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Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
A-1 POL02 European Citizenship and Civil Society I
Cave A
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne van Wageningen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Oonagh Breen : European Regulation of Charitable Organisations in the Twenty-First Century: The path less taken?
Annette Schrauwen : EU citizenship, free movement and solidarity
Lia Versteegh : The European Citizen: a Brick Stone to European Integration


B-1 ELI01 The academe as an elite arena I: Early Modern Period to First World War
Cave B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Robert Anderson
Organizer: Marja Jalava Discussant: Robert Anderson
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : Advancing with the Army, the formation of the professional elite
Daniel Flueckiger : Elite transformation and Democratization
Jan Eivind Myhre : The Cradle of Elites - the University of Oslo in the 19th Century
László Szögi : The Hungarian University and Academical System as Cultural Mediator in Eastern Europe in the 18th-19th Centuries


C-1 RUR01 Changing the rural in the Early Modern Period
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Gareth Austin : Moneylending and Witchcraft: The Moral Economy of Accumulation in Colonial Asante (Ghana)
Isabelle Devos : Environment, health and rural welfare in Flanders, 1700-1850
Per Hallén : Standard of living of farmers and rural workers in Sweden 1750-1900.
Clif Hubby : Violence and Local Society in Late Medieval Bavaria: A Look at the Evidence
Reinoud Vermoesen : Rural commercialisation of Inner Flanders (17th-18th century)


D-1 WOM11 Gender and Modernization in Balkan Societies
Cave D
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Serpil Cakir : Women's Movement in Turkey: Historical Process and Changing Paradigms
Krassimira Daskalova : Women within the "communication circuit" in Modern Bulgaria (1878-1944)
Dubravka Stojanovic : Misogyny as Modernization? The Case of Belgrade Vaudvilles 1890-1914
Polly Thanailaki : The role of women's press in the shaping of female model in the 19th century Greek society


E-1 ELI14 Mobilities, integration and formalisation of social relationships in the urban context
Cave E
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Guido Alfani : Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Ivrea. XVIth-XVIIth Centuries
Etienne Couriol : How urban newcomers use spiritual kinships : Lyons in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries
Antonio Irigoyen : Clergy as migrant receiver in Early Modern Spain
Stéphane Minvielle : Formalisation of social relationships in urban context : The integration of migrants in 18th century Bordeaux


F-1 AFR05 Knowledge, Health and Utilities in colonial and Post-colonial Africa
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Africa Chair: E. Ike Udogu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Bohman : Framing the Water Challenge - Institutional Change within the Ghanaian Water Supply and Sanitation Sector 1957 - 2005
Markku Hokkanen : Reflections of microscopic gaze – tensions in colonial imaginations in Central Africa
Ana Roque : Knowledge and use of medical herbs and plants in the central Coast of Mozambique in the late 19th century. Contribution for a better understanding of the present day situation
Tundé Zack-Williams : African Leadership, Nation State and the Weberian Project


G-1 HEA01 Recent Public Health I: Research and Strategies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Virginia Berridge
Luc Berlivet : In the shadow of biomedicine. The transformation of public health research in France, 1941-1978
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Health and Hygiene Situation in Yugoslavia 1945 - 1955
Alex Mold : Health Consumerism and Public Health in Britain Since the 1960s: The Role of Patient Consumer Groups
Sabine Schleiermacher : The Impact on Public Health of Return Medical Refugees in the Eastern Part of Germany after World War II
Sigrid Stoeckel : The Individual: the medical viewpoint versus the public health perspective in post-war Western Germany and Great Britain


I-1 URB01 Urban Description and Urban Form (Portugal, 1800-1950)
Room 2.1
Network: Urban Chair: Magda Pinheiro
Organizers: - Discussant: Magda Pinheiro
Paula Raquel Ferreira : The city of scholars
Nuno Pinheiro : Lisbon in films and photos
Conceição Tiago : The urban frontiers
Maria João Vaz : Unsecured places and disorder
Frédéric Vidal : Lisbon in city directory and city guide at 19th


J-1 CUL01 Dynamic Reconstruction of the Past in Societies of Transition
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Nikolai Vukov
Organizers: Miglena Ivanova, Nikolai Vukov Discussant: Nikolai Vukov
Miglena Ivanova : Inscribing Global Identities into the Urban Space. Recent Bulgarian Graffiti Writers and their Identity Construction
Marusa Pusnik : Mediating Communism: Slovenian Media Coverage of the Recent Past and Historical Reprogramming
Sylvia Stancheva : (Re)presenting History in Museums in post-socialist Bulgaria


L-1 POL01 Postwar Europe
Room 5.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Sophie Bollen : Unworthy to Serve the Nation. The professional purge of the government administration after Word War II in Belgium.
Maria Kyriakidou, Sotiris Themistokleous : The ‘invisible’ resistance and the long road to democratization in post-war Greece
Russel Lemmons : “Fight like Thälmann:” The April 1986 Dedication of the Ernst Thälmann Memorial,Political Memory and Legitimacy in the German Democratic Republic
Diogo Moreira, José Reis Santos & José Tavares Castilho : Parliamentary Elites and Political Regime: Theoretical Implications of the Portuguese Case
Liesbeth van de Grift : From Fascism to Communism – The ‘purificaton’ of the security apparatus in Romania (1944-1948)


M-1 WOR01 World Regions in Transnational Perspective
Room 5.2
Network: World History Chair: Katja Naumann
Organizers: - Discussant: Katja Naumann
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos : Whose multinational? The relationship between British and Belgian national interests in the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (1906-1925).
Maria Hidvegi : Marketing strategies and economic nationalism in the interwar years
Sarah Lemmen : Czechs in the world: National representations and global encounters, 1890-1938
Mathias Mesenhoeller : Poland and the Polish Diaspora Communities in the 20th century


N-1 FAM0I Construction of Blood I: Kinship Discourses from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Part 1: Cultural Methaphors of Incorporation
Room 6.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Gérard Delille
Anita Guerreau-Jalabert : Flesh and Incorporation in Medieval Texts
Max S. Hering Torres : "Purity of Blood" in Early Modern Spain
Bernhard Jussen : Considerations on the semantics of sanguis and consanguinitas in the Middle Ages
David Warren Sabean : Theological and literary discourses of blood in Baroque Culture


O-1 ETH10 Emigration, Flight and Expulsion - Multiple Reasons and Settings of Migration around World War II
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Heinrich Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Johannes-Dieter Steinert
Traude Bollauf : Escape from Nazi–Austria and Germany to England through a Domestic Permit
Siegfried Mattl : Migration and community-building in Vienna after 1945
Barbara Stelzl-Marx : Stalin's long arm: Soviet forced labourerers in the "Third Reich" and their fate after 1945
Andrea Strutz : Labour migration from Austria to Canada after World War II


P-1 CRI01 Military Justice
Room 8.1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: René Lévy
Organizer: René Lévy Discussant: René Lévy
Guillaume Baclin : "Unpatriotics " facing military jurisdictions. Belgian military justice at the end of World War One (1918-1919)
Bob Lilly, Bobbie Ticknor & Brandy Girton : Murder in the Military: US Soldiers in the European Theater of Operations, WW II
Stephen Miller : "Duty or Crime?: Defining Acceptable Behavior in the British Army in South Africa, 1899-1902"


Q-1 LAB27 Gender and Labour
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Labour Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Christine Collette : 'The Newer Eve': women, feminists and the Labour Party
Carles Enrech : Gender and textile trade unionism in Spain (1840-1923)
Jordi Ibarz : The sexual division of work in the glass industry in Spain (1884-1931)


S-1 ANT05 Social Order in Antiquity
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Nicholas Fisher
Organizers: - Discussant: Nicholas Fisher
Natalie Angel : Beyond the Pale: Lower Class Women in Ancient Roman Society
António Joaquim Ramos Dos Santos : 'Social Order in Ancient Babylonia
Hans Van Wees : 'Social (dis)order in archaic Greece'.


T-1 THE07 Ways of Constructing the Other in Norway - past and present
Room 9
Network: Theory Chair: Claudia Lenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Lenz
Cora Alexa Døving : when your group becomes your destiny - stereotypes and identity politics
Øivind Kopperud : “He didn’t mean to harm any good Norwegian” – the acquittal of Knut Rød, one of the organisers of the Norwegian Jew’s deportation to Auschwitz
Irene Levin : Norwegian Jews being "the others" of the Nation?


U-1 EDU11 Gender and professionalism in teaching
Room10.2
Networks: Education and Childhood , Women and Gender Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Isabela Cabral Félix De Sousa, Cristiane N. Braga & Cristina A. Ferreira & Telma M. Frutuoso & Diego S. Vargas : The female predominance of a vocational and scientific program in Brazil for high school students
Bart Hellinckx, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : The educational work of women religious: a historiographical survey
Maria Mogarro : Social Origins and Teacher Training: Female Students at Teacher Training Schools in the second half of the 19th Century in Portugal
Lies Van Rompaey, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : A different kind of activism: the position of catholic women teachers in their union. Belgium, 1950-1965.


V-1 WOM02 Feminism and Transnationalism I: Transnational Networks and National Contexts
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Francisca De Haan
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Ulla Wikander
Maria Anastasopoulou : The American Influence on Callirrhoe Parren at the turn of the 19th Century Greece
Julie Carlier : Shaping Belgian feminism. Transnational transfers and the forging of a national women’s movement (ca.1890-1918)
Carolyn Eichner : "The Veil and the Vote: Race, Sexuality, and Feminist Imperialism in Late 19th Century France"
Rochelle Ruthchild : Russian Feminists: From Global Sisterhood to Silence
Judith P. Zinsser : Gendering Transnational Topics: Benefits and Liabilities


Y-1 LAB28 Stalinization and Beyond: Problems of International Communist History
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Matthew Worley Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti : Stalinization and the Italian Communist Party
Norman Laporte : Proletarian Tribunes: Thalmann and Pollitt
Tauno Saarela : Comparative Communisms: The Scandinavian Example
Brigitte Studer : Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
B-2 ELI02 The academe as an elite arena II: Postwar period
Cave B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Xu Li
Organizer: Marja Jalava Discussant: Xu Li
Robert Anderson : University Expansion, Elites and Democratization in Britain since 1945
Kim Helsvig : Norwegian academia: From social democratic egalitarianism to competitive elitism?
Marja Jalava : Cultural Revolution or Bureaucratic Jargon? - The Finnish Reform of Degrees in the 1970s
Maria Teresa Tomas Rangil : How Did the Homo Oeconomicus Became an Homo bellicus? Economics and International Relations Theory in the 1980s and 1990s.


C-2 CRI03 Homicide on the Long Run: The Belgian Case
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Pete King
Organizer: Aude Musin Discussant: Pete King
Bernard Dauven, Xavier Rousseaux : Homicide on the long run : a regional case : Brabant (1350-2000)
Aude Musin : Homicide on the Long Run : a Regional Case (Namur, 1360-1860)
Frédéric Vesentini : Homicide on the Long Run : the Belgian Case (1830-1990)


D-2 WOR07 Gender History in Transnational Perspectiv (roundtable)
Cave D
Networks: Women and Gender , World History Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Ann Allen : "Lost in Translation? Gender History in National and Transnational Perspective."
Swapna Banerjee : The Father and the Child : Fatherhood as a Vector of Masculinity in Colonial India
Anne Cova : "Women and Associativism in France, Italy, and Portugal, 1900-1945"
Jennifer Morris : Father to the World's Children: The United Nations Children's Fund


E-2 ORA01 Family and intergenerational transmission of stories
Cave E
Network: Oral History Chair: Mary Chamberlain
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Christien Brinkgreve : Involvement, Truth, Detachment: The Narrative of My Mother.
Alena Kozlova : The influence of traumatic expierience of the family history on female fate of the second generation
Patricie Kubackova : Between us is (not only) an ocean – biographical narrations of Czech women living in the USA. (A research based on a method of oral history and conversation analysis.)


F-2 ORA21 Mauthausen in Transnational Memories and Narrations
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Oral History Chair: Gerhard Botz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Piotr Filipkowski : Polish Mauthausen Narratives across Time and Context
Regina Fritz : Expressions of Euphemism in Narratives of Hungarian Holocaust Survivors
Alexander Prenninger : The Verbalization of Experiences in Context Specific Narratives
Irina Scherbakowa : The Memories’ hard labor
Karin Stoegner : Life Story Interviews and the „Truth of Memory” in the Perspective of Walter Benjamin


G-2 HEA02 Recent Public Health II: Policies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Sigrid Stoeckel
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Sigrid Stoeckel
Virginia Berridge : The history of post war UK public health : a neglected area?
Marjaana Niemi : Health education for forest labourers and career women
Udo Schagen : Democratic Health System and Public Health: Debates in Exile and Post-War Realities
Signild Vallgårda : From universalism to needs assessment. Public health in Denmark and Sweden from 1930s and onwards


H-2 ETH38 Emigration, immigration and identity
Room 1.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Organizers: - Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Daniel Killoren : Movement, Settlement and the Negotiation of Citizenship: Migrant Networks in the 19th Century U.S./Mexico Borderland
Daniel Marcos : The Capelinhos Volcano and the Azorean Immigration to the USA (1958-1965)
Miriam Debieux Rosa, Taeco Carignato & Sandra Berta : Immigrants, migrants and refugees and the wandering condition of the desire


I-2 SOC02 Coding occupations across cultures
Room 2.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Ineke Maas
Organizers: - Discussant: Sören Edvinsson
Tarcisio Botelho : Census categories of difference: occupation, race and social condition in 19th century Brazil
María Inés Moraes, Raquel Pollero : Occupational categories in a pastoral-oriented agricultural economical structure: Uruguay on the first half of the 19th century
María Paula Parolo : Adaptation of HISCO to the registered occupational categories in the census of population of Tucumán (Argentine) in first half of nineteenth century.
Raquel Pollero, María Inés Moraes : Occupational categories in a pastoral-oriented agricultural economical structure: Uruguay on the first half of the 19th century
Vladimir Vladimirov : HISCO and history of occupations in Russia


J-2 ELI08 Elite decadence: an image or an actuality?
Room 3.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizer: Marja Vuorinen Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Henry French, Mark Rothery : Practices of politeness: changing norms of masculinity in English landed society, 1660-1800
Sarah Toulalan : Children and sexuality in early modern England
Marja Vuorinen : Decadence as a projection: a tool for criticism


K-2 RUR02 From tradition to modernization
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Organizers: - Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Conceição Andrade Martins : Population and Agrarian system in 18th century Alentejo
Hervé Bennezon : A village close to Paris, Montreuil during the reign of King Louis XIV
Jose Marques : Household, land transmission and heritage in northern Portugal (Terra da Maia 1800-1950)
Florent Merot : Paris and his countryside : the originality of the landscape in the Vallée de Montmorency in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
Merja Uotila, Maare Valtonen : Entrepreneurial activities in a pre-industrial society: Artisans and industrialists in Finnish countryside


L-2 POL23 European citizenship and civil society II
Room 5.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Veit Bader : Conplex legitimacy in ‘compound polities’: the case of the EU
Daniel Melo : The third sector and the city: public policies, citizenship, and sustainability in Portugal
Thomas Pfister : From activated to active citizenship. The need for participatory citizenship practices in new modes of governance
Maryse Ramambason : Democratization in Russia The 1993 Constitutional Conference : The stakes of the installation of a new space of deliberations
Anne van Wageningen : Citizens as members of a state; an institutional approach concerning multiple citizenship


M-2 POL19 The ethos of commercial and political advocacy in twentieth-century Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lawrence Black
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veronique Pouillard : France and Belgium (1910-1950): From the Early Debates on Advertising in the Public Space to the Late Adoption of PR Expertise.
Corey Ross : Advertising, Publicity and Politics in Inter-war Germany
Stefan Schwarzkopf : Professionalisation, “Americanisation”, and the cult of rationality in an age of extremes: changing practices and identities in British marketing communication, 1920s-1960s
Dominic Wring : Selling Politics Like Soap Powder? Electioneering in Inter-war Britain


N-2 TEC03 Children, health and hygiene - Europe 1880-1960 - Continuity or change?
Room 6.1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Technology Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Astri Andresen : Children’s hygiene in post-tuberculosis society: the Nordic countries 1945-1960s
Nelleke Bakker : 'Health colonies' for children and the fear of tuberculosis in the Netherlands 1883-1955
Josep Lluís Barona : Meals, open air and sanatoria: preventing children tuberculosis in Spain (1892-1936)
Ning De Coninck-Smith : Health, art and architecture - Vintersbølle children’s sanatorium 1934-1937.


Q-2 FAIII FAMIII: Widowhood and Remarriage
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Margarida Durães
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: John A. Dickinson
Johanna Andersson Raeder : Widowhood and remarriage amongst the swedish nobility during the Middle Ages
Béatrice Craig : From Custumals to Code Napoléon: Impact of legal changes on women's access to and control of property
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux : Well-Being and widows in early-modern France
Aoi Okada, Satomi Kurosu & Miyuki Takahashi : Widowhood and Remarriage in Northeastern Japan: Rural-Urban Comparison 1716-1870


S-2 REL02 Confessional Identities
Instituto de Arte
Network: Religion Chair: Bruno Boute
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruno Boute
Geoff Baker : Reading the Confessional Divide in Early Modern England.
Larry Harwood : Motivation for the Military and Money in the cause of Religion: English Soldiers in the Netherlands and America, 1585-1640
Jewel Spangler : The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811: A Case Study of American Disaster as Evangelical Opportunity


T-2 FAMII Construction of Blood II : Genealogies, Rules of Succession and Representations of Rules of Heredity
Room 9
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Francesca Trivellato
Bernard Derouet : Blood in Law and Jurisprudence in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century France
Michaela Hohkamp : “Consanguinitas as a concept of power in early modern European historiography”.
Simon Teuscher : Flesh and Blood in Medieval Treatises on the 'Arbor Consanguinitatis'
John Waller : Ideologies of Bloodlines from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century


U-2 HIS01 Towards a historical GIS for Europe
Room10.2
Network: Chair: Paul Ell
Organizer: Andreas Kunz Discussant: David Bodenhamer
Ian Gregory : Towards a Historical GIS of Europe: Existing resources and future prospects
Andreas Kunz : A Historical GIS of the German states in the 19th Century: A model for a European historical GIS?
Silke Marburg : Dynastic Networks of Europe in a GIS Context
Alejandro Simon, Jordi Marti-Henneberg : Railways network and population distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (1850-2000). Towards an European Railways GIS.


V-2 WOM03 Feminism and Transnationalism II: Transnational Feminism and International Politics
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Jose Moya
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Carol Faulkner : The World's Anti-Slavery Convention and the Origins of Women's Rights
Brigitte Rath : Forgotten Networks: Olga Misars Engagement in the Austrian Feminist Peace Movement (transnational and national networks)
Victoria Rowe : Women's Transnational Organizing: Feminist and Humanitarian Interventions in the League of Nations' Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
Ulla Wikander : Women over national borders against night work prohibition,


W-2 THE01 The Writing of National Histories in 19th and 20th Century Europe
Room 2.12
Network: Theory Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthias Middell
Stefan Berger, Christoph Conrad : National Historical Cultures in Comparative Perspective: An Outline
Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger : Nation and Society: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Religion and Gender
Andrew Mycock : Education, identity and empire? History teaching in multi-national post-imperial Britain
Ilaria Porciani, Jo Tollebeek : The Instiitutionalisation and Professionalisation of Historical Writing


X-2 URB02 Twentieth-Century British Cities; Realities and Imaginings
Room 2.13
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizers: - Discussants: -
James Chapman : They Came to A City: 1944 and wartime British cinema
Kenneth Collins : TB in Glasgow : the Jewish Immigrant Experience
Krista Cowman : The land the heroes wanted: soldiers' views of the city in letters from the Western Front
Simon Gunn : The lost world of British Urban Modernism, c.1945-1970


Y-2 LAB02 Strikes
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizers: Heiner Dribbusch, Sjaak Van der Velden Discussant: David Lyddon
Peter Birke : Strikes, Social Conflicts and Social Movement in Scandinavia since the 1990’s
Heiner Dribbusch : Strikes and employer militancy: balance of power and industrial conflict in the German public sector since 1990
Sjaak Van der Velden : Strikes and living strategies



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
A-3 AFR01 The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Stock-taking Time
Cave A
Network: Africa Chair: Judith M. Spicksley
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith M. Spicksley
Antonio Almeida Mendes : The Iberian slave trade between Africa, the Mediterranean and the Americas (15th – 17th Century)”
Daniel Domingues Da Silva : The Origins of Slaves Leaving Angola in the Nineteenth Century
David Eltis : “Extending the Frontiers: Implications of the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”
Frank Lewis, David Eltis & Kimberly Mcintyre : The Cost of Transporting Slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, 1680 to 1725


B-3 ELI11 Education as control
Cave B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jan Eivind Myhre
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Eivind Myhre
Karl-H. Fuessl : The Emergence of Utopia. American Social Sciences, German Speaking Émigrés and U.S. Policy Toward Germany (1942-1945)
Xu Li : Public and Knowledge: Critical Transformation of the Functions and Organization of Higher Education in the United States
Olivier Longchamp, Yves Steiner : The contribution of the Schweizerisches Institut für Auslandforschung to the international restoration of neoliberalism (1949-1963)
Tuula Okkonen : Control, dominance and educational policy in the post-war world


C-3 CRI04 Stories of Shame, Cultures of Blame: Britain and Europe 1700-1900
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Louise Jackson
Organizer: Anne-Marie Kilday Discussant: Louise Jackson
Anne-Marie Kilday : The Shame and Fame of Half-Hangit' Maggie: Attitudes to Child Murder in Early Modern Scotland
David Nash : The Everyday life of a Wexford Parson: The Rev. William Hughes’ taste for drink, profanity, blasphemy, indecent exposure, criminal damage, bestiality and field sports
Katherine Watson : Loss of Face: Vitriol Throwing, Blame and Stigma in England, 1840-1900


D-3 CRI24 Social Control of Poverty and Marginality
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul Lawrence
Adrian Ager, Melanie Reynolds : The Road to Modernity: Pauperism, Social Control and the Poor Laws
Verda Irtis : The criminalization of juveniles in Turkish society: Roots ans recent evolutions from a socio-historical point of view
Pete King : The Making of the Juvenile Reformatory in England 1780-1825; Voluntary Initiatives and State Funding
Frode Ulvund : The Norwegian workhouse-system from 1845 to 1907


E-3 ORA03 Gender and its influence on remembrance, the oral-history process, the interviewer, and the interviewee
Cave E
Networks: Oral History , Women and Gender Chair: Sally Alexander
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Helga Amesberger : Doing Gender within Oral History
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : Women in North Sea Oil
Sónia Ferreira : “Women’s voice place” – memory, gender and oral history
Pia Olsson : "Only the grove whores whistle." Women's sexuality pictured in questionnaire material


F-3 LAB05 Violent conflict
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: James Jaffe
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Carl Griffin : Still Swinging, Swing redivivus or something after Swing? On the death throes of a movement, December 1830 - December 1833
Christian Koller : Strikes in the Austrian “Ständestaat” 1934–1938
Paul F. Lipold, Larry Isaac : Striking Deaths: Lethal Industrial Contestation in American Labor History


G-3 HEA03 The health and social care interface: Britain and the United States 1930-2001
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Alex Mold
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Martin Gorsky : The legacy of the Poor Law: institutional care of the elderly in the West of England, c. 1930-1960
Colleen Grogan : American Families Attempting to Care Amid Public Policies Encouraging Nursing Home Use and the Medicalization of Aging
Beatrix Hoffmann : Chronic Illness in the U.S. Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
John Welshman : From Training to Social Education: Research, Policy, and Care in the Community, 1948-2001


H-3 CUL21 Memory, Remembrance and Identity Construction
Room 1.1
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussant: Aleksandar Boskovic
Eva Blenesi : Cultural Memory, Lived-in Landscapesand spaces of Remembrance
Sílvia Correia : Political Memory of the First World War in Portugal: A very particular case?
Victor Friedman : Balkan Multilingualism in Its Historical and Contemporary context
Csilla Kiss : The Blood of Ourselves
Tsvete Lazova : "Uses of the Past and Constructing Cultural Identity: Ancient Greek Experience"


I-3 REL03 European Islam as a Civic Religion
Room 2.1
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marco Bresciani : Past and Future of a Multicultural Europe: A struggle between Democracy and Cultural Identities
Andrew C. Gould : The Catholic Paradigm for State and Church Relations and the Integration of Islam


J-3 ECO01 Women and Investment: England, Wales and Canada in the late 19th century
Room 3.1
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Joyce Burnette
Organizers: - Discussant: Kris Inwood
Peter Baskerville : Women and Wealth: Urban and Rural Patterns in Late Nineteenth Century Canada
David Green, Alastair Owens : Lives in the balance? Women’s financial assets and debts in late nineteenth-century England and Wales
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford : Consols, Home Rails and Foreign Things: women and investment in England and Wales in the early twentieth century


K-3 HIS02 Applications of historical GIS I
Room 4
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Onno Boonstra : The NLGIS projects
George Vascik : Agrarians into Nazis? The Evidence from the North German Marschlands
George M. Welling : Visualizing the 18th century overseas trade of Amsterdam


L-3 ELI03 The country house I: Power Houses
Room 5.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizer: Jon Stobart Discussant: Jon Stobart
Peter Edwards : Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle
Abigail Harrison Moore : Furnishing the Elite House: Chippendale at Harewood
Rosie Macarthur : Knowledge as power: the imprint of a genteel education on the materiality of Kelmarsh Hall 1720- 1845.


