Preliminary Programme

Showing: Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00 (single time slot)
Wed 11 April
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Thu 12 April
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    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
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All days
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


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