Swiss Women in the Field of Professional Social Work and Welfare (1900-1960)
Susan McGann : Nurses are Citizens: the politics of the College of Nursing (UK) as a non-feminist organisation in the interwar period
Mary Jane Mossman : Women Lawyers of the 19th century: gender, law and the legal professions


P-12 FAM28 Family strategies I
Room P
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Sølvi Sogner
Organizer: Béatrice Craig Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig : Surviving mechanization: inter-generational occupational strategies among skilled workers during the French industrial revolution.
Claire Dolan : Collective biographies : the success and failure of family strategies. The « procureurs » in urban Southern France, 1550-1650
Nathalie Ostroot : Love and Money: Family and gender patterns in the choice of occupations in 19th century France
Noriko Tsuya, Satomi Kurosu : The Demographic Effects of Household Socioeconomic Status in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Farming Villages 1716-1870


Q-12 LAB31 The Origins of Stalinism
Room N1-O1
Network: Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Kevin Murphy Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Alexei Gusev : Totalitarian phenomenon in interpretations of Russian Dissident Marxists
Mike Haynes : Rethinking Class Power in the Russian Factory 1929-1991
Kevin Murphy : Soviet Workers and the Formation of the Stalinist System


R-12 LAT02 Affect, Sentiment, and Democracy in Political Cultures of the Americas
Room R
Network: Latin America Chair: Kim Clark
Organizer: Lessie Jo Frazier Discussants: -
Jennifer Burrell : “The Vicissitudes of Transition: Agency and Waiting in Post-war Guatemala”
Deborah Cohen : Ties that Bind: Race, Democracy, and Mexican Migration to the U.S. In the Age of Modernity
Lessie Jo Frazier : Memory as Modes of Affect for Political Subject Formation in Chile’s Democratic ‘Tradition’
Laura M. Westhoff : Democratic Social Knowledge in Progressive Era Chicago


S-12 RUR08 From one generation to another: rural heritage systems
Room S
Network: Rural Chair: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Organizer: Mats Morell Discussant: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Iréne A. Flygare, Mats Morell & Ildikó Asztalos & Ann Grubbström : Transferring Landed Property - Gender, Power and Inheritance in Sweden 1880-2000
Piotr Guzowski : Inheritance system of Polish Peasants in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Sofia Holmlund : Gender, Inheritance, and the Development of Property Rights in 19th Century Sweden
Mats Morell : Generational change and property transfer in sweden in the late 19th and early 20th century
Antonio Presedo Garazo : Inheritance of the House of Montaos in Galicia during the XVthh and XVIth centuries


T-12 ORA11 Cultural Confrontations in Oral History: Comparative Perspectives in the American Context
Room T
Network: Oral History Chair: Marsha Siefert
Organizer: Deborah Kwon Discussants: -
Sagal Ali : Asylum Narratives and the Reconstruction of Collective Memory: The secondary migration of Somali Bantu to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Deborah Kwon : Confronting the Menories of a Past Generation through Oral History
Richelle Schrock : Gendered Narratives of Forced Migration: From Somalia to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Nancy Yan : Memory, Pan-Ethnicity, and the Erosion of Cultural Animosities in Oral History


U-12 WOM24 Representations of the Sexed Body in Medicine and Society
Room U
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ivan Crozier
Organizers: - Discussant: Ivan Crozier
Hans-Georg Hofer : Challenging sex differences when becoming old. Discourses on the “male menopause” in Twentieth-century German medicine
Christabelle Sethna : "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex and the Single Girl, 1960-1970


W-12 HEA03 Health, Africa and Race
Committee Room 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Bruce Fetter
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Jennifer Brier : Internationalizing AIDS
Kristen Intemann : Science, Health, and Values: Ideology and the Concept of Race in U.S. Epidemiology 1980-Present
Julie Livingston : Debility and the History of AIDS Care in Botswana
Rosa Medina-Domenech : Scientific technologies of national identity as colonial legacies, The case of Spain and the African colony of Equatorial Guinea (1900-1959)


X-12 TEC06 Water in the City II: Canal Boat Tour. See also special events.
Canal Boat
Network: Technology Chairs: -
Organizers: Hans Buiter, Cornelis Disco Discussants: -


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