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Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
A-1 CUL03 Cultures of Modernity 1: Living Modernity
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Organizers: Ed Jonker, Joris van Eijnatten Discussant: Ed Jonker
Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz : Informality and Modernisation in Cultural Historical Perspective
Tiina Männistö-Funk : Self-made Modernity through Vernacular Innovations
Maren Tribukait : Ambivalent Modernity: Crime Photography in German and American Tabloids (1920s/1930s)


B-1 ELI08 The Persistence of the Elite Status - Aristocratic Methods against Declining Privileges
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Rafaella Pilo Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Kim Bergqvist : Constructing Medieval Aristocratic Ideology
Rafaella Pilo : Persistence and Surviving Strategy of the Spanish-Portuguese Clan of the Enríquez de Ribera-Moura (XVI-XVIII)
Blythe Alice Raviola : From a Small State to a Kingdom: The Élites of Monferrato in the Savoy System of Honours. Titles, Fiefs and Historical Interpretations
Rodrigo Ricupero : The Formation of the Colonial Elite - Honors and Graces: Patrimony and Power in the Brazilian's First Century


C-1 CUL18 Sacred Borders, Times and Spaces. Popular Religion and Magic in Early Modern Northern Europe
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Rune Blix Hagen
Organizers: Miia Kuha (Kuronen), Emmi Lahti Discussants: -
Jari Eilola : The Significance of Borders and Control of Space in Early Modern Witchcraft and Magic
Esther-Beate Körber : Media and the Organization of Time in Early Modernity
Miia Kuha (Kuronen) : The Role of the Lutheran Church in the Religious Life of the Peasantry in 17th Century Eastern Finland
Emmi Lahti : Using Sacred Spaces as a Part of Magic Rituals - Popular Beliefs Towards Cemeteries and Churchyards in 18th Century Finland
Göran Malmstedt : In Defence of Holy Days; The Peasantry's Opposition to the Reduction of Holy Days in Sweden between 1500-1800


D-1 CRI02 Crime Stories: Justice, Criminality, Policing and the Inter-War Press
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Networks: Criminal Justice , Culture Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizer: John C. Wood Discussant: Clive Emsley
Andrew Davies : Reluctant Gangsters? Street Gangs and the Press in Interwar Glasgow
Matt Houlbrook : Commodifying the Self Within: Crook Life Stories in Interwar Britain
Paul Knepper : Spotlight and Shadow: The League of Nations and Human Trafficking in the 1920s
Heather Shore : "Up-To-Date Criminals": The Press and the Professionalisation of Crime in Interwar Britain
John C. Wood : The Constables and the “Garage Girl”: The Inter-war Press, the Metropolitan Police and the Case of Helene Adele


E-1 FAM13 European Censuses and NAPP Harmonization
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Per Axelsson Discussant: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Marianne Erikstad : Variability in Coding Occupation in Norwegian Censuses
Zengyi Huang, Peter Razzell, Chris Dibben & Paul Boyle : Linking Scottish Civil Registration Records into Individual and Family Histories: A Pilot Study
Francesco Scalone, Martin Dribe & David Hacker : Socioeconomic Status and Net Fertility during the Fertility Decline in Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and USA: A Comparative Analysis Based on 1900 Censuses Data
Maria Wisselgren, Sören Edvinsson & Maria Larsson : Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses


F-1 REL01 Civil Religion in Postwar America: A Source of Conflict or Appeasement
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussant: Patrick Pasture
Anja-Maria Bassimir : When God and Country Collide: Civil Religion as a Source of Conflict for US-American Evangelicals
Heike Bungert : Civil Religion as a Source of Appeasement in U.S. National Anniversaries, 1957-1970
Richard Salter : A Virtue of Ambivalence: American Civil Religion and the Peace Corps
Jana Weiss : Civil Religion as a Rhetorical Instrument of Conflict or Appeasement? The Memorial Day Celebrations in the United States


G-1 LAB07 International Solidarity: Radical and Leftwing Networks during the Interwar Period
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Aldo Agosti
Organizer: Holger Weiss Discussant: Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Gleb J. Albert : The USSR Section of the International Red Aid (MOPR): International Solidarity and Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kasper Braskén : Activating International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Germany, 1921–1933
Fredrik Petersson : Decolonization & Postcolonial Historiography: League against Imperialism, Anti-imperialist Movements, Networks, & Place, 1927-33
Holger Weiss : Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers


H-1 LAB27 Industrial Relations in Theory and in Practice
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Aad Blok
Organizers: - Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
Ralph Darlington, John Dobson : Objectivity and Partisanship in Industrial Relations Research
Stefan Mueller : German Trade Unions and the New Eastern Policy, 1969-89
Johanna Wolf : Modern Times and Old Concepts. West German Trade Unions in the 1970s
Erik-Jan Zurcher : Towards a Taxonomy of Military Labour


I-1 WOR02 East Central Europe and Global History
Main Building: Humanities
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Beata Hock : Inscribing Socialist Eastern Europe into a Socialist World through Art
Isabella Löhr : Transnational Civil Society Networks and Academic Refugees from East Central Europe in the Cold War
Attila Melegh : Trojan Horses: ‘Reform’-discourses Relinking Local and Global Hierarchies in State Socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s
Katja Naumann : Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the International Labour Organization
Raluca Maria Popa : International Activism of State Socialist Women’s Organizations in the 1970s: Shaping the UN Women’s Agenda


J-1 MAT08 Material Culture and Social Identities
Main Building: G466
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg : "My Home is My Factory": Lady Pianists and Working-Class Discipline
Angela Jager : Cheap, Gaudy and Spectacular. The Mass Market for History Painting in the Dutch Golden Age
Elizabeth Kim : The Market Bubble and Julian Schnabel: A Case Study of the Structure of the 1980s Art Boom and Bust


L-1 SOC13 Repression in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula (16th-19th Centuries)
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Guimarães
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Guimarães
Oscar Fernández- Alvarez : Charity and Social Control through Welfare Agencies in the Province of León, Spain (19th and 20th Centuries)
Alfredo Martín-García : Delinquency and Forced Labour in Northeast Spain in the 18th Century
María José Pérez Alvarez : Prison Living Conditions in Northeast Spain under the Ancien Régime
Laureano Rubio-Pérez : Crime and Council Justice in Rural Northeast Spain (17th and 18th Centuries)


M-1 WOM05 Gender, Political Thought and the Shaping of Early Modern Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Lynn Botelho
Anna K. Becker : Machiavelli and the Early Modern Conception of Politics: Rethinking the Relationship of Public and Private in Renaissance Political Thought
Sari Nauman : Gender, Power and the Oath – The Early Modern State and the Oaths of Allegiance
Claudia Opitz-Belakhal : Jean Bodin, Gender, and the Origins of the Modern State


N-1 EDU02 Child Saving - Institutions and Moral Judgements
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Mona Gleason
Organizers: - Discussant: Mona Gleason
Daniela Marza : The Child between the State, the Church and the Family – the Case of Transylvania (1850-1918)
Nicoleta Roman : Shaping Orphan Lives in Wallachia: Customs, Laws and Institutions (1800–1860)
Shurlee Swain : Florence and Rosamond Davenport Hill and the Development of Boarding out in England and Australia: A Study in Cultural Transmission


O-1 ORA01 Trauma and Mourning
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Devereux Powers : From Voices to Visible Text: Complexities in Transcribing the Narratives of Mississippi Chinese World War II Veterans
John Powers, Gwendolyn Gong : Making Sense of the Stories of Mississippi Chinese World War II Veterans
Michaela Raggam-Blesch : “Der Riss der Zeit geht durch mein Herz”. Nostalgia and the Narrative of a “Lost Paradise” in Jewish Oral-history Documents after the Shoah


P-1 CUL02 Popular Culture and Media Diversity
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Culture Chair: Jeroen Salman
Organizer: Jeroen Salman Discussants: -
Patricia Fumerton : Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustration
Roeland Harms : The Influence of the Early Modern Popular Media on the Dutch Literary Stories of 'Jan Klaasz' and 'Jan de Wasser'
Marie Léger-St-Jean : Mid-19th Century Cheap Novels: Speeding Towards Global Mass Transmedia Culture
Angela McShane : Ballads on Affairs of State in 17th Century England. Some Myths and Legends
Talitha Verheij : Processes of Popularization in Dutch Popular Print Media


Q-1 HEA03 Industrial Accidents and Disasters: Security, Compensation and Care (France/England, 17th-19th Century)
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Thomas Le Roux
Organizer: Thomas Le Roux Discussants: -
Claire Barillé : Thinking of the Care for People Injuried by Industrial Accidents
Liliane Perez, Marie Thébaud-Sorger : Claiming for Fire Damages at the Sun Fire Office: A Map of Artisans' and Entrepreneurs' Activities in Industrializing Britain in the XVIIIth Century
Christelle Rabier : Compensation by Quest? The Role of Parishes in Accident Compensation, 17c-18c


R-1 POL16 Imperial and Post-imperial Visions
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Jennifer L. Foray
Organizers: - Discussant: Jennifer L. Foray
Laura Cerasi : The Necessary Empire. Italian Colonialism between Anglophilia and Anglophobia, from the Adwa Defeat (1896) to the Conquest of Addis Ababa (1936)
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter van Duin : The Bewilderment of a Scottish Historian: R.W. Seton-Watson and the Hungarian Minority in Slovakia, 1918-1923
Stefan Vogt : Zionism and “Weltpolitik” in Wilhelmine Germany


S-1 RUR01 Common Rules. The Functioning and Regulation of Institutions for Collective Action at the European Countryside
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Angus Winchester
Organizer: Tine De Moor Discussant: Guido Alfani
Francisco Beltrán Tapia : Collective Resources, Human and Social Capital: The Emergence of Agricultural Cooperatives in Early 20th Century Spain
Jose Miguel Lana : Neighborhood Rules: Natural Resources, Belonging and Regulation in Northern Spain before 1850
Claudio Tagliapietra : Evolving Rules in the Commons: an Empirical Analysis of the Regulation in the Italian Alps 1200-1800
René Van Weeren, Tine De Moor : The Carrot and the Stick. An Exploration into the Sanctioning of Freeriders on the Dutch Commons in the Early Modern Period.


T-1 POL02 Grey Areas of Multiethnic Citizenship: Shifting Borders, Changing Claims
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Anna Novikov : The Godfathers of the ‘New Citizen’: Politics, Borders and Nationalization in Interwar Polish Silesia
Ida Ohlsson Al Fakir : Swedish Gypsies and Welfare Practices in the Post-war Period
Ariel Salzmann : Citizens in Search of a State: Imperial Sovereignty, Local Claims, and Ethno-Religious Violence in Ottoman Syria (1820-60) and Anatolia (1880-1915)


U-1 SOC01 Authority and Resistance in Plebeian Spaces in 19th Century England
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizer: David Green Discussants: David Green, Susannah Ottaway
Paul A. Fideler : "Statistics and Society: Ameliorating a Manchester 'Little Ireland' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
David Green : Plebeian Spaces: Streets, Homes and Institutions in 19th-century London
Jane Hamlett : A Veritable Palace for the Hard-working Labourer? Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in Rowton Houses, Ltd., London, 1892-1914
Samantha Shave : Spaces of Female Sexual Violence and Consolation in New Poor Law Workhouses, 1834-1871


V-1 ETH01 Marriage, Migration and Control: International Marriages in Discourses and Practices
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Elli Heikkilä
Organizers: Johanna Leinonen, Saara Pellander Discussant: Elli Heikkilä
Anne Lavanchy : Love Boundaries: Suspicion and the Search for Evidence in the Everyday Practice of Swiss Registrars
Saara Pellander, Johanna Leinonen : Mechanics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Marriage Migration in Finnish Immigration Discourses
Alexandra Stam : Migration-generated vulnerability: the example of domestic violence in the Swiss context


X-1 ECO01 Revealing the Black Box: Measuring Economic Performance during and in the Aftermath of World War II
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Albrecht Ritschl
Organizer: Tamás Vonyó Discussant: Albrecht Ritschl
Taylor Jaworski, Joseph Cullen, Price Fishback & Paul Rhode : World War II and the Changing Structure of the American Economy
Jonas Scherner, Jochen Streb : 'Outsourcing and Supplier Networks in the German Aircraft Industry during World War II
Tamás Vonyó, Pieter J. Woltjer & Nikita E.S. Bos : The Economic Consequences of the War: Productivity growth in German, British and American manufacturing during the 1940s
Harry X. Wu, Tangjun Yuan : Measuring Economic Performance in the Wartime China, 1937-49


Y-1 WOM01 Brothers of the Sisterhood? Men and Masculinities in 19th and 20th Century Feminisms
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Gunnel Karlsson
Katherine Hubler : “Shall men’s strengths therefore be doomed to idleness?” Feminist and Pro-feminist Masculinities in the First Wave of German Feminism
Hélène Quanquin : “With feebler voices?” Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and Men’s Contribution to 19th-century American Feminism
Cristina Scheibe Wolff : The “New Man”: Discourses on Masculinity and the Feminism in Left-wing Movements of the Southern Cone in the 1970s



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-2 CUL04 Cultures of Modernity 2: Managing Modernity
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Ed Jonker
Organizers: Ed Jonker, Joris van Eijnatten Discussant: Joris van Eijnatten
Maria Heidegger : “Modern” Psychiatry and Pastoral Caring of Religious Madness. A Tyrolean Example
Kate Hill : Modernity and Materiality: Identities, Museums and the Affect of Objects around 1900
Svein Ivar Langhelle : Religion between Tradition and Modernity. A Norwegian Case


B-2 ELI03 The Self-presentation of Political Elites in Agrarian Regions of Central Europe, 19th to beginning of 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Organizer: Andrea Pokludova Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Roman Holec : Comparison of Self-presentation of Agrarian Political Elites in Central- and East-Europe at the beginning of 20th Century
Andrea Pokludova, Pavel Kladiwa : The Self-presentation of the German Political Elite in Rural Areas of the Czech Lands in the Second Half of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century: Public Celebrations, Commemorations, Monuments


C-2 FAM01 Historical Demography in Comparative Perspective: Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Alice Reid
Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jørgen Marker : Did the Transformation of Denmark in the 19th Century Influence the Marriage Pattern and Age of First Marriage?
Mimoza Dushi : Marriage: Need or Request?
Hilde L. Sommerseth : Consanguineous Marriage in Norway, Late 19th Century


D-2 CRI06 A Century of Belgian Child Protection: Keeping up Appearances?
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Heather Shore
Organizer: Els Dumortier Discussant: Pamela Cox
Jenneke Christiaens, Tinne Geluyckens : On the Dark Side of the Moon: The Detention of Youngsters in Belgium
Els Dumortier, Aurore François : Belgian Magdalenes? History of an Aborted Scandal…
Kevin Goris, Sofie De Bus : The ‘Problem Child’ in Belgian Youth Justice
David Niget : From Criminal Justice to the Social Clinic. Belgium's Juvenile Justice System and the Circulation of Transnational Models, 1912-1965


E-2 FAM14 Godparenthood Strategies: A Long Term Perspective, 15th to 20th Centuries I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizers: Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Guido Alfani : Selection of Godparents from within Kin in Europe (1500-2000 ca.)
Etienne Couriol : Choice of the Godparents in an Urban Structure: A Long-term Analysis in Lyon
Davide De Franco : Godparenthood Strategies in a Mountain Region of North-western Italy
Stéphane Minvielle : Baptism and Godparenthood Strategies in Bordeaux between the Council of Trent and the End of the Old Regime


F-2 THE10 European National Museums Negotiating Truth, Identity and Conflicts 1760-2010
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Theory Chair: Peter Aronsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Lorenz
Felicity Bodenstein : Uses of the Past – Narrating the Nation and Negotiating Conflicts
Alexandra Bounia : Museum Citizens: Experience and Identity of Audiences
Gabriella Elgenius : Mapping and Framing Institutions 1750-2010: National Museums Interacting with Nation-making
Uta Protz : The Museum as Diplomat: the British Museum, the Musée du Louvre and the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in China


G-2 LAB08 Beyond the Grave: The Legacy of International Activists in a Transnational Context. The Case of Flora Tristan, Guido Miglioli, Ellen Wilkinson and Emile Pouget
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Martin Farr
Organizer: Matt Perry Discussant: Martin Farr
Claudia Baldoli : Guido Miglioli (1879–1954): Crossing and Re-crossing the Hostile Terrain between Catholicism and Communism
Constance Bantman : Transnationalising French Anarchism through Biography: The Case of Emile Pouget
Máire Cross : Remembering and Forgetting Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
Matt Perry : Ellen Wilkinson (1891 – 1947) Beyond the Nation State and Beyond the Grave


H-2 LAB14 Social Outcasts and 'Others' in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Lex Heerma van Voss : Working Girls in World Cities
Magaly Rodríguez García : The League of Nations' moral recruitment of women
Rik Vercammen : Teaching Work Ethics to Beggars and Vagabonds?


I-2 SOC12 Welfare State Concepts in a Historical and Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Noel Whiteside
Organizers: - Discussant: Noel Whiteside
Lovisa Broström : General Old-Age Pensions in Sweden –The Rise of the Poorest Group in the Welfare State 1913-1960
Irène Herrmann : Welfare State vs Democracy in Switzerland
Pauli Kettunen, Nils Edling : The History of the Welfare State in Northern Europe
Klaus Petersen, Jørn Henrik Petersen : Confusion and Diffusion? The Term Welfare State in Germany and Britain


J-2 REL02 Living Spaces, Families and Communities (16th - 18th Centuries)
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Leila M. Algranti : Daily Diet and Festivals’ Food in Portugal during the Eighteenth Century: The Nuns of the Convento dos Remédios (Braga)
Paula Bessa : From the Kingdom and from the Wide World into the House of God: Aspects of Material Culture in the Eastern Algarve «comendas» of the Military Order of Santiago during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
Maria Cristina Osswald : Everyday Life in India Missions from the 16th to the 18th Centuries: Between Hell and Heaven
Lisbeth Rodrigues : "Making Heaven on Earth": Space, Gender and Material Culture in a Portuguese Thermal Hospital. The Case of Nossa Senhora do Pópulo (1485-1580)


L-2 URB07 Urban Amenities
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Technology , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lena Eriksson : The Lost and Preserved City. Stockholm 1919-1994
Giuseppe Restifo, Carmelina Gugliuzzo : The Opening of the Harbour, the Closing of the Walls: Urban History of two Mediterranean Port Cities
Mikkel Thelle : Resisting Urban Modernity: The Copenhagen Tramways as Assembly


M-2 WOR01 Natives as Missionaries
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizer: David Lindenfeld Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Jin-heon Jung : Korean Protestant Aspirations: Korean Mega-church Founders' Conversion Narratives
Ulrike Kirchberger : The Pupils of Eleazar Wheelock's "Indian Charity School" as Native Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Xiaojing Wang : “For the Salvation of Our Fellow Men”: A Study of the Chinese Home Missionary Society (1918-1948)
Emma Wild-Wood : Powerful Words: Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, a Broker of Social and Intellectual Change (1895-1933)


N-2 EDU01 Border-crossing in Education: From Networks Building to Local Implementation
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Zoe Moody
Organizer: Joelle Droux Discussants: -
Joelle Droux, Damiano Matasci : Tackling Youth Unemployment, Raising Educational Standards: Transnational Educational Actors and Projects at the ILO in the 1930’s
Valeska Huber : The Role of International Networks in the Shaping of University Reform in the Middle East, 1850-1950
Ivan Jablonka : The Globalisation of Child Welfare in Europe and North America (19th-20th c.)
Nora Natchkova, Rita Hofstetter : The Evolution of International Bureau of Education (IBE) : a Field of Institutionalisation of International Relationships in Education (1925-1946)


O-2 ORA02 Work and Labour
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Zibiah Alfred
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Timothy Ashplant : Text in Context: Life Narrative and Class Relations in Imperial Britain (1879-1918)
Alison Chand : ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Communities in the Reserved Occupations 1939-1945: Retrieving the Regional Experiences of Glasgow’s Wartime Workers
Linsey Robb : ‘Fighting in their Own Ways’?: Using Oral Histories to Explore Cultural Representations of Men in Reserved Occupations in Britain, 1939-1946


P-2 CUL01 Performers and Spectators: Production and Reception of Popular Entertainment in the 18th and 19th centuries
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Culture Chair: Jan Hein Furnee
Organizer: Vicky Vanruysseveldt Discussant: Jan Hein Furnee
Benjamin Heller : Consuming and Producing Recreation in Georgian London
Evelien Jonckheere : The Economy of ‘Attractions’ in Ghent anno 1895
Eva Krivanec : An early Copy & Paste Culture. The Mobility of Aesthetic Forms, Narrative Elements and Strategies of Attraction in European Live Entertainments 1870-1930
Vicky Vanruysseveldt : Reaching Out for a Public: Strategies of Itinerant Entertainers to Attract Spectators (1750-1914)
Maarten Walraven : The Audible Street in Manchester, 1850-1895


Q-2 HEA04 Health, Normality and Hunger
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizer: Josep Lluís Barona Discussant: Iris Borowy
Josep Lluís Barona : Nutritional Deficiencies among the European Population (1946-1960)
Thomas Depecker : From Livestock Management to Human Nutritional Needs: The Concept of Ration in France in XIXth Century
Ximo Guillem-Llobat : The Sanitary Expertise of the Spanish Real Academia de Medicina in the Establishment of Local Food Safety Standards


R-2 POL17 The Europeanisation of the Environment: Actors, Institutions and Ideas
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Health and Environment , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Stéphane Frioux : Towards a Europeanisation of Air Pollution Management ? Late 1950s-1970s
Jan-Henrik Meyer : What is Europeanisation? Conceptual Clarifications and Empirical Examples from the History of the Emergent Environmental Policy of the European Communities in the 1970s
Sandra Tauer : Debates on Nuclear Energy along the Upper Rhine: An Example of the Europeanisation of Environmental Policy?


