Preliminary Programme

Showing: room S (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
S-1 ANT05 Social Order in Antiquity
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Nicholas Fisher
Organizers: - Discussant: Nicholas Fisher
Natalie Angel : Beyond the Pale: Lower Class Women in Ancient Roman Society
António Joaquim Ramos Dos Santos : 'Social Order in Ancient Babylonia
Hans Van Wees : 'Social (dis)order in archaic Greece'.



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
S-2 REL02 Confessional Identities
Instituto de Arte
Network: Religion Chair: Bruno Boute
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruno Boute
Geoff Baker : Reading the Confessional Divide in Early Modern England.
Larry Harwood : Motivation for the Military and Money in the cause of Religion: English Soldiers in the Netherlands and America, 1585-1640
Jewel Spangler : The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811: A Case Study of American Disaster as Evangelical Opportunity



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
S-3 ANT01 Demography and labour: Migration in the Roman World I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Alex Conison : Slaves and the Self-Selected Migrant
Bruce Frier : Roman Migration and Migration Theory
Claire Holleran : Migration and the Urban Economy of Rome
Laurens E. Tacoma : The Urban graveyard effect in Rome



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
S-4 ANT02 Trade, Traders and Mobility in the Greek East. Migration in the Roman World II
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Claudia Moatti
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Moatti
Neville Morley : 'Migration, mobility and globalisation in the Roman Mediterranean
Onno Van Nijf : Roman traders in Greek cities
Arjan Zuiderhoek : Italians in Asia Minor during the Roman Republic: “internal migration” in the Roman world



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
S-5 ANT03 Elite mobility and elite identity. Migration in the Roman World III
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Antiquity , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Laurens E. Tacoma
Organizers: - Discussant: Laurens E. Tacoma
Elena Isayev : Contested meanings of homeland and belonging in ancient Italy
Claudia Moatti : Mobility and controls in the roman empire
Danielle Slootjes : Locally relevant elites and their positions of power within local conflicts and crises, A.D. 193-284



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
S-6 ANT04 The other as neighbour. Alterity and acculturation in the ancient world
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Onno Van Nijf
Organizers: - Discussant: Onno Van Nijf
Frederick Naerebout : Orontes, Nile, Kefissos and Tiber: miscible or immiscible waters? Some thoughts on acculturation in the Roman Empire
Miguel John Versluys : Modernity at large? Cultural dimensions of Romanisation
Greg Woolf : Othering the ancestors: how Romans made their past a foreign country



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
S-7 MID01 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: José Antonio Jara Fuente
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert : Social Mobility in Flemish Urban Elites (14th – 16th century): a Quantitative Approach of the Flemish Nobility
Justine Smithuis : A Prosopography of Factions in Late Medieval Utrecht: What are the Risks and Gains?
Arie van Steensel : Integrating institutions, networks, and agents: challenges arising from the application of the prosopographical method to late medieval nobility of the county of Zeeland



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
S-8 LAB29 US labour
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Steve Meyer
Organizers: - Discussant: Steve Meyer
Norman Caulfield : The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC): A Twelve-Year Assessment
Andrew Dawson : Studio Labour, Civil Rights, and the Collapse of Hollywood's Racial Order, 1963-1974
Seth Wigderson : He Doesn’t Know How To Answer A Gentleman”: Deference and Defiance in the 1937 Lewiston Auburn Shoeworkers’ Strike



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
S-9 ANT11 Pompeii in the popular imagination
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Ian Macgregor Morris
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Macgregor Morris
Kate Fisher, Rebecca Langlands : ‘This way to the red light district’: the interplay of academic and popular imaginations in Pompeii
Shelley Hales : Spiritualism and the (im)materiality of Pompeii
Joanna Paul : ‘I fear it’s potentially like Pompeii’: Disaster, mass media, and the ancient city



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
S-10 NMWOR Network meeting: World History
Instituto de Arte
Network: World History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
S-11 SEX06 Men's same-sex identities
Instituto de Arte
Network: Sexuality Chair: Elsa Dorlin
Organizers: - Discussant: Elsa Dorlin
Mark Cornwall : Urban Homosexuality in the Czech Provinces 1938-1945
Henk de Smaele : Autobiographical narratives and the history of homosexuality
Wannes Dupont : Male homosexuality in Brussels, 1867-1967. A study of practices and discourses
Jens Rydström : Criminally Queer: Criminal Law and Homosexuality in Scandinavia 1842–1999



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
S-12 ANT08 'Aristocracy' and social mobility in ancient Greece
Instituto de Arte
Network: Antiquity Chair: Hans Van Wees
Organizers: - Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Nicholas Fisher : 'Aristocratic' or 'elite' values and practices in ancient Greece
Olivier Mariaud : Honour and Genealogy. Megas, his Ancestors and Strategies of Social Differentiation in Archaic Samos.
Gillian Shepherd : Nouveaux Riches? Status and Social Mobility in Western Greece
Edward van der Vliet : Status Inconsistency in Early Greece



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
S-13 MID03 The intermediate rulers: the contribution of the nobility to urban domination in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian Netherlands I
Instituto de Arte
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Véronique Flammang : The Role of the Nobility in the Power Structures of the County of Hainault (15th Century)
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete : The conflict between the nobility and the urban identity in Burgos in XVth century
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero : Cities without communal charts: ruled by noble elites?



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
S-14 LAB30 Union mobilisation
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Isabel Da Costa, Udo Rehfeldt : Labour Unionism: From National Diversity to International Solidarity
Ralph Darlington : The relationship between leadership, mobilization and trade union militancy: the case of the RMT
David Hyde : Undercurrents to Independence: Plantation Struggles in Kenya’s Central Province 1959-60
Viviana Patroni : The Peronist Union Movement and Labour Dissent in Argentina: An Historical Perspective



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
S-15 ORA14 Voices, Context, and Transmission of Oral History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Oral History Chair: Penny Summerfield
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sari Bar-On, Eshkar Miki : Historical Values versus Emotional Values - Art Therapy as an Mediator
Daniela Koleva : Oral History interviewing an the production of meaning: defending 'bad' questions
Leena Rossi : Emotions in Oral History Interview
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander : The Speech acts of silence: The mystery of the Finnish working-class writer Kasperi Tanttu (1886-1918)



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
S-16 LAT01 Gender in Latin American History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Latin America Chair: Kim Clark
Organizer: Paulo Drinot Discussant: Kim Clark
Sandra Aguilar-Rodríguez : Modernity on the Menu: Women’s Cooking and Consumption Practices in 1940s and 1950s Mexico
Paulo Drinot : The Making of the Peruvian Worker: Race and Gender in Peruvian Labour Policy, 1903-1920
Patience A. Schell : Good Daughters and Loyal Soldiers: The Unión de Damas Católicas Mexicanas during the Church-State Conflict in Mexico, 1926-1929
Sarah Washbrook : Keeping it in the Family: Women and Children and the Reproduction of Debt Peonage in Chiapas, Mexico, 1876-1911



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
S-17 MID06 Reassessing Medieval Queenship
Instituto de Arte
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Maria Filomena Andrade : The familiar relations in the reign of Dinis: The protagonism of queen Isabel
Isabel Guimarães Sá : Biography writing for professional historians: some questions and issues concerning the case of queens
Vanda Lourenço : Queen D. Beatriz dowry letter (1309-1359)
Manuela Santos Silva : The Queen’s Control over her Estates in the 15th Century: the Written Sources Testimony


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