Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00 (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
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


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