Preliminary Programme

Showing: Elites and forerunners (all days)
Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
N-1 ELI01 Fascist Elites
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Sabil Francis
Goffredo Adinolfi : The Fascist Elites, Government and the Grand Council
Antonio Costa Pinto : Ruling Elites and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships. Comparative Perpectives
Heikki Länsisalo : The National Socialist Idea of the "Man of Culture" ? An Analysis of the Propaganda Movie Friedrich Schiller
Alexandre Rocha : The Portuguese Ruling Class after the Defeat of Hitler’s Germany: an Elite to be Seduced



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
N-2 ELI17 Workshop: the concept of power, applied (double session)
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizer: Marja Vuorinen Discussants: -
Francesco Aimerito : Judicial and legal professions in the States of Savoy: élites and 'middle-class' (XVI-XIX centuries)
Jaana Gluschkoff : Innovations and the rise and fall of elites
Carlos Eduardo Rebello De Mendonça : Trotsky and counter-hegemony in Western Europe in the interwar period
Raquel Sánchez : Cultural politics and national identity in Spain
Alex Snellman : Remodelling Bourdieu's Capitals as Power Resources
Pedro Urbano : The Portuguese constitutional monarchy
Marja Vuorinen : What makes people tick? Cross-discipline approaches to ideological power



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
J-3 ELI02 Diplomatic Elites and the Shaping of National Ideas
Room D11, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: Aappo Kähönen, Jukka Kortti
Organizers: - Discussant: Jukka Kortti
Michael Auwers : A Theoretical Framework for the Study of the History of Diplomatic Culture in Times of Crisis: the Case of the Belgian Diplomats, 1910-1940
Ronald Gebauer : Cadres on the Diplomatic Stage. The Social Origins and Career Patterns of GDR’s Former Diplomatic Personnel.
Vanni Pettinà : Facing Nationalism: State Department vs. Embassy during the Cuban Insurrection, (1955-1958).


N-3 EL17b ELI17b Workshop: the concept of power, applied, part 2 (double session)
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizer: Marja Vuorinen Discussants: -


R-3 MAT04 Court Consumption
Atelier R3, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Jonathan Spangler Discussant: Peter Stabel
Christina Antenhofer : Luggage for a life yet to live: The Bride’s treasure as an example for female material culture
Luc Duerloo : Tangible Courtesies: Diplomatic Gift Exchange at the Archducal Court of Brussels
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier : The "Menus Plaisirs" administration and its material sphere. A study on material court culture in the 18th century France
Dries Raeymaekers : Living like Kings and Loving it. Consumption and Display at the Court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in Brussels, 1598-1621
Jonathan Spangler : Material Culture in the Court of the Guise: inventories, libraries, furniture and visual representations of power and piety in 17th-century Paris


Y-3 ELI03 Methodological Discussions in the Exploration of the History of Elites
M212, Marissal
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Violet Soen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ali Yaycioglu
Lynn Botelho : Methodological Approaches to Writing the Social History of Elite Peasants: England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Henry French : Corresponding Problems: Methodological Problems in the Reconstruction of Elite Identities in England, c. 1660-1900
Martin Gustavsson, Andreas Melldahl : The Art of Success in Art. Using prosopographical methods in the study of social recruitment to elite schools and positions in the Swedish art field 1938–2007
William C. Lubenow : Some Notes Toward A Social History of Modern Elites
Andrea Pokludova : Forming Intelligence in Moravia and Silesia in the 2nd Half of the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
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



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
A-5 ELI05 Elites from the Communist World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Tauno Saarela
Organizer: Meri E. Herrala Discussant: Tauno Saarela
Meri E. Herrala : Soviet Elite Composers and the Pressures of the Soviet System
Iina Kohonen : Picturing Khrushchevian elite – photographic representations of Soviet cosmonauts
Axel Salheiser : Social Inequality, Mobility, and the Illegitimate Inheritance of Status: Empirical Findings on the Recruitment and the Career Patterns of GDR Business Elites.
Maciej Tyminski : The Local Nomenklatura System: Party Aparatus and Industry in Poland (1956-1970)


C-5 ECO03 Fashion and Art Markets
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizers: - Discussant: Jon Stobart
Laura Ibisco, Valdo D'arienzo : The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Ian Mitchell : ‘I designe my books for posterity’: book collectors and conspicuous consumption in early modern England
Klas Nyberg : The economics of art and art industry: Patrons, artists and artisans in 18th century Stockholm


Z-5 ELI07 ELI07 Academic Elites from 1930s to 1950: national carreer paths
M204, Marissal
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Nathanaelle Minard
Organizers: Nathanaelle Minard, Carolina Rodríguez-López Discussant: Nathanaelle Minard
Andreas Åkerlund : Nordic Studies in National Socialist Germany. A possible Career Path for Swedish Academics
Jukka Kortti : Building New Cultural Finland - Student Magazine Ylioppilaslehti Creating Finnish Culture Elite in Post-War Decades
Carolina Rodríguez-López : Academic Exiles: The First Spanish Exiled Professors in the United States Universities (1936-1950)



