Preliminary Programme

Showing: room F (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
F-1 AFR05 Knowledge, Health and Utilities in colonial and Post-colonial Africa
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Africa Chair: E. Ike Udogu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Bohman : Framing the Water Challenge - Institutional Change within the Ghanaian Water Supply and Sanitation Sector 1957 - 2005
Markku Hokkanen : Reflections of microscopic gaze – tensions in colonial imaginations in Central Africa
Ana Roque : Knowledge and use of medical herbs and plants in the central Coast of Mozambique in the late 19th century. Contribution for a better understanding of the present day situation
Tundé Zack-Williams : African Leadership, Nation State and the Weberian Project



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
F-2 ORA21 Mauthausen in Transnational Memories and Narrations
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Oral History Chair: Gerhard Botz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Piotr Filipkowski : Polish Mauthausen Narratives across Time and Context
Regina Fritz : Expressions of Euphemism in Narratives of Hungarian Holocaust Survivors
Alexander Prenninger : The Verbalization of Experiences in Context Specific Narratives
Irina Scherbakowa : The Memories’ hard labor
Karin Stoegner : Life Story Interviews and the „Truth of Memory” in the Perspective of Walter Benjamin



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
F-3 LAB05 Violent conflict
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: James Jaffe
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Carl Griffin : Still Swinging, Swing redivivus or something after Swing? On the death throes of a movement, December 1830 - December 1833
Christian Koller : Strikes in the Austrian “Ständestaat” 1934–1938
Paul F. Lipold, Larry Isaac : Striking Deaths: Lethal Industrial Contestation in American Labor History



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
F-4 CRI23 Collaboration and post-war punishment in Belgium: 1945-1955
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark David Pittaway
Jonas Campion : A Copernician revolution? Impact of purges on the professional habitus of the Belgian and French“gendarmeries” (1944-1955)
Machteld De Metsenaere, Sophie Bollen : Disgraceful Love. ‘Sentimental collaboration’ and its punishment in Belgium after World War Two.
Antoon Vrints, Koen Aerts : Re-establishing the state monopoly on violence: Death Penalty and Military Justice in Post-war Belgium (1944-1950).



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
F-5 RUR05 Modernization and Democratization in the Countryside
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Ronald Rommes : The rise of rural cooperatives in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Anton Schuurman : The construction of Dutch Agriculture Inc.
Piet van Cruyningen : Political mobilization of the peasantry in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Zeeland, ca. 1880-1920
Remco Visschers : Rural association before the co-operative: the case of the Agricultural Society in the Dutch province of Gelderland, 1845-1880



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
F-6 LAB34 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 1: theoretical approaches
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Erika Kuijpers
Organizers: Robert Knegt, Erika Kuijpers Discussant: Robert Steinfeld
Simon Deakin : Industrialization, legal origin, and economic development in historical perspective
Robert Knegt : Towards a comparative analysis of pre-industrial labour contracts



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
F-7 LAB35 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 2
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Robert Knegt
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Joern Janssen : Different categories of wage earners according to labour statutes in England, 1349-1563.
Erika Kuijpers : Labour contracts in Holland ca. 1300-1600
Mary Nagata : Another Kind of Service: Labor Contracts and the Machi Yonin in Early Modern Kyoto, Japan



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
F-8 ETH32 Perspectives on Internal and Seasonal Migration in Central Europe
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lars Olsson
Ewa Kepinska, Oded Stark : The evolution and sustainability of seasonal migration from Poland to Germany
Annemarie Steidl, Engelbert Stockhammer : Coming and Going. Internal Mobility in Late Imperial Austria
Sigrid Wadauer : Mobility and search for employment (Austria from the late 19th century to 1938)