M-3 RUR03 Rural History and village life in Japan
Room 5.2
Network: Rural Chair: Michael Shackleton
Organizers: - Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Hiroshi Hasebe : The succession of “IE” ;a case study of rural family in the Tokugawa Japan
Kouki Iwama : The Mutual Financing Associatons in Japanese Farm Villages: A case study of Kami-shiojiri village at the end of the early modern period
Martin Morris : Silk-worm raising and the Japanese house - the minka of Shiojiri in a national and global context
Yoshiyuki Murayama : Geographical setting and landownership of Kami-shiojiri
Moto(yasu) Takahashi : Family Continuity in Japan, in comparison with England
Futoshi Yamauchi : About the several social relationships for life that surrounded landownership


N-3 SEX12 Perceptions of children and sexuality
Room 6.1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Sexuality Chair: Mineke Van Essen
Organizers: - Discussant: Rebecca Young
Amandine Lauro : 'The evil is in the premature consummation of the union': colonial anxieties and policies about the age of puberty and child marriage in Belgian Congo
Geertje Mak : Incest, Freud and class: scientia sexualis and the boundaries of bourgeois civilisation
Anna Tijsseling : Constructing homosexual criminality. Police efforts in the Netherlands, 1911-1960


P-3 LAB33 Local communities and workers
Room 8.1
Network: Labour Chair: William Kenefick
Organizers: - Discussant: Gorkem Akgoz
Paulo Fontes : Amateur soccer clubs and working-class neighbourhood organizations in São Paulo, Brazil (1945-1978)
Robert Lewis : Producing Place: General Electric and Industrial America, 1940-1950
Conor Mccabe : Family life and the workplace: a case study of the Inchicore and Broadstone Irish railway communities, 1847-1925


Q-3 ETH35 Jewish Diaspora
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Royden Loewen
Organizers: - Discussant: Royden Loewen
Wirginia Bogatic : The Swedish politics and reception of Polish female survivors from KZ Ravensbrück 1945
Judith Gerson : Immigrant Lives, Holocaust Narratives: German Jewish Refugees Remember Their Pasts
Aviva Halamish : Against Many Odds:Immigration of Jewish Women to Palestine between the World Wars
Pavel Polian : The end of the Russian-speaking Jewish Immigration from the former Soviet Union to Germany
Krystyna T. Zamorska : Transatlantic Translations: Narrating Dislocation after WWII


R-3 FAM25 Construction of Blood III: From Lineage to Race, 1650-1900
Amphitheater 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Michaela Hohkamp
Organizers: - Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Christopher H. Johnson : Class Dimensions of Blood and Kinship in Brittany, 1780-1880
Margareth Lanzinger : The “Bonds of Blood”: Kin marriages and blood discourse in the 19th century
Edith Saurer : Eugenic ideas of kinship and blood-Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910)


S-3 ANT01 Demography and labour: Migration in the Roman World I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Alex Conison : Slaves and the Self-Selected Migrant
Bruce Frier : Roman Migration and Migration Theory
Claire Holleran : Migration and the Urban Economy of Rome
Laurens E. Tacoma : The Urban graveyard effect in Rome


T-3 POL05 Nation-building in Europe 1860-1947
Room 9
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Emese Lafferton
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Pauli Heikkilä : Imagining Nation, Imagining Europe. Pan-European Movement as Critique in Finland and Estonia, 1923-1934
Jasper Heinzen : Trauma and collective political identity in the Prussian province of Hanover 1866-1918
Indrek Jääts : Social preconditions of Non-Russian nationalism in inner periphery of Russian Empire as reflected in the results of the first all-Russian census (1897)


U-3 URB06 Social Relations in the Modern City
Room10.2
Network: Urban Chair: Mark Kehren
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Deborah S. Bernstein, Michal Kofman : Tenant and Landlords in the Jewish Settlement in Palestine
Tiago Castela : Illegalism and Citizenship: Urban Space in Late Twentieth Century Portugal
Mette Tapdrup Mortensen : Boarders and lodgers as an urban phenomenon in Denmark 1880-1960


V-3 SOC04 Imagery of Human Dignity and European Consciousness (16th-17th centuries)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: Lynn Lees, Olga Salamatova
Organizers: - Discussant: Olga Salamatova
Ana Paula Avelar : Imagery of Representations of Society (16th –17th centuries)
Maria De Jesus Candeias Relvas : Imagery of Human Dignity (16th-17th centuries)
Maria Leonor Garcia Cruz : Imagery of The Balance of Power (16th-17th centuries)


W-3 MAT05 Material Culture of the Aristocracy
Room 2.12
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Bruno Blondé
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veerle De Laet : "In his Majesty's Service". Cultural go-betweens in 17th and 18th centuries Brussels
Eva Deak : Materials and colors of clothes in a princely court: the example of Alba Iulia during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen


X-3 THE05 Historicism in Interwar Europe
Room 2.13
Network: Theory Chair: Franz Leander Fillafer
Organizers: - Discussant: Franz Leander Fillafer
Reinbert Krol : “In Favour of History”: Friedrich Meinecke as a Guide Through the Crisis of Historicism
Herman Paul : “The Dangers of Sectarian Hubris”: Historicist Thought, Religious Philosophy, and the Quest for Rational Discourse, 1926-1939
Friedrich von Petersdorff : Historicism and Relationism: Karl Mannheim's Critique of Historicism


Y-3 WOM04 Feminism and Transnationalism III: Transnational Feminism in Latin America
Room 2.14
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Teresa Meade
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Teresa Meade
Isabela Campoi : Brazilian first wave feminism and transnationalism
Jose Moya : Dangerous Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarchist Feminism in Buenos Aires, 1890-1914
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Women’s Coalition-building and Collective Empowerment: Transnational Feminism Under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
A-4 CUL02 Rock Music, Youth and Rebellion
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Lars Berggren
Organizer: Johan Lundin Discussants: -
Borje Bergfeldt : Step Out of Babylon: The Reggae Scene in Sweden
Mats Greiff : Rock music, Rebellion and the Wall. Rock music in GDR 1960-1989.
Björn Horgby : Rock and rebellion. USA,, England and Sweden 1955-1969
Johan Lundin : How Punk Music changed Sweden
Fredrik Nilsson : Formation of what? When Rock came to town
Brian Roberts : Rock Music and Youth Culture in Wales


B-4 EDU01 Children's narratives and visual expressions
Cave B
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood Chair: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Yael Darr : Children Called to Arms: Children's Literature in Jewish Palestine Inducts Its Readers Into the Fight for Independence
Margot Hillel : Learning about Charity: Charitable Childhoods in Literature for Children
Sian Roberts : “The War as Seen by Children”: international exhibitions of children’s art as political and educational interventions


C-4 SOC01 Categorisations of populations -- contested concepts I
Cave C
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: Per Axelsson, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Signild Vallgårda
Jeffrey Beemer, Douglas L. Anderton & Alan C. Swedlund & Susan Hautaniemi Leonard : Classification and the Changing Grammars of Death over the course of the American Epidemiological Transition.
Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Alan C. Swedlund : Categories of Contamination: Population, Pollution, and Public Works in 19th-Century Massachusetts
Ivan Lind Christensen : “Making Categories – examples from the history of Danish public health research”


D-4 CRI05 Youth and Policing
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Katherine Watson
Organizer: Val Marie Johnson Discussant: Paul Lawrence
Margo De Koster : Journey into an Invisible World: Policing Juvenile Deviance in Urban Belgium, 1890-1940
Louise Jackson : Policing Youth in Post-War England and Scotland: Gender, Sexuality and Leisure
Val Marie Johnson : Governing Youth, Justice, and Liberalism in Canada, 1960-1971
Tamara Myers : “From Disciplinarian to Coach: The Policing of Youth in Post World War II Canada”


E-4 FAM26 Construction of Blood IV: Biological Discourses, Kin and Selfhood in the Long Twentieth Century
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernhard Jussen
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: David Warren Sabean
Caroline Arni : A Substance of Kinship or its Representation? Blood at the Intersection of Embryology and Anthropological Discourses on Kinship in Modernity
Sarah Franklin : "From Blood to Genes?: Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticisation”
Adam Kuper : “Darwin’s marriage, theories of heredity, and the origins of eugenics”
Enric Porqueres : Exceptional Persons? New Reproductive Technologies and the Relationality of the Self


F-4 CRI23 Collaboration and post-war punishment in Belgium: 1945-1955
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark David Pittaway
Jonas Campion : A Copernician revolution? Impact of purges on the professional habitus of the Belgian and French“gendarmeries” (1944-1955)
Machteld De Metsenaere, Sophie Bollen : Disgraceful Love. ‘Sentimental collaboration’ and its punishment in Belgium after World War Two.
Antoon Vrints, Koen Aerts : Re-establishing the state monopoly on violence: Death Penalty and Military Justice in Post-war Belgium (1944-1950).


G-4 HEA04 Midwives as Purveyors of Medical Culture
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Niklas Jensen
Organizers: - Discussant: Niklas Jensen
Stephan Curtis : Midwives and the Diffusion of Academic Medicine in 19th-century Sweden
Megan Davies : Countercultural Childbirth: Homebirth and Midwifery in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia, 1970-1990
Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir : History of male midwifery in Iceland
Mette Roensager : Greenlandic Midwives 1820-1920: between Greenlandic and Danish cultures


H-4 FAM03 The Borderline between Life and Death I: Neonatal Deaths
Room 1.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anne Løkke
Organizers: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Eilidh Garrett, Anne Løkke Discussant: Anne Løkke
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raquel Pollero & Wanda Cabella : Neonatal Mortality in Early 20th Century Uruguay: Old (World) Wine in New (World) Bottles?
Renzo Derosas : Neonatal Mortality in Nineteenth-Century North-eastern Italy: Trends, Patterns, Factors.
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Loftur Guttormsson : Neonatal tetanus in two island communities in the North Atlantic. Vestmannaeyjar and Grímsey (Iceland) during eighteenth and nineteenth century
Eilidh Garrett : The timing of death in the first month of life: a comparative study of rural communities in nineteenth century Scotland
Tricia James : Neonatal Mortality in Rushden, Northamptonshire: 1879 - 1909
Alice Reid : From debility to atelectasis: doctors and causes of neonatal death in Nineteenth Century Scotland


I-4 RUR04 Elites and agricultural modernization
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Daniel Samson : British North American Elites and Agricultural Improvement in Transatlantic Context, 1791-1860
Ursula Schlude : “To cultivate profitably and with good advice”. Creating Agricultural Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Dresden 1568 to 1572.
Alejandro Tortolero : Elites and Haciendas in the 19th c. Mexico : routine or innovation ?
Andras Vari (1953-2011) : The guardians of agricultural change – Professionalization of estate stewards in 19th century Hungary
Nadine Vivier : Elites and progress in Europe: a comparative view


J-4 ECO02 The Material Well-Being of Women: Studies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 3.1
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Peter Baskerville
Organizer: Peter Baskerville Discussant: Anne Mccants
Bernard Harris : Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being
Kris Inwood : The Changing Physical Standard of Living for British and Canadian Women, 1850-1950.
Stephan Klasen, Parvati Truebswetter : Emigration and Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland, 1850-1930.


K-4 SOC03 Application of historical GIS II
Room 4
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Onno Boonstra
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Boonstra
Eugenia Bournova : Athens in the 1950's: urbanisation, real estate and social segregation
Jason Gilliland, Sherry Olson, Danielle Gauvreau : Moving up and moving out: mapping multiple dimensions of residential segregation in Montreal, 1881-1901
Jean Luc Pinol : Paris Mapping (XIXth and XXth centuries)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Cle Lesger : Urban GIS. Spatial proximity of rich and poor in Dutch town during the Golden Age


L-4 LAB18 Conceptualising the working class
Room 5.1
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Gorkem Akgoz : Cultural Representations of Working-Class Formation in Turkey
Juanjo Romero-Marin : Working in 19th century docks: the 'faquines' struggle for survival
Simon Zsolt : Wages in salt mining


M-4 SEX03 Diversions and Perversions in the Early Modern Period I
Room 5.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Julie Gammon
Organizers: - Discussants: -
S. Drake Bennett : Popular Medicine, Erotica, and Sexual Aesthetics in 17th Century France and England
Julie Peakman : Perversions and Divergence. Sexual Difference in the Early Modern Period
Sofia Tůma : Uncovering a homosexual network: Patronage and the Inquisition in C17th Portugal


N-4 SEX01 Sexual Politics
Room 6.1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Judith Schuyf
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Schuyf
Klara Arnberg : Pornographic Magazines and its Politics in Sweden
Norman Domeier : Science and Scandal – The power of Sexology in the Eulenburg affair 1906-1909
Dan Healey : Reflections on a Sexual Revolution under the Aegis of Medicine
Annette Timm : Sexual Innuendo, Rumour and the SS Lebensborn Homes During the Third Reich


O-4 ETH08 The military job market in early modern Europe
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Gunnar W. Knutsen : The Spanish Inquisition and Protestant soldiers in Spanish service
Erik Swart : Soldiers of fortune? German troops in the Low Countries in the second half of the sixteenth century
Ola Teige : Royal Danois: a danish multinational mercenary regiment in french service 1693-99


P-4 FAM02 Demography of Solitary Households
Room 8.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Brian Gratton
Stella António : Demography of Portuguese Solitary Households
Jim Brown : Solitary Households in 19th Century Austria
Danielle Gauvreau, Sherry Olson : An unusual residential pattern: solitary households in Montreal 1881-1901
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary Louise Nagata : Solitary households and urban demography in a stem family society: Kyoto, 1843-1868
Steven Ruggles : Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective


Q-4 ASI01 Minorities in Asia
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Graham Brown, Regina Lim : Minorities within a majority: Non-bumiputera relations with the state in Malaysia
Nikita Sud : Metamorphosing and multiple minorities: the case of Gujarat India
Tariq Thachil, Ronald Herring : Poor Choices: Dalit and Adivasi Electoral Politics in India


R-4 SOC05 Meet the author: Peter Hennock, 'The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared'
Amphitheater 4
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: Christoph Conrad, Peter Hennock, Lynn Lees, Pat Thane


S-4 ANT02 Trade, Traders and Mobility in the Greek East. Migration in the Roman World II
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Claudia Moatti
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Moatti
Neville Morley : 'Migration, mobility and globalisation in the Roman Mediterranean
Onno Van Nijf : Roman traders in Greek cities
Arjan Zuiderhoek : Italians in Asia Minor during the Roman Republic: “internal migration” in the Roman world


T-4 ELI04 The country house II: Family and consumption
Room 9
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Abigail Harrison Moore
Organizer: Jon Stobart Discussant: Abigail Harrison Moore
Kerry Bristol : The Yorke Connection
Paolo Cornaglia : Families, gardeners and gardens
Jon Stobart : Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England


U-4 ETH02 Representing Displacement
Room10.2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Pamela Ballinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Pamela Ballinger
Susan Carruthers : The Dancer Deflects: the cultural politics of defection, displacement and escape in early cold war America
Peter Gatrell : World Refugee Year, 1959-1960: Representing Displaced Persons
Anna Holian : Framing Displacement: Americans, Europeans, and the Problem of Displaced Children in The Search (1948)


V-4 LAB15 Mobilising the unemployed, 1928-35
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: John Mcilroy
Organizer: Alan Campbell Discussant: Richard Croucher
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy : Mobilising the unemployed in Britain: analysing the activists
Daniel Joseph Leab : The CPUSA and the organization of the American unemployed
Matt Perry : Mobilising the unemployed in France in the 1930s:
Alex Zukas : Class, State, and Struggle: Mobilizing Unemployed Workers in late Weimar Germany


W-4 ORA10 Contested Pasts
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Ene Kõresaar
Organizers: - Discussants: -
John Cox : “Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany”
Anselma Gallinat : The social production of ‘oral history’?
Sabine Kittel : Today’s memories of the socialist Past : Interviews with employees of an educational institution in eastern Germany.
Niina Lappalainen : "There was no Civil War in this village." The referential way of communication.


Y-4 POL11 Socialist nationalism
Room 2.14
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Hester Barron : Exploring identities: Gandhi and the British working classes in interwar Lancashire
Ioannis Sygkelos : Marxism and Nationalism: The Development of their Symbiosis
Stefan Vogt : Socialist Nationalism against National Socialism? The “Young Right” in Weimar Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
Lorna Zukas : Globalization, Colonialization and the Rise of Socialism as a Precursor of Nationalism in Africa



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
A-5 ELI20 Urban Elites in Transition: Features of Urbanity, Vectors of Change and Problems of Methodology
Cave A
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl
Organizers: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl Discussants: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl
Craig Bailey : Power, Pluralism and Exchange: Middle-Class Irish Networks in Eighteenth-Century London
Inge Bertels : City Architects and City Architects. Civil Servants for Public Building in Long Term Perspective, Antwerp 1794-2006
Stephanie Van Houtven : Designing urban space: the Antwerp cités ouvrières, 1865 – 1885.


B-5 EDU02 Childhood, disability and special education
Cave B
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Patrick Ryan
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Mona Gleason : “Leaving a Piece Out: Public Schooling and the “Disabled” Child in Early Twentieth-Century English Canada
Michael Grossberg : From Feebleminded to Mentally Retarded: Child Protection and the Changing Place of Disabled Children in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States
Kevin Myers : Contesting certification: mental deficiency, families and the state
Mineke Van Essen, Annemieke van Drenth : Teaching children with a learning disability


C-5 REL09 Worship, Workplace and Welfare: Organized Religion's Search for Meaniing in a Post Christian World
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ronald Johnston, Elaine Mcfarland : Faith in the Factory: The Origins, Developments and Impact of the Church of Scotland’s Industrial Chaplains Movement, 1944-1980s.
John Stewart : Religion and the Welfare State in Western Europe, 1945-1973
Peter Van Dam : The Transformation of Religious Traditions in Dutch and West-German Trade Union Movements


D-5 CRI06 Institutionalisation of criminal justice enforcements and its implications
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizer: Chris A. Williams Discussant: Wilbur Miller
Catherine Denys : The Circulation of police knowledge in early modern Europe
Francis Dodsworth : The genealogy of police in England,c. 1780-1856
John Drabble : Transformations in Policing Radical Labor: Private Detective Agencies, Local and State Police, and the Federalization of Counterintelligence during the Progressive Era in the United States
John Mcdermott : The development of police racial awareness training, 1981-1993
Chris A. Williams : The New Police and Duration, 1820-1860


E-5 ELI22 Emerging New Elite in the Academic Environment
Cave E
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussant: Aappo Kähönen
Miguel Cardina : Students Movements in the crisis of portuguese dictatorship
Nadja Duhacek : Tolerance in a bubble
Tom Junes : The Forging of a New Elite: Student Politics in Communist Poland
Abel Polese : And if it were only a response to state managed sabotage? An alternative assessment on Ukrainian universities


F-5 RUR05 Modernization and Democratization in the Countryside
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Ronald Rommes : The rise of rural cooperatives in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Anton Schuurman : The construction of Dutch Agriculture Inc.
Piet van Cruyningen : Political mobilization of the peasantry in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Zeeland, ca. 1880-1920
Remco Visschers : Rural association before the co-operative: the case of the Agricultural Society in the Dutch province of Gelderland, 1845-1880


H-5 FAM09 Rowntree Revisited: Poverty, welfare and the life-cycle
Room 1.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Organizer: Elisabeth Engberg Discussant: Elisabeth Engberg
Maria Bergman : Strike workers and their families
Sally Bould : The Fourth Age: The New Risk of Poverty
Jeremy Boulton, Leonard Schwarz : Rowntree Revisited: Poverty, Welfare and the Life-cycle in London, 1725-1824
Anna Lundberg : When mother nature fails us - famine, family and mortality among settlers in two agrarian parishes in Sweden during the nineteenth century.


