Preliminary Programme

Showing: room F (all days)
Wed 22 March
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Thu 23 March
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Fri 24 March
    8:30
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Sat 25 March
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All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
F-1 HEA01 Big People
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Organizers: - Discussant: Patrick Zylberman
Anne Hardy, Nils Rosdahl : Building confidence in biological products: Thorvald Madsen, Denmark and International Health between the wars
Socrates Litsios : Selskar 'Mike' Gunn (1883-1944): A born imaginative Leader
Lion Murard : Health policy between the international and the local: Jacques Parisot in Nancy and Geneva (1919-1939)
Esteban Rodriguez Ocaña : Gustavo Pittalugia (1876-1956): Science as a weapon for social reform in time of crisis



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
F-2 HEA02 State interventions and private negotiations in the practice of colonial medicine
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Rosa Medina-Domenech
Organizers: - Discussant: Rosa Medina-Domenech
Nandini Bhattacharya : "Tropical Aggregation of Labour?" Contested territories in the tea plantation enclaves in colonial Bengal, India
Sanjoy Bhattacharya : Marking the limits of state power?: Reassessing the dynamics of smallpox vaccination in British India, 1857-1947
Kai Khiun Liew : “Everybody’s business becomes nobody’s business.” Demarcating responsibilities of public health in the Rubber plantations of British Malaya (1900s-1942)
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan : Contesting the claims of Colonial'scientific' medicine: Indigenous Medical Practitioners and the politics of recasting scientificauthority in British Colonial India (1890-1940)



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
F-3 FAM22 Spiritual kinship in urban context
Room F
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Virginie De Luca
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Guido Alfani : Spiritual Kinship and the others. Ivrea, 1480-1620
Annick Foucrier-Binda : Baptisms at Notre-Dame des Victoires, San Francisco, California, and the networks of a community of French immigrants (1856-1880)
Francisco García González, Cosme Jesús Gómez : Fictive kinship and social networks in meridional Spain ( Albacete, 1750-1850)
Vincent Gourdon : Families and baptisms in great cities : Paris and Rome in the XIXth century.



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
F-4 ORA07 Healthcare: Personal and Organisational Narratives
Room F
Network: Oral History Chair: Graham Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Erzsebet Barat : Feminist Rethinking of Narratology for Life Story Reserach
Philippe Denis : Interviewing children in the context of AIDS. A critical reflection on the practice of the Memory Box Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Anu Kajamaa : “Employees narrated Memories as a valuable Resource in organizational Change and Development of Hospital Work



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
F-5 FAM19 Permanent female celibacy and social mobility
Room F
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre Discussant: Sheila Cooper
Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre : Permanent female celibacy and social mobility in the Pyrenees :The Basque case in the nineteenth century
Sarah Pech : Matrimonial situation and possibilities of social rise of the maidservants in Madrid in the second half of the XVIIth century
Grazyna Ryczkowska : Beyond the proper age at marriage: social trajectories to final celibacy in early nineteenth century Geneva



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
F-6 HEA06 Health and Nations
Room F
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Lion Murard
Organizers: - Discussant: Lion Murard
Julie Boddy : Radiation Sickness and Nation Building in the United States during the Cold War: Testimony to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou : Orientations of the health policy in Greec during the inter-war period: the first attempts to develop social hygiene services for children
Jose Martínez Pérez : "On 'the fit' vs. 'parasites': Scientific Management, Orthopaedics,disability and the modernisation of the Nation (Spain, 1922-1932)
José Pardo-Tomás, Àlvar Martínez-Vidal & Enrique Perdiguero : “Per la Ciència i per la Pàtria”: medical catalanism (1898-1936)



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
F-7 LAB27 Business interest, professionalism and changing borders of public and private. Transformation of employer strategies after World War II
Room F
Network: Labour Chair: Pauli Kettunen
Organizer: Pauli Kettunen Discussant: Klaus Petersen
Susanna Fellman : Employer Strategies and Upper White-Collar Employees in Finnish Firms in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gunnel Maria Holmér : Immigrant Workers in the Swedish Glass Industry 1940 -1970
Melissa Kerr : Managers, Workers but where were the unions? Labour Management Practices in Non-Union Firms 1945-1970
Jussi Vauhkonen : Finnish employers’ strategies in the development of statutory social insurance 1954–1964



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
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



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
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



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
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



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
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



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
F-13 GEO07 Spaces of Exception 4. Terror
Room F
Network: Chair: Claudio Minca
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Matthew Hannah : Spaces of exception and unexceptionable spaces in the 'German Autumn' of 1977
Simon Reid-Henry : Exceptional Sovereignty: Guantánamo Bay and U.S. imperialism in geo-historical perspective



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
F-15 ORA15 Communicating Memories, Understanding Narratives
Room F
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jaap Bos : Identity work of young adults in self-narratives
Valerie Kaneko Lucas : Remembring Japanese American Internment: The Challenges of Interpretation and Translation
Michelle Molina : Spiritual Selves: Mexican Women's Self-Discovery in the Late-Colonial Period
Peter Pehrson : Narrative Mneme in Unpublished Diaries by American Women



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
F-16 WOM21 Labour contracts and marriage contracts
Room F
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Laura Frader
Organizers: - Discussant: Laura Frader
Zara Bersbo : The hidden emancipation. Were changes in 1915: s law of marriage and divirce mainly supporting male emancipation? A study of attitudes to paid and unpaid work in Sweden 1915-1974
Lina Galvez Muñoz : Exploring the Gender Wage Differentials in Spain, 1900-1930
Linda Lane : “Bringing Home the Bacon – Female contributions to family income 1920-1940.”
Kirsti Niskanen : Contracts of Labour and Marriage - A Generations Approach


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