Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 13 April 2012 (entire day)
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Fri 13 April
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Sat 14 April
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All days
Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
B-9 ELI10 The Politics of Sobriety: Elites in European Temperance Movements, 19th and early 20th Centuries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Joerg Hackmann Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
David Beckingham : The Lure of Local Control: Scandinavian Licensing Reform and British Temperance Elites
Sidsel Eriksen : Robert Bairds Travels. A Study of the American Temperance Agitator Robert Bairds Travels in Europe in 1830s and 1840s.
Joerg Hackmann : Building Sober Nations. Temperance as Agenda of Social and National Elites in the Baltic Region
Galina Ulyanova : Combating Drunkenness: Russia’s Intellectual and Political Elites in the Public Debate of the 1870-s – 1914


C-9 FAM07 The Role of the State in Shaping Family Decisions
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Mary Nagata
Organizer: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Discussant: Mary Nagata
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : French and US Laws and their Impact on Pyrenean Emigrants’ Succession Practices in the US since 1850
Maria Angelica Corva, Claudia Contente : The Argentinian Civil Code (1871) and its Impact on Families
Luminita Dumanescu : State and Family in Communist Romania


D-9 CRI09 Social Control and the Anxious State
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Clive Emsley
Organizers: - Discussant: Clive Emsley
Ana Porto : The Pontes Visgueiro’s Crime: an Analysis about the Justice and the Media in Brazil
Ilkay Yilmaz : Internal Passport Regulations and the Threat Perceptions in the Late 19th Century Ottoman Empire (1876-1908)


E-9 URB09 The Governance and Misgovernance of the City
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Criminal Justice , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Camilla Elmhorn : Changing Urban Politics in Globalising Times: Stockholm 1975-2010
Peter Jones : Graft and Corruption in Glasgow 1933-1947
Janine Murphy : Strength in Unity: Cultural Liberalism and the Transformation of German Urban Politics, 1850-1864
Lars Nilsson : Shrinking Cities: New Tendencies in Post-industrial Urban Development


F-9 CRI17 Criminal Justice System in Europe during the 20th Century
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jonathan Dunnage
Organizers: - Discussant: Jonathan Dunnage
Christian De Vito : Mussolini’s Prisons, Final Act (1943-1945)
Sergey Valentinovich Lyubichankovskiy : Regional system of Administrative Justice of the Russian Empire in an Estimation of Senatorial Audits of the Beginning of the XX-th Century
Lizzie Seal : Imagined Communities and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1930-65


G-9 LAB19 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 I
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthieu Leimgruber
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthieu Leimgruber
Floriane Galeazzi : The OECD Roadmap for Global Finance, 1962-1985
Vincent Gayon : The OECD and the "Crisis" of Keynesianism: the McCracken Report (1975-1980)
Matthias Schmelzer : A 'Temple of Growth' in Crisis? The Production of Economic and Environmental Policy Norms Within the OECD during the 1970s


H-9 LAB24 Women's Participation in Labour Organizations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Eileen Boris
Kirsti Niskanen : Generation, Gender and Union Women
Margaret Ritchie : 'Contract Workers and Strategic Players': The Political Will and Actions of Female Crews of the Scottish Herring Industry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Webb : 'Loyalty to their Sex and their Class': Women's Networks and Mobilisation in Sydney's Interwar Labour Movement.


I-9 MAT07 Dress and Identity
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Neville Morley
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hannah Greig : Faction and Fashion: The Sartorial Politics of Court Dress in Eighteenth-Century England
Beverly Lemire : Mariners & Material Culture: Deep-Sea Sailors as Fashion Actors in the British Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800
Kelly Olson : Luxury and Status in Roman Male Clothing
Giorgio Riello : Stitched Together, Cut Apart: Fashion's Encounters with Cannibals, 1450-1650


J-9 REL12 The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and self-presentation of Religions under Pressure
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: Elena Glavatskaya Discussants: -
Toko Fujimoto : Religious Landscape and Presentation of Muslimness: A case study of Kazakhstan during Soviet and post-Soviet periods
Elena Glavatskaya : The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and Self-presentation of the West Siberian Shamans in the early 20th Century
Oleg Gorbachev, Liudmila Mazur : Everyday Religious Practice in the Soviet Art Cinema
Antonio Irigoyen : Spiritual Exercises and Ecclesiastical Training in Eighteenth Century Spain
Olle Sundström : Capturing the Shaman – Indigenous Images of the Struggle against Shamanism


L-9 MID06 European Urban Elites and Political Representation from the 14th to the 16th Century, Social & Institutional Aspects
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Middle Ages Chair: Manuela Santos Silva
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussants: -
María Asenjo-González : The "Procuradores": Urban Legation and Social Ambitions in Castilian Cortes (15th Century)
Mario Damen : Prelates, Nobles and Patricians. The Composition of the Estates of Brabant in the Fifteenth Century.
Marco Gentile : Forms of Political Representation in the Lombard Cities (late 14th – early 16th Century)
Maria Angeles Martin Romera : The Legitimacy of the Urban Representatives Questioned: Elite versus Commoners at Valladolid in the early XVIth Century
Adelaide Pereira Millán da Costa : The Political Urban Elites in the Portuguese Parliament (XIV and XV Century


M-9 ASI04 Commodity Networks and Production Systems: Tobacco and Coffee (with Sugar)
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Embedding Coffee: Beginnings of Large Scale Coffee Plantation in South India in the Nineteenth Century
Martin Prowse : A Century of Growth? Recurrent Patterns in the History of Tobacco Production and Marketing in Malawi 1890-2005
Ratna Saptari : Circuits of Jember Na Oogst Tobacco: Connecting Europe and the Netherlands-Indies in consumption, distribution and production networks (early 20th century)
Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff : The Domestication of a Global Commodity, a Case Study of Tobacco in Bihar


O-9 ORA07 Community and Social Change I
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Pavel Mücke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Beorlegui : Lost Voices. An Oral History Study of Basque Social Movements since 1975
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda : The Golden Age of Brazilian Football - Testimonials from Former Players of the Brazilian National Team in the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups
Fiona Cosson : Imagined Nostalgia: Popular Memory, Individual Testimony and the Memorialisation of Community in Britain
George Watley : Creation of Cultural Change and Development of Community Solidarity using Oral History


