Preliminary Programme

Showing: Theory (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
J-1 THE02 "Lieux de memoire" in Europe: National Receptions and Appropriations of a Historiographical Concept
Room J
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sarah Gensburger : "Les lieux de mémoire" in France: from a concept to a realm of memory
Chantal Kesteloot : Belgian "lieux de mémoire": an impossible project?
Sonja Kmec : "Lieux de mémoire" in Luxembourg: (de)constructing "identities"
Benoît Majerus : "Lieux de mémoire" - a European paradigm?



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
I-3 THE10 Historiography, comparison and national identity
Room A-2
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eugenia Afinoguenova : Pedro de Madrazo's Theory of History and the Representations of the Spanish Nation in the Prado Museum, 1843-1910.
Daniela Saxer : The emergence of new objects of historical knowledge: The «Schweizerische Urkundenregister» as factual history (1850-1880)
Allan Smith : Circumstance Differs and Circumstance Counts: The National/Transnational Interface in European/North American Historical Writing
Stephen Tuck : Looking Backwards, Thinking Forwards: the present-minded focus of modern American historical writing."
Galia Valtchinova : “Let me tell you the truth…”: ‘Balkan’ Antiquity in historiography, fiction, and visionary experience



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
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



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
K-7 WOM18 Masculinities and Feminist Historiography
Room K
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Stefan Dudink
Organizers: - Discussants: Anita Göransson, Sonya Rose
Marilyn Lake : Men against Men
Ann-Catrin Östman : Masculinity, citizenship and traditions of agrarian historiography


T-7 THE04 From historicism to historicity: traversing Foucault with Slavoj Zizek
Room T
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner
Heiko Feldner : The historian's gaze: the rise of scientific objectivity
Fabio Vighi : The strange case of the missing gaze in film historiography



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



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
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



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


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



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
F-14 THE06 Gender and Historical Studies
Room F
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Krista Cowman : Gendering Militancy Before the First World War
Simon Gunn : From Theory to Method: Gender and HIstorical Studies
June Hannam, Karen Hunt : Politics and Gender: Re-framing women's politics in inter-war Britain
Wendy Webster : War, Gender and Memory: Victors and Vanquished in World War II



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
W-15 THE09 Trespassing the green line. Can perspectives from environmental history, social history and cultural history be succesfully integrated?
Committee Room 2
Network: Theory Chair: Wulf Kansteiner
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lars Berggren : Historiographical perspectives on work and environmental history
Fredrik Björk : Eating out. Consumption and ecological change: the case of the Swedish sugar beet revolution
Krzysztof Brzechczyn : The State of Ecological Non-Equilibrium and the Types of Historical Development. An Attempt at Theoretical Analysis of Decline of Classical Maya Civilisation
Stephen Mosley : Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History
Olena Smyntyna : Environmentalism in prehistoric societies studies: To the problem of chronological frontiers of environmental history



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
K-16 THE03 The Nature of Historical Explanations and Historical Narratives
Room K
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul Roth
David Carr : Narrative Explanation
Tor Egil Förland : Mentality as a Social Emergent: Can the Zeitgeist Have Explanatory Power?
Karsten Stueber : Empathy and Reason Explanations


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