I-5 ETH05 The Turn to Restriction
Room 2.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Eric Kaufmann
Organizer: Brian Gratton Discussant: Eric Kaufmann
Mikhail Alexseev : Ethnicity, the Security Dilemma, and Hostility towards Asian Migrants in Russia
Stephen Batalden : “State Policy and the Moscow Immigrant Labor Market: What is Legal and What is Illegal in Post-Soviet Labor Migration from the ‘Near Abroad’”?
Brian Gratton, Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan : 400 Years of Animosity: Restrictionist Sentiment in the United States
Daphne Halikiopoulou : The ethnic Criteria of Citizenship and Inclusion: Migration Policiy towards Religious Minorities in Greece


J-5 CUL03 Mixed Marriages I: Politics and Policies
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Organizers: Marga Altena, Betty de Hart Discussants: -
Sarah Carter : Colonial Anxieties: The 1886 "Traffic" in Aboriginal Women Scandal, the Aborigines Protection Society, and Mixed-Marriages in Western Canada
Betty de Hart : Protecting Dutch girls from the Harem. Dutch law and eduction on the dangers of marrying Islamic men
Charlotte Laarman : Ethnically mixed relationships in a postcolonial context, 1945-2000


K-5 FAM04 The Borderline between Life and Death II: Neonatal and Perinatal Deaths
Room 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Eilidh Garrett
Organizers: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Eilidh Garrett, Anne Løkke Discussants: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Signild Vallgårda
Fabrice Cahen : "Dépopulation", mortality and abortion in the French "belle époque".
Gayle Davis : Stillbirth Registration and Perceptions of Infant Death in Britain, c.1854-1960
Anne Løkke : Still birth registration in Denmark 1800-1900 - concepts and effects.
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas : Foetal mortality and mortality during childhood in Spain, 1890 till 2004.
Robert Woods, Frans Van Poppel : The clustering of fetal deaths: evidence from Zeeland, The Netherlands in the nineteenth century


L-5 LAT05 Political Representations of the Recent Past. Some Debates in Latin America
Room 5.1
Networks: Latin America , Oral History , Theory Chair: Michiel Baud
Organizers: - Discussant: Michiel Baud
Eugenia Allier Montaño : Political appropriations of the past. The recent past in the nomenclature of Montevideo, Uruguay (1985-2004)
Silvia Dutrénit : Views on the Uruguay Peace Commission
María Inés Mudrovcic : Historical Representation and Sacred Memory
Nora Rabotnikof : Between Mith and Memory: the continuity of political experience


M-5 ECO03 Inequality and Human Capital Acquisition in the 17th - 19th centuries I
Room 5.2
Network: Economics Chair: Ewout Frankema
Organizers: - Discussant: Ewout Frankema
Dorothee Crayen, Joerg Baten : Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: European and Global Trends in Comparative Perspective
Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch : L'histoire immobile? Or how to measure social structures and mobilities in pre-industrial urban societies
Kerstin Manzel, Jörg Baten : Gender Inequality in Numeracy: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870-1940
Leandro Prados De La Escosura : International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the Western World
Jaime Reis : Is Education a Good Proxy for Human Capital? Measurement and Distributional Issues in Portugal during the 19th Century
Tim Wegenast : Educational distribution within countries: the legacy of landlords


N-5 SEX04 Diversions and Perversions in the Early Modern Period II
Room 6.1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Theo Van Der Meer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Julie Gammon : Constructing Male Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century London
Tonya Lambert : The Female Body as Evidence against Rape in Early Modern England
Marianna Muravyeva : Between Law and Morality: Sexual Violence in 18th century Russia
Junko Takeda : From Discipline to Punishment: The Trials of Sexual Deviance during the Plague of Marseille, 1720 - 1723


O-5 LAB03 Comparative Perspectives on Workplace Culture
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizer: James Jaffe Discussant: David Lyddon
James Jaffe : The Political Culture of Shop Floor Industrial Relations: England, 1780-1830
Steve Meyer : The Muscular Workplace: The Masculine Culture of Industrial Relations in Automobile Plants, 1930-1960
Leda Papastefanaki : Paternalism and gender in the workplaces: Greece, 1830-1940


P-5 GEO05 The Spaces of Civil Society IV: The Nation
Room 8.1
Network: Chair: David Beckingham
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Matthew Hannah : Counter-biopower, counter-governmentality: two angles
Gerry Kearns : People and publics in the spaces of anticolonial nationalism
José Ramiro Pimenta : The ‘Lusitanian Manor’: Eugenics, Nationalism and Archaeological Research in Portugal in the 1920s
Karen Till : Remnants of communism in East Berlin: Urban renewal at Rosa Luxemburg Platz


Q-5 SOC09 Paupers and the poor law
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas M. Adams
Mel Cousins : Occupational structures and poor relief in nineteenth century urban Ireland
Larry Frohman : The Birth of the Welfare State out of the Spirit of the Poor Laws
Søren Rud : Urban Poor and the Colonial Connection
Olga Salamatova : Poor laws in the 17th century England


R-5 CUL10 History of Emotions I: Theoretical aspects of the history of emotions
Amphitheater 4
Network: Culture Chair: R. Darren Gobert
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Willemijn Ruberg
Hera Cook : Emotions: Sense or Sensations?
Deidre Pribram : An Individual of Feeling: Emotion, Gender, and Subjectivity in Historical Perspectives on Sensibility
Otto Ulbricht : Historians coping with emotion: From Lucien Febvre to William Reddy


S-5 ANT03 Elite mobility and elite identity. Migration in the Roman World III
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Laurens E. Tacoma
Organizers: - Discussant: Laurens E. Tacoma
Elena Isayev : Contested meanings of homeland and belonging in ancient Italy
Claudia Moatti : Mobility and controls in the roman empire
Danielle Slootjes : Locally relevant elites and their positions of power within local conflicts and crises, A.D. 193-284


T-5 CUL07 Transnational Migration and the Role of Ethnic Organisations
Room 9
Network: Culture Chair: Gijsbert Oonk
Organizer: Magdalena Elchinova Discussant: Gijsbert Oonk
Marga Alferink, Ulbe Bosma : The emergence of Dutch postcolonial migrant organizations: Observations on the role of multiculturalism and the rhythms of settlement
Magdalena Elchinova : Religious Institutions and the Construction of Immigrant Communities
Katya Mihaylova : Some Aspects of the Ethnocultural Identity of Bulgarians in the Czech Republic
Fridus Steijlen : Shifting identities: Moluccan second generation in the eighties.


W-5 ASI02 ASI02 : The City in Asia (I): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Urban Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Markus Daechsel : Dr. Doxiadis and the people of Korangi
Prashant Kidambi : Rethinking the Asian City: Recent perspectives in Indian and Chinese Historiography
Manish Kumar Thakur : The Making of A Mofussil Netaji: A Study in Urban Political Culture


X-5 ETH03 Refugee politics and refugee relief
Room 2.13
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Machteld Venken
Organizers: - Discussant: Machteld Venken
Jennifer Carson : ‘Fishers of Men not Distributors of Fish in Tins’: The Friends Relief Service in Germany after the Second World War
Monique Laney : Rethinking “Operation Paperclip”: A Transnational Perspective
Stephen Porter : American Refugee Affairs in the Early Cold War: Labor Exploitation and the Geopolitics of Human Rights
Jessica Reinisch : Displaced Persons and the Politics of Rationing


Y-5 WOM16 Gender in the Early Modern World
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Krassimira Daskalova
Organizers: - Discussant: Krassimira Daskalova
Ulrike Gleixner : Gender as a Medium of “expanding Piety”. The Protestant Mission to India in the 18th Century.
Janine Lanza : Family wealth and marriage settlements of siblings in early modern Paris
Maritere Lopez : The Art of Courtship in Early Modern Conduct Manuals
Daniel Murphree : Conquistadores, Huguenots, and Sexuality: Constructing Gender in the Florida Borderlands, 1513-1573
Gabriele Pieri : "Competent boys" and "obedient girls": Female Role Models in Catechisms and School Bibles in early modern Germany (16th to early 19th century)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
A-6 ECO04 Gateways, Hinterlands and Urban Networks: Transportation, Trade and Distribution from European Gateway Cities, 1650-1900
Cave A
Network: Economics Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura Discussant: Bruno Blondé
Giovanni Favero : Changes in the urban network of the Venetian area from 1750 to 1900
Marion Huibrechts : The importance of Liège arms trade in the American Revolutionary era
Pourchasse Pierrick : The linseed trade from Northern Europe to Brittany
Jeroen Salman : The role of the itinerant bookseller in the Dutch distribution network (1700-1850)
Michael-W. Serruys : Urban networks on the move. The Austrian Netherlands' transit policy and the influence on the commercial flows between the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic (1713-1789)
Miki Sugiura : Dutch inland distribution system. Goods-specialized merchants in gateway cities and hinterlands 1600-1750.


B-6 EDU03 Children with 'special needs'
Cave B
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Michael Grossberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Lind
Kevin J. Brehony : Health or Education: Competing strategies for poor children and the reform of their families in England 1900-1970
Rene Ruby : The Blind in Danish Society and the History of the Danish Association of the Blind in the 20th Century
Patrick Ryan : "Competent to Conduct his own Affairs': Individual Intelligence and Foster Children in Cleveland, Ohio between the World Wars
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson : Child Psychiatry in Sweden 1945-2000 Professional claims and struggles in the clinical field of child psychology and child psychotherapy


C-6 HIS03 Making large complex databases easy to use
Cave C
Networks: Family and Demography , Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lisa Dillon
Michelle Hamilton, Kris Inwood : Prospects for a Public Use Sample of Aboriginal Communities
Kees Mandemakers : Structuring and Distributing Longitudinal Historical Data for Comparative Analysis
Hans Jørgen Marker : Counting Danes


D-6 CRI07 Policing
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris A. Williams
Vincent Denis : Paradoxical institutionalisation
Drew Gray : An example of that unity, and of that dependence of parts on each other, without which no well constructed and efficient system of police can ever be expected”: Policing the City of London, c.1780-1829
Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves : Ordering the streets: Police and traffic in Lisbon (1890 – 1910)
Haia Shpayer-Makov : Revisiting the Detective Figure in Late Victorian Fiction


E-6 FAM10 Individual Experiences of Vulnerability
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elisabeth Engberg
Organizer: Elisabeth Engberg Discussant: Andrew Blaikie
Loftur Guttormsson, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir : Poor, paupers and vagrants in the light of the Icelandic census of 1703
Satomi Kurosu, NorikoTsuya : Household Socioeconomic Status and Individual Vulnerability in Early Modern Japan: Mortality at Different Stages of Life in Three Northeastern Villages
Leonard Schwarz : Reconstructing the lives of the London poor, 1725-1824
Samantha Shave : A Policy for the Vulnerable? Experiences of and negotiations for Relief in Gilbert's Unions, 1782- C.1845.


F-6 LAB34 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 1: theoretical approaches
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Erika Kuijpers
Organizers: Robert Knegt, Erika Kuijpers Discussant: Robert Steinfeld
Simon Deakin : Industrialization, legal origin, and economic development in historical perspective
Robert Knegt : Towards a comparative analysis of pre-industrial labour contracts


G-6 HEA06 International Anti-Tuberculosis in the Twentieth Century - Variations on a Theme?
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizers: - Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Iris Borowy : International Tuberculosis Work between the Wars
Niels Brimnes : The troubled life of the BCG-Vaccine, 1945-82
Len Smith, Janet Mccalman : TB in Black and White: the contrasting mortality of dispossessed Aborigines and dislocated Europeans in Victoria, Australia, 1850-1950


H-6 MAT14 Material culture and modernization
Room 1.1
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Brigitte Le Normand
Organizers: - Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Natalya Chernyshova : ‘Even the Most Backward Segments of Society Have Put on Jeans’: Consumption and Social Status under Late Soviet Socialism, 1964-1985
Emília Marques : Material culture and social conflict: distinction and counter-distinction in the Portuguese “Carnations Revolution” (1974)
Tibor Valuch : The power of consumption - The changing of fashionable clothing in Hungary in the second half of the 20th century


I-6 POL18 Concepts and contexts of party political activism in 20th century Britain
Room 2.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Laura Beers : "Labour's Britain: Fight for it Now!": party politics in World War II Britain
Lawrence Black : 'The free world’s largest youth political movement’: The Young Conservatives in the 1950s and 1960s
Gidon Cohen, Andrew Flinn & Lewis Mates : Party Activism in Post-War Britain: Towards a Multiple Recapture Study
Daniel Ritschel : (Re-)Constructing British Fascism: Explaining Sir Oswald Mosley’s Ideology of British Fascism
Andrew Thorpe : Organisation or Policy? Labour Party Membership in World War II Britain


J-6 CUL04 Mixed Marriages II: Representation and Agency
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Betty de Hart
Organizers: Marga Altena, Betty de Hart Discussant: Betty de Hart
Marga Altena : Challenging Prejudice in Dutch News Media. The 'Black and White Marriage' of Joseph Sylvester and Marie Borchert (1928-1955)
Maayke Botman : Representation of Dutch-Moroccan interethnic family relations and identity in Abdelkader Benali’s novel: De Langverwachte (The Long-Awaited)
Karin Maria Schmidlechner : Cross Cultural Marriages in Austria


K-6 CUL11 History of Emotions II: Emotions in 20th century Germany
Room 4
Network: Culture Chair: Willemijn Ruberg
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Heikki Lempa
Sandra Janssen : Losing Oneself in Others' Emotions: Psychological Theories of Emotion in the Early 20th Century and Their Significance for Totalitarianism
Anthony Mcelligott : Mixing up public emotions: murder in Germany 1900-1940
Edward Price : From Powell Doctrine to Police Action: The American Public's Influence on the War in Iraq


L-6 ORA08 Interviews over time: data interpretation
Room 5.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sidonia Grama : Social Memory as Palimpsest: Narrative Genres on the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Ene Kõresaar, Tiiu Jaago : The “truth of continuity” in Estonian oral history and life story narratives: negotiating the meaning of the 20th century
Miroslav Vanek : Memories behind the machines


M-6 ELI21 The culture of difference (Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe)
Room 5.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Organizer: Doina Pasca Harsanyi Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Doina Pasca Harsanyi : To be or not to be noble after the Civil Code
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Dykes, Haubargs, Bullocks, and Teacups ... The peasant-farmer elite of Eiderstedt, Schleswig, and the symbolic establishing of status and hierarchy during early modernity
Marc Schalenberg : Selling the City: How 18th century German residence towns “marketed” themselves


N-6 WOM14 Women and Medical Care in Modern Europe
Room 6.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Michelle Denbeste : Cleanliness and Virtuousness: Women Physicians and the Hygiene Movement in Late Imperial Russia
Lynn Lubamersky : The Advantage of being “A Polish Woman, and a foreigner in their country”: the Life of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Sabine Veits-Falk : Migration of Women Doctors (19th and early 20th century)


O-6 LAB06 Farm workers
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Lars Olsson
Attila Lajos : On the wrong side of the Iron Curtain: Hungarian agricultural workers in Sweden 1947-1949.
Juan Marinez : Transition from Farm Workers to Farm Owners: A Case Study of Hispanic Farmers in Southwestern Michigan.
Stephen Pitti : Cesar Chavez, the Grape Boycott, and Migrant Farm Labor
Dionicio Valdes : Up From Colonialism


P-6 ETH11 Bounding and Unbounding Spaces and Places
Room 8.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Christine Berkowitz : Railroad Crossings: Railway Workers and the Transnational World of North America, 1877-1910
Vibha Bhalla : Detroit, Windsor as Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of Asian Indian Migrants
Nora Faires : Blacks on the Border: Migration, Freedom, and Detroit as Portal and Destination


Q-6 FAM12 The Impact of the 'Industrious Revolution' on the Family
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ida Bull
Organizer: Ida Bull Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Tovah Bender : Creating Unions: Social Networks and Artisan Marriages in fifteenth-century Florentine Notarial Records
Ragnhild Hutchison : Tile and brick production – early modern industry in Norway in a household perspective
Gloria L. Main : The Employments of Children in the Earliest Phases of Industrialization in Rural New England, 1740-1840
Teresa Pinto : Industrial schools and the gender division of labour in Portugal in the late 19th century


R-6 ELI05 Elites and nationalism in comparative perspective
Amphitheater 4
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Eric Beverley : Layered Sovereignty and Subaltern States: Nationalism and Other Global Visions
Prachi Deshpande : Foreign travel?: Homeland and Migration in 18th and 19th century India
Aliye Fatma Mataraci : A Merchant Network: Reading Muslim Merchants through Trade Letters
Vanni Pettinà : The United States against the Cuban nationalist elites: searching for the interlocutor


S-6 ANT04 The other as neighbour. Alterity and acculturation in the ancient world
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Onno Van Nijf
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Van Nijf
Frederick Naerebout : Orontes, Nile, Kefissos and Tiber: miscible or immiscible waters? Some thoughts on acculturation in the Roman Empire
Miguel John Versluys : Modernity at large? Cultural dimensions of Romanisation
Greg Woolf : Othering the ancestors: how Romans made their past a foreign country


T-6 POL06 Vehicles of nation-building in Europe
Room 9
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: David Gerber
Organizers: - Discussant: David Gerber
Tadeusz Kopys : Language as Part of National Thinking and Nationalism in Hungary (19-20-th Century)
Emese Lafferton : Strategies of Nation-Building in Hungarian Ethnography, Anthropology and Eugenics between 1867-1918
Valerie Mast : National Definitons: Sermons and the Jews in late Nineteenth Century Hungary
Slavka Otcenasova : Making a Czechoslovak - collective identity formation in history textbooks
Jennica Thylin : Provincialisms and Nationalism. Finland-Swedish Language Planning from a Nation Building Perspective


U-6 SEX02 Languages of sexuology
Room10.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martinez-Vidal Àlvar, Antoni Adam-Donat : "Between psychiatry and legal medicine: the homosexuality under the Franco regime".
Runar Jordåen : The medicalization of homosexuality revisited
Judith Schuyf : 'In Berlin-Zoo homosexual swans can be observed'
Robert Tobin : Sexual Danger and the Sexologists


V-6 SOC08 Norms and social pracitices in welfare institutions (1500 – 1900)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Frank Hatje
Organizers: - Discussant: Ana Paula Avelar
Thomas M. Adams : Social Ideals and Religious Values in the Provision of Welfare in Europe since 1500
Chris Leonards : 19th century congresses on philanthropy, welfare and ‘control of the poor’: interfacing global views and local practices
Sebastian Schmidt : Administration, Supervision and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hospitals in the Electorate of Trier
Alfred Weiss : Beyond the norm? Norms and everyday life in the hospitals of Salzburg and Klagenfurt in the early modern times (1500-1800)


W-6 ASI03 ASI03 : The City in Asia (II): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Urban Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nandini Gooptu : Globalization, Work and Urban Identities in Kolkata, India
Jaideep Gupte : Communal Violence, Organised Crime and Vulnerability: urban survival strategies in Mumbai, India
Ami Shah : Global Dreams, Local Nightmares: Urban 'Development' and Destruction in Ahmedabad, India


Y-6 ETH04 The Cold War and the Integration of Migrants
Room 2.14
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eric Limbach : Migration, interrupted: a refugee camp disturbance on the margins of the Cold War in Europe
Cecilia Notini : The Cold War, refugees and national security: Sweden’s handling of Eastern European refugees 1945 – 1968
Eric Payseur : “God Bless Reagan” and “God help Canada”: The Polish Canadian Action Group’s Campaign in Toronto and Ottawa during the 1980s
Machteld Venken : Experiencing Disturbed Transnationalism in a Cold War Context. Migrants from behind the Iron Curtain in Belgium (1945-1989/91)



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
A-7 CUL05 Love Across Boundaries. Marriage Migration as Intersection Site between Tradition, Gendered Aspirations and Globalised Policies - I
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Johan Wets
Organizer: Christiane Timmerman Discussant: Barbara Maria Waldis
Aycan E. Celikaksoy : Marriage Migration: The Case of Denmark
Christiane Timmerman : Marriage across borders.Marriage migration in Moroccan and Turkish communities in Belgium
Trinidad L. Vicente, Maria Luisa Setién : Gender, Nationality and Mixed Marriage in Spain.
Thierry Xavier, Tatiana Eremenko : Family Reunification In France : a cohort approach over the 1992-2005 years


B-7 MAT06 Heritage and material culture on display I
Cave B
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Hester Dibbits
Organizers: Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Hanna Snellman Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Judy Jaffe-Schagen : Presenting identities.
Kathrin Pieren : Negotiating minority identities though the public display of material culture
Hanna Snellman : Ethnicity Captured by Museums
Marta Vilar Rosales : Things from Home. Memory, material culture, identity narratives and Portuguese colonial experiences.


C-7 LAB08 The Post-War reconstruction of European Industrial Relations (1945-68)
Cave C
Network: Labour Chair: Nina Fishman
Organizer: Peter Ackers Discussant: Nina Fishman
Peter Ackers : Professor Hugh Clegg & the Oxford School of British IR Reform
Ruth Dukes : Otto Kahn-Freund and Industrial Democracy: from the UK to Germany and back again
Christer Thörnqvist : Industrial relations in Sweden 1945-2007
Richard Whiting : Affluence and Industrial Relations


D-7 CRI09 The policing of right-wing and communist dictatorships
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizer: Jonathan Dunnage Discussant: Joanne Klein
Gerald Blaney : Franco's Willing Executioners: The Spanish Civil Guard and the Francoist State, 1939-1955
Jonathan Dunnage : ‘Being a Policeman in Fascist Italy: A Study of Lives, Careers, Strategies and Mentalities’
Diego Palacios Cerezales : Italy or Britain? foreign models of policing in Salazar's Portugal
Mark David Pittaway : From Anti-Fascist to Socialist Policing in Hungary's Western Borderland, 1944-1950


E-7 THE03 Critical Historiography of International History I
Cave E
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: Oliver Daddow
Organizers: - Discussant: Oliver Daddow
Mario Del Pero : Between Long Peaces and Cold Wars. The Historiography of John Lewis Gaddis
Patrick Finney : Hayden White and the Tragedy of International History
Stephan Petzold : The origins of the First World War as a discursive puzzle
Dominic Sachsenmaier : Challenges to International History


F-7 LAB35 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 2
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Robert Knegt
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Joern Janssen : Different categories of wage earners according to labour statutes in England, 1349-1563.
Erika Kuijpers : Labour contracts in Holland ca. 1300-1600
Mary Nagata : Another Kind of Service: Labor Contracts and the Machi Yonin in Early Modern Kyoto, Japan


G-7 HEA07 Food and Health: Enlightenment, Experimentation and Commerce, 1700-1960
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: - Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Ximo Guillem-Llobat : The preservation of foodstuffs in Europe (1880 – 1910), challenging food policies and scientific authorities
Barbara Orland : “Back to Nature: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Alimentary Experiments, 1750-1800”
David Smith : Food security in the cold war: planning for a nuclear emergency, and the fate of Britain’s corned beef stockpile
Emma Spary : Demands of the Marketplace: Making, Selling and Tasting Health Foods in Paris, 1765-1810
Frank Stahnisch : François Magendie’s Physiological Nutrition Experiments, 1831-1841: Sensualist Convictions, Demonstrative Experimentation, and the Commercial Complex of the French ‘July Monarchy’


H-7 ETH34 Marriage and Migration
Room 1.1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Family and Demography Chair: Leen Sterckx
Organizers: - Discussant: Leen Sterckx
Beate Collet, Emmanuelle Santelli : Marital Choices of African and Turkish Migration Descent in France
Elena Dingu-Kyrklund : Globalization in practice: marriage - a commonest migration cause in the 21st century?
Marc Tremblay, Louis Houde & Hélène Vézina : Tracing back maternal and paternal lineages in the Quebec (Canada) population


I-7 ORA06 Fantasy, dreams, fact and fiction
Room 2.1
Networks: Culture , Oral History Chair: Eveline Buchheim
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Molly Andrews : Narratives: Confronting the unbelievable and the unknown
Hans de Vries : "The February strike 1941": a fine example of a well-balanced handling of written and oral sources
Ulla-Maija Peltonen : Testimony and negotiating the Truth of Memory
Célia Pratas Mantinha : Franz Kafka - An Enigmatic Way of Being Told


J-7 GEO02 The Spaces of Civil Society I: Sexuality
Room 3.1
Network: Chair: Matthew Hannah
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Mathew Coleman : What Counts as Geopolitics, and Where? Sexuality and US Immigration Enforcement
Patricia Ehrkamp : “Everyone here has two faces”: publicity, privacy, and Turkish migrants’ sexual identities in Duisburg-Marxloh, Germany
Tanya Erzen : The Politics of Sexuality in the U.S. Christian Right
Mary Thomas : The sexual attraction of racism: Hispanic and Armenian teenage girls explain a school race riot in Los Angeles, California, USA


K-7 ECO05 The Theory of Economic History and Representatives of Time and Temporality
Room 4
Network: Economics Chair: Ben Gales
Organizers: - Discussant: Ben Gales
Harry Kitsikopoulos : Social and Economic Theory in Medieval Studies: the Marxist and Commercialist arguments
Andreas Langenohl : Welfare Fictions and Financial Imaginaries: The Link between Orders of Justification and Financial Temporality
Kerstin Schmidt-Beck : Remembering Global Financial Crises? "Doing and Un-doing History" in Narrative and Discourse.
Paul Sharp, Karl Gunnar Persson : Why were American farmers angry during the grain invasion era, 1870-1900?


