Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (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 16.30
I-2 SOC02 Coding occupations across cultures
Room 2.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Ineke Maas
Organizers: - Discussant: Sören Edvinsson
Tarcisio Botelho : Census categories of difference: occupation, race and social condition in 19th century Brazil
María Inés Moraes, Raquel Pollero : Occupational categories in a pastoral-oriented agricultural economical structure: Uruguay on the first half of the 19th century
María Paula Parolo : Adaptation of HISCO to the registered occupational categories in the census of population of Tucumán (Argentine) in first half of nineteenth century.
Raquel Pollero, María Inés Moraes : Occupational categories in a pastoral-oriented agricultural economical structure: Uruguay on the first half of the 19th century
Vladimir Vladimirov : HISCO and history of occupations in Russia



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
K-3 HIS02 Applications of historical GIS I
Room 4
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Onno Boonstra : The NLGIS projects
George Vascik : Agrarians into Nazis? The Evidence from the North German Marschlands
George M. Welling : Visualizing the 18th century overseas trade of Amsterdam


V-3 SOC04 Imagery of Human Dignity and European Consciousness (16th-17th centuries)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: Lynn Lees, Olga Salamatova
Organizers: - Discussant: Olga Salamatova
Ana Paula Avelar : Imagery of Representations of Society (16th –17th centuries)
Maria De Jesus Candeias Relvas : Imagery of Human Dignity (16th-17th centuries)
Maria Leonor Garcia Cruz : Imagery of The Balance of Power (16th-17th centuries)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
C-4 SOC01 Categorisations of populations -- contested concepts I
Cave C
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: Per Axelsson, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Signild Vallgårda
Jeffrey Beemer, Douglas L. Anderton & Alan C. Swedlund & Susan Hautaniemi Leonard : Classification and the Changing Grammars of Death over the course of the American Epidemiological Transition.
Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Alan C. Swedlund : Categories of Contamination: Population, Pollution, and Public Works in 19th-Century Massachusetts
Ivan Lind Christensen : “Making Categories – examples from the history of Danish public health research”


K-4 SOC03 Application of historical GIS II
Room 4
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Onno Boonstra
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Boonstra
Eugenia Bournova : Athens in the 1950's: urbanisation, real estate and social segregation
Jason Gilliland, Sherry Olson, Danielle Gauvreau : Moving up and moving out: mapping multiple dimensions of residential segregation in Montreal, 1881-1901
Jean Luc Pinol : Paris Mapping (XIXth and XXth centuries)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Cle Lesger : Urban GIS. Spatial proximity of rich and poor in Dutch town during the Golden Age


R-4 SOC05 Meet the author: Peter Hennock, 'The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared'
Amphitheater 4
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: Christoph Conrad, Peter Hennock, Lynn Lees, Pat Thane



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
Q-5 SOC09 Paupers and the poor law
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas M. Adams
Mel Cousins : Occupational structures and poor relief in nineteenth century urban Ireland
Larry Frohman : The Birth of the Welfare State out of the Spirit of the Poor Laws
Søren Rud : Urban Poor and the Colonial Connection
Olga Salamatova : Poor laws in the 17th century England



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
V-6 SOC08 Norms and social pracitices in welfare institutions (1500 – 1900)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Frank Hatje
Organizers: - Discussant: Ana Paula Avelar
Thomas M. Adams : Social Ideals and Religious Values in the Provision of Welfare in Europe since 1500
Chris Leonards : 19th century congresses on philanthropy, welfare and ‘control of the poor’: interfacing global views and local practices
Sebastian Schmidt : Administration, Supervision and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hospitals in the Electorate of Trier
Alfred Weiss : Beyond the norm? Norms and everyday life in the hospitals of Salzburg and Klagenfurt in the early modern times (1500-1800)



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
N-8 SOC06 Categorisations of populations -- contested concepts II
Room 6.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizers: Per Axelsson, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Kris Inwood
Per Axelsson : Indigenous Communities, the State and Statistics The case of the Swedish Sami population, 1750-2000
John Macinnes : Identifying the British
Victor Thompson, Tahu Kukutai : Inside-Out: The Politics of Enumerating the Nation



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
U-10 NMSOC Network meeting: Social Inequality
Room10.2
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
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


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



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
D-13 SOC12 Social mobility II
Cave D
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: - Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Mariela Ceva : Migration and Social Mobility in Argentina: macro and micro perspectives.
Paulo Guimarães, Hélder Adegar Fonseca : Homogamy and Class Boundaries in Portugal (1911-1960)
Antti Häkkinen : Ten Generations – Three Centuries: Social mobility and impoverishment in Finland
Alison Smith : Social Mobility in Imperial Russian Towns: Social Estate and the Law, 1700-1917
Richard Zijdeman : Like my father before me. The impact of industrialisation, education and other modernisation processes on intergenerational status attainment between 1811-1915 in two Dutch provinces.



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
I-17 SOC07 To count or not to count? Occupations and occupational statistics
Room 2.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: - Discussant: Ineke Maas
Nele Bracke : The registration of occupations in the occupational censuses. Belgium, 1846-1947
Peter Meyer : Recent occupation concepts applied to historical Census data
Michael C. Schneider : Occupational statistics in Prussia/Germany 1870s to 1934
Matthew Woollard : Occupational classification in Ireland, 1841-1926



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
J-18 SOC10 Welfare after WW II
Room 3.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizers: - Discussant: Larry Frohman
Birgitta Jansson, Björn Gustafsson : Poverty in the city of Göteborg, Sweden, from 1925 to 2003
Sonya Michel : The Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Explaining Inequalities in American Old-Age Provision since World War II
Christiane Streubel : Hyperactive or Hopelessly Infirm? Post-Modern Visualizations of Pensioners in US-American and German Print Media


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