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
F-9 FAM21 Heat Waves (from 1911 to 2003)
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Robert Woods
Organizer: Catherine Rollet Discussant: Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant
Lucia Pozzi, Paolo Cau & Carla Merella : A reversal of trend in the Italian health transition largely ignored
Catherine Rollet : The Heat Wave of 1911. demographic realities and political reactions
Frans van Poppel : The development of temperature-related mortality in the Netherlands
Jörg Vögele : "Has all that has been done lately for infants failed" 1911, Infant Mortality and Infant Welfare in Early Twentieth Century Germany



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
F-10 NMEDU Network meeting: Education and Childhood
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Education and Childhood Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
F-11 FAM22 Models of Illegitimacy in Comparative Perspective
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: John A. Dickinson
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Begoña Villuendas & Carlos Martin Diaz : Bastards and Foundlings: Child Abandonment and Illegitimacy in Madrid during the early 20th century
Ira Spieker : Conflict – Agreement – Affection. Concepts and Evaluations of Emotions in Ancient Rural Societies.



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
F-12 WOM05 Relationships of care and authority across gender and generation in nineteenth and twentieth century British families
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ann Allen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann Allen
Leonore Davidoff : Siblings as Carers in the long nineteenth century
Megan Doolittle : Working class fathers, domestic authority and the poor law in England 1870-1910
Katherine Holden : Not the mothering kind? Single women and child-care in mid twentieth century England
Brigitte Schnegg : The Home of the Poor, the Poor Man’s Wife and Her Housekeeping Skills: Issues of Public Interest



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
F-13 ANT07 Ancient Armies: Modes of Persuasion and Social Cohesion
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Antiquity Chair: Fernando Echeverria
Organizers: - Discussant: Fernando Echeverria
Philip De Souza : From Local Leadership to Leadership in War
Vincent Gabrielsen : Army Leadership and Divination in Ancient Warfare
Alexander Thein : Sulla and the 'demagogue generals', 88-87 B.C.



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
F-15 FAM08 Kin marriages as strategies for social production
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Bernard Derouet
Organizer: Bernard Derouet Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Hilde Bras, Frans van Poppel & Kees Mandemakers : Kin Marriage in the Netherlands: Trends and Determinants in the Nineteenth Century
Gérard Delille : The new features of matrimonial exchange in 18th and 19th centuries
Emília Lagido : Consanguineous marriages in the 19th century. An comparative analisis



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
F-16 ETH27 Migration and emigration in Europe and the USA in the 19th century
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Steve Hochstadt
Organizers: - Discussant: Steve Hochstadt
Jo Guldi : “On Not Speaking to Strangers: The rise and fall of sociability on Britain’s national road network, 1740 to 1850.”
Amy Lloyd : Popular Perceptions and the Emigration Decision: British Perceptions of Immigration to the United States and ‘Greater Britain’, 1870-1914
Colin Pooley : London, Liverpool, Ohio or New South Wales: Linking internal and international migration over the life course.
Jelle van Lottum, Leigh Shaw-Taylor : Internal migration in 19th century England: Redford revisited
Cristiana Viegas De Andrade : Emigration Patterns in Portugal: comparative study of transatlantic and internal emigration in the Parish of Vila do Conde, 1800 - 1900.



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
F-17 WOR05 Trans-European Perspectives on the 18th century
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: World History Chair: Harriet Zurndorfer
Organizers: - Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz, Harriet Zurndorfer
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov : Networks of Early Modern African Migration to Northwest-Germany and Europe
Katja Naumann, Matthias Middel : Integrating the 18th century into the history of globalization
Alessandro Stanziani : Labour as service in 18th and 19th century. A Russia-Europe comparison.



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
F-18 REL04 Myths & Men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Religion Chair: Henk de Smaele
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk de Smaele
Josephine Hoegaerts : Intersections of Gender, Age and Sexuality
Andrew King : Johann Dietz: Honor and Ideal Masculine Identities in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Alexander Maurits : Myths & men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes in the Swedish Context
Tine Van Osselaer : ‘Heroes of the heart’. Ideals of masculinity in the Sacred Heart devotion.


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