P-9 SPA03 GIS and Social History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: David Green
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Fiona Black, Jennifer Charney : Exploring the Spatial History of 19th Century Book Trades
Douglas Brown : The New Poor Law and the North-South Divide
Deryck Holdsworth, Susan Friedman & Christine Rosenfeld & Alexander Savelyev : Group Travel: Visualizing Spatio-temporal Guest Patterns in Historical Resort Hotels
David Jeevendrampillai, Ashley Dhanani, Sam Griffiths, Victor Buchli, Laura Vaughan & Mordechai (Muki) Hacklay : The Application of Space Syntax Methodologies in researching The Contemporary Urban Past: Embedding ‘Configurational Ethnography’ The Case of South Norwood


Q-9 HEA14 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present I
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström
Sofie De Veirman : Breaking the Silence. On Marriage and Family Life of the Hearing Impaired. A Case Study of East-Flanders, 1750-1900
Mercedes Del Cura González, Jose Martinez-Perez : Bolstering the Greatness of the Homeland: The Shaping of Specialist Medical Fields in Francoist Spain and their Impact on the Social Identity of the People with Disabilities
Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström : Life Courses among People with Disabilities in Nineteenth-century Sweden
Iain Hutchison : A Help or a Hindrance? – The Old and New Statistical Accounts and Decennial Censuses as Sources on the Experience of Disability in Nineteenth-century Scotland
Michel Oris, Julia Henke & Virginie Barrusse De Luca : Ageing, Disability and Pain: A Story about Ageing Perceptions and Realities in French-speaking Switzerland, 1960-2011


R-9 POL18 Experimental Spaces I: Governing the Social
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Corinna Unger
Organizer: Liesbeth van de Grift Discussant: Corinna Unger
David Kuchenbuch : "A laboratory of anarchy"? The Peckham Health Centre and the Experimentalisation of the Social in the 1930s
Timo Luks : Building the “House of Industry”. Social Engineering and the Industrial Workplace in Britain and Germany, c. 1920-1965
Geert Somsen : Planning for a Better World: British Scientists’ Wartime Discourse on a Postwar Planned Society
Liesbeth van de Grift : “A New Society” – The Dutch Wieringermeer Polder as an Experimental Garden of Social Planning (1918-1940)


S-9 RUR09 Dowries or Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside? Social and Economic Effects of Familial Choices and Legal Choices
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Tiphaine Barthelemy : Dowries, Preciputs and Gifts to the Newmarried Children: Comparative Cases Studies about Peasants and Noble Families in Brittany (19th-20th Centuries)
Gérard Béaur : Dowries in Chartres Countryside and their Effects on Society and Economy (18th Century)
Anne-Lise Head-König : The Legal Constraints on Dowries and Advances on Inheritance: Their Influence in Shaping Different Swiss Rural Societies (19th-mid 20th Century)
Laurent Herment : Why People did not Provide their Children with a Dowry?
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo, Alexandra Esteves : The Dowries of Marriage of Peasant Families of Minho in the Modern Age


T-9 RUR11 Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Vicente Pinilla
Organizers: Johannes Bracht, Michael Kopsidis Discussant: Vicente Pinilla
Johannes Bracht : Demesne Production, 'Grundherrschaft' and Leasehold Tenancy – Manorial Economy and Agricultural Development in Northwest Germany, 1550-1900
Michael Kopsidis : Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c. 1870-1940 reinterpreted
Pedro Lains : Agricultural Productivity Growth in the Iberian Peninsula, 1830-1914
Yücel Terzibasoglu, Alp Yucel Kaya : Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Land Organisation in the Hinterland of Bursa in the Mid-19th Century


U-9 ETH23 Trying to Regulate Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Mukhina
Organizers: - Discussant: Pascal Maeder
Wolfgang Goederle : Administrating Ethnicities: Central European Migrants in the Eyes of the Habsburg Empire’s Bureaucracy
Tobias Karlsson, Christer Lundh : Movers and Stayers: Labour Mobility in Gothenburg, 1924-1944
Hanan Sabea : Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: Regulatory Schemes and the Disposable Bodies of Migrants to Europe
Marta Silva : Considerations on the Clandestine Emigration and Resistance in the Portuguese Rural World, 1957-1974
Johan Svanberg : Labour Recruitment to a Gender Divided Labour Market in Sweden: The Reception from Schleswig-Holstein during the 1950s


V-9 WOM07 Noblewomen Between Public and Private Affairs in Early Modern Europe: Informal Power and (In)Visibility
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Stefan Amirell
Organizer: Carolina Blutrach-Jelín Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Carolina Blutrach-Jelín : Making the Informal Visible: Early Modern Noblewomen and Memory in Castile
Nicola Clark : Katherine, Countess of Bridgwater, and Welsh Rebellion, 1529-32
Vanessa de Cruz Medina : Taking the Quill to be Visible: Female Aristocracy and Letter-writing in Spain during the Golden Age
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá : Portuguese Aristocratic Women (15th-16th Centuries): Wealth, Authority and Power
Dries Raeymaekers : Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels. The 'Camareras Mayores' of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1598-1633)


W-9 ECO10 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 I Mechanisms and Processes
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussants: -
Catia Antunes, Amelia Polonia : Beyond Empires: Self-Organizing Cross-Imperial Economic Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800
Alexander Bick : Informal Networks within Institutions: Noblemen at the States General
Jessica Roitman : Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Negotiating Nationality across Imperial Boundaries
Daniel Strum : Netherlandish Insurers and Ibero-Jewish Policyholders: Reviewing the Information Asymmetry Problem in Business Relationships Beyond Religious and Ethnic Affiliations


