Preliminary Programme

Showing: room M (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
M-1 WOR01 World Regions in Transnational Perspective
Room 5.2
Network: World History Chair: Katja Naumann
Organizers: - Discussant: Katja Naumann
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos : Whose multinational? The relationship between British and Belgian national interests in the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (1906-1925).
Maria Hidvegi : Marketing strategies and economic nationalism in the interwar years
Sarah Lemmen : Czechs in the world: National representations and global encounters, 1890-1938
Mathias Mesenhoeller : Poland and the Polish Diaspora Communities in the 20th century



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
M-2 POL19 The ethos of commercial and political advocacy in twentieth-century Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lawrence Black
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veronique Pouillard : France and Belgium (1910-1950): From the Early Debates on Advertising in the Public Space to the Late Adoption of PR Expertise.
Corey Ross : Advertising, Publicity and Politics in Inter-war Germany
Stefan Schwarzkopf : Professionalisation, “Americanisation”, and the cult of rationality in an age of extremes: changing practices and identities in British marketing communication, 1920s-1960s
Dominic Wring : Selling Politics Like Soap Powder? Electioneering in Inter-war Britain



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
M-3 RUR03 Rural History and village life in Japan
Room 5.2
Network: Rural Chair: Michael Shackleton
Organizers: - Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Hiroshi Hasebe : The succession of “IE” ;a case study of rural family in the Tokugawa Japan
Kouki Iwama : The Mutual Financing Associatons in Japanese Farm Villages: A case study of Kami-shiojiri village at the end of the early modern period
Martin Morris : Silk-worm raising and the Japanese house - the minka of Shiojiri in a national and global context
Yoshiyuki Murayama : Geographical setting and landownership of Kami-shiojiri
Moto(yasu) Takahashi : Family Continuity in Japan, in comparison with England
Futoshi Yamauchi : About the several social relationships for life that surrounded landownership



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
M-4 SEX03 Diversions and Perversions in the Early Modern Period I
Room 5.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Julie Gammon
Organizers: - Discussants: -
S. Drake Bennett : Popular Medicine, Erotica, and Sexual Aesthetics in 17th Century France and England
Julie Peakman : Perversions and Divergence. Sexual Difference in the Early Modern Period
Sofia Tůma : Uncovering a homosexual network: Patronage and the Inquisition in C17th Portugal



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
M-5 ECO03 Inequality and Human Capital Acquisition in the 17th - 19th centuries I
Room 5.2
Network: Economics Chair: Ewout Frankema
Organizers: - Discussant: Ewout Frankema
Dorothee Crayen, Joerg Baten : Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: European and Global Trends in Comparative Perspective
Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch : L'histoire immobile? Or how to measure social structures and mobilities in pre-industrial urban societies
Kerstin Manzel, Jörg Baten : Gender Inequality in Numeracy: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870-1940
Leandro Prados De La Escosura : International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the Western World
Jaime Reis : Is Education a Good Proxy for Human Capital? Measurement and Distributional Issues in Portugal during the 19th Century
Tim Wegenast : Educational distribution within countries: the legacy of landlords



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
M-6 ELI21 The culture of difference (Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe)
Room 5.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Organizer: Doina Pasca Harsanyi Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Doina Pasca Harsanyi : To be or not to be noble after the Civil Code
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Dykes, Haubargs, Bullocks, and Teacups ... The peasant-farmer elite of Eiderstedt, Schleswig, and the symbolic establishing of status and hierarchy during early modernity
Marc Schalenberg : Selling the City: How 18th century German residence towns “marketed” themselves



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
M-8 ASI05 Colonialism, Capitalism and Network Formation: the Indian Ocean Region, 1800-1950 1
Room 5.2
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi Discussants: -
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Solid ground beneath their feet? Armenian entrepreneurs in India, 1800-1950
Claude Markovits : Bombay as the hub of Indian merchant networks in the Indian Ocean c. 1800-1950
Takashi Oishi : Intra-regional Network and Trust: Indian Muslim merchants in Southeast and East Asia, 1800-1950



