Preliminary Programme

Showing: Culture (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
J-1 CUL01 Dynamic Reconstruction of the Past in Societies of Transition
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Nikolai Vukov
Organizers: Miglena Ivanova, Nikolai Vukov Discussant: Nikolai Vukov
Miglena Ivanova : Inscribing Global Identities into the Urban Space. Recent Bulgarian Graffiti Writers and their Identity Construction
Marusa Pusnik : Mediating Communism: Slovenian Media Coverage of the Recent Past and Historical Reprogramming
Sylvia Stancheva : (Re)presenting History in Museums in post-socialist Bulgaria



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
H-3 CUL21 Memory, Remembrance and Identity Construction
Room 1.1
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussant: Aleksandar Boskovic
Eva Blenesi : Cultural Memory, Lived-in Landscapesand spaces of Remembrance
Sílvia Correia : Political Memory of the First World War in Portugal: A very particular case?
Victor Friedman : Balkan Multilingualism in Its Historical and Contemporary context
Csilla Kiss : The Blood of Ourselves
Tsvete Lazova : "Uses of the Past and Constructing Cultural Identity: Ancient Greek Experience"



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
A-4 CUL02 Rock Music, Youth and Rebellion
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Lars Berggren
Organizer: Johan Lundin Discussants: -
Borje Bergfeldt : Step Out of Babylon: The Reggae Scene in Sweden
Mats Greiff : Rock music, Rebellion and the Wall. Rock music in GDR 1960-1989.
Björn Horgby : Rock and rebellion. USA,, England and Sweden 1955-1969
Johan Lundin : How Punk Music changed Sweden
Fredrik Nilsson : Formation of what? When Rock came to town
Brian Roberts : Rock Music and Youth Culture in Wales


B-4 EDU01 Children's narratives and visual expressions
Cave B
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood Chair: Ning De Coninck-Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Yael Darr : Children Called to Arms: Children's Literature in Jewish Palestine Inducts Its Readers Into the Fight for Independence
Margot Hillel : Learning about Charity: Charitable Childhoods in Literature for Children
Sian Roberts : “The War as Seen by Children”: international exhibitions of children’s art as political and educational interventions



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
J-5 CUL03 Mixed Marriages I: Politics and Policies
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Organizers: Marga Altena, Betty de Hart Discussants: -
Sarah Carter : Colonial Anxieties: The 1886 "Traffic" in Aboriginal Women Scandal, the Aborigines Protection Society, and Mixed-Marriages in Western Canada
Betty de Hart : Protecting Dutch girls from the Harem. Dutch law and eduction on the dangers of marrying Islamic men
Charlotte Laarman : Ethnically mixed relationships in a postcolonial context, 1945-2000


R-5 CUL10 History of Emotions I: Theoretical aspects of the history of emotions
Amphitheater 4
Network: Culture Chair: R. Darren Gobert
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Willemijn Ruberg
Hera Cook : Emotions: Sense or Sensations?
Deidre Pribram : An Individual of Feeling: Emotion, Gender, and Subjectivity in Historical Perspectives on Sensibility
Otto Ulbricht : Historians coping with emotion: From Lucien Febvre to William Reddy


T-5 CUL07 Transnational Migration and the Role of Ethnic Organisations
Room 9
Network: Culture Chair: Gijsbert Oonk
Organizer: Magdalena Elchinova Discussant: Gijsbert Oonk
Marga Alferink, Ulbe Bosma : The emergence of Dutch postcolonial migrant organizations: Observations on the role of multiculturalism and the rhythms of settlement
Magdalena Elchinova : Religious Institutions and the Construction of Immigrant Communities
Katya Mihaylova : Some Aspects of the Ethnocultural Identity of Bulgarians in the Czech Republic
Fridus Steijlen : Shifting identities: Moluccan second generation in the eighties.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
J-6 CUL04 Mixed Marriages II: Representation and Agency
Room 3.1
Network: Culture Chair: Betty de Hart
Organizers: Marga Altena, Betty de Hart Discussant: Betty de Hart
Marga Altena : Challenging Prejudice in Dutch News Media. The 'Black and White Marriage' of Joseph Sylvester and Marie Borchert (1928-1955)
Maayke Botman : Representation of Dutch-Moroccan interethnic family relations and identity in Abdelkader Benali’s novel: De Langverwachte (The Long-Awaited)
Karin Maria Schmidlechner : Cross Cultural Marriages in Austria