S-2 RUR03 Changing Water Uses, Flood Control and Conflicts
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Stefan Brakensiek
Organizer: Andras Vari (1953-2011) Discussant: Stefan Brakensiek
Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset : Fighting against floods
Piet van Cruyningen : Changing Property Relations and Ecological Sustainability in the Southwest of the Netherlands, c. 1500-1700
Milja van Tielhof : Conflicts around the Maintenance of Sea Dikes in the early Modern Period. A Comparison of Major Sea Dikes in the Northern Netherlands, Germany and Flanders
Nadine Vivier : “Ordinary” Floods in the 19th Century France: Events and Preventive Actions


T-2 POL03 Transitions from Democratic Rule in Interwar Europe
Maths Building: 325
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Carl Levy
Organizers: - Discussant: Carl Levy
Laura Kepplinger : Statal Organization in Totalitarian Regimes: Austria (1933 - 1938) and Spain (1939 - 1945)
Liia Laanes : From One Transition to Another: Local Elections in Estonia in 1918-1940
Spyridon Ploumidis : Corporatist Ideas in Inter-war Greece: Theory and Practice
Jose Reis Santos : Breakdown of Democratic Rule in Interwar Europa and the Advent of Authoritarian Constitutionalism in the Mid-1930’s


U-2 SOC02 Collections for the Poor. Voluntary giving and the Finance of Poor Relief
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Daniëlle Teeuwen, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
John McCallum : Collections for the Poor in the Post-reformation Church of Scotland
Karen Sonnelitter : Financing Improvement: Philanthropy and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Daniëlle Teeuwen : Collections for the Poor. Charitable giving in the Dutch Republic


V-2 ETH02 Remembrance of Migrations and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Museums and the Public Space
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Lavinia Stan
Organizers: - Discussant: Lavinia Stan
Laurence Gourievidis : Remembrance of 19thC Highland Migration in Scotland: The Making of Transnational Memories
Christiane Hintermann : Migration Memory Gap: Searching for Lieux de Mémoire of Migration in Public Space in Vienna/Austria
Christina Johansson : Swedish Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity – Contacts and Conflicts in the Production of Exhibitions and Events
Christoph Rass : What Have we Done to Armando Rodrigues?


X-2 ECO02 Innovation and Human Capital
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussant: Jochen Streb
Theresa Gutberlet : Mechanization and Industry Agglomeration in the German Empire
Nuno Miguel Lima : Private Initiative, Politics and the Role of Networking to Influence Decisions: the Salamanca to the Portuguese Border Railway Lines in the 1880s
Maurizio Lupo : Technological Innovation in a Peripheral Area: Results from a Research Regarding Inventors, Inventions and Patents in the Italian Mezzogiorno during the First Half of XIXth Century.
Andrea Maestrejuan : Navigating the Costs of Patent Protection: Individual Inventors and the German Patent System


Y-2 WOM02 A Unified Terrorist Body? Hunger Strike, 1970s Leftist Terrorism and Gender
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann, Dominique Grisard Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann : Silenced Bodies. Hunger Strikes of the Radical Left in Austria during the 1970s
Clare Bielby : (Re-)Performing the Hunger-striking Body
Dominique Grisard : Gender, Nation and Performance. Leftist Terrorists' Hunger Strikes in 1970s and 1980s Switzerland
Patricia Melzer : Collective Action and the Feminized Body as Catalyst of Political Subjectivity in the RAF Hunger Strikes


Z-2 THE02 Transnational Perspectives on Post-War Historical Thought and Culture
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Ian Gwinn : Radical Historians and the Making of Social History in Britain and West Germany: The Case of the History Workshop Movement
Christoph Laucht : Towards the Transnational Study of Nuclear Culture: Environmental Concerns and Medical Activism against Nuclear War in Britain and West Germany in the 1980s
Stephan Petzold : Anglo-American Reeducation, Transnational Scholarly Relations and the Westernisation of Fritz Fischer’s Historical Thought, 1945-1965



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-3 CUL05 Cultures of Modernity 3: Theorising Modernity
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Organizers: Ed Jonker, Joes Segal, Joris van Eijnatten Discussant: Ed Jonker
Jukka Kortti : Media, Elite and Modernity. Defining Modern among Finnish Cultural Intelligentsia in the 20th Century
Alanna Lockward : “We are all black”. Modernity, Global Citizenship and the Limits of Humanity from the Enlightenment of the Haitian Revolution
Joes Segal : In Search of Socialist Modernism: How East Bloc Culture fell Victim to Western Teleology
Michael Spiller : Past the Post: Modernism and Modernity


B-3 ELI16 Elites and Religion
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Religion Chair: Lavinia Pinzarrone
Organizers: - Discussant: Kim Bergqvist
Stefanie Beghein : Sacred Music between Confessionalization and Secularization (Antwerp, 17th-18th Centuries)
Fabrizio D'Avenia : Making Bishops in the Malta of the Knights (1530-1798). An International Game of Parties, Patronage and Diplomacy
Shalin Jain : ‘Religiosity', ‘Piety’ and the Jain Elites in Medieval India
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson : Thy Will Be Done. The Path to the Office of Bishop in the Church of Sweden during the 20th Century
Maria Ana Travassos Valdez : Religious Elites Dreaming of Divine Empires in the Early Modern Portuguese World


C-3 FAM02 Historical Demography in Comparative Perspective: Mortality
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Angelique Janssens
Organizers: Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid Discussant: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid & Simon Szreter : The Geography of Child Loss: Belfast, Ireland, 1911
Tamar Hager : Legal and Medical Maneuvers: The Attitude of the British Legal and Medical Systems towards Ellen Harper who killed her Newborn Baby in 1877
Andrew Hinde, Martin Gorsky & Aravinda Guntupalli & Bernard Harris : Morbidity and Mortality in England, 1850-1950
Jim Oeppen : Decomposing the Evolution of Mortality Frailty in the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, 1749-1909.
Kai Willführ, Alain Gagnon : Are all Step-parents Evil? Parental Death, Remarriage, and Child Survival in Saturated (Krummhörn, 1720-1859) and Expanding (Québec, 1670-1750) Demographic Contexts


D-3 CRI04 Criminal Justice in Authoritarian Regimes
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: John C. Wood
Organizer: Richard Wetzell Discussant: Paul Knepper
Victoria C. Belco : Italian Penal Reform and the Fascist Model
Paul Garfinkel : Preventative Repression, Repressive Prevention: Security Measures in Italy’s 1930 Penal Code
Jeffrey Hardy : Re-Assessing the Archipelago: The Soviet Gulag in Comparative and Transnational Context
Richard Wetzell : Discussing Penal Reform in Nazi Berlin: The 1935 International Penal and Penitentiary Congress


E-3 FAM27 Godparenthood Strategies: A Long Term Perspective, 15th to 20th Centuries II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Gourdon
Myrto Dimitropoulou, Eugenia Bournova : Networks of Godparenthood in Athens, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Agustin G. Grajales : Practices and Strategies of Godparenthood in the Life of a Mexican Neighborhood in the Eighteenth Century
Juuso Marttila, Merja Uotila : Godparenthood Defined by a Location, an Occupation, a Social Class, a Kinship and a Strategy in Finnish Countryside in 1810-1914
Cristina Munno : Contemporary Godparenthood in Northern Italy (1830-2000)


F-3 WOM20 Roundtable Women's Movements I
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Olga Shnyrova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maud Bracke : 'Our First Discovery was our Housework': Debates on Women and Work in Italian and British Feminism (1960s-70s)
Natalia B. Gafizova : Patriotism and Internationalism in Self-conception of Russian Women's Movements: Rational and Transnational Levels
Valentina Greco, Maria Grazia Suriano & Paola Zappaterra : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)
Maria Grazia Suriano, Valentina Greco & Paola Zappaterra : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)
Paola Zappaterra, Maria Grazia Suriano & Valentina Greco : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)


G-3 LAB01 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Employment
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Alastair J. Reid
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Peter Ackers
Daniel Bennheden : Membership in Mutual Aid Societies in Early 20th Century Sweden
Stephen Caunce : Agricultural Hiring Fairs in Northern England, 1890-1930: A Reconsideration
John Kimberley : Cadbury Labour Management: Paternalism - or Something More?


H-3 LAB25 Women's and Children's Work
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Jordi Ibarz : The Women and Children’s Labour in the Mechanization of the Glass Industry in Spain, 1900-1936
Malin Nilsson, Tobias Karlsson : In Homes and Factories: Employment Patterns among Women during the Second Industrial Revolution
Johanna Overud : Breaking Way – Making Difference? Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960


I-3 LAB13 Performing as Work
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Georg Schinko Discussant: Tracy C. Davis
Angele David-Guillou : Early Musicians' Unions in France and Britain. New Status of the Professional Musician: Artist and Worker
Georg Schinko : Music-making as (Non-)Work in Austria 1918-1938
Laure Schnapper : Herz, Musician and Business Man
Julia H. Schroeder : Street Music as Sound of a City: The Street Musician “Harfenjule” in Berlin around 1900


J-3 SPE01 Discussion on Open Access
Main Building: G466
Network: Chair: Aad Blok
Organizer: Aad Blok Discussants: Aad Blok, Tine De Moor, Anne Mccants, Erik-Jan Zurcher


K-3 TEC02 Text and Technology
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Robert Bud : Defining Applied Science through Allegorical Narratives
Vitaly Gorokhov : From Theory to Design in the Technoscience: Some Remarks on the History of Engineering
Peter Meyer : Networks and Publications of Aeronautical Invention up to 1910
Hugo Silveira Pereira : Railways and Parliament in Portugal (1851-1892)
Yousef Yassi : Reconstruction and Experimental Validation of a Magic Jar - An Ancient Invention for Liquid Separation


L-3 ANT03 The Social Institution of Money in the Ancient World
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Antiquity Chair: Alain M. Bresson
Organizer: Koenraad Verboven Discussant: Alain M. Bresson
Melissa Bailey : Money as Material Cognition
David Hollander : Triumph of the Denarius: Roman Monetization in the Second Century BCE
Koenraad Verboven : Cash, Credit, Bullion and Kind: Payment Modes in the Early Roman Empire


M-3 WOR10 Humanitarianism and the Media, 1900-1930
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Thomas Lindenberger
Organizers: Volker Barth, Daniel Roger Maul Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Volker Barth : The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906: Humanitarian Intervention, the Local Press, and the World Communication Order
Friederike Kind-Kovács : Picturing the Poor Child: Photography as Social Politics of (Trans)national Child Philanthropy in Interwar Hungary
Daniel Roger Maul : Selling "Red" Relief - American and British Quakers and Famine Relief in the Soviet Union 1921-
Carl Emil Vogt : Fridtjof Nansen's Humanitarianism and the Media


N-3 POL15 Social and Cultural Approaches to the History of State Formation
Main Building: Senate
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Martin Almbjär : The Social Practice of the State
Marcelo Barroso Lacombe : Contrast or Convergence: The Evolution of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
Heike Mauer : Intersections of Gender, Nation and Class: The Regulation of Prostitution in Luxembourg (1900-1939) as Governmentality
Massimo Petta : Printing “Official” Documents: The Building of “Officiality” in the Border between Public Authority and Private Interest
Yanna Tzourmana : Constitutional Cultures and New Cultures of the Self


O-3 ORA03 Migration/Diaspora I
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Graham Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bea Lewkowicz : Sephardi Voices: Reflections on the Role of Nostalgia in Oral History Interviews
Mónica Beatriz Mendoza, Eduardo Espinosa : Coming Back: The Repatriated Scientists
Ulla Savolainen : Nostalgia as a Narrative Strategy and Practice – the Case of Migrant Karelians in Finland


P-3 EDU08 The Decorated School
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Ian Grosvenor
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Grosvenor
Catherine Burke : The Decorated School: Defining the Subject
Peter Cunningham : Public art and the Primary School 1920-1960
Jeremy Howard : Painted, Sculpted, Stitched, Tiled, Metallic, Glazed and Landscaped Schools as Learning Topoi
Shona Kallestrup : Asger Jorn’s School Decoration in Århus Statsgymnasium, Denmark, 1959-61


Q-3 HEA11 Medical Concepts and Medical Care
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jose Martínez Pérez
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Martínez Pérez
Nicole Baur, Joseph Melling : The ‘Revolving Door Patient’ Revisited: Environmental Risk Factors in Readmissions to British Mental Hospitals in the 20th Century
Jaime de las Heras Salord : Curanderismo and Neocuranderismo in the Manchuela Region of Albacete
Abhidha Dhumatkar : Pioneering Birth Control and Sex Medicine in India the Contribution of Prof. R.D. Karve (1882-1953)
Anders Ottosson : The First Historical Movements of Kinesiology. Scientification into the Borderline between Physical Culture and Medicine around 1850
Enrique Perdiguero-Gil, Ramón Castejón-Bolea : Vitamins in Spanish newspapers (1918-1950)


R-3 FAM17 The Founders and Survivors Research Project
Maths Building: 203
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Timothy Cuff
Organizer: Rebecca Kippen Discussant: Bernard Harris
Damminda Alahakoon, Sue Bedingfield & James Bradley & Sandra Silcot & Len Smith : TextCat:: A Text Mining Tool for Deriving Categories from Unstructured Text
John Cranfield, Professor Kris Inwood : Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914–1918 War in Comparative Perspective
Rebecca Kippen, Janet McCalman : Gold and Freedom: Convicts and the Victorian Gold Rush, 1851–1861
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart : Work, Punishment and Death in Convict Australia


S-3 RUR02 The Countryside and the Moral Economy
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizer: Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
John Broad : A Hertfordshire Farmer's Response to the Crisis of Poverty and Inflation during the Napoleonic Wars - John Carrington, Small Capitalist and Poor Overseer
Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths : ‘Just, Faithfull and Laudable Advancement’: The Le Stranges of Hunstanton and their Attitude to Estate Management, 1605-1655
Briony McDonagh : Propertied Women and the Moral Economy of the English Landed Estate
Manoela Pedroza : The Moral Economy of the Land Lease (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19th Century)


T-3 POL04 Radicalism, Politics and Citizenship in Northern Europe, c. 1850-1914
Maths Building: 325
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Andrew Newby
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrew Newby
Lars Edgren : Radicalism, Workers and Peasants. Folkets Tidning and Mid-nineteenth Century Democratic Politics in Sweden
Magnus Olofsson : Inventing a Swedish Citizen: The New Liberals, the Democratic Subject and a New Civic Culture
Chloe Ross : Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and Transnational Agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland
Sami Suodenjoki : Denunciations as Social Protest in Finland at the Turn of the 20th Century


U-3 SOC03 New Perspectives on Poor Relief and Poverty
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Christos Desyllas : Microfinancial Structures and Strategies of Social Policy
Kaat Louckx : The Classification of the Poor in Great Britain and Belgium at the End of the 19th Century. A Socio-historical Approach on Changing Classification Patterns
Inge Mønster-Kjær : The Poor Behind Barbed Wire
Klas Nyberg, Mats Hayen & Håkan Jakobsson : Credit, Trust and Financial Networks in 18th and 19th Century Stockholm
Olga Salamatova : On the Way to Nowhere: The Interpretation and Adaptation of Poor Relief Foreign Patterns by the Russian Public Men, 1890s – 1917


V-3 ETH05 Border Studies meet Migration Studies: Similarities and Differences
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Ad Knotter
Organizer: Machteld Venken Discussant: Ad Knotter
Ruth Leiserowitz : Litvaks as Transmigrants at and across the Prussian-Russian Border 1812-1942
Lavinia Stan : Escapees at the Border. Success or Failure in Fleeing Communist Romania.
Machteld Venken : Children as Internal and External Migrants in and from Belgian and Polish Borderland Territories (1945-1970)


W-3 ELI06 Anarchist Elite I: Elites in an Egalitarian Movement
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Ruth Kinna
Carl Levy : Italian Anarchism and Italian Fascism: The Subversive Force Field and the Fight to the Finish, 1914-1945
Dieter Nelles : Elites in an Egalitarian Movement: Anarchist Elites.
Davide Turcato : Malatesta’s Insider View on Anarchist ‘Elites’


X-3 ECO03 Law and Economics
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussant: Jochen Streb
Hideaki Ito : A Combination of Market Economy and Communal Farming ; The Common Field System of the Nineteenth Century Willingham
Susana Martínez-Rodríguez : Private Limited Liability Companies “a la Española”: Roots, Diffusions and Contradictions in the Spanish PLLC.


Y-3 WOM03 Domestic Disturbances: Political Implications of Domestic Violence in Early Modern Europe
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Family and Demography , Women and Gender Chair: Satu Lidman
Organizer: Marianna Muravyeva Discussant: Michelle Marrese
Lynn Lubamersky : Vigilante Justice vs. the Noblewoman's Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Love: The Foray/Zajazd in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th Century
Marianna Muravyeva : "A King in his Own Household": Domestic Discipline and Family Violence in Early Modern Europe Reconsidered
Raisa Maria Toivo : Violence between parents and Children in early modern Finland: Cultures of authority and taboo.
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : The Sexuality between Sin and Shame along the Ecclesiastical Courts in the 18th Romanian Society


Z-3 THE03 Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Nordic Historiography
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Ragnar Björk
Organizers: - Discussant: Ragnar Björk
Marja Jalava : The Nordic Countries as a Historical and Historiographical Regime
Claus Møller Jørgensen : Scandinavian National History Writing in the Interwar Period
Petteri Suominen : Social Property Regimes and the 20th Century Nordic Historiography



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
A-4 CUL10 Photography as Source and Tool
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Marga Altena
Organizers: - Discussant: Joeri Januarius
Paul Bijl : The Social Biography of Photographs: Framing, Proximity, and Distance
Evangelia Katsaiti : Photography as Both Performance and a Dissemination Method of Grief and Loss Adaptation in the Context of a Greek Family
Shady Grove Oliver : Capturing the Pain: Crisis Photography and the Mediation of Memory
Marcel Reyes-Cortez : Visual Research in the Cemeteries of Mexico City: Photography, a Social Research Method
Axel Tixhon, Anne Roekens & Bénédicte Rochet : Pictures of the First World War in Illustrated Weeklies Published in Belgium (1914-1918)


B-4 ELI17 New Elite Formation: Theoretical Approaches
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Adrian Zimmermann
Lavinia Pinzarrone : The Foundations of Nobility. Elites, Colonisation and New Rural Towns in Early Modern Sicily
Andrei Volodin : How intellectuals tried to influence economic policy in the late Russian Empire?
Irina Zamfirache : Elites and the Social System. Structures and Functions


C-4 FAM03 History of Historical Demography Further Explored
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Bruce Fetter, Andrejs Plakans, Sølvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig : Canadian Historical Demography - A Tale of Two Solitudes
Alexander Pinwinkler : "Population History"/"Historical Demography" in Germany, c. 1950-1980
Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Maria Norberta Amorim : Historical Demography in Portugal, 1960-2010: An Acount of the Historiography and Major Challenges


D-4 THE01 Regimes of Historicity and Politics of Time
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Lorenz
Berber Bevernage, Lore Colaert : Burying the Past? Bodies and Spirits of the Dead in the Struggle over History, Memory and Transitional Justice
Cecilia Macon : Argentina, 1985-2004: Politics, Agency and Memory
Derk Venema : Time and Identity in Transitional Justice


E-4 FAM18 Ethnicity, Migration and Family
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Valeria Sorostineanu
Organizer: Aycan E. Celikaksoy Discussant: Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora
Aycan E. Celikaksoy : Intergenerational Transmission of Interethnic Marriage in Sweden.
Danielle Gauvreau, Patricia Thornton & Helene Vezina : Immigration and Intercultural Marriages: Trends and Determinants in Québec, 1880-1940
Mihaela Grancea, Cornel Moșneag : Biconfesional Funerary Monuments in Transylvania and Banat, the Result of Mixed Marriages


F-4 CRI01 Meet the Author: Joanne Klein's Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939. Liverpool, 2010
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizer: Joanne Klein Discussants: Victor Bailey, Andrew Davies, Haia Shpayer-Makov, Pat Thane


G-4 LAB02 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: General Co-operation
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Antony Webster
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Nicole Robertson
Patrick Doyle : The Co-operative Movement in County Kerry, 1889-1910
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe : Mazzini’s Transnational Legacy amongst English Co-operators
Martin Purvis : Revisiting Hard Times: Consumers’ Co-operation in Interwar Britain


H-4 LAB15 Commercial Agriculture and Labor Relations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Lars Olsson : Landowning, Tenancy and Labor Relations in the English Northatlantic Economy in the 17th Century
Maria Papathanassiou : Rural Labour, Gender and Social Hierarchies: Peasants’ Wives and Female Rural Servants in Austria during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century
Dionicio Valdés : Primitive Accumulation and the Birth of Commercial Agriculture in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District on the US-Mexico Border, 1840-1930


I-4 SOC05 Inmates of Hospitals and other Care Institutions in the Early Modern Period
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Irmtraut Sahmland : Inmates - Their Life Before, In and Beyond the Hospital in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Martin Scheutz : Austrian Hospitals in the early Modern Times. Inmates – Authorities – Organizational System
Christina Vanja : The Kitchen Managers’ View – Inmates of the Haina Hospital on 1803 Food Bills
Alfred Weiss : House Rules and Instructions of Austrian Hospitals in the Early Modern Times


J-4 REL08 Religious Modernisation and Gender
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Tine Van Osselaer
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine Van Osselaer
Francisco Crespo : Wife and Mother: The Vision of Women in Catholic Spanish Press (XIX-XX)
Andrea Meissner : “Esto Vir! – Be a Man!” Efforts to Masculinize German Catholicism in the Interwar Period
Natasha Roegiers : Recatholicizing Belgium One Nun at a Time through Devotional Imagery in 19th Century Religious Biographies


K-4 SOC15 Cancelled!: Roundtable: Social Mobility in Eastern Europe and Russia, Sources and Methods
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizer: Vladimir Vladimirov Discussants: Antonie Knigge, Zoltán Lippényi
Valery Kanishchev : The Sources and Methods of Studies of Social Mobility of Population of Middle and Little Cities of the Central Russian at the end of 18th - beginning of 20th
Marya Markova, Dmitry Sarafanov & Vladimir Vladimirov : Russian Parish Register Books and Research of Social Mobility
Irina G. Silina, Andrei Iluhin : Spatio-social Organization of the Russian Empire in the Second half of XIX - early XX Centuries
Vladimir Vladimirov, Elena Brukhanova & Evgeny Lubanets : Russian Historical Sources and the Study of Social Mobility


L-4 ANT04 Social Networks Analysis and the Ancient Economy: Networks Around Commodities
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Antiquity Chair: David Hollander
Organizer: Katerina Panagopoulou Discussants: -
Alain M. Bresson : Silver Coins and Commercial Networks in Western Asia Minor in the Late Hellenistic Period
Katerina Panagopoulou : Commercial Networks and Gold in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Isabella Tsigarida : Salt Trade in Roman Times


M-4 WOR05 Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Technology , World History Chair: Frank Schipper
Organizers: Matthias Middell, Erik Van der Vleuten Discussants: Matthias Middell, Ruth Oldenziel
Andreas Fickers, Pascal Griset : Eventing Europe.
Johan Schot : The Origins of a European Technocracy, or the Governing of Europe by experts
Philip Scranton : Introduction to the Making Europe book series
Erik Van der Vleuten : Infrastructuring Europe: Technology, Society, and Nature in Transition


N-4 EDU03 Children and Rights
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Joelle Droux
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria del Mar Del Pozo Andres
Frédéric Darbellay, Zoe Moody : Education and Children’s Rights: an Interdisciplinary and Historical Analysis at the Crossroads
Margot Hillel : ‘“ Maybe Help Make the World a Better Place to Live in”’: Young People as Redemptive Conscience in Australian Books for Young Adults
Ines Meier, J.W. Whitlow, Jr. : The Rational Child: How the Age of Reason Shaped Children’s Status as Persons
Victoria Shadrina : Philosophy for Children as a Way to Individuality
Ingrid van der Bij : Claiming to Protect the Child.


