Preliminary Programme

Showing: World History (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 14.15
E-3 ECO02 Interfaith commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times III: Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Amélia Polónia
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Francesca Trivellato Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Catia Antunes : Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 1580-1776
Juan Gelabert : Pecunia, Patria, Religio: Atlantic trade during the Dutch Revolt (1585-1609)
Silvia Marzagalli : Trade across religious boundaries in Early Modern France
Jeroen Puttevils : Commerce and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
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



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
K-6 LAB08 British industrial relations
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Yann Béliard Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Peter Ackers : Partnership & Productivity? British academic Industrial Relations & public policy, 1945-79: The failure of Workplace Reform & Lessons for Today
Constance Bantman : The Strike as a Transnational and Transpolitical Invention, 1880-1914
Yann Béliard : Rocking the Empire. The Gibraltar Dockers' Strike of 1902.



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
U-7 WOR01 Chinese Military History in Global Perspective
M207, Marissal
Network: World History Chair: Joanna Handlin Smith
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Robin D. S. Yates
Peter Lorge : Exporting China’s Military Revolution : Guns around the World
Paul Smith : War and the Literati State: Military Adventurers and the Irredentist Campaigns of Late Eleventh-Century China
Michael Szonyi : Soldiers and Smugglers: Military Households and Maritime Asia Trade in the Ming
Harriet Zurndorfer : What is the Meaning of War in an Age of Cultural Efflorescence? War and Song Dynasty China (960-1279): The Views from Inside and Outside the Empire



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
T-12 WOR02 Rethinking Global-Local: The Role of Overseas Organizations (and Networks) in Early Modern Global Encounters
M202, Marissal
Network: World History Chair: Tijl Vanneste
Organizers: - Discussant: Tijl Vanneste
Karwan Fatah-Black : The role of regional trade in the formation of a Dutch plantation colony: Suriname's New England connection
Frasie Hertroijs : Acquiring knowledge from China: a comparison of the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company as information agencies of eighteenth century Europe.
Antonella Viola : Re-thinking trust in trading networks. The De Vecchi's enterprise in Mysore (1860-1872)



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
C-13 WOR03 International Conferences and the Construction of a World United by Knowledge and Politics
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: World History Chair: Steffi Marung
Organizers: - Discussant: Nico Randeraad
Fabian De Kloe : Beyond Babel: Language and Internationalism in Early 20th Century Science.
Frank Eisermann : The Maghrebian-European peace treaties between 17. and 19. century and the importance of the islamic maritime law for the forming and development of the modern international maritime law
Michael Christopher Low : The 1866 International Sanitary Conference through Ottoman Eyes
Joao Rangel De Almeida : Between Science and Politics. The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Construction an International Sphere of Public Health
Nir Shafir : Both Individuals and States: the Hybridity of Diplomatic Power in an Early International Congress
Ashley Wright : The 1931 Bangkok Opium Smoking Conference and British colonial opium policy in Burma.



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
L-14 WOR04 Area Studies in Eastern Parts of Europe (and Beyond)
Room D14, Pauli
Network: World History Chair: Attila Melegh
Organizers: - Discussant: Attila Melegh
Frank Hadler : Historiography on Latin America and Africa in East Central Europe
Torsten Loschke : The Contrasting Case: The history of Latin American Studies in the U.S.
Steffi Marung : African Studies in the Soviet Union
Katja Naumann : Introduction: Uncharted Territory in the History of Area Studies
Robert Wolff : Remembering the Amistad; Narratives of Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World


R-14 WOR05 Economic Thought: Past, Present and Future
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gareth Austin : The Making of a Global Economic Historiography? Towards the Reciprocal Integration of the Economic Historiography of the West and ‘the Rest’
Giovanni Gozzini : Economic History and Development Economics: Working Connections, 1950-2000
Hagen Schulz-Forberg : Fixing the Future: Social Imagination and Economic Thought



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
R-15 WOR07 Comparisons and Connections: the global and the local
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: World History Chairs: Katja Naumann, Patrick Karl O'Brien
Organizers: - Discussant: Patrick Karl O'Brien
Attila Melegh : Non-teleological Comparisons in the History of Nationalisms and Imperialisms in the Early 20th Century
Alessandro Stanziani : Captives and slaves in Eurasia, XV-XVIIIth century: a global history at a local time
Birgit Tremml : Who reaped the benefits of the transpacific trade?
Eric Vanhaute : Global and local peasantries: comparisons, connections, and systems



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
C-16 WOR08 History of Technology in a Global Perspective
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: World History Chair: Steffi Marung
Organizers: - Discussant: Johan Schot
Maria Paula Diogo : Shaping the African Landscape: Portuguese railways in Angola and Mozambique
Matthias Middell : Portals of Globalisation
Dirk van Laak : Europe in a Global World


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