Preliminary Programme

Showing: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations (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
B-1 POL01 After the Purge. Re-integrating Collaborators in Post-war Society: Failure of Success?
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Bruno De Wever
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruno De Wever
Koen Aerts : From scaffold to liberty. Setting free the last WWII-collaborators in Belgium
Baard Herman Borge : The reconciliation that never came: Norway's settlement with the quislings after WWII
Bram Enning, Helen Grevers : Role of psychiatry in post-war trials
Helen Grevers : Preparations for encompassment into 'good citizenship': special probation service in the internment camps for political delinquents in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1945-1950



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
M-2 POL02 Post-communism and the Governance of Conflicted Memories: The Case of Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Malgorzata Mazurek
Organizers: - Discussant: Malgorzata Mazurek
Muriel Blaive : Dealing with the memory of the communist secret police : the Czech case
Paul Gradvohl : Current Hungarian memory politics : from communist nostalgia to neo-fascist confiscation of the past
Thomas Lindenberger : Neither relativizing nor belittling. Vergangenheitsbewältigung and governmentality in post-communist Germany



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
M-3 POL03 The Portuguese Estado Novo as an Example for Europe, 1926-1959. Transfer of Neo-corporatism
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Robin De Bruin : Neocorporatism and `renewal’ in the Netherlands, 1939-1946



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
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



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
M-5 POL05 Authoritarian Elections in Historical Perspective
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Malcolm Crook : The Uses of Voting in Second Empire France, 1851-1870
John Dunne : "The First Authoritarian Elections": Why were elections so important to Napoleon Bonaparte's authoritarian regime?
Ana Sofia Ferreira : The Presidential Elections in Estado Novo
Enzo Fimiani : A particular form of "election": plebiscitary practices in France, Italy and Germany in comparative perspective (XVIII-XX centuries)
Jose Reis Santos : Liberalism, Corporatism and Fascism influences in the Portuguese New State electoral law
Hedwig Richter : Meanings and Functions of Elections in state socialism



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
B-6 WOM15 Meet the Author of Globalizing Feminism before 1945 I
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Karen Offen
Organizers: - Discussants: Anne Cova, Lucy Delap, Natalia B. Gafizova, Nancy Hewitt, Karen Offen



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
B-7 WOM16 Meet the Author of Globalizing Feminism before 1945 II
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Julie Carlier
Organizers: - Discussants: Mieke Aerts, Marilyn J. Boxer, Olga Shnyrova, Susan Zimmermann


C-7 POL06 Science, Networks and Democracy
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Ana Monica Fonseca : The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy
Maria Zarifi : Surviving through networks. Rescuing policies for the German science in the Weimar Republic.



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
M-9 POL07 Democracy on a Small Scale
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Philipp Amour : A Palestinian Cultural Revolution 1964-1982?
Maria Kyriakidou : U.N.R.R.A Operations in Northern Greece: from the transnational to the local
Irina Novichenko : The Experience of Democracy in the Soviet Period: informal local associations in the 1960s-1970s
Sami Suodenjoki : Voluntary Associations Democratising Local Politics in Rural Finland



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
N-10 POL08 Policy and Diversity
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Ida Al Fakir, Norma Montesino : Swedish Policy towards Romani people and Romani self organisation
Fernando Fontes : The long run for citizenship: disability policies and attitudes towards disabled people in Portugal across time
Narguesse Keyhani : Who is an immigration expert ? The conflictual emergence of immigration expertise in France, from the 1970s to the 1990s
Patrik Lantto : Reindeer herding as indigenous policy: A comparative perspective on Sweden, Norway, USA and Canada, 1890-1950



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
L-11 POL09 Politics, Memory and Historical Consciousness
Room D14, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ana Sofia Ferreira
Organizers: - Discussant: Ana Sofia Ferreira
Brecht Deseure : Local Memories and the Revolutionary Future - The Paradoxical Representation of the Local Past by the French Revolutionary Regime
David Kitching : Remembrance of Easter 1916 and the changing character of Irish nationalism
Greg Tinker : Commemoration of the Normandy landings: politics, pilgrimage and 'progress' 1984-2004


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
D-12 LAT03 Historical Ethnographies of Latin American States I: State Imaginings
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Barbara Weinstein
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussant: Barbara Weinstein
João Marcelo Ehlert Maia : Ideas and State Action; the case of Central Brazil Foundation
Elizabeth Kiddy : Creating Brazil: Territory and the State in Nineteenth Century Brazil
Esben Leifsen : Public welfare reform, social work and the protection of the child in the mid 20th century Quito, Ecuador
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Regulating Reproduction and Sexuality to Cast a Modern Nation: The Gendered Legacies of Military Dictatorship in Chile


