Preliminary Programme

Showing: room O (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
O-1 ETH10 Emigration, Flight and Expulsion - Multiple Reasons and Settings of Migration around World War II
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Heinrich Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Johannes-Dieter Steinert
Traude Bollauf : Escape from Nazi–Austria and Germany to England through a Domestic Permit
Siegfried Mattl : Migration and community-building in Vienna after 1945
Barbara Stelzl-Marx : Stalin's long arm: Soviet forced labourerers in the "Third Reich" and their fate after 1945
Andrea Strutz : Labour migration from Austria to Canada after World War II



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
O-4 ETH08 The military job market in early modern Europe
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Gunnar W. Knutsen : The Spanish Inquisition and Protestant soldiers in Spanish service
Erik Swart : Soldiers of fortune? German troops in the Low Countries in the second half of the sixteenth century
Ola Teige : Royal Danois: a danish multinational mercenary regiment in french service 1693-99



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
O-5 LAB03 Comparative Perspectives on Workplace Culture
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizer: James Jaffe Discussant: David Lyddon
James Jaffe : The Political Culture of Shop Floor Industrial Relations: England, 1780-1830
Steve Meyer : The Muscular Workplace: The Masculine Culture of Industrial Relations in Automobile Plants, 1930-1960
Leda Papastefanaki : Paternalism and gender in the workplaces: Greece, 1830-1940



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
O-6 LAB06 Farm workers
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Lars Olsson
Attila Lajos : On the wrong side of the Iron Curtain: Hungarian agricultural workers in Sweden 1947-1949.
Juan Marinez : Transition from Farm Workers to Farm Owners: A Case Study of Hispanic Farmers in Southwestern Michigan.
Stephen Pitti : Cesar Chavez, the Grape Boycott, and Migrant Farm Labor
Dionicio Valdes : Up From Colonialism



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
O-7 REL06 Portraying the religious body: the representation of Eastern European Religious Groups in 19th and 20th century photography
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Ekaterina Emeliantseva : Icons, Portraits, or Ethnographic Types? Photographic images of the Skoptsy in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union (1880-1930)
Anke Hilbrenner : Invention of a Vanished World: Photographies of Traditional Jewish Life in the Russian Pale of Settlement
Stefan Rohdewald : Orthodox Hierarchs and Ordinary Religious People in the Soviet Union: Images of Powerless Power?
Bettina Weichert : Capturing contemporary history: the photographic portrayal of Russian Orthodoxy in post-Soviet mass media



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
O-8 FAM01 Poverty as an Impediment to Marriage?
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussants: -
Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe : Partner Selection and Marriage Market Segmentation in 19th Century Sweden
Satoshi Murayama : Poor households in a proto-industrial region in Germany from the 17th to the 19th century.
Peter Teibenbacher : Nuptiality and Fertility restrictions in agrarian societies. The case of Styria 17th to 19th century
Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Marriage of Poor Couples in the Azores Islands, Portugal



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
O-9 ELI09 Elites in Russia/ Soviet Union and abroad
Room 7.1
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jouni Järvinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Leonid Borodkin
Jaana Gluschkoff : The Elite without Borders
Aappo Kähönen : Elites and Continuity: Georgii Chicherin and the foundations of Soviet foreign policy, 1904-1922
Alastair Kocho-Williams : Forging the Soviet Foreign Elite in the Interwar Years
Piotr Korys : Four concepts of nationalism. Nationalist Elites and Inventing National Community in Poland



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
O-10 NMREL Network meeting: Religion
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
O-11 ECO08 Origins of Economic Growth in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 7.1
Network: Economics Chair: Jaime Reis
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaime Reis
Jutta Bolt, Jan Pieter Smits : The Economic Impact of State-Community Relations in sub Saharan Africa during the Twentieth Century
Christopher Ebert : European competition and cooperation in the first stage of trans-oceanic globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600.
Ewout Frankema : Wage Inequality in Twentieth Century Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
Milja van Tielhof, Jan Luiten Van Zanden : Productivity changes in shipping in the Dutch Republic: the evidence from freight rates 1550-1800
Jacob Weisdorf, Holger Strulik : The Simplest Unified Growth Theory



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
O-12 CRI26 Gender and Interpersonal Violence
Room 7.1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Miklos Hadas : Civilizing fighting masculinity: the rationalization of the duel
Annmarie Hughes : Legal Discourses of Marital Violence in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Scotland
Ana Sofia Ribeiro : Between maritime horizons and land realities: different ways of living violence (Portugal, 1750-1789)
Heather Shore : Criminality and Masculinity in the Aftermath: The Racecourse wars of the 1920s



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
O-13 CRI18 Extreme violence, motivations and interpretations
Room 7.1
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Efi Avdela
Organizer: Judith Rowbotham Discussant: Efi Avdela
Samantha Pegg : Press Presentations and Public Interpretations of Child on Child Killing
Judith Rowbotham : Murder and Motivation: A Contextual Case Study of the Whitechapel Murders
Kim Stevenson : "She got past knowing herself and didn't know how many there were":



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
O-14 ETH15 Transnationalism
Room 7.1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jose Moya
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Moya
Nadia Bouras : Gender and transnationalism: Moroccans in the Netherlands, 1960-2000
Christine Jacobsen, Dag Stenvoll : Migrant female victimhood at the discursive margins of Scandinavian gender constructions
Mary Odem : Transnational Immigration and Pan-Maya Organizing in the U.S. South
Eve Rosenhaft : Gendering transnational lives: German-speaking Cameroonians ca 1910-1960



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
O-15 FAM28 The Survival Strategies of Widows
Room 7.1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Beatrice Moring : Widows and their children, survival strategies and public assistance
Glenda Strachan, Lindy Henderson : Surviving widowhood: Life alone in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the second half of the nineteenth century
Richard Wall : Widows, family and poor relief in 18th and 19th century England



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
O-16 ECO12 Cooperation between employers and labour
Room 7.1
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Christopher Lloyd
Organizers: - Discussant: Christopher Lloyd
K.P. Companje : Social health insurance between market and the state: the Dutch model 1900-1941
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : The importance of worker solidarity: Employers, unions, and the development of old age pensions, 1946-1975.
Hugh Pemberton : Forces of reaction? The trade unions and earnings-related pensions in Britain in the 1950s
Jeroen Touwen : Policy Learning and Labour Relations in the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
O-17 POL08 The image of Sweden
Room 7.1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Mary Hilson
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Hilson
Jenny Andersson : Nordic nostalgia and Nordic light
Nikolas Glover : Made in Sweden? Sweden’s image and the Swedish institute 1945-1950
Carl Marklund : The Social Laboratory: Comparisons, Models and “Utopian” Social Engineering in Sweden and the USA from Interwar to Cold War.
Kazimierz Musial : Reconstructing Nordic significance in post-modern Europe
Andrew Scott : Looking to Sweden in order to reconstruct Australia: from the 1970s to 2007 and beyond



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
O-18 MAT15 Memories, Materiality and Economies in the Mennonite Diaspora
Room 7.1
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Royden Loewen
Organizers: Royden Loewen, Harm Nijboer Discussant: Royden Loewen
Anna Sofia Hedberg : “We should always live like this” – Old Colony Mennonite Images of the Past and Idea of the Forthcoming
Lisette Hijink : Old Order Mennonite women and their material culture
Yme Kuiper : Between frugality and civility. Dutch Mennonites and their taste for the 'world of goods' in the eighteenth century.
Carel Roessingh : Mennonites, Migration and the Invention of New Cultures: Low German Mennonites of Belize


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