L-7 FAM15 Unnatural Kinship: Familiarity outside of family, XVth-XIXth centuries I
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: Vincent Gourdon
Michela Barbot : Owner, Employer, Patron and Godfather. The Case of the Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan during the Ancien Régime
Tom Ericsson : Who wants to be a godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran church in Paris, 1750-1810
Cosme Gómez, Francisco Garcia Gonzales : Fictive Kinship and social relations. Family strategies in the mddle-class and oligarchy (Albacete, 1750-1840)
Cristina Munno, Guido Alfani : Godparenthood and social networks in Nonantola XVIth-XVIIth Centuries


M-7 URB08 Shaping Urban Space
Room 5.2
Network: Urban Chair: Marc Schalenberg
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jose Maria Cardesin Diaz : Urban development in Spain after 1950
Isabel Haupt : Flying Cities: Architectural Utopias of the early 20th Century and their cultural Context
Rosana Steinke, M. Brehpol : History of urbanization in Brazil: a dialogue between Europe, USA and America.
Ruth Wallach : The City as an Aesthetic Object


N-7 TEC05 International Perspectives on the Professionalization of Engineering and Industrial Science
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: David Mitch
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: David Mitch
Ross Bassett : Engineering India, Engineering America: Indian Engineering Students at MIT, 1900-2000
Kate Hamblin : 'Men of brain and brawn and guts': The professionalization of Marine Engineering in Britain and Germany, 1830 - Present
Robin Mackie, Gerrylynn K. Roberts : The changing roles of British chemists in industry, 1918-1970’


O-7 REL06 Portraying the religious body: the representation of Eastern European Religious Groups in 19th and 20th century photography
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Ekaterina Emeliantseva : Icons, Portraits, or Ethnographic Types? Photographic images of the Skoptsy in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union (1880-1930)
Anke Hilbrenner : Invention of a Vanished World: Photographies of Traditional Jewish Life in the Russian Pale of Settlement
Stefan Rohdewald : Orthodox Hierarchs and Ordinary Religious People in the Soviet Union: Images of Powerless Power?
Bettina Weichert : Capturing contemporary history: the photographic portrayal of Russian Orthodoxy in post-Soviet mass media


P-7 AFR03 Central & Southern Africa
Room 8.1
Network: Africa Chair: Ana Roque
Organizers: - Discussant: Ana Roque
Dawne Curry : Til death do us Part: Grieving Patterns in Alexandra, South Africa
Johan Fourie, Willem H. Boshoff : Estimating the South African Business Cycle: 1652-1793
Kamini Krishna : The Economic Status of Zambian and Indian Women During the Colonial Period


Q-7 ANT09 Visions of Greece in Imperial Britain
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Antiquity Chair: Ian Macgregor Morris
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Macgregor Morris
Doohwan Ahn : Xenophon and the Greek tradition in British republican thought
Akca Atac : An Attempt at Restoring the Antique Imperial Wisdom: Ancient Greek History Texts of Eighteenth- Century Britain
Rachel Sternberg : Cyrus the Great's Pity for Panthea


R-7 CUL12 History of Emotions III: Emotions and literature
Amphitheater 4
Network: Culture Chair: Hera Cook
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Kristine Steenbergh
Michal Altbauer-Rudnik : Conducting Emotions in Early Modern France and England: Love Melancholy in the Medical Literature of the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
R. Darren Gobert : Staging Trauma in the Private Theatre
Karen Schaller : Secrecy and Textual Affect: The Case for Re-reading Emotion in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘Tears, Idle Tears’
Juergen Schlaeger : Literature and Emotional Intelligence. Discovery of the Emotions as a Human Resource


S-7 MID01 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: José Antonio Jara Fuente
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert : Social Mobility in Flemish Urban Elites (14th – 16th century): a Quantitative Approach of the Flemish Nobility
Justine Smithuis : A Prosopography of Factions in Late Medieval Utrecht: What are the Risks and Gains?
Arie van Steensel : Integrating institutions, networks, and agents: challenges arising from the application of the prosopographical method to late medieval nobility of the county of Zeeland


T-7 EDU05 Children's best interest? Institutions for those 'in need'
Room 9
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizers: - Discussant: Kriste Lindenmeyer
Jane Read : Rhetoric and practical models for addressing the impact of bodily defects on the mental development of working class infants in Britain, 1906-1918.
Shurlee Swain : Worse than Orphaned
Yordanka Valkanova : “Red pedagogy”: Jewish orphans in Soviet Russia (1917-1930)


U-7 FAM05 Childlessness, Impotence and Infertility in the European Past
Room10.2
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizer: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Christina Benninghaus : Diagnosing Male Infertility in 19th century Germany
Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin : The other side of the medal. Childless women in mid-nineteenth century Tuscany


V-7 ELI23 Elites in Transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc I: transformation of the old power structures
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussant: Katalin Miklossy
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez : Constructing a ‘European’ Transition: From the Central and Eastern European Exile Memory to the Eastward Enlargement of the EU
Jouni Järvinen : Making Identities: History, Memory and Politics
Maciej Tyminski : Searching for the Origins of the Elite’s Habits in Postcommunist Poland:


W-7 ELI06 Elites and nationalism: (dis)location across borders
Room 2.12
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Mari Firkatian : Nationalist Elites: Stancioffs, aristocrats to diplomats, cosmopolitans to patriots
Nathanaelle Minard : Social and cultural networks of Russian travellers in Finland during the first half of the 19th century
Janne Nokki : Austro -Hungarian Diplomats in St. Petersburg during the 1850s and 1860s - a Group of Aristocratic Conservatives


X-7 WOM07 Engendering Socialism. A Roundtable
Room 2.13
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Mihaela Miroiu
Organizers: - Discussant: Mihaela Miroiu
Wendy Goldman : Family Networks in the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
Lynne Haney : Reading the Past from the Politics of the Present
Donna Harsch : Women and the Domestication of State Policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Jill Massino : Experience as Evidence: Women, Gender, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania
Shana Penn : Third Space: Gender Dynamics in Opposition Movements in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia


Y-7 SEX13 Eugenics in theory and practice
Room 2.14
Network: Sexuality Chair: Annette Timm
Organizers: - Discussant: Annette Timm
Jana Husmann-Kastein : History of Sexuality - History of Racism. Intersections of Race and Gender in European scientific and occult Racial Theories 1800-1925.
Angus Mclaren : Design for Living
Alison Redick : The Science of Identity



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
A-8 CUL06 Love Across Boundaries. Marriage Migration as Intersection Site between Tradition, Gendered Aspirations and Globalised Policies - II
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Christiane Timmerman
Organizer: Christiane Timmerman Discussant: Barbara Maria Waldis
Petra Heyse : Love without bounds. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of marriage migration from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia to Belgium
Albert Kraler, Veronika Bilger & Elisabeth Strasser : Civic Stratification, Gender and Family Migration Policies in Europe
Johan Wets : Familiy migration: who is looking for a partner abroad?


B-8 MAT07 Heritage and material culture on display II
Cave B
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Judy Jaffe-Schagen
Organizers: Hester Dibbits, Judy Jaffe-Schagen Discussant: Marga Altena
Hester Dibbits : The exhibition of ‘European migrant culture’
Kate Mcintyre : At Home in the Museum?
Kati Mikkola : Nation-Building and Self-Taught Folklore Collectors in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Finland
Uta Protz : The Export of Works of Art and the Construction of Cultural Identity
Nancy Stockdale : Selling the Sultan and His People: Christopher Oscanyan's Oriental and Turkish Museum


C-8 ETH16 Asylum, Gender and Migration
Cave C
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizers: - Discussant: Eve Rosenhaft
Barbara Pinelli : Women, social vulnerability and the experience of asylum seeking in the town of Milan
Alice Szczepanikova : Constructing Lives in Exile: Refugees and Gender in the Context of Post-socialism
Tycho Walaardt : The problematical asylum policies of the Dutch authorities in the fifties and sixties


D-8 CRI11 Hot spots and dangerous people: Globalisation of crime and fear during the late 19th and 20th centuries?
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizers: - Discussant: Herbert Reinke
Melanie Becker : Every city has its own rules. Individual perceptions of dangerous places in German cities
Alexandra Locher : Political Violence in Italy 1970-1980
Astrid Renland : Drugs, weapons and women: The same travel routes? Regulating cross-borders movement through crime


E-8 WOR04 Critical Historiography of International History II
Cave E
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Cedric Beidatsch : The Political Praxis of Immanuel Wallerstein. A Case Study in Marx’s Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach.
Ingo Heidbrink : Inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to maritime history
Christopher Lloyd : Global Wars of Capitalism Since the 16th Century and the "End of World History": Historical Stages, Progressive Teleologies, and Social Transformations Revisited


F-8 ETH32 Perspectives on Internal and Seasonal Migration in Central Europe
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lars Olsson
Ewa Kepinska, Oded Stark : The evolution and sustainability of seasonal migration from Poland to Germany
Annemarie Steidl, Engelbert Stockhammer : Coming and Going. Internal Mobility in Late Imperial Austria
Sigrid Wadauer : Mobility and search for employment (Austria from the late 19th century to 1938)


G-8 HEA08 Knowledge of Emotions and Subjectivity: an Historical Perspective
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizer: Rosa Medina-Domenech Discussant: Iris Borowy
Ivan Crozier : Culture, Psychiatry and the Case of Koro
Agita Luse : Politics of the ‘psy’ and endorsement of emotions. The case of the 20th century Latvia
Rosa Medina-Domenech : Sciences of love in Spain. Knowledge production of expert women and scientific experts during the Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975)
Cecilia Riving : The family and the psychiatrist in 19th century Sweden
Deborah Thien : Disclosing Emotional Well being


H-8 URB03 The Impact of Consumerism on Cities in Modernizing Countries
Room 1.1
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Mark Kehren : “Carioca Consumption: Urban Renewal and the Geography of Leisure in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960s and 1970s”
Brigitte Le Normand, Nicole Münnich : The “Yugoslav Dream” and the transformation of Belgrade, 1955-1970
Ipek Tureli : Emergence of New Consumption Practices in a Modernizing City: Istanbul in the mid-twentieth century


I-8 RUR06 Land reform and agricultural politics in France, Greece and England
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Jaime Reis
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaime Reis
John Beckett : The New Domesday of Landownership, 1876
Noelle Plack : Privatising the commons in Napoleonic France: the law of 20 March 1813
Brian Short : National discourse and local struggle in the battle for land 1906-1914
Michael Turner : The end of manorial ownership: copyhold enfranchisment after 1840


J-8 GEO03 The Spaces of Civil Society II: Geopolitics
Room 3.1
Network: Chair: Patricia Ehrkamp
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Begum Basdas : Stately interventions in the cosmopolitan public space: women’s engagements with police forces in Beyoglu, Istanbul
Stephanie Egan : Geographies of power: The IPSC as a resisting community
Derek Gregory : Uncivil society? The biopolitics of Baghdad


K-8 ECO06 Determinants of success and failure in firms in the 19th and 20th centuries I
Room 4
Network: Economics Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussant: Jochen Streb
Harald Degner : The Relationship between the Size and the Innovativeness of German Firms
Roger Lloyd-Jones, M J Lewis : 'Meeting the Needs of the Customer: Marketing, Product Development, and Factoring in the British Machine Tool Industry, Alfred Herbert Ltd, 1887-1970
Anna Spadavecchia, Peter Scott : The 1919 reduction of working hours and labour productivity: the British case


L-8 FAM18 Migration and Inequality within Families: Multigenerational Perspectives
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizer: Alice B. Kasakoff Discussant: Michel Oris
Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jørgen Marker : Were the elderly a burden a 1801?
Alice B. Kasakoff : Family Care of the Elderly in the US North 1850 – 1870: Boon or Burden?
Jan Kok, Hilde Bras : Diverging pathways? Sibling differences in social mobility in a commercializing rural region of the Netherlands, 1860-1940


M-8 ASI05 Colonialism, Capitalism and Network Formation: the Indian Ocean Region, 1800-1950 1
Room 5.2
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi Discussants: -
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Solid ground beneath their feet? Armenian entrepreneurs in India, 1800-1950
Claude Markovits : Bombay as the hub of Indian merchant networks in the Indian Ocean c. 1800-1950
Takashi Oishi : Intra-regional Network and Trust: Indian Muslim merchants in Southeast and East Asia, 1800-1950


N-8 SOC06 Categorisations of populations -- contested concepts II
Room 6.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizers: Per Axelsson, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Kris Inwood
Per Axelsson : Indigenous Communities, the State and Statistics The case of the Swedish Sami population, 1750-2000
John Macinnes : Identifying the British
Victor Thompson, Tahu Kukutai : Inside-Out: The Politics of Enumerating the Nation


O-8 FAM01 Poverty as an Impediment to Marriage?
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussants: -
Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe : Partner Selection and Marriage Market Segmentation in 19th Century Sweden
Satoshi Murayama : Poor households in a proto-industrial region in Germany from the 17th to the 19th century.
Peter Teibenbacher : Nuptiality and Fertility restrictions in agrarian societies. The case of Styria 17th to 19th century
Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Marriage of Poor Couples in the Azores Islands, Portugal


P-8 POL14 Meet the Author: Thomasz Gross, Historian and Moral Critic. An Evaluation of Neighbors and Fear
Room 8.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan T. Gross
Natalia Aleksiun : "Explaining Anti-Jewish Violence: Polish Historians' Read Jan T. Gross's "Neighbors" and "Fear".
David Gerber : Jan Tomasz Gross, Historian and Moral Critic: An Evaluation of Neighbors and Fear
Dorota Praszalowicz : "Polish Memory, History and the Reception of NEIGHBORS and FEAR?"


Q-8 ELI07 Elites and corporatism in the Iberian World
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Line Schjolden
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: Line Schjolden
Manuel Loff : «Ours is a Fascist Century!» Salazarism and Francoism elites and Nazi-Fascist New Order (1936-45)
Carolina Rodríguez-López : Academic Elites and Power in the University of Madrid, 1939-1951
José Antonio Sánchez-Román : From the Congress of Productivity to the Economic Agreement: Taxes, Inflation and Corporatism in Argentina, 1955-1976


R-8 THE08 The Human Sciences between Universalism and Contextualism
Amphitheater 4
Network: Theory Chair: Richard Vann
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Vann
Nina Baur : Locating Patterns of Social Change in Time, Space, Action Sphere and on Action Level
Thomas Louis Benjamin, Kevin Nehil : Truth or Consequences: Early Modern American Ethnographies and the Perils of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism
Manuela Ciotti : The ‘western anthropologist’ unbound: local identities, scholarly selves and global knowledge production
Antoon De Baets : How the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Determines the Work of Historians
Aviezer Tucker : Anachronism, Retrospection and Evidence


S-8 LAB29 US labour
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Steve Meyer
Organizers: - Discussant: Steve Meyer
Norman Caulfield : The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC): A Twelve-Year Assessment
Andrew Dawson : Studio Labour, Civil Rights, and the Collapse of Hollywood's Racial Order, 1963-1974
Seth Wigderson : He Doesn’t Know How To Answer A Gentleman”: Deference and Defiance in the 1937 Lewiston Auburn Shoeworkers’ Strike


T-8 EDU04 Views on childhood in the early 20th century: United States & Brittain
Room 9
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Janet Golden
Organizers: - Discussant: Janet Golden
Catherine Burke, Ian Grosvenor : The Story of a School: an example of social biography in post 1945 Britain
Kathleen Jones : Kids Who Kill …. Themselves: Press Accounts of Youth Suicide in the Interwar Years
Susan Miller : Politics of Children Pageantry
Rachel Neiwert : Creating Community through Schoolwork: Charlotte Mason, the Parents’ Union School, and the British Empire, 1899-1950


U-8 LAB11 The Politics of Mining: Comparative Perspectives
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Carolyn Brown
Nina Fishman : National Coal Board: experiment in social democracy
Ben Gales : ‘Engineering Hard Choices: Accidents in Dutch Mining during the 20th Century
Keith Gildart : Miners' Militancy in Britain in the Second World War: The Role of the Independent Labour Party
Chris Williams : From 'Isolated Masses' to 'Little Moscows': Radicalism and Locality in British Coalfields, 1800-1985


V-8 ELI24 Elites in transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc II: Old Elites' Revival in the New System
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussants: -
Bojan Bilic, Adriana Marcolini : Two Serbias: the Persistence of ‘Old Elites’ after the Fall of Socialism
Katalin Miklossy : Hungarian Socialists’ Identity Crisis
Nadezhda Stoyanova : Desecuritizing Identity in South-Eastern Europe


W-8 ORA05 Testimony, memory, memorials
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Nanci Adler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eva Bruecker : Negotiating the Truth of Memory: Oral History and the difficulties of public presentations
James Mark : Using Victim Biographies: Sites of Terror in Central-Eastern Europe
Gulie Ne'eman Arad : Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs: A Challenge for Historians
Nikolai Vukov : The Rewriting of the Past in a Ritual Setting: Public Commemorations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria


X-8 MID02 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges II
Room 2.13
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Mario Damen : Prosopography and elites: perspectives for research and dissemination of data concerning political elites in the Low Countries.
Jan Dumolyn, Wim De Clercq : From social position to social representation. The grammar of sign systems expressing noble identity in the late medieval Burgundian Netherlands.
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Perceiving the «self», perceiving the «others»: an enquiry over the construction of political identities in fifteenth-century urban Castile


Y-8 REL01 Competing Identities: Gender and Religion
Room 2.14
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Karin Hofmeester, Ariadne Schmidt Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Bojan Aleksov : Women in Religious Movements in Yugoslavia
Silvia Evangelisti : Failed Jesuitesses: Gender, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Ji Li : Letters from Manchuria: Gender, Writing and Confession in Nineteenth-century Rural China
Cecilia Winterhalter : St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the 19th. Century



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
A-9 LAB09 Between idea(l)s and reality: Labour as non-state actor in international relations
Cave A
Network: Labour Chair: Daniel Roger Maul
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Jill Jensen : International Labor Standards in the Building of Two Postwar Orders, 1919-1949
Magaly Rodríguez García : Liberal Workers of the World, Unite!? Defending Liberal Internationalist Principles within the Free-Trade Union Movement (1949 – 1969)
Yvonne Rueckert : International Trade Union Organizations in the system of global governance – The anchoring of trade union demands at Bretton Woods institutions


B-9 CRI08 Political Contention and Collective Violence: Representations of Law, Order and the Police, 1886-2004
Cave B
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Mats Greiff
Organizer: Stefan Nyzell Discussant: Clive Emsley
Michael Ebner : The Party, The Police, and Everyday Coercion in Fascist Italy
Roger Johansson : The History of May Day and the struggle for the History –Narratives of the May Day in the United States
Stefan Nyzell : It's Shining Red". The Police Accociation Comrade, the Labour Movement, and the Möllevången Riots in Malmö 1926


C-9 EDU06 Historical experiences of youth, parental authority and education
Cave C
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maija Runcis : Power and resitence. Strategies in the struggle for the child
Greetje Timmerman : Changing experiences of youth (1960-2005)
Ben White : Towards a historical ethnography of Indonesian childhood: changing patterns of child work and education in Java, 1900-2000


D-9 CRI12 Heroin in International Perspective
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizer: Eric Schneider Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Caroline Acker : Zones of Anonymity: Historical Antecedents of Entrenched Drug Markets in American Cities
Detlef Briesen : Some Aspects of Heroin Consumption in Germany after the Second World War
Eric Schneider : Heroin in International Perspective
Joseph Spillane : Heroin Markets and Violence: New Perspectives on an Old Problem


E-9 FAM19 Did Peasants Die in their own Beds? Rural Migration in the 17th-19th centuries
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Josef Grulich : Rural Migration in Bohemia (18th-19th Centuries)
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : Where did the peasants die in the suburbs of Edo, Japan in the 18th -19th centuries?
Christopher Kennedy : An Gorta Mor and peasant survival: an examination of famine deaths and emigration in Ireland, 1846-56
Philippe Pérot : Spanish sailors and ship’s boys of rural extraction dying in the New Vera Cruz through the XVIIth century : social outlines and family links in the Bienes de Difuntos archives
Mikako Sawayama : Where did the peasants abandon their children during the first half of the 19th century in western Japan?


F-9 FAM21 Heat Waves (from 1911 to 2003)
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Robert Woods
Organizer: Catherine Rollet Discussant: Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant
Lucia Pozzi, Paolo Cau & Carla Merella : A reversal of trend in the Italian health transition largely ignored
Catherine Rollet : The Heat Wave of 1911. demographic realities and political reactions
Frans van Poppel : The development of temperature-related mortality in the Netherlands
Jörg Vögele : "Has all that has been done lately for infants failed" 1911, Infant Mortality and Infant Welfare in Early Twentieth Century Germany


G-9 HEA09 What practitioners did: Laboratory and clinic in the history of late 19th and early 20th century medicine
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Chris Crenner
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Crenner
Tricia Close-Koenig : When confronted with tumours: The pathology laboratory for diagnosis in Strasbourg, 1919-1939.
Morten Hammerborg : The Laboratory and the Clinic: The Bergen Experience
Steve Sturdy : Ideal Places: Laboratory and Clinic in the History of Medicine


H-9 MAT03 Courts and food
Room 1.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizers: Danielle De Vooght, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Peter Scholliers
David Burrow : Food at the Russian court in the 19th century
Danielle De Vooght : Culinary networks of power (Belgium, 2nd part 19th century)
Anne Lair : France: Examples of Food Court during the Second Empire
Özge Samanci : Ottoman Courtly Banquets Arranged in French Style (1850-1918)


I-9 ECO07 Determinants of success and failure in firms in the 19th and 20th centuries II
Room 2.1
Network: Economics Chair: Roger Lloyd-Jones
Organizers: - Discussant: Joerg Baten
Nuno Luis Madureira : Tariffs, electricity development and regulation in the 1930s
Robert Möllenberg : Market power and price discrimination: The economic activities of the two independent network operators WLAG and WÜSAG in the electricity industry of Wurttemberg 1924-1933
Jochen Streb, Jonas Scherner : Learning, Outsourcing, and Investment: Explaining Growth of Output and Labor Productivity in the German Armament Industry during World War II


J-9 GEO04 The Spaces of Civil Society III: The City
Room 3.1
Network: Chair: Gerry Kearns
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Beckingham : Drinking and drunkenness, temperance, and cultures of resistance in nineteenth-century Liverpool
Michael Brown : Everybody gets VD!: Sexualities & Urban Public Health Politics in PostWar
Ruth Wilson Gilmore : Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning
Harm Kaal : Public Order and Democracy in Amsterdam
Stephen Legg : Contesting colonial conduct of conduct: the Indian middle classes and the problem of prostitution


K-9 RUR09 Agriculture and the Second World War
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: Paul Brassley
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul Brassley
Carin Israelsson : Sweden in the shadow of war: a paradise for administrators and some renaissance for the rural society
John Martin : The State Induced Agricultural Revolution: case study of Britain 1939-55
Leen Van Molle, Yves Segers : Changing faces of micro-farming in and around the Second World War, historical perspectives from the Belgian case


L-9 CUL13 History of Emotions IV: Emotions and autobiographical writing
Room 5.1
Network: Culture Chair: Hera Cook
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Willemijn Ruberg
Paula Cossart : Emotions and adulterous love in 19th century Paris. The letters of Adèle Schunck and Aimé Guyet de Fernex (1824-1849)
Christina Douglas : Is Love Enough? Feelings in Swedish Love-Letters, 1890-1895
Eva Joelsson : Love within the Frame of an Emotional Regime in 18th century Sweden


M-9 ETH06 VEIL. Debates about headscarfes in Europe
Room 5.2
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Birte Siim
Organizers: - Discussants: Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birte Siim
Rikke Andreassen : VEIL. Debates about headscarves in Europe. The Danish case
Leila Hadj-Abdou, Nora Gresch & Sieglinde Rosenberger : Unveiling the Austrian headscarf debate
Petra Rostock, Sabine Berghahn : VEIL Germany: The hegemonic use of the headscarf as a symbol of subordination
Sawitri Saharso, Doutje Lettinga : Moral conflicts and practical solutions: policies and debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering in the Netherlands


N-9 TEC04 Engineering, applied science, and industrial innovation
Room 6.1
Networks: Economics , Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: Peter Meyer
Kristine Bruland, Patrick Llerena : Knowledge management and knowledge sharing in a 19th century power engineering company
David Mitch : The Rise of the Engineering Profession and Industrial Innovation in 20th Century Britain
Alessandro Nuvolari, Christine Macleod : "Glorious Times": The Emergence of Mechanical Engineering in Early Industrial Britain, C 1700-1850


O-9 ELI09 Elites in Russia/ Soviet Union and abroad
Room 7.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jouni Järvinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Leonid Borodkin
Jaana Gluschkoff : The Elite without Borders
Aappo Kähönen : Elites and Continuity: Georgii Chicherin and the foundations of Soviet foreign policy, 1904-1922
Alastair Kocho-Williams : Forging the Soviet Foreign Elite in the Interwar Years
Piotr Korys : Four concepts of nationalism. Nationalist Elites and Inventing National Community in Poland


