Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 29 February 2008 (entire day)
Tue 26 February
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    16.30

Wed 27 February
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    10.45
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Thu 28 February
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    10.45
    14.15
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Fri 29 February
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    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
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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



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”


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