X-9 ETH16 States and the Regulation of Migration
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Organizers: - Discussant: Philippe Rygiel
Pascal Maeder : Broken Mobilities? Cross-Border Work in the Basel Border Region, 1914-1945
Yvette Santos : The Portuguese Dictatorial State and his News Challenges in the After II World War: The “Junta Nacional da Emigração” and the Control Process of the Migration Movements, 1947-1963
Papia Sengupta Talukdar : Managing Cultural Diversity: Comparing India and EU
Mattia Vitiello : The Building of Italy and Emigration Policies


Y-9 WOR08 Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise I
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: World History Chair: Jakob Vogel
Organizer: Jenny Andersson Discussants: -
Jenny Andersson, Egle Rindceviziute : The Political Life of Prediction. The Future as a Space of Scientific World Governance in the Cold War Era
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz : From Past Matters of Law to Actual Matters of Fact: the “Expert Revolution and our Historicity Regime towards Nature
Frédéric Graber : A History of "Projects" as Socio-political Objects
Paul Warde, Sverker Sörlin : Expertise for the Future: the Emergence of ‘Relevant Knowledge’ in Environmental Predictions and Global Change, c.1920-1970.


Z-9 EDU07 State, Education and Childhood Recovery from 18th to 20th Centuries, the Case of Southern Italy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Paola Avallone
Organizer: Paola Avallone Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Giuliana Boccadamo : Education and employment of women in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th century
Anna Gargano : Schools in the “Real Albergo dei Poveri” in Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Lupo Maurizio : The Recovery of Social Marginality through Education in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th Century: A General View.
Rossano Pazzagli : Agricultural Education in the Kingdom of Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Raffaella Salvemini : Marginality and Maritime Education in Southern Italy between the 18th and 19th Century.
Maria Antonietta Selvaggio : From Urchins to Little Sailors: The Case Study of the Training Ship "Caracciolo", Naples 1913-1928



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-10 CUL12 Shifting Borders and Development
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Bina Sengar
Organizer: Magdalena Elchinova Discussant: Aurelie Lacassagne
Magdalena Elchinova : Memory, Heritage and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among the Istanbul-based Bulgarian Christians
Nikolai Vukov : Anxieties and Precautions: Public Debates on European Union Regulative Measures on the Bulgarian-Turkish Border


B-10 ELI11 Marriages, Alliances and Families
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Henry French
Organizers: - Discussant: Henry French
Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez, Juan Hernández Franco : Bastards, Second Sons and Oligarchs: The Origins and Rise of the House of Espinardo
Wilko Schröter : The Social Marriage Network of Europe’s Ruling Families from 1600-1900
Marja Vuorinen : Noble Marriage Politics as seen by the Bourgeois Contenders, 19th Century
Kathryn Wilkins : The London Season: A Reassessment


C-10 FAM11 Fertility and Reproduction in Comparative Perspective
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Alice Reid
Organizer: Mary Nagata Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Kiyoshi Hamano, Mary Louise Nagata : Urban Reproduction and Fertility: Kyoto in Late Tokugawa Japan
Sian Pooley : Parenthood, Child-rearing, and Fertility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century England
Lucia Pozzi, Liam Kennedy : Marriage and Fertility Patterns in Urban Ireland in the Edwardian Era
Peter Sköld, Gabriella Nordin : Indigenous Fertility in Transition? The Sami in Sweden During the Era of Colonization.


D-10 CRI10 Aspects of Policing in the 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bettina Blum : A Question of Reputation: Women Police in West Germany 1945 – 1970
Stefan Nyzell : Sister Police: International and Transnational Influences and National Debate Regarding Women in Swedish Police Service, ca 1900-1940
Yann Philippe : From the Citizens to the Mayor: the Construction of Police Cases in New York City (1905-1925)


E-10 LAB26 Class conflict and class identities
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Labour Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lyddon
Anikó Eszter Bartha : Transforming Working-class Identities: Class and Ethnicity in Postsocialist Hungary
Elizabeth Faue : Disappointment in the Law: Fighting Legal and Judicial Barriers to Working-Class Organization, 1914-1932
Björn Horgby : The Conscientiousness Project in the Labour Movement in Sweden
Jim Phillips : Collieries and Communities: the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike in Scotland
Adrian Zimmermann : Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Netherlands and Switzerland (1914-1940)


F-10 WOR04 Meet the Author. Dominic Sachsenmaier: Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizers: - Discussants: Patrick Manning, Matthias Middell, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Luo Xu


G-10 LAB20 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 II
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthias Schmelzer
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Woodward
Thomas Hajduk : First Come, First Served? The Struggle for a Code of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises and the OECD Guidelines during the 1970s
Matthieu Leimgruber : The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and its Challenger : The ILO, the OECD, and the «Crisis of the Welfare State» (1975-1985)
Jochen Mayer : The OECD as Centre of Calculation and Evaluation. The Example of the Working Party on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 1976-1985


H-10 URB01 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe I. Demography and Occupation
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Sofie De Langhe : Flemish Exceptionalism? The Absence of Older Rural Born Single Women in early Nineteenth Bruges
Tine De Moor : Industrious and/or Religious. Motivating the Choice for Living as a Beguine in (Low Countries, early Modern Period)
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers : Life Course and Residential Career of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1870-1970
Dag Lindström : Singles in Swedish Towns, 1750 – 1870
Anna-Helena Wiechel, Ann Ighe : Without Title. The Dynamics of Status, Gender and Occupation in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1805-1845


I-10 SEX03 Sexual Transgression, Transnational Travel and Abortion
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Sexuality Chair: Lesley Hall
Organizer: Christabelle Sethna Discussants: -
Katrina Rose Ackerman : Protecting 'Tomorrow's Citizens': The Rise of the International New Right, Fundamentalisms and Identity Politics in the New Brunswick Abortion Debate
Nancy Janovicek : The Influence of American Pro-Life Activism on Abortion Services in Western Canada
Lena Lennerhed : The Psychiatrization of Abortion in Sweden 1946-1970
Christabelle Sethna : “Foreign Girls Come to London: North American Women, Travel and Abortion Access, 1960-1975


