Preliminary Programme

Showing: Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30 (single time slot)
Tue 13 April
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Wed 14 April
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Thu 15 April
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Fri 16 April
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All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
A-4 FAM05 Measles and Other Childhood Diseases
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Reid
Organizer: Renzo Derosas Discussants: -
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, María Eugenia Galiana And Josep Bernabeu-Mestre And Angela Cremades : Epidemiological factors and childhood in contemporary endemic trachoma in Spain 1900-1960
Renzo Derosas : Measles epidemics in nineteenth-century Venice: dynamics and risk-factors
Sara García Ferrero, Jim Oeppen & Diego Ramiro Fariñas : Estimating Reproductive Numbers for the 1889-90 and 1918-20 Influenza Pandemics in the city of Madrid.
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir : Measles in virgin soil regions in Nordic countries during the 19th century


B-4 AFR01 Labour and Transport in Africa
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Africa Chair: Jan-Bart Gewald
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ntewusu Aniegye : From Cattle Ranch to Lorry Park: A Social History of Accra Tudu Lorry Park 1920-2007
Mary Davies : Rest houses, recruitment centres and remote places: the social history of a ‘departure point’ in Northern Malawi 1933-1975
Walter Nkwi : “Human Lorries:” Labour mobillity and Transport in British Southern Cameroons, 1922-1961


C-4 CRI18 Meet the author: Randolph Roth: Homicide in Europe and the US
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizers: - Discussants: Manuel Eisner, Pete King, Pieter Spierenburg
Randolph Roth : The Relationship between Guns and Homicide in the United States


D-4 LAB03 Politics and violence: 20th century Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Network: Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Matthew Worley Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Marco Albeltaro : Communism and violence in Italy 1921-1948
Sylvain Boulouque : French communist party and political violence
Nigel Copsey : Transatlantic Perspectives on Anti-Fascism: Communists and the Anti-Fascist Struggle in Inter-War Britain and the United States
Andreas Wirsching : Violence as discourse: For a 'linguistic turn' in communist history


E-4 EDU04 Childhood in Mental Health, Senses and Emotions
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Frank Simon
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Antonella Cagnolati : ‘Holy lives and joyful deaths’. Feelings of despair and hopes of salvation in children’s books (England, second half of XVIIth century)
Ian Grosvenor, Catherine Burke : The Hearing School: an exploration of sound and listening in the modern school
Bengt Sandin : Child Psychiatry between scholarly traditions in Sweden 1945-1985. Medical conferences as an arena for defining the borders and content of an emerging disciplinar field
Annemieke Van Drenth : Anomalous children. The discovery of the Cornelia de Lange syndroom
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson : Child therapy as an arena for normative regulation of childhood and individualization of children


F-4 WOR06 Interfaith Commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times IV: In and Around the Indian Ocean
Vestibule, muziekcentrum
Network: World History Chair: Peer Vries
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Francesca Trivellato Discussant: Peer Vries
Leonard Blusse : Mammon meets the Gods: Dutch attitude towards Asian trading and religious practices
Ivana Elbl : The Bull Romanus Pontifex of 1454 and the Early European Trading in Sub-Saharan Atlantic Africa
Roxani Margariti : Coins and Commerce: the numismatics of the Indian Ocean's trading networks, 10th-13th centuries


G-4 SOC17 Hands on session on coding historical occupations
Computerroom D4, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizer: Richard Zijdeman Discussants: -


H-4 TEC04 Economy 2: Railways, Agricultural Development and Urbanization in Britain, France and Spain, 1840-1970
Hortazaal, Pauli
Networks: , Technology Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Mccants
Ian Gregory : Where Can I Get the Train? Accessibility to Railway Transport in Great Britain, 1840-1950
Laia Mojica Gasol : Measuring the impact of railways on urbanization through GIS: a case study of the Iberian Peninsula and France.
Robert Schwartz, Ian Gregory : Railways and Agrarian Change in Rural Britain and France, 1850-1914
Thomas Thevenin, Arnaud Banos : Exploring space and time dimensions of agriculture and population change in France, 1830 to1930


I-4 SEX02 Sexualities against the political orthodoxies
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Sexuality Chair: David Churchill
Organizers: - Discussant: David Churchill
Sebastian Buckle : 'The Coming of Age of the English Gay and Lesbian Movement": Section 28 and the Struggle for its Repeal
Peter Edelberg : The De-dramatization of Homosexuality in Denmark 1945 - 80
Lesley Hall : Interwar British women pushing at the boundaries: beyond the Me Tarzan, You Jane, Let's Make Babies paradigm
Jens Rydström : Scandinavian Disjunctures: Disability, citizenship and sexuality in Denmark and Sweden, from 1925 to the present day
Ana Cristina Santos : Queering ‘the family’? Fifteen years of LGBT activism in Portugal


