Preliminary Programme

Showing: room X (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
X-2 URB02 Twentieth-Century British Cities; Realities and Imaginings
Room 2.13
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizers: - Discussants: -
James Chapman : They Came to A City: 1944 and wartime British cinema
Kenneth Collins : TB in Glasgow : the Jewish Immigrant Experience
Krista Cowman : The land the heroes wanted: soldiers' views of the city in letters from the Western Front
Simon Gunn : The lost world of British Urban Modernism, c.1945-1970



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
X-3 THE05 Historicism in Interwar Europe
Room 2.13
Network: Theory Chair: Franz Leander Fillafer
Organizers: - Discussant: Franz Leander Fillafer
Reinbert Krol : “In Favour of History”: Friedrich Meinecke as a Guide Through the Crisis of Historicism
Herman Paul : “The Dangers of Sectarian Hubris”: Historicist Thought, Religious Philosophy, and the Quest for Rational Discourse, 1926-1939
Friedrich von Petersdorff : Historicism and Relationism: Karl Mannheim's Critique of Historicism



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
X-5 ETH03 Refugee politics and refugee relief
Room 2.13
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Machteld Venken
Organizers: - Discussant: Machteld Venken
Jennifer Carson : ‘Fishers of Men not Distributors of Fish in Tins’: The Friends Relief Service in Germany after the Second World War
Monique Laney : Rethinking “Operation Paperclip”: A Transnational Perspective
Stephen Porter : American Refugee Affairs in the Early Cold War: Labor Exploitation and the Geopolitics of Human Rights
Jessica Reinisch : Displaced Persons and the Politics of Rationing



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
X-7 WOM07 Engendering Socialism. A Roundtable
Room 2.13
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Mihaela Miroiu
Organizers: - Discussant: Mihaela Miroiu
Wendy Goldman : Family Networks in the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
Lynne Haney : Reading the Past from the Politics of the Present
Donna Harsch : Women and the Domestication of State Policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Jill Massino : Experience as Evidence: Women, Gender, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania
Shana Penn : Third Space: Gender Dynamics in Opposition Movements in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
X-8 MID02 Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges II
Room 2.13
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Frederik Buylaert, Véronique Flammang, Arie van Steensel Discussants: -
Mario Damen : Prosopography and elites: perspectives for research and dissemination of data concerning political elites in the Low Countries.
Jan Dumolyn, Wim De Clercq : From social position to social representation. The grammar of sign systems expressing noble identity in the late medieval Burgundian Netherlands.
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Perceiving the «self», perceiving the «others»: an enquiry over the construction of political identities in fifteenth-century urban Castile



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
X-9 LAT04 Anarchist Networks in Port and Provincial Cities: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Room 2.13
Network: Latin America Chair: Bert Altena
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Bert Altena
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Cityscapes, Dock Work, and Anarcho-Syndicalist Militancy: Comparative Histories of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Marseille, France
Anthony Gorman : Anarchists on the Nile: Radical Internationalism in Egypt 1860-1914
Steven Hirsch : Red Flags, White City: Anarchist Influence in Arequipa, Peru, 1906-1930
Kirwin Shaffer : Havana Hub: The Role of Cuba’s ¡Tierra! and Libertarian Journalism in Linking Cuban and Caribbean Anarchist Networks, 1903-1915
Lucien van der Walt : Anarchism and Syndicalism in an African Port City: Cape Town, the IWW and the ICU, 1904-1924



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
X-10 NMURB Network meeting: Urban
Room 2.13
Network: Urban Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
X-11 ORA18 Crisis and Social Action in the Americas: Oral Histories and Alternative Memories
Room 2.13
Network: Oral History Chair: Temma Kaplan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ana Kapelusz-Poppi : The Construction of the New Children's Hospital in Buenos Argentina (1955-85) Personal and Professional Memories
Margaret Power : “’We Opposed the September 11, 1973, Coup in Chile:’
Andor Skotnes : Racial and Class Struggles in Baltimore, USA, during World War II: Alternative Memories



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
X-12 FAM36 Unnatural Kinship II
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: David Warren Sabean
Vincent Gourdon : Spiritual kinship in nineteenth-century Paris
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : Kinship and Ritual Kinship in the Alps (18th-19th centuries).
Ivan Jablonka : Unnatural Kinship in France: Love and Familiarity in French Foster Homes (1870s-1930s)



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
X-13 AFR06 European Competition and the Slave Trade
Room 2.13
Network: Africa Chair: Frank Lewis
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Lewis
José C. Curto : The Ethnicity of Recaptured Slaves in Angola, c. 1846-1876
David Richardson : The significance of the French Slave Trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716
Judith M. Spicksley : Debt and slavery in Africa, c.1500-1800
Jelmer Vos : Dutch slave trading on the Windward and Ivory Coasts, ca. 1740-1790



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
X-14 POL13 Remaking the American Nation: Secession and its consequences for the Civil War United States
Room 2.13
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Benjamin Carp
Organizers: - Discussant: Benjamin Carp
Russell Duncan : James Montgomery and the Jeremiad in Kansas
Christopher Phillips : “Addition by Subtraction: The Calculus of Disloyalty in the Neutral Slave States During the American Civil War and the Completion of the American South”
Frank Towers : “Romantic Ethnic Nationalism, Modernity, and the Secession Movement in the American South”



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
X-15 CRI19 Gender Story Violence
Room 2.13
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Efi Avdela : Stories of Blood and Gender: Cultural scenarios of honour crimes in post-war Greece
Elena Barbulescu : Violence and Gender in a Romanian Village
Marie Eriksson : The Politics of "Marital Dissonance" - Political Discourses about Men's violence against Women in Marriage in 19th Century Sweden



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
X-16 CRI28 Round Table on Clive Emsley's Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940
Room 2.13
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizers: - Discussants: Jonathan Dunnage, Clive Emsley, Wilbur Miller, Xavier Rousseaux



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
X-17 FAMIV Marriages Contracts II : Inheritance systems
Room 2.13
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Joseph Goy Discussant: Joseph Goy
Gérard Béaur : Marriage contracts in egalitarian inheritance system: the case of Chartres (18th century
Llorenç Ferrer Alos : The adaptation of the marriage contracts to the economic changes in Catalonia (C. XVII-XIX).
Jonathan Spangler : Marriage contracts as an indicator of épée-robe (non?) integration in seventeenth-century France


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