Preliminary Programme

Showing: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations (all days)
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
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
A-1 POL02 European Citizenship and Civil Society I
Cave A
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne van Wageningen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Oonagh Breen : European Regulation of Charitable Organisations in the Twenty-First Century: The path less taken?
Annette Schrauwen : EU citizenship, free movement and solidarity
Lia Versteegh : The European Citizen: a Brick Stone to European Integration


B-1 ELI01 The academe as an elite arena I: Early Modern Period to First World War
Cave B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Robert Anderson
Organizer: Marja Jalava Discussant: Robert Anderson
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : Advancing with the Army, the formation of the professional elite
Daniel Flueckiger : Elite transformation and Democratization
Jan Eivind Myhre : The Cradle of Elites - the University of Oslo in the 19th Century
László Szögi : The Hungarian University and Academical System as Cultural Mediator in Eastern Europe in the 18th-19th Centuries


L-1 POL01 Postwar Europe
Room 5.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Sophie Bollen : Unworthy to Serve the Nation. The professional purge of the government administration after Word War II in Belgium.
Maria Kyriakidou, Sotiris Themistokleous : The ‘invisible’ resistance and the long road to democratization in post-war Greece
Russel Lemmons : “Fight like Thälmann:” The April 1986 Dedication of the Ernst Thälmann Memorial,Political Memory and Legitimacy in the German Democratic Republic
Diogo Moreira, José Reis Santos & José Tavares Castilho : Parliamentary Elites and Political Regime: Theoretical Implications of the Portuguese Case
Liesbeth van de Grift : From Fascism to Communism – The ‘purificaton’ of the security apparatus in Romania (1944-1948)



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
B-2 ELI02 The academe as an elite arena II: Postwar period
Cave B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Xu Li
Organizer: Marja Jalava Discussant: Xu Li
Robert Anderson : University Expansion, Elites and Democratization in Britain since 1945
Kim Helsvig : Norwegian academia: From social democratic egalitarianism to competitive elitism?
Marja Jalava : Cultural Revolution or Bureaucratic Jargon? - The Finnish Reform of Degrees in the 1970s
Maria Teresa Tomas Rangil : How Did the Homo Oeconomicus Became an Homo bellicus? Economics and International Relations Theory in the 1980s and 1990s.


L-2 POL23 European citizenship and civil society II
Room 5.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Veit Bader : Conplex legitimacy in ‘compound polities’: the case of the EU
Daniel Melo : The third sector and the city: public policies, citizenship, and sustainability in Portugal
Thomas Pfister : From activated to active citizenship. The need for participatory citizenship practices in new modes of governance
Maryse Ramambason : Democratization in Russia The 1993 Constitutional Conference : The stakes of the installation of a new space of deliberations
Anne van Wageningen : Citizens as members of a state; an institutional approach concerning multiple citizenship


M-2 POL19 The ethos of commercial and political advocacy in twentieth-century Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lawrence Black
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veronique Pouillard : France and Belgium (1910-1950): From the Early Debates on Advertising in the Public Space to the Late Adoption of PR Expertise.
Corey Ross : Advertising, Publicity and Politics in Inter-war Germany
Stefan Schwarzkopf : Professionalisation, “Americanisation”, and the cult of rationality in an age of extremes: changing practices and identities in British marketing communication, 1920s-1960s
Dominic Wring : Selling Politics Like Soap Powder? Electioneering in Inter-war Britain



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
T-3 POL05 Nation-building in Europe 1860-1947
Room 9
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Emese Lafferton
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Pauli Heikkilä : Imagining Nation, Imagining Europe. Pan-European Movement as Critique in Finland and Estonia, 1923-1934
Jasper Heinzen : Trauma and collective political identity in the Prussian province of Hanover 1866-1918
Indrek Jääts : Social preconditions of Non-Russian nationalism in inner periphery of Russian Empire as reflected in the results of the first all-Russian census (1897)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
Y-4 POL11 Socialist nationalism
Room 2.14
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Hester Barron : Exploring identities: Gandhi and the British working classes in interwar Lancashire
Ioannis Sygkelos : Marxism and Nationalism: The Development of their Symbiosis
Stefan Vogt : Socialist Nationalism against National Socialism? The “Young Right” in Weimar Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
Lorna Zukas : Globalization, Colonialization and the Rise of Socialism as a Precursor of Nationalism in Africa



