Preliminary Programme

Browse networks

Showing: Urban (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

I-1 URB01 Urban Description and Urban Form (Portugal, 1800-1950)
Room 2.1

Network: Urban	Chair: Magda Pinheiro
Organizers: -	Discussant: Magda Pinheiro

Paula Raquel Ferreira : The city of scholars
Nuno Pinheiro : Lisbon in films and photos
Conceição Tiago : The urban frontiers
Maria João Vaz : Unsecured places and disorder
Frédéric Vidal : Lisbon in city directory and city guide at 19th

Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30

X-2 URB02 Twentieth-Century British Cities; Realities and Imaginings
Room 2.13

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

James Chapman : They Came to A City: 1944 and wartime British cinema
Kenneth Collins : TB in Glasgow : the Jewish Immigrant Experience
Krista Cowman : The land the heroes wanted: soldiers' views of the city in letters from the Western Front
Simon Gunn : The lost world of British Urban Modernism, c.1945-1970

Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30

U-3 URB06 Social Relations in the Modern City
Room10.2

Network: Urban	Chair: Mark Kehren
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Deborah S. Bernstein, Michal Kofman : Tenant and Landlords in the Jewish Settlement in Palestine
Tiago Castela : Illegalism and Citizenship: Urban Space in Late Twentieth Century Portugal
Mette Tapdrup Mortensen : Boarders and lodgers as an urban phenomenon in Denmark 1880-1960

Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15

W-5 ASI02 ASI02 : The City in Asia (I): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Markus Daechsel : Dr. Doxiadis and the people of Korangi
Prashant Kidambi : Rethinking the Asian City: Recent perspectives in Indian and Chinese Historiography
Manish Kumar Thakur : The Making of A Mofussil Netaji: A Study in Urban Political Culture

Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30

W-6 ASI03 ASI03 : The City in Asia (II): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Nandini Gooptu : Globalization, Work and Urban Identities in Kolkata, India
Jaideep Gupte : Communal Violence, Organised Crime and Vulnerability: urban survival strategies in Mumbai, India
Ami Shah : Global Dreams, Local Nightmares: Urban 'Development' and Destruction in Ahmedabad, India

Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30

M-7 URB08 Shaping Urban Space
Room 5.2

Network: Urban	Chair: Marc Schalenberg
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Jose Maria Cardesin Diaz : Urban development in Spain after 1950
Isabel Haupt : Flying Cities: Architectural Utopias of the early 20th Century and their cultural Context
Rosana Steinke, M. Brehpol : History of urbanization in Brazil: a dialogue between Europe, USA and America.
Ruth Wallach : The City as an Aesthetic Object

Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45

H-8 URB03 The Impact of Consumerism on Cities in Modernizing Countries
Room 1.1

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Mark Kehren : “Carioca Consumption: Urban Renewal and the Geography of Leisure in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960s and 1970s”
Brigitte Le Normand, Nicole Münnich : The “Yugoslav Dream” and the transformation of Belgrade, 1955-1970
Ipek Tureli : Emergence of New Consumption Practices in a Modernizing City: Istanbul in the mid-twentieth century

Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30

X-10 NMURB Network meeting: Urban
Room 2.13

Network: Urban	Chairs: -
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Friday 29 February 2008 8.30

C-11 ASI04 Colonialism, Indigenous Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
Cave C

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi	Discussants: -

Gijsbert Oonk : Opening and Closing transnational South Asian Networks.
Prista Ratanapruck : Kinship networks and state institutions: engagements and circumventions in Manangi and Newari trade networks compared
Huibert Schijf : Regenten Capitalists, their Rise, Decline and Reorientation in Colonial and Independent Indonesia, 1900-1962

T-11 URB04 Urban Guilds, Corporations and Social Capital (13th-17th Centuries) I
Room 9

Networks: Middle Ages , Urban	Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: -	Discussant: Bert De Munck

Ellen Burm : Craft Guilds under pressure: Political and discursive strategies in 16th century Antwerp in search for social capital
Ariel Rubin : Inequality in the Leiden Textile Labor Market
Danielle van den Heuvel : Retail guilds and commercialization in North-western Europe

Friday 29 February 2008 10.45

P-12 URB05 Urban Guilds, Corporations and Social Capital (13th-17th Centuries) II
Room 8.1

Network: Urban	Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Jelle Haemers	Discussant: Bert De Munck

Jelle Haemers : Social capital and politics. Guilds and urban rebellion in Ghent and Bruges (14th-15th centuries)
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene : Guilds, social capital, and religious change. The case of the Ghent Calvinist Republic (1577-1584)
Maarten F. Van Dijck : The socialization of a political culture. The case of late medieval and early modern club life in Malines (1400-1800)

Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30

T-18 ORA17 Memory and the Future: Urban Contestation and Subjectivity in the Global City of Istanbul
Room 9

Networks: Oral History , Urban	Chair: Ela Hornung
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Eda Cakmakci : Recollection of 'alternative' collections: Sahafs and family archives in Istanbul
Sinan Gulhan : Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: The Trialectical Tale of Urban Ideology in Turkish Modernity
Serkan Yolacan : On the Edge of “Urban Regeneration”: Constitution of Political Subjectivity in 'Sulukule'
Nilsu Yürür : Cyberspace Identities and Psychoanalytic Meanings