Preliminary Programme

Showing: Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00 (single time slot)
Wed 11 April
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    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    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
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
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


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