Preliminary Programme

Showing: Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30 (single time slot)
Wed 11 April
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Thu 12 April
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Fri 13 April
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Sat 14 April
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All days
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


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