Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30 (single time slot)
Wed 11 April
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Thu 12 April
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Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

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


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