Preliminary Programme

Showing: room Y (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
Y-1 LAB28 Stalinization and Beyond: Problems of International Communist History
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Matthew Worley Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti : Stalinization and the Italian Communist Party
Norman Laporte : Proletarian Tribunes: Thalmann and Pollitt
Tauno Saarela : Comparative Communisms: The Scandinavian Example
Brigitte Studer : Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
Y-2 LAB02 Strikes
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizers: Heiner Dribbusch, Sjaak Van der Velden Discussant: David Lyddon
Peter Birke : Strikes, Social Conflicts and Social Movement in Scandinavia since the 1990’s
Heiner Dribbusch : Strikes and employer militancy: balance of power and industrial conflict in the German public sector since 1990
Sjaak Van der Velden : Strikes and living strategies



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
Y-3 WOM04 Feminism and Transnationalism III: Transnational Feminism in Latin America
Room 2.14
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Teresa Meade
Organizer: Julie Carlier Discussant: Teresa Meade
Isabela Campoi : Brazilian first wave feminism and transnationalism
Jose Moya : Dangerous Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarchist Feminism in Buenos Aires, 1890-1914
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Women’s Coalition-building and Collective Empowerment: Transnational Feminism Under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
Y-4 POL11 Socialist nationalism
Room 2.14
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Hester Barron : Exploring identities: Gandhi and the British working classes in interwar Lancashire
Ioannis Sygkelos : Marxism and Nationalism: The Development of their Symbiosis
Stefan Vogt : Socialist Nationalism against National Socialism? The “Young Right” in Weimar Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
Lorna Zukas : Globalization, Colonialization and the Rise of Socialism as a Precursor of Nationalism in Africa



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
Y-5 WOM16 Gender in the Early Modern World
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Krassimira Daskalova
Organizers: - Discussant: Krassimira Daskalova
Ulrike Gleixner : Gender as a Medium of “expanding Piety”. The Protestant Mission to India in the 18th Century.
Janine Lanza : Family wealth and marriage settlements of siblings in early modern Paris
Maritere Lopez : The Art of Courtship in Early Modern Conduct Manuals
Daniel Murphree : Conquistadores, Huguenots, and Sexuality: Constructing Gender in the Florida Borderlands, 1513-1573
Gabriele Pieri : "Competent boys" and "obedient girls": Female Role Models in Catechisms and School Bibles in early modern Germany (16th to early 19th century)



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
Y-6 ETH04 The Cold War and the Integration of Migrants
Room 2.14
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eric Limbach : Migration, interrupted: a refugee camp disturbance on the margins of the Cold War in Europe
Cecilia Notini : The Cold War, refugees and national security: Sweden’s handling of Eastern European refugees 1945 – 1968
Eric Payseur : “God Bless Reagan” and “God help Canada”: The Polish Canadian Action Group’s Campaign in Toronto and Ottawa during the 1980s
Machteld Venken : Experiencing Disturbed Transnationalism in a Cold War Context. Migrants from behind the Iron Curtain in Belgium (1945-1989/91)



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
Y-7 SEX13 Eugenics in theory and practice
Room 2.14
Network: Sexuality Chair: Annette Timm
Organizers: - Discussant: Annette Timm
Jana Husmann-Kastein : History of Sexuality - History of Racism. Intersections of Race and Gender in European scientific and occult Racial Theories 1800-1925.
Angus Mclaren : Design for Living
Alison Redick : The Science of Identity



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
Y-8 REL01 Competing Identities: Gender and Religion
Room 2.14
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Karin Hofmeester, Ariadne Schmidt Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Bojan Aleksov : Women in Religious Movements in Yugoslavia
Silvia Evangelisti : Failed Jesuitesses: Gender, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Ji Li : Letters from Manchuria: Gender, Writing and Confession in Nineteenth-century Rural China
Cecilia Winterhalter : St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the 19th. Century



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
Y-9 AFR04 Colonialism and Its Relics in Africa
Room 2.14
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussant: Tundé Zack-Williams
Judith Byfield : Feeding the Troops: Abeokuta (Nigeria) and World War II
Patrick Mbajekwe : Onitsha and Its Neighbors: Urbanization, Communal Relations and Boundary Disputes in Eastern Nigeria
E. Ike Udogu : Historicizing the Discourse on African International Law and a Concise Overview of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
Natascha Wyss : Social strategies for access to education in southern rural Mozambique during colonial time



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
Y-10 NMWOM Network meeting: Women and Gender
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
Y-11 CRI25 Down by law? Social exclusion and outlawing
Room 2.14
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Francis Dodsworth
Organizers: - Discussant: Francis Dodsworth
Corinne Gaudin : Community sanctions and state justice: Village banishment in late-Imperial Russia
Elmar Henrich : The Adjudication of Bounty Hunters' Claims in an Early Modern Italian Republic
Kariin Sundsback : Criminality, Social Networks and Integration in the Norwegian Society of Amsterdam, 1640-1700
Gilles Vandal : Whites and Afro-Americans under Slavery: The Enforcement



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
Y-12 LAB10 Communist strategies
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Andrée Lévesque : The Weakest Link: French-Canadian Communists before 1940
Ester Reiter : A Shenerer un beserer velt: Building a beautiful future, Gender and Class in the Pro Communist Jewish Left in Canada, 1920-1950
Raquel Varela : Avante and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) in the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974 to 25 November 1975



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
Y-13 LAT06 Emerging States and New Forms of Citizenship in Latin America
Room 2.14
Network: Latin America Chair: Michael Gonzales
Organizers: - Discussants: -
José María Aguilera-Manzano : The Literature in the construction of the "Cuban Identity”, 1823-1845
David Cahill : Revenant Messianism and Subaltern Genocide: Political Violence in the Andes 1730-1830
Seth Meisel : Petitioning and Political Citizenship in Early Independence Argentina
Fábio Faria Mendes : Internal Passports: Personal Identification and State Building in XIXth Century Brazil



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
Y-14 WOM13 Understanding the Aging Female Body: 1500-1900
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Pat Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Lynn Botelho : ‘Cough, Creaks, and Shuffling Feet: The Gender-Neutral Nature of Old Age in English Household Medicine, 1500-1700’.
Kathryn de Medeiros : From Reproduction to New Production: The Shift in Focus on Older Women’s Bodies in Gerontological Discourse After World War Two
Elizabeth Hurren : 'Aged, Female and Poor in an English World-Without-Welfare, c. 1870-1900'.
Anne Kugler : “Vigor and Virtue: Women, Aging, Body, and Mind”



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
Y-15 LAB21 Labour Internationalism; studies from Vaxjo
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Eszter Bartha
Organizers: - Discussant: Eszter Bartha
Fredrik Håkansson : Globalization and Industrial Relations. A Case Study of the Western Flat Glass Industry in 1969
Lars Hansson : Migration within the pulp and paper industry in Finland and Sweden
Jesper Johansson : Union Solidarity in Exchange for adaptation. Immigration Policy within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) during the 1970s
Johan Svanberg : "After 36 hours stay we started directly at the shopfloor": Case study of recruitment of Yugoslavian workers to a company in Sweden, 1969-70



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
Y-16 WOM25 Round Table: Female Labour Market Participation and Economic Growth
Room 2.14
Network: Women and Gender Chairs: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: Joyce Burnette, Tine De Moor, Marjatta Rahikainen, Carmen Sarasua, Ariadne Schmidt, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen


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