Preliminary Programme

Showing: room V (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
V-1 WOM02 Feminism and Transnationalism I: Transnational Networks and National Contexts
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Francisca De Haan
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Ulla Wikander
Maria Anastasopoulou : The American Influence on Callirrhoe Parren at the turn of the 19th Century Greece
Julie Carlier : Shaping Belgian feminism. Transnational transfers and the forging of a national women’s movement (ca.1890-1918)
Carolyn Eichner : "The Veil and the Vote: Race, Sexuality, and Feminist Imperialism in Late 19th Century France"
Rochelle Ruthchild : Russian Feminists: From Global Sisterhood to Silence
Judith P. Zinsser : Gendering Transnational Topics: Benefits and Liabilities



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
V-2 WOM03 Feminism and Transnationalism II: Transnational Feminism and International Politics
Room 2.10
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Jose Moya
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Carol Faulkner : The World's Anti-Slavery Convention and the Origins of Women's Rights
Brigitte Rath : Forgotten Networks: Olga Misars Engagement in the Austrian Feminist Peace Movement (transnational and national networks)
Victoria Rowe : Women's Transnational Organizing: Feminist and Humanitarian Interventions in the League of Nations' Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
Ulla Wikander : Women over national borders against night work prohibition,



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
V-3 SOC04 Imagery of Human Dignity and European Consciousness (16th-17th centuries)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: Lynn Lees, Olga Salamatova
Organizers: - Discussant: Olga Salamatova
Ana Paula Avelar : Imagery of Representations of Society (16th –17th centuries)
Maria De Jesus Candeias Relvas : Imagery of Human Dignity (16th-17th centuries)
Maria Leonor Garcia Cruz : Imagery of The Balance of Power (16th-17th centuries)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
V-4 LAB15 Mobilising the unemployed, 1928-35
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: John Mcilroy
Organizer: Alan Campbell Discussant: Richard Croucher
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy : Mobilising the unemployed in Britain: analysing the activists
Daniel Joseph Leab : The CPUSA and the organization of the American unemployed
Matt Perry : Mobilising the unemployed in France in the 1930s:
Alex Zukas : Class, State, and Struggle: Mobilizing Unemployed Workers in late Weimar Germany



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
V-6 SOC08 Norms and social pracitices in welfare institutions (1500 – 1900)
Room 2.10
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Frank Hatje
Organizers: - Discussant: Ana Paula Avelar
Thomas M. Adams : Social Ideals and Religious Values in the Provision of Welfare in Europe since 1500
Chris Leonards : 19th century congresses on philanthropy, welfare and ‘control of the poor’: interfacing global views and local practices
Sebastian Schmidt : Administration, Supervision and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hospitals in the Electorate of Trier
Alfred Weiss : Beyond the norm? Norms and everyday life in the hospitals of Salzburg and Klagenfurt in the early modern times (1500-1800)



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
V-7 ELI23 Elites in Transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc I: transformation of the old power structures
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussant: Katalin Miklossy
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez : Constructing a ‘European’ Transition: From the Central and Eastern European Exile Memory to the Eastward Enlargement of the EU
Jouni Järvinen : Making Identities: History, Memory and Politics
Maciej Tyminski : Searching for the Origins of the Elite’s Habits in Postcommunist Poland:



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
V-8 ELI24 Elites in transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc II: Old Elites' Revival in the New System
Room 2.10
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Katalin Miklossy Discussants: -
Bojan Bilic, Adriana Marcolini : Two Serbias: the Persistence of ‘Old Elites’ after the Fall of Socialism
Katalin Miklossy : Hungarian Socialists’ Identity Crisis
Nadezhda Stoyanova : Desecuritizing Identity in South-Eastern Europe



