Preliminary Programme

Showing: Thursday 12 April 2012 (entire day)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
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    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
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    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
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    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
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All days
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: -


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