O-4 ORA04 Migration/Diaspora II
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Timothy Ashplant
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Zibiah Alfred : Childhood Landscapes and the Impact of Nostalgia upon the Refugee Communities History Project
Fiona Frank : “My Great-grandfather was a Red-haired Rabbi from Omsk”: Nostalgia for the Past in a Scottish Jewish Family
Wiktoria Kudela-Swiatek : A Fly in the Ointment. Biographical Narratives of Kazakhstan Poles and the Polish Public Discourse
Graham Smith, Oscar Forero : Nostalgia has a History: Ukranian Foodways and the Generational Politics of Longing


P-4 SEX04 Oral History, Memory, Archiving
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Sexuality Chair: Christabelle Sethna
Organizers: - Discussant: Christabelle Sethna
Mark Cornwall : Reading a New European Lesbian Writer: The Vibrant Novels of Lida Merlinova (1906-88)
Sara Edenheim : The Epistemology of the Archive: Encountering Queer Theory as a Philosophy of History
Patrizia Gentile : Using Memory Studies as Queer Methodology: Canadian Queers, National Security and Trauma


Q-4 HEA12 Diseases & Epidemics
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Logie Barrow
Organizers: - Discussant: Logie Barrow
Patricia Marsh : 'Risks from Shellfish - Watch What you Eat' - Typhoid Fever Outbreaks in Belfast from 1900-1948
Ida Milne : Through the Eyes of a Child: Survivors of Spanish Influenza
Michael Zeheter : Before an Epidemic: The Idea of Cholera as an Actor


R-4 SOC16 Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizer: Lynn Botelho Discussants: -
Lynn Botelho : ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler : ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway : Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?


S-4 RUR04 Power, Actions and Mass Movements in Western Europe Countryside in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860)
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Brassart : Power, Social Dynamics and Political Change in the Northern France Rural Protest during the French Revolution
Domenico Cecere : The Language of Complaints, Grievances and Riots. Political Issues of the Peasant Movements in Calabria (1760-1770).
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : New Perspectives and New Questions in the Studies about Social Movements in the Alps (18th and 19th Centuries)
Frédéric Vesentini : Power and Rural Populations in Belgium during the 1845-48 Crisis


T-4 ETH14 Framing the Good Immigrant: High Skilled Migrants in Past and Present
Maths Building: 325
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Organizer: Aniek Smit Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Jack Burgers : The Mobility of Professional Knowledge
Aniek Smit : Welcoming ‘Guests’ and ‘Friends’: High Skilled Migrants in 20th Century The Hague and Jakarta
Marianne van Bochove : Cosmopolitans, Organization Men, or Just Ordinary Migrants?


U-4 MAT03 Luxury Goods and Material Culture in Southern Europe: Continuity and Change (14th-18th Centuries)
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Beverly Lemire
Organizer: Andrea Caracausi Discussant: Paola Lanaro
Michela Barbot : Luxury, Consumption and Value: The Circuits of Alienable and Inalienable Goods in the Visconti and Sforza Court (Milan, 14th-16th Centuries)
Andrea Caracausi : Global Commodities, “Luxury” Goods and Market Policy in the Republic of Venice (17th-18th Century).


V-4 ETH08 Migration(s) in Textbooks. Construction of 'the Other' and 'the Nation'
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Vanja Lozic
Organizers: - Discussant: Vanja Lozic
Markus Furrer : Migration in Swiss Historybooks
Milena Katsarska : Migration in Bulgarian Textbooks: 8th Grade in Focus
Mirela-Luminita Murgescu : Migrations in Romanian History and Geography Textbooks


W-4 ELI07 Anarchist Elites II: Case Studies
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Pietro Di Paola
Organizers: - Discussant: Bert Altena
Vivien Bouhey : Parisian Anarchist Leaders from the Mid‐1880s to 1894
João Freire, Paulo Guimarães : Syndicalism and Anarchism in Portugal during the Interwar Period: Struggles, Dreams and Ideological Debates
Jorge Molero-Mesa, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena : “Doctor, Move Away from those People”: Inclusion-exclusion Dynamics Related to Medical Professionals within the Spanish Anarchist Movement in the First Third of the 20th Century


X-4 ECO04 Business History and Varieties of Capitalism
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Matthias Kipping : Home-grown, Imposed or Imported? Anglo-American Influences on the German Business System
Cathie Jo Martin : Party Competition, Business Organization and Democratization
Neil Rollings : The Control of Dividends and the British Variety of Capitalism 1945-1970s
Jeroen Touwen : Liberalization without Losing Coordination: How the Dutch Business System Responded to Globalization, ca. 1970-2000


Y-4 WOM17 Gender, Nationalism and Politics
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Grimshaw
Sara Valentina Di Palma : Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda. Violence, Silencing and Feminist Answers
Jaswandi Wamburkar : Issues of Gender,Identity and Nationalism in India: A Case Study of Vibhavari Shirurkar


Z-4 THE04 Institutions and Actors: Perspectives on Structurisation in History
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Stefanie Middendorf : The Politics of Debt and War Society: The Reich’s Ministry of Finance, 1920s to 1940s
Ulrike Schulz : The Recognition of Property Rights: The Case of the Simson Company in Suhl, Thuringia
Corinna Unger : Private Agents, Official Politics: American Foundations in the International Development Arena, 1950s to 1970s



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
A-5 CUL06 Emotions and Social Interaction in Cultural History I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Peter Wessel Hansen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Juliane Engelhardt : Religious Reform Movements and Humanitarian Sentiments
Kristine Steenbergh : Compassion in early capitalist culture: Philip Massinger’s City Madam (1632)
Otto Ulbricht : Envy in German Universities, 1770-1830


B-5 ELI04 Between the "Old" and the "New" - Furnishing Elite Interior, 1740-1940
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Kerry Bristol
Organizers: Kerry Bristol, Abigail Harrison Moore Discussant: Kerry Bristol
Abigail Harrison Moore : The Attraction of 'Old Stuff'. Percy MacQuoid's Yellow House
Annie Kemkaran-Smith : The Furnishing of Eltham Palace: A Public Image and a Private Indulgence
Barbara Lasic : ‘Something Old, Something New’: Displacing and Reviving ‘the Louis’ in Turn of the Century Plutocratic Interiors
Jon Stobart : ‘Rare and Curious ‘ or ‘Genuine and Fashionable’? The Material Culture of the Elite and Middle Classes, c.1760-1840


C-5 FAM04 European Long Term History of Family without Marriage: From the Bastardy-Prone Sub Society to PACS
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Béatrice Craig
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussants: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Bruce Fetter
Guy Brunet : Unwed Mothers and Fatherless Children in the City: Families without Marriage during the 19th Century
Daniela Detesan : The Position of Illegitimate Heirs in the Romanian Successoral Practices in Transylvania (1850-1900)
Rui Maia, Maria João Guardado Moreira & Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Illegitimacy in 19th Urban Portugal. A General Approach
Isabelle Seguy : The "Proportion of the Illegitimate Births in France" from 1670 till 1739 according to the INED’ Projects: Revisiting an "Historical" Indicator
Sølvi Sogner : Illegitimacy in Norway in Historical Perspective


D-5 CRI03 Social Control and Policing under Authoritarian Rule
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Joanne Klein
Organizer: Jonathan Dunnage Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Jonathan Dunnage : Controlling the Sexual Lives of Personnel of Fascist Italy’s Interior Ministry Police
Guus Meershoek : How Originates a National Socialist Men Hunter?
Antoon Vrints : The Regulation of Food Provision in an Occupied City: the Intertwinement of Formal and Informal Strategies of Social Control in Antwerp during WWI


E-5 FAM19 Social Networks and Historical Change
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Christine Fertig Discussant: Alice Kasakoff
Christine Fertig : Social Networks and Family Strategies: Kinship, Godparents and Class-building in 19th Century Westphalia (North-western Germany)
Pierre Francois, Claire Lemercier : Everything Changes So That Nothing Changes? The French Economic Elite Networks, 1840-2009
Fábio Faria Mendes : Social Networks, Succession and Inheritance in Guarapiranga, 1780-1880


F-5 EDU04 Childhood and (trans-)national philanthropy in 20th century Europe
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács
Organizers: - Discussant: Joelle Droux
Stefania Bernini : Exporting Solidarity and Norms: Children and UNRRA Workers in Post-war Europe
Christophe Declercq : Spoiled Pets, the Strange Case of Charity and Belgian Refugee Children in Britain during WW1
Helene Laurent : The Role of International Relief Organizations in Post-war Finland in the Fight against Tuberculosis in Children
Jennifer Morris : Vagabond Children, Destitute Mothers and Masses of Milk: UNICEF's Post World War II Food Aid Programs for Children and Mothers
Eszter Varsa : “The Solution of the Gypsy-question?”: Intersections of Gender and “Race”/Ethnicity in Child Protection in Early State Socialist Hungary


G-5 LAB03 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in 20th Europe: Culture
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Peter Ackers
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: John Kimberley
Isabelle Cases : Popular Voluntary Association and the Preservation of British Industrial Heritage.
Klaas Keirse : Catholicism and Working Class. The Christian Workers Movement in Belgium after 1945.
Andy Vail : The Early Adult School and Brotherhood Movements in the West Midlands: Adult Education, Evangelism or Social Activism?


H-5 LAB28 Racism and Ethnicity in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Gareth Austin
Karin Lurvink : Economics or Racism? The Truck System in Plantation Stores on Cotton and Sugar Plantations in Louisiana, 1865-1900
Marcelo Mattos : Abolitionism and Labour Movement in Brazil from a Global Perspective


I-5 THE06 Political Regimes and Historical Writing
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Toby Mendel
Antoon De Baets : Historical Writing and Democracy
Jie-Hyun Lim : Victimhood Nationalism in the Post-totalitarian Historiography. -On the Third Republic of Poland and the Sixth Republic of Korea
Sacha Zala : Democracy, Privacy and Access to Sources: Cassandra's Point of View


J-5 REL09 Alternative Modernities: Mysticism and Magic
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Paula Kane
Organizers: - Discussant: Paula Kane
Eugene Avrutin : Religion, Magic, and Murder in a Russian Border Town
Mary Heimann : Victorian Mysticism as an Historical Problem
Tine Van Osselaer : 'Curious Crucifixes. The Rise and Fall of an Aspiring Mystic.


L-5 WOM13 Gender(ed) Identities: Images and Experiences
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maren Tribukait
Organizers: - Discussant: Ilona Kemppainen
Linda Braun : Rethinking Embodiment and Gender: Modern Dancing and the Transformation of Gender Relations in European Metropolises (1900-1933)
Thomas Bryant : “No Smoking, No Drinking, No Make-up!” – Prohibitive Rules for Women in Propaganda Campaigns and Daily Practices in Nazi Germany
Eilidh Macrae : ‘Age Need Not Deter Anyone from Enjoying the Privileges of Keeping Fit’: Physical Recreation Throughout the Female Life-cycle in Scotland 1930-1960
Luis Felipe Sobral : The Kiss of Spade. Gender, Narrative, Cognition


M-5 WOR06 Mastering Space: Shifting Patterns of Territorialization in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire since the 18th century
Main Building: Melville
Network: World History Chair: Uwe Müller
Organizer: Steffi Marung Discussant: Frank Hadler
Isa Blumi : Inserted Ambitions: The Impact of Imperial Borderland Politics on the 19th Century Balkans
Andreas Helmedach : Towards a Modern Transport System: Roads, Rivers and Railways as Promoters of Integration and Differentiation in the Habsburg Monarchy since the 18th Century
Steffi Marung : Mastering Space, Shifting Patterns of Territorialization. Introduction into Conceptual Considerations.
Anton Tantner : Counting the People: Street Numbers and Population Statistics in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th Century


O-5 ORA05 Nostalgia and Gender Narratives
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Anna Kopecka
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Montserrat Duch, Montserrat Palau & Agnès Toda & Meritxell Ferré : Collection of Oral Experiences of Catalan Women regarding the Civil War: Elements of Trauma and Nostalgia in Biographies and History
Ruth Easingwood : ‘It was at the Locarno ... or was it Barrowlands? Youthful Identity and Nostalgia for the Dance Hall 1939 – 1960
Kirsi-Maria Hytönen : Nostalgia and Women's Memories of Wage Work in Finland in 1940s and 1950s
Lauren Taylor : Older Women Look Back on Romantic Love: Nostalgia, Idealization, and Imagination


P-5 SEX07 Bodies and Biology
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Sexuality Chair: Patrizia Gentile
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Geertje Mak : Mapping the Sex of Self in Medical Practices around 1900
Bente Rosenbeck : The Tru Sex? Trouble with Hermaphrodites - The Danish Experience
Clare Tebbutt : Mark Weston: 'Attaining Male Sexuality against every Disadvantage': An Athlete's Change of Sex in 1930s Britain


Q-5 HEA05 Changing Conceptions of Normal Childhood Behaviour: International Perspectives on ADHD and Learning Disability
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: John Stewart
Organizers: - Discussant: John Stewart
Dominique Behague : ‘Mazombismo’ and the Paradoxes of ADHD Discourse and Practice in Brazilian Psychiatry
Charlotte Lunde : From Hyperactive to Psychostimulated – Medicine, History and about the Doping of Children
Mary Clare Martin : Disability and the Girl Guide Association: Heroic Patience or Active Engagement?
Matthew Smith : The First Hyperactive Children: Education, Psychiatry and Changing Conceptions of ‘Normal’ Childhood Behaviour in the United States, 1957-1975


R-5 POL22 Making and Unmaking of Border Populations
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Oral History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Muriel Blaive : Changing Generational Identities on the Hungarian-Slovak Border
Astrid M. Eckert : The East of the West: The Making of West Germany‘s Borderlands
Alena Pfoser : The Meaning of the Border in Life-story Narratives of Russians Living in Narva, Estonia
Dariusz Stola : Social space and state frontiers: migrations from communist Poland to Germanies and Israel


S-5 RUR07 Seeking Solutions to Rural Problems: Science and Social Life
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Technology Chair: Mats Morell
Organizer: Catharine Wilson Discussant: Mats Morell
Raluca Musat : Gender and Rural Transformation: Peasant Women in 1930s Romania
Ruth Sandwell : “Read, Listen, Discuss, Act: the Farm Radio Forum as an Experiment in Adult Education, Rural Activism and the Creation of a Modern Rural, 1940-1980”
Paul Vickers : Polish Memoir Sociology: Peasants' Memoirs of Settling the Former-German Territories of Post-war Poland
Catharine Wilson : The Complicated Side of Neighbourhood: When Communal Work and Good Intentions End in Disaster


T-5 WOM18 Gender, Sexuality and the Body Politic I
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: - Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Greet De Bock : Foreign Affairs. Gender, International Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-century London and Vienna
Sonja Dolinsek : Conceptions of Prostitute Women‘s Agency in West-Germany from the 1950s to the 1980s
Norman Domeier : The Sexualisation of German Politics before the First World War
Lucia Pozzi : The Italian Case: Catholic Church and Fascist State Shaped Women’s Role


U-5 MAT04 Commissioning Consumption - Strategies and Impact of European Sponsored Films and Commercials
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Beata Hock
Organizers: Bert Hogenkamp, Lydia Nsiah Discussants: -
Sema Colpan, Lydia Nsiah : Shaping Industrial Modernity: Austrian Sponsored Films between 1920 and 1960
Bert Hogenkamp : Video Ergo Sum. The Impact of Video on the Sponsored Film in the Netherlands
Bjorn Sorenssen : Offshore Media. Audiovisual Mediation of the Norwegian Offhore Oil Industry 1967-2000


V-5 ETH25 Religion, identity and modernity
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martina Ambrosini : Popes, Islam and the Media: the Relationship between Islam and Christianity in Italian Newspapers
Zafer Cirhinlioglu, Uzeyir Ok & Fatma Gul Cirhinlioglu : The Revival of Religious Life and Insufficient Modernity
Alexandros Sakellariou : Globalization, Cultural Dilemmas and Identity Conflicts in Greek Orthodox Church’s Public Discourse
Krzysztof Marcin Zalewski : Identity Re-formation without Migration? Muslims, Bosniaks, Serbs and Montenegrins in Sanjak of Novi Pazar 20 Years after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia


W-5 LAT01 Anarchist Imaginaries in the Americas: Subjectives, Countercultures, Territorialities and Resistance Movements
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Labour , Latin America Chair: Raymond Craib
Organizer: Steven Hirsch Discussant: Raymond Craib
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Dissonant Preludes to Latin American Socialism: Territory, Identity, and Authority in the 1929 Latin American Anarchist and Communist Conferences in Buenos Aires
Steven Hirsch : Anarchist Visions of Race and Space in Northern Peru, 1890s-1920s
Kirwin Shaffer : ¿Bolivarianismo anarquista? Transnational Anarchists in Panama and Their Vision of Anarchist Pan-Americanism, 1914-1925
David Struthers : Practicing Internationalism: Anarchist Print Media and the Un-imagining of Radicalism in Los Angeles during the Early Twentieth Century


X-5 ECO06 Commodity Chains in the First Period of Globalization
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Werner Scheltjens
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Javier Cuenca-Esteban : Financing U.S. trade in the neutrality years, 1793-1807
Guillaume Daudin, Loïc Charles & Ann Coenen : Comparing Early Trade Statistics: The Case of Austrian Netherlands and France from 1759 to 1791
Jean Pierre Dedieu, Silvia Marzagalli : Tracking Trades in Navigocorpus. The Examples of Fish and Cotton
Per Hallén, Lili-Annè Aldman & Magnus Andersson : Gateways and Shipping during the Early Modern Times - The Gothenburg Example


Y-5 WOM04 Early Modern Legal Culture and Discrimination
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Criminal Justice , Culture , Women and Gender Chair: Martin Ingram
Organizers: - Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Satu Lidman : Women, Chastity and Violence in Early Seventeenth-century Sweden. The Protocols of Stockholm’s Magistrates’ Court
Rose-Marie Peake : Nourished Bodies, Enlightened Souls - The Ethics of Poor Relief in Seventeenth-century France
Charlotte Vainio : The Weaker Sex - Juridical Strategies of Married Women in Early 16th Century Swedish Charters


Z-5 POL08 Beyond Left and Right: Political Discourse and Political Parties in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Roberto Colozza : The Unbearable Reasonableness of Revolution. Lelio Basso, Anti-Capitalism and the Building of Democratic Citizenship
Anne Heyer : The Birth of the Mass Political Party
Maartje Janse : Origins and early History of the Pressure Group
Fertikh Karim, Mathieu Hauchecorne : Party Politics and the Genesis of Political Platforms in Contemporary France
Emily Robinson : Progress and Progressivism, 1888-1914: Contested Cultural and Political Discourses



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-6 CUL07 Emotions and Social Interaction in Cultural History II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Juliane Engelhardt
Organizers: - Discussant: Katie Barclay
Peter Wessel Hansen : The Feeling of Impoverishment. True Feelings or Verbal Strategies in the Narratives of Late Eighteenth Century Danish Poor?
Riikka Miettinen : From Fear and Abhorrence to Pity and Compassion. Communal Reactions and Treatment of Suicides? Corpses in 17th Century Sweden
Ed Sanders : Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Arousal of Audience Emotions in Classical Greek Deliberative Oratory
Camilla Schjerning : Morality in the Grip of Disgust; Emotions and Urban Social Relations (1770-1850)


B-6 ELI02 Transnational Elites in the Modern World
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizers: Daniel Laqua, José Antonio Sánchez-Román, Christophe Verbruggen Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Dina Gusejnova : Modernist Journals and the Crafting of a Cosmopolitan Point of View: Europe Nouvelle (1918-1940) and Europäische Revue (1925-1944)
Kristine Kjærsgaard : Individual Movement between Multiple Elites
Daniel Laqua : Activism Beyond the Nation? Pacifist Intellectuals in Germany, 1910–1921
Christian Mueller : The Politics of Legal Expertise. International Law Networks, the Institut de Droit International and its Transformations, 1880-1925
Konstantinos Raptis : Transnational Elites as Factors of Cohesion in Multi-ethnic Empires. The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy
Christophe Verbruggen : The Constitution of a Transnational Network. The International Confederation of Intellectual Workers between 1920 and 1930


C-6 FAM05 State Formation and Family Formation
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Arne Solli
Organizer: Arne Solli Discussants: -
Helene Carlbäck : Divorce à la Russe – Public or Private Matter?
Toms Kikuts : Development of the Peasant Migration in the Baltic Provinces of Russian Empire: Authocratic Monarchy and Family Decisions (1840s-1905)
Maija Runcis : The Sovietization of Everyday Family Life in Soviet Latvia


D-6 CRI07 Conceptions and Misconceptions of Foreign Criminal Justice Systems in 19th Century Reform Debates
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizer: Anja Johansen Discussant: Clive Emsley
Martin Bergman : The Use of the International Argument in Penal Law Debates in Sweden 1853-68
Anja Johansen : Misconceptions, Mischief and Manipulation: Foreign References in German Debates on Police Reform, 1848-1914
José Ernesto Pimentel Filho : Reception and Circulation of European Criminal Policies in Brazil during the Nineteenth Century: the Poor White Men and the Empire
Judith Rowbotham : Accustoming the Natives to a Right Sense of Justice’: or Advice on Managing the Criminal Justice System in the British Empire, c1840-1914


