Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00 (single time slot)
Wed 11 April
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Thu 12 April
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Fri 13 April
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Sat 14 April
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All days
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


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