Preliminary Programme

Showing: Saturday 1 March 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
Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
A-15 POL15 East-west contacts in the Cold War
Cave A
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bent Boel : The Danish Left and Dissidence In Eastern Europe During the Cold War
Andrea Genest : Polish Exiles and the Opposition in Poland
Carlos Reijnen : A European Autumn: the Perception of the Prague Spring in Western Europe after 1968
Katarzyna Stoklosa : Willy Brandt and the Polish dissidents


B-15 CUL18 Roundtable: War, Pictures and Television
Cave B
Network: Culture Chair: Amaya Muruzabal
Organizers: Julio Montero, Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo Discussant: Salvador Gómez García
Esther Gaitan : Information as show: Pre-Iraq War on Austrian TV
Jose A. Garcia Aviles : “Each television tells its own story”: the representation of the beginning of the Iraq War in Spanish television newscasts
Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo, Jose A. García Avilés : Demonizing the tyrant: Saddam Hussein in the Spanish newscasts during the pre-war and the Iraq War
Araceli Rodríguez Mateos : Shooting the Iraq War: Press Photography in the Spanish Media.
Francisco Segado : Images of destruction: Spanish Civil War through British Cartoons


D-15 MID07 New Approaches to Old Problems in Medieval History
Cave D
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Antonio Castro Henriques, Jose Maria Pereira Coutinho : Feudalism? A statistical analysis of peasant-noble relations in thirteenth-century Northern Portugal
Gabriella Erdélyi : ‘We do not really know what these black friars want’: narratives of conflict and solidarity in an early sixteenth-century Hungarian town
Kouky Fianu : Canons and notaries: Exploring contractual practices in 15th century Paris
Ardian Muhaj : The Hundred Years War and the origins of the Portuguese expansion in Africa


E-15 SEX10 Measuring Sexual Danger
Cave E
Network: Sexuality Chair: Geertje Mak
Organizers: - Discussant: Geertje Mak
Svati Shah : South Asian Borders: Enumerating Migration, Trafficking and Sex Work
Theo Van Der Meer : Cutting costs. Pecuniary anxieties and the castration of sex offenders in Holland (1938-1968).
Carole S. Vance : Counting Sex Slaves: Definition, Methodology, and Meaning
Rebecca Young : Counting the Harm of Child Sexual Abuse


F-15 FAM08 Kin marriages as strategies for social production
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernard Derouet
Organizer: Bernard Derouet Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Hilde Bras, Frans van Poppel & Kees Mandemakers : Kin Marriage in the Netherlands: Trends and Determinants in the Nineteenth Century
Gérard Delille : The new features of matrimonial exchange in 18th and 19th centuries
Emília Lagido : Consanguineous marriages in the 19th century. An comparative analisis


G-15 HEA15 Medicine, Life and Death: the German Context
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jeannette Madarasz
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeannette Madarasz
Axel C. Huentelmann : State-run Public Health Institutions in Germany 1870-1930. Indirect Government and Health Policy
Karen Nolte : “Telling the painful truth” – nurses and physicians in the 19th century
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : German Speaking Physicians and Health Administrators in the Modernization of Middle Eastern Medicines
Michael Stolberg : The medicalization of the death bed (1700-1850)


H-15 WOM09 Gendering and Memory in Interwar Europe
Room 1.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Organizers: - Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Eliza Ablovatski : The Deluge: Gender Danger and Fear of Revolution in 1919 Central Europe
Melissa Bokovoy : Gendering Wartime Allies: Interwar Commemoration of Ithe Entente in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Gabriela Dudeková : Women in- and after the Great War. Habsburg monarchy and succesor states.
Tiina Lintunen : The Representations of Women in War Propoganda during the First Half of the 20th century
Andrea Peto : Rhetoric of Work Women's Mobilisation in interwar Hungary: Work of Mourning and Knitting


