Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 29 February 2008 8.30 (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
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


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