Preliminary Programme

Showing: room P (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
P-1 SOC01 European Almshouses
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Thomas M. Adams Discussant: Frank Hatje
Nigel Goose : The English almshouse and the mixed economy of welfare c. 1500-1900
Henk Looijesteijn : Founding almshouses in the Netherlands, ca. 1500-1800
Angela Schwarz : Jewish foundations in Hamburg against homelessness
Christina Vanja : Hospitals and care for the Elderly in Hesse, 1500-1800



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
P-2 THE01 Self Images of the Historical Discipline or: What Philosophers of History Can(not) Learn from how Historians Understand their own Practice
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Berber Bevernage
Davide Bondì : Why Philosophy of History Cannot be Restricted to the Historian’s Self-Image
Herman Paul : Mythic Genealogies of the Historical Discipline
Eugen Zelenak : Who Should Characterize the Nature of History? The Wrong Question



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
P-3 FAM21 Family Foundations I. Anchoring the Family: Property Strategies of Migrants
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Family and Demography Chair: David Warren Sabean
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Beshara Doumani
Isaac Xerxes Malki : The Transnational Politics of the West African Lebanese and the Pursuit of ‘Community’, c.1925-1962
Astrid Meier : Between Balkh and Damascus
Katalin Prajda : Acting as one: Common action, collectivity and property strategies in the case of a double-rooted Florentine kinship network
Nurfadzilah Yahaya : The Arab under English Law in the British Straits Settlements



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
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



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
P-5 FAM23 Family Foundations III. Occupying Religious Institutions
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jon Mathieu
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Simon Teuscher
Hans Hummer : Institutionalizing Kinship: Monasteries and Families in Early Medieval Europe
Monica Miscali : Life, death and money. A analysis of the Sardinian post-mortem inheritance system
Sabine Mohasseb Saliba : The Development of Maronite Family Monasteries in Mount Lebanon (17th- 19th centuries)



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
P-6 FAM24 Family Foundations IV. Settlement: Strict and Unstrict
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: David Warren Sabean Discussant: Christopher H. Johnson
Nathalie Büsser : Collective property and individual claims in the families of Mercenary Entrepreneurs (16th–18th century)
Michael Gilsenan : Settlements and wills among migrant Muslims in colonial singapore
Thomas Max Safley : Wills, Transfers, Foundations and ‘Trust’ among South-German Merchant-Finaciers in the Early Modern Period
Ali Yaycioglu : Power and Wealth of Ottoman Provincial Elite Households (1699-1838)



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
P-7 REL05 Old and New: Jesuits and Mendicant Orders in the Early Modern World
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Simon Ditchfield
Tara Alberts : Shared devotions: forms of lay piety in the early modern Catholic mission fields of Southeast Asia
Karen Melvin : Old World, New World Orders
Silvia Mostaccio : Old World, New Issues:Early modern Jesuits struggle with obedience
Karin Velez : Old Shrines, New Shrines: The Disputed Connections and Wandering Relics of Loreto (Italy), Trsat (Croatia), Ancienne- and Jeune-Lorette (Canada), 1550-1750



Wednesday 14 April 2010 16.30
P-8 NET11 Networkmeeting Labour
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
P-9 FAM06 New developments with large historical databases
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Networks: Family and Demography , Chair: Onno Boonstra
Organizer: Kees Mandemakers Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Francisco Chacon, Raquel Sanchez : Computer tools for the reconstruction of families applied to the Didactics of the History and the historical research
Edward Higgs, Kevin Schurer : The British Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project
Paulo Lopes Matos : The Portuguese Population Data System for the Overseas Territories (1766-1820)
Gunnar Thorvaldsen : A discussion of two longitudinal databases



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
P-10 ECO07 Public Goods
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Economics Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ben Gales
Ewout Frankema : Comparing Colonial State Expenditure Patterns, 1870-1940: Did the colonial periphery suffer from weak public finances?
Tomas Hogberg : Organizing public goods with decentralized management: The Swedish road network in the 19th century
Tobias Alexander Jopp : Social Security and Intergenerational Redistribution: The German Miners' Knappschaften Since 1854
Brooks Kaiser : Long run outcomes of conservation expenditures: Watershed destruction, rehabilitation and protection in Hawaii



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
P-11 ECO09 Long-term perspective on Economic Change
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Economics Chair: Ewout Frankema
Organizers: - Discussant: Peer Vries
Graham Brownlow : Structure and Change: Douglass North's Economics
Harry Kitsikopoulos : Institutions and the crisis of feudalism
Jan Kunnas : Economic Growth and Environmental Pressure in the Extremely Long Run



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
P-12 ECO08 Business History
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Economics Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Meyer
Harald Degner : Large Sample Analysis and Firm-Level Business History
Tobias Karlsson : Workforce reductions in theory and practice: Evidence from the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s
Knut Oyangen : Core Rigidities and Soft Budget Constraints: Path Dependence in State-owned Industry
Federico Rigamonti : Real and monetary economy in nineteenth century Sicily: a case study



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
P-13 ECO10 The Role of Hamburg in Early Modern World Economy
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Networks: Economics , Urban Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeff Fynn-Paul
Frank Hatje : Neutral Flags, European Trade and the Rise of Hamburg in the 17th and 18th centuries
Pourchasse Pierrick : The Huguenots in Hamburg
Toshiaki Tamaki : Hamburg as a center of Logistics in Early Modern World Economy
Klaus Weber : Hamburg’s and Central Europe’s Links with the Atlantic Slave Trade and Plantation Economies, 17th to 19th Centuries



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
P-14 ECO12 Post-War Twentieth Century
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Economics Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Olaf Mertelsmann : On the Relation of Mortality and Income: An Example from Stalinism
Ophelia Ongena : The history of the SERV and of the social economic dialogue in Flanders
Jeroen Touwen : Paradigm or hyperbole? Categories of institutional change and the changing priorities in the post-war economies



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
P-15 FAM18 Methodological Tools for the History of the Economic Role of Siblings in Traditional Societies
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizer: Fabrice Boudjaaba Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Llorenç Ferrer Alos : Younger sons, economic progress and social mobility in Catalonia (XVIII-XIXth century)
Francisco García González : Brothers in the Household. Relationship and Corresidence in the Ancien Regine of Castile.
Gérard Le Bouedec : Dynasties and siblings in the coastal navigation (golf du Morbihan 18th century)
Stéphane Minvielle : The economic role of kinship : brothers and sisters in merchants families (Bordeaux, 18th century)



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
P-16 CUL16 Ritual, Cultural Performance and Ideology
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Culture Chair: Sabil Francis
Organizers: - Discussant: Sabil Francis
Eva Deak : Ceremonial and Social Representation: The marriage of Catherine of Brandenburg and Gabriel Bethlen in 1626
Alexandra Silva : Cultural consumption in the University of Coimbra in the 1980s


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