Preliminary Programme

Showing: room C (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
C-1 RUR01 Changing the rural in the Early Modern Period
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Gareth Austin : Moneylending and Witchcraft: The Moral Economy of Accumulation in Colonial Asante (Ghana)
Isabelle Devos : Environment, health and rural welfare in Flanders, 1700-1850
Per Hallén : Standard of living of farmers and rural workers in Sweden 1750-1900.
Clif Hubby : Violence and Local Society in Late Medieval Bavaria: A Look at the Evidence
Reinoud Vermoesen : Rural commercialisation of Inner Flanders (17th-18th century)



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
C-2 CRI03 Homicide on the Long Run: The Belgian Case
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Pete King
Organizer: Aude Musin Discussant: Pete King
Bernard Dauven, Xavier Rousseaux : Homicide on the long run : a regional case : Brabant (1350-2000)
Aude Musin : Homicide on the Long Run : a Regional Case (Namur, 1360-1860)
Frédéric Vesentini : Homicide on the Long Run : the Belgian Case (1830-1990)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
C-3 CRI04 Stories of Shame, Cultures of Blame: Britain and Europe 1700-1900
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Louise Jackson
Organizer: Anne-Marie Kilday Discussant: Louise Jackson
Anne-Marie Kilday : The Shame and Fame of Half-Hangit' Maggie: Attitudes to Child Murder in Early Modern Scotland
David Nash : The Everyday life of a Wexford Parson: The Rev. William Hughes’ taste for drink, profanity, blasphemy, indecent exposure, criminal damage, bestiality and field sports
Katherine Watson : Loss of Face: Vitriol Throwing, Blame and Stigma in England, 1840-1900



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”



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
C-5 REL09 Worship, Workplace and Welfare: Organized Religion's Search for Meaniing in a Post Christian World
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ronald Johnston, Elaine Mcfarland : Faith in the Factory: The Origins, Developments and Impact of the Church of Scotland’s Industrial Chaplains Movement, 1944-1980s.
John Stewart : Religion and the Welfare State in Western Europe, 1945-1973
Peter Van Dam : The Transformation of Religious Traditions in Dutch and West-German Trade Union Movements



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
C-6 HIS03 Making large complex databases easy to use
Cave C
Networks: Family and Demography , Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lisa Dillon
Michelle Hamilton, Kris Inwood : Prospects for a Public Use Sample of Aboriginal Communities
Kees Mandemakers : Structuring and Distributing Longitudinal Historical Data for Comparative Analysis
Hans Jørgen Marker : Counting Danes



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
C-7 LAB08 The Post-War reconstruction of European Industrial Relations (1945-68)
Cave C
Network: Labour Chair: Nina Fishman
Organizer: Peter Ackers Discussant: Nina Fishman
Peter Ackers : Professor Hugh Clegg & the Oxford School of British IR Reform
Ruth Dukes : Otto Kahn-Freund and Industrial Democracy: from the UK to Germany and back again
Christer Thörnqvist : Industrial relations in Sweden 1945-2007
Richard Whiting : Affluence and Industrial Relations



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
C-8 ETH16 Asylum, Gender and Migration
Cave C
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizers: - Discussant: Eve Rosenhaft
Barbara Pinelli : Women, social vulnerability and the experience of asylum seeking in the town of Milan
Alice Szczepanikova : Constructing Lives in Exile: Refugees and Gender in the Context of Post-socialism
Tycho Walaardt : The problematical asylum policies of the Dutch authorities in the fifties and sixties



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
C-9 EDU06 Historical experiences of youth, parental authority and education
Cave C
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maija Runcis : Power and resitence. Strategies in the struggle for the child
Greetje Timmerman : Changing experiences of youth (1960-2005)
Ben White : Towards a historical ethnography of Indonesian childhood: changing patterns of child work and education in Java, 1900-2000



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
C-10 NMCRI Network meeting: Criminal Justice
Cave C
Network: Criminal Justice 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



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
C-12 ECO09 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy I: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Central Europe
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Dorothee Guggenheimer : Bankruptcies in Seventeenth -Century St. Gallen in the 17th and 18th century - a workshop reportBankruptcies in St. Gallen in the 17th and 18th century - a workshop report
Mark Häberlein : Merchants’ bankruptcies, economic development, and social relations in German towns during the ‘long’ sixteenth century
Erich Landsteiner : The Eagle and the Stag. Habsburg state finance and the bankruptcy of Jobst Croy (1591)
Dana Stefanova : Viennese Charted Bank and Bankrupcy, 1787-1830
Andre Wakefield : Public Money and Private Ruin: Johann von Justi's Prussian Misadventure



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
C-13 ECO10 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy II: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Western Europe
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Thomas Brennan : Failure in Wool and Wine in Eighteenth-Century France
Amalia Kessler : Bankruptcy and the Reconceptualization of Merchant-Court Jurisdiction in Eighteenth-Century France
Klas Nyberg : Networks, Migration and the Transformation of the Merchant Elite in 18th Century Stockholm
Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl : The Napoleonic Wars and the risk of Failure: German merchant houses in Britain (1793-1815)



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
C-14 ECO11 The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy III: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Mediterranean
Cave C
Network: Economics Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Paola Avallone : The bankruptcy in the Kingdom of Naples. The case of public banks (XVII - XVIII centuries)
Mauro Carboni : Learning from others’ failures: the rise of the Monte di pietà in early modern Bologna
Gerald Grommes : Bankruptcies in Early Modern Castile from a Social Network Perspective: The Example of Medina del Campo Banks, 1550-1600
Leonard Rosenband : Producers and Failure during the Age of Revolutions: The Case of Papermaking in France and England



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
C-16 REL05 New Historiographical Approaches
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Árpád Klimó
Patrick Pasture : Transatlantic History of Christianity. Socio-Historical Perspectives.
Yvonne Maria Werner : Gender and Confessionalisation in Europe
Benjamin Ziemann : Faithful Decisions? Churches as Formal Organisations and 20th Century Religious History



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
C-17 REL10 Religious Transformations since the 1960s
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Benjamin Ziemann
Organizers: - Discussant: Benjamin Ziemann
Árpád Klimó : Being Catholic in Hungary and Italy after 1945 - patterns of transformation during the Cold War
Edwin Koster : Religious Transformations and Methodological Ludism
Bart Latré : The movement of progressive christians in Flanders 1960-1990
Esther Peperkamp : Jesus behind the Iron Curtain - Religious Transformations in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s
Julia Riediger : Raised to Leave? Church Disaffiliation in Western Germany from the Vantage Point of Socialisation (approx. 1965 to 1980)



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
C-18 RUR14 The role and meaning of the forest for rural life
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Kenneth Sylvester
Organizers: - Discussant: Kenneth Sylvester
Caroline Delph : The (Re)-Formation of a landscape: Paul Schultze-Naumburg and the Landscape of Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Michael Imort : The De-Professionalization of German Foresters, 1933-1945
Doina Simona Niculae : Falling off trees: Forest, community and the state in a Transylvanian village
Michael Shackleton : The Japanese 'Satoyama' tradition of ecological woodland management


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