I-15 ELI15 Elites strategies in Europe and across the seas
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Anu Lahtinen
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Erica Bastress-Dukehart : Imprisoned, Empowered, Engendered: The Dialectic of Sibling Relationships within Early Modern Germany’s Princely Dynasties
Nuno Camarinhas : Serving abroad: foreign origin magistrates in early modern Portugal
Annick Foucrier-Binda : Marriage networks among French migrants in San Francisco at the time of the Gold Rush
Christian Kühner : Friendship in the Early Modern French Nobility
Xabier Lamikiz : Merchant Guilds and Merchant Networks in Eighteenth-Century Spain: A Comparison between Cadiz and Bilbao


J-15 FAM27 Demography of Indigenous Populations
Room 3.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Göran Broström
Organizer: Peter Sköld Discussant: Per Axelsson
Mario Boleda : Demographic Dynamics in Aboriginal Populations.
Gabriella Edholm : Marriage patterns among Sami nomads and Swedish settlers under the impact of the colonization process in 19th century northern Sweden.
J. David Hacker, Michael R. Haines : American Indian Demography at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Peter Sköld : Ageing in the north. The Sami life expectancy.


K-15 RUR07 Living in the countryside in the first half of the 20th century
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: John Martin
Organizers: - Discussant: Ernst Langthaler
Rien Emmery : Continuity, theoretical innovation and practical immobility. The influence of the Second World War on country planning and rural housing policy in Flanders (1935-1955).
Fredie Floré, Bruno Notteboom : The Open Air Museum of Bokrijk
Juan Pan-Montojo : "Spanish agriculture, 1931-1951: crisis, wars and new policies in the reshaping of rural society"
Will Wilson : A Celebration of Power: Rural Festivity and Opposition in Nazi Germany


L-15 THE06 History and Trauma
Room 5.1
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner
Berber Bevernage : Truth commissions, history and historical injustice: on the haunting past.
Lore Colaert : Historical consciousness in response to genocide and civil war in Rwanda.
Cecilia Macon : Posthistory, trauma and the role of transitional historical meaning


M-15 ANT10 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity I
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Mary Harlow
Organizers: - Discussant: Nelleke Bakker
Patricia Baker : Children and Health in the Greco-Roman World
Ray Laurence : Children in the Roman City: Taking another look at Pompeii
Ville Vuolanto : Socialisation of the Children in the Family Discourses of the Ascetic Fathers in Late Antiquity


N-15 TEC02 Dismal Days at the Wheel. Risks of Motoring
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: Bo Sundin
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Olle Hagman
Jenny Eklöf : Denouncing the Cars of Old: Marketing Ethanol Driven Cars in the Case of Biofuel Region in Sweden
Michael Hascher : Driving Safer. Early Developments Concerning Road Safety in Germany in the 1930s
Timo Myllyntaus : When Gas was a Hazard in Motoring. A Surrogate Fuel Powering Finnish Automobiles over the Wartime Crisis, 1939-1945


O-15 FAM28 The Survival Strategies of Widows
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Beatrice Moring : Widows and their children, survival strategies and public assistance
Glenda Strachan, Lindy Henderson : Surviving widowhood: Life alone in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the second half of the nineteenth century
Richard Wall : Widows, family and poor relief in 18th and 19th century England


P-15 ORA13 Collective Memory and Collective Identities
Room 8.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Simone Amorim, Ester Fraga Vilas-Boas Carvalho Do Nascimento : From Memories to Forgottens: The Female Teachers Preparation at the “Instituto Ponte Nova”
Graciela De Garay : The "International Style" as a key element to understand the professionalization of architecture in Mexico, 1940-1970
Lígia Maria Leite Pereira : Negotiating memory: the case of brazilian elites
Luisa Tiago De Oliveira : IST students movement: the contribution of the oral history


