Preliminary Programme

Showing: room W (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 16.30
W-2 THE01 The Writing of National Histories in 19th and 20th Century Europe
Room 2.12
Network: Theory Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthias Middell
Stefan Berger, Christoph Conrad : National Historical Cultures in Comparative Perspective: An Outline
Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger : Nation and Society: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Religion and Gender
Andrew Mycock : Education, identity and empire? History teaching in multi-national post-imperial Britain
Ilaria Porciani, Jo Tollebeek : The Instiitutionalisation and Professionalisation of Historical Writing



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
W-3 MAT05 Material Culture of the Aristocracy
Room 2.12
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Bruno Blondé
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veerle De Laet : "In his Majesty's Service". Cultural go-betweens in 17th and 18th centuries Brussels
Eva Deak : Materials and colors of clothes in a princely court: the example of Alba Iulia during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
W-4 ORA10 Contested Pasts
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Ene Kõresaar
Organizers: - Discussants: -
John Cox : “Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany”
Anselma Gallinat : The social production of ‘oral history’?
Sabine Kittel : Today’s memories of the socialist Past : Interviews with employees of an educational institution in eastern Germany.
Niina Lappalainen : "There was no Civil War in this village." The referential way of communication.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
W-5 ASI02 ASI02 : The City in Asia (I): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Urban Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Markus Daechsel : Dr. Doxiadis and the people of Korangi
Prashant Kidambi : Rethinking the Asian City: Recent perspectives in Indian and Chinese Historiography
Manish Kumar Thakur : The Making of A Mofussil Netaji: A Study in Urban Political Culture



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
W-6 ASI03 ASI03 : The City in Asia (II): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Urban Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nandini Gooptu : Globalization, Work and Urban Identities in Kolkata, India
Jaideep Gupte : Communal Violence, Organised Crime and Vulnerability: urban survival strategies in Mumbai, India
Ami Shah : Global Dreams, Local Nightmares: Urban 'Development' and Destruction in Ahmedabad, India



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
W-7 ELI06 Elites and nationalism: (dis)location across borders
Room 2.12
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizer: José Antonio Sánchez-Román Discussant: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Mari Firkatian : Nationalist Elites: Stancioffs, aristocrats to diplomats, cosmopolitans to patriots
Nathanaelle Minard : Social and cultural networks of Russian travellers in Finland during the first half of the 19th century
Janne Nokki : Austro -Hungarian Diplomats in St. Petersburg during the 1850s and 1860s - a Group of Aristocratic Conservatives



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
W-8 ORA05 Testimony, memory, memorials
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Nanci Adler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eva Bruecker : Negotiating the Truth of Memory: Oral History and the difficulties of public presentations
James Mark : Using Victim Biographies: Sites of Terror in Central-Eastern Europe
Gulie Ne'eman Arad : Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs: A Challenge for Historians
Nikolai Vukov : The Rewriting of the Past in a Ritual Setting: Public Commemorations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
W-9 LAB26 Race and Internationalism: New Research on Black Activists in the Ambit of the Comintern
Room 2.12
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizer: Eve Rosenhaft Discussant: James Miller
Robbie Aitken : German-Speaking Cameroonians: Exchange and Knowledge Transfer within Networks of Anti-Colonialism
Corinne A. Pernet : Nationalism, Regionalism or Cosmopolitanism? Latin American Intellectuals at UNESCO, 1948 to 1958
Fionnghuala Sweeney : CLR James' The Black Jacobins and radical leadership in the interwar period



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
W-10 NMTHE Network meeting: Theory and Historiography
Room 2.12
Network: Theory Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
W-11 ANT12 Approaches to Ancient Warfare
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Kurt Raaflaub
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Raaflaub
Francisco Caramelo : Thinking about war in ancient Mesopotamia: a prophetic discourse of legitimacy
Fernando Echeverria : Technological determinism. The Argive shield and the origins of the Greek phalanx
José Varandas : The Roman Army in the Western Iberia: military, political and social impacts in the Atlantic coastline at the time of Punic Wars.



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
W-12 LAT02 Labor and the Law in 20th Century Latin America
Room 2.12
Network: Latin America Chair: Michael M. Hall
Organizer: Oliver Dinius Discussant: Michael M. Hall
Oliver Dinius : Industrial Relations and the Brazilian Labor Courts under State Capitalism
Line Schjolden : Outgrowing Legal Liberalism: Argentine Labor Law in the 1930s
Fernando Teixeira Da Silva : Brazilian Labor Courts in Comparative Perspective
William Suarez-Potts : The Development of Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1917-31



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
W-13 LAB14 The Formal - Informal Dichotomy: Social and Economic Agency and the Cultural Heritage of the Soviet Past
Room 2.12
Network: Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Sergey Afontsev : Looking Back or Looking Forward? Soviet Heritage and the Evolution of Informal Labor in Post-Soviet Russia
Leonid Borodkin : Transformation of Soviet Workers' Social Practices in Post-Soviet Russia: From Informal Practices to Formal Ones?
Irina Novichenko : Soviet 'Public Organizations': Official Structure and Informal Activity
Timur Valetov : Self-organised seasonal labour collectives in the USSR of the 1960-1980s: economic and social aspects



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
W-14 LAT03 Health, Medicine and Social Problems in Latin America
Room 2.12
Network: Latin America Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussants: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Paulo Drinot
Diego Armus : Smoking in Buenos Aires during the 20th century. A research agenda.
Kim Clark : Bubonic Plague and the Problem of Indigenous Culture in Highland Ecuador
Steven Palmer : The Plantation Complex of Doctors in Late Colonial Havana
Alexandra Puerto : Medical Brigades, Maya Culture and Rural Development in Postrevolutionary Yucatán



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
W-15 POL04 Ethnic minorities in transition: Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Room 2.12
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Celia Donert : 'Citizens of Gypsy Origin': Marginality and Citizenship in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Rosa Lehmann : Poland's struggle with its Ukrainian minority, 1944-1960
Alina Silian : The Making of Romani Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Romania



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
W-16 LAB22 Global Commodities
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Ulbe Bosma, Marga Alferink : Transition from local to world market production: early 19th century sugar production in East Java.
Ratna Saptari : Cultures of Tobacco: The shaping of Peasant Worker Communities in 19th century Java
Emile Schwidder : Forced Labour in the Coffee Cultivation of West Java: Report of Otto van Rees on the 'Preanger Stelsel' (1867)



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
W-17 ANT14 Ancient Demography: a round table discussion of M.H. Hansen's: The Shotgun Method
Room 2.12
Network: Antiquity Chair: Frederick Naerebout
Organizers: - Discussants: John Davis, Renzo Derosas, Bruce Frier, Mogens Herman Hansen


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