P-9 WOM15 Translating Gender: Historical Change Through a Gender Perspective
Room 8.1
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Natali Stegmann
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dietlind Hüchtker : Gender Order as a Medium of Conceptualizing Reform Movements in the 19th Century (Zionism, Socialism, Feminism and Nationalism in East Central Europe)
Claudia Kraft : Communicating processes of Social Change by the Multiple Shifting of Gender Concepts in Central and Eastern Europe Since World War II
Mohamed Malchouch : Moroccan Masculinity in Literary and Historical Perspectives
Clare Midgley : Making national heroines in imperial and post-imperial Britain: the divergent and shifting commemorative fortunes of two heroines of the Crimean War
Alison Oram : Love between Women in Historic Houses: Sexual Dissidence and the Uses of the Past


Q-9 ETH07 Metis Ethnogenis in Northern North America
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Patricia Kelly Hall
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Kelly Hall
Cecil Chabot : Métis or halfbreed or whatever you want to call it”: Identity and Culture in the Fur Trade Community of Moose Factory
Carolyn Podruchny : The Making of a Metis Oral Tradition: Conjunctures in Cree, Ojibwe, and French Canadian Stories
Richard Preston : Ethnogenesis of the Davis Inlet Band


R-9 LAB00 Roundtable: A Global Development of Free Wage Labour in the 19th and 20th century
Amphitheater 4
Network: Labour Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Simon Deakin, Karin Hofmeester, M. Erdem Kabadayi, Robert Steinfeld


S-9 ANT11 Pompeii in the popular imagination
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Ian Macgregor Morris
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Macgregor Morris
Kate Fisher, Rebecca Langlands : ‘This way to the red light district’: the interplay of academic and popular imaginations in Pompeii
Shelley Hales : Spiritualism and the (im)materiality of Pompeii
Joanna Paul : ‘I fear it’s potentially like Pompeii’: Disaster, mass media, and the ancient city


T-9 ETH19 Reconceptualizing belonging in Germany trough youth research
Room 9
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizer: Irina Schmitt Discussants: -
Cassandra Ellerbe-Dück : „Ich bin Stolz Deutscher zu sein “ - “I Represent a New German Identity”: Afro-German Males and German National Pride
Andreas Hieronymus : National and European identities as (counter)images to 'the Turk', 'the Arab' and Islam (working title)
Irina Schmitt : Young people in Germany: Differentiated Belonging and Contextualized Transcultural Competences within Normative Settings


U-9 SEX09 Stalinism, de-Stalinization and sexuality
Room10.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussant: Dan Healey
Malgorzata Fidelis : Sex after Stalinism: Defining Morality in Postwar Poland, 1950s-1960s
Natalia Novikova : Love, Sex and Politics in Soviet Russia: 1917-1928
Natalia Pushkareva : Sexuality in Private Lives of Russian Women
Elena Shulman : "'But He Promised...': The Politics of Sex in the Stalinist 1930s


V-9 WOM01 Women, Armies, and the Nation
Room 2.10
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Melissa Bokovoy
Organizers: - Discussant: Melissa Bokovoy
Petra Goedde : Military Conquest as Sexual Conquest: the Gendering of Warfare during the Second World War
Zeynep Kutluata : Gender and War during the late Ottoman and Early Republican Periods: The Case of Black Fatma(s)
Holly Mayer : Revolutionary Roles and Role Models: Perceptions of Women's Actions in the American War for Independence
Fia Sundevall : Swedish women’s military work in the post-war period of 1945-1969


W-9 LAB26 Race and Internationalism: New Research on Black Activists in the Ambit of the Comintern
Room 2.12
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizer: Eve Rosenhaft Discussant: James Miller
Robbie Aitken : German-Speaking Cameroonians: Exchange and Knowledge Transfer within Networks of Anti-Colonialism
Corinne A. Pernet : Nationalism, Regionalism or Cosmopolitanism? Latin American Intellectuals at UNESCO, 1948 to 1958
Fionnghuala Sweeney : CLR James' The Black Jacobins and radical leadership in the interwar period


X-9 LAT04 Anarchist Networks in Port and Provincial Cities: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Room 2.13
Network: Latin America Chair: Bert Altena
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Bert Altena
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Cityscapes, Dock Work, and Anarcho-Syndicalist Militancy: Comparative Histories of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Marseille, France
Anthony Gorman : Anarchists on the Nile: Radical Internationalism in Egypt 1860-1914
Steven Hirsch : Red Flags, White City: Anarchist Influence in Arequipa, Peru, 1906-1930
Kirwin Shaffer : Havana Hub: The Role of Cuba’s ¡Tierra! and Libertarian Journalism in Linking Cuban and Caribbean Anarchist Networks, 1903-1915
Lucien van der Walt : Anarchism and Syndicalism in an African Port City: Cape Town, the IWW and the ICU, 1904-1924


Y-9 AFR04 Colonialism and Its Relics in Africa
Room 2.14
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussant: Tundé Zack-Williams
Judith Byfield : Feeding the Troops: Abeokuta (Nigeria) and World War II
Patrick Mbajekwe : Onitsha and Its Neighbors: Urbanization, Communal Relations and Boundary Disputes in Eastern Nigeria
E. Ike Udogu : Historicizing the Discourse on African International Law and a Concise Overview of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
Natascha Wyss : Social strategies for access to education in southern rural Mozambique during colonial time



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
A-10 NM Network meeting: Africa & Asia & Latin America
Cave A
Networks: Africa , Asia , Latin America Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


B-10 NMANT Network meeting: Antiquity
Cave B
Network: Antiquity Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


C-10 NMCRI Network meeting: Criminal Justice
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


D-10 NMCUL Network meeting: Culture
Cave D
Network: Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


E-10 NMECO Network meeting: Economics
Cave E
Network: Economics Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


F-10 NMEDU Network meeting: Education and Childhood
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Education and Childhood Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


G-10 NMELI Network meeting: Elites
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


H-10 NMGEO Network meeting: Geography & History and Computing
Room 1.1
Networks: , Chairs: -
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I-10 NMHEA Network meeting: Health
Room 2.1
Network: Health and Environment Chairs: -
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J-10 NMLAB Network meeting: Labour
Room 3.1
Network: Labour Chairs: -
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K-10 NMMAT Network meeting: Material and Consumer Culture
Room 4
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chairs: -
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L-10 NMMID Network meeting: Middle Ages
Room 5.1
Network: Middle Ages Chairs: -
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M-10 NMPOL Network meeting: Poltics, Citizenship and Nations
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chairs: -
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N-10 NMORA Network meeting: Oral History
Room 6.1
Network: Oral History Chairs: -
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O-10 NMREL Network meeting: Religion
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chairs: -
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P-10 NMRUR Network meeting: Rural
Room 8.1
Network: Rural Chairs: -
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Q-10 NMETH Network meeting: Ethnicity and Migration
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


R-10 NMFAM Network meeting: Family and Demography
Amphitheater 4
Network: Family and Demography Chairs: -
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S-10 NMWOR Network meeting: World History
Instituto de Arte
Network: World History Chairs: -
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T-10 NMSEX Network meeting: Sexuality
Room 9
Network: Sexuality Chairs: -
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U-10 NMSOC Network meeting: Social Inequality
Room10.2
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
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V-10 NMTEC Network meeting: Technology
Room 2.10
Network: Technology Chairs: -
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W-10 NMTHE Network meeting: Theory and Historiography
Room 2.12
Network: Theory Chairs: -
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X-10 NMURB Network meeting: Urban
Room 2.13
Network: Urban Chairs: -
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Y-10 NMWOM Network meeting: Women and Gender
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: -
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Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
A-11 MAT08 The performativity of objects I: technology
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tiina Männistö-Funk : The summer of sound - The Finnish gramophone fever phenomenon in 1929
Marco Musillo : Knowledge and Use of ‘Chinese’ paper in seventeenth-century Milan and Europe
Lewis Siegelbaum : "Cars, Cars, and More Cars: The Faustian Bargain of the Brezhnev Era"
Ine Van Dooren : Magic Lantern 19th Century production boom: diversity, standardisation and popularity.


B-11 FAM06 Marriage Contracts I: a quantitative approach to family strategies and inheritance systems
Cave B
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Dowry System in Normandy: a mean of to protect interests of male lineage? A comparison between two regions (Vernon and Pont-l’Evêque, 1750-1830)
Rosa Congost : Dowries regime, social groups and economic development in Catalonia (XVIII-XIX)
Anne-Lise Head : Transmission without marriage contract
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : Marriage Contracts in Romanian Society (18th and 19th centuries)


C-11 ASI04 Colonialism, Indigenous Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
Cave C
Networks: Asia , Urban Chair: Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi Discussants: -
Gijsbert Oonk : Opening and Closing transnational South Asian Networks.
Prista Ratanapruck : Kinship networks and state institutions: engagements and circumventions in Manangi and Newari trade networks compared
Huibert Schijf : Regenten Capitalists, their Rise, Decline and Reorientation in Colonial and Independent Indonesia, 1900-1962


D-11 CRI13 Defending Civil Liberties in Law-enforcement and Criminal Justice
Cave D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Anja Johansen
Organizers: - Discussant: René Lévy
Michael Berkowitz : Criminalizing the Jew in Nazi Germany
Wilbur Miller : Authority In America
Tanja Rietmann : Detaining the non-criminal. Coercive 20th century welfare policies towards deviant men and women in Switzerland and their inconsistencies with Human Rights


E-11 CUL22 Production, Consumption, Reception and Cultural Discourse
Cave E
Network: Culture Chair: Stefan Schwarzkopf
Organizers: - Discussant: Stefan Schwarzkopf
Aleksandar Boskovic : "Norwegian Culture" in the Munch Museum
Eva Krivanec : Daily Theatre on the Homefronts of the First World War. A comparative study in four European capitals (Berlin, Lisbon, Paris, Vienna)
Marcia Moraes : Notes on 19th century psychology and early cinema
Raquel Sánchez : Cultural market and society in Spain, 1900-1936


F-11 FAM22 Models of Illegitimacy in Comparative Perspective
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: John A. Dickinson
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Begoña Villuendas & Carlos Martin Diaz : Bastards and Foundlings: Child Abandonment and Illegitimacy in Madrid during the early 20th century
Ira Spieker : Conflict – Agreement – Affection. Concepts and Evaluations of Emotions in Ancient Rural Societies.


G-11 HEA11 Public Health Responses to Infant Diseases in Europe, 1900-1965
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Astri Andresen
Organizers: - Discussant: Astri Andresen
Logie Barrow : Epidemic City Fathers
Marie Clark Nelson : Sun of the Knife: Treatin Children with Skeletal or other forms of Tuberculosis at Apelviken ca 1900-1930
María-Isabel Porras, Rosa Ballester : The incorporation of medical technology for the treatment of the acute stage of poliomyelitis in Spain (1940-1965)
Dora Vargha : The decade of summer fears: Polio epidemics in 1950's Hungary


H-11 ETH31 Colletive memories
Room 1.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Fridus Steijlen
Organizers: - Discussant: Fridus Steijlen
Sara Bramani : The interrelation between mobility and immobility in women’s life histories.
Sheila P. Khan : Deceiving memories: The myth of the return for African Mozambican immigrants in the diaspora (Portugal and United Kingdom)


I-11 RUR08 Agriculture, Gender and Representation around the Second World War
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Leen Van Molle
Ernst Langthaler : Struggling for ‘Peasantness’: Inclusion and Exclusion by Hereditary Court Proceedings in Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
Peter Moser : The farmers and the state: Ireland and Switzerland 1935-1955
Margreet Van Der Burg : Agricultural interests, identities and gender segregation under pressure. The effects of the siege over crisis and wartime to the Dutch agricultural organisational landscape.
Nicola Verdon : '"The modern countrywoman": Farm women, rural domesticity and the farmhouse economy in interwar Britain


J-11 GEO06 The Geographies of Civil Society: a roundtable discussion
Room 3.1
Network: Chair: Gerry Kearns
Organizers: - Discussants: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Derek Gregory, Matthew Hannah, Mary Thomas, Karen Till


K-11 LAB07 Child Labour and Globalisation
Room 4
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: Lars Olsson, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Emma Alexander-Mudaliar
Claudia Dyga, Michael Arretz : Dealing with Child Labour - a corporate perspective
Fredrik Lilja : Child labour in South African agriculture 1940-60
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Comparative perspectives on child labour: The Netherlands and Indonesia


L-11 EDU07 Modernity, Institutions and Children
Room 5.1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Judith Lind
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ann Livschiz : Crime, Punishment, and Compassion: Children of the Soviet State
Nazan Maksudyan : 'Reform' in the Late Ottoman Urban Space: Industrial Orphanages
Plamen Miltenoff, John Hoover & Julia Wilkins & Galin Tzokov : The Nature of Cyberbullying
Galin Tzokov, Plamen Miltenoff, Julia Wilkins, John Hoover, Dora Levterova : School Bullying through the 20th Century: a historical perspective of research in Bulgaria and the U.S.
Kathleen Uno : Childhood and Children's Culture in Imperial Japan: Class Differences and Colonial Modernity.


M-11 CUL15 Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice I: The Performativity of Practice
Room 5.2
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Wim François
Organizers: Bruno Boute, Thomas Småberg Discussants: -
Bruno Boute : Engineering the Sacred. The Performativity of Sacramental Practices in the Low Countries (17th Century)
Paolo Quattrone : Organizations, organizing, and the spread of rationalizing practices: The Jesuit Order as continuous ordering
Joris van Eijnatten : Gratifying audiences: towards a cultural history of the sermon in eighteenth-century Europe


N-11 ETH21 Male Domestic Workers: Past and Present in Comparative Perspective
Room 6.1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Leonore Davidoff
Organizers: Raffaella Sarti, Francesca Scrinzi Discussant: Megan Doolittle
Maria Rita Bartolomei : Migration processes and gender relation. Focusing on male domestic workers
Majella Kilkey : Engendering the relationship between globalisation, migration and social reproduction: the migrant handyman phenomenon
Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum : Male servants and the failure of patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Raffaella Sarti : Fighting for masculinity. Male Domestic Workers in Italy (19th-20th century)
Francesca Scrinzi : Male migrant domestic workers and the management of de-gendered racialized identities


O-11 ECO08 Origins of Economic Growth in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 7.1
Network: Economics Chair: Jaime Reis
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaime Reis
Jutta Bolt, Jan Pieter Smits : The Economic Impact of State-Community Relations in sub Saharan Africa during the Twentieth Century
Christopher Ebert : European competition and cooperation in the first stage of trans-oceanic globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600.
Ewout Frankema : Wage Inequality in Twentieth Century Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
Milja van Tielhof, Jan Luiten Van Zanden : Productivity changes in shipping in the Dutch Republic: the evidence from freight rates 1550-1800
Jacob Weisdorf, Holger Strulik : The Simplest Unified Growth Theory


P-11 ELI19 The idea of progress, enlightenment & national identity among urban elites in (Northern) Europe 1770-1830
Room 8.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Organizers: - Discussant: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Bård Frydenlund : The spheres of interest of an elite in transition: the merchant and proprietor classes in Norway during the Napoleonic wars 1800-1815
Rasmus Glenthøj : National identity within the Danish-Norwegian Elites in the early 19th Century
Jouko Nurmiainen : Progress and Common Good in Swedish Eighteenth-Century Historical and Economic Thought


Q-11 CUL14 History of Emotions V: Emotions and the Self in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Culture Chair: Michal Altbauer-Rudnik
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Jonas Liliequist
Paola Baseotto : Exploring the Emotional Self: Religious Writings in Early Seventeenth-Century England and the Pathologies of Passion
Nira Pancer : Emotions and ego in Merovingian Gaul: Barbara Rosenwein revisited
Kristine Steenbergh : The Politics of Passion: The Dynamics of Gender and Revenge in Early Modern English Drama


R-11 POL22 Emotions, Symbols and Media in the construction of citizenship
Amphitheater 4
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Christina Douglas
Organizers: - Discussant: Christina Douglas
Madeleine Hurd : Emotions and the Public Expression of Danish vs. German Identity
Tom Olsson : The Brotherhood of Heroic Explorers: A New Model for Citizenship
Christian Widholm : Inventing Perfect Citizens: Swedish Masculinity through the Lens of Sports Journalism


S-11 SEX06 Men's same-sex identities
Instituto de Arte
Network: Sexuality Chair: Elsa Dorlin
Organizers: - Discussant: Elsa Dorlin
Mark Cornwall : Urban Homosexuality in the Czech Provinces 1938-1945
Henk de Smaele : Autobiographical narratives and the history of homosexuality
Wannes Dupont : Male homosexuality in Brussels, 1867-1967. A study of practices and discourses
Jens Rydström : Criminally Queer: Criminal Law and Homosexuality in Scandinavia 1842–1999


T-11 URB04 Urban Guilds, Corporations and Social Capital (13th-17th Centuries) I
Room 9
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: - Discussant: Bert De Munck
Ellen Burm : Craft Guilds under pressure: Political and discursive strategies in 16th century Antwerp in search for social capital
Ariel Rubin : Inequality in the Leiden Textile Labor Market
Danielle van den Heuvel : Retail guilds and commercialization in North-western Europe


U-11 ELI25 Women as political actors in early modern Europe
Room10.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Svante Norrhem
Organizer: Svante Norrhem Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Ida Bull : Elite women: From mistress in an open household to participant in a new public sphere.
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren : Gender and Voting in 18th Century Sweden
Nina Koefoed : Female strategies of political influence and resistance in 18th century absolutist Denmark
Mirella Marini : Managing social, cultural and financial capital during the Counter Reformation in the Southern Netherlands: Anne of Croy (1564-1635), duchess of Aarschot, sovereign countess of Arenberg


V-11 WOR02 Transnational Networks and the European Communitiy
Room 2.10
Network: World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Thomas Fetzer Discussants: Thomas Fetzer, Leonard Ray
Magali Deleuze : Canadian Public Opinion and European post wars decolonization (1950-1960)
Brigitte Leucht, Katja Seidel : Transnational competition policy networks in European Union history, 1945-1970
Steffi Marung : A Hybrid Border. The EU Border Regime After Enlargement and the Neighbourhood Programme Poland-Belarus Ukraine 2004-2006
Jan-Henrik Meyer : "Fake Eurocrats without the wages" – Brussels correspondents' transnational networks


W-11 ANT12 Approaches to Ancient Warfare
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Kurt Raaflaub
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Raaflaub
Francisco Caramelo : Thinking about war in ancient Mesopotamia: a prophetic discourse of legitimacy
Fernando Echeverria : Technological determinism. The Argive shield and the origins of the Greek phalanx
José Varandas : The Roman Army in the Western Iberia: military, political and social impacts in the Atlantic coastline at the time of Punic Wars.


X-11 ORA18 Crisis and Social Action in the Americas: Oral Histories and Alternative Memories
Room 2.13
Network: Oral History Chair: Temma Kaplan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ana Kapelusz-Poppi : The Construction of the New Children's Hospital in Buenos Argentina (1955-85) Personal and Professional Memories
Margaret Power : “’We Opposed the September 11, 1973, Coup in Chile:’
Andor Skotnes : Racial and Class Struggles in Baltimore, USA, during World War II: Alternative Memories


Y-11 CRI25 Down by law? Social exclusion and outlawing
Room 2.14
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Francis Dodsworth
Organizers: - Discussant: Francis Dodsworth
Corinne Gaudin : Community sanctions and state justice: Village banishment in late-Imperial Russia
Elmar Henrich : The Adjudication of Bounty Hunters' Claims in an Early Modern Italian Republic
Kariin Sundsback : Criminality, Social Networks and Integration in the Norwegian Society of Amsterdam, 1640-1700
Gilles Vandal : Whites and Afro-Americans under Slavery: The Enforcement



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
A-12 MAT09 The performativity of objects II: public and private
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Lesley Whitworth Discussant: Marta Vilar Rosales
Karin Dannehl : Objects’ role in explaining ephemeral activity
Stella Moss : ‘ “Safeguarded From Perils”: Youth, Gender and the Interwar English Public House’
Hana Pelikanova : Housing Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia in the Light of Oral History Sources


B-12 EDU08 Curriculum and citizenship
Cave B
Networks: Education and Childhood , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussant: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Ann Kirson Swersky : Future Citizens:The Monson State Primary School in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
Vanja Lozic : Teaching History in Multicultural Societies – Case study Malmo (Sweden)
Joaquim Pintassilgo : Moral regeneration and training of the citizen - the debate in the portuguese pedagogical press in the start of the 20th century


C-12 ECO09 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy I: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Central Europe
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Dorothee Guggenheimer : Bankruptcies in Seventeenth -Century St. Gallen in the 17th and 18th century - a workshop reportBankruptcies in St. Gallen in the 17th and 18th century - a workshop report
Mark Häberlein : Merchants’ bankruptcies, economic development, and social relations in German towns during the ‘long’ sixteenth century
Erich Landsteiner : The Eagle and the Stag. Habsburg state finance and the bankruptcy of Jobst Croy (1591)
Dana Stefanova : Viennese Charted Bank and Bankrupcy, 1787-1830
Andre Wakefield : Public Money and Private Ruin: Johann von Justi's Prussian Misadventure


D-12 SOC11 Social mobility I
Cave D
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ineke Maas
Helder Adegar Fonseca, Paulo Guimarães : Portuguese Intergenerational Social Mobility in the 20th Century (1910-1960) : Trends and Spatial Variations
Steffen Hillmert : Links between demographic behaviour and social mobility in 20th century Germany
Paul Lambert, Richard Zijdeman; Marco Van Leeuwen; Ineke Maas; Ken Prandy : HIS-CAM. Presentation and evaluation of an historical occupational stratification scale
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen : Social structure in a Danish rural area 1750-1850


E-12 FAM23 Intergenerational Aspects of Fertility and Marriage
Cave E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Elisabeth Engberg
Organizer: Sören Edvinsson Discussant: George Alter
Anders Brändström, Göran Broström, Sören Edvinsson, Marie Lindkvist , John Rogers : Fertility across generations. Exploring intergenerational effects of family size, birth intervals and infant mortality
Marco Breschi, Stanislao Mazzoni & Lucia Pozzi : Reproductive behaviours in the Sardinian families in the 19th and 20th centuries:
Lisa Dillon : Family Influences on Marriage Patterns, 17th & 18th century Québec
Leen Sterckx : Partner choice of Turkish and Moroccan immigrant youth in the Netherlands
Jan Van Bavel, Jan Kok : Analyzing intergenerational transmission of fertility with mixed effects models. Rural Holland 1850-1940


F-12 WOM05 Relationships of care and authority across gender and generation in nineteenth and twentieth century British families
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ann Allen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann Allen
Leonore Davidoff : Siblings as Carers in the long nineteenth century
Megan Doolittle : Working class fathers, domestic authority and the poor law in England 1870-1910
Katherine Holden : Not the mothering kind? Single women and child-care in mid twentieth century England
Brigitte Schnegg : The Home of the Poor, the Poor Man’s Wife and Her Housekeeping Skills: Issues of Public Interest


G-12 ORA20 Remembrances of Slave and Forced Labourers in Different Countries. An International Comparison
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Oral History Chair: Alexander Von Plato
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gelinada Grinchenko : Ukrainian Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich: Remembering Patterns on Forced Labour in Nazi Germany (Past Soviet vs Contemporary National Discourses)
Dori Laub, Johanna Bodenstab : Jewish Slave Labor in the Context of the Holocaust
Almut Leh : Remeberences of Slave and Forced Labourers
Christoph Thonfeld : Former forced and slave labourers in Germany, Ukraine and Great Britain after 1945. Individual and collective memories of National Socialist forced labour in international comparison


H-12 ETH18 Migrating memories? Changing historical culture in multicultural western societies
Room 1.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Bambi Ceuppens : The presence of the colonial past and Belgium’s future
Alexander Freund : Resistance to Multicultural Memories: German migrants in post-1945 North America
Erna Kerkhof : Dutch postcolonial migrations: articulating colonial experiences within the narrative of the Dutch nation
Kees Ribbens : Historical (de)nationalisation of a world war