L-12 POL11 The Politics of Borders
Room D14, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Susan Pennybacker
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Sandra Araújo : Bilge Keel in Land: Entangled Dynamics and Passages of a European Movement. Explorers and Scientific Journeys in Southern Africa
Antara Datta : The Subcontinental Repatriation of 1973-1974 and the Re-making of South Asia
Karen Denni : Myth, memory and oblivion in a transnational region: The case of the French-German border zone
Rebecka Lettevall : Citizenship, cosmopolitanism and neutrality: Perspectives on the Nansen Passports



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
D-13 LAT04 Historical Ethnographies of Latin American States II: State Institutions and Employees
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chairs: -
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussant: Paulo Drinot
David Cahill : Labyrinths of Power: Colonial Bureaucracy as an Ethnological System
Kim Clark : Public Health and State Formation in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1950
A. Ricardo López : ‘We Want Our Professionals to be Loved’: Middle Class Formation and State Ruling in Bogotá (Colombia) during the first years of the Cold War
Brett Troyan : The Colombian central state 1958-1965: transforming rural inhabitants into indigenous citizens"


L-13 POL10 Defining and Re-defining Citizenship
Room D14, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Linda Braun : The Implementation of General Conscription in Prussia, 1814-1859
Anne Epstein : Rendez-vous Manqué? Feminism and Female Citizenship in the French Third Republic
Larry Frohman : The Politics of Personal Information and the Origins of Privacy Protection in West Germany
Yasemin Türkkan : From Object to Citizen, the Rise of a Nation: Turkey
Elpida Vogli : One Nation, One Citizenship: Irredentism and Citizenship during the Unification of Greece (1821-1947)


O-13 POL12 Decolonization and the Colonial Heritage I
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Networks: Africa , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Susan Pennybacker
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Paulo Fernandes : The end of a virtual empire. The Portuguese South East Africa and the representations of colonial rule at home (1878-1898)
Virginie Roiron : Thinking beyond colonialism: Britain and the Commonwealth experience
Melanie Torrent : From the Loi Cadre to the short-lived French Community: British perceptions of the French transition to independence in sub-Saharan Africa (1956-1960)



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
D-14 LAT05 Historical Ethnographies of Latin American States III: Local Entanglements with the State
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
John Collins : Prostitution’s Bureaucracy and the Nation’s History: Buildings, People, and Moral Evaluation in the Cradle of Brazil
Karine Vanthuyne : Authoritarianism as “Embodied Terror”? Surviving “non-citizenship” in postcolonial and post-genocide Guatemala


Q-14 POL13 Decolonization and the Colonial Heritage II
Atelier R2, Pauli
Networks: Africa , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Paulo Fernandes
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Rui Feijo : Timorese Democracy and the Portuguese Inheritance
Ricardo Sousa : Power-sharing prospects in the Angola peace processes
Maarten Vink, Patricia Jeronimo : Citizenship in a Post-Colonial Context: the Portuguese and Dutch experiences compared



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
L-15 POL14 Leftist Politics and National Belonging before WWII
Room D14, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Kim Christiaens : Belgian trade unions and the creation of transnational solidarity during the Cold War (1950s-1970s)
Carl Levy : Italian and Spanish Anarchism Compared: Nation, Region and Patriotism, 1860-1945
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter Van Duin : Social democracy and the Hungarian minority in Slovakia after World War I
Gerben Zaagsma : Transnational dimensions of Jewish political practices in Western Europe before WWII


O-15 POl15 POL15: Transnational Visions of the Nation
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Lidia Jurek : The influence of Italian Risorgimento on the construction of the concept “Pole-Catholic”
Tadeusz Kopys : Nationalism and Processes of Globalization in Central Europe
Eleonora Naxidou : The characteristics of a national identity: Georgi Rakovski and the origins of the Bulgarians
Paula Portas : Narrating colonialism: the UPG and the struggle for the nation.



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
B-16 POL17 Transnational Nationalism: Political Relations and Intellectual Transfer between Nationalist Ideologies and Movements in 19th and 20th Century Europe
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Theory Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Ido de Haan
Martin R. Gutmann : An Irreconcilable Ideology: The Germanische Leitstelle and ‘Nationalist-Internationalism’, 1930-1945
Dean J. Kostantaras : Intellectual Transfer and Revivalist Discourse in the Age of Nationalism
Stefan Vogt : Between Socialism and Fascism: Nationalist Socialism in pre-War and inter-War Europe


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