E-6 FAM20 Finding 'Ie' in Western Society
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Beatrice Moring
Organizer: Moto(yasu) Takahashi Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Shoko Hirai : Rethinking Theories and Realities of the ‘Ie’ in Japan
Janine Maegraith : Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Household Structure in Southwest Germany – Evidence from the Inventories
Craig Muldrew : The Role of Family Earnings in the English Industrious Revolution 1650-1780
Moto(yasu) Takahashi : Introduction for Finding ‘Ie’ in Western Society: Historical Demonstrative Study for the Paralleling and Contrasting between Japan and Europe


F-6 WOM21 Roundtable Women's Movements II
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Yulia Gradskova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Carolyn Eichner : ‘The Jews Made My Trip Intolerable’: French Feminists, Imperialism, and the ‘Jewish Question’
Steve Hewitt : "Spotted Throughout with Red": Canadian State Surveillance and Second-wave Feminism
Natalia Novikova : Women’s Actions, Men’s Responses: Gender Order and Political Discourse in Time of Russian Early 20th Century Revolutions


G-6 LAB04 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Organising for Change
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Alastair J. Reid
Calum Aikman : The SDP and the Trade Unions
Ruth Davidson : ‘With a Fiery Fervour’: The Role of Working-class Women in Municipal Welfare, Croydon, 1900-39.
Wessel Visser : The Rise and Transformation of Solidarity, a South African Labour Movement


H-6 LAB17 Global History: Methods, Practices, Problems
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Rossana Barragán : Global Entanglements in the debate about the 'Slave-Indian' mita work of Potosi and its end, 1790-1812
Silke Neunsinger, Mary Hilson : Towards a Global History of Consumer Co-operation, 1800-2010
Raquel Varela : In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (1950-2010). A Project on Global Labour History


I-6 SOC06 Social Mobility in Europe's Boundary Regions
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Zoltán Lippényi
Organizer: Paulo Guimarães Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Intergenerational Transfer of Occupational Status in Portugal, 1850-1960: Unravelling Modernization Processes
Antti Häkkinen, Marco van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Family Structure, Marriage Patterns and the Slow Industrialization of Finland
Olga Solodyankina : Occupation of a Tutor / Governess in the Russian Empire as the Resource of Vertical Social Mobility


J-6 REL03 Migration, Religion and the Re-forming of Identities
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Alexandros Sakellariou
Organizers: - Discussant: Alexandros Sakellariou
Seija Jalagin : Social Institutions in Christian Mission as Sites of Cultural Transfer: Finnish Kindergartens in Japan and in Jerusalem, 1947–1955
Susanne Leuenberger : Performing Islam: Conversion to Islam as a Gendered Technology of the Self
Valeria Sorostineanu : Interfaith Marriage in the Romanian Village of Transylvania (1850-1918)


K-6 TEC03 Early Mechanization and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ugo Gragnolati, Emanuele Pugliese & Daniele Moschella : The Spinning Jenny and the Guillotine. The Mechanization of Cotton Spinning in England and France during the Eighteenth Century
Harilaos Kitsikopolous : The Early Development of Steam Power Technologies
Alessandro Nuvolari, Sean Bottomly : James Watt's 1769 Patent and the Development of Steam Power Technology


L-6 ANT06 Explorations in Ancient Social History
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Antiquity Chair: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Organizers: - Discussant: Arjan Zuiderhoek
James Kierstead : Economic Equality, Asset-Specificity, and Pre-Modern Democratization: Carles Boix in Ancient Athens
Coen van Galen : The Roman Census and the Change in Marital Tradition
Rada Varga : Self-assumed Identity and the Funerary Epigraphy of Roman Dacia


M-6 ASI03 Nationalism, Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Asia , Economics Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Farabi Fakih : The Rise of the Developmental State in Indonesia
Anuradha Jaiswal : Gandhi's Success with Satyagraga: a Case Study of Agrarian Unrest in Champaran and the Nationalist Movement in Bihar
Thomas Lindblad : State and Economy During Modern Indonesia's Change of Regime
Pham van Thuy : The Political Economy of Decolonization in Indonesia, 1945-1960


O-6 ORA06 Corporate, Business and Organizational Oral History: The Issues and the Challenges
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Miroslav Vanek
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : 'It's Our Oil!' Were the 1970s the Last Chance for Scottish Independence and did the Nationalists funk it?
Rob Perks, Alison Gilmour & Niamh Dillon : Corporate, Business and Organisational Oral History: The Issues and the Challenges


P-6 SPA01 GIS and Literature
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Trevor Harris
Organizers: - Discussant: Trevor Harris
Daniel Alves, Ana Isabel Queiroz : Memories from Lisbon: An Integrative Approach to Study Urban Space and its Literary Representation
Ian Gregory : GIS and Texts: Exploring Lake District Literature using GIS
Anouk Lang : Geographies of Modernist Myth-making: Mapping Literary Paris in the Early Twentieth Century


Q-6 HEA06 Childhood Illness on European Periphery: Ireland
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Ida Milne
Organizers: - Discussant: Ida Milne
Philomena Gorey, Philomena Gorey : Childhood Ophthalmia in Irish Workhouses 1849-1861
Donnacha Sean Lucey : Medical Provision for the Poor in Ireland, 1920-32
Anne Mac Lellan : The Penny Test – Tuberculin Testing and Paediatric Practice in Ireland 1900-1960
JeanMary Walker : Treatment of Children in the Westmoreland Lock Hospital Dublin 1792-1900


S-6 RUR14 European Agriculture, Feeding the World and Fed by the World
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Pedro Lains
Organizer: Vicente Pinilla Discussant: Pedro Lains
Paul Brassley : European Agriculture since World War 2: Technical Change in South-west England 1940-1985
Peter Moser : Access to the Lithosphere – A Crucial Key for a better Understanding of Aricultural Productivism in Western Europe after WWII
Vicente Pinilla, Miguel Martín-Retortillo : The Transformation of the European Agriculture, 1950-2005


T-6 SEX12 Gender, Sexuality and the Body Politic II
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Richard Wetzell
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruben Marc Hackler
Gayle Davis : Test Tubes and Turpitude: Infertility, Artificial Insemination and the Medical Profession in Mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Rosemary Elliot : Abortion, Miscarriage or ‘Criminal Feticide’?: Discourses around early Pregnancy Loss in Britain, 1900 – 1960s
Matleena Frisk : The Formation of a Respectable Sexually Active Adolescent Female in 1960s and early 1970s Finland


U-6 MAT05 Rethinking Consumer History: Consumer Power in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Jackie Clarke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ruth Oldenziel : The Consumer Politics of Bicycle Clubs in Europe and the United States, 1880-1945
Nicole Robertson : The Organised Consumer: Education, Empowerment and Experiments


V-6 ETH18 Religion and Ethnicity
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Religion Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeffrey H. Cohen
Joana Bahia : Performing Afrobrazilian Religion in Berlin
Arkady Levin : Religion and Ethnicity in Russian Identity Papers and in Social Realities, 1719 ‑ 1997.
Thien-Huong Ninh : Ethnic Lineage and Religious Transmission: The Trajectories of Ethnic Boundary-Making Among Vietnamese Catholics in Cambodia


W-6 THE08 National Turn in Anarchist Studies I: The National in the Historiography and Theory of Anarchism
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Theory Chair: Constance Bantman
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Davide Turcato
Bert Altena : State and Nation in the Historiography of Anarchism
Martin Baxmeyer : "Mother Spain, we love you!" Neonationalism in Anarchist Literature during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Isabelle Felici : Anarchists as Emigrants
Ruth Kinna : Anarchism: Practice and Politics in Kropotkin’s Theory of the State
Iveta Leitane : Jewish Anarchism in North Eastern Europe: The Case of Abba Gordin (1887 - 1964)


X-6 ECO07 The History of School Finance - Fo(u)r Examples
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: - Discussant: David Mitch
Carla Aubry : The Economics of Social Relationship
Esbjörn Larsson : The Economic Aspects on the Introduction of Monitorial Education in Swedish Common Schools
Johannes Westberg : Wasting Public Resources? Intended and Unintended Consequences of State Grants and Regulation in Local School Districts, ca 1842–1900


Y-6 SEX01 Understandings of Puberty from the 16th to the 20th Century
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Geertje Mak
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Victoria Bates : 'The Changes which Normally Occur at Puberty’: Medical Conceptions of ‘Normal’ and ‘Abnormal’ Sexual Development in Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-century England
Celia Roberts : Scaling Puberty: J.M. Tanner and the Performance of Development
Lutz Sauerteig : Puberty and the Making of Gender: Explaining Changes in Body and Mind
Sarah Toulalan : Puberty and the Awakening of Sexual Awareness in Early Modern England


Z-6 POL09 Political Cultures in Transition
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Ido de Haan : Transitional Politics and Constitutional Debates in Western Europe: 1598, 1814, 1945
Marthe Hommerstad : Peasants making Policies – The Norwegian Parliament 1814-1837
Vit Simral : The Habsburg Legacy: Political Continuity in East Central Europe
Geerten Waling : Political Organization in the February Revolution of 1848



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 CUL09 Representing the Other: Colonialism, Gypsies and Workers in the 20th century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Jens Jaeger
Organizers: Jens Jaeger, Joeri Januarius Discussants: -
Ilsen About : Unwanted and Depicted. Photographic Perceptions of the Gypsies, 1880-1914
Elizabeth Edwards : Absent Images: Museums and the Photographic Legacy of colonialism
Christian Joschke : Worker Photography in France. 1930-1940
Jürg Schneider : African Photographers – Visual Mediators in the Atlantic Visualscape


B-7 ELI09 Early Professional Women in Scandinavia, c. 1700-1900
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Deborah Simonton
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Deborah Simonton
Johanna Ilmakunnas : Career at Court: Noble Ladies in the Service of Scandinavian Royals
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren : Early Swedish Female Teachers: Good-tempered and Modest Mistresses – or?
Marjatta Rahikainen : Headmistresses of Elite Girls’ Schools: Turning Cultural Capital into a Livelihood
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : Bold and Unbashed - Educated Urban Midwives in the 18th Century Scandinavia


C-7 FAM06 House, Farm and Field: Agricultural Production and Population History in North Orkney after 1750
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: Timothy Murtha Discussant: Guido Alfani
Julia Jennings : Occupational Diversity and Household Structure in Nineteenth Century Orkney, Scotland
Patricia Johnson : The Owner-Occupancy Revolution in Westray, Orkney, and Modernization of the Farm
Timothy Murtha : Changing Patterns of Production and Tilled Fields in Orkney from 1750 to Present Day
James Wood : Soil And Its Social Knock-On Effects In Northern Scotland Before And After 1850


D-7 CRI08 Wild in the Streets: Youth and Authority
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: William Bush
Organizers: - Discussant: William Bush
Tamara Myers : Policed Kids in Postwar Canada: Youth Consciousness and the Montreal (Delinquency) Miracle
Gleb Tsipursky : Targeting Juvenile Delinquents: The Struggle of Soviet Youth Militias with Non-Conformist Youth in the 1950s
Katie Wright : Juvenile Delinquency as a ‘Clinical Problem’: Psychiatry, Psychology, and ‘Maladjusted’ Youth in Australia, 1930s-1950s


E-7 FAM21 Family Sizes Fit for Modernity: Demography, Family Planning and Modernization Theories in the 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Corinna Unger
Organizer: Heinrich Hartmann Discussant: Virginie De Luca Barrusse
Maria Doernemann : “Plan Your Family – Plan Your Nation“: Efforts to Transfer Western Family Norms to Kenya, 1965-1980
Heinrich Hartmann : Anatolian Families – European Experts. Inquiring Family Attitudes in the Context of National Programs on Family Planning in Turkey, 1970s to 1980s.
Claudia Roesch : Americanizing the Family Size: Population Growth, Social Welfare Counseling and Mexican Immigrant Families in California, 1920-1940.


G-7 LAB05 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Co-operation and Working Class Self-help in Britain
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Nicole Robertson
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Martin Purvis
David Stewart : The British Co-operative Movement and the Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance, 1949-1964
Rachael Vorberg-Rugh : The British Co-operative Movement and the Politics of Food in the First World War
Antony Webster : A Dysfunctional Federation: The Co-operative Wholesale Society and the Internal Politics of Distribution in the 19th Century British Co-operative Movement
Angela Whitecross : The Co-operative Party and Food Controls in World War Two


I-7 SOC07 Textile Production, Social Relations and Welfare
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizer: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: -
Thomas M. Adams : Textiles, Inequality, and Welfare
Santosh Kumar Rai : Community as Capital: The Handloom Industry in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces, India
Peter Stabel : Dress, textiles and social identity in a changing economy: the lower social strata in late medieval Bruges (15th century)
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Social Fabrics? Textiles as Provisions of Mutual Aid and Poor Relief in the Pre-industrial Dutch Republic


J-7 ELI19 Memory and Family. Towards Comparative Research on European Elites in the Modern Era
Main Building: G466
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Yme Kuiper, Maria Malatesta Discussant: Jon Stobart
Longina Jakubowska : Public Records, Private Lives: Construction of Noble Family Image in Autobiographic Writing
Yme Kuiper : Among Aristocrats. Rethinking Memory, Identity and Faith in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Maria Malatesta : Noble Habitus and Nostalgic Emotivity: the Posthumous Encounter between Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Luchino Visconti in The Leopard
Marco Rovinello : Business Elite Migrants and Family Histories in Restoration Naples


K-7 URB05 The Visual Archive and the City
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizer: Vrääth Öhner Discussants: -
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Urbanization in Socialism. Everyday life in Yugoslav towns 1945 - 1955
Karin Fest, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah : Double Exposure: Accredited and Fragile Images of Contested Space in Amateur Films
Vrääth Öhner : The Amateur’s View on the City
Paolo Simoni : On Home Movies and the City: Family Moments in Public Spaces


L-7 ANT02 Urban Labour in Roman Italy
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Antiquity , Labour Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Miriam Groen-Vallinga Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Miko Flohr : Scale, Rationalization and Labour: the Fulling Factories of Ostia and Rome
Miriam Groen-Vallinga : No More Idle Poor: Slave and Free Labour in Roman Italy under the Early Empire
Cameron Hawkins : Labour Markets, Transaction Costs, and Professional Associations in the Roman World
Claire Holleran : Earning a Living: the Free Labour Market in the City of Rome


M-7 ASI02 Religion and Globalization in Asia in Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizer: Nandini Gooptu Discussants: -
Rahilya Geybullayeva : History, National Identity, and Criteria of "Nationality" of Literature
Nandini Gooptu : Religion in the Globalised Post-colony: New Spirituality, Religious Identity and Nationalism in India
Wang Huayan : The Return of the Tradition and the Religious Revival in North China: the Case of the Cui Fujun Cult
Lucia Michelutti : Postsecular Political Experimentations. Comparisons across India and Latin America


O-7 ORA09 Czech Oral History
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Kopecka : Turbulent History of Czech Sociology in the Period of Communist Regime in the Narratives of the Contemporaries
Pavel Mücke : Looking for Roots of Oral History in Czech Republic: A Short Analytical Outline of Czech Oral History Projects 1996–2011
Libora Oates-Indruchova : Nostalgia Forbidden: Ethics and the Narrative Voice in Presenting Politically Marginalized and Controversial Recollections
Miroslav Vanek : Encounters and Passings. Czech Oral History in Global Perspective.


P-7 SPA02 GIS and Qualitative Data
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Ian Gregory
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Gregory
Albina Moscicka : “GEOHeritage” as an Example of GIS-based Portal for Movable Heritage
Alexander Nakhimovsky : Timelines, Annotated Maps, and Visualization of History: Event Map Framework and Applications
Douwe Zeldenrust, Joris van Zundert & Anne Beaulieu & Alexander Witteveen & Karina van Dalen-Oskam & Kees Mandemakers & Arjen Versloot : Exploring New Ways of Integrating Heterogeneous Spatial Data and Annotations


Q-7 HEA07 The Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in the North
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: - Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Stephan Curtis : The Dissemination of Continental European Medicine into the Nineteenth-Century Swedish Countryside
Heini Hakosalo : Medical Innovations in Country Practive: Finnish Municipal Doctors during the Interwar Period
Marianne Junila : Bringing Medicine Knowledge to the Far North
Francis King, Steven Cherry : Adversity and Compromise: Zemstvo Health Care in a Northern Russian Province c1864-1917.


R-7 POL07 Postcolonial Transitions: The Politics of State and Nation Building
Maths Building: 203
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Laura Cerasi
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hayley Brown : The Abdication of Edward VIII as a Defining Cultural Moment of Empire
Jennifer L. Foray : Forging a Harmonious Future Between Equals? The Dutch Commonwealth Idea in Theory and Practice
Paul McGarr : 'Out with English': History, Memory and Cultural Politics in Post-Colonial India
Vivek Prahladan : Embedding Castes and Communities: the Indian Constitution and Post-colonial Discourses of Power
Virginie Roiron : Crossing the Shadow Line: An Analysis of Rhodesia’s Illegal Independence and its Influence on the Commonwealth of Nations


S-7 RUR16 Round Table: Historicising Farming Styles: an Actor-Centred Approach to Rural History
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Theory Chair: Paul Brassley
Organizers: - Discussants: Stefan Brakensiek, Rita Garstenauer, Ernst Langthaler, Peter Moser, Ulrich Schwarz


T-7 POL21 Party Life, Lives of Parties
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Aldo Agosti Discussant: Aldo Agosti
Marco Albeltaro : The Party Life of the Militants of the Italian Left
Gidon Cohen : Social Life and the Politics of Membership: the Conservative Party in Post-War Britain
Ana Sofia Ferreira : Autonomy and Armed Struggle: The Case PRP/BR?
João Nunes : The Portuguese Communist Party, the Comintern and the Question of Antifascism
Giulia Strippoli : Party Life, Lives of Parties: The Portuguese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century


U-7 MAT06 The Early Modern Consumer (R)evolution(s) in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist : Jewish Merchants and the Consumer Market in early 19th Century Sweden
Harm Nijboer : Trust and the early modern consumer revolution


V-7 ETH10 Migrant and Crisis
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Melodee Beals
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul Chan
Jeffrey H. Cohen, Ibrahim Sirkeci : Migrant Remittances and their Place in the Global Economic Crisis
Carlos Gómez Gil : The New Migrations by the Big Crisis in Spain
Elli Heikkilä : Labour Market Participation of Immigrants in Finland and its Regions
Karijn Nijhoff : The Next Generation. Higher Educated Turkish-Dutch on the the Hague Labor Market


W-7 THE09 National Turn in Anarchist Studies II Conflicting Scales of Analysis
Maths Building: 417
Network: Theory Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Raymond Craib : No Gods, no Masters, no Peripheries: On the Political Economy of Anarchism in early 20th-century Santiago, Chile
Pietro Di Paola : The Game of the Goose. Italian Anarchism: National or International Perspective?
Thai Jones : The Anarchist City, 1871-1921
Nino Kuehnis : The National in Anarchist Studies: More than Just a Contradiction
Lilian Tuerk : A Kingdom of Kings. Abba Gordin (1887-1964) and the Disputes on the Role of Jewish Law (Halakha) for Anarchist Ideas
Kenyon Zimmer : Local, National, and Global Histories of Anarchism: The Case of San Francisco, 1881-1940


X-7 ECO08 Agricultural Development
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paola Avallone : Innovations in Credit Services in Pre-unification Southern Italy
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Sharecropping Contracts and Conflicts. The Yunteros' Land Invasions in 1930' Spain


Y-7 SEX02 Sexuality and the State in 20th-century Germany
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Mark Cornwall
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Runar Jordåen : "Bevölkerungspolitischer Blindgänger"? Homosexuality in German occupied Norway, 1940-45
Michael Thomas Taylor : Marriage in Weimar Germany: A Long View from the Enlightenment to Modern Sexualities
Annette Timm : Beyond Sexual Binaries? Magnus Hirschfeld and the Missed Turning Point of Sexual Citizenship


Z-7 WOM06 Feminist Labour Militancy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Verity Burgmann
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Silke Neunsinger
Karin Dupinay-Bedford : Women and Militancy in French Republican Reconstruction: Attitudes and Actions through Specific Examples (1945-1965)
Eva Schmitz : Female Labor Militancy in the Height of Class Struggle in the 1920´s and the Second Wave of Women´s Movement in Sweden
Mercedes Steedman : The Transformation of Women’s Role in Mining Strikes: An Examination of Three Nickel Mining Strikes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1958-2010.
Patricia Tropia : Militant Women in Contemporary Brazil



Thursday 12 April 2012 16.00 - 18.30
A-8 SPE04 Networkmeetings & General Meeting. See program book for network/room
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
B-9 ELI10 The Politics of Sobriety: Elites in European Temperance Movements, 19th and early 20th Centuries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Joerg Hackmann Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
David Beckingham : The Lure of Local Control: Scandinavian Licensing Reform and British Temperance Elites
Sidsel Eriksen : Robert Bairds Travels. A Study of the American Temperance Agitator Robert Bairds Travels in Europe in 1830s and 1840s.
Joerg Hackmann : Building Sober Nations. Temperance as Agenda of Social and National Elites in the Baltic Region
Galina Ulyanova : Combating Drunkenness: Russia’s Intellectual and Political Elites in the Public Debate of the 1870-s – 1914


C-9 FAM07 The Role of the State in Shaping Family Decisions
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Discussant: Mary Nagata
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : French and US Laws and their Impact on Pyrenean Emigrants’ Succession Practices in the US since 1850
Maria Angelica Corva, Claudia Contente : The Argentinian Civil Code (1871) and its Impact on Families
Luminita Dumanescu : State and Family in Communist Romania


D-9 CRI09 Social Control and the Anxious State
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizers: - Discussant: Clive Emsley
Ana Porto : The Pontes Visgueiro’s Crime: an Analysis about the Justice and the Media in Brazil
Ilkay Yilmaz : Internal Passport Regulations and the Threat Perceptions in the Late 19th Century Ottoman Empire (1876-1908)


E-9 URB09 The Governance and Misgovernance of the City
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Criminal Justice , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Camilla Elmhorn : Changing Urban Politics in Globalising Times: Stockholm 1975-2010
Peter Jones : Graft and Corruption in Glasgow 1933-1947
Janine Murphy : Strength in Unity: Cultural Liberalism and the Transformation of German Urban Politics, 1850-1864
Lars Nilsson : Shrinking Cities: New Tendencies in Post-industrial Urban Development


F-9 CRI17 Criminal Justice System in Europe during the 20th Century
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jonathan Dunnage
Organizers: - Discussant: Jonathan Dunnage
Christian De Vito : Mussolini’s Prisons, Final Act (1943-1945)
Sergey Valentinovich Lyubichankovskiy : Regional system of Administrative Justice of the Russian Empire in an Estimation of Senatorial Audits of the Beginning of the XX-th Century
Lizzie Seal : Imagined Communities and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1930-65


G-9 LAB19 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 I
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthieu Leimgruber
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthieu Leimgruber
Floriane Galeazzi : The OECD Roadmap for Global Finance, 1962-1985
Vincent Gayon : The OECD and the "Crisis" of Keynesianism: the McCracken Report (1975-1980)
Matthias Schmelzer : A 'Temple of Growth' in Crisis? The Production of Economic and Environmental Policy Norms Within the OECD during the 1970s


H-9 LAB24 Women's Participation in Labour Organizations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Eileen Boris
Kirsti Niskanen : Generation, Gender and Union Women
Margaret Ritchie : 'Contract Workers and Strategic Players': The Political Will and Actions of Female Crews of the Scottish Herring Industry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Webb : 'Loyalty to their Sex and their Class': Women's Networks and Mobilisation in Sydney's Interwar Labour Movement.