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
M-9 ETH06 VEIL. Debates about headscarfes in Europe
Room 5.2
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Birte Siim
Organizers: - Discussants: Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birte Siim
Rikke Andreassen : VEIL. Debates about headscarves in Europe. The Danish case
Leila Hadj-Abdou, Nora Gresch & Sieglinde Rosenberger : Unveiling the Austrian headscarf debate
Petra Rostock, Sabine Berghahn : VEIL Germany: The hegemonic use of the headscarf as a symbol of subordination
Sawitri Saharso, Doutje Lettinga : Moral conflicts and practical solutions: policies and debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering in the Netherlands



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
M-10 NMPOL Network meeting: Poltics, Citizenship and Nations
Room 5.2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
M-11 CUL15 Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice I: The Performativity of Practice
Room 5.2
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Wim François
Organizers: Bruno Boute, Thomas Småberg Discussants: -
Bruno Boute : Engineering the Sacred. The Performativity of Sacramental Practices in the Low Countries (17th Century)
Paolo Quattrone : Organizations, organizing, and the spread of rationalizing practices: The Jesuit Order as continuous ordering
Joris van Eijnatten : Gratifying audiences: towards a cultural history of the sermon in eighteenth-century Europe



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
M-12 ELI12 Economic elites
Room 5.2
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Thomas David, Stéphanie Ginalski, André Mach, Frédéric Rebmann : The social origins and education of economic elites in 20th Century Switzerland
Matthieu Leimgruber : Bringing Private Insurance Back In. The “Geneva Association” and the Rise of Elite Business Policy Groups in the post-Keynesian Decades (1970-2000)
Yovanna Pineda : Identifying the Relationship of Elite Entrepreneurial Networks through Marriage, Social Clubs, and Litigation: Argentina’s Elite Business Networks, 1890-1940
Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen : Social mobility in Finnish Who’s Who data during 1909-2005



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
M-13 POL12 Methods and analysis: renewing the histories of anarchism, state-building and citizenship
Room 5.2
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Bert Altena : How about the history of anarchism as a national social movement?
Tom Goyens : Social Space and the Practice of Anarchist History
Carl Levy : Social Histories of Anarchism
Eduardo Romanos : Analysing anarchist mobilisation in a highly repressive political context: the Spanish case



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
M-14 ANT06 Thinking about Peace in the Ancient World
Room 5.2
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Susanne Bickel : The Concept of Peace in Ancient Egypt
Johannes Bronkhorst : Thinking about peace in Ancient India
Kurt Raaflaub : Thinking about Peace in Ancient Greece
Robin D. S. Yates : Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
M-15 ANT10 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity I
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Mary Harlow
Organizers: - Discussant: Nelleke Bakker
Patricia Baker : Children and Health in the Greco-Roman World
Ray Laurence : Children in the Roman City: Taking another look at Pompeii
Ville Vuolanto : Socialisation of the Children in the Family Discourses of the Ascetic Fathers in Late Antiquity



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
M-16 ANT13 Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity II
Room 5.2
Networks: Antiquity , Education and Childhood Chair: Ray Laurence
Organizers: - Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Susan Blundell : Engendering childhood: boys and girls in Attic vase painting
Mary Harlow : Childhood and sibling relationships at Rome
Tim Parkin : Ancient children and their demography
Louise Revell : Breaking the paradigm: experiences of childhood in the Roman provinces



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
M-17 WOM12 Breaking Down the East-West Divide
Room 5.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Borbala Juhasz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Roxana Cheschebec : Gender, Race and Class in Definitions of Modern Social Work in Interwar Romania
Jacqueline Heinen : Breaking sown the East-West Divide through the Case Study of Polish Child care 1945-1989
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary
Eszter Varsa, Dorottya Szikra : Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
M-18 LAB25 Women as servants in Northern Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Labour Chairs: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Beatrice Moring
Anu Lahtinen : Servants in medieval and early modern urban and rural households
Linda Lane : Women in domestic service in Sweden 1920–1940
Elina Waris : The work of children and female servants in 19th-century rural Estonia


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