Preliminary Programme

Showing: Elites and forerunners (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
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


E-1 ELI14 Mobilities, integration and formalisation of social relationships in the urban context
Cave E
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Family and Demography Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Organizer: Vincent Gourdon Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Guido Alfani : Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Ivrea. XVIth-XVIIth Centuries
Etienne Couriol : How urban newcomers use spiritual kinships : Lyons in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries
Antonio Irigoyen : Clergy as migrant receiver in Early Modern Spain
Stéphane Minvielle : Formalisation of social relationships in urban context : The integration of migrants in 18th century Bordeaux



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.


J-2 ELI08 Elite decadence: an image or an actuality?
Room 3.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizer: Marja Vuorinen Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Henry French, Mark Rothery : Practices of politeness: changing norms of masculinity in English landed society, 1660-1800
Sarah Toulalan : Children and sexuality in early modern England
Marja Vuorinen : Decadence as a projection: a tool for criticism



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
B-3 ELI11 Education as control
Cave B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jan Eivind Myhre
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Eivind Myhre
Karl-H. Fuessl : The Emergence of Utopia. American Social Sciences, German Speaking Émigrés and U.S. Policy Toward Germany (1942-1945)
Xu Li : Public and Knowledge: Critical Transformation of the Functions and Organization of Higher Education in the United States
Olivier Longchamp, Yves Steiner : The contribution of the Schweizerisches Institut für Auslandforschung to the international restoration of neoliberalism (1949-1963)
Tuula Okkonen : Control, dominance and educational policy in the post-war world


L-3 ELI03 The country house I: Power Houses
Room 5.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizer: Jon Stobart Discussant: Jon Stobart
Peter Edwards : Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle
Abigail Harrison Moore : Furnishing the Elite House: Chippendale at Harewood
Rosie Macarthur : Knowledge as power: the imprint of a genteel education on the materiality of Kelmarsh Hall 1720- 1845.


W-3 MAT05 Material Culture of the Aristocracy
Room 2.12
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Bruno Blondé
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veerle De Laet : "In his Majesty's Service". Cultural go-betweens in 17th and 18th centuries Brussels
Eva Deak : Materials and colors of clothes in a princely court: the example of Alba Iulia during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
I-4 RUR04 Elites and agricultural modernization
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Daniel Samson : British North American Elites and Agricultural Improvement in Transatlantic Context, 1791-1860
Ursula Schlude : “To cultivate profitably and with good advice”. Creating Agricultural Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Dresden 1568 to 1572.
Alejandro Tortolero : Elites and Haciendas in the 19th c. Mexico : routine or innovation ?
Andras Vari (1953-2011) : The guardians of agricultural change – Professionalization of estate stewards in 19th century Hungary
Nadine Vivier : Elites and progress in Europe: a comparative view


T-4 ELI04 The country house II: Family and consumption
Room 9
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Abigail Harrison Moore
Organizer: Jon Stobart Discussant: Abigail Harrison Moore
Kerry Bristol : The Yorke Connection
Paolo Cornaglia : Families, gardeners and gardens
Jon Stobart : Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
A-5 ELI20 Urban Elites in Transition: Features of Urbanity, Vectors of Change and Problems of Methodology
Cave A
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl
Organizers: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl Discussants: Hilde Greefs, Eva Schandevyl
Craig Bailey : Power, Pluralism and Exchange: Middle-Class Irish Networks in Eighteenth-Century London
Inge Bertels : City Architects and City Architects. Civil Servants for Public Building in Long Term Perspective, Antwerp 1794-2006
Stephanie Van Houtven : Designing urban space: the Antwerp cités ouvrières, 1865 – 1885.


E-5 ELI22 Emerging New Elite in the Academic Environment
Cave E
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussant: Aappo Kähönen
Miguel Cardina : Students Movements in the crisis of portuguese dictatorship
Nadja Duhacek : Tolerance in a bubble
Tom Junes : The Forging of a New Elite: Student Politics in Communist Poland
Abel Polese : And if it were only a response to state managed sabotage? An alternative assessment on Ukrainian universities



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
M-6 ELI21 The culture of difference (Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe)
Room 5.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Organizer: Doina Pasca Harsanyi Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Doina Pasca Harsanyi : To be or not to be noble after the Civil Code
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Dykes, Haubargs, Bullocks, and Teacups ... The peasant-farmer elite of Eiderstedt, Schleswig, and the symbolic establishing of status and hierarchy during early modernity
Marc Schalenberg : Selling the City: How 18th century German residence towns “marketed” themselves


R-6 ELI05 Elites and nationalism in comparative perspective
Amphitheater 4
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Eric Beverley : Layered Sovereignty and Subaltern States: Nationalism and Other Global Visions
Prachi Deshpande : Foreign travel?: Homeland and Migration in 18th and 19th century India
Aliye Fatma Mataraci : A Merchant Network: Reading Muslim Merchants through Trade Letters
Vanni Pettinà : The United States against the Cuban nationalist elites: searching for the interlocutor



