Preliminary Programme

Showing: room I (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
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
I-3 REL03 European Islam as a Civic Religion
Room 2.1
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marco Bresciani : Past and Future of a Multicultural Europe: A struggle between Democracy and Cultural Identities
Andrew C. Gould : The Catholic Paradigm for State and Church Relations and the Integration of Islam



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



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
I-5 ETH05 The Turn to Restriction
Room 2.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Eric Kaufmann
Organizer: Brian Gratton Discussant: Eric Kaufmann
Mikhail Alexseev : Ethnicity, the Security Dilemma, and Hostility towards Asian Migrants in Russia
Stephen Batalden : “State Policy and the Moscow Immigrant Labor Market: What is Legal and What is Illegal in Post-Soviet Labor Migration from the ‘Near Abroad’”?
Brian Gratton, Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan : 400 Years of Animosity: Restrictionist Sentiment in the United States
Daphne Halikiopoulou : The ethnic Criteria of Citizenship and Inclusion: Migration Policiy towards Religious Minorities in Greece



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
I-6 POL18 Concepts and contexts of party political activism in 20th century Britain
Room 2.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruediger Von Krosigk
Laura Beers : "Labour's Britain: Fight for it Now!": party politics in World War II Britain
Lawrence Black : 'The free world’s largest youth political movement’: The Young Conservatives in the 1950s and 1960s
Gidon Cohen, Andrew Flinn & Lewis Mates : Party Activism in Post-War Britain: Towards a Multiple Recapture Study
Daniel Ritschel : (Re-)Constructing British Fascism: Explaining Sir Oswald Mosley’s Ideology of British Fascism
Andrew Thorpe : Organisation or Policy? Labour Party Membership in World War II Britain



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
I-7 ORA06 Fantasy, dreams, fact and fiction
Room 2.1
Networks: Culture , Oral History Chair: Eveline Buchheim
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Molly Andrews : Narratives: Confronting the unbelievable and the unknown
Hans de Vries : "The February strike 1941": a fine example of a well-balanced handling of written and oral sources
Ulla-Maija Peltonen : Testimony and negotiating the Truth of Memory
Célia Pratas Mantinha : Franz Kafka - An Enigmatic Way of Being Told



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
I-8 RUR06 Land reform and agricultural politics in France, Greece and England
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Jaime Reis
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaime Reis
John Beckett : The New Domesday of Landownership, 1876
Noelle Plack : Privatising the commons in Napoleonic France: the law of 20 March 1813
Brian Short : National discourse and local struggle in the battle for land 1906-1914
Michael Turner : The end of manorial ownership: copyhold enfranchisment after 1840



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
I-9 ECO07 Determinants of success and failure in firms in the 19th and 20th centuries II
Room 2.1
Network: Economics Chair: Roger Lloyd-Jones
Organizers: - Discussant: Joerg Baten
Nuno Luis Madureira : Tariffs, electricity development and regulation in the 1930s
Robert Möllenberg : Market power and price discrimination: The economic activities of the two independent network operators WLAG and WÜSAG in the electricity industry of Wurttemberg 1924-1933
Jochen Streb, Jonas Scherner : Learning, Outsourcing, and Investment: Explaining Growth of Output and Labor Productivity in the German Armament Industry during World War II



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
I-10 NMHEA Network meeting: Health
Room 2.1
Network: Health and Environment Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
I-11 RUR08 Agriculture, Gender and Representation around the Second World War
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Leen Van Molle
Ernst Langthaler : Struggling for ‘Peasantness’: Inclusion and Exclusion by Hereditary Court Proceedings in Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
Peter Moser : The farmers and the state: Ireland and Switzerland 1935-1955
Margreet Van Der Burg : Agricultural interests, identities and gender segregation under pressure. The effects of the siege over crisis and wartime to the Dutch agricultural organisational landscape.
Nicola Verdon : '"The modern countrywoman": Farm women, rural domesticity and the farmhouse economy in interwar Britain



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
I-12 RUR12 Contestations of productivist agriculture
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Dulce Freire
Organizers: - Discussant: Dulce Freire
Erin Gill : Stillborn? Organic farming in post-war Britain
Richard W Hoyle : Grouse in history: non-agricultural uses of the English countryside
Mats Morell, Susanna Hedenborg : A vehicle in the army, a lumber jack companion or a friend in the family - the riding horse and countryside economics in 20th century Sweden



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
I-13 RUR13 Biodiversity, Environmental history and Agricultural history
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Claire Strom
Organizers: - Discussant: Claire Strom
Kenneth Sylvester, Eric Rupley : Making landscapes agricultural in the American grasslands
Meri Vuohu : Florentine Property and Public Administration in the Pisan Countryside in the Fifteenth Century: The Perspective of Environmental History



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
I-14 RUR15 Forest Products Industry and Trade in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno
Organizers: Amélia Branco, Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno Discussant: Amélia Branco
Miguel Pestana, Isabel Tinoco : The Industry and the Trade of Cork in Portugal during the 20th century
Antonio Serrano : Cork Products Trade Through Seville's Harbour (18th-19th Centuries)
James Simpson : Grapes and wines: the international transfer of technology during the first globalisation, 1850-1914.
Javier Soriano : The forest residual utilizations in the Mediterranean mountain: cork and wood



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
I-16 HIS06 Record linkage
Room 2.1
Network: Chair: Matthew Woollard
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthew Woollard
Trygve Andersen, Marianne Erikstad : Record linkage with birth dates
Joaquim Carvalho : Reconstructing Social Structure from Social Positional Events
Maarten Oosten, Kees Mandemakers : Linking with the Dutch GENLIAS index of marriage certificates



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
I-18 FAM20 Fertilitiy Transition: Negotiating strategies between men and women
Room 2.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Michel Oris
Organizers: - Discussant: Michel Oris
Elitsa Dimitrova : The First Demographic Transition in Bulgaria. A Paradigm Shift?
Rada Drezgic : “My husband looks after me” – Reproductive Decisions, Contraceptive Practices and Gender Hierarchy
Patricia Thornton : The role of marriage and “starting behaviour” in the New World fertility transition: The case of Montreal 1881-1901.


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