Preliminary Programme

Showing: room N (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
N-1 FAM0I Construction of Blood I: Kinship Discourses from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Part 1: Cultural Methaphors of Incorporation
Room 6.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Gérard Delille
Anita Guerreau-Jalabert : Flesh and Incorporation in Medieval Texts
Max S. Hering Torres : "Purity of Blood" in Early Modern Spain
Bernhard Jussen : Considerations on the semantics of sanguis and consanguinitas in the Middle Ages
David Warren Sabean : Theological and literary discourses of blood in Baroque Culture



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
N-2 TEC03 Children, health and hygiene - Europe 1880-1960 - Continuity or change?
Room 6.1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Technology Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Astri Andresen : Children’s hygiene in post-tuberculosis society: the Nordic countries 1945-1960s
Nelleke Bakker : 'Health colonies' for children and the fear of tuberculosis in the Netherlands 1883-1955
Josep Lluís Barona : Meals, open air and sanatoria: preventing children tuberculosis in Spain (1892-1936)
Ning De Coninck-Smith : Health, art and architecture - Vintersbølle children’s sanatorium 1934-1937.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
N-3 SEX12 Perceptions of children and sexuality
Room 6.1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Sexuality Chair: Mineke Van Essen
Organizers: - Discussant: Rebecca Young
Amandine Lauro : 'The evil is in the premature consummation of the union': colonial anxieties and policies about the age of puberty and child marriage in Belgian Congo
Geertje Mak : Incest, Freud and class: scientia sexualis and the boundaries of bourgeois civilisation
Anna Tijsseling : Constructing homosexual criminality. Police efforts in the Netherlands, 1911-1960



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
N-4 SEX01 Sexual Politics
Room 6.1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Judith Schuyf
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Schuyf
Klara Arnberg : Pornographic Magazines and its Politics in Sweden
Norman Domeier : Science and Scandal – The power of Sexology in the Eulenburg affair 1906-1909
Dan Healey : Reflections on a Sexual Revolution under the Aegis of Medicine
Annette Timm : Sexual Innuendo, Rumour and the SS Lebensborn Homes During the Third Reich



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
N-5 SEX04 Diversions and Perversions in the Early Modern Period II
Room 6.1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Theo Van Der Meer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Julie Gammon : Constructing Male Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century London
Tonya Lambert : The Female Body as Evidence against Rape in Early Modern England
Marianna Muravyeva : Between Law and Morality: Sexual Violence in 18th century Russia
Junko Takeda : From Discipline to Punishment: The Trials of Sexual Deviance during the Plague of Marseille, 1720 - 1723



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
N-6 WOM14 Women and Medical Care in Modern Europe
Room 6.1
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Michelle Denbeste : Cleanliness and Virtuousness: Women Physicians and the Hygiene Movement in Late Imperial Russia
Lynn Lubamersky : The Advantage of being “A Polish Woman, and a foreigner in their country”: the Life of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Sabine Veits-Falk : Migration of Women Doctors (19th and early 20th century)



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
N-7 TEC05 International Perspectives on the Professionalization of Engineering and Industrial Science
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: David Mitch
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: David Mitch
Ross Bassett : Engineering India, Engineering America: Indian Engineering Students at MIT, 1900-2000
Kate Hamblin : 'Men of brain and brawn and guts': The professionalization of Marine Engineering in Britain and Germany, 1830 - Present
Robin Mackie, Gerrylynn K. Roberts : The changing roles of British chemists in industry, 1918-1970’



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
N-8 SOC06 Categorisations of populations -- contested concepts II
Room 6.1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizers: Per Axelsson, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Kris Inwood
Per Axelsson : Indigenous Communities, the State and Statistics The case of the Swedish Sami population, 1750-2000
John Macinnes : Identifying the British
Victor Thompson, Tahu Kukutai : Inside-Out: The Politics of Enumerating the Nation



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
N-9 TEC04 Engineering, applied science, and industrial innovation
Room 6.1
Networks: Economics , Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: Peter Meyer
Kristine Bruland, Patrick Llerena : Knowledge management and knowledge sharing in a 19th century power engineering company
David Mitch : The Rise of the Engineering Profession and Industrial Innovation in 20th Century Britain
Alessandro Nuvolari, Christine Macleod : "Glorious Times": The Emergence of Mechanical Engineering in Early Industrial Britain, C 1700-1850



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
N-10 NMORA Network meeting: Oral History
Room 6.1
Network: Oral History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
N-11 ETH21 Male Domestic Workers: Past and Present in Comparative Perspective
Room 6.1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Leonore Davidoff
Organizers: Raffaella Sarti, Francesca Scrinzi Discussant: Megan Doolittle
Maria Rita Bartolomei : Migration processes and gender relation. Focusing on male domestic workers
Majella Kilkey : Engendering the relationship between globalisation, migration and social reproduction: the migrant handyman phenomenon
Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum : Male servants and the failure of patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Raffaella Sarti : Fighting for masculinity. Male Domestic Workers in Italy (19th-20th century)
Francesca Scrinzi : Male migrant domestic workers and the management of de-gendered racialized identities



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
N-12 ASI07 Connecting Asia and the West: Knowledge and Identities
Room 6.1
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marine Carrin : Cultural Growth as a Distributed Process:Coherence, Change and Agency in two Religious Medical Traditions of India
Leila Moein : Health and medicine in ancient Iran specially Zartosht religions
Arabinda Samanta : Colonial Construction of Smallpox in Nineteenth Century India



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
N-13 ELI13 Economic, political and cultural capital in 20th century Scandinavia
Room 6.1
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners Chair: Thomas David
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas David
Lars Berggren : Industrial capitalists, political democracy and trade union organization
Pål Brunnström : Class identity and class politics among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939
Kari-Matti Piilahti : Power and Networks of Finnish Business Elite 1850-1940
Niklas Stenlås : A Swedish Model of Management? How Sweden's Business Elite adapted to Social Democratic Power



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
N-14 TEC01 On the Sunny Side of the Road. Delights of Motoring
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Bo Sundin
Jessica Enevold : Oh, I like my Horse, but I love my Flying Mount! Joys of Mobility in the on-line Game 'World of WarCraft'
Olle Hagman : Driving Pleasure: A Key Concept in Swedish Car Culture
Riikka Jalonen : "I Simply Enjoy Driving!" Ride for Pleasure in Finland, 1962 - 1973
Christopher Neumaier, Kilian J. L. Steiner : The manifold meanings of cars in Europe and the USA



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
N-15 TEC02 Dismal Days at the Wheel. Risks of Motoring
Room 6.1
Network: Technology Chair: Bo Sundin
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Olle Hagman
Jenny Eklöf : Denouncing the Cars of Old: Marketing Ethanol Driven Cars in the Case of Biofuel Region in Sweden
Michael Hascher : Driving Safer. Early Developments Concerning Road Safety in Germany in the 1930s
Timo Myllyntaus : When Gas was a Hazard in Motoring. A Surrogate Fuel Powering Finnish Automobiles over the Wartime Crisis, 1939-1945



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
N-17 LAB23 Emancipation: Navigating 'Free Labor' in the Post-Civil War US South
Room 6.1
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizer: Brian Kelly Discussant: Seth Wigderson
Bruce Baker : From the Mountain City to the Textile Capital of the World: Workers and the Transformation of Greenville County, South Carolina, 1860-1900
Brian Kelly : Holding Off Counterrevolution: Black Workers & White Paramilitarism in Reconstruction South Carolina
Susan O'Donovan : Mapping Freedom’s Terrain: The Political and Productive Landscapes of New Bern and Wilmington, North Carolina


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