Preliminary Programme

Showing: Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30 (single time slot)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
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)


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