Preliminary Programme

Showing: room U (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
U-1 EDU11 Gender and professionalism in teaching
Room10.2
Networks: Education and Childhood , Women and Gender Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Isabela Cabral Félix De Sousa, Cristiane N. Braga & Cristina A. Ferreira & Telma M. Frutuoso & Diego S. Vargas : The female predominance of a vocational and scientific program in Brazil for high school students
Bart Hellinckx, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : The educational work of women religious: a historiographical survey
Maria Mogarro : Social Origins and Teacher Training: Female Students at Teacher Training Schools in the second half of the 19th Century in Portugal
Lies Van Rompaey, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon : A different kind of activism: the position of catholic women teachers in their union. Belgium, 1950-1965.



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
U-2 HIS01 Towards a historical GIS for Europe
Room10.2
Network: Chair: Paul Ell
Organizer: Andreas Kunz Discussant: David Bodenhamer
Ian Gregory : Towards a Historical GIS of Europe: Existing resources and future prospects
Andreas Kunz : A Historical GIS of the German states in the 19th Century: A model for a European historical GIS?
Silke Marburg : Dynastic Networks of Europe in a GIS Context
Alejandro Simon, Jordi Marti-Henneberg : Railways network and population distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (1850-2000). Towards an European Railways GIS.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
U-3 URB06 Social Relations in the Modern City
Room10.2
Network: Urban Chair: Mark Kehren
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Deborah S. Bernstein, Michal Kofman : Tenant and Landlords in the Jewish Settlement in Palestine
Tiago Castela : Illegalism and Citizenship: Urban Space in Late Twentieth Century Portugal
Mette Tapdrup Mortensen : Boarders and lodgers as an urban phenomenon in Denmark 1880-1960



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
U-4 ETH02 Representing Displacement
Room10.2
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Pamela Ballinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Pamela Ballinger
Susan Carruthers : The Dancer Deflects: the cultural politics of defection, displacement and escape in early cold war America
Peter Gatrell : World Refugee Year, 1959-1960: Representing Displaced Persons
Anna Holian : Framing Displacement: Americans, Europeans, and the Problem of Displaced Children in The Search (1948)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
U-6 SEX02 Languages of sexuology
Room10.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martinez-Vidal Àlvar, Antoni Adam-Donat : "Between psychiatry and legal medicine: the homosexuality under the Franco regime".
Runar Jordåen : The medicalization of homosexuality revisited
Judith Schuyf : 'In Berlin-Zoo homosexual swans can be observed'
Robert Tobin : Sexual Danger and the Sexologists



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
U-7 FAM05 Childlessness, Impotence and Infertility in the European Past
Room10.2
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Peter Sköld
Organizer: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Christina Benninghaus : Diagnosing Male Infertility in 19th century Germany
Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin : The other side of the medal. Childless women in mid-nineteenth century Tuscany



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
U-8 LAB11 The Politics of Mining: Comparative Perspectives
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Carolyn Brown
Nina Fishman : National Coal Board: experiment in social democracy
Ben Gales : ‘Engineering Hard Choices: Accidents in Dutch Mining during the 20th Century
Keith Gildart : Miners' Militancy in Britain in the Second World War: The Role of the Independent Labour Party
Chris Williams : From 'Isolated Masses' to 'Little Moscows': Radicalism and Locality in British Coalfields, 1800-1985



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
U-9 SEX09 Stalinism, de-Stalinization and sexuality
Room10.2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussant: Dan Healey
Malgorzata Fidelis : Sex after Stalinism: Defining Morality in Postwar Poland, 1950s-1960s
Natalia Novikova : Love, Sex and Politics in Soviet Russia: 1917-1928
Natalia Pushkareva : Sexuality in Private Lives of Russian Women
Elena Shulman : "'But He Promised...': The Politics of Sex in the Stalinist 1930s