I-12 RUR12 Contestations of productivist agriculture
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Dulce Freire
Organizers: - Discussant: Dulce Freire
Erin Gill : Stillborn? Organic farming in post-war Britain
Richard W Hoyle : Grouse in history: non-agricultural uses of the English countryside
Mats Morell, Susanna Hedenborg : A vehicle in the army, a lumber jack companion or a friend in the family - the riding horse and countryside economics in 20th century Sweden


J-12 CUL16 Devising Order, Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice II: Arranged Performativity: Spaces, Objects, Signifiers and Situations
Room 3.1
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Thomas Småberg
Organizers: Bruno Boute, Thomas Småberg Discussants: -
Karel Arnaut : Making space for performativity: a multi-layered public ritual in the town of Bondoukou (Côte d’Ivoire)
Martin Kjellgren : Rituals of the Printing-House: Power, Profit and Piety in Swedish Almanacs 1580-1620
Anna Stark : The Unequal Rites of Death
Irene Stengs : Giving Public Space a Face: the Agency of Monuments and Portraits. Three cases from Thailand and the Netherlands


K-12 ETH13 Gender and Migration I
Room 4
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Tanja Bastia
Organizer: Marlou Schrover Discussant: Tanja Bastia
Maja Cederberg : “Narratives of female migrants: Processes of gender, ethnicity and class, and the impact of policy”
Deirdre Moloney : Women, Prostitution, and the Differential Regulation of U.S. Borders
Marlou Schrover : Migration policy, gender and (dual) citizenship
Suzanne Sinke : Gendered Policies and Practices of Immigration: A U.S. Example


M-12 ELI12 Economic elites
Room 5.2
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Thomas David, Stéphanie Ginalski, André Mach, Frédéric Rebmann : The social origins and education of economic elites in 20th Century Switzerland
Matthieu Leimgruber : Bringing Private Insurance Back In. The “Geneva Association” and the Rise of Elite Business Policy Groups in the post-Keynesian Decades (1970-2000)
Yovanna Pineda : Identifying the Relationship of Elite Entrepreneurial Networks through Marriage, Social Clubs, and Litigation: Argentina’s Elite Business Networks, 1890-1940
Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen : Social mobility in Finnish Who’s Who data during 1909-2005


N-12 ASI07 Connecting Asia and the West: Knowledge and Identities
Room 6.1
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marine Carrin : Cultural Growth as a Distributed Process:Coherence, Change and Agency in two Religious Medical Traditions of India
Leila Moein : Health and medicine in ancient Iran specially Zartosht religions
Arabinda Samanta : Colonial Construction of Smallpox in Nineteenth Century India


O-12 CRI26 Gender and Interpersonal Violence
Room 7.1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Miklos Hadas : Civilizing fighting masculinity: the rationalization of the duel
Annmarie Hughes : Legal Discourses of Marital Violence in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Scotland
Ana Sofia Ribeiro : Between maritime horizons and land realities: different ways of living violence (Portugal, 1750-1789)
Heather Shore : Criminality and Masculinity in the Aftermath: The Racecourse wars of the 1920s


P-12 URB05 Urban Guilds, Corporations and Social Capital (13th-17th Centuries) II
Room 8.1
Network: Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Jelle Haemers Discussant: Bert De Munck
Jelle Haemers : Social capital and politics. Guilds and urban rebellion in Ghent and Bruges (14th-15th centuries)
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene : Guilds, social capital, and religious change. The case of the Ghent Calvinist Republic (1577-1584)
Maarten F. Van Dijck : The socialization of a political culture. The case of late medieval and early modern club life in Malines (1400-1800)


Q-12 CRI15 Juvenile judge at work: from model to practice
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jeroen Dekker
Organizer: Jean Trépanier Discussant: Jeroen Dekker
Els Dumortier : The figure of the Children's Judge: in law and in practice
François Fenchel : The Paternal Juvenile Court Judge: the implementation of the child welfare model in Montreal, 1912-1950
Eric Pierre : The Agricultural Penitentiary Colony of Mettray: A Central Place for the Education of Juvenile Delinquents
Ingrid van der Bij : The first juvenile judges in the Dutch courts, 1923-1945;


R-12 SOC13 Meet the author: Michael Katz, 'One Nation Divisible'
Amphitheater 4
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: Peter Hennock, Alice B. Kasakoff, Michael Katz, Sonya Michel


S-12 ANT08 'Aristocracy' and social mobility in ancient Greece
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Nicholas Fisher : 'Aristocratic' or 'elite' values and practices in ancient Greece
Olivier Mariaud : Honour and Genealogy. Megas, his Ancestors and Strategies of Social Differentiation in Archaic Samos.
Gillian Shepherd : Nouveaux Riches? Status and Social Mobility in Western Greece
Edward van der Vliet : Status Inconsistency in Early Greece


T-12 WOM24 The Rhetoric of Work and Gender
Room 9
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Leda Papastefanaki
Organizers: - Discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
Dimitra Lampropoulou : Proud men with suffering bodies: construction workers narrate male identities in post-war Greece
Catherine Mcclenahan : "Endless Their Labour"; Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce
Conchi Villar : Engendering metal- work in nineteenth century Spain (1900-1930)
Yannis Yannitsiotis : The idiom of work and the making of a local bourgeois identity in 19th century-early 20th century Piraeus society


U-12 LAB31 Labour-state relationships
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark David Pittaway
Eszter Bartha : A Failed Dialogue: Workers, the party and the economic reforms in the GDR and Hungary (1963-1968)
M. Erdem Kabadayi : Factory Workers as Petitioners: State-Subject Interaction in the Late Ottoman Empire
William Kenefick : The 'Scotch Club': The Workers' Education Association in Canada from 1919
Andrei Volodin : How can state mediate labour conflicts? (The case of Russian factory inspection in 1880s-1914).


V-12 WOR03 Sugar, Coffee and International Affairs
Room 2.10
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Christiane Berth : Transnational networks in coffee trade between Germany and Guatemala
Kathleen Mapes : "'Barbarian' or 'Civilized' Sugar?: The Politics of Imperialism, 1898-1909
Jim Norris : World Affairs, Migrant Workers, and Sugar Production in the United States
Dorothee Wierling : Phantasies of the „Origin“. The imagery of the coffee bean and the Hamburg coffee merchants.


W-12 LAT02 Labor and the Law in 20th Century Latin America
Room 2.12
Network: Latin America Chair: Michael M. Hall
Organizer: Oliver Dinius Discussant: Michael M. Hall
Oliver Dinius : Industrial Relations and the Brazilian Labor Courts under State Capitalism
Line Schjolden : Outgrowing Legal Liberalism: Argentine Labor Law in the 1930s
Fernando Teixeira Da Silva : Brazilian Labor Courts in Comparative Perspective
William Suarez-Potts : The Development of Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1917-31


X-12 FAM36 Unnatural Kinship II
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: David Warren Sabean
Vincent Gourdon : Spiritual kinship in nineteenth-century Paris
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : Kinship and Ritual Kinship in the Alps (18th-19th centuries).
Ivan Jablonka : Unnatural Kinship in France: Love and Familiarity in French Foster Homes (1870s-1930s)


Y-12 LAB10 Communist strategies
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Andrée Lévesque : The Weakest Link: French-Canadian Communists before 1940
Ester Reiter : A Shenerer un beserer velt: Building a beautiful future, Gender and Class in the Pro Communist Jewish Left in Canada, 1920-1950
Raquel Varela : Avante and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) in the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974 to 25 November 1975



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
A-13 MAT10 The performativity of objects III: commodities
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eugénie Briot : Fashion sprayed and displayed: the parisian market of perfumery at the turn of the XXth century
Jonathan Morris : The Cappuccino Conquests : The Transnational History of Italian Coffee
Marina Moskowitz : Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Rachel Worth : Marks & Spencer and the Impact of Mass-produced Clothing on Notions of Fashion


B-13 EDU09 Children and Cultural Identities
Cave B
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Annemieke Van Drenth
Organizers: - Discussant: Greetje Timmerman
Jari Eilola : "I Was Seized by the Vicar's Wife Six Times Last Night": Child witnesses, the reality and the logic of narrative during the great witch-hunts
Kaisa Vehkalahti : Sentimental Histories: Emotions in the historical representation of childhood


C-13 ECO10 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy II: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Western Europe
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Thomas Brennan : Failure in Wool and Wine in Eighteenth-Century France
Amalia Kessler : Bankruptcy and the Reconceptualization of Merchant-Court Jurisdiction in Eighteenth-Century France
Klas Nyberg : Networks, Migration and the Transformation of the Merchant Elite in 18th Century Stockholm
Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl : The Napoleonic Wars and the risk of Failure: German merchant houses in Britain (1793-1815)


D-13 SOC12 Social mobility II
Cave D
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: - Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Mariela Ceva : Migration and Social Mobility in Argentina: macro and micro perspectives.
Paulo Guimarães, Hélder Adegar Fonseca : Homogamy and Class Boundaries in Portugal (1911-1960)
Antti Häkkinen : Ten Generations – Three Centuries: Social mobility and impoverishment in Finland
Alison Smith : Social Mobility in Imperial Russian Towns: Social Estate and the Law, 1700-1917
Richard Zijdeman : Like my father before me. The impact of industrialisation, education and other modernisation processes on intergenerational status attainment between 1811-1915 in two Dutch provinces.


E-13 POL20 The hardware of the state
Cave E
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Thomas Pfister
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Pfister
Magnus Olsson : European states and the need for information; Bureaucracy and postal systems
Evelyn Ruppert : Censuses as Practices of Double Identification
Kekke Stadin : To put a mark on the territory. Strategies to make a powerrelation to the inhabitants.
Ruediger Von Krosigk : Communication through Space: The role of the office design for the relationship between state and civil society in 19th and 20th century Europe


F-13 ANT07 Ancient Armies: Modes of Persuasion and Social Cohesion
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Antiquity Chair: Fernando Echeverria
Organizers: - Discussant: Fernando Echeverria
Philip De Souza : From Local Leadership to Leadership in War
Vincent Gabrielsen : Army Leadership and Divination in Ancient Warfare
Alexander Thein : Sulla and the 'demagogue generals', 88-87 B.C.


G-13 HEA13 Epidemics as Social Phenomena
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Logie Barrow
Organizers: - Discussant: Logie Barrow
Ida Blom : Path Dependence or Reform Capability? Scandinavian legislation on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 1940's to 1990's
Elisabeth Engberg : “In every home, a sick: society’s response to pandemic influenza on the local level, before and after 1900: The example of Sweden”
Matthieu Fintz : Emerging Viruses, State of Emergency and the Manufacture of Health Crises in Egypt. Media Framing of Avian Flu and Other Invisible Enemies


H-13 ORA11 Remembering the Future: Secondary Analysis in Oral History
Room 1.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Graciela De Garay
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Brigitte Halbmayr : Which 'truth' do we search in life story interviews? And which one can we find?
Steve Hochstadt : Transcription, Editing, and Lost Meaning
Alison Twells : Oral History and Community ‘Regeneration’ in Britain


I-13 RUR13 Biodiversity, Environmental history and Agricultural history
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Claire Strom
Organizers: - Discussant: Claire Strom
Kenneth Sylvester, Eric Rupley : Making landscapes agricultural in the American grasslands
Meri Vuohu : Florentine Property and Public Administration in the Pisan Countryside in the Fifteenth Century: The Perspective of Environmental History


J-13 CUL17 Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice III: Transition, Adaptation, and Appropration of Pefomative Practices
Room 3.1
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Bruno Boute
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bodil Liljefors Persson : Place, Power and Prophecy: Ritual Space and Speech among the Yucatec Maya from Colonial Time to Present Time.
Eugenio Menegon : Believing or Performing? Textual Authority and Ritual Performance in the Jesuit-Dominican Debate about the “Chinese Rites” (1630-1740)
Els Rose : Re-inventing the Apostolic Tradition: Moments of Transition and Appropriation in the Cult of Apostles through the Middle Ages
Thomas Småberg : The joust, the wedding and the knight. Rituals and symbols in medieval Sweden ca 1250-1320
Julia Zunckel : Symbolical communication in the Early Modern Period: Papal Ceremonies and Universalism


K-13 ETH14 Gender and Migration II
Room 4
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Mary Odem
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Odem
Tanja Bastia : Mobilites and Vulnarabilities: Towards a Gender-aware Trafficking Framework
Bihter Carhoglu : The Changing Self Perception of Turkish Migrants in Europe
Erka Caro : Gender and Migration Interaction. The Case of Albania
Derya Demirler : Gender Dimensions of the Internal Displacement Problem in Turkey
Leslie Page Moch : Bécassine and the Bretons: Ethnic Caricature and Community Reaction


L-13 FAM24 Intergenerational aspects of mortality
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizer: Sören Edvinsson Discussant: Sören Edvinsson
Bertrand Desjardins, Marilyn Gentil : Intergenerational aspects of the Demography of French Canadians
Jonas Liliequist, Åsa Bergenheim : Honour thy Father and thy Mother. Notions and practices of abuse and violence to parents in Sweden 1600-2000
Alberto Sanz-Gimeno, David Reher : Intergenerational aspects of childhood mortality in Spain
Ken Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau : Paternal Age and Maternal Age and their Effects on Adult Offspring Mortality


M-13 POL12 Methods and analysis: renewing the histories of anarchism, state-building and citizenship
Room 5.2
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Bert Altena : How about the history of anarchism as a national social movement?
Tom Goyens : Social Space and the Practice of Anarchist History
Carl Levy : Social Histories of Anarchism
Eduardo Romanos : Analysing anarchist mobilisation in a highly repressive political context: the Spanish case


N-13 ELI13 Economic, political and cultural capital in 20th century Scandinavia
Room 6.1
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners Chair: Thomas David
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas David
Lars Berggren : Industrial capitalists, political democracy and trade union organization
Pål Brunnström : Class identity and class politics among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939
Kari-Matti Piilahti : Power and Networks of Finnish Business Elite 1850-1940
Niklas Stenlås : A Swedish Model of Management? How Sweden's Business Elite adapted to Social Democratic Power


O-13 CRI18 Extreme violence, motivations and interpretations
Room 7.1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Efi Avdela
Organizer: Judith Rowbotham Discussant: Efi Avdela
Samantha Pegg : Press Presentations and Public Interpretations of Child on Child Killing
Judith Rowbotham : Murder and Motivation: A Contextual Case Study of the Whitechapel Murders
Kim Stevenson : "She got past knowing herself and didn't know how many there were":


P-13 WOM06 Gender, race and 'liberation' in the Postwar Era
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Jane Slaughter
Organizers: - Discussant: Jane Slaughter
Beth Bailey : "If you like Ms., you'll love pvt": Women, Recruiting, and the All-Volunteer Army in the United States
Eveline Buchheim : Rebuilding family life after internment. Negotiating limits of femininity and masculinity.'
William Hitchcock : Race, Sex and Power on the Normandy “Frontier”: France, 1944
Todd Shepard : France, Muslim Women, and the Gendering of the Algerian Revolution


Q-13 CRI16 Girls in juvenile justice: a special case
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Tamara Myers
Organizer: Jean Trépanier Discussant: Tamara Myers
Aurore François, Veerle Massin : “These wandering viruses”: delinquent girls and venereal diseases in Belgium, 1912-1965
Veerle Massin, Aurore François & Veerle Massin : “These wandering viruses”: delinquent girls and venereal diseases in Belgium, 1912-1965
David Niget : From the Impossible Violence to the “Behaviour Trouble”. Delinquent Girls in the Child Guidance Institutions in Belgium, from 1950 to 1970
Jean Trépanier : A different treatment? Girls before the Montreal juvenile court, 1912-1950


R-13 THE04 Is History a Discipline Anymore
Amphitheater 4
Network: Theory Chair: Mark Mason
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Martin Davies : The Science of Vicious Assumptions
David Harlan : Why the History Department will come to look more and more like the English Department
Keith Jenkins : The Past as History: Disobedient Histories
Alun Munslow : The Past-as-History


S-13 MID03 The intermediate rulers: the contribution of the nobility to urban domination in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian Netherlands I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Véronique Flammang : The Role of the Nobility in the Power Structures of the County of Hainault (15th Century)
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete : The conflict between the nobility and the urban identity in Burgos in XVth century
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero : Cities without communal charts: ruled by noble elites?


T-13 LAB13 Occupational health and safety
Room 9
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Ben Gales
David Lyddon : Historical continuities in occupational health and safety in the United Kingdom, 1833–2007
Jose Martínez Pérez : Measuring disability: evaluating the corporal damage in occupational accident victims and the development of Orthopaedics in Spain. (1900-1936)
Arthur McIvor, Ronnie Johnston : Dust Disease in British and US Coal Mining in the Twentieth Century
Julia Moses : The Politics of International Convergence in Industrial Accident Compensation Policy, 1880-1925


U-13 SEX14 Perceptions of Women's Sexuality
Room10.2
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Klara Arnberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Klara Arnberg
Steve Hewitt, Christabelle Sethna : Gender Subversion: Abortion, Canadian State Security and Women’s Groups in the early 1970s
Claire Langhamer : Prostitution in the golden age of marriage: England 1930-1970
Lena Lennerhed : Finkbine and other abortion travellers
Elisabeta Zelinka : Trafficking of women in Eastern Europe. Its influences upon the concept of the ‘family’.


W-13 LAB14 The Formal - Informal Dichotomy: Social and Economic Agency and the Cultural Heritage of the Soviet Past
Room 2.12
Network: Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Sergey Afontsev : Looking Back or Looking Forward? Soviet Heritage and the Evolution of Informal Labor in Post-Soviet Russia
Leonid Borodkin : Transformation of Soviet Workers' Social Practices in Post-Soviet Russia: From Informal Practices to Formal Ones?
Irina Novichenko : Soviet 'Public Organizations': Official Structure and Informal Activity
Timur Valetov : Self-organised seasonal labour collectives in the USSR of the 1960-1980s: economic and social aspects


X-13 AFR06 European Competition and the Slave Trade
Room 2.13
Network: Africa Chair: Frank Lewis
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Lewis
José C. Curto : The Ethnicity of Recaptured Slaves in Angola, c. 1846-1876
David Richardson : The significance of the French Slave Trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716
Judith M. Spicksley : Debt and slavery in Africa, c.1500-1800
Jelmer Vos : Dutch slave trading on the Windward and Ivory Coasts, ca. 1740-1790


Y-13 LAT06 Emerging States and New Forms of Citizenship in Latin America
Room 2.14
Network: Latin America Chair: Michael Gonzales
Organizers: - Discussants: -
José María Aguilera-Manzano : The Literature in the construction of the "Cuban Identity”, 1823-1845
David Cahill : Revenant Messianism and Subaltern Genocide: Political Violence in the Andes 1730-1830
Seth Meisel : Petitioning and Political Citizenship in Early Independence Argentina
Fábio Faria Mendes : Internal Passports: Personal Identification and State Building in XIXth Century Brazil



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
A-14 LAB17 The performativity of objects IV: The Social History of Food
Cave A
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizer: Julie Guard Discussant: Linda Lane
Oskar Broberg : Alternative Visions and Organic Branding. The Construction of a Market for Organic Milk in Sweden 1970-2000
Christine Garcia : The Cultural Revolution of Animal Rights Veganism
Julie Guard : The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s
Franca Iacovetta : Food Wars and Culinary Pluralism in a Cold War City: Toronto, 1940s-1960s


B-14 EDU10 Nationalism, intellectuals and governance
Cave B
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Kevin J. Brehony
Organizers: - Discussant: Kevin J. Brehony
Jeffrey Mirel : Americanization Education and National Identity, 1915-1924: Detroit as a Case Study
Christophe Verbruggen : Educational reform from a micro-analytical point of view. Belgian intellectuals and New Education in practice (1900-1930).
Robert Wolff : Schooling Markets in Baltimore, 1840-1930


C-14 ECO11 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy III: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Mediterranean
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Paola Avallone : The bankruptcy in the Kingdom of Naples. The case of public banks (XVII - XVIII centuries)
Mauro Carboni : Learning from others’ failures: the rise of the Monte di pietà in early modern Bologna
Gerald Grommes : Bankruptcies in Early Modern Castile from a Social Network Perspective: The Example of Medina del Campo Banks, 1550-1600
Leonard Rosenband : Producers and Failure during the Age of Revolutions: The Case of Papermaking in France and England


D-14 WOM17 Gender, Migration and Work
Cave D
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Pat Ayers
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Arab Chadia : Harragas in the feminine
Christa Matthys : Sisters, servants and fertility control in nineteenth century Flanders. Some preliminary results.
Christine Muller : Luxemburg's women in Paris at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Anne Winter : Domestic servants as mediators of migration change, Antwerp c. 1760-1880


E-14 POL21 French political culture 1789-1851
Cave E
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Micah Alpaugh : The Emergence of the Parisian Political Demonstration: Developing Nonviolent Protest Repertoire in the French Revolution, 1789-95
Anne Epstein : Inclusive citizenship in practice? Solidarity, civic education, and democracy at the fin-de-siècle
Annie Jourdan : The invention of modern democracy 1776-1798
Bernard Rulof : Civil Society and Royalist Popular Politics in France: Legitimist Associations in Montpellier, 1848-1851
Patricia Turner : Recovering ‘The Social’: Rural-Urban Networks and Communal État Social in the French Revolution


G-14 HEA14 Health, Power and Medical Knowledge in the Caribbean and Brazil, 1700-1900
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Adrian Lopez Denis
Organizers: - Discussant: Adrian Lopez Denis
Juanita De Barros, Jacques Dumont : Colonial Public Health in the Early Twentieth-century Caribbean
Betânia Figueiredo : Conceptions of Health in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Monica Garcia : Germs and Environment: the Trajectories of Fevers and Leprosy Germs in Colombia, 1860-1900.
Niklas Jensen : “…For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of Mankind…”. The struggle to control midwives and obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1818-1848.


H-14 HIS04 IT Analytical tools for historical research
Room 1.1
Network: Chair: Michael Moss
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Boonstra
Spyridoula Arathymou : Historical industrial archives. A tool to make people love history
Walther Johann Fuchs : Projections in wax. A new imaging technology in 18th Century Medicine
Gunnar Thorvaldsen : Constructed ethnicity variables in 19th century censuses


I-14 RUR15 Forest Products Industry and Trade in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno
Organizers: Amélia Branco, Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno Discussant: Amélia Branco
Miguel Pestana, Isabel Tinoco : The Industry and the Trade of Cork in Portugal during the 20th century
Antonio Serrano : Cork Products Trade Through Seville's Harbour (18th-19th Centuries)
James Simpson : Grapes and wines: the international transfer of technology during the first globalisation, 1850-1914.
Javier Soriano : The forest residual utilizations in the Mediterranean mountain: cork and wood


J-14 CUL08 Beyond the Text: Landscapes of Colonial Memory in the Portuguese Speaking World
Room 3.1
Networks: Culture , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Andrea Klimt
Organizer: Isabel Rodrigues Discussant: Andrea Klimt
Clara Carvalho : Women in Colonial Pictures. Representation, Gender and Colonialism in the Guinea-Bissau’s Photographic Archives.
Joanna Davidson : Ulysses in West Africa: Transatlantic Transformations and the Epic of Bolama
Isabel Rodrigues : Miniaturizing Empire at “Portugal dos Pequenitos”
Timothy Sieber : Architecture Rewriting History: the Portuguese Pavilion, Architecture, and Site-Planning at Expo ‘98


K-14 FAM31 Divorce, Women and Families in the Balkans
Room 4
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mikolaj Szoltysek
Organizer: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Mimoza Dushi : Women and Family in Albanin Society According to Moral Codes, 15th – 20th Centuries
Vera Gudac Dodic : Divorce,Women and Families in Serbia in the second half of 20th century
Petko Hristov : Whether the “Balkan Family Pattern” Exists as a Model or it is an Ideological Construct?
Elena Ignovska : Women and Families in the Balkans, 17th-20th centuries


L-14 LAB12 Coalfield Societies
Room 5.1
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Chris Williams
Peter Alexander : Culture and Identity: South African Miners and Some Comparators, 1920-1950
Carolyn Brown : Urban Masculinity in a ‘Coal City’ - Enugu, Nigeria during World War II
Brian Mccook : Becoming ‘Mining Men’: Gender, Ethnicity and Working Class Militancy in the Ruhr and Pennsylvania, 1880-1918
Leen Roels, Serge Langeweg : Foreign labour in the coalmines of Dutch Limburg and Liège: a comparison


M-14 ANT06 Thinking about Peace in the Ancient World
Room 5.2
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Susanne Bickel : The Concept of Peace in Ancient Egypt
Johannes Bronkhorst : Thinking about peace in Ancient India
Kurt Raaflaub : Thinking about Peace in Ancient Greece
Robin D. S. Yates : Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China


N-14 TEC01 On the Sunny Side of the Road. Delights of Motoring
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Bo Sundin
Jessica Enevold : Oh, I like my Horse, but I love my Flying Mount! Joys of Mobility in the on-line Game 'World of WarCraft'
Olle Hagman : Driving Pleasure: A Key Concept in Swedish Car Culture
Riikka Jalonen : "I Simply Enjoy Driving!" Ride for Pleasure in Finland, 1962 - 1973
Christopher Neumaier, Kilian J. L. Steiner : The manifold meanings of cars in Europe and the USA


O-14 ETH15 Transnationalism
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jose Moya
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Moya
Nadia Bouras : Gender and transnationalism: Moroccans in the Netherlands, 1960-2000
Christine Jacobsen, Dag Stenvoll : Migrant female victimhood at the discursive margins of Scandinavian gender constructions
Mary Odem : Transnational Immigration and Pan-Maya Organizing in the U.S. South
Eve Rosenhaft : Gendering transnational lives: German-speaking Cameroonians ca 1910-1960


P-14 SEX15 Global transgressions
Room 8.1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Svati Shah
Organizers: - Discussant: Svati Shah
Rudi Bleys : The sexual body : from metropolis to metapolis
Jacobus A. Du Pisani : The "good old days" when there were no homosexuals and sexual perverts among Afrikaans men
Kamila Uzarczyk : Blaming 'the Others'. trafficking in women and racial prejudice.