Q-15 WOM22 Controlling prostitution
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Michelle Denbeste
Organizers: - Discussant: Michelle Denbeste
Natalia Gerodetti : Female Sexuality and Mobility between Public and Private
Victoria Harris : The invisible whore? Germany’s failed attempt at the societal marginalisation of prostitute women, 1871-1945.
Christine Machiels : Prostitution and Women’s Rights. National Council of French Women and National Council of Belgian Women in front of abolitionist question (20th century)


R-15 ETH23 Roundtable: Family and the history of migration
Amphitheater 4
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizer: Leo Lucassen Discussants: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Jan Kok, Leslie Page Moch, Mary Nagata, Michel Oris


S-15 ORA14 Voices, Context, and Transmission of Oral History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Oral History Chair: Penny Summerfield
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sari Bar-On, Eshkar Miki : Historical Values versus Emotional Values - Art Therapy as an Mediator
Daniela Koleva : Oral History interviewing an the production of meaning: defending 'bad' questions
Leena Rossi : Emotions in Oral History Interview
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander : The Speech acts of silence: The mystery of the Finnish working-class writer Kasperi Tanttu (1886-1918)


T-15 MAT13 The propensity to spend, gamble and save
Room 9
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizer: Harm Nijboer Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Pat Ayers : The World Reshaped: the impact of Liverpool factory closures on working-class consumption, 1978-88
Gerard Borst : Working-class saving in the Netherlands, 1870-1970
Jean-Francois Constant : State regulation and the social construction of consumer trust, 1870-1914
Paddy Dolan : Social interdependencies and the advancing threshold of consumption needs
Riitta Matilainen : Consumer dreams of Finnish gamblers in the era of an emerging consumer society


U-15 WOR08 Religious Globalization? The role of Proselytizers and Indigenous Peoples
Room10.2
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Maxwell
Organizers: - Discussant: David Maxwell
Elena Glavatskaya : Christian Mission beyond the Polar Circle
Joseph Levi : Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
David Lindenfeld : The Sioux and the Maori: Contrasting Adaptions of Christianity as Strategies for Ethnic Survival
Michelle Molina : Evangelization and Individualization:Jesuit Itinerant Missions in Seventeenth-Century New Spain


V-15 LAB19 Household Economy in a Market Economy? New Conceptions of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Work
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: Kirsti Niskanen, Yvonne Svanström Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Margo Anderson : Using Old Data on Gender and Household
Kirsti Niskanen : Bringing Household Economy into Market Economy – The Approach of the Finnish Economist Laura Harmaja
Vera Sollova : Family, labor market and demographic dynamics in Mexico, 1970-2000
Yvonne Svanström : A changing concept within Swedish political economy – from prostitution to sex work during the 20th century


W-15 POL04 Ethnic minorities in transition: Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Room 2.12
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Celia Donert : 'Citizens of Gypsy Origin': Marginality and Citizenship in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Rosa Lehmann : Poland's struggle with its Ukrainian minority, 1944-1960
Alina Silian : The Making of Romani Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Romania


X-15 CRI19 Gender Story Violence
Room 2.13
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Efi Avdela : Stories of Blood and Gender: Cultural scenarios of honour crimes in post-war Greece
Elena Barbulescu : Violence and Gender in a Romanian Village
Marie Eriksson : The Politics of "Marital Dissonance" - Political Discourses about Men's violence against Women in Marriage in 19th Century Sweden


Y-15 LAB21 Labour Internationalism; studies from Vaxjo
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Eszter Bartha
Organizers: - Discussant: Eszter Bartha
Fredrik Håkansson : Globalization and Industrial Relations. A Case Study of the Western Flat Glass Industry in 1969
Lars Hansson : Migration within the pulp and paper industry in Finland and Sweden
Jesper Johansson : Union Solidarity in Exchange for adaptation. Immigration Policy within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) during the 1970s
Johan Svanberg : "After 36 hours stay we started directly at the shopfloor": Case study of recruitment of Yugoslavian workers to a company in Sweden, 1969-70


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