J-10 LAT05 Power, Resistance and Negotiation in Colonial and Postcolonial Latin America
Main Building: G466
Network: Latin America Chair: Jeffrey M. Shumway
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeffrey M. Shumway
Benjamin Earwicker, Amy Ciaccio : An Interactionist Framework of Power in Colonial Yucatán
Márcia Guena dos Santos : Black Resistance to the Leftist Military Dictatorship in Brazil
Michael M. Hall : Mass Movements and Populist Politics in 1945: Brazilian 'queremismo' and October 17th in Argentina
Isabel Pereira Vallebona : "The MLN-Tupamaros in Uruguay: Thinking and Action". "Pedagogy and Body"
José Vargas-Hernández : Historical Social and Indigenous Ecolology Approach to Social Movements in Mexico and Latin America


K-10 MID01 Hidden Politics in Late Medieval Iberia
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Maria Antónia Almeida
Organizer: Tiago Faria Discussants: -
Marcelo Encarnação : Game of Thrones - Kings, Queens and Noblemen in Quest for Power in the Late Fifteenth-Century Castile
Tiago Faria : Dom João’s Thugs – Warmongering and Intimidation in International Conflict (1385-1420)
Flávio Miranda : Secrecy in Atlantic Politics, 1415-1500
Manuela Santos Silva : Princess Isabel of Portugal – 1st Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428)


M-10 ASI01 World War II in Asia and the Changing Status of Chinese Women
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Paul Ropp
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Karen Turner
Louise Edwards : Female Spies, ‘Miscegenation’ and Race-nation Loyalties
Helen Schneider : International Organizations and Professional Chinese Women, 1937-1947
Harriet Zurndorfer : “Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism 1937-1940”


N-10 POL01 Gender and Citizenship: a Roundtable
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Judit Acsády
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Epstein : Connecting Conversations about Gender Injustice and Citizenship: “Transnational Feminism” in the Revue de morale sociale (1899-1903)
Rachel Fuchs : "Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Women, their Bodies, and the Courts in Modern France"
Maria Kyriakidou : "Party Politics before the Right to Vote: Interwar Greek Feminists and the Individual vs. Collective Citizen Issue"
Irina Novichenko : Age, Gender and Civil Society: Soviet Informal Associations in 1960s-1970s
Irma Sulkunen : Religion, Gender and Civil Society


O-10 ORA08 Community and Social Change II
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Fiona Cosson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Malgorzata Adamczyk : Who Killed Mietek środa? Between Historic and Mythical Narration
Zeynep Emine Güler : Urban Transformation and Nostalgia in Merdivenköy, Istanbul
James Karmel : Oral History and Undergraduate History Education: the Recent American Military Experience
Daniela Koleva : Memories and Meanings: Linking Life Experiences to Social and Cultural Change
Malin Thor : Narratives about what? A Discussion about the Archive “Jewish Memories” at the National Museum of Cultural History in Sweden


P-10 EDU11 War & Children / Childhood
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Margot Hillel
Organizers: - Discussant: Margot Hillel
Carolyn Kay : War Propaganda for the Young: Children’s Literature in Germany during The First World War
Orna Naftali : Embattled Childhoods: Children, Gender and Violence in China of the “Cultural Revolution” Period (1966-76)
Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde : A School Trip Down Memory Lane - Catholic Education, Pupil’s Memory and World War II in Belgium


Q-10 HEA15 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present II
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Andrew Blaikie, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Helene Brodin, Katarina Piuva : Blamed and Forgotten - but not Silenced. Mothers Caring for Adult Children with Mental Ill-health and the Practices of Social Welfare and Mental Care in Sweden
Staffan Förhammar, Marie Clark Nelson : Outside In and Inside Out: The Creation of Identity among Sanatoria Patients in the Early 20th Century
Dee Hoole : Disabling Images? Children in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum c.1901
Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Rosa Ballester & Maria Isabel Porra & Maria Jose Baguena : The Cripple Girl. Gender in the History of Polio Studies in Spain
Sonali Shah : Becoming Disabled – Temporality of Disability in England between WWII and 21st Century


R-10 POL19 Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Lagendijk
Stefan Couperus : Beyond New Jerusalem: The Practice of Postwar (Re)construction Rotterdam and Coventry 1920-1960
Sébastien Gardon : Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970)
Frank Schipper : Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century
Anette Schlimm : What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s


S-10 RUR10 Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Changes
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rosa Congost : Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Change
Richard Paping : ‘Making a Living of their Own’. Succession, Inheritance and Child Career Strategies of Households in the Dutch Rural Economy in the 18th and 19th Century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Female and Male Dowries in Galicia (Spain): Tierra de Santiago in XVIII Century
Rosa Ros : Transformations in Women's Position in a Single Heir System: Dowries and Widowhood-usufruct in the Girona Region (Catalonia), 1750-1860
Albert Serramontmany : Dowries and Socioeconomic Grups: An Example of Use of an Indicator of Social Groups’ Wealth in a Rural Proto-industrial Area. The Besalú corregimiento, 1771-1841


T-10 RUR13 Landscape, Agriculture and the Environment between the Wars
Maths Building: 325
Network: Rural Chair: Rien Emmery
Organizer: Jeremy Burchardt Discussant: Rien Emmery
Jeremy Burchardt : Landscape, Preservation and Community in Berkshire (UK), 1900-50
Andrew Jackson : ‘”Homes fit for heroes”’?: The planning and design of inter-war council-estate housing in the countryside and on the urban fringe’.
John Martin : The Impact of Game Shooting on Agriculture and the Rural Environment (1918-39)
Tom Williamson : Farming and the Environment in Interwar Britain


U-10 ETH24 Taking Stock of Mobility
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Organizers: - Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Leo Lucassen, Jan Lucassen & Gijs Kessler : Cross-community Migration in Twentieth-century Europe; Towards a Systematic Quantitative Assessment
Silvia Pedraza, Lara Sung Back : Assimilation or Transnationalism? Evidence from the Latino National Survey (2006) for Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and South Americans who Immigrated to the USA during 1958-2005.
Paul Puschmann, Per-Olof Grönberg & Jan Kok & Koen Matthijs : Social Mobility of Migrants in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1920


