Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 29 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
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”


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