K-6 CUL11 History of Emotions II: Emotions in 20th century Germany
Room 4
Network: Culture Chair: Willemijn Ruberg
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Heikki Lempa
Sandra Janssen : Losing Oneself in Others' Emotions: Psychological Theories of Emotion in the Early 20th Century and Their Significance for Totalitarianism
Anthony Mcelligott : Mixing up public emotions: murder in Germany 1900-1940
Edward Price : From Powell Doctrine to Police Action: The American Public's Influence on the War in Iraq



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
A-7 CUL05 Love Across Boundaries. Marriage Migration as Intersection Site between Tradition, Gendered Aspirations and Globalised Policies - I
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Johan Wets
Organizer: Christiane Timmerman Discussant: Barbara Maria Waldis
Aycan E. Celikaksoy : Marriage Migration: The Case of Denmark
Christiane Timmerman : Marriage across borders.Marriage migration in Moroccan and Turkish communities in Belgium
Trinidad L. Vicente, Maria Luisa Setién : Gender, Nationality and Mixed Marriage in Spain.
Thierry Xavier, Tatiana Eremenko : Family Reunification In France : a cohort approach over the 1992-2005 years


I-7 ORA06 Fantasy, dreams, fact and fiction
Room 2.1
Networks: Culture , Oral History Chair: Eveline Buchheim
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Molly Andrews : Narratives: Confronting the unbelievable and the unknown
Hans de Vries : "The February strike 1941": a fine example of a well-balanced handling of written and oral sources
Ulla-Maija Peltonen : Testimony and negotiating the Truth of Memory
Célia Pratas Mantinha : Franz Kafka - An Enigmatic Way of Being Told


R-7 CUL12 History of Emotions III: Emotions and literature
Amphitheater 4
Network: Culture Chair: Hera Cook
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Kristine Steenbergh
Michal Altbauer-Rudnik : Conducting Emotions in Early Modern France and England: Love Melancholy in the Medical Literature of the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
R. Darren Gobert : Staging Trauma in the Private Theatre
Karen Schaller : Secrecy and Textual Affect: The Case for Re-reading Emotion in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘Tears, Idle Tears’
Juergen Schlaeger : Literature and Emotional Intelligence. Discovery of the Emotions as a Human Resource



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
A-8 CUL06 Love Across Boundaries. Marriage Migration as Intersection Site between Tradition, Gendered Aspirations and Globalised Policies - II
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Christiane Timmerman
Organizer: Christiane Timmerman Discussant: Barbara Maria Waldis
Petra Heyse : Love without bounds. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of marriage migration from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia to Belgium
Albert Kraler, Veronika Bilger & Elisabeth Strasser : Civic Stratification, Gender and Family Migration Policies in Europe
Johan Wets : Familiy migration: who is looking for a partner abroad?



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
L-9 CUL13 History of Emotions IV: Emotions and autobiographical writing
Room 5.1
Network: Culture Chair: Hera Cook
Organizer: Willemijn Ruberg Discussant: Willemijn Ruberg
Paula Cossart : Emotions and adulterous love in 19th century Paris. The letters of Adèle Schunck and Aimé Guyet de Fernex (1824-1849)
Christina Douglas : Is Love Enough? Feelings in Swedish Love-Letters, 1890-1895
Eva Joelsson : Love within the Frame of an Emotional Regime in 18th century Sweden



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
D-10 NMCUL Network meeting: Culture
Cave D
Network: Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
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


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


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



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
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



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
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



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
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



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
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



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
A-16 CUL19 Roundtable: The Representation of War through Cinema and Videogames
Cave A
Network: Culture Chair: Jose A. Garcia Aviles
Organizers: Julio Montero, Maria Antonia Paz Rebollo Discussant: Jose A. Garcia Aviles
José Cabeza : No to war!: the representation of war topics on Hollywood movies screened in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
Javier Cervera Gil : “Spanish Civil War in the cinema during Franco‘s system”
Fátima Gil : Films about war: Spanish civil war
Salvador Gómez García : The War we played. The representation of war in videogames
Julio Montero : How to tell a war story in a film: old ways and new techniques
María Ulled : Iraq War through Spain's present documentary cinema


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