V-10 WOM09 Renegotiating Marriage, Motherhood, and Womenly Duties
Maths Building: 416
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Helene Carlbäck
Zara Bersbo : Same Economical rights - Different Economic Citizenship. Swedish politics and legislation 1921-1971
Andrea Thomson : 'A More Precarious Institution'?: Marriage and Marital Breakdown in Late Twentieth-century Scotland through a Gendered Lens
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz : Constituted Identities of Motherhood, Fatherhood, Childhood and the Family Relations in Turkish Modernization (1908–1945)


W-10 ECO11 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 II The European Context
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Ana Crespo Solana : Networks between Transnational Systems: Theoretical Rapprochements in the Case of the Hispanic Atlantic World (XVII-XVIIIe)
Ana Sofia Ribeiro : The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age. The Case Study of Simon Ruiz’s Network (Second Half of the 16th Century)
Siobhan Talbott : There is Many English and Severall Scots that you Might Deall with.’ Self-organizing European Entrepreneurial Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century: The Case Study of Britain and France


X-10 ETH09 Migrant Employment Dynamics in Turbulent Times
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: David Weir
Organizer: Paul Chan Discussant: David Weir
Paul Chan, Rafal Smoczynski & Ian Fitzgerald : Challenging Anti-migrant Moral Panic Discourses: The Role of Migrants and Trade Unions as Folk Devils Fighting Stigmatisation
Jan Cremers : The Search for Cheap Labour in Europe
Marian Crowley-Henry : An Analysis of Skilled Migrants’ Career and Identity (Re-)Construction
Ian Fitzgerald : Migrant Dynamics in Turbulent Times’


Y-10 WOR09 Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise II
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: World History Chair: Jenny Andersson
Organizers: - Discussant: Jakob Vogel
Holger Nehring : Perceptions of ‘Crisis’, the Semantics of Time and the Technopolitics of the West German Peace Movements during the 1980s
Elke Seefried : Futures Studies of the 1960s and early 1970s: From Creating Futures to Predicting Doom?
Elodie Vieille Blanchard : Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: Forecasting and Modelling in the Debate over the Limits to Growth


Z-10 EDU09 Theory and Youth/Children as a Social Phenomenon
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Annemieke Van Drenth
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Hilda Amsing : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: The Case of the Dutch Socialist Youth Movement (1930s)
Sjaak Braster : Facebook without Internet. The Hidden Functions of Homework Planners in the Classroom (1950-1990)
Mandy Talhout : Membership of Youth Organizations: Historical or Structural? A Case Study
Greetje Timmerman : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: Theory



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-11 CUL11 Utopia and European Construction / Imaginary, Realism and Ambivalences of Utopia
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Jurij Fikfak
Organizers: - Discussant: Jurij Fikfak
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar : Europe as an Imagined Utopian Project of the EU Institutions
Ullrich Kockel : Invoking Europe: The Spirit of Utopia and the Heritage of Our Time
Maria Vivod : Europe’s Image of Future. Example Taken from a Serbian Prophecy
Thomas Wolfe : European Construction and Utopian Imaginary


B-11 ELI12 Professional Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Ilona Kemppainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Robert Anderson : Three Models of Elite Education in Modern Britain
Conceição Andrade Martins : Major Protagonists of the Portuguese Agricultural Development in Nineteenth Century
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : The Mid-Victorian Professions


C-11 FAM12 Interfaith, Interethnic and International Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Organizer: Ioan Bolovan Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Peter Teibenbacher
Constantin Barbulescu : Mixed Marriages in the medical discourse in Romania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Marius Eppel : At the Border of the Empire and at the Confluence of Confessions: The Mixed Marriages in Oradea Area (Western Romania) in the Modern Times
Cyril Grange : Alliances between Jewish and Christian Aristocratic Elites in Paris in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Marriage Contracts


D-11 CRI11 The Penal Colony in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizer: Helen Grevers Discussants: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Xavier Rousseaux
Helen Grevers, Hans Meijer : Dutch World War II Collaborators in Indonesia 1947-1950. The Colony of West New Guinea as a Post War Penal Settlement
Vivien Miller : White Liberalism, Black Civil Rights, and the Origins of Florida’s Death Penalty Moratorium, [1964-1977)
Stephan Steiner : Austria’s Penal Colonies – Facts and Visions


E-11 FAM24 Round table European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizers: Anders Brändström, Kees Mandemakers Discussants: Anders Brändström, Siegfried Gruber, Kees Mandemakers, Gunnar Thorvaldsen


F-11 WOM22 Roundtable: Women's Movements III
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Åsa Bengtsson : The White Ribbon - Temperate Women on Public Scenes.
Marie Hammond-Callaghan : “Gender and International Peace Politics during the Cold War: Anticommunism and Surveillance of the Voice of Women, Canada, 1960-1964.”
Irena Selisnik, Marta Verginella : Social Networks of Publicly Active Women
Lorna Zukas : Gender and Revolutionary Change: Zimbabwean Women’s Engagement for Freedom, Equality and Autonomy


G-11 LAB31 Strikes in Europe: Recent Development
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Kurt Vandaele Discussant: Raquel Varela
Heiner Dribbusch : Organising by Conflict: Exploring the Relationship between Strikes and Trade Union Membership in Germany
David Lyddon : A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK
Sjaak Van der Velden : The 2010 Dutch Cleaners Strike, New Ways in Unionism
Kurt Vandaele : Sustaining or Abandoning ‘Social Peace’? Strike Development and Trends in Europe since the 1990s


H-11 URB02 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe II. Survival Strategies and Social Networks
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Isabelle Devos
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Christa Matthys : Servants’ Solidarity Networks: Assistance by Close and Distant Kin in Job Placement and Critical Life Situations
Maja Mechant : ‘One of the Few Ways a Woman Could Make it on her Own.’Prostitution as a Survival Strategy for Singles in Eighteenth Century Bruges
Kim Overlaet : Singles and their Family: Urban Networks in Sixteenth Century Mechelen and Aalst
Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van der Heijden : Singles and their Public Roles in early Modern Towns
Judith Spicksley : Capital Benefits: The Social Networks of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster and Roneylending in Seventeenth Century Hereford


