Preliminary Programme

Showing: Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00 (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 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


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