Q-14 CRI21 Empire and crime/policing
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizer: Paul Lawrence Discussant: Paul Lawrence
Janet Clark : Civil Liberties and the British Colonies
Annelieke Dirks : Juvenile Delinquency and Forced Re-education in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1940
Christopher Fritsch : Ordinances “Consonant to Reason....nor Contrary “ to the Laws of England: William Penn and the Creation and Administration of Criminal Law
Tammy Razi : Juvenile Delinquents, Child Street-Peddlers and Neglected Children: Constructing the Nation's Margins in Mandatory Palestine


R-14 THE10 Unity and Diversity in Historical Writing
Amphitheater 4
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner
Georg Christoph Berger Waldenegg : I can’t remember very much!’ Historiography and the Problem of Memory
Allan Smith : Understanding Particularist Persistence in Transcultural Contact Fields:
Dennis Smith : Humiliation and Social Theory


S-14 LAB30 Union mobilisation
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Isabel Da Costa, Udo Rehfeldt : Labour Unionism: From National Diversity to International Solidarity
Ralph Darlington : The relationship between leadership, mobilization and trade union militancy: the case of the RMT
David Hyde : Undercurrents to Independence: Plantation Struggles in Kenya’s Central Province 1959-60
Viviana Patroni : The Peronist Union Movement and Labour Dissent in Argentina: An Historical Perspective


T-14 MID04 The intermediate rulers: the contribution of the nobility to urban domination in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian Netherlands II
Room 9
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: Mario Damen
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
María Asenjo-González : Small town’s rulers and urban influence in Castile in XVth
Juan Antonio Barrio Barrio : The intermediate rulers in Towns of Valencia Kingdom from XIIIth to XVth century.
David Igual : Economy and social power in Castile. The intermediate rulers in XVth century


U-14 ORA12 Rhetorics of Group Identity
Room10.2
Network: Oral History Chair: James Mark
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sandor Horvath : 'Wild West', 'gangster' and 'desperado' feelings: perception of the 'West' in youth subcultures in Hungary in the 1960s
Mónica Maurício : The Oral Speech on the Students’ Movement in the Technical Superior Institute (1945-1962)
Pavel Mücke : „Living under Freedom is More Difficult…“ or the Image of Foreigners and Foreign Countries in Memory of „Working Inteligensia Class“ in Czechoslovakia in 1970s and 1980s
Malin Thor, Antje Hornscheidt & Izabela Dahl : Narrated identities.Intersections of religion, gender, nation, locality and ethnicity in the narrations of Jews’ and Muslims’ identities in Sweden 1933-2008


V-14 MAT12 Globalization and Material Culture
Room 2.10
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Damayanthie Eluwawalage : The European Influence in Colonial Australian Fashion and Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Kennan Ferguson : “Mastering the Art of Nationalism: Julia Child and the Gustatory Construction of French Culture”
Jasmina Guseva : Globalization and New Trends in Culture
Beverly Lemire : Rethinking Asian trade and Europe’s material culture:


W-14 LAT03 Health, Medicine and Social Problems in Latin America
Room 2.12
Network: Latin America Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussants: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Paulo Drinot
Diego Armus : Smoking in Buenos Aires during the 20th century. A research agenda.
Kim Clark : Bubonic Plague and the Problem of Indigenous Culture in Highland Ecuador
Steven Palmer : The Plantation Complex of Doctors in Late Colonial Havana
Alexandra Puerto : Medical Brigades, Maya Culture and Rural Development in Postrevolutionary Yucatán


X-14 POL13 Remaking the American Nation: Secession and its consequences for the Civil War United States
Room 2.13
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Benjamin Carp
Organizers: - Discussant: Benjamin Carp
Russell Duncan : James Montgomery and the Jeremiad in Kansas
Christopher Phillips : “Addition by Subtraction: The Calculus of Disloyalty in the Neutral Slave States During the American Civil War and the Completion of the American South”
Frank Towers : “Romantic Ethnic Nationalism, Modernity, and the Secession Movement in the American South”


Y-14 WOM13 Understanding the Aging Female Body: 1500-1900
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Pat Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Lynn Botelho : ‘Cough, Creaks, and Shuffling Feet: The Gender-Neutral Nature of Old Age in English Household Medicine, 1500-1700’.
Kathryn de Medeiros : From Reproduction to New Production: The Shift in Focus on Older Women’s Bodies in Gerontological Discourse After World War Two
Elizabeth Hurren : 'Aged, Female and Poor in an English World-Without-Welfare, c. 1870-1900'.
Anne Kugler : “Vigor and Virtue: Women, Aging, Body, and Mind”



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
A-15 POL15 East-west contacts in the Cold War
Cave A
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bent Boel : The Danish Left and Dissidence In Eastern Europe During the Cold War
Andrea Genest : Polish Exiles and the Opposition in Poland
Carlos Reijnen : A European Autumn: the Perception of the Prague Spring in Western Europe after 1968
Katarzyna Stoklosa : Willy Brandt and the Polish dissidents


B-15 CUL18 Roundtable: War, Pictures and Television
Cave B
Network: Culture Chair: Amaya Muruzabal
Organizers: Julio Montero, Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo Discussant: Salvador Gómez García
Esther Gaitan : Information as show: Pre-Iraq War on Austrian TV
Jose A. Garcia Aviles : “Each television tells its own story”: the representation of the beginning of the Iraq War in Spanish television newscasts
Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo, Jose A. García Avilés : Demonizing the tyrant: Saddam Hussein in the Spanish newscasts during the pre-war and the Iraq War
Araceli Rodríguez Mateos : Shooting the Iraq War: Press Photography in the Spanish Media.
Francisco Segado : Images of destruction: Spanish Civil War through British Cartoons


D-15 MID07 New Approaches to Old Problems in Medieval History
Cave D
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Antonio Castro Henriques, Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho : Feudalism? A statistical analysis of peasant-noble relations in thirteenth-century Northern Portugal
Gabriella Erdélyi : ‘We do not really know what these black friars want’: narratives of conflict and solidarity in an early sixteenth-century Hungarian town
Kouky Fianu : Canons and notaries: Exploring contractual practices in 15th century Paris
Ardian Muhaj : The Hundred Years War and the origins of the Portuguese expansion in Africa


E-15 SEX10 Measuring Sexual Danger
Cave E
Network: Sexuality Chair: Geertje Mak
Organizers: - Discussant: Geertje Mak
Svati Shah : South Asian Borders: Enumerating Migration, Trafficking and Sex Work
Theo Van Der Meer : Cutting costs. Pecuniary anxieties and the castration of sex offenders in Holland (1938-1968).
Carole S. Vance : Counting Sex Slaves: Definition, Methodology, and Meaning
Rebecca Young : Counting the Harm of Child Sexual Abuse


F-15 FAM08 Kin marriages as strategies for social production
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernard Derouet
Organizer: Bernard Derouet Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Hilde Bras, Frans van Poppel & Kees Mandemakers : Kin Marriage in the Netherlands: Trends and Determinants in the Nineteenth Century
Gérard Delille : The new features of matrimonial exchange in 18th and 19th centuries
Emília Lagido : Consanguineous marriages in the 19th century. An comparative analisis


G-15 HEA15 Medicine, Life and Death: the German Context
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jeannette Madarasz
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeannette Madarasz
Axel C. Huentelmann : State-run Public Health Institutions in Germany 1870-1930. Indirect Government and Health Policy
Karen Nolte : “Telling the painful truth” – nurses and physicians in the 19th century
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : German Speaking Physicians and Health Administrators in the Modernization of Middle Eastern Medicines
Michael Stolberg : The medicalization of the death bed (1700-1850)


H-15 WOM09 Gendering and Memory in Interwar Europe
Room 1.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Eliza Ablovatski : The Deluge: Gender Danger and Fear of Revolution in 1919 Central Europe
Melissa Bokovoy : Gendering Wartime Allies: Interwar Commemoration of Ithe Entente in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Gabriela Dudeková : Women in- and after the Great War. Habsburg monarchy and succesor states.
Tiina Lintunen : The Representations of Women in War Propoganda during the First Half of the 20th century
Andrea Peto : Rhetoric of Work Women's Mobilisation in interwar Hungary: Work of Mourning and Knitting


I-15 ELI15 Elites strategies in Europe and across the seas
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Anu Lahtinen
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Erica Bastress-Dukehart : Imprisoned, Empowered, Engendered: The Dialectic of Sibling Relationships within Early Modern Germany’s Princely Dynasties
Nuno Camarinhas : Serving abroad: foreign origin magistrates in early modern Portugal
Annick Foucrier-Binda : Marriage networks among French migrants in San Francisco at the time of the Gold Rush
Christian Kühner : Friendship in the Early Modern French Nobility
Xabier Lamikiz : Merchant Guilds and Merchant Networks in Eighteenth-Century Spain: A Comparison between Cadiz and Bilbao


J-15 FAM27 Demography of Indigenous Populations
Room 3.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Göran Broström
Organizer: Peter Sköld Discussant: Per Axelsson
Mario Boleda : Demographic Dynamics in Aboriginal Populations.
Gabriella Edholm : Marriage patterns among Sami nomads and Swedish settlers under the impact of the colonization process in 19th century northern Sweden.
J. David Hacker, Michael R. Haines : American Indian Demography at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Peter Sköld : Ageing in the north. The Sami life expectancy.


K-15 RUR07 Living in the countryside in the first half of the 20th century
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: John Martin
Organizers: - Discussant: Ernst Langthaler
Rien Emmery : Continuity, theoretical innovation and practical immobility. The influence of the Second World War on country planning and rural housing policy in Flanders (1935-1955).
Fredie Floré, Bruno Notteboom : The Open Air Museum of Bokrijk
Juan Pan-Montojo : "Spanish agriculture, 1931-1951: crisis, wars and new policies in the reshaping of rural society"
Will Wilson : A Celebration of Power: Rural Festivity and Opposition in Nazi Germany


L-15 THE06 History and Trauma
Room 5.1
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner
Berber Bevernage : Truth commissions, history and historical injustice: on the haunting past.
Lore Colaert : Historical consciousness in response to genocide and civil war in Rwanda.
Cecilia Macon : Posthistory, trauma and the role of transitional historical meaning


M-15 ANT10 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity I
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Mary Harlow
Organizers: - Discussant: Nelleke Bakker
Patricia Baker : Children and Health in the Greco-Roman World
Ray Laurence : Children in the Roman City: Taking another look at Pompeii
Ville Vuolanto : Socialisation of the Children in the Family Discourses of the Ascetic Fathers in Late Antiquity


N-15 TEC02 Dismal Days at the Wheel. Risks of Motoring
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: Bo Sundin
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Olle Hagman
Jenny Eklöf : Denouncing the Cars of Old: Marketing Ethanol Driven Cars in the Case of Biofuel Region in Sweden
Michael Hascher : Driving Safer. Early Developments Concerning Road Safety in Germany in the 1930s
Timo Myllyntaus : When Gas was a Hazard in Motoring. A Surrogate Fuel Powering Finnish Automobiles over the Wartime Crisis, 1939-1945


O-15 FAM28 The Survival Strategies of Widows
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Beatrice Moring : Widows and their children, survival strategies and public assistance
Glenda Strachan, Lindy Henderson : Surviving widowhood: Life alone in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the second half of the nineteenth century
Richard Wall : Widows, family and poor relief in 18th and 19th century England


P-15 ORA13 Collective Memory and Collective Identities
Room 8.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Simone Amorim, Ester Fraga Vilas-Boas Carvalho Do Nascimento : From Memories to Forgottens: The Female Teachers Preparation at the “Instituto Ponte Nova”
Graciela De Garay : The "International Style" as a key element to understand the professionalization of architecture in Mexico, 1940-1970
Lígia Maria Leite Pereira : Negotiating memory: the case of brazilian elites
Luisa Tiago De Oliveira : IST students movement: the contribution of the oral history


Q-15 WOM22 Controlling prostitution
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Michelle Denbeste
Organizers: - Discussant: Michelle Denbeste
Natalia Gerodetti : Female Sexuality and Mobility between Public and Private
Victoria Harris : The invisible whore? Germany’s failed attempt at the societal marginalisation of prostitute women, 1871-1945.
Christine Machiels : Prostitution and Women’s Rights. National Council of French Women and National Council of Belgian Women in front of abolitionist question (20th century)


R-15 ETH23 Roundtable: Family and the history of migration
Amphitheater 4
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizer: Leo Lucassen Discussants: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Jan Kok, Leslie Page Moch, Mary Nagata, Michel Oris


S-15 ORA14 Voices, Context, and Transmission of Oral History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Oral History Chair: Penny Summerfield
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sari Bar-On, Eshkar Miki : Historical Values versus Emotional Values - Art Therapy as an Mediator
Daniela Koleva : Oral History interviewing an the production of meaning: defending 'bad' questions
Leena Rossi : Emotions in Oral History Interview
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander : The Speech acts of silence: The mystery of the Finnish working-class writer Kasperi Tanttu (1886-1918)


T-15 MAT13 The propensity to spend, gamble and save
Room 9
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizer: Harm Nijboer Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Pat Ayers : The World Reshaped: the impact of Liverpool factory closures on working-class consumption, 1978-88
Gerard Borst : Working-class saving in the Netherlands, 1870-1970
Jean-Francois Constant : State regulation and the social construction of consumer trust, 1870-1914
Paddy Dolan : Social interdependencies and the advancing threshold of consumption needs
Riitta Matilainen : Consumer dreams of Finnish gamblers in the era of an emerging consumer society


U-15 WOR08 Religious Globalization? The role of Proselytizers and Indigenous Peoples
Room10.2
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Maxwell
Organizers: - Discussant: David Maxwell
Elena Glavatskaya : Christian Mission beyond the Polar Circle
Joseph Levi : Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
David Lindenfeld : The Sioux and the Maori: Contrasting Adaptions of Christianity as Strategies for Ethnic Survival
Michelle Molina : Evangelization and Individualization:Jesuit Itinerant Missions in Seventeenth-Century New Spain


V-15 LAB19 Household Economy in a Market Economy? New Conceptions of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Work
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: Kirsti Niskanen, Yvonne Svanström Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Margo Anderson : Using Old Data on Gender and Household
Kirsti Niskanen : Bringing Household Economy into Market Economy – The Approach of the Finnish Economist Laura Harmaja
Vera Sollova : Family, labor market and demographic dynamics in Mexico, 1970-2000
Yvonne Svanström : A changing concept within Swedish political economy – from prostitution to sex work during the 20th century


W-15 POL04 Ethnic minorities in transition: Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Room 2.12
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Celia Donert : 'Citizens of Gypsy Origin': Marginality and Citizenship in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Rosa Lehmann : Poland's struggle with its Ukrainian minority, 1944-1960
Alina Silian : The Making of Romani Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Romania


X-15 CRI19 Gender Story Violence
Room 2.13
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Efi Avdela : Stories of Blood and Gender: Cultural scenarios of honour crimes in post-war Greece
Elena Barbulescu : Violence and Gender in a Romanian Village
Marie Eriksson : The Politics of "Marital Dissonance" - Political Discourses about Men's violence against Women in Marriage in 19th Century Sweden


Y-15 LAB21 Labour Internationalism; studies from Vaxjo
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Eszter Bartha
Organizers: - Discussant: Eszter Bartha
Fredrik Håkansson : Globalization and Industrial Relations. A Case Study of the Western Flat Glass Industry in 1969
Lars Hansson : Migration within the pulp and paper industry in Finland and Sweden
Jesper Johansson : Union Solidarity in Exchange for adaptation. Immigration Policy within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) during the 1970s
Johan Svanberg : "After 36 hours stay we started directly at the shopfloor": Case study of recruitment of Yugoslavian workers to a company in Sweden, 1969-70



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
A-16 CUL19 Roundtable: The Representation of War through Cinema and Videogames
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Jose A. Garcia Aviles
Organizers: Julio Montero, Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo Discussant: Jose A. Garcia Aviles
José Cabeza : No to war!: the representation of war topics on Hollywood movies screened in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
Javier Cervera Gil : “Spanish Civil War in the cinema during Franco‘s system”
Fátima Gil : Films about war: Spanish civil war
Salvador Gómez García : The War we played. The representation of war in videogames
Julio Montero : How to tell a war story in a film: old ways and new techniques
María Ulled : Iraq War through Spain's present documentary cinema


B-16 ETH26 Migration and Health
Cave B
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Justo Hernandez : Renaissance ecologic colonization: the modorra epidemic in the Canary Islands and its transmission to America
Sol Juárez : Migration and Health: the relationship between self-assessment and diagnosed morbidity. The experience of Madrid
Norma Montesino, Malin Thor : Conceptions of working capacity and health. The Social Authorities and the TB- refugees in Sweden ca 1945–1960
Bina Sengar : Dynamics of Health Services among the Migrant Indigenous Communities of Gujarat
Joana Sousa Ribeiro : The interplay of structures and agency - Reassessing Foreign-qualified nurses and physicians in Portugal


C-16 REL05 New Historiographical Approaches
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Árpád Klimó
Patrick Pasture : Transatlantic History of Christianity. Socio-Historical Perspectives.
Yvonne Maria Werner : Gender and Confessionalisation in Europe
Benjamin Ziemann : Faithful Decisions? Churches as Formal Organisations and 20th Century Religious History


D-16 SEX07 Lesbianisms in different contexts
Cave D
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Alison Redick
Organizers: - Discussant: Alison Redick
Chiara Beccalossi : Female Sexual Inversion: Italian and British Sexology Compared c. 1870-1915
Florence Binard : Perception and construction of lesbian sexuality during the inter-war period in Great Britain
Elise Chenier : “Freak Wedding!”: Lesbian Marriage as a Pleasure Practice in Post-WWII Toronto
Karen Krahulik : Progressive in Provincetown: A new understanding of lesbian migration


E-16 ORA04 Public presentations; interpreting audiovisual history
Cave E
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado : The documentary film: Hans Hutter. A Swiss volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.
Amaya Muruzabal : The representation of the veteran as the reflection of a community of memory
Lucy Robinson : ‘My story, I am sorry to say, has no conclusion’ - Soldiers Stories and the Falkland’s War.
Penny Summerfield : Life stories, historical authenticity and the public memory of the Second World War in 1950s Britain


F-16 ETH27 Migration and emigration in Europe and the USA in the 19th century
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Steve Hochstadt
Organizers: - Discussant: Steve Hochstadt
Jo Guldi : “On Not Speaking to Strangers: The rise and fall of sociability on Britain’s national road network, 1740 to 1850.”
Amy Lloyd : Popular Perceptions and the Emigration Decision: British Perceptions of Immigration to the United States and ‘Greater Britain’, 1870-1914
Colin Pooley : London, Liverpool, Ohio or New South Wales: Linking internal and international migration over the life course.
Jelle van Lottum, Leigh Shaw-Taylor : Internal migration in 19th century England: Redford revisited
Cristiana Viegas De Andrade : Emigration Patterns in Portugal: comparative study of transatlantic and internal emigration in the Parish of Vila do Conde, 1800 - 1900.


G-16 HEA16 Medicine and Health as Imperial Policy
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Juanita De Barros
Organizers: - Discussant: Juanita De Barros
Anna Crozier : ‘British ‘nerves’ and the management of Empire: negotiating colonialism and health before World War Two.
Hanrog Kang : Japanese colonial medicine in Korea
Adrian Lopez Denis : Where is the Atlantic History of Medicine?Smallpox and Yellow Fever in the Making of Cuban Colonialism, 1804-1835
Joao Rangel De Almeida : Revisiting Imperial Medicine: the 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial project.


H-16 FAM33 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death I: 17th-19th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Christine Théré
Organizer: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Discussant: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser
Maria João Guardado Moreira, Teresa Rodrigues : The Mortality Pattern in Portugal
Kent Johansson : Sex-Specific Mortality in Pre-Industrial Europe: Child Mortality in Scania, Sweden 1766-1894
Marie Lindkvist, Göran Broström : Interaction between fertility and infant mortality in an intergenerational perspective


I-16 HIS06 Record linkage
Room 2.1
Network: Chair: Matthew Woollard
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthew Woollard
Trygve Andersen, Marianne Erikstad : Record linkage with birth dates
Joaquim Carvalho : Reconstructing Social Structure from Social Positional Events
Maarten Oosten, Kees Mandemakers : Linking with the Dutch GENLIAS index of marriage certificates


J-16 POL16 Gender of politics in Scandinavia, 1800-1921
Room 3.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Organizers: - Discussant: Gro Hagemann
Christina Florin : Heightened feelings. Emotions as capital in the suffrage movement.
Josefin Rönnbäck : The right to stand by? The Swedish suffragists and the right to stand for election
Irma Sulkunen : Suffrage, nation and citizenship


K-16 RUR10 Land owners, Politics, and Agricultural Reform in the 20th century
Room 4
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Mats Morell
Organizers: - Discussant: Mats Morell
Sónia Vespeira De Almeida : Rural Portugal and the "Carnation Revolution"
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence in French's vineyards, 1800-1950
Victor Pereira : Managing the decline of the landowners. The Portuguese government and the rural migration between 1957 and 1974
Carla Almeida Sousa : A Cultural Elite in a Village of the South of Portugal
Lanero Táboas : Francoism and local powers: intermediation, legitimation and socially differentiated access to extremely scarce resources.