I-11 SPE02 The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: , Technology , Urban Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Michael-W. Serruys, Giovanni Favero : The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case


J-11 LAB16 Working Hours in Catholic World: A Long Term Perspective, 16th-19th Centuries
Main Building: G466
Networks: Labour , Religion Chair: Manuela Martini
Organizer: Corine Maitte Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Corine Maitte : Working Times in the Italian Glassblowing Industry, XVe-XVIIth Centuries
Didier Terrier : Working Times in Textile and Mine Industries, Liège (Belgium), Mid-XIXe Century
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : What's Children Labour? Some Educational and Professional Patterns in 18th Century Turin


K-11 AFR02 Knowledge, Culture and Empowerment
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paulo Fernandes : Press, Public Opinion and the emergence of “Civil Society” in late 19th Century South East Africa
Kamini Krishna : Empowerment of Zambian Women
Fouad Mami : The Cultural Poetics of Desire in the Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah


L-11 MID04 Court Culture and Court Consumption I
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Marisa Costa : Art Consumption in the Burgundian Court and the Agency of Isabel of Portugal (1430-71)
Visa Immonen : The Distributed Personhood of the Elite: Medieval and early Modern Heraldry in Finland as Material Culture
David Nogales Rincón, Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova : The Material Environment of Castilian King Henry III (1390-1406)
Thomas Småberg : The Receptions of Queens: Rituals Surrounding Medieval Scandinavian Courtly Culture


N-11 SPA10 Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Alistair Geddes
Organizers: - Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall : Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain : Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson : Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Kenneth Sylvester : Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl
Nigel Walford : The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England


O-11 ORA14 Archives and Oral History: Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Partnership, Collection and Use
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Rob Perks
Organizers: - Discussants: Joanne Bartholomew, Elspeth Millar, Rob Perks, Sarah Smith, Mary Stewart


P-11 SPA09 Expanding the Range of HGIS
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Jan Reiff
Organizer: Don DeBats Discussant: Jan Reiff
Don DeBats : Space,Race, and Politics: Using GIS to Explore the Social Logic of Politcs in Urban and Rural Settings in Nineteenth Century America
Don Lafreniere, Jason Gilliland : Beyond the Narrative: Using H-GIS to Reveal Hidden Patterns and Processes of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Cities
George Vascik : Pigs and Protest: The Crisis of Swine Husbandry and the Electoral Success of anti-Semitic Political Parties in Northwest Germany, 1924-1930


Q-11 HEA01 The Mine as a Specific Field for Experimenting New Methods and Revealing New Stakes in Occupational Health (20th c.) I
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizer: Judith Rainhorn Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Eric Geerkens : Collective Bargaining on Occupational Health: Silicosis in Belgium (c. 1937-c.1990)
John Murray, Javier Silvestre : Improving Workplace Safety in European Coal Mining, 1851-1913
Bernard Thomann : From Labor Rationalization to Social Citizenship: Professional Expertise and Social Mobilization in the Recognition and Compensation of Pneumoconiosis in Japanese Coal Mining Industry


R-11 POL20 Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: Leonid Borodkin, Ido de Haan
Marija Drėmaitė : Reading the Spatial Patterns of Soviet Modernization: Regional and Urban Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the 1960s
Vincent Lagendijk : How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning
Uwe Lübken : Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space


S-11 RUR08 Peasant and the Market: Between Accumulation, Distress and Life Cycle-strategies
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Miriam Muller
Organizer: Tim Soens Discussant: Miriam Muller
Frédéric Aparisi : Peasants and Markets in the Kingdom of Valencia during the Later Middle Ages
James Davis : Negotiating the marketplace: the expectations and fears of medieval English peasants
Kristof Dombrecht, Erik Thoen : The Land Market in a Changing Peasant Society during the Late Middle Ages – 16th Century: The Case of Flanders
Piotr Guzowski : Land Market and Peasants’ Life-cycle in Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Tim Soens, Eline Van Onacker & Maïka De Keyzer : Beyond the Flock. Sheep Farming, Wool Sales and Peasant Economy in the Late Medieval Campine Area (Brabant, Belgium-The Netherlands)
Lies Vervaet, Erik Thoen : Tenure and Lease Holding Payments of Peasants and Farmers in Late Medieval Rural Flanders


T-11 RUR20 Is Farming the Only Way of Providing Food?
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Richard Oram
Organizer: Ruth Tittensor Discussant: Richard Oram
Jennifer Lee : Gathering: Reconnecting with the Landscape of Our Food
Ruth Tittensor : How Can Ecology Contribute to Food Provision?
Caroline Wickham-Jones : Fear of farming?


U-11 MAT01 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling I
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Riitta Matilainen : Cultures of Gambling: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives
Gerda Reith : Gambling, Risk and Reason: The Creation of 'Pathology’ from Commerce
Eino Tuohino : Medicalization of Gambling Problems and Individual Responsibility: The Case of Finland


V-11 ETH13 Public Identity Formation and Construction
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Saara Pellander
Organizers: - Discussant: Colin Pooley
Lars Amenda : Migration and the Media in Nazi Germany
Grazia Biorci : Stereotypes on Migration Matter in Italian Press
Johanna Leinonen : Hierarchies of Desirability: International Marriages in the Finnish Media, 1982-2006
Marlou Schrover : Constructing Problems: Debates on Immigration and Integration Issues in Press and Parliament (the Netherlands 1945-2000)


W-11 ECO12 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 III The Atlantic Context
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Amélia Polónia
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Catia Antunes
Bram Hoonhout : 'Subprime Mortgages in the Caribbean: the Financial Opportunities Illegal Trade Created, 1740-1815
Silvia Marzagalli : The French Colonies in the Late 18th Century, or the Necessity of Cross-imperial and Foreign Trade
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva : Trans-imperial and Cross-cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s-1800s


X-11 ETH17 Comparing Refugees
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Bina Sengar
Organizers: - Discussant: David Struthers
Eva Becsei-Kilborn : Aspects of Hungarian Migration to the UK
Lukasz Gorniok : Reception of Czechoslovakian and Polish Jewish Refugees to Sweden 1968-1972
Bethany Hicks : “Not Real Germans at All”: GDR Refugees in the West, 1989 - 1990
Tycho Walaardt : Attempts to select refugees: Inviting Hungarian refugees by the Netherlands in 1956


Y-11 SEX05 Sex Philosophy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tanya Cheadle : Realizing an ‘Earthly Paradise of Love’ in Late-Victorian Edinburgh: The Sexual Ethics and Intimate Life of Patrick Geddes
Lesley Hall : “Sentimental follies” or ‘instruments of tremendous uplift”? contrasting views of women’s same-sex relationships in interwar Britain
Anastasia Jones : The Normal Lesbians: Sex Studies and the Growth of Modern Sexual Identities in Interwar Era U.S.