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
V-9 WOM01 Women, Armies, and the Nation
Room 2.10
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Melissa Bokovoy
Organizers: - Discussant: Melissa Bokovoy
Petra Goedde : Military Conquest as Sexual Conquest: the Gendering of Warfare during the Second World War
Zeynep Kutluata : Gender and War during the late Ottoman and Early Republican Periods: The Case of Black Fatma(s)
Holly Mayer : Revolutionary Roles and Role Models: Perceptions of Women's Actions in the American War for Independence
Fia Sundevall : Swedish women’s military work in the post-war period of 1945-1969



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
V-10 NMTEC Network meeting: Technology
Room 2.10
Network: Technology Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
V-11 WOR02 Transnational Networks and the European Communitiy
Room 2.10
Network: World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Thomas Fetzer Discussants: Thomas Fetzer, Leonard Ray
Magali Deleuze : Canadian Public Opinion and European post wars decolonization (1950-1960)
Brigitte Leucht, Katja Seidel : Transnational competition policy networks in European Union history, 1945-1970
Steffi Marung : A Hybrid Border. The EU Border Regime After Enlargement and the Neighbourhood Programme Poland-Belarus Ukraine 2004-2006
Jan-Henrik Meyer : "Fake Eurocrats without the wages" – Brussels correspondents' transnational networks



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
V-12 WOR03 Sugar, Coffee and International Affairs
Room 2.10
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Christiane Berth : Transnational networks in coffee trade between Germany and Guatemala
Kathleen Mapes : "'Barbarian' or 'Civilized' Sugar?: The Politics of Imperialism, 1898-1909
Jim Norris : World Affairs, Migrant Workers, and Sugar Production in the United States
Dorothee Wierling : Phantasies of the „Origin“. The imagery of the coffee bean and the Hamburg coffee merchants.



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
V-14 MAT12 Globalization and Material Culture
Room 2.10
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Damayanthie Eluwawalage : The European Influence in Colonial Australian Fashion and Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Kennan Ferguson : “Mastering the Art of Nationalism: Julia Child and the Gustatory Construction of French Culture”
Jasmina Guseva : Globalization and New Trends in Culture
Beverly Lemire : Rethinking Asian trade and Europe’s material culture:



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
V-15 LAB19 Household Economy in a Market Economy? New Conceptions of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Work
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: Kirsti Niskanen, Yvonne Svanström Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Margo Anderson : Using Old Data on Gender and Household
Kirsti Niskanen : Bringing Household Economy into Market Economy – The Approach of the Finnish Economist Laura Harmaja
Vera Sollova : Family, labor market and demographic dynamics in Mexico, 1970-2000
Yvonne Svanström : A changing concept within Swedish political economy – from prostitution to sex work during the 20th century



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
V-16 RUR16 Man and beast. Human interactions with animals in a comparative context
Room 2.10
Network: Rural Chair: Margaret Derry
Organizers: - Discussant: Margaret Derry
Stefan Bargheer : Moral Entanglements: The Emergence and Transformation of the Concern for Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1930
Jonathan Bryant : Turning Deer into Rice: The deerskin trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world
Claire Strom : Cattle, Ticks, and Humans: Disease Eradication in a Comparative Perspective
Sandra Swart : Horse Trading: comparing human-equine networks of control and socio-environmental change in South African, India, Australia and the Americas



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
V-18 FAM34 Transitional Zones and Hybrid Family Systems: New Perspectives on the Geography of Family Forms in Historic Eurasia
Room 2.10
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Richard Wall
Siegfried Gruber : "Does Albania fit into an overall pattern of household and marriage?"
Viachaslau Nasevich : Balanced household formation pattern in the behaviour of Belarusian peasants
Richard Paping : The dynamics of household structures in the Dutch countryside from the 17th to the 20th century: The importance of stem families?
Mikolaj Szoltysek : In search for the place: Central Europe, the transitional cultural zone and the serfdom. Some theses on hybrid family systems (17th-18th centuries).
Irina Troitskaia : Two versions of household structures as a reflection of two different concepts of household: Vykhino estate, region of Moscow, 1816-1858


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