I-9 MAT07 Dress and Identity
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Neville Morley
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hannah Greig : Faction and Fashion: The Sartorial Politics of Court Dress in Eighteenth-Century England
Beverly Lemire : Mariners & Material Culture: Deep-Sea Sailors as Fashion Actors in the British Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800
Kelly Olson : Luxury and Status in Roman Male Clothing
Giorgio Riello : Stitched Together, Cut Apart: Fashion's Encounters with Cannibals, 1450-1650


J-9 REL12 The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and self-presentation of Religions under Pressure
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: Elena Glavatskaya Discussants: -
Toko Fujimoto : Religious Landscape and Presentation of Muslimness: A case study of Kazakhstan during Soviet and post-Soviet periods
Elena Glavatskaya : The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and Self-presentation of the West Siberian Shamans in the early 20th Century
Oleg Gorbachev, Liudmila Mazur : Everyday Religious Practice in the Soviet Art Cinema
Antonio Irigoyen : Spiritual Exercises and Ecclesiastical Training in Eighteenth Century Spain
Olle Sundström : Capturing the Shaman – Indigenous Images of the Struggle against Shamanism


L-9 MID06 European Urban Elites and Political Representation from the 14th to the 16th Century, Social & Institutional Aspects
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: Manuela Santos Silva
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussants: -
María Asenjo-González : The "Procuradores": Urban Legation and Social Ambitions in Castilian Cortes (15th Century)
Mario Damen : Prelates, Nobles and Patricians. The Composition of the Estates of Brabant in the Fifteenth Century.
Marco Gentile : Forms of Political Representation in the Lombard Cities (late 14th – early 16th Century)
Maria Angeles Martin Romera : The Legitimacy of the Urban Representatives Questioned: Elite versus Commoners at Valladolid in the early XVIth Century
Adelaide Pereira Millán da Costa : The Political Urban Elites in the Portuguese Parliament (XIV and XV Century


M-9 ASI04 Commodity Networks and Production Systems: Tobacco and Coffee (with Sugar)
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Embedding Coffee: Beginnings of Large Scale Coffee Plantation in South India in the Nineteenth Century
Martin Prowse : A Century of Growth? Recurrent Patterns in the History of Tobacco Production and Marketing in Malawi 1890-2005
Ratna Saptari : Circuits of Jember Na Oogst Tobacco: Connecting Europe and the Netherlands-Indies in consumption, distribution and production networks (early 20th century)
Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff : The Domestication of a Global Commodity, a Case Study of Tobacco in Bihar


O-9 ORA07 Community and Social Change I
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Pavel Mücke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Beorlegui : Lost Voices. An Oral History Study of Basque Social Movements since 1975
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda : The Golden Age of Brazilian Football - Testimonials from Former Players of the Brazilian National Team in the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups
Fiona Cosson : Imagined Nostalgia: Popular Memory, Individual Testimony and the Memorialisation of Community in Britain
George Watley : Creation of Cultural Change and Development of Community Solidarity using Oral History


P-9 SPA03 GIS and Social History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: David Green
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Fiona Black, Jennifer Charney : Exploring the Spatial History of 19th Century Book Trades
Douglas Brown : The New Poor Law and the North-South Divide
Deryck Holdsworth, Susan Friedman & Christine Rosenfeld & Alexander Savelyev : Group Travel: Visualizing Spatio-temporal Guest Patterns in Historical Resort Hotels
David Jeevendrampillai, Ashley Dhanani, Sam Griffiths, Victor Buchli, Laura Vaughan & Mordechai (Muki) Hacklay : The Application of Space Syntax Methodologies in researching The Contemporary Urban Past: Embedding ‘Configurational Ethnography’ The Case of South Norwood


Q-9 HEA14 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present I
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström
Sofie De Veirman : Breaking the Silence. On Marriage and Family Life of the Hearing Impaired. A Case Study of East-Flanders, 1750-1900
Mercedes Del Cura González, Jose Martinez-Perez : Bolstering the Greatness of the Homeland: The Shaping of Specialist Medical Fields in Francoist Spain and their Impact on the Social Identity of the People with Disabilities
Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström : Life Courses among People with Disabilities in Nineteenth-century Sweden
Iain Hutchison : A Help or a Hindrance? – The Old and New Statistical Accounts and Decennial Censuses as Sources on the Experience of Disability in Nineteenth-century Scotland
Michel Oris, Julia Henke & Virginie Barrusse De Luca : Ageing, Disability and Pain: A Story about Ageing Perceptions and Realities in French-speaking Switzerland, 1960-2011


R-9 POL18 Experimental Spaces I: Governing the Social
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Corinna Unger
Organizer: Liesbeth van de Grift Discussant: Corinna Unger
David Kuchenbuch : "A laboratory of anarchy"? The Peckham Health Centre and the Experimentalisation of the Social in the 1930s
Timo Luks : Building the “House of Industry”. Social Engineering and the Industrial Workplace in Britain and Germany, c. 1920-1965
Geert Somsen : Planning for a Better World: British Scientists’ Wartime Discourse on a Postwar Planned Society
Liesbeth van de Grift : “A New Society” – The Dutch Wieringermeer Polder as an Experimental Garden of Social Planning (1918-1940)


S-9 RUR09 Dowries or Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside? Social and Economic Effects of Familial Choices and Legal Choices
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Tiphaine Barthelemy : Dowries, Preciputs and Gifts to the Newmarried Children: Comparative Cases Studies about Peasants and Noble Families in Brittany (19th-20th Centuries)
Gérard Béaur : Dowries in Chartres Countryside and their Effects on Society and Economy (18th Century)
Anne-Lise Head-König : The Legal Constraints on Dowries and Advances on Inheritance: Their Influence in Shaping Different Swiss Rural Societies (19th-mid 20th Century)
Laurent Herment : Why People did not Provide their Children with a Dowry?
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo, Alexandra Esteves : The Dowries of Marriage of Peasant Families of Minho in the Modern Age


T-9 RUR11 Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Vicente Pinilla
Organizers: Johannes Bracht, Michael Kopsidis Discussant: Vicente Pinilla
Johannes Bracht : Demesne Production, 'Grundherrschaft' and Leasehold Tenancy – Manorial Economy and Agricultural Development in Northwest Germany, 1550-1900
Michael Kopsidis : Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c. 1870-1940 reinterpreted
Pedro Lains : Agricultural Productivity Growth in the Iberian Peninsula, 1830-1914
Yücel Terzibasoglu, Alp Yucel Kaya : Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Land Organisation in the Hinterland of Bursa in the Mid-19th Century


U-9 ETH23 Trying to Regulate Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Mukhina
Organizers: - Discussant: Pascal Maeder
Wolfgang Goederle : Administrating Ethnicities: Central European Migrants in the Eyes of the Habsburg Empire’s Bureaucracy
Tobias Karlsson, Christer Lundh : Movers and Stayers: Labour Mobility in Gothenburg, 1924-1944
Hanan Sabea : Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: Regulatory Schemes and the Disposable Bodies of Migrants to Europe
Marta Silva : Considerations on the Clandestine Emigration and Resistance in the Portuguese Rural World, 1957-1974
Johan Svanberg : Labour Recruitment to a Gender Divided Labour Market in Sweden: The Reception from Schleswig-Holstein during the 1950s


V-9 WOM07 Noblewomen Between Public and Private Affairs in Early Modern Europe: Informal Power and (In)Visibility
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Stefan Amirell
Organizer: Carolina Blutrach-Jelín Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Carolina Blutrach-Jelín : Making the Informal Visible: Early Modern Noblewomen and Memory in Castile
Nicola Clark : Katherine, Countess of Bridgwater, and Welsh Rebellion, 1529-32
Vanessa de Cruz Medina : Taking the Quill to be Visible: Female Aristocracy and Letter-writing in Spain during the Golden Age
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá : Portuguese Aristocratic Women (15th-16th Centuries): Wealth, Authority and Power
Dries Raeymaekers : Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels. The 'Camareras Mayores' of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1598-1633)


W-9 ECO10 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 I Mechanisms and Processes
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussants: -
Catia Antunes, Amelia Polonia : Beyond Empires: Self-Organizing Cross-Imperial Economic Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800
Alexander Bick : Informal Networks within Institutions: Noblemen at the States General
Jessica Roitman : Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Negotiating Nationality across Imperial Boundaries
Daniel Strum : Netherlandish Insurers and Ibero-Jewish Policyholders: Reviewing the Information Asymmetry Problem in Business Relationships Beyond Religious and Ethnic Affiliations


X-9 ETH16 States and the Regulation of Migration
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Organizers: - Discussant: Philippe Rygiel
Pascal Maeder : Broken Mobilities? Cross-Border Work in the Basel Border Region, 1914-1945
Yvette Santos : The Portuguese Dictatorial State and his News Challenges in the After II World War: The “Junta Nacional da Emigração” and the Control Process of the Migration Movements, 1947-1963
Papia Sengupta Talukdar : Managing Cultural Diversity: Comparing India and EU
Mattia Vitiello : The Building of Italy and Emigration Policies


Y-9 WOR08 Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise I
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: World History Chair: Jakob Vogel
Organizer: Jenny Andersson Discussants: -
Jenny Andersson, Egle Rindceviziute : The Political Life of Prediction. The Future as a Space of Scientific World Governance in the Cold War Era
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz : From Past Matters of Law to Actual Matters of Fact: the “Expert Revolution and our Historicity Regime towards Nature
Frédéric Graber : A History of "Projects" as Socio-political Objects
Paul Warde, Sverker Sörlin : Expertise for the Future: the Emergence of ‘Relevant Knowledge’ in Environmental Predictions and Global Change, c.1920-1970.


Z-9 EDU07 State, Education and Childhood Recovery from 18th to 20th Centuries, the Case of Southern Italy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Paola Avallone
Organizer: Paola Avallone Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Giuliana Boccadamo : Education and employment of women in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th century
Anna Gargano : Schools in the “Real Albergo dei Poveri” in Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Lupo Maurizio : The Recovery of Social Marginality through Education in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th Century: A General View.
Rossano Pazzagli : Agricultural Education in the Kingdom of Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Raffaella Salvemini : Marginality and Maritime Education in Southern Italy between the 18th and 19th Century.
Maria Antonietta Selvaggio : From Urchins to Little Sailors: The Case Study of the Training Ship "Caracciolo", Naples 1913-1928



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-10 CUL12 Shifting Borders and Development
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Bina Sengar
Organizer: Magdalena Elchinova Discussant: Aurelie Lacassagne
Magdalena Elchinova : Memory, Heritage and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among the Istanbul-based Bulgarian Christians
Nikolai Vukov : Anxieties and Precautions: Public Debates on European Union Regulative Measures on the Bulgarian-Turkish Border


B-10 ELI11 Marriages, Alliances and Families
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Henry French
Organizers: - Discussant: Henry French
Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez, Juan Hernández Franco : Bastards, Second Sons and Oligarchs: The Origins and Rise of the House of Espinardo
Wilko Schröter : The Social Marriage Network of Europe’s Ruling Families from 1600-1900
Marja Vuorinen : Noble Marriage Politics as seen by the Bourgeois Contenders, 19th Century
Kathryn Wilkins : The London Season: A Reassessment


C-10 FAM11 Fertility and Reproduction in Comparative Perspective
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Reid
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary Louise Nagata : Urban Reproduction and Fertility: Kyoto in Late Tokugawa Japan
Sian Pooley : Parenthood, Child-rearing, and Fertility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century England
Lucia Pozzi, Liam Kennedy : Marriage and Fertility Patterns in Urban Ireland in the Edwardian Era
Peter Sköld, Gabriella Nordin : Indigenous Fertility in Transition? The Sami in Sweden During the Era of Colonization.


D-10 CRI10 Aspects of Policing in the 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bettina Blum : A Question of Reputation: Women Police in West Germany 1945 – 1970
Stefan Nyzell : Sister Police: International and Transnational Influences and National Debate Regarding Women in Swedish Police Service, ca 1900-1940
Yann Philippe : From the Citizens to the Mayor: the Construction of Police Cases in New York City (1905-1925)


E-10 LAB26 Class conflict and class identities
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Labour Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lyddon
Anikó Eszter Bartha : Transforming Working-class Identities: Class and Ethnicity in Postsocialist Hungary
Elizabeth Faue : Disappointment in the Law: Fighting Legal and Judicial Barriers to Working-Class Organization, 1914-1932
Björn Horgby : The Conscientiousness Project in the Labour Movement in Sweden
Jim Phillips : Collieries and Communities: the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike in Scotland
Adrian Zimmermann : Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Netherlands and Switzerland (1914-1940)


F-10 WOR04 Meet the Author. Dominic Sachsenmaier: Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizers: - Discussants: Patrick Manning, Matthias Middell, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Luo Xu


G-10 LAB20 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 II
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthias Schmelzer
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Woodward
Thomas Hajduk : First Come, First Served? The Struggle for a Code of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises and the OECD Guidelines during the 1970s
Matthieu Leimgruber : The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and its Challenger : The ILO, the OECD, and the «Crisis of the Welfare State» (1975-1985)
Jochen Mayer : The OECD as Centre of Calculation and Evaluation. The Example of the Working Party on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 1976-1985


H-10 URB01 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe I. Demography and Occupation
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Sofie De Langhe : Flemish Exceptionalism? The Absence of Older Rural Born Single Women in early Nineteenth Bruges
Tine De Moor : Industrious and/or Religious. Motivating the Choice for Living as a Beguine in (Low Countries, early Modern Period)
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers : Life Course and Residential Career of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1870-1970
Dag Lindström : Singles in Swedish Towns, 1750 – 1870
Anna-Helena Wiechel, Ann Ighe : Without Title. The Dynamics of Status, Gender and Occupation in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1805-1845


I-10 SEX03 Sexual Transgression, Transnational Travel and Abortion
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Sexuality Chair: Lesley Hall
Organizer: Christabelle Sethna Discussants: -
Katrina Rose Ackerman : Protecting 'Tomorrow's Citizens': The Rise of the International New Right, Fundamentalisms and Identity Politics in the New Brunswick Abortion Debate
Nancy Janovicek : The Influence of American Pro-Life Activism on Abortion Services in Western Canada
Lena Lennerhed : The Psychiatrization of Abortion in Sweden 1946-1970
Christabelle Sethna : “Foreign Girls Come to London: North American Women, Travel and Abortion Access, 1960-1975


J-10 LAT05 Power, Resistance and Negotiation in Colonial and Postcolonial Latin America
Main Building: G466
Network: Latin America Chair: Jeffrey M. Shumway
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeffrey M. Shumway
Benjamin Earwicker, Amy Ciaccio : An Interactionist Framework of Power in Colonial Yucatán
Márcia Guena dos Santos : Black Resistance to the Leftist Military Dictatorship in Brazil
Michael M. Hall : Mass Movements and Populist Politics in 1945: Brazilian 'queremismo' and October 17th in Argentina
Isabel Pereira Vallebona : "The MLN-Tupamaros in Uruguay: Thinking and Action". "Pedagogy and Body"
José Vargas-Hernández : Historical Social and Indigenous Ecolology Approach to Social Movements in Mexico and Latin America


K-10 MID01 Hidden Politics in Late Medieval Iberia
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Maria Antónia Almeida
Organizer: Tiago Faria Discussants: -
Marcelo Encarnação : Game of Thrones - Kings, Queens and Noblemen in Quest for Power in the Late Fifteenth-Century Castile
Tiago Faria : Dom João’s Thugs – Warmongering and Intimidation in International Conflict (1385-1420)
Flávio Miranda : Secrecy in Atlantic Politics, 1415-1500
Manuela Santos Silva : Princess Isabel of Portugal – 1st Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428)


M-10 ASI01 World War II in Asia and the Changing Status of Chinese Women
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Paul Ropp
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Karen Turner
Louise Edwards : Female Spies, ‘Miscegenation’ and Race-nation Loyalties
Helen Schneider : International Organizations and Professional Chinese Women, 1937-1947
Harriet Zurndorfer : “Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism 1937-1940”


N-10 POL01 Gender and Citizenship: a Roundtable
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Judit Acsády
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Epstein : Connecting Conversations about Gender Injustice and Citizenship: “Transnational Feminism” in the Revue de morale sociale (1899-1903)
Rachel Fuchs : "Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Women, their Bodies, and the Courts in Modern France"
Maria Kyriakidou : "Party Politics before the Right to Vote: Interwar Greek Feminists and the Individual vs. Collective Citizen Issue"
Irina Novichenko : Age, Gender and Civil Society: Soviet Informal Associations in 1960s-1970s
Irma Sulkunen : Religion, Gender and Civil Society


O-10 ORA08 Community and Social Change II
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Fiona Cosson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Malgorzata Adamczyk : Who Killed Mietek środa? Between Historic and Mythical Narration
Zeynep Emine Güler : Urban Transformation and Nostalgia in Merdivenköy, Istanbul
James Karmel : Oral History and Undergraduate History Education: the Recent American Military Experience
Daniela Koleva : Memories and Meanings: Linking Life Experiences to Social and Cultural Change
Malin Thor : Narratives about what? A Discussion about the Archive “Jewish Memories” at the National Museum of Cultural History in Sweden


P-10 EDU11 War & Children / Childhood
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Margot Hillel
Organizers: - Discussant: Margot Hillel
Carolyn Kay : War Propaganda for the Young: Children’s Literature in Germany during The First World War
Orna Naftali : Embattled Childhoods: Children, Gender and Violence in China of the “Cultural Revolution” Period (1966-76)
Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde : A School Trip Down Memory Lane - Catholic Education, Pupil’s Memory and World War II in Belgium


Q-10 HEA15 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present II
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Andrew Blaikie, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Helene Brodin, Katarina Piuva : Blamed and Forgotten - but not Silenced. Mothers Caring for Adult Children with Mental Ill-health and the Practices of Social Welfare and Mental Care in Sweden
Staffan Förhammar, Marie Clark Nelson : Outside In and Inside Out: The Creation of Identity among Sanatoria Patients in the Early 20th Century
Dee Hoole : Disabling Images? Children in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum c.1901
Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Rosa Ballester & Maria Isabel Porra & Maria Jose Baguena : The Cripple Girl. Gender in the History of Polio Studies in Spain
Sonali Shah : Becoming Disabled – Temporality of Disability in England between WWII and 21st Century


R-10 POL19 Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Lagendijk
Stefan Couperus : Beyond New Jerusalem: The Practice of Postwar (Re)construction Rotterdam and Coventry 1920-1960
Sébastien Gardon : Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970)
Frank Schipper : Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century
Anette Schlimm : What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s


S-10 RUR10 Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Changes
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rosa Congost : Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Change
Richard Paping : ‘Making a Living of their Own’. Succession, Inheritance and Child Career Strategies of Households in the Dutch Rural Economy in the 18th and 19th Century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Female and Male Dowries in Galicia (Spain): Tierra de Santiago in XVIII Century
Rosa Ros : Transformations in Women's Position in a Single Heir System: Dowries and Widowhood-usufruct in the Girona Region (Catalonia), 1750-1860
Albert Serramontmany : Dowries and Socioeconomic Grups: An Example of Use of an Indicator of Social Groups’ Wealth in a Rural Proto-industrial Area. The Besalú corregimiento, 1771-1841


T-10 RUR13 Landscape, Agriculture and the Environment between the Wars
Maths Building: 325
Network: Rural Chair: Rien Emmery
Organizer: Jeremy Burchardt Discussant: Rien Emmery
Jeremy Burchardt : Landscape, Preservation and Community in Berkshire (UK), 1900-50
Andrew Jackson : ‘”Homes fit for heroes”’?: The planning and design of inter-war council-estate housing in the countryside and on the urban fringe’.
John Martin : The Impact of Game Shooting on Agriculture and the Rural Environment (1918-39)
Tom Williamson : Farming and the Environment in Interwar Britain


U-10 ETH24 Taking Stock of Mobility
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Organizers: - Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Leo Lucassen, Jan Lucassen & Gijs Kessler : Cross-community Migration in Twentieth-century Europe; Towards a Systematic Quantitative Assessment
Silvia Pedraza, Lara Sung Back : Assimilation or Transnationalism? Evidence from the Latino National Survey (2006) for Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and South Americans who Immigrated to the USA during 1958-2005.
Paul Puschmann, Per-Olof Grönberg & Jan Kok & Koen Matthijs : Social Mobility of Migrants in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1920


V-10 WOM09 Renegotiating Marriage, Motherhood, and Womenly Duties
Maths Building: 416
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Helene Carlbäck
Zara Bersbo : Same Economical rights - Different Economic Citizenship. Swedish politics and legislation 1921-1971
Andrea Thomson : 'A More Precarious Institution'?: Marriage and Marital Breakdown in Late Twentieth-century Scotland through a Gendered Lens
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz : Constituted Identities of Motherhood, Fatherhood, Childhood and the Family Relations in Turkish Modernization (1908–1945)


