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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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Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30

M-4 URB01 Cities and Urban Unrest, 1500-2000
Room M

Network: Urban	Chair: Shane Ewen
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

T.K. Vinod Kumar : Administrative Response to Public unrest in the Malabar
Lars Nilsson, Mats Berglund : City authorities and public unrest in Stockholm 1500-2000
Jelle van Lottum, Harm Kaal : A tumultuous town: the Amsterdam City Government and Public Unrest, 1848-2000
Joseph Julius Varga : “For Speaking Jewish in a Jewish Neighborhood”: Civil Rights and Community/Police Relations During the Post-War Red Scare, 1919-1922.

Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30

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

Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45

M-6 URB03 Managing the City 1: Urban Elites
Room M

Network: Urban	Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Stefan Couperus : Backstage municipal politics. The momentum of administrative change in the Netherlands and Amsterdam 1900-1930
Michael Limberger : The advantage of the city and the service to the king. Political discourse and strategies in the Antwerp city council in the 17th century
Charlotte Wildman : Civic Elites in a Spectacular Environment: Liverpool and Manchester, 1918 -1939

Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15

R-7 URB04 Managing the City 2: Shaping Urban Life
Room R

Network: Urban	Chair: Leif Jerram
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Shane Ewen : Regulating the modern urban landscape: fire, technology and the urban environment in Victorian Britain
Sandor Horvath : The ‘Great Tree Gang’ and the Urban Space. Moral panics and mental maps in the socialist Budapest
Brigitte Le Normand : Socialist suburbs? Urban growth and policy in Belgrade, 1945-1968

Friday 24 March 2006 14:15

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

Friday 24 March 2006 16:30

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

Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30

V-13 URB05 Media Reconstructions of the City in the Aftermath of War
Committee Room 1

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussant: Karen Adler

Karl Christian Fuehrer : The Vanished City: Representations of the Ravages of War in Hamburg Newspapers, 1943 - 1948
Elizabeth Harvey : Destruction and Reconstruction: German Women Photographers and Images of the Post-War City
Helen Jones : Cities celebrating, commemorating and reconstructing the Second World War