J-4 REL04 Material Religion in Early Modern Europe: Images, Objects and Spaces
Room D11, Pauli
Network: Religion Chair: Simon Ditchfield
Organizer: Silvia Evangelisti Discussant: Simon Ditchfield
Paula Bessa : Uses of images: Late Medieval wall paintings in Portuguese parish churches
Silvia De Renzi : Bad air at the Collegio Romano: physicians and the health of communities in Counter Reformation Rome
Silvia Evangelisti : Devotional objects, and the senses in early modern Italy
Tara Hamling : Old Robert’s Girdle: Visual and Material Props for Protestant Piety in Post-Reformation Britain


K-4 ETH21 History, Memory and Migration II
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Culture , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: J. Olaf Kleist
Organizers: Irial Glynn, J. Olaf Kleist Discussant: J. Olaf Kleist
Irial Glynn : What role has a country’s migration history in its migration present? Immigration debates in Ireland and Italy compared.
Mary Hickman : Past Immigrations, Contemporary Representations: in UK life narrative interviews
Christopher Kennedy : Death and Despair, Prosperity and Plenty: Irish Visions of America
José Lingna Nafafé : African Migrants: Past and Integration in Northern Europe
Kevin Myers : Cultures of history: minority histories and the politics of the past in post-war Britain


L-4 HIS05 GIS, the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Room D14, Pauli
Networks: , Middle Ages Chair: Ian Gregory
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Gregory
Tim Bisschops : GIS and real property: a view of Antwerp before its Golden Age (ca 1390–1430)
Joachim Laczny : The late medieval ruler Frederick III (1440–1493) on the journey – the creation of the itinerary using a Historical GIS (his-GIS)
Lies Vervaet : Using GIS in a research on the correlation between the socio-economic features and the geographical aspects of a rural village in Early Modern Flanders


M-4 POL04 Communism and National Legitimacy in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Muriel Blaive
Organizer: Martin Mevius Discussant: Muriel Blaive
Stefano Bottoni : Reassessing the Communist Takeover in Romania: Violence, State-building, National Legitmacy
Celia Donert : Wandering about Europe: Communism, Nationalism and "Gypsies" in Postwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania
Martin Mevius : “Defending Our Historical and Political Interests”: the Hungarian Communist Party and the 'History of Transylvania'
Markus Wien : National Legitimacies and Nation Building in Communist Bulgaria


N-4 ELI06 Academic elites after World War II: nationalists, democrats, technocrats
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Organizers: Marja Jalava, Jussi Välimaa Discussants: Carolina Rodríguez-López, Jussi Välimaa
Pieter Dhondt : Democratisation of university education in Belgium: wishful thinking or reality?
Marja Jalava : Higher Education and the Question of Equality in the Post-World War II Nordic Welfare States
Per Lundin, Niklas Stenlås : The Reform Technocrats: Identifying the Nation Building Elite in Post-War Sweden
Kazimierz Musial : Elitist turn in higher education in the context of recent reforms in the Nordic countries


O-4 ANT03 Quantifying the Roman Economy
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Network: Antiquity Chair: Alan Bowman
Organizers: - Discussant: Alan Bowman
Hannah Friedman : Atmospheric pollution proxies for Roman metal production
Dario Nappo : The scale of Roman wine exports to Arabia and India
Ben Russell : Trends in the production and distribution of sculpted stone
Andrew Wilson : Quantifying growth and contraction in the Roman economy


P-4 FAM22 Family Foundations II. Gender and Property Devolution
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Randi Deguilhem : Women’s Family Foundations in Late Ottoman Damascus: Identifying the Endowers, Understanding their Objectives
Beshara Doumani : The Waqf Foundation as a Family Charter
Nada Moumtaz : Family and Philanthropic Waqfs in 19th century Beirut
David Warren Sabean : Revival of Patrilineage and Family Foundations in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany


Q-4 RUR05 Wills and Marriage Contracts in impartible Inheritence System
Atelier R2, Pauli
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chair: Joseph Goy
Organizer: Joseph Goy Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon : From macro to micro, marriage contracts a key for social history
Anne-Lise Head-König : The undivided farm in Switzerland before and after the implementation of the 1912 Swiss Civil Code: ways and means to attain this objective
Gertrude Langer-Ostrawsky, Margareth Lanzinger : Joint or separate? Marriage contracts and the consequences of different marital property regimes in the Habsburg Empire in the 18th Century
Rosa Ros : The decline of impartible inheritance system. The example of Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia), 1780-1860