W-10 ECO11 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 II The European Context
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Ana Crespo Solana : Networks between Transnational Systems: Theoretical Rapprochements in the Case of the Hispanic Atlantic World (XVII-XVIIIe)
Ana Sofia Ribeiro : The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age. The Case Study of Simon Ruiz’s Network (Second Half of the 16th Century)
Siobhan Talbott : There is Many English and Severall Scots that you Might Deall with.’ Self-organizing European Entrepreneurial Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century: The Case Study of Britain and France


X-10 ETH09 Migrant Employment Dynamics in Turbulent Times
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: David Weir
Organizer: Paul Chan Discussant: David Weir
Paul Chan, Rafal Smoczynski & Ian Fitzgerald : Challenging Anti-migrant Moral Panic Discourses: The Role of Migrants and Trade Unions as Folk Devils Fighting Stigmatisation
Jan Cremers : The Search for Cheap Labour in Europe
Marian Crowley-Henry : An Analysis of Skilled Migrants’ Career and Identity (Re-)Construction
Ian Fitzgerald : Migrant Dynamics in Turbulent Times’


Y-10 WOR09 Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise II
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: World History Chair: Jenny Andersson
Organizers: - Discussant: Jakob Vogel
Holger Nehring : Perceptions of ‘Crisis’, the Semantics of Time and the Technopolitics of the West German Peace Movements during the 1980s
Elke Seefried : Futures Studies of the 1960s and early 1970s: From Creating Futures to Predicting Doom?
Elodie Vieille Blanchard : Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: Forecasting and Modelling in the Debate over the Limits to Growth


Z-10 EDU09 Theory and Youth/Children as a Social Phenomenon
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Annemieke Van Drenth
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Hilda Amsing : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: The Case of the Dutch Socialist Youth Movement (1930s)
Sjaak Braster : Facebook without Internet. The Hidden Functions of Homework Planners in the Classroom (1950-1990)
Mandy Talhout : Membership of Youth Organizations: Historical or Structural? A Case Study
Greetje Timmerman : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: Theory



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-11 CUL11 Utopia and European Construction / Imaginary, Realism and Ambivalences of Utopia
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Jurij Fikfak
Organizers: - Discussant: Jurij Fikfak
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar : Europe as an Imagined Utopian Project of the EU Institutions
Ullrich Kockel : Invoking Europe: The Spirit of Utopia and the Heritage of Our Time
Maria Vivod : Europe’s Image of Future. Example Taken from a Serbian Prophecy
Thomas Wolfe : European Construction and Utopian Imaginary


B-11 ELI12 Professional Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Ilona Kemppainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Robert Anderson : Three Models of Elite Education in Modern Britain
Conceição Andrade Martins : Major Protagonists of the Portuguese Agricultural Development in Nineteenth Century
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : The Mid-Victorian Professions


C-11 FAM12 Interfaith, Interethnic and International Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Organizer: Ioan Bolovan Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Peter Teibenbacher
Constantin Barbulescu : Mixed Marriages in the medical discourse in Romania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Marius Eppel : At the Border of the Empire and at the Confluence of Confessions: The Mixed Marriages in Oradea Area (Western Romania) in the Modern Times
Cyril Grange : Alliances between Jewish and Christian Aristocratic Elites in Paris in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Marriage Contracts


D-11 CRI11 The Penal Colony in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizer: Helen Grevers Discussants: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Xavier Rousseaux
Helen Grevers, Hans Meijer : Dutch World War II Collaborators in Indonesia 1947-1950. The Colony of West New Guinea as a Post War Penal Settlement
Vivien Miller : White Liberalism, Black Civil Rights, and the Origins of Florida’s Death Penalty Moratorium, [1964-1977)
Stephan Steiner : Austria’s Penal Colonies – Facts and Visions


E-11 FAM24 Round table European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizers: Anders Brändström, Kees Mandemakers Discussants: Anders Brändström, Siegfried Gruber, Kees Mandemakers, Gunnar Thorvaldsen


F-11 WOM22 Roundtable: Women's Movements III
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Åsa Bengtsson : The White Ribbon - Temperate Women on Public Scenes.
Marie Hammond-Callaghan : “Gender and International Peace Politics during the Cold War: Anticommunism and Surveillance of the Voice of Women, Canada, 1960-1964.”
Irena Selisnik, Marta Verginella : Social Networks of Publicly Active Women
Lorna Zukas : Gender and Revolutionary Change: Zimbabwean Women’s Engagement for Freedom, Equality and Autonomy


G-11 LAB31 Strikes in Europe: Recent Development
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Kurt Vandaele Discussant: Raquel Varela
Heiner Dribbusch : Organising by Conflict: Exploring the Relationship between Strikes and Trade Union Membership in Germany
David Lyddon : A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK
Sjaak Van der Velden : The 2010 Dutch Cleaners Strike, New Ways in Unionism
Kurt Vandaele : Sustaining or Abandoning ‘Social Peace’? Strike Development and Trends in Europe since the 1990s


H-11 URB02 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe II. Survival Strategies and Social Networks
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Isabelle Devos
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Christa Matthys : Servants’ Solidarity Networks: Assistance by Close and Distant Kin in Job Placement and Critical Life Situations
Maja Mechant : ‘One of the Few Ways a Woman Could Make it on her Own.’Prostitution as a Survival Strategy for Singles in Eighteenth Century Bruges
Kim Overlaet : Singles and their Family: Urban Networks in Sixteenth Century Mechelen and Aalst
Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van der Heijden : Singles and their Public Roles in early Modern Towns
Judith Spicksley : Capital Benefits: The Social Networks of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster and Roneylending in Seventeenth Century Hereford


I-11 SPE02 The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: , Technology , Urban Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Michael-W. Serruys, Giovanni Favero : The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case


J-11 LAB16 Working Hours in Catholic World: A Long Term Perspective, 16th-19th Centuries
Main Building: G466
Networks: Labour , Religion Chair: Manuela Martini
Organizer: Corine Maitte Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Corine Maitte : Working Times in the Italian Glassblowing Industry, XVe-XVIIth Centuries
Didier Terrier : Working Times in Textile and Mine Industries, Liège (Belgium), Mid-XIXe Century
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : What's Children Labour? Some Educational and Professional Patterns in 18th Century Turin


K-11 AFR02 Knowledge, Culture and Empowerment
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paulo Fernandes : Press, Public Opinion and the emergence of “Civil Society” in late 19th Century South East Africa
Kamini Krishna : Empowerment of Zambian Women
Fouad Mami : The Cultural Poetics of Desire in the Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah


L-11 MID04 Court Culture and Court Consumption I
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Marisa Costa : Art Consumption in the Burgundian Court and the Agency of Isabel of Portugal (1430-71)
Visa Immonen : The Distributed Personhood of the Elite: Medieval and early Modern Heraldry in Finland as Material Culture
David Nogales Rincón, Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova : The Material Environment of Castilian King Henry III (1390-1406)
Thomas Småberg : The Receptions of Queens: Rituals Surrounding Medieval Scandinavian Courtly Culture


N-11 SPA10 Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Alistair Geddes
Organizers: - Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall : Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain : Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson : Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Kenneth Sylvester : Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl
Nigel Walford : The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England


O-11 ORA14 Archives and Oral History: Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Partnership, Collection and Use
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Rob Perks
Organizers: - Discussants: Joanne Bartholomew, Elspeth Millar, Rob Perks, Sarah Smith, Mary Stewart


P-11 SPA09 Expanding the Range of HGIS
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Jan Reiff
Organizer: Don DeBats Discussant: Jan Reiff
Don DeBats : Space,Race, and Politics: Using GIS to Explore the Social Logic of Politcs in Urban and Rural Settings in Nineteenth Century America
Don Lafreniere, Jason Gilliland : Beyond the Narrative: Using H-GIS to Reveal Hidden Patterns and Processes of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Cities
George Vascik : Pigs and Protest: The Crisis of Swine Husbandry and the Electoral Success of anti-Semitic Political Parties in Northwest Germany, 1924-1930


Q-11 HEA01 The Mine as a Specific Field for Experimenting New Methods and Revealing New Stakes in Occupational Health (20th c.) I
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizer: Judith Rainhorn Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Eric Geerkens : Collective Bargaining on Occupational Health: Silicosis in Belgium (c. 1937-c.1990)
John Murray, Javier Silvestre : Improving Workplace Safety in European Coal Mining, 1851-1913
Bernard Thomann : From Labor Rationalization to Social Citizenship: Professional Expertise and Social Mobilization in the Recognition and Compensation of Pneumoconiosis in Japanese Coal Mining Industry


R-11 POL20 Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: Leonid Borodkin, Ido de Haan
Marija Drėmaitė : Reading the Spatial Patterns of Soviet Modernization: Regional and Urban Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the 1960s
Vincent Lagendijk : How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning
Uwe Lübken : Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space


S-11 RUR08 Peasant and the Market: Between Accumulation, Distress and Life Cycle-strategies
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Miriam Muller
Organizer: Tim Soens Discussant: Miriam Muller
Frédéric Aparisi : Peasants and Markets in the Kingdom of Valencia during the Later Middle Ages
James Davis : Negotiating the marketplace: the expectations and fears of medieval English peasants
Kristof Dombrecht, Erik Thoen : The Land Market in a Changing Peasant Society during the Late Middle Ages – 16th Century: The Case of Flanders
Piotr Guzowski : Land Market and Peasants’ Life-cycle in Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Tim Soens, Eline Van Onacker & Maïka De Keyzer : Beyond the Flock. Sheep Farming, Wool Sales and Peasant Economy in the Late Medieval Campine Area (Brabant, Belgium-The Netherlands)
Lies Vervaet, Erik Thoen : Tenure and Lease Holding Payments of Peasants and Farmers in Late Medieval Rural Flanders


T-11 RUR20 Is Farming the Only Way of Providing Food?
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Richard Oram
Organizer: Ruth Tittensor Discussant: Richard Oram
Jennifer Lee : Gathering: Reconnecting with the Landscape of Our Food
Ruth Tittensor : How Can Ecology Contribute to Food Provision?
Caroline Wickham-Jones : Fear of farming?


U-11 MAT01 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling I
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Riitta Matilainen : Cultures of Gambling: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives
Gerda Reith : Gambling, Risk and Reason: The Creation of 'Pathology’ from Commerce
Eino Tuohino : Medicalization of Gambling Problems and Individual Responsibility: The Case of Finland


V-11 ETH13 Public Identity Formation and Construction
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Saara Pellander
Organizers: - Discussant: Colin Pooley
Lars Amenda : Migration and the Media in Nazi Germany
Grazia Biorci : Stereotypes on Migration Matter in Italian Press
Johanna Leinonen : Hierarchies of Desirability: International Marriages in the Finnish Media, 1982-2006
Marlou Schrover : Constructing Problems: Debates on Immigration and Integration Issues in Press and Parliament (the Netherlands 1945-2000)


W-11 ECO12 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 III The Atlantic Context
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Amélia Polónia
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Catia Antunes
Bram Hoonhout : 'Subprime Mortgages in the Caribbean: the Financial Opportunities Illegal Trade Created, 1740-1815
Silvia Marzagalli : The French Colonies in the Late 18th Century, or the Necessity of Cross-imperial and Foreign Trade
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva : Trans-imperial and Cross-cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s-1800s


X-11 ETH17 Comparing Refugees
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Bina Sengar
Organizers: - Discussant: David Struthers
Eva Becsei-Kilborn : Aspects of Hungarian Migration to the UK
Lukasz Gorniok : Reception of Czechoslovakian and Polish Jewish Refugees to Sweden 1968-1972
Bethany Hicks : “Not Real Germans at All”: GDR Refugees in the West, 1989 - 1990
Tycho Walaardt : Attempts to select refugees: Inviting Hungarian refugees by the Netherlands in 1956


Y-11 SEX05 Sex Philosophy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tanya Cheadle : Realizing an ‘Earthly Paradise of Love’ in Late-Victorian Edinburgh: The Sexual Ethics and Intimate Life of Patrick Geddes
Lesley Hall : “Sentimental follies” or ‘instruments of tremendous uplift”? contrasting views of women’s same-sex relationships in interwar Britain
Anastasia Jones : The Normal Lesbians: Sex Studies and the Growth of Modern Sexual Identities in Interwar Era U.S.


Z-11 EDU10 Voices of Child Saving
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizers: - Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Claire Gallagher : In the “Schools” on Ellis Island: The Children, Their Classrooms and Experience
Nell Musgrove : Imagining Foster Mothers – Historical Perspectives
Daniel Nilsson Ranta : Acting Child In Distress – on Philanthropy, Child Care and Societal Saving Eagerness
Karen Robbins : Discipline and Polish: Creating Identity through Space at Girls' Reforms Schools in 19th Century America
Andrew Sanders, Val Wood : One Hundred Voices



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
A-12 CUL14 Creating the Everyday Life; Housing and Consumption in the 19th and 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Jens Jaeger
Organizers: Jens Jaeger, Joeri Januarius Discussants: -
Els De Vos : Ambivalent Messages in the Visual Home Culture Education of the Intermediaries in Belgian Flanders during the Sixties and Seventies
Joeri Januarius : Representing the Everyday: Private Photography and Belgian Limburg Miners in the 1950s
Ilona Kemppainen : Death and Consumer Culture


B-12 ELI13 Modernising Elites: Agriculture and Business
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Niels Matheve : The Belgian Elite and their Networks during the Interwar Period
José Antonio Sánchez-Román : Business Elites, Tax Justice and Tax Reform in 20th Century Argentina
Maciej Tyminski, Piotr Koryś : The Class of Strangers. Business Elites in the Late 19th Century Kingdom of Poland


C-12 FAM08 The Effects of Public Health Control against Infectious Diseases
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Lotta Vikström
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Peter Sköld
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Sören Edvinsson : Regional Differences in Measles Mortality during the Demographic Transition. The Case of Northern Sweden 1750-1900
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : The Effects of Vaccination Legislation against Smallpox in 1875, Japan
Diether Kramer : Fighting Smallpox in Styria (Austria) The Impact of Public Interventions in Late 19th Century


D-12 CRI12 Race, Drugs and Criminal Justice
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Richard Mc Mahon
Organizers: - Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Jason Glenn : Addicted to War: The War on Drugs and the Incarceration Nation
Donna Murch : Towards a Social History of Crack: Drugs, Informal Economy, and Youth Culture in an Era of Neo-liberalism
Samuel Roberts : Race, Epidemiological Thinking, and the U.S. ‘Heroin Epidemic’ of 1950-1975: Against the ‘Punitive Turn
Robbie Shilliam : The Polynesian Panthers and The Black Power Gang in Aotearoa New Zealand: Criminal Justice versus Social Justice


E-12 FAM25 Family Factors and Infant and Child Mortality
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Angelique Janssens Discussant: JeanMary Walker
Angelique Janssens : Family Factors and Children’s Mortality Risks in the Past. Some Results from Different Demographic Regimes in the Netherlands, 1880-1930
Maaike Messelink : Siblings: A Blessing or a Curse? Family and Child Survival in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett : "Who you are, where you stay or what you know?" Factors Influencing Infant and Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Scotland
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas & Sara García Ferrero : Infectious Disease and Mortality among Urban Children: Madrilenian Children and Foundlings at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Peter Teibenbacher : Infant and Child Death on the Countryside


F-12 RUR15 Meet the Author: Agrarian History of England and Wales
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Dulce Freire Discussants: John A. Chartres, Mats Morell, Juan Pan-Montojo, Anton Schuurman, Nadine Vivier


G-12 LAB32 Labour Militancy since the Late 19th Century in a Global Perspective
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Sjaak Van der Velden
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Vandaele
Linda Clarke, Charles McGuire, Christine Wall : ‘Lump it or like it?’: the significance of the ‘lump’ to the development of building industry in Britain '
Jesper Hamark : Dockers’ Non-militancy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Swedish Port Strikes in an International Perspective
Paulo Terra : The strikes of streetcar workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1870-1906)


H-12 URB03 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe III. Identity, Culture and Social Perception
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Julie De Groot
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot & Isis Sturtewagen : The Material Culture of Singles in the Cities of the County of Flanders under Burgundian-Habsburg Rule (16th Century)
Wendy Gordon : Singles Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861
Amy Harris, Amy Harris : Poor Single Men in Eighteenth-Century England
Raffaella Sarti : Unmarried Women and Men in Pre-industrial South- and North-European Cities


I-12 LAT04 Latin American Politics, Economy and Society in Transnational Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Latin America , Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Jose-Maria Aguilera-Manzano : The Novel Sab and the Construction of the Cuban Identity during the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey M. Shumway : Argentine Nation Building and French Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Carolina Vicario : Rural Labor Force in Rio de la Plata between 1760 and 1860. An Approximation to the Social Mobility


J-12 LAB29 Within the 'Worlds of Labour': Why and How to Write Factory History
Main Building: G466
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Görkem Akgöz Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Görkem Akgöz : Many Voices of a Republican Factory: Alternative Visions and Discourses on Trade Unionism in Early Republican Turkey
Hakan Mahmut Kocak : To Looking the Formation of the Turkish Working Class through the “National” Factory
Kevin Murphy : Factory History during the Russian Revolutionary Era
Asli Odman : The Ford Factory at Istanbul in the Interwar Period: Assembling Cars, Connecting Ports and Nationalizing Production


K-12 ORA15 Lost and New Homes. Coming to terms with Ambivalent Pasts and Present Belongings
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eveline Buchheim : In Search of the Unknown Fatherland
Marjo Buitelaar : The Contested Waterjar. Moroccan Home-making in a Diasporic Context
Aya Ezawa : Telling the Unknown Past: Indisch-Japanese and the Memory of WWII
Ellis Jonker : Hard to Digest. Educated Nostalgia among the Moluccan Dutch (1951-2011)
Stefania Scagliola : Coming of Age in the arms of the Baboe – Reminiscences of Former Dutch-conscripts Who served in Indonesia of their Love-affairs with Local Female Servants


L-12 MID05 Court Culture and Court Consumption II
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Tiago Faria
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Adriana Almeida : Faith that Glitters. Piety and Devotion in the Treasure of Leonor of Portugal (1328-1348)
Rita Melro : The Royal Treasury, a Mirror of the King: Power, Luxury and Spirituality in the Treasure of Dinis, King of Portugal (1279-1322)
Diana Pelaz Flores : The Treasure Queen's Wardrobe and Fashion as Power Generators and Builders in Castile in the 15th Century
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues : Dressing and Adorning Portuguese Infantas in the 15th Century


M-12 WOM08 Gender and the Sciences of the State
Main Building: Melville
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Helene Carlbäck
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine De Moor
Simone Diender : Governing the Family Home: Social Science and the Education of American Citizens in the Early Cold War
Elizabeth Jones : Gender and the 'Sciences of the State' in Rural Germany: The Social and Environmental Reclamation of Farm Households, 1866-1914
Marynel Ryan Van Zee : A Gendered Ordering of Self-Interest: Family and State in Nineteenth-Century German Economics


O-12 ORA11 Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Irina Rebrova : Thematic Lines of “Children’s of War” Narrative: Traumatic Experience or Nostalgia
Irena Saleniece : Sovietisation as Trauma: Memories of Forced Changes to Ethnic, Religious and Social Identities
Geoffrey Swain : “ ‘We Were the Vanguard!’: Nostalgia for Latvia’s Young Communist League”
Maria Zolotukhina : Memory of a War Childhood: The Experience Before and During WWII in Russia


P-12 SPA05 HGIS Methodological Issues
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Gethin Rees
Organizers: - Discussant: Gethin Rees
Malte Helfer : The Use of Temporal Data in the ArcGIS 10 Release – New Prospects for the Digital Historical Cartography, Presented using the Example of the Territorial Development in the Greater Region since the Congress of Vienna
Jean Luc Pinol, Guillaume Fantion : Historical Administrative Zoning and History : France XIXth-XXth Centuries (Methods and Results)
Humphrey Southall, Patrick Manning : Potentials for a Global Historical GIS
Pierre Vernus, Francesco Beretta & Claire Charlotte Butez : Managing Geo-historical Information in a Collective and Cumulative System. The Project SyMoGIH and its Gazetteer


Q-12 HEA02 The Mine as a Specific Field for Experimenting New Methods and Revealing New Stakes in Occupational Health (20th c.) II
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizer: Judith Rainhorn Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Arthur McIvor : Narratives from the Dusty Coalface: Evaluating Oral Evidence in Understanding Work and Health Cultures in British Coal Mining Since the 1930s
Laure Pitti, Pascal Marichalar : “Legitimate Expertise and Lay Counter-expertise on Occupational Health Issues in the French Mines: A Focus on the Peñarroya Case (1960s-1980s)”
Judith Rainhorn : ‘We discussed it a bit…’ (Dr. Hamilton). Handing Over to the Actors to Understand Work and Health Interaction in the Copper Mines of Arizona, 1919”


R-12 LAT02 New Histories of Latin America in the Cold War: Politics, Culture and International Perspectives
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizer: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
William Booth : The Mexican Communist Party in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Schema for the Postwar Conjuncture
Benjamin Cowan : Making Machismo: Cold War Alignment and the Political Terminology of American Masculinities
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Feminism, Communism and Women's Transnational Activism in the Cold War: The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)


S-12 WOM12 Women and Power
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Nagata
Stefan Amirell : The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson : Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky : Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility


U-12 MAT02 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling II: Law and Policy
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Riitta Matilainen
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Maria Heiskanen : Culture or Games? The History of Using the Profits of Money Games for Good Causes
Sytze F. Kingma : The Dutch Gambling Act of 1964 and the “Alibi-Model” of Gambling Regulation
Antti Myllymaa : European Offshore Jurisdictions as the Juridico-political Infrastructure for the Cross-border Online Gambling Industry


W-12 ECO13 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 IV The Indian Ocean and Beyond
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Michael Kempe : The „Pirate Round“. Self-Organizing and Illegal Economic Networks beyond Empires around 1700
Leos Muller : Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire. Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1750-1800
Chris Nierstrasz : In the Shadow of the Companies, Empires of trade in the orient and informal entrepreneurship, 1600-1800
Guido Van Meersbergen : “The Nature of the People and their Government”: The Role of Cultural Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Dutch and English East India Company Commercial and Diplomatic Strategies


X-12 ETH19 Forced Migrations
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Guldeniz Kibris
Organizers: - Discussant: Johan Svanberg
Cem Disbudak, Semra Purkis : Forced Migrants or Voluntary Exiles: Bulgarian Turks in Turkey
Maria Egorova : Humanitarian Activity of Russian Academic Group in Great Britain, 1920-1930
Pippa Virdee : The Impact of Forced Migration on the Economies of Divided Punjab:A Case Study of Ludhiana and Lyallpur