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
D-6 LAB01 The Cult of Communist Leaders
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Kevin Morgan
Organizer: Kevin Morgan Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti : The cult of leaders in Italian Communism: Gramsci, Togliatti, Di Vittorio
Balazs Apor : Exporting Charisma: Leader Cults in the Stalinist Soviet Bloc
Tauno Saarela : Kuusinen versus Mannerheim - Finnish leader cults in comparison


H-6 ELI11 When Elites Dream of Empires
Hortazaal, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: João Marcelo Ehlert Maia
Organizers: - Discussant: João Marcelo Ehlert Maia
Ewa Kociszewska : The dream of a French Empire of Henry de Valois, King of Poland (1573)
José Antonio Sánchez-Román : Henri Coudreau and the dream of a French Empire in the Amazon



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
D-7 LAB02 Leadership in Western European Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Tim Rees Discussant: Matthew Worley
Thomas Beaumont : Pierre Semard and Communist trade union leadership: The Case of the French Railway Workers
John Bulaitis : The notebooks and diaries of Maurice Thorez: a new source for the history of French communism
Tim Rees : 'Where There's a Will There's a Way': Leaders and Leadership in the Spanish Communist Party, 1919-1943
Andrew Thorpe : Failure in Communist Party Leadership: Harry Pollitt and the British Communist Party after 1945


Q-7 RUR08 Rural Life and Power
Atelier R2, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Organizers: - Discussant: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
John Beckett, M.E.Turner : The decline of manorial control over village and community governance, 1603-2010
Claus K. Meyer : 'Coerced service,' 'service coercion,' and peasant flight. Reflections on manorial estates in Old Prussian Brandenburg in the light of the history of plantation slavery in antebellum South Carolina
Eugénia Rodrigues : Female Landowners and political power in the Zambezi valley during the 18th century


T-7 URB01 Social-Political Ideas in European Architecture and Urban Planning, 1919-2009
M202, Marissal
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizer: Sae Matsuno Discussants: -
Georg Leidenberger : A trans-Atlantic Courier of Socialist Modernism: Hannes Meyer’s Cooperative Housing Projects in Europe and Mexico, 1919-1949
Sae Matsuno : Residents of the “Cities of Tomorrow”: Urban Development and Identity Formation in the Social Housing of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Vienna (1919-1935)
Nicole Muennich : Appropriation of Space: The New Socialist Metropolis of „Novi Beograd“ and the Urbanism From Below in the 1960s
João Queirós : City, State and social change. A sociohistorical approach to the consequences of State-led housing projects in Porto's historical centre
Manfredo Di Robilant : A 'White' Plan for a 'Red' Region: the Piano Inacasa in Emilia Romagna, Italy, through the case of quartiere Sant’Agnese, Modena 1952-1957


V-7 ELI16 Elites' strategies of survival I: families, power and status in Early Modern Europe
M209, Marissal
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Organizer: Konstantinos Raptis Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Francisco Chacón Jiménez, Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez : Between the Social Thing and the Political Thing. Some Reflections about the Aristocracy in the Hispanic Monarchy. The Example of the House of Los Vélez
Fabrizio D'Avenia : Elites and Ecclesiastical Carreers in Early Modern Sicily: Bishops, Abbots and Knights
Lavinia Pinzarrone : Urban elite and social mobility in early Modern Sicily: The Bologna family from the 16th to the 17th century
Violet Soen, Hans Cools : The nobility between France and the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands: Changing loyalties? (1470-1580)



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
A-9 MAT08 Old Collectables in a Modern World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chairs: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme Discussants: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme
Manuel Charpy : Trafficking the world, trafficking the times. The market of exotic antiques in Paris between 1850 and 1914
Jozef Glassée : Collecting and donating art. On the relationship between private art consumption and donations to the fine arts museums of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent (c. 1800–c. 1914)
Julia Petrov : "Bits of Kernooze"; Homosociality and antiquarianism in Britain, 1880-1914
Adriana Turpin : The emerging antiques market in early 19th century England


X-9 ELI08 Business Elites I: Women Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Europe
M211, Marissal
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizer: Galina Ulyanova Discussants: Andrea Pokludova, Martin Wottle
Polly Thanailaki : Female Illiteracy and Women Domestic Servants in the 19th Century Greek Society
Galina Ulyanova : Female entrepreneurial elite in nineteenth-century Russia: ‘noble’ and ‘merchant’ patterns
Stefanie Van De Kerkhof : Women Entrepreneurs in the Early Industrialization - A Regional Comparison of the Ruhr and Upper Silesia