Z-11 EDU10 Voices of Child Saving
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizers: - Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Claire Gallagher : In the “Schools” on Ellis Island: The Children, Their Classrooms and Experience
Nell Musgrove : Imagining Foster Mothers – Historical Perspectives
Daniel Nilsson Ranta : Acting Child In Distress – on Philanthropy, Child Care and Societal Saving Eagerness
Karen Robbins : Discipline and Polish: Creating Identity through Space at Girls' Reforms Schools in 19th Century America
Andrew Sanders, Val Wood : One Hundred Voices



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
A-12 CUL14 Creating the Everyday Life; Housing and Consumption in the 19th and 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Jens Jaeger
Organizers: Jens Jaeger, Joeri Januarius Discussants: -
Els De Vos : Ambivalent Messages in the Visual Home Culture Education of the Intermediaries in Belgian Flanders during the Sixties and Seventies
Joeri Januarius : Representing the Everyday: Private Photography and Belgian Limburg Miners in the 1950s
Ilona Kemppainen : Death and Consumer Culture


B-12 ELI13 Modernising Elites: Agriculture and Business
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Niels Matheve : The Belgian Elite and their Networks during the Interwar Period
José Antonio Sánchez-Román : Business Elites, Tax Justice and Tax Reform in 20th Century Argentina
Maciej Tyminski, Piotr Koryś : The Class of Strangers. Business Elites in the Late 19th Century Kingdom of Poland


C-12 FAM08 The Effects of Public Health Control against Infectious Diseases
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Lotta Vikström
Organizer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi Discussant: Peter Sköld
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Sören Edvinsson : Regional Differences in Measles Mortality during the Demographic Transition. The Case of Northern Sweden 1750-1900
Hiroshi Kawaguchi : The Effects of Vaccination Legislation against Smallpox in 1875, Japan
Diether Kramer : Fighting Smallpox in Styria (Austria) The Impact of Public Interventions in Late 19th Century


D-12 CRI12 Race, Drugs and Criminal Justice
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Richard Mc Mahon
Organizers: - Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Jason Glenn : Addicted to War: The War on Drugs and the Incarceration Nation
Donna Murch : Towards a Social History of Crack: Drugs, Informal Economy, and Youth Culture in an Era of Neo-liberalism
Samuel Roberts : Race, Epidemiological Thinking, and the U.S. ‘Heroin Epidemic’ of 1950-1975: Against the ‘Punitive Turn
Robbie Shilliam : The Polynesian Panthers and The Black Power Gang in Aotearoa New Zealand: Criminal Justice versus Social Justice


E-12 FAM25 Family Factors and Infant and Child Mortality
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Angelique Janssens Discussant: JeanMary Walker
Angelique Janssens : Family Factors and Children’s Mortality Risks in the Past. Some Results from Different Demographic Regimes in the Netherlands, 1880-1930
Maaike Messelink : Siblings: A Blessing or a Curse? Family and Child Survival in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett : "Who you are, where you stay or what you know?" Factors Influencing Infant and Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Scotland
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas & Sara García Ferrero : Infectious Disease and Mortality among Urban Children: Madrilenian Children and Foundlings at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Peter Teibenbacher : Infant and Child Death on the Countryside


F-12 RUR15 Meet the Author: Agrarian History of England and Wales
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Dulce Freire Discussants: John A. Chartres, Mats Morell, Juan Pan-Montojo, Anton Schuurman, Nadine Vivier


G-12 LAB32 Labour Militancy since the Late 19th Century in a Global Perspective
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Sjaak Van der Velden
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Vandaele
Linda Clarke, Charles McGuire, Christine Wall : ‘Lump it or like it?’: the significance of the ‘lump’ to the development of building industry in Britain '
Jesper Hamark : Dockers’ Non-militancy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Swedish Port Strikes in an International Perspective
Paulo Terra : The strikes of streetcar workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1870-1906)


H-12 URB03 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe III. Identity, Culture and Social Perception
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Julie De Groot
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot & Isis Sturtewagen : The Material Culture of Singles in the Cities of the County of Flanders under Burgundian-Habsburg Rule (16th Century)
Wendy Gordon : Singles Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861
Amy Harris, Amy Harris : Poor Single Men in Eighteenth-Century England
Raffaella Sarti : Unmarried Women and Men in Pre-industrial South- and North-European Cities


I-12 LAT04 Latin American Politics, Economy and Society in Transnational Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Latin America , Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Jose-Maria Aguilera-Manzano : The Novel Sab and the Construction of the Cuban Identity during the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey M. Shumway : Argentine Nation Building and French Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Carolina Vicario : Rural Labor Force in Rio de la Plata between 1760 and 1860. An Approximation to the Social Mobility


J-12 LAB29 Within the 'Worlds of Labour': Why and How to Write Factory History
Main Building: G466
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Görkem Akgöz Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Görkem Akgöz : Many Voices of a Republican Factory: Alternative Visions and Discourses on Trade Unionism in Early Republican Turkey
Hakan Mahmut Kocak : To Looking the Formation of the Turkish Working Class through the “National” Factory
Kevin Murphy : Factory History during the Russian Revolutionary Era
Asli Odman : The Ford Factory at Istanbul in the Interwar Period: Assembling Cars, Connecting Ports and Nationalizing Production