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
I-6 POL18 Concepts and contexts of party political activism in 20th century Britain
Room 2.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Laura Beers : "Labour's Britain: Fight for it Now!": party politics in World War II Britain
Lawrence Black : 'The free world’s largest youth political movement’: The Young Conservatives in the 1950s and 1960s
Gidon Cohen, Andrew Flinn & Lewis Mates : Party Activism in Post-War Britain: Towards a Multiple Recapture Study
Daniel Ritschel : (Re-)Constructing British Fascism: Explaining Sir Oswald Mosley’s Ideology of British Fascism
Andrew Thorpe : Organisation or Policy? Labour Party Membership in World War II Britain


T-6 POL06 Vehicles of nation-building in Europe
Room 9
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: David Gerber
Organizers: - Discussant: David Gerber
Tadeusz Kopys : Language as Part of National Thinking and Nationalism in Hungary (19-20-th Century)
Emese Lafferton : Strategies of Nation-Building in Hungarian Ethnography, Anthropology and Eugenics between 1867-1918
Valerie Mast : National Definitons: Sermons and the Jews in late Nineteenth Century Hungary
Slavka Otcenasova : Making a Czechoslovak - collective identity formation in history textbooks
Jennica Thylin : Provincialisms and Nationalism. Finland-Swedish Language Planning from a Nation Building Perspective



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
P-8 POL14 Meet the Author: Thomasz Gross, Historian and Moral Critic. An Evaluation of Neighbors and Fear
Room 8.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan T. Gross
Natalia Aleksiun : "Explaining Anti-Jewish Violence: Polish Historians' Read Jan T. Gross's "Neighbors" and "Fear".
David Gerber : Jan Tomasz Gross, Historian and Moral Critic: An Evaluation of Neighbors and Fear
Dorota Praszalowicz : "Polish Memory, History and the Reception of NEIGHBORS and FEAR?"



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
W-9 LAB26 Race and Internationalism: New Research on Black Activists in the Ambit of the Comintern
Room 2.12
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizer: Eve Rosenhaft Discussant: James Miller
Robbie Aitken : German-Speaking Cameroonians: Exchange and Knowledge Transfer within Networks of Anti-Colonialism
Corinne A. Pernet : Nationalism, Regionalism or Cosmopolitanism? Latin American Intellectuals at UNESCO, 1948 to 1958
Fionnghuala Sweeney : CLR James' The Black Jacobins and radical leadership in the interwar period



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
M-10 NMPOL Network meeting: Poltics, Citizenship and Nations
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
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



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
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


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



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
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


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”



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


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



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
J-16 POL16 Gender of politics in Scandinavia, 1800-1921
Room 3.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Organizers: - Discussant: Gro Hagemann
Christina Florin : Heightened feelings. Emotions as capital in the suffrage movement.
Josefin Rönnbäck : The right to stand by? The Swedish suffragists and the right to stand for election
Irma Sulkunen : Suffrage, nation and citizenship



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
O-17 POL08 The image of Sweden
Room 7.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Mary Hilson
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Hilson
Jenny Andersson : Nordic nostalgia and Nordic light
Nikolas Glover : Made in Sweden? Sweden’s image and the Swedish institute 1945-1950
Carl Marklund : The Social Laboratory: Comparisons, Models and “Utopian” Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA from Interwar to Cold War.
Kazimierz Musial : Reconstructing Nordic significance in post-modern Europe
Andrew Scott : Looking to Sweden in order to reconstruct Australia: from the 1970s to 2007 and beyond


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