R-4 MAT03 Homemaking, Cherishing and the Senses
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Paddy Dolan
Organizers: - Discussant: Paddy Dolan
Kennan Ferguson : Eating the Nation
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger : Consumption fantasies in modern literature 1820-1860
Sara Pennell : Home is where the hearth is? Exploring the uses and means of the hearth in Restoration & later Stuart London (17th c.)
Margaret Ponsonby : A Home of One's Own? Spinsters, Bachelors and the Consumption of Homemaking in the Long 18th Century
Natalie Scholz : Whose authority reigns in the living room? Contested meanings of the past and the present in West German discourses on ‘Wohnkultur’ during the 1950s


S-4 THE03 Gender and Conceptualization of Work
M101, Marissal
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Kerstin Bornholdt : Gendering sports and physiology: The concept of work in work and sport physiology
Synne Corell : Conceptualizations of work in the writing of national history
Hege Roll-Hansen : The gendering of work in Norwegian official statistics 1865 - 1930


T-4 WOM14 Women and the Military Establishment
M202, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Beate Fieseler
Organizers: - Discussant: Simona Slanicka
Maria Sjöberg : Women in Campaigns 1550-1850 Household and Homosociality in the Swedish Army
Carol (Kira) Stevens : Soldiers' Wives in early 18th century Russia
Fia Sundevall : “Please note: No amazons wanted!”. Continuity and change in Swedish women’s military work 1865–1965


U-4 SOC13 New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief II
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Organizers: - Discussant: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Thomas M. Adams : Juan Luis Vives and the Traditions of Welfare Reform
Julie Marfany : Responses to poverty in Catalonia: hospitals, charitable funds and outdoor relief (c.1750-1820)
Olga Salamatova : Ideology of ‘the common weal’ and Implementation of the Poor Law in Early Stuart England


V-4 ETH04 Exclusion and Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Panikos Panayi
Organizer: Panikos Panayi Discussant: Panikos Panayi
David Dee : ‘I’m afraid we have a Jewish quota’ – Golf, Anti-Semitism and Anglo-Jewry 1900-1980
Gavin Schaffer : The Boundaries of Britishness: Jewish Refugees and the War Effort
Wendy Ugolini : Narratives of ‘Unbelonging’: Recovering Italian Scottish Experience
Quyen Vo : The reception of the Hungarian and British refugees in Britain, 1956-57


W-4 CUL04 Oral Communication in History: Problems and Methodology
M210, Marissal
Network: Culture Chair: Frank Bösch
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Bösch
Filippo De Vivo : Studying communication in early modern Italy: Possibilities and pitfalls
Brigitte Mral : Methodological Problems Concerning Women's Rhetoric in the 19th Century
Arjan Van Dixhoorn : Intermediality of oral communication in the early modern world
Joris van Eijnatten : Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Audiences: Diffuse, Simple and Mass


X-4 URB02 Theorizing Gateway
M211, Marissal
Network: Urban Chair: Robert Sweeny
Organizer: Michael-W. Serruys Discussant: Takashi Okunishi
Giovanni Favero : Inter-modal nodes in different ages: a case study.
Per Hallén : Gateway cities – connecting to the world
Harm Kaal, Abdel El Makhloufi : From airfield to airport: An Institutionalist approach of the early development of the Schiphol airport; 1916-1940
Takashi Okunishi : From consumption center to gateway city: Ghent and grain circulation
Michael-W. Serruys : Trade flows, transport networks and urban systems: the search for a theoretic framework


Y-4 ORA04 Teaching and Using Oral History
M212, Marissal
Network: Oral History Chair: Almut Leh
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Agnes Khoo : Why Oral History matters and the teaching of oral histories - incorporating oral histories in undergraduate social science learning - Asian University for Women as a case study
Hana Pelikanova : How to Teach „Complex“ Oral History - Oral History as a M.A. studies. A Prague Example
Miroslav Vanek : Between the conservatists“ and the „investigators“. Oral history in the Czech Republic 15 years after and its current problems


Z-4 TEC01 The Development of New Consumer Cultures
M204, Marissal
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizers: - Discussant: Lesley Whitworth
Gabriele Balbi : How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone case study
Clive Edwards : Developing new markets in the European furniture industry through the use of lamination and bentwood design and technology, 1830-1880
Alberto Grandi : The refrigeration industry and changes in food consumption
Hiroki Shin, Colin Divall : Rapid travel in comfort: quality of passenger experience in the history of Britain's railways


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