Preliminary Programme

Showing: room V (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
V-1 ETH01 Austrian Migration after 1945
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Isabel Schropper : The Blue Danube Scheme – ‘Woman’power for Britain’s economy
Ute Sonnleitner : "I Had Only Good Experiences - But I Never Would have Wanted to Stay": Research-Project "Female Styrian Emigrant Work 1945 - 1955"
Andrea Strutz : Return Migration from Canada: Migratory Experiences of Austrian Female and Male Labour Migrants in the Post-World War II Period
Astrid Tumpold-Juri : "Skim off the Cream"



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
V-2 ETH02 Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States, New York - Oxford: Berghahn Books 2009
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Frank Caestecker
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Caestecker
Michal Frankl : Czechoslovakia, a better refuge?
Aviva Halamish : The Role of Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany: The British Perspective
Susanne Heim : The International Refugee Regime and the Jewish Emigration from Nazi Germany



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
V-3 ETH03 Historical Approaches to Transnational Ethnic Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Nadia Bouras
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadia Bouras
Brigitte Cairus : The Testimony of a Gypsy Queen: immigration, identity politics and interculturality in contemporary Brazil
Eric Payseur : “Ethnic Identity can come in waves too”: Polish Canadian Leaders, Gender, Polishness and Canadianization
Christa Wirth : 'Americans don’t appreciate their country!' How Descendants of Italian Immigrants to the United States Construct Ethnic Identities in Migration Narratives



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
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



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
V-5 ETH05 Personal Narratives of Migration: Reading First Person Accounts and Family Correspondence
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leslie Page Moch
Organizer: Maria Bjerg Discussant: Leslie Page Moch
Jeremy Ball : Angolan Accounts of Forced Labor, 1900-1960
Maria Bjerg : The experience of Immigrant Children Through Personal Narratives. Argentina in the Second Postwar
Beatriz Padilla : Brazilian Narratives of Migration: Saudades, Gender Differences and Coping Strategies in Portugal of the XXI Century
Milena Vico : The construction of testimony: Exploring the preservation or loss of cultural identification within different post-war Lithuanian diaspora populations now settled outside their country of birth and nationality



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
V-6 THE06 The Unity of History in Post-War German Debates
M209, Marissal
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Lorenz
Berber Bevernage : From history to histories. Louis Althusser on the unity of the historical process
Frank Beck Lassen : ’Prägnanzbedürfnis’. Hans Blumenberg’s Metaphorological Critique of History as a Unified Process
Niklas Olsen : Beyond Utopianism and Relativism: History in the Plural in the Work of Reinhart Koselleck
Henning Trüper : Eschatology and the Unity of the Past: Karl Löwith’s Historical Conceptualisation and Critique of Historical Reason



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
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 10.45
V-10 ETH09 Migrants' Social Networks and Social Capital
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organizers: - Discussant: Alice B. Kasakoff
Maja Cederberg : Social networks, social capital and social support: exploring the complex functions of ethnic associations in the lives of migrants
Alessio D'angelo : Social Capital and Organisational Networks: the case of Kurdish Community Organisations in London
Louise Ryan : Social networks and social capital: the experiences of recent Polish migrants in London



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
V-11 ETH10 Migrants' Access to Poor Relief: Policies and Strategies, 1500-1900
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Steven King, Anne Winter Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Heidi Deneweth : Migration policies, social policies, and labour market regulation: the case of the textile industries in sixteenth-century Bruges
Steven King : I must be allowed to insist: negotiating poor relief in England 1800-1850
Thijs Lambrecht : Agrarian capitalism, poor relief and labour organisation in Flanders, ca. 1650-ca.1820
Anne Winter : Bargaining for relief: Migration, lifecycle and settlement in nineteenth-century Antwerp



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
V-12 ETH11 Networking Newcomers. Formal and Informal Ties of Immigrants (1500-1945)
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Stéphane Kronenberger : The migration of swiss cheesemakers to Franche-Comté (1860-1920): an example of the importance of social networks
Nele Provoost : Between friends and family. Informal contacts of newcomers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Lier
Saartje Vanden Borre : Belgian migration in Northern France in the second half of the 19th century: the importance of cafés and associations in the social and cultural life of an immigrant community



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
V-13 ETH12 The Dynamics of the Creation of 'Enemies from Within' in Belligerent Societies: The Case of German Migrant Minorities and the First World War (1913-1920)
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Panikos Panayi
Organizers: Frank Caestecker, Antoon Vrints Discussant: Panikos Panayi
Frank Caestecker, Antoon Vrints : The clash of loyalty among German immigrants in Belgium during and after the First World War
Daniela Luigia Caglioti : Anti-Germanism and economic nationalism: the fate of German communities and German capital and enterprises in Italy during WWI
Tammy Proctor : “Technically” German: The Ambiguities of Nationality in World War I Civilian Internment Experiences



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
V-14 ETH13 Determinants of Movement: a Comparative Approach to Internal and International Migration
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Organizers: - Discussant: Jelle van Lottum
Nelly De Freitas : Island’s Migration : Azores and Madeira Islands ‘s Case, 1850-1900
Christer Lundh : Internal migration and regional wages in Sweden, 1865-1945
Colin Pooley : Linking internal and international migration: a comparative study of the UK and Sweden in the nineteenth century



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
V-15 ETH14 Macro-regions, Political and Cultural Borders and Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dirk Hoerder : Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States
Frans Huijzendveld : Jack of all Trades: Greek Diaspora communities in East Africa
Bina Sengar : Dynamism in the Trans Himalayn Trade in the 18th Century
Jerome Teelucksingh : Mastering the Midas Touch: The Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in North America and England, 1967-2007



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
V-16 ETH15 State Action and Migrants Identities
M209, Marissal
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Frank Caestecker
Organizers: - Discussant: Frank Caestecker
Arkady Levin : Russia's citizens of different formal ethnicity: Ethnic self-definition and desire to live in Another Country.
Leslie Page Moch : Eurasia on the Move: Migration in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet States
Philippe Rygiel : The "Institut de droit International" and the regulation of migration


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