L-16 FAM29 The use of genealogies for demographic research
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Arthur Wolf
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Arthur Wolf
Santiago Piquero : Studying Adult Mortality in Spanish Nobility,16th-19th C.
Yuki Umeno : What Chinese genealogies tell and what they do not: an attempt of demographics of domestic immigration
Harriet Zurndorfer : Genealogy as a Source for Measuring Nuptiality, Fertility, and Mortality in Late Imperial China: Evidence from the Fan Lineage of Huizhou 1500-1600


M-16 ANT13 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity II
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Ray Laurence
Organizers: - Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Susan Blundell : Engendering childhood: boys and girls in Attic vase painting
Mary Harlow : Childhood and sibling relationships at Rome
Tim Parkin : Ancient children and their demography
Louise Revell : Breaking the paradigm: experiences of childhood in the Roman provinces


O-16 ECO12 Cooperation between employers and labour
Room 7.1
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Christopher Lloyd
Organizers: - Discussant: Christopher Lloyd
K.P. Companje : Social health insurance between market and the state: the Dutch model 1900-1941
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : The importance of worker solidarity: Employers, unions, and the development of old age pensions, 1946-1975.
Hugh Pemberton : Forces of reaction? The trade unions and earnings-related pensions in Britain in the 1950s
Jeroen Touwen : Policy Learning and Labour Relations in the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s


P-16 THE02 Transnational Images at Work in National Museums
Room 8.1
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Peter Aronsson : Comparing National Museums in Europe
Rhiannon Mason : Defining the Nation: The Creation of the National Museum of Wales
Andrew Newby, Linda Andersson Burnett : Celts or Vikings? The battle for Scottish identity in the National Museum of Scotland, c 1860-1900.


Q-16 ORA15 Oral History and Methodology, Roundtable
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Oral History Chair: Ulla-Maija Peltonen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Joanna Bornat : The implications of secondary analysis for archived oral history data
Karoline Feyertag : Reading the Other and Listening to the Other
Ela Hornung : Working with deep hermeneutics
Michael John : Austria 1945 - 1955: Landscapes of Memories
Albert Lichtblau : Returning Shock


S-16 LAT01 Gender in Latin American History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Latin America Chair: Kim Clark
Organizer: Paulo Drinot Discussant: Kim Clark
Sandra Aguilar-Rodríguez : Modernity on the Menu: Women’s Cooking and Consumption Practices in 1940s and 1950s Mexico
Paulo Drinot : The Making of the Peruvian Worker: Race and Gender in Peruvian Labour Policy, 1903-1920
Patience A. Schell : Good Daughters and Loyal Soldiers: The Unión de Damas Católicas Mexicanas during the Church-State Conflict in Mexico, 1926-1929
Sarah Washbrook : Keeping it in the Family: Women and Children and the Reproduction of Debt Peonage in Chiapas, Mexico, 1876-1911


T-16 LAB20 Transnational Perspectives on Social Movements: Cross-National Transfer and International Organisation
Room 9
Network: Labour Chair: Franca Iacovetta
Organizers: Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Pernilla Jonsson
Mary Hilson : The Consumers' Co-operative Movement in International Perspective: Britain and Scandinavia during the inter-war period
Daniel Roger Maul : „A First Attempt of Truly World Wide Planning“ – The International Labour Organization´s Road to the World Employment Program (WEP) 1960-1970.
Silke Neunsinger : Women in the Labour and Socialist International 1923-1939
Jonas Sjölander : Corporations, Unions and Human Rights. Swedish-South African Relations during and after the Apartheid Regime 1948-2008.


U-16 WOM23 Social Marginality and the Construction of Gender Roles
Room10.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan : Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women between Worlds
Sabrina Marchetti, Domenica Ghidei : Asmara-Roma: A Journey of Imaginary. (Post)colonial legacies and women’s migration during the 70’s.
Sonja Matter : “The client’s private sphere has to be esteemed”. The discussion about the rightfulness of unannounced home visits in social work in Post-War Switzerland
Jane Slaughter : "Stepford Wives, Black Widows and Fanatical Females: Women Terrorists in a Comparative, Transnational Perspective"


V-16 RUR16 Man and beast. Human interactions with animals in a comparative context
Room 2.10
Network: Rural Chair: Margaret Derry
Organizers: - Discussant: Margaret Derry
Stefan Bargheer : Moral Entanglements: The Emergence and Transformation of the Concern for Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1930
Jonathan Bryant : Turning Deer into Rice: The deerskin trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world
Claire Strom : Cattle, Ticks, and Humans: Disease Eradication in a Comparative Perspective
Sandra Swart : Horse Trading: comparing human-equine networks of control and socio-environmental change in South African, India, Australia and the Americas


W-16 LAB22 Global Commodities
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Ulbe Bosma, Marga Alferink : Transition from local to world market production: early 19th century sugar production in East Java.
Ratna Saptari : Cultures of Tobacco: The shaping of Peasant Worker Communities in 19th century Java
Emile Schwidder : Forced Labour in the Coffee Cultivation of West Java: Report of Otto van Rees on the 'Preanger Stelsel' (1867)


X-16 CRI28 Round Table on Clive Emsley's Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940
Room 2.13
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizers: - Discussants: Jonathan Dunnage, Clive Emsley, Wilbur Miller, Xavier Rousseaux


Y-16 WOM25 Round Table: Female Labour Market Participation and Economic Growth
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: Joyce Burnette, Tine De Moor, Marjatta Rahikainen, Carmen Sarasua, Ariadne Schmidt, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
A-17 FAM32 Family and Marriage in 20th century Eastern Europe
Cave A
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Tamas Faragó
Organizer: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu Discussant: Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu
Alena Eskridge-Kosmach : Sex and Marriage in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: comparative analysis
Vasilis Gavalas : Greek marriage patterns in perspective: family formation in mainland and insular Greece during the 20th century.
Dalia Leinarte : Informal Family Benefits in Soviet Lithuania, 1950s-1980s


B-17 RUR11 Fordist agriculture: science, states and farmers
Cave B
Network: Rural Chair: Peter Moser
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Moser
Dulce Freire, José Raul Ribeiro : Mediterranean agriculture and rural development. Causes and consequences of Portuguese state intervention after World War II
Shawn Parkhurst : Analyzing the Intersection of Regional Representations, State Reform, Capital and the Conflict of Class Fractions: An Example from the Douro Region
Wilson Picado : Comparing Green revolution.State and technological change in Costa Rica, México and Spain.1940-1970.
Mathijs Witte : Industrialization of agriculture: emerge of footloose farming in the Netherlands 1950-2000


C-17 REL10 Religious Transformations since the 1960s
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Benjamin Ziemann
Organizers: - Discussant: Benjamin Ziemann
Árpád Klimó : Being Catholic in Hungary and Italy after 1945 - patterns of transformation during the Cold War
Edwin Koster : Religious Transformations and Methodological Ludism
Bart Latré : The movement of progressive christians in Flanders 1960-1990
Esther Peperkamp : Jesus behind the Iron Curtain - Religious Transformations in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s
Julia Riediger : Raised to Leave? Church Disaffiliation in Western Germany from the Vantage Point of Socialisation (approx. 1965 to 1980)


D-17 MAT01 Second hand circuits of exchange: selling, the retailer and regulation
Cave D
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Laura Cruz : All Ruiled Up: Reconstructing Second Hand Book Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands
Dries Lyna : In the twilight between old and new. The second-hand markets for paintings in 18th century Antwerp and Brussels.
Ian Mitchell : Second-hand Book Trades in England, c.1680-1850
Martin Wottle : What’s new? Legal discourse on second-hand goods in 18th and early 19th century Stockholm.


F-17 WOR05 Trans-European Perspectives on the 18th century
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: World History Chair: Harriet Zurndorfer
Organizers: - Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz, Harriet Zurndorfer
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov : Networks of Early Modern African Migration to Northwest-Germany and Europe
Katja Naumann, Matthias Middel : Integrating the 18th century into the history of globalization
Alessandro Stanziani : Labour as service in 18th and 19th century. A Russia-Europe comparison.


G-17 ETH28 Migration and Identity
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Brian Gratton
Organizers: - Discussant: Brian Gratton
Mona Oikawa : Situating the Internment of Japanese Canadians in Relation to Colonial Processes of Subordinating Aboriginal Peoples in the Settler Society of Canada
Magnus Persson : Success or failure? Swedish strategies of migration between 1860 and 1960
Ruxandra Trandafoiu : European Union Enlargement and Diasporic Networks of Communication: the politicization of Romanian work diasporas in the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy


H-17 HEA10 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death II: 19th and 20th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Kent Johansson
Organizers: - Discussant: Kent Johansson
Agnieszka Fihel : Excess male mortality as an inherent component of modernization
Andrew Hinde, Martin Gorsky, Bernard Harris & Aravinda Guntupali : The rise in morbidity in England, 1850-1950
Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant : Maternal mortality in the Belgian vital registration and in the maternity wards in nineteenth century Belgium


I-17 SOC07 To count or not to count? Occupations and occupational statistics
Room 2.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: - Discussant: Ineke Maas
Nele Bracke : The registration of occupations in the occupational censuses. Belgium, 1846-1947
Peter Meyer : Recent occupation concepts applied to historical Census data
Michael C. Schneider : Occupational statistics in Prussia/Germany 1870s to 1934
Matthew Woollard : Occupational classification in Ireland, 1841-1926


J-17 ETH40 Migration and periphery
Room 3.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Bina Sengar
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Deborah Michaels : The Dynamics of National and Global Framing in the History of Romani Social Movements
Marta Petryk : The Revitalization of the Kven culture in northern Norway
Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska : The Migration in Western Part of Macedonia (Changes and Consequences)
Miika Tervonen : ‘Peasants’, ‘Gypsies’ and ‘travellers’: ethnic boundary-drawing and -crossing in Finland and Sweden, c.1865-1905


K-17 CRI27 Terms and practices in transformation
Room 4
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Anja Johansen
Organizers: - Discussant: Anja Johansen
Hans Andersson : Shaming and economic crime in 19th century Sweden
Emmanuel Berger : Between liberty and order. Norms, practices and stakes of the prosecution during the French Revolution and Empire
Martin Bergman : Execution and liturgy
José Ernesto Pimentel Filho : The birth of “criminalité”: from the word to the history, during the nineteenth century


L-17 FAM17 Emigration, Female Marriage and Social Mobility
Room 5.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Discussant: Anne-Lise Head
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : Female emigration, marriage, and social mobility in the Pyrenees in the nineteenth century
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon : Marriage settlements and migrant juniors daughters in the Pyrénées, 19th century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Emigration, female marriage and social mobility in Northwest Spain, 18th-19th
Yukari Takai : Married, Female and on the Move: Japanese Migrant Women to North America in the Early Twentieth Century


M-17 WOM12 Breaking Down the East-West Divide
Room 5.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Borbala Juhasz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Roxana Cheschebec : Gender, Race and Class in Definitions of Modern Social Work in Interwar Romania
Jacqueline Heinen : Breaking sown the East-West Divide through the Case Study of Polish Child care 1945-1989
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary
Eszter Varsa, Dorottya Szikra : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary


N-17 LAB23 Emancipation: Navigating 'Free Labor' in the Post-Civil War US South
Room 6.1
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizer: Brian Kelly Discussant: Seth Wigderson
Bruce Baker : From the Mountain City to the Textile Capital of the World: Workers and the Transformation of Greenville County, South Carolina, 1860-1900
Brian Kelly : Holding Off Counterrevolution: Black Workers & White Paramilitarism in Reconstruction South Carolina
Susan O'Donovan : Mapping Freedom’s Terrain: The Political and Productive Landscapes of New Bern and Wilmington, North Carolina


O-17 POL08 The image of Sweden
Room 7.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Mary Hilson
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Hilson
Jenny Andersson : Nordic nostalgia and Nordic light
Nikolas Glover : Made in Sweden? Sweden’s image and the Swedish institute 1945-1950
Carl Marklund : The Social Laboratory: Comparisons, Models and “Utopian” Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA from Interwar to Cold War.
Kazimierz Musial : Reconstructing Nordic significance in post-modern Europe
Andrew Scott : Looking to Sweden in order to reconstruct Australia: from the 1970s to 2007 and beyond


P-17 WOM21 Work and Household in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organizers: - Discussant: Danielle van den Heuvel
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira : Locating the maritime and the gender in an early modern Portuguese town
Valerie Burton : Ten-Shillings A Week’: How Did Women Manage [Households] in English Industrial Ports?
Thijs Lambrecht : Female servants in husbandry and saving strategies in the Southern Low Countries (1650-1850)
Amélia Polónia : Women’s Labour and Households in Maritime Communities in Early Modern Portugal
Jutta Schwarzkopf : Work and the Household in circum-1900 Lancashire


Q-17 EDU12 Childhood and the Reproduction of Social Structure
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Christina Florin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Thomas Buerman : Reading and writing in nineteenth century Catholic schools in Belgium.
Sandra Cavallo : Artisan families and the circulation of children in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian towns.
Nara Milanich : Children, class hierarchies, and state formation in Chile
Bengt Sandin : The politics of abortion and the building of a welfare system for women and children in Sweden 1920-1950


R-17 CRI22 Science and the Law: Criminology and Penal Reform in Italy, Germany, and Britain, 1880-1930
Amphitheater 4
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Peter Becker
Organizer: Richard Wetzell Discussant: Peter Becker
Neil Davie : 'Rational, Responsible and Culpable'? British Theories of Criminal Causation in Criminological Research and Penal Policy, 1880-1930
Paul Garfinkel : Reforming by Numbers: Penal Jurists and Judicial Statistics in Liberal Italy
Richard Wetzell : The Relationship between Criminology and Penal Reform in Germany, 1880-1930: Science versus Law?


S-17 MID06 Reassessing Medieval Queenship
Instituto de Arte
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Maria Filomena Andrade : The familiar relations in the reign of Dinis: The protagonism of queen Isabel
Isabel Guimarães Sá : Biography writing for professional historians: some questions and issues concerning the case of queens
Vanda Lourenço : Queen D. Beatriz dowry letter (1309-1359)
Manuela Santos Silva : The Queen’s Control over her Estates in the 15th Century: the Written Sources Testimony


T-17 LAT07 Celebrations of Political Independence, Construction of Historical Memory, and Nation-Building in Latin America
Room 9
Network: Latin America Chair: David Cahill
Organizer: Michael Gonzales Discussant: David Cahill
Michiel Baud : Modernity and Citizenship in the Celebrations of the Peruvian Centenario, 1921-1924
Michael Gonzales : "Imagining Mexico in 1921: Visions of the Revolutionary State in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City"
Viviana Grieco : The First Fiestas Mayas: Family and Political Authority in Early Independent Buenos Aires (1812-1815)
Susan M. Socolow : Celebrating Independence in the Río de la Plata


U-17 ELI17 Estate Society in Transition: burghers and noblemen from the 18th to the 19th century
Room10.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Bård Frydenlund
Organizer: Charlotta Wolff Discussant: Bård Frydenlund
Nuno Miguel Lima : Lisbon’s highest taxpayers during the Constitutional Monarchy. The Portuguese experience of the notables’ model?
Arnout Mertens : Nobles into Belgians, 1750-1850
Alex Snellman : Defining new elite: ennoblements in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1912
Charlotta Wolff : Multiculturalism and merchant elite networking in the Baltic area, ca. 1770–1830


W-17 ANT14 Ancient Demography: a round table discussion of M.H. Hansen's: The Shotgun Method
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Frederick Naerebout
Organizers: - Discussants: John Davis, Renzo Derosas, Bruce Frier, Mogens Herman Hansen


X-17 FAMIV Marriages Contracts II : Inheritance systems
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Joseph Goy Discussant: Joseph Goy
Gérard Béaur : Marriage contracts in egalitarian inheritance system: the case of Chartres (18th century
Llorenç Ferrer Alos : The adaptation of the marriage contracts to the economic changes in Catalonia (C. XVII-XIX).
Jonathan Spangler : Marriage contracts as an indicator of épée-robe (non?) integration in seventeenth-century France



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
A-18 ELI10 New ideas, new elite formations, 1880s to 1940s
Cave A
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
M. B. B. Biskupski : The Gentry Intelligentsia Playing Soldier: The Polish Legions as a Multiple Elite Formation
Fredrik Björk : Urban green space as an arena for inclusion and exclusion: Discourses of the Swedish labor movement 1880-1940
Michel Geertse : Garden Cities to the World! The international propagation of the garden city idea 1913-1926
Zoltán Völgyesi : The composition and disintegration of historical élites


B-18 WOM19 State Gender Policies in Comparative Perpective
Cave B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Eliza Ablovatski
Organizers: - Discussant: Eliza Ablovatski
Anders Ahlbäck : War Heroes as War Teachers: The "Jaeger" Officers, Conscript Soldiers and Military Masculinities in Finland, 1918-1939
Carlota Coronado Ruiz : The education of female daughters: Fascism education in the Luce cinematographic news programs.
Jessica Davidson : “Women, Fascism, and Work in Francoist Spain: The Law for Political, Professional, and Labor Rights”
Tuba Demirci : Regulating Marriage, Regulating Conflict: Ottoman State, The Emergence of Ottoman “Marriage Proper” and Its Discontents


C-18 RUR14 The role and meaning of the forest for rural life
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Kenneth Sylvester
Organizers: - Discussant: Kenneth Sylvester
Caroline Delph : The (Re)-Formation of a landscape: Paul Schultze-Naumburg and the Landscape of Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Michael Imort : The De-Professionalization of German Foresters, 1933-1945
Doina Simona Niculae : Falling off trees: Forest, community and the state in a Transylvanian village
Michael Shackleton : The Japanese 'Satoyama' tradition of ecological woodland management


E-18 LAB04 Gender Wage Gaps Revisited: Social, Institutional and Market Processes
Cave E
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Cristina Borderias
Organizers: Cristina Borderias, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Jane Humphries
Joyce Burnette : Testing for Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing in 1832
Michael Huberman : The gender wage gap during the first great wave of globalizaton, 1870-1900
Montserrat Llonch : Gender wage gaps during the Second Industrial Revolution. A Catalan case.
Carmen Sarasua : Gender gap in agricultural wages, Spain 1750-1900
Lars Svensson : Institutions, market forces – or both? Determinants of gender wage equalisation in Sweden


F-18 REL04 Myths & Men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Religion Chair: Henk de Smaele
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk de Smaele
Josephine Hoegaerts : Intersections of Gender, Age and Sexuality
Andrew King : Johann Dietz: Honor and Ideal Masculine Identities in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Alexander Maurits : Myths & men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes in the Swedish Context
Tine Van Osselaer : ‘Heroes of the heart’. Ideals of masculinity in the Sacred Heart devotion.


G-18 ETH29 Building Identities
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Colin Pooley
Organizers: - Discussant: Colin Pooley
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter Van Duin : National identity formation and national minority problems in Central Europe, 1900-1920: Vienna and Bratislava compared
Helion Póvoa-Neto : From emigration to immigration: the Italian turning point
Jan Rychlik : Freedom of Movement and Emigration in Habsburg Monarchy and Czechoslovakia, 1848-1989
Sibel Yardimci, Şükrü Aslan : Twilight Memorfries: ‘Home’ and ‘Homeland’ in the collective memory of Tunceli People Displaced in 1934


H-18 ETH30 Migration and control
Room 1.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Selen Artan-Bayhan : Controlling Migration to the European Union: A Two-Tiered System
Saskia Bonjour : The restrictive turn in Dutch family migration policies, 1993-2005
Aysegul Okan : Realization of Settlement: Triangle of Refugees, Local People and the State in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
Christopher Paetzold : Local response to immigration along Spain’s southern frontiers: los extranjeros in Andalucía and the Canary Islands, 1980-2007


I-18 FAM20 Fertilitiy Transition: Negotiating strategies between men and women
Room 2.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Michel Oris
Organizers: - Discussant: Michel Oris
Elitsa Dimitrova : The First Demographic Transition in Bulgaria. A Paradigm Shift?
Rada Drezgic : “My husband looks after me” – Reproductive Decisions, Contraceptive Practices and Gender Hierarchy
Patricia Thornton : The role of marriage and “starting behaviour” in the New World fertility transition: The case of Montreal 1881-1901.


J-18 SOC10 Welfare after WW II
Room 3.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizers: - Discussant: Larry Frohman
Birgitta Jansson, Björn Gustafsson : Poverty in the city of Göteborg, Sweden, from 1925 to 2003
Sonya Michel : The Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Explaining Inequalities in American Old-Age Provision since World War II
Christiane Streubel : Hyperactive or Hopelessly Infirm? Post-Modern Visualizations of Pensioners in US-American and German Print Media


L-18 MAT02 Second hand circuits of exchange: buying, the consumer and their motivations
Room 5.1
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme Discussant: Jon Stobart
Clive Edwards, Margaret Ponsonby : A desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of second-hand furniture, 1750-1850.
Robin Jones : 'souvenirs of people who have come and gone': second-hand furnishings and the Anglo-Indian domestic interior, 1840-1920
Kristina Lilja, Sofia Murhem & Göran Ulväng : Second-hand furniture fashion. Auction consumption of furniture in Sweden 1690-1850
Alison Toplis : A stolen garment or a reasonable purchase? The male consumer and the illicit second hand clothing market in the first half of the nineteenth century


M-18 LAB25 Women as servants in Northern Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Labour Chairs: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Beatrice Moring
Anu Lahtinen : Servants in medieval and early modern urban and rural households
Linda Lane : Women in domestic service in Sweden 1920–1940
Elina Waris : The work of children and female servants in 19th-century rural Estonia


O-18 MAT15 Memories, Materiality and Economies in the Mennonite Diaspora
Room 7.1
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Royden Loewen
Organizers: Royden Loewen, Harm Nijboer Discussant: Royden Loewen
Anna Sofia Hedberg : “We should always live like this” – Old Colony Mennonite Images of the Past and Idea of the Forthcoming
Lisette Hijink : Old Order Mennonite women and their material culture
Yme Kuiper : Between frugality and civility. Dutch Mennonites and their taste for the 'world of goods' in the eighteenth century.
Carel Roessingh : Mennonites, Migration and the Invention of New Cultures: Low German Mennonites of Belize


P-18 WOM10 Challenging Gender in Method, Theory and Medium
Room 8.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Organizers: - Discussant: Anna Tijsseling
Therese Garstenauer : 'East' and 'West' in Research Collaboration – The Case of Feminist, Women's and Gender Studies (FWGS)
Lydia Jammernegg, Natascha Vittorelli : Women's Movements - "Women in Motion". Digital Archive and Historiography. Habsburg Monarchy / Austria 1848 - 1938.
Maria Martinez Gonzalez : Feminist destabilization: toward a feminism of "subversion"?
Georgeta Nazarska : Women in the University of Zurich Digital (Web) Alumni Archive: (In)visibility


Q-18 FAM30 Denomination of Foundlings
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Catherine Rollet
Organizer: Guy Brunet Discussant: Catherine Rollet
Guy Brunet : The denomination of foundlings in France, XVIII°-XX° siècles
Stanislao Mazzoni : The surnames of foundlings of “Ospedale degli Esposti di Parma”, Italy.
Julie Miller : The Fate of William Unknown: Naming Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen : Erasing and Creating Identities: Naming Practices at the Nineteenth Century London Foundling Hospital


T-18 ORA17 Memory and the Future: Urban Contestation and Subjectivity in the Global City of Istanbul
Room 9
Networks: Oral History , Urban Chair: Ela Hornung
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eda Cakmakci : Recollection of 'alternative' collections: Sahafs and family archives in Istanbul
Sinan Gulhan : Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: The Trialectical Tale of Urban Ideology in Turkish Modernity
Serkan Yolacan : On the Edge of “Urban Regeneration”: Constitution of Political Subjectivity in 'Sulukule'
Nilsu Yürür : Cyberspace Identities and Psychoanalytic Meanings


V-18 FAM34 Transitional Zones and Hybrid Family Systems: New Perspectives on the Geography of Family Forms in Historic Eurasia
Room 2.10
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Richard Wall
Siegfried Gruber : "Does Albania fit into an overall pattern of household and marriage?"
Viachaslau Nasevich : Balanced household formation pattern in the behaviour of Belarusian peasants
Richard Paping : The dynamics of household structures in the Dutch countryside from the 17th to the 20th century: The importance of stem families?
Mikolaj Szoltysek : In search for the place: Central Europe, the transitional cultural zone and the serfdom. Some theses on hybrid family systems (17th-18th centuries).
Irina Troitskaia : Two versions of household structures as a reflection of two different concepts of household: Vykhino estate, region of Moscow, 1816-1858


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