Y-12 SEX06 Masculinities and the Regulation of Sex
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Sarah Toulalan
Organizers: - Discussant: Sarah Toulalan
Chad Denton : The Brotherhood: Male Homosexual Identity Among the Early 18th Century French Aristocracy
Julie Gammon : 'Dangerous' Men: Defining Male Sexualities in Eighteenth-century England
Angelika Koch : Unhealthy Desires: Controlling Sexuality and the Body in Early Modern Japan



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
A-13 CUL13 No Future? Youth in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Kaarina Kilpiö : Cassette Users Looking Back on their Newfound Power
Nikolaos Papadogiannis : ‘Sun, Sea and Sex’? The Making of West German and Greek Young Tourists in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Chris Warne : “Graphical Terrorism? Bazooka, Punk and the Fate of Radical Politics in 1970s France”
Marko Zubak : Yugoslav Communist Youth Media and the Rock/Punk Subculture of the Late 1970s


B-13 ELI18 Soviet & Post Soviet Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Andrea Pokludova
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrea Pokludova
Meri E. Herrala : Elite Performers as Soviet Cultural Diplomats
Aappo Kähönen : Economic Reform and Alliance Cohesion from the Viewpoint of Competition


C-13 FAM15 Suburban Populations, 16-20th Centuries I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Organizers: Fabrice Boudjaaba, Virginie De Luca Barrusse Discussant: Guido Alfani
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Civil Marriages and Choice of Witnesses in a Suburban Commune in Ile-de-France 19th Century
Sandra Bree : The Fertility of the Inhabitants of the Parisian Suburbs in the Late 19th Century
Romola Davenport : Survival in the Suburbs: Infant Mortality by Social Status in St. Martin-in-the-Fields,1750-1824.
Gill Newton : Death in the Suburbs: Mortality in London and its Hinterland Between 1550 and 1700


D-13 CRI13 Policing and Authority in the United States from Revolution to the Late 19th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Vivien Miller
Organizers: - Discussant: Vivien Miller
Christopher Fritsch : Crime and Justice in the Midst of War: Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice System during the Revolution
Richard Mc Mahon : Violence, Law and Migration: the Irish Experience in Late Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton : Rhetoric, Reality and Retaliation: The Problem of Implementing the Law of Nations in the American Revolution
Matthew Ward : Courts and Community in the Early American Backcountry, 1740-1815


E-13 FAM26 Bursting with New Historical Data on Residence Patterns and Living Arrangements: First Results from the MOSAIC Project
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizers: Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Michel Oris
Rolf Gehrmann : Does Urban Life Lead to Different Forms of Coresidence? Germany at the Eve of Industrial Revolution (1846)
Joshua R. Goldstein : Rationale of the MOSAIC Project
Dalia Leinarte : Lithuanian „Nuclear Family“: Consequence or Precondition of a Great Agrarian Change of 1860s?
Péter Öri, Levente Pakot : Patterns of Marriage and Household Structure in 19th Century Hungary


F-13 SPE03 CLIO-INFRA: Mapping World Inequality 1500-2000
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden
Organizers: - Discussants: Reinoud Bosch, Pim de Zwart, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Jan Luiten van Zanden


G-13 LAB09 Working with Kin: Unpaid Work, Apprenticeship and Kin's Labour in Family Business
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizers: Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini Discussants: Raffaella Sarti, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Maria Ågren : Managing the State in a Local Context: Lower Civil Servants in Early Modern Sweden
Anna Bellavitis : Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe and the Case of 16th Century Venice
Céline Bessiere : Gender in Wine-Growing Family Businesses (Cognac, France) : The Problematic Place of the Conjugal Partner
Claire Lemercier : Apprenticeship, Wages and Contracts during the Industrial Revolution. Lessons from the Parisian Case
Manuela Martini : When Unpaid Workers Need a Legal Status. Trade Associations, Family Workers and the Changing of Labour Rights in 20th Century France


H-13 URB04 Gender in the European Town, 1650-1900
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Elaine Chalus
Organizer: Deborah Simonton Discussant: Elaine Chalus
Katie Barclay : Urban and Rural Manliness in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court
Nina Koefoed : To Act as a Citizen. Local Philanthropy as a Way to Conform to Male, Political Citizenship
Anne Montenach : Legal Trade and Black Markets: Women and the Sale of Food in Late Seventeenth- and early Eighteenth-century Lyon
Deborah Simonton : Negotiating the Eighteenth-century Urban Economy: Gender and Space in Northern Europe


I-13 SOC04 International Institutions and the Production of International Knowledge on Social Security
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizer: Jill Jensen Discussant: Sonya Michel
Eileen Boris : When Equal Rights May Not Be Enough: The ILO and the Woman Worker
Sonja Matter : Enforcing International Standards in Social Work: The Exchange Programmes of the United Nations in the Field of Social Work in the Post-War Period


J-13 LAB30 Transitions in Labour Relations Worldwide 1500-2000: Preliminary Results of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations
Main Building: G466
Network: Labour Chair: Erik-Jan Zurcher
Organizers: - Discussant: Erik-Jan Zurcher
Gareth Austin : Quantifying Transitions in Labour Relations in Ghana, 1800-2000
Karin Hofmeester : A Short Introduction to the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Hulya Canbakal : Labour Relations in the Ottoman Empire
Gijs Kessler, Dmitry Khitrov : Transitions in Labour Relations in Eastern Europe: Russia, 1500 - 2000
Jan Lucassen : Shifts in global labour relations: Western Europe, Russia, East Asia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa 1500-2000 compared


K-13 WOR07 Public Diplomacy and Civil Society: Experience of 19th and 20th Centuries
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: World History Chair: Steffi Marung
Organizer: Mikhail Lipkin Discussant: Michael Kandiah
Ekaterina Grantseva : Russia and Spain: Intellectual contacts and transformation of the countries' image
Mikhail Lipkin : British public organizations and a phenomena of public diplomacy during Soviet-British cultural "indian summer" on the edge of 1950s-1960-s
Elena Mironova : Council of Ambassadors of Russians Abroad as an example of social diplomacy.
Denis Sekirinskiy : The American press as an element of public diplomacy and an instrument for shaping the image of the late Soviet Union
Samuil Volfson : The role of non-governmental organizations in the development of US foreign policy in 1920s


L-13 MID02 Gender and Power Relations at the Renaissance Court
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Christina Antenhofer Discussant: Michaela Hohkamp
Christina Antenhofer : The Family as a Total System: The Case of the Gonzaga (14th-16th centuries)
Sarah Bercusson : Gift Strategies and Female Networks: the Role of the Consort
Christina Lutter : Gender Relations at the Court of Maximilian I: Representations and Practices
Daniela Unterholzner : Bianca Maria Sforza - Taking a Different Perspective


M-13 EDU05 Health, Welfare and Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Catherine Burke
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Mona Gleason : Children, Sexual Health, and Identity in Canada, 1900 to 1950
Anna Larsson : Enhancing the Social and Psychological Health of Swedish School Children 1940–1980: Children’s Needs and Expert’s Competences
Bengt Sandin, Mathilda Hallberg : Visualizing Children´s Bodies in the Welfare State


P-13 SPA04 GIS and Spatial Distribution
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Humphrey Southall
Organizers: - Discussant: Humphrey Southall
Ana Alcântara : Analysis of the Effect of Railway Accessibility on Population Settlements using Map Algebra Methodology. The Case of a Portuguese Inland Region (1878-1930)
Niall Cunningham : The Rule of ‘Vicarious Punishment’: Space, Religion and the Belfast ‘Troubles’ of 1920 – 22
Sebastian Klüsener : Long-term Trends in the Spatial Distribution of the Population in Germany 1820-today
Luis Silveira, Daniel Ribeiro Alves & Josep Puig : New Insights on the Evolution of Population Distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (1878-2001)


R-13 ORA16 Gendered Lives, Antinomical Nostalgia: Women's Memories of State Socialism
Maths Building: 203
Network: Oral History Chair: Amia Lieblich
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrea Peto
Izabella Agardi : "One had to Adjust to Everything: to the Kádár -regime, to the Tito-regime here, to Ceausescu there". Structural Nostalgias in Hungarian Women's Life Narratives from Serbia, Romania and Hungary
Ana Luleva : Gender Dimensions of Post-socialist Nostalgia in Bulgaria
Natalia Pushkareva : The Oral History of Russian Academy Community: Transformations of Gender-discrimination Practices
Veronica Shapovalov : "There is No Place Like Home": Trauma and Nostalgia in Women's Memoirs of the Gulag


S-13 RUR17 Food and Region. Towards a History of Terroir
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Ernst Langthaler
Organizer: Rengenier Rittersma Discussant: Vincent Marcilhac
Amândio Barros, Gaspar Martins Pereira : Port Wine and the Douro Region in the Early Modern Period
Marco Batignani : An Introduction to Saffron in Val d'Orcia and the Crete Senesi. Short Story of a Forgotten and Rediscovered Product (14th –21th Centuries)
Kolleen Guy : The Invention of Terroir in Champagne and Burgundy
Rengenier Rittersma : Truffle of Discord : Truffe du Périgord versus Tartufo di Norcia
Monica Truninger, Cristina Joanaz : Freshness and Democratization of Food Consumption in the Western Societies (18th- 21st Centuries)


T-13 RUR05 Corporatism in Rural Europe, 19th - 20th Centuries
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Stéphane Le Bras Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Rien Emmery : Cruce et Aratro. The Symbiosis of Catholicism and Agrarianism in Belgium, 1919-1939
Dulce Freire : Corporatism in Portugal: institutions and modernization of agriculture during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)
Stéphane Le Bras : Protecting a Dominating Position: Corporatism in the Wine Market in Languedoc (1900s-1950s)
Jordi Planas : Agricultural cooperatives and winegrowers mobilization in Catalonia in the early twentieth century


U-13 WOM10 Gendered Memories and Historiographies
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Krassimira Daskalova : History Wars: Gender Representations in Textbooks
Ute Lischke : Whose Memories? Whose History? Addressing Nostalgia and Trauma in the Films of Sibylle Schönemann
Falko Schnicke : The Bodies of History. Genderization and Sexualization in 19th-century German Historiography


V-13 ETH12 Austria - In and out Flow of Labour Migration Post 1945
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Maria Schmidlechner
Andrea Althaus : Migratory Biographies. Austrian Female Labour Migrants in Switzerland (1945-1960)
Stefan Benedik : Out of the Settlement. Approaches towards Romani Migrations as Labour Migrations
Manfred Pfaffenthaler : Migration and Mobility. The “Guest Worker’s Route” – A Transeuropean Migration Way.
Ute Sonnleitner : "Diligent Girls and Boys Searched for Switzerland" - Styrian Temporal Labour Migration 1945-1955


W-13 ELI05 Town and Country - Supplying Elite Consumers in the 18th to 19th Centuries I the country house
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
My Hellsing : Female Consumption at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Court. What a Duchess’ Cash-books Reveal
Ulla Ijäs : Elite Networks and Consumption in Vyborg and St. Petersburg in the Beginning of the 19th Century, Case Marie Hackman
Hannah Waugh : Supplying the Country House: Audley End, Essex, c.1760-1835


X-13 ETH20 Gender, Migration and Ethnicity
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Manuela Martini
Anneke Comello : Connecting stories: contemporary letters and retrospective oral accounts of Dutch immigrants in New Zealand
Anna-Maria Eurenius : Movers and Stayers. Household Context and Emigration from Western Sweden to America in the 1890s
Margaretha van Es : Representations of Muslim Women’s Gender Identities by Minority Organisations in Norway as a Response to the Norwegian Public Discourse about the Emancipation and Integration of Muslim Women (1975-2010)


Y-13 SEX08 Women and Sexualities
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Wannes Dupont
Organizers: - Discussant: Hera Cook
Lucy Bland : Researching Women’s Sexual Narratives in 1920s Britain
Anne-Marie Sohn : Youth, Pre-marital Sex and Radio Archives in 1960s France
Cornelie Usborne : Discovering Desire: Researching Female Sexuality in Everyday Life in Nazi Germany


Z-13 POL11 The Politics of Memory and History: Finding a Usable Past
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ariel Salzmann
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jasper Heinzen : ‘To Heal a Soreness which has been Kept up Among our Waterloo Allies’: Festive Commemorations of Waterloo and the Politics of Memory. An Anglo-Hanoverian Case-study
Guldeniz Kibris : The Turkish Past and the Cold War
Markus Wien : Nationalism in Communist Bulgaria



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-14 CUL17 Aesthetic Forms
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Zsuzsanna Böröcz : From Germany to Belgium or from Belgium to Germany? The Pivotal Role of the Benedictines in the Formulation of Modern Sacred Art, Illustrated by the Case of Stained Glass Windows in Church Architecture
Rui Bras : Making films under Salazar's gaze. Cinematic representation of Lisbon in two popular comedies of the 1940s
Janne Poikolainen : Popular Music, Taste, and the Symbolic Discussion on the Post-war Modernization in Finland in the 1960s
Tomasz Rachwald : Revolutionaries and the New Order. Participation of Polish Interwar Leftist Film Directors in Creating Polish Post-war Cinema


B-14 WOM16 Gender Equality and Civil Society
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Dominique Grisard
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Yulia Gradskova : International Visions and Local Practices of Gender Equality: Challenges, Problems and Activism in the North-West Region of Russia
Ethan Levine : Gender Variance and Civil Society
Fia Sundevall : Discriminating Men in the Name of Equality? Paradoxes and Contradictions in Debates and Policy on Gender and Military Work, Sweden 1970-2010.
Emma Sundkvist : Women’s Rights Work in Cairo: Imbrications of Religious and Secular Frameworks


C-14 FAM16 Suburban Populations, 16-20th Centuries II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Virginie De Luca Barrusse
Organizers: - Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Eugenia Bournova : The Creation of New Cities in Greater Athens during the 20th Century
Laurent Heyberger : Between Town and Country, the Height of Suburbanites
Luca Mocarelli : The Suburbs of Milan in the Long Run (XVIIIth to XXth Centuries)


D-14 CRI14 Crime, Criminal Justice and Policing in Phases of Transition
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Cox : 'Dear Reader, I married him ... and him': Bigamy offences in England & Wales 1850-1950.
Nell Darby : Women, Relationships and the Summary Process in Georgian England
Roddy Nilsson : Evil Women or Desperate House-wifes? Murderous Women in Sweden c. 1850–1890


E-14 FAM22 Can Family Systems Explain Regional Economic and Political Disparities in Europe: Historica and Comtemporary Perspectives
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Siegfried Gruber
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Arne Solli
Sarah Carmichael, Jan Luiten van Zanden & Jan Kok : Family Systems, Agency and Economic Development in Global Perspective
Renzo Derosas, Alice Kasakoff & Mikolaj Szoltysek : Uses and misuses of the notion of ‘family system’ in recent scholarship on contemporary economic and political disparities in Europe
Hannes Grandits : Family Systems within European Welfare State Developments in the second half of the 20th century
Pier Paolo Viazzo : Temporary Deflections or Persistent Contrasts? Assessing the Role of Family and Kinship Structures on the Two Shores of the Mediterranean


F-14 WOM19 Meet the Author: Aftermath of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists 1918-1923
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Matthew Stibbe
Organizers: - Discussants: Alexandra Kolesnikova, Nikolai Vukov
Judit Acsády : Feminist Social Networks: Density of Connections, Innovation, Pluralism of Ideas.
Olga Shnyrova : After the Vote has been Won. The Fate of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Russia: Persons, Ideas and Deeds after the Revolution


G-14 LAB10 Climate Change: An Issue for Labour Historians
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Holger Weiss
Lars Berggren : Linking Labour History and Environmental History
Verity Burgmann : From ‘Jobs Versus Environment’ to ‘Green-collar Jobs’: Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate


H-14 LAB18 Labour and Labour Relations in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Mary-France Desmedt : Alien Labour in Times of Crisis: The Discourse of the Belgian Unions in the Service Industries
Peter Scholliers : German restaurant staff and the French culinary hegemony (Brussels, 1850 - 1914)
Patricia Van den Eeckhout : Down and out in Ghent? (Foreign) Cooks and Waiters at the Universal Exhibition Ghent 1913


I-14 SOC10 New Approaches in the Study of Social Mobility and Stratification
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizers: - Discussant: Dave Griffiths
Paul Lambert, David Griffiths & Richard Zijdeman & Ineke Maas & Marco van Leeuwen : Comparing Network and Association Models in the Analysis of Historical Patterns of Occupational Interactions and Stratification
Zoltán Lippényi, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Long-term Historical Trends of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Hungary (1850-2000)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas & Soren Edvinsson : Social Mobility in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis
Richard Zijdeman : Does it add up? Combining Register Data and Survey Data to Study Social Mobility in the 20th Century


J-14 REL05 Material Culture and Religion
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Maria Cristina Osswald
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Cristina Osswald
Elisabeth Lobenwein : Socio-economic Aspects of the Austrian Sanctuary Maria Luggau (Carinthia) in the Early Modern Times
Javier Marín : The Power of the Word: The Church and the Theoretical Principles for Building a Castilian House in the Spanish Golden Age
Ian Mitchell : Tyrian Silks and Persian Carpets’: Aspects of Christian Thought and Material Culture in Britain from the 17th to 19th Centuries
Hugo Silva : The Role of Social Capital and Patronage in the Access to the Cathedral Chapters. The Portuguese Case (1564-1640)
Nadine Tauchner, Thomas Wallnig : Re-inventing Hildegard - Sustainable Economy and Monastic Reform in Benedictine Monasteries


L-14 MID07 Eurocore Cuius Regio Session I
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Dick de Boer
Organizer: Maarten Duijvendak Discussants: -
Jana Fantysová Matějková, Kurt Villads Jensen : Virtual Regions in History - a Comparative Approach
Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu, José Augusto Sottomayor Pizarro & Maria Cristina Pimenta & Mafalda Soares da Cunha : The Role of Nobility in Shaping the Regional Strategies in the Middle and in the early Modern Ages (The Comparative Cases of Transylvania and Portugal)
Flocel Sabaté : External Perception, Institutional Construction and Social Cohesion in the Building of Catalonia (XII-XV Centuries)
Job Weststrate, Juhan Kreem : Adapting Regional Strategies during the Long Sixteenth Century: Livonia and the Lower Rhine Area Compared
Przemyslaw Wiszewski, Flocel Sabate Curull : Catalunia - Silesia. Cohesive and Disruptive Forces in History of Regions


M-14 EDU06 Special Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Greetje Timmerman
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeanette Normanton Erry : ‘Excellence is merely a matter of opportunity.’ The role of physical education in schools for the blind in England and Wales in the mid-twentieth century.
Annemieke Van Drenth : Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Mental Retardation and Child Pathology in the Dutch Context
Pieter Verstraete : Deaf Sports and the Politics of Identity. The Development of Sport Associations for deaf People in Belgium, 1880-1945
Bart Vranckx, Pieter Fannes : Creativity in Crisis: A Conceptual Approach of an Educational Discussion


N-14 ETH15 Immigration Research, Many-Cultured Societies and Scholar-Migrants in the U.S., 1880s to 1930s: Columbia and Minnesota Schools Rather than 'Uprooted Marginal Man'
Main Building: Senate
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Donna Gabaccia : The Lives and Legacy of the Minnesota School of Immigration and Refugee Studies
Dirk Hoerder : “Neither Marginal Men nor Uprooted: The Columbia University Scholars’ Comprehensive Approach to Migrant Culture and Agency”
Henry Yu : The Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology


O-14 ORA12 Workplace, Community Change and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jackie Clarke : Losing Moulinex, Losing Fordism: Complexities of Nostalgia in Oral History Narratives after Factory Closures
Steven High : Vanishing Neighbourhoods: Oral History and Urban Change
Andrew Perchard : “A dying mutual friend”: Industrial Closures, Working Lives and National Culture in Post-war Scotland
Tim Strangleman : Erasure, Remembrance, Nostalgia, and Loss: Reflections on the Death of an English Brewery


P-14 ANT05 Thucydides and the Origins of Social-Scientific History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Networks: Antiquity , Theory Chair: Kelly Olson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Benjamin Earley : Citoyen Thucydides: Thucydidean Influences on French Revolutionary Political Thought
Neville Morley : Thucydides and ‘Geschichte als Wissenschaft’


Q-14 HEA13 Public Health Policies and Social Change
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Marie Clark Nelson
Organizers: - Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Logie Barrow : Wrightian Moments: Euphoric Despair among British Vaccinists, c.1910
Iris Borowy : Public Health between Global Economic and Environmental Developments
Ramón Castejón-Bolea, Enrique Perdiguero-Gil : The Protection of the Mother Section of Auxilio Social (Social Aid) and the Medicalization of Pregnancy and Delivery in Twentieth Century Spain
Sören Edvinsson, Peter Byass : Health in Old Age. The Epidemiological Transition among Elderly in Sweden 1910-2010


R-14 SPA08 Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Religion , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizer: David Bodenhamer Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer : One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan : Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris : Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees : The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach


S-14 RUR18 Rural History and World History
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Roser Alvarez Klee : The Incredible Famine, 1876-1879. A Case Study of the Province of Henan
Özgür Burçak Gürsoy : Restriction of the “Poison”: Changing Agricultural Politics on Opium in Early Republican Turkey, 1923 - 1939
Richard W Hoyle : Brenner in the Atlantic World
Miriam Muller : Peasant Memory, Resistance and Community
Yves Segers : Farming in tropical Africa. The migration of Belgian farmers to Congo, 1908-1933
Bina Sengar : Rural Politics and Peasant Movements in Colonial Western India


T-14 LAT03 Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Latin America , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Organizers: Kim Clark, Paulo Drinot Discussant: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Kim Clark : Negotiating Prostitution: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Health
Laurent Corbeil : "Se conocían carnalmente": Sexual Criminality and Violence among Amerindians of early San Luis Potosí, New Spain (1592-1630)
Lessie Jo Frazier : Desiring the Working Class: A Spanish Anti-Clerical Feminist, a Catholic Bishop, a Negligent Patriarchal State, and Working-Class Sex
Cynthia Milton : Gendered Memories of Peru’s ‘Internal War’ as Recounted through Art