K-12 ORA15 Lost and New Homes. Coming to terms with Ambivalent Pasts and Present Belongings
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eveline Buchheim : In Search of the Unknown Fatherland
Marjo Buitelaar : The Contested Waterjar. Moroccan Home-making in a Diasporic Context
Aya Ezawa : Telling the Unknown Past: Indisch-Japanese and the Memory of WWII
Ellis Jonker : Hard to Digest. Educated Nostalgia among the Moluccan Dutch (1951-2011)
Stefania Scagliola : Coming of Age in the arms of the Baboe – Reminiscences of Former Dutch-conscripts Who served in Indonesia of their Love-affairs with Local Female Servants


L-12 MID05 Court Culture and Court Consumption II
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Tiago Faria
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Adriana Almeida : Faith that Glitters. Piety and Devotion in the Treasure of Leonor of Portugal (1328-1348)
Rita Melro : The Royal Treasury, a Mirror of the King: Power, Luxury and Spirituality in the Treasure of Dinis, King of Portugal (1279-1322)
Diana Pelaz Flores : The Treasure Queen's Wardrobe and Fashion as Power Generators and Builders in Castile in the 15th Century
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues : Dressing and Adorning Portuguese Infantas in the 15th Century


M-12 WOM08 Gender and the Sciences of the State
Main Building: Melville
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Helene Carlbäck
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine De Moor
Simone Diender : Governing the Family Home: Social Science and the Education of American Citizens in the Early Cold War
Elizabeth Jones : Gender and the 'Sciences of the State' in Rural Germany: The Social and Environmental Reclamation of Farm Households, 1866-1914
Marynel Ryan Van Zee : A Gendered Ordering of Self-Interest: Family and State in Nineteenth-Century German Economics


O-12 ORA11 Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Irina Rebrova : Thematic Lines of “Children’s of War” Narrative: Traumatic Experience or Nostalgia
Irena Saleniece : Sovietisation as Trauma: Memories of Forced Changes to Ethnic, Religious and Social Identities
Geoffrey Swain : “ ‘We Were the Vanguard!’: Nostalgia for Latvia’s Young Communist League”
Maria Zolotukhina : Memory of a War Childhood: The Experience Before and During WWII in Russia


P-12 SPA05 HGIS Methodological Issues
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Gethin Rees
Organizers: - Discussant: Gethin Rees
Malte Helfer : The Use of Temporal Data in the ArcGIS 10 Release – New Prospects for the Digital Historical Cartography, Presented using the Example of the Territorial Development in the Greater Region since the Congress of Vienna
Jean Luc Pinol, Guillaume Fantion : Historical Administrative Zoning and History : France XIXth-XXth Centuries (Methods and Results)
Humphrey Southall, Patrick Manning : Potentials for a Global Historical GIS
Pierre Vernus, Francesco Beretta & Claire Charlotte Butez : Managing Geo-historical Information in a Collective and Cumulative System. The Project SyMoGIH and its Gazetteer


Q-12 HEA02 The Mine as a Specific Field for Experimenting New Methods and Revealing New Stakes in Occupational Health (20th c.) II
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizer: Judith Rainhorn Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Arthur McIvor : Narratives from the Dusty Coalface: Evaluating Oral Evidence in Understanding Work and Health Cultures in British Coal Mining Since the 1930s
Laure Pitti, Pascal Marichalar : “Legitimate Expertise and Lay Counter-expertise on Occupational Health Issues in the French Mines: A Focus on the Peñarroya Case (1960s-1980s)”
Judith Rainhorn : ‘We discussed it a bit…’ (Dr. Hamilton). Handing Over to the Actors to Understand Work and Health Interaction in the Copper Mines of Arizona, 1919”


R-12 LAT02 New Histories of Latin America in the Cold War: Politics, Culture and International Perspectives
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizer: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
William Booth : The Mexican Communist Party in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Schema for the Postwar Conjuncture
Benjamin Cowan : Making Machismo: Cold War Alignment and the Political Terminology of American Masculinities
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Feminism, Communism and Women's Transnational Activism in the Cold War: The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)


S-12 WOM12 Women and Power
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Nagata
Stefan Amirell : The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson : Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky : Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility


U-12 MAT02 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling II: Law and Policy
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Riitta Matilainen
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Maria Heiskanen : Culture or Games? The History of Using the Profits of Money Games for Good Causes
Sytze F. Kingma : The Dutch Gambling Act of 1964 and the “Alibi-Model” of Gambling Regulation
Antti Myllymaa : European Offshore Jurisdictions as the Juridico-political Infrastructure for the Cross-border Online Gambling Industry


W-12 ECO13 Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 IV The Indian Ocean and Beyond
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Economics , World History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: Catia Antunes, Amélia Polónia Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Michael Kempe : The „Pirate Round“. Self-Organizing and Illegal Economic Networks beyond Empires around 1700
Leos Muller : Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire. Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1750-1800
Chris Nierstrasz : In the Shadow of the Companies, Empires of trade in the orient and informal entrepreneurship, 1600-1800
Guido Van Meersbergen : “The Nature of the People and their Government”: The Role of Cultural Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Dutch and English East India Company Commercial and Diplomatic Strategies


X-12 ETH19 Forced Migrations
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Guldeniz Kibris
Organizers: - Discussant: Johan Svanberg
Cem Disbudak, Semra Purkis : Forced Migrants or Voluntary Exiles: Bulgarian Turks in Turkey
Maria Egorova : Humanitarian Activity of Russian Academic Group in Great Britain, 1920-1930
Pippa Virdee : The Impact of Forced Migration on the Economies of Divided Punjab:A Case Study of Ludhiana and Lyallpur


Y-12 SEX06 Masculinities and the Regulation of Sex
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Sarah Toulalan
Organizers: - Discussant: Sarah Toulalan
Chad Denton : The Brotherhood: Male Homosexual Identity Among the Early 18th Century French Aristocracy
Julie Gammon : 'Dangerous' Men: Defining Male Sexualities in Eighteenth-century England
Angelika Koch : Unhealthy Desires: Controlling Sexuality and the Body in Early Modern Japan


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