Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 29 February 2008 10.45 (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 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


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