Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 24 March 2006 8:30 (single time slot)
Wed 22 March
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Thu 23 March
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Fri 24 March
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Sat 25 March
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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


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