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
S-7 MID01 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: José Antonio Jara Fuente
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert : Social Mobility in Flemish Urban Elites (14th – 16th century): a Quantitative Approach of the Flemish Nobility
Justine Smithuis : A Prosopography of Factions in Late Medieval Utrecht: What are the Risks and Gains?
Arie van Steensel : Integrating institutions, networks, and agents: challenges arising from the application of the prosopographical method to late medieval nobility of the county of Zeeland


V-7 ELI23 Elites in Transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc I: transformation of the old power structures
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussant: Katalin Miklossy
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez : Constructing a ‘European’ Transition: From the Central and Eastern European Exile Memory to the Eastward Enlargement of the EU
Jouni Järvinen : Making Identities: History, Memory and Politics
Maciej Tyminski : Searching for the Origins of the Elite’s Habits in Postcommunist Poland:


W-7 ELI06 Elites and nationalism: (dis)location across borders
Room 2.12
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Mari Firkatian : Nationalist Elites: Stancioffs, aristocrats to diplomats, cosmopolitans to patriots
Nathanaelle Minard : Social and cultural networks of Russian travellers in Finland during the first half of the 19th century
Janne Nokki : Austro -Hungarian Diplomats in St. Petersburg during the 1850s and 1860s - a Group of Aristocratic Conservatives



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
Q-8 ELI07 Elites and corporatism in the Iberian World
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Line Schjolden
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: Line Schjolden
Manuel Loff : «Ours is a Fascist Century!» Salazarism and Francoism elites and Nazi-Fascist New Order (1936-45)
Carolina Rodríguez-López : Academic Elites and Power in the University of Madrid, 1939-1951
José Antonio Sánchez-Román : From the Congress of Productivity to the Economic Agreement: Taxes, Inflation and Corporatism in Argentina, 1955-1976


V-8 ELI24 Elites in transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc II: Old Elites' Revival in the New System
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussants: -
Bojan Bilic, Adriana Marcolini : Two Serbias: the Persistence of ‘Old Elites’ after the Fall of Socialism
Katalin Miklossy : Hungarian Socialists’ Identity Crisis
Nadezhda Stoyanova : Desecuritizing Identity in South-Eastern Europe


X-8 MID02 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges II
Room 2.13
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Mario Damen : Prosopography and elites: perspectives for research and dissemination of data concerning political elites in the Low Countries.
Jan Dumolyn, Wim De Clercq : From social position to social representation. The grammar of sign systems expressing noble identity in the late medieval Burgundian Netherlands.
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Perceiving the «self», perceiving the «others»: an enquiry over the construction of political identities in fifteenth-century urban Castile



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
H-9 MAT03 Courts and food
Room 1.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizers: Danielle De Vooght, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Peter Scholliers
David Burrow : Food at the Russian court in the 19th century
Danielle De Vooght : Culinary networks of power (Belgium, 2nd part 19th century)
Anne Lair : France: Examples of Food Court during the Second Empire
Özge Samanci : Ottoman Courtly Banquets Arranged in French Style (1850-1918)


O-9 ELI09 Elites in Russia/ Soviet Union and abroad
Room 7.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jouni Järvinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Leonid Borodkin
Jaana Gluschkoff : The Elite without Borders
Aappo Kähönen : Elites and Continuity: Georgii Chicherin and the foundations of Soviet foreign policy, 1904-1922
Alastair Kocho-Williams : Forging the Soviet Foreign Elite in the Interwar Years
Piotr Korys : Four concepts of nationalism. Nationalist Elites and Inventing National Community in Poland



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
G-10 NMELI Network meeting: Elites
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
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


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



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
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



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
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


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?



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
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



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
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



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
K-16 RUR10 Land owners, Politics, and Agricultural Reform in the 20th century
Room 4
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Mats Morell
Organizers: - Discussant: Mats Morell
Sónia Vespeira De Almeida : Rural Portugal and the "Carnation Revolution"
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence in French's vineyards, 1800-1950
Victor Pereira : Managing the decline of the landowners. The Portuguese government and the rural migration between 1957 and 1974
Carla Almeida Sousa : A Cultural Elite in a Village of the South of Portugal
Lanero Táboas : Francoism and local powers: intermediation, legitimation and socially differentiated access to extremely scarce resources.



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
U-17 ELI17 Estate Society in Transition: burghers and noblemen from the 18th to the 19th century
Room10.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Bård Frydenlund
Organizer: Charlotta Wolff Discussant: Bård Frydenlund
Nuno Miguel Lima : Lisbon’s highest taxpayers during the Constitutional Monarchy. The Portuguese experience of the notables’ model?
Arnout Mertens : Nobles into Belgians, 1750-1850
Alex Snellman : Defining new elite: ennoblements in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1912
Charlotta Wolff : Multiculturalism and merchant elite networking in the Baltic area, ca. 1770–1830



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
A-18 ELI10 New ideas, new elite formations, 1880s to 1940s
Cave A
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
M. B. B. Biskupski : The Gentry Intelligentsia Playing Soldier: The Polish Legions as a Multiple Elite Formation
Fredrik Björk : Urban green space as an arena for inclusion and exclusion: Discourses of the Swedish labor movement 1880-1940
Michel Geertse : Garden Cities to the World! The international propagation of the garden city idea 1913-1926
Zoltán Völgyesi : The composition and disintegration of historical élites


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