Preliminary Programme

Showing: room G (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
G-1 POL17 Justice and Statebuilding I
Room G
Networks: Criminal Justice , Chair: Matthijs Lok
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Zacharoula Kouki : The right to Reform and the reform of Right: the show trials of the late 60s in the Soviet Union
Dimitris Kousouris : Justice, Ideology and Politics of Liberation: The Winners' Law as Established by the Trials of Collaborators and War Criminals. Greece, Italy and France
Michail Sotiropoulos : State building through Law formation: the role of university (law) professors in the case of 19th century Greece and Italy



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
G-2 WOM19 Roundtable: Women and Investment
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Kirsti Niskanen
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Ågren
Mary Beth Combs : A Measure of Legal Independence: The Married Women's Property Act and the Portfolio Allocations of British Wives
David Green : Women providing for women: money, emotion and duty 1800-1870
Stefania Licini : Women as investors, some evidence from the case of Milan, Italy (1860-1900)
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford : “A nesting instinct”? Women investors and risk in England 1800-1930
Alastair Owens : Feathering the nest: property, investment and the English bourgeois household 1800-1860
Stephanie Wyse : Gender, wealth and margins of empire: women's financial decision making in New Zealand c.1890 to 1950



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



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
G-4 WOM05 Russian Women's Rights
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Natalia Pushkareva : Feminism in Russia: Two Centuries of History
Rochelle Ruthchild : The Myth of 'Bourgeois' Feminism in Russia, 1905-1917
Igor Shkolnikov : Women's Liberation Movement in Russia in the Light of British Women's Suffrage.
Olga Shnyrova : "If woman deserves to mount the scaffold, she deserves to enter the parliament": Women's Eguality Union and struggle for political rights of women during the first Russian revolution



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
G-5 RUR06 Welfare and standards of living in the rural world
Room G
Network: Rural Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Organizers: - Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Antonio D. Cámara : Living standards in the rural world during the transition to the industrial society: a case study from the South of Europe
Lucienne Neraud : Mexican and Mexican-American farmworkers and the war of poverty in Texas (1960s-early 1970s)
Josep Pujol, Roser Nicolau : Food and standards of living in a Catalan industrial town, 19th-20th centuries.
Lanero Táboas : Looking for "consensus": the spread of social assurances into Galician rural world (1940 - 1975)



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
G-6 ANT02 Competition in the Ancient World
Room G
Network: Antiquity Chair: Henri Willy Pleket
Organizers: - Discussant: Henri Willy Pleket
Nicholas Fisher : Benefits of organised competition in Classical Greece
Laurens E. Tacoma : The councillor's dilemma. Political competition in third-century Roman Egypt
Hans Van Wees : Competition in the Ancient World



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
G-7 CUL05 Travellers and Travel Narratives. Nature and Culture in the Discourse of Modernity
Room G
Network: Culture Chair: Ricardo Hector Cicerchia
Organizer: Ricardo Hector Cicerchia Discussant: Joan Bestard
Kris Alexanderson : International Maritime Culture, 1920-1940
Carmen Andras : British travel literature about Romania in the 18-19th centuries
Anna Konstancja Marszal : The Imagine of Rome in the Grand Tour Tradition
Ricardo Palma : Travel and Scientific Reports in the era of Modernity: Our most faithful travelling companions: lice
Angela Thompson, Jason Thompson : Poltergeist! Frederick Catherwood in the Old World and the New



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
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.



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
G-10 ASI04 Asian Historiographies
Room G
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Remy Delage : Ethnography of Ancient Records for Exploring Historical Geography of Pilgrimage in Uttaranchal (North India)
Zoe Headley : Structure and functions of the past(s) amongst a denotified caste (Tamil Nadu)
Ratna Saptari : The Uses and Limits of Event-Based History: An Industrial Strike on Jakarta's Urban Fringe
Subir Sinha : Subalterns, Trans-nationality, Globalisation: On the crises of historiographies of resistance



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
G-12 CRI12 Policing and Civil Liberties
Room G
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Joanne Klein
Organizers: Anja Johansen, Chris A. Williams Discussants: -
Margo De Koster : What did the police do? New visions on policing and day-to-day activities and strategies of the Antwerp municipal police, 1890-1914
Anja Johansen : Getting away with murder? Police accused of causing death and injury in Berlin, Paris and London c.1900-1914
Paul Lawrence : Vagrants, the Police and ‘Civil Liberties’ during the Interwar Period
Chris A. Williams : Constables for hire: the long and significant history of private 'public' policing in the UK



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
G-13 WOM11 Gender and Communism, East and West
Room G
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Anna Loutfi
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Gal
Tiina Lintunen : "Dangerous to the State and Society”: 'Red' women in court after the Finnish Civil War
Basia Nowak : ‘Inconvenient’ for the Party-State: The League of Women in Poland and the Dissolution of Workplace Chapters in 1966
Raluca Maria Popa : “Women of the Whole (Socialist) World”: The Involvement of Women’s Organizations from State Socialist Hungary and Romania in International Women’s Activism, 1965 –1990



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
G-14 EDU07 From Letter to Library
Room G
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maurizio Lupo : Literacy in Southern Italy: a different historical approach (XVIIIth - XiXth century)
Lorna R. McLean : Making Canadians: Education, Identities and Citizenship, 1930s-1950s
Karen Taylor : Reading in the Provinces: The Library Inventory of the Collège de Castelnaudary, 1792
Kaisa Vehkalahti : Lessons in self-discipline: Educational encounters in the early 20th century letter writing



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
G-15 REL06 Roundtable: Gender and Religion
Room G
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Francisca De Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Kristen Ghodsee
Maria Bucur : Gender, Religion, and Collective Memory in 20th Century Eastern Europe
Bart Latré : Feminist Christians and the feminization of religion: a case study of groups in Flanders (1979-1990)
Mohamed Malchouch : Gender and masculinity in Islam
Georgeta Nazarska : Women from Religious Minorities in the Bulgarian Political, Economic and Cultural Life (19th -20th Centuries)
Teresa Polowy : Beyond Cookbooks and Choirs: Women's Role in the Doukhobor Community in Canada


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