Preliminary Programme

Showing: Elites and forerunners (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
E-1 RUR04 Elites and progress in agriculture
Room E
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Bourquin : Country Gentlemen and Noble Agronomists. Agriculture and Noble Identity in Modern France (XVIth-XVIIIth Century)
Stefan Brakensiek : Experts and progress in agriculture, Germany 1750-1850
Richard W Hoyle : Landowning elites and progress in English agriculture, 1500-1800
María Dolores Muñoz Dueñas : Élites, liberal reformation and development in Spanish agriculture (1750-1868)


R-1 ElI01 ELI01: Enlightened Loyalties: Conceptual Construction of Social Identities in Europe
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Pasi Ihalainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Britt-Inger Johansson
Peter Hallberg : The Making of "the Middle Classes": Ideology and Identity Formation in the Age of Democractic Revolutions
Jouko Nurmiainen : Particular interests in common good. Finnish politicians, fatherland and nation in the 18th century
Jon Stobart : Who were the urban gentry? A social elite in English provincial towns, 1680-1760
Charlotta Wolff : Love of fatherland and hate of sovereignty. Aristocratic philosophy of state in 18th-century Sweden



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
G-3 MID07 Urban Elites and Aristocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms I: Status and Privilige
Room G
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: Tuula Hockman
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussant: Peter Stabel
María Asenjo-González : Aristocratic ambitions in Oligarchic Urban Society: Social and political consequences in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Angel Galán Sanchez : "Hidalgos moriscos": from Muslims merchants and fuqaha to Christian Nobles in the Kingdom of Granada
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Performing Aristocratic Roles? The Building Process of Status and Privilege in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero : The elites of Pamplona at the end of the Middle Ages


R-3 ELI03 Cultural Networking, Identities and Sociability in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: - Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Bård Frydenlund : The Norwegian Anker-family in relation to Danish, Swedish and British trade and politics 1780-1820
Göran Norrby : Noble Identities in 19th Century Sweden
Douglas Palmer : The Sacred Heart and Sociability: The Clerical Elite of the Eighteenth-Century Jansenism
Edwin van Meerkerk : The Learned Journal as a Cultural Network in the Enlightenment



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
K-4 MID08 Urban elites and artistocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms II: Privilige Merchant elite and aristocratic manners
Room K
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussant: Peter Stabel
Damien Coulon : Ruling Class and Trade at the Later Middle Ages
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete : “Gentlemen-Merchant” in the XVth century urban Castilian: forms of life and social aspirations.
David Igual : Social advancement of merchant elite in the cities of Valence Kingdom
Flocel Sabate : The treason of the medieval bourgeoisie: a mutation of values or a bibliographic myth?


R-4 ELI04 Church and Nation in Late Eighteenth-Century Protestant Europe
Room R
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Religion Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Organizers: - Discussant: Joris van Eijnatten
Michael Bregnsbo : Church, Clergy and National and Ethnical Identity within the Danish Composite Monarchy in late eighteenth Century
Pasi Ihalainen : Clerical Constructions of National Community in Late-Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe: Comparisons Between England, The Netherlands, France, Prussia and Sweden
Carl Joachim Östlund : The monarchy and the rhetoric of the nation in Swedish pulpits during the late-eighteenth century
Peter van Rooden : Religion and Nationalism in the Dutch Republic



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
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.



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
O-6 ELI07 Economy, Regime and Resistance
Room O
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Organizers: - Discussants: Michael Jonas, Konstantinos Raptis
Nives Rumenjak : Ethnicity and Modernization: the Serbian Elite in Croatia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century
José Antonio Sánchez Román : Corporatism Revisited: Economic Elites and the State in Argentina, 1900-1945
Nataliya Senkivska, Maryna Kachynska : Western Ukrainian Elite Confronting the Soviet Totalitarian Regime
Maciej Tyminski : Managers and the Regional Party Committee. The Case of Warsaw in the Stalinist Time.



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
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



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
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)


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



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
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.



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
R-13 ELI13 Cultural and Social Elites on the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Douglas Palmer
Organizers: - Discussant: Douglas Palmer
Ulla Koskinen : "Benevolent Lord" and "Willing Servant": manipulation of social ideals in the correspondence of Arvid Henriksson Tawast, 1573-1599
Anne Mclaren : Renegotiating ‘carnal bands’ in early modern England and Scotland
Fernanda Olival : The Portuguese knights of the Military Orders (17-18th centuries): what kind of elite?



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
M-14 ELI02 Polity, Power and Taste
Room M
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Organizers: - Discussant: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Michael Carignan : William Hogarth and the Vantage Point of Bourgeois Consciousness
Markku Kekäläinen : James Boswell's Theory of Urban Politeness
Ola Teige : A merchant in the capital - A Norwegian merchant in Copenhagen 1703-1712


O-14 ELI14 Elites in Transition, 19th and early 20th centuries
Room O
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Hilde Greefs : Continuity or change? Business elites during transition moments in history. The case of Antwerp in the first half of the 19th Century
Antti Häkkinen : Captain Kock - A Personification of the "Moment of Madness", the Great Strike in Finland 1905
Aappo Kähönen : State-Making, Elites and Political Culture: The Finnish Case of 1905 in the Russian Empire
Janne Nokki : Old and New Perspectives for the Nobility in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1850-1880: The Case of Count Friedrich Thun-Hohenstein.



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
R-15 ELI15 Elites, Democratization and Knowledge
Room R
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Antti Häkkinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Urban Lundberg
William C. Lubenow : Elite Anxiety and the Organization of Knowledge in Europe from the Renaissance Through the Cold War
Tomas Nilson, Martin Åberg : Sweden´s Road to Democracy - the contribution of various regional and local elites
Eva Schandevyl : Cultural and Political Identities within Leftist Intellectuals in 20th Century Brussels
Marja Vuorinen : Different media, different audiences, different messages? Print publicity as a tool for hegemony


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