U-14 ETH22 Colonial Ties and their Effects on Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Hanan Sabea
Organizers: - Discussant: Per-Olof Grönberg
Shaun Marmon : Slavery, Race and Gender in the Circassian Period of the Mamluk Empire
Sara Park : The Smuggling Ring: A History of "Illegals" in Early Postwar Japan
Timo Särkkä : A Perspective on Nordic Colonialism: Finns as Empire-builders in Southern Africa, 1895–1945
John Schuster : Return Migrants as Strangers: The Dutch of Suriname


V-14 ETH11 Migration in the British Empire
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Tanja Bueltmann
Organizers: - Discussant: Tanja Bueltmann
Melodee Beals : ‘We Feel Highly Flattered in Perceiving that Articles are Occasionally Copied’: Public Conversations of Immigration and Settlement in New South Wales, 1803-1842
Lisa Chilton : Creating Anglo-British Homogeneity in a Heterogeneous Population: Cultural Imperialism and Identity Reconstructions in a Colonial Case Study
Marjory Harper : *‘Everything is English’: Expectations and Experiences of English Migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1970
Amy Lloyd : Who Emigrated? Using Passenger Lists and Census Returns to Study English Emigration to Canada, 1900-1914


W-14 ELI01 Town and Country - Supplying Elite Consumers in the 18th to 19th Centuries II networks and suppliers
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Jon Stobart
Anna-Maria Åström : Consumption Routes, Habits and Goods in Eastern Finland in the Late Eighteenth Century
Lucy Bailey : Rural Retailing in Popular Literature: Exploring the Cultural Image of the Village Shop in the Nineteenth Century
Kerry Bristol : Shop Local, Buy Global? Consumer Practice at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, c.1737-1785


X-14 ECO09 Economic Development since 1800
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ernesto Clar : Was Spain Different? Spanish Production and Consumption of Cereals and Meat in South European Comparison, 1950-1980
David Greasley, Nick Hanley, Les Oxley, Paul Warde & Eoin McClaughlin : History and the Future: Predictive Power of Sustainable Development Indicators in the UK since 1750
Gudmundur Jonsson : Economic Crises in Iceland since 1870
Conor Mccabe : The Irish Economy from 1922 to the 2008 Bank Guarantee: Tracing the Decisions which Undermined a State
Korinna Schoenhaerl : Giving Money for the Revolution: The Greek Loan of Independence in 1825


Y-14 SEX09 Transnational Transmutations
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Wannes Dupont : ‘Homosexuality is far from being a Singular Entity.’ The Role of Interpol and Belgium’s Belated Discovery of a Socio-criminological Issue in the 1950s
David Minto : An American Wolfenden in London: The Atlantic Crossings of a “Peculiarly British” Sex Report
Kate Stevens : Sexuality, Criminal Justice and Imperial Rivalry in the New Hebrides, 1906-1920


Z-14 POL12 Institutions, Identity and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Astrid M. Eckert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martina Becker : Delineation by the Architecture Office: The İnşaât ve Tamirât Müdürlüğü in the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic
Anja Hansen : Archival Access: The Dutch Case
Michael Karabinos : The Post-Colonial Archival Transformation
Vanja Lozic : Museums and the Making of ‘Ourselves’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-15 CUL15 Ideology, Images and Cultural Representations I
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Joeri Januarius
Organizers: - Discussant: Marcel Reyes-Cortez
Marga Altena : Engaging Media, Empowering Mothers: Television Shows and Weblogs on International Child Abduction in the Netherlands
Jessica Carlisle : 'Emotion, Solidarity and Opposition: Missing Representations of Mother’s Agency in Dutch/Egyptian Child Custody Disputes'
Aurelie Lacassagne : French literature, the Myth of Scheherazade and the Burqa


B-15 ELI14 Modern Political Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Sidsel Eriksen
Martin Åberg : Nonconformism and Political Elites: Swedish and German Liberalism in the 19th Century
Vlad Popovici : Blood, Kinship and Nationalism. The Romanian Political Elite from Hungary (1867-1900)
Francisco Precioso Izquierdo : In the Heat of the Family. Social Networks and Mobility in the Administration of the Spanish Monarchy: The Macanaz (XVII-XIX).
Pedro Urbano : The Recruitment of the Great Officials on the Royal Household in the Last Years of Portuguese Monarchy
Frederik Verleden : The transformation of the Belgian Parliamentary Elite


C-15 FAM09 Women, Family Income and Expenditure in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Eilidh Garrett
Cristina Borderias, Pilar Pérez-Fuentes & Carmen Sarasúa : Gender Inequalities in Consumption. Spain 1850-1930
Nigel Goose : Local Labour Markets and Family Budgets in Victorian England
Kristina Lilja, Dan Bäcklund : To Depend on one's Children or to Depend on Oneself: Saving Behaviours for Old-age in 19th and Early 20th Century Sweden
Beatrice Moring : Women, Income and Household Budgets in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Richard Wall (1944 -2011) : Widows, Budgets and Poverty in the English Past, Presented by Beatrice Moring


D-15 CRI15 Criminal Justice in the Low Countries: the Long Term Perspective
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizers: - Discussant: Xavier Rousseaux
Sarah Auspert, Nathalie Demaret : Judicial Torture in the Low Countries, Theory and Practices, 13th-18th Centuries: First Reflexions (Hainaut, Namur and Brabant)
Julie Louette : Judicial Statistics and Parliamentary Debates: a Game of Reciprocal Influences?
Aude Musin : Survival and decline of the right to vengeance at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in a city of the Low Countries (Namur, 14th-17th centuries)


E-15 FAM23 Academies of Sciences and Population in European Countries in the 18th century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jacques Veron
Organizers: Nathalie Le Bouteillec, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Discussant: Jacques Veron
Eric Brian : The "Essai pour connaître la population du royaume" at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. New Scientific and Political Coup
Nathalie Le Bouteillec : Tabell-Verket : The Project of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
Jean-Marc Rohrbasser : Wargentin, the Swedish Academy of Sciences and Mortality
Christine Théré : French Learned Societies


F-15 THE05 Transnational Humanities: Possibilities and Prospects
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Theory Chair: Jie-Hyun Lim
Organizer: Jie-Hyun Lim Discussant: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Daham Chong : Transnational History of Borders: East Asian Perspectives
Young-Jun Ha : Mass Dictatorship and Transnational History: Exploring the Conceptual Basis for the Connection
Sang-Hyun Kim : Does Transnational History Problematize Science and Technology Enough?
Kyung Hwan Oh : Social Scientific Imagination of the Man: Durkheimian Anthropos and Weberian Humanitas


G-15 LAB11 Work, Correction and Punishment in Workhouses and Correctional Houses
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Sonja Hinsch Discussant: Dominique Grisard
Virginia Crossman : The Irish Workhouse as a Site for Moral and Practical Training
Megan Doolittle : The workhouse in the slum – London 1880-1910.
Sonja Hinsch : Forced Labour and the Right to Work in Austria, 1918-1938. Meanings of Work in Correctional Houses, Voluntary Labour Service, and Productive Unemployment Relief


H-15 LAB21 Social Movements in an International Perspective
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: - Discussant: Magaly Rodríguez García
Victoria Basualdo : International Labor Organizations and their Impact on National Labor Movements: The Case of the ORIT and the ICFTU and Argentina, from the Late 1940s to the Mid 1980s
Fredrik Egefur : Anti-militarism in Europe Before World War I: Perspectives on the Liberal and Socialist Peace Movements
Idesbald Goddeeris : Western European Solidarity with Solidarnosc in the 1980s
Jonas Sjölander : Movements on different tracks. The Anti Apartheid and Trade Union Movements in Sweden and South Africa, 1975-1994.


I-15 SOC11 Social Structure and Mobility in Industrial Societies
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizers: - Discussants: Paul Lambert, Paul Puschmann
Susan Bandias, Don Fuller & Tanjil Whitnell & Darius Pfitzner : Gender Pay Equity - A Myth or a Reality
Antonie Knigge : The Total Influence of Family Background on Status Attainment in the Netherlands from 1842-1922
Colin Pooley : Balancing Social Justice and Environmental Justice: Mobility Inequalities in Britain since circa 1900
Wiebke Schulz : Employer’s Choice – Meriocratization of Selection Criteria during Industrialization in the Netherlands


J-15 REL10 Reshaping the "Religious Mind": Christian Reactions to Secular Human Sciences, 1900-1950
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Mary Heimann
Organizer: Agnes Desmazieres Discussant: Mary Heimann
Agnes Desmazieres : Genesis of the “Homo Progressivus”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Scientific Humanism
Paula Kane : Reception of the Freudian School among American Catholics
Felix Westrup : Psychotherapy and Protestant Practical Theology in early 20th Century Germany


L-15 MID08 Eurocore Cuius Regio Session II
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Maarten Duijvendak
Organizer: Maarten Duijvendak Discussants: -
Dick de Boer : Regions and State Formation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands
Martin Klatt, René Ejbye Pedersen : Labour Mobility in the Danish-German Border Region of Schleswig in a Longue Durée Perspective
Ad Knotter : ‘Unfamiliarity’, ‘Social Control’, or ‘Push-and-pull’. Mining and Cross-border Labour in the Dutch-Belgian-German Borderland, 1900-1973
Nils Holger Petersen : Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints


M-15 WOM11 Women Entering Institutional Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Gunnel Karlsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Isabela Campoi : Women Access at the Institutional Politics in Brazil: A Long Term Analysis until the First Female President
Ramona Mihaila, George Lazaroiu : Power and Public Stage: Political Involvement of 19th Century Romanian Women Writers
Pamela Schievenin : Women’s Way of Doing Politics? Women Politicians and the Reform of Italy’s Maternal and Infant Welfare in a Comparative Perspective (1960s – 1970s)


P-15 SPA06 GIS and Urban History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Don DeBats
Organizers: - Discussant: Don DeBats
Eva Chodejovska, Jiri Krejci : The GIS Web Map Portal of Prague Historical Cartography
Florian Ploeckl : Space, Settlements, Towns: The Influence of Geography and Market Access on Settlement Distribution and Urbanization
Jan Reiff : New Deal Visions: Mapping Urban America’s Past, Present and Future
Carry van Lieshout : Access to Water in Eighteenth-century London
Gerben Zaagsma : Mapping Fascism and Anti-fascism in London in the 1930s


Q-15 HEA09 Medical Crisis and Political Crisis
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussants: -
José Miguel Campos Rodríguez, Gregoria Hernández Martín : Disease as a Modulator of Social Change: The Media and the Epidemic of the Toxic Oil Syndrome (Spain, 1981-1987)
Nahomi Galindo Malave, Melisa Soto-Lafontaine : Health and Revolution: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge and the Resignification of Neomalthusianism through the Magazine Salud y Fuerza, (1904-1914, Barcelona)
Carlos Tabernero : The Medical-health Q&A Section of the Anarchist Magazine Estudios [Studies] (1930-1937): The Re-signification of Health and Disease through Multidimensional Communication Practices


S-15 RUR19 Kinship and Gender Dynamics of Farm Households in Rural Society Past and Present
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Women and Gender Chair: Hannes Grandits
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martin Dackling : From family to spouses? Property rights transformation in Sweden, 1850-1950
Patrick Heady : Close Marriages and Distinct Lives: Kinship and Gender in the European Countryside
Nancy Konvalinka : Embodied Inheritance. The Clash between Gender-Equal Inheritance and a Gender-Differentiated Division of Work in a Spanish Village Today
Ira Spieker : Foreign Territory. “Resettlers” and their Impact on the Emerging Socialist Society in East Germany (after 1945)
Laura Stark : Early Debates on Farm Women's Inheritance and Property Rights in the Finnish-language Press 1850-1870


T-15 RUR06 Technology, Modernity and Agricultural Transitions
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Rural , Technology Chair: Michael Kopsidis
Organizers: - Discussant: Michael Kopsidis
Hanne De Winter : How to Feed Crops? The Long Search for Parcel Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in Belgium (1885-1945).
Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia & Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Daniel Lanero Táboas : Agricultural Extension Programmes in Postwar Europe: A Comparative Study of Two Extreme Cases: Spain and the Netherlands (1946 - 1973)
Heather Holmes : The Diffusion of Labour Saving Technology and Technological Innovations: English Reaping Machines in Scotland 1850 to 1910
Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe : Greasing the Wheels of Rural Transformation? Margarine and the Emergence of the Danish Dairy Industry
Jens van de Maele : The Resonance of 'Silent Spring'. An Inquiry into the Reception of Rachel Carson’s Environmental Critique in Belgium and the Netherlands (1962-1963)


U-15 MAT09 The Ideology and Politics of Food
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Karin Dannehl
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elena Barbulescu : All We Eat is Poisoned. Food Choices in Contemporary Transylvanian Villages. Framing the Healthy Food in Rural Transylvania
Kennan Ferguson : Cooking Steel, Eating Aeroplanes: The Futurist Cookbook and the Ideology of Food
Nathalie Parys : Construction of a National Cuisine in two Belgian 19th-century Cookbooks?


V-15 POL14 Shaping National(ist) Identities: Belonging, Hegemonies, Otherness
Maths Building: 416
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Markus Wien
Organizers: - Discussants: Jose Reis Santos, Markus Wien
Olindo De Napoli : Racism and the Totalitarian Turn in Fascist Italy. The Legal Debate
Eleonora Naxidou : Reshaping the Image of the Greek: The Bulgarian Version (19th Century)
Ismee Tames : Nationalists Excluded from the Nation
Xosé Ramón Veiga Alonso, Miguel Cabo Villaverde : Brothers in Arms? The Spanish Army as a Factor of Nation-building in the Long Nineteenth-century: Galicia as a Case-study


W-15 ETH21 Strangers
Maths Building: 417
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Schmitt
Organizers: - Discussant: Irina Schmitt
Kelly Condit-Shrestha : Korean Adoption and U.S. National Belonging: Model Minority Migration, Race, and Whiteness, 1953-1978
Marina de Regt : “Gender, Labour and Migration in Yemen: The Life Stories of Women of African Descent
Nina Van den Driessche, Paul Puschmann Bart Van de Putte & Koen Matthijs : Partner Choice and Marriage Choices among Migrants: a Life Course Perspective on the Integration Process of Migrants in the Port City of Anwerp, 1846-1920.
Valerie Yap : Small island, big dreams: a case study of Filipino migrants in Guam


X-15 ETH06 The Circulation of Ideas and Models: Transforming Migrant Integration Policies I
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Ilke Adam
Organizer: Saskia Bonjour Discussant: Mathieu Hauchecorne
Saskia Bonjour : Setting an Example ? Soft Harmonisation and the Diffusion of Integration Conditions for Family Migration in the European Union
Julia Mourao Permoser : From “civic citizenship” to “integration conditions”: Framing contests and the circulation of ideas in supranational policy-making from 1999 to 2004
Malgorzata Radomska : Poles on the French and German Labour Markets: The Interwar Instutionalisation Process and the Meaning of Bilateral Agreements
Paul-André Rosental : Entitling Migrant Workers with Social Rights in 20th Century Europe


Y-15 SEX10 Making Identity, Creating Community
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Lena Lennerhed
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Leslie Choquette : Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre: The Case of Chez Palmyre
Craig Griffiths : Gender Presentation, “Respectability” and the West German Gay Liberation Movement: The “Tuntenstreit”, 1973-1975.
David Johnson : Commerce and Community Before Stonewall: Gay Book Clubs and “the Freedom to Read”
Elise van Alphen : The Raise of Homosexual Self-assurance in the Netherlands in the Late 1940s



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
A-16 CUL16 Ideology, Images and Cultural Representations II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Marga Altena
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeroen Dekker : The Importance of Images for the Cultural History of Childhood
Ute Michailowitsch : The Woman’s Role in Propaganda Newspapers in the Romanian Socialist Era
Sandra Pfistermüller : The Picture of Ottomans in "Zedlers Universallexikon"
Kekke Stadin : Men in Power are Wearing Red


B-16 ELI15 Elite Masculinities and Chivalries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: My Hellsing
Organizers: - Discussant: My Hellsing
Pål Brunnström : The Making of Masculinity and Class among Swedish Industrialists 1918 to 1939
Benjamin Deruelle : To Behave « comme le requeroit leur devoir et profession»: The Chivalric Ideal in the French King Figure beyond All Religious Disputes in the 16th Century
Henry French, Mark Rothery : Reproducing Masculine Values among the English Landed Elite, 1700-1900


C-16 FAM10 Family Networks and Family Welfare
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Kasakoff
Organizer: Alice Kasakoff Discussant: Patrick Heady
Eleanor Gordon, Annmarie Hughes : The Way We Were: Families and Family Structure in theLlate Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek : Quantifying Patriarchy: Two Joint Family Systems Compared
Mary Nagata : The Network Family? Family and Business as a Network of Households in Tokugawa Japan
Sherry Olson : Assessing the Dimensions of Family in Nineteenth-century Montreal


D-16 CRI16 Comparative Policing and Control
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizers: - Discussant: Anja Johansen
Jonas Campion : Regaining Public Space: Gendarmeries and Coming Out of Wars (Western Europe, 1918-1945)
Björn Furuhagen : The Police as a Municipal or a State Agency? The Swedish Police in a Scandinavian Comparative Perspective 1930-1980
Frode Ulvund : Control and Discretion. The Use of Discretion in Policing Vagrancy and Disorderly Persons in Europe ca 1870-1910


E-16 WOM15 Women, Work and Economy
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ziynet Seldag Ceylan : The Changing Position of Turkish Women by the 20th Century
Patricia Grimshaw : The Long Trail of Women in the Academic Profession in Australia, 1920- 2010
Irina Mukhina : Gender in History Through the Prism of Social Sciences: Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Historical Developments in the Context of Soviet Studies
Yvonne Svanström : From Maid to Household Services - Conceptual Changes with the Swedish Political Economy 1900-2010
Anna-Carolina Vogel : Women and long-term credit in 19th century Germany


G-16 LAB12 Cancelled! Labor Rights, Migrant and Foreign Workers and International Law in 20th Century Europe
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Thomas Cayet : From the International Labour Organization to the European Coal and Steel Community: Defining Regional Cooperation on Manpower in the 1950s
Eric Golson : European Neutral Labour Transfers to Germany during the Second World War
Christiane Reinecke : Illegal Labour: Work Permits and Undocumented Workers in the British and German Migration Regime of the 1920s


H-16 LAB23 Alternative Forms of Worker's Resistance
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Ad Knotter
Organizers: - Discussant: Ad Knotter
Leonid Borodkin : Workers’ Informal Practices in the Late Soviet Industry and Their Transformations in the Post-Soviet Russia
Terry Dunne : 'Threatening Letters' and Collective Identity in Pre-famine Ireland
Alex Zukas : Inscribing Class Struggle in Space: The Geography of Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr during the late Weimar Republic


I-16 WOR03 Knowing the Others in Empires without Colonies - Latin American Studies in the Habsburg Monarchie and its Succeeding states
Main Building: Humanities
Network: World History Chair: Katja Naumann
Organizers: - Discussant: Torsten Loschke
Jana Lenghardtová : Latin American Area Studies in Slovakia
Ursula Prutsch : Latin American Studies in Austria from 1918 to 1960
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak : Latin American Studies in Poland


J-16 SPA07 New Methods for Historical Demography
Main Building: G466
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizers: - Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Trygve Andersen : Automatic Transcription of the Norwegian 1891 Census
Arnfinn Kjelland : Databases Constructed by the "Norwegian Extended Family Reconstitution Method" as Part of a National Population Register
Gunnar Thorvaldsen : Record Linkage in the Historical Population Register for Norway
Lee Williamson, Chris Dibben : Pilot Project Investigating the Feasibility of Transcribed Family Tree Data for Research


K-16 SOC14 Account-books and Budget Surveys as a Source for Individual Charitableness
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Dragica Cec : Personal Charitableness in Ljubljana at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Aurelie Chatenet-Calyste : A Charitable Princess at the End of the 18th Century
Tom De Roo : Public and Private Charities of the Moretus Family (Antwerp, 17th-18th Century)
Henk Looijesteijn : Keeping Account of Charity: Dutch Account-books as a Source for Individual Charitableness, 1600-1800


L-16 MID03 Nuclear Hardship Revisited
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizers: Annemarie Bouman, Jaco Zuijderduijn Discussants: -
Annemarie Bouman : Nuclear Hardship Revisited
Jacob Weisdorf, Francesco Cinnirella & Marc Klemp : Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in England, 1540-1850
Jaco Zuijderduijn : Darkness on the Edge of Town. Security Arrangements of the Poor in 16th-century Holland


M-16 LAB33 Social Histories of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry
Main Building: Melville
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Touraj Atabaki : Changing Pattern of Labour Recruitment in the Early Iranian Oil Industry
Peyman Jafari : The political economy of oil and democratization in Iran: Revisiting the rentier state theory
Maral Jefroudi : After Nationalization: the Social Setting of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry


X-16 ETH07 The Circulation of Ideas and Models: Transforming Migrant Integration Policies II
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Saskia Bonjour
Organizer: Saskia Bonjour Discussant: Saskia Bonjour
Ilke Adam : The Europeanization of Belgian Immigrant Integration Policies and Politics.
Tiziana Caponio : Intercultural Policy Learning? Participation to International Fora and Policy Transfer in Turin, Valencia and Lisbon
Muriel Sacco : “Integration of Migrants in New Urban Policies: Comparing Montreal and Brussels”
P.W.A. Scholten : Beyond National Models of Integration? Agenda Dynamics and the Multi-level Governance of Immigrant Integration in the Netherlands and the UK


Y-16 SEX11 Love and Marriage, Horse and Carriage
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: David Johnson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Catrine Andersson : Gender-neutral Marriage in Sweden – An Issue of Love and Sexual Identity
Brent Pilkey : Making Home Then and Now: Age and Generational Differences in LGBT Homemaking
Jens Rydström : Same-sex Marriage in Scandinavia 1968–2009: A Highway to Heaven?


Z-16 RUR21 Approaches to the New Rural History
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Miguel Cabo, Araceli Freire Cedeira : Together we fight. Communitarian violence in rural Galicia, 1870-1970.
Eoin McLaughlin, Chris Colvin : Why was Raiffeisen More Successful in Some Countries than Others? Ireland and the Netherlands Compared
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen : Godparents - Methodological Questions in the Study of Social Relations in 18th and 19th Centuries’ Danish Rural Society
Leen Van Molle : Networks of Knowledge: Mapping the Agricultural and Rural Press in Belgium from the 18th to the 21st Century


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