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
U-10 NMSOC Network meeting: Social Inequality
Room10.2
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
U-11 ELI25 Women as political actors in early modern Europe
Room10.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Svante Norrhem
Organizer: Svante Norrhem Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Ida Bull : Elite women: From mistress in an open household to participant in a new public sphere.
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren : Gender and Voting in 18th Century Sweden
Nina Koefoed : Female strategies of political influence and resistance in 18th century absolutist Denmark
Mirella Marini : Managing social, cultural and financial capital during the Counter Reformation in the Southern Netherlands: Anne of Croy (1564-1635), duchess of Aarschot, sovereign countess of Arenberg



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
U-12 LAB31 Labour-state relationships
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark David Pittaway
Eszter Bartha : A Failed Dialogue: Workers, the party and the economic reforms in the GDR and Hungary (1963-1968)
M. Erdem Kabadayi : Factory Workers as Petitioners: State-Subject Interaction in the Late Ottoman Empire
William Kenefick : The 'Scotch Club': The Workers' Education Association in Canada from 1919
Andrei Volodin : How can state mediate labour conflicts? (The case of Russian factory inspection in 1880s-1914).



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
U-13 SEX14 Perceptions of Women's Sexuality
Room10.2
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Klara Arnberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Klara Arnberg
Steve Hewitt, Christabelle Sethna : Gender Subversion: Abortion, Canadian State Security and Women’s Groups in the early 1970s
Claire Langhamer : Prostitution in the golden age of marriage: England 1930-1970
Lena Lennerhed : Finkbine and other abortion travellers
Elisabeta Zelinka : Trafficking of women in Eastern Europe. Its influences upon the concept of the ‘family’.



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
U-14 ORA12 Rhetorics of Group Identity
Room10.2
Network: Oral History Chair: James Mark
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sandor Horvath : 'Wild West', 'gangster' and 'desperado' feelings: perception of the 'West' in youth subcultures in Hungary in the 1960s
Mónica Maurício : The Oral Speech on the Students’ Movement in the Technical Superior Institute (1945-1962)
Pavel Mücke : „Living under Freedom is More Difficult…“ or the Image of Foreigners and Foreign Countries in Memory of „Working Inteligensia Class“ in Czechoslovakia in 1970s and 1980s
Malin Thor, Antje Hornscheidt & Izabela Dahl : Narrated identities.Intersections of religion, gender, nation, locality and ethnicity in the narrations of Jews’ and Muslims’ identities in Sweden 1933-2008



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
U-15 WOR08 Religious Globalization? The role of Proselytizers and Indigenous Peoples
Room10.2
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Maxwell
Organizers: - Discussant: David Maxwell
Elena Glavatskaya : Christian Mission beyond the Polar Circle
Joseph Levi : Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
David Lindenfeld : The Sioux and the Maori: Contrasting Adaptions of Christianity as Strategies for Ethnic Survival
Michelle Molina : Evangelization and Individualization:Jesuit Itinerant Missions in Seventeenth-Century New Spain



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
U-16 WOM23 Social Marginality and the Construction of Gender Roles
Room10.2
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan : Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women between Worlds
Sabrina Marchetti, Domenica Ghidei : Asmara-Roma: A Journey of Imaginary. (Post)colonial legacies and women’s migration during the 70’s.
Sonja Matter : “The client’s private sphere has to be esteemed”. The discussion about the rightfulness of unannounced home visits in social work in Post-War Switzerland
Jane Slaughter : "Stepford Wives, Black Widows and Fanatical Females: Women Terrorists in a Comparative, Transnational Perspective"



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
U-17 ELI17 Estate Society in Transition: burghers and noblemen from the 18th to the 19th century
Room10.2
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Bård Frydenlund
Organizer: Charlotta Wolff Discussant: Bård Frydenlund
Nuno Miguel Lima : Lisbon’s highest taxpayers during the Constitutional Monarchy. The Portuguese experience of the notables’ model?
Arnout Mertens : Nobles into Belgians, 1750-1850
Alex Snellman : Defining new elite: ennoblements in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1912
Charlotta Wolff : Multiculturalism and merchant elite networking in the Baltic area, ca. 1770–1830


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