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
X-10 ELI15 Business Elites II: modernizing peripheries, transforming port cities
M211, Marissal
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Organizers: - Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Aappo Kähönen : Formation of Foreign and Trade Policy in New Nation-States: Case of Finnish and Estonian Bourgeois Elites, 1918-1925
Piotr Korys : Modernizers on the periphery. Ruling elites and choice of the patterns of modernization in Poland between 18th and 20th century
Huibert Schijf : Elites in Port Cities



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
F-11 ELI14 Business Elites III: Politics and Class Identity
Vestibule, muziekcentrum
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Per Lundin
Organizers: - Discussant: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Pål Brunnström : The making of class among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939
Aliye F. Mataraci : A Profile of Business Elites in Istanbul by the End of the Ottoman Empire
Kari-Matti Piilahti : Formation and Generational Continuity of the Finnish Business Elite 1850¬-1940
Maiju Wuokko : In the Woods with President Kekkonen – Field Sports as a Means of Interaction between the President and Finnish Forest Industrialists


K-11 MAT09 Authenticity, Canonization, Professionalization and the Museum
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: - Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Abigail Harrison Moore : Authentic Objects?: The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Antiques Trade in the early Twentieth Century
Uta Protz : The Construction of New Cultural Elites: The Foundation of the Vereniging Rembrandt (1883), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (1897), the Société des Amis du Louvre (1897) and the National Art Collections Fund (1903)
Mark Westgarth : Putting History in Order: Sir Samuel Meyrick’s ‘Period Rooms’ at Goodrich Court, 1828-1831


N-11 ELI04 Elites' Strategies of Survival II: class, distinction and identity markers, 18th -20th centuries
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Charlotta Wolff Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Bertrand Goujon : The Arenberg family from Early Modern Times until WW I
Jouko Nurmiainen : Elite survival. Theories and patterns
Charlotta Wolff : "Old and true". The survival and identity of merchant families in 19th-century Finland (ca. 1770–1920)


S-11 POL20 Historians as Citizens: Political Interventions in the Americas
M101, Marissal
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizer: Margaret Power Discussants: -
Temma Kaplan : Historians as Citizens: Political Interventions in the Americas”
Teresa Meade : Historians and Political Practice: Some Thoughts about the US, Latin America, and Beyond
Margaret Power : Historians and Political Engagement: The Strengths and Challenges of Conducting Research on a Movement with which You Work
Andor Skotnes : Politics, Citizens, and Nation
Barbara Weinstein : Professional Politics: A View from the Presidency of the American Historical Association



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
N-12 ELI09 Re-inventing the urban elite
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizer: Jon Stobart Discussant: Jon Stobart
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : Towards a deeper knowledge of professionalisation in nineteenth-century Britain
Jan Hein Furnee : Nobles and notables. The integration of elites in post-restauration The Hague, 1813-1820
Hilde Greefs : Change in composition and definition of urban elites during a period of transformation. The case of Antwerp, 1750-1850
Sheryllynne Haggerty : Elite Mercantile Networks in Liverpool 1750-1810: Power, Status and Control



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
N-13 ELI10 Cornerstones of noble identity
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chairs: Bertrand Goujon, Mirella Marini
Organizers: Bertrand Goujon, Mirella Marini Discussant: Francisco Chacón Jiménez
Nicola Cowmeadow : Scottish Noblewomen, the Family and Scottish Politics in the Era of the Union of 1707
Cristina Ramos Cobano : Fighting oneself, or the transformation of the Spanish nobility at the end of the Old Regime
Anne-Valérie Solignat : The Auvergne Nobility and the Constable of Bourbon’s Betrayal (1523)
Klaas Van Gelder : Loyalty towards Anjou versus loyalty towards Habsburg. The elites in the Southern Netherlands in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725)



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
A-14 ELI12 Elites through material culture
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Jari-Matti Kuusela Discussant: Jari Okkonen
Danielle De Vooght : Performing power at the table. Dining at the Belgian royal court of the nineteenth century
Laura Giacomini : The Life of the Milanese Elite in their Residences as Reconstructed through Estate Inventories (XVI-XVII century)
Jari-Matti Kuusela : Burials of the Finnish Iron Age as material discourses of the elite
Samuel Vaneeckhout : The origin of prehistoric elites in Finland



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
N-16 ELI13 Elites by the book: novels, diaries, autobiographies, account books, recipe books, inventories
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Paul Janssens
Organizers: Nikolaj Bijleveld, Yme Kuiper Discussant: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Yme Kuiper : Nobility and Fiction: the representation of the nobility in the 'roman fleuve' around 1900
Jaap Moes : Some aspects of the life style of Dutch aristocracy around 1900
Hanneke Ronnes : The memory of the noble house
Jon Stobart : Tea and cakes: elite consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England
Wybren Verstegen : Private landownership, nobility and nature conservation in the Netherlands 1928- 1973


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