Preliminary Programme

Showing: Saturday 14 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
    8.30 - 10.30
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    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
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    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-14 CUL17 Aesthetic Forms
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Network: Culture Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Zsuzsanna Böröcz : From Germany to Belgium or from Belgium to Germany? The Pivotal Role of the Benedictines in the Formulation of Modern Sacred Art, Illustrated by the Case of Stained Glass Windows in Church Architecture
Rui Bras : Making films under Salazar's gaze. Cinematic representation of Lisbon in two popular comedies of the 1940s
Janne Poikolainen : Popular Music, Taste, and the Symbolic Discussion on the Post-war Modernization in Finland in the 1960s
Tomasz Rachwald : Revolutionaries and the New Order. Participation of Polish Interwar Leftist Film Directors in Creating Polish Post-war Cinema


B-14 WOM16 Gender Equality and Civil Society
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Dominique Grisard
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Yulia Gradskova : International Visions and Local Practices of Gender Equality: Challenges, Problems and Activism in the North-West Region of Russia
Ethan Levine : Gender Variance and Civil Society
Fia Sundevall : Discriminating Men in the Name of Equality? Paradoxes and Contradictions in Debates and Policy on Gender and Military Work, Sweden 1970-2010.
Emma Sundkvist : Women’s Rights Work in Cairo: Imbrications of Religious and Secular Frameworks


C-14 FAM16 Suburban Populations, 16-20th Centuries II
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Virginie De Luca Barrusse
Organizers: - Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Eugenia Bournova : The Creation of New Cities in Greater Athens during the 20th Century
Laurent Heyberger : Between Town and Country, the Height of Suburbanites
Luca Mocarelli : The Suburbs of Milan in the Long Run (XVIIIth to XXth Centuries)


D-14 CRI14 Crime, Criminal Justice and Policing in Phases of Transition
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Cox : 'Dear Reader, I married him ... and him': Bigamy offences in England & Wales 1850-1950.
Nell Darby : Women, Relationships and the Summary Process in Georgian England
Roddy Nilsson : Evil Women or Desperate House-wifes? Murderous Women in Sweden c. 1850–1890


E-14 FAM22 Can Family Systems Explain Regional Economic and Political Disparities in Europe: Historica and Comtemporary Perspectives
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Siegfried Gruber
Organizer: Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Arne Solli
Sarah Carmichael, Jan Luiten van Zanden & Jan Kok : Family Systems, Agency and Economic Development in Global Perspective
Renzo Derosas, Alice Kasakoff & Mikolaj Szoltysek : Uses and misuses of the notion of ‘family system’ in recent scholarship on contemporary economic and political disparities in Europe
Hannes Grandits : Family Systems within European Welfare State Developments in the second half of the 20th century
Pier Paolo Viazzo : Temporary Deflections or Persistent Contrasts? Assessing the Role of Family and Kinship Structures on the Two Shores of the Mediterranean


F-14 WOM19 Meet the Author: Aftermath of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists 1918-1923
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Matthew Stibbe
Organizers: - Discussants: Alexandra Kolesnikova, Nikolai Vukov
Judit Acsády : Feminist Social Networks: Density of Connections, Innovation, Pluralism of Ideas.
Olga Shnyrova : After the Vote has been Won. The Fate of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Russia: Persons, Ideas and Deeds after the Revolution


G-14 LAB10 Climate Change: An Issue for Labour Historians
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Holger Weiss
Lars Berggren : Linking Labour History and Environmental History
Verity Burgmann : From ‘Jobs Versus Environment’ to ‘Green-collar Jobs’: Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate


H-14 LAB18 Labour and Labour Relations in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Mary-France Desmedt : Alien Labour in Times of Crisis: The Discourse of the Belgian Unions in the Service Industries
Peter Scholliers : German restaurant staff and the French culinary hegemony (Brussels, 1850 - 1914)
Patricia Van den Eeckhout : Down and out in Ghent? (Foreign) Cooks and Waiters at the Universal Exhibition Ghent 1913


I-14 SOC10 New Approaches in the Study of Social Mobility and Stratification
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizers: - Discussant: Dave Griffiths
Paul Lambert, David Griffiths & Richard Zijdeman & Ineke Maas & Marco van Leeuwen : Comparing Network and Association Models in the Analysis of Historical Patterns of Occupational Interactions and Stratification
Zoltán Lippényi, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Long-term Historical Trends of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Hungary (1850-2000)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas & Soren Edvinsson : Social Mobility in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis
Richard Zijdeman : Does it add up? Combining Register Data and Survey Data to Study Social Mobility in the 20th Century


J-14 REL05 Material Culture and Religion
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Maria Cristina Osswald
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Cristina Osswald
Elisabeth Lobenwein : Socio-economic Aspects of the Austrian Sanctuary Maria Luggau (Carinthia) in the Early Modern Times
Javier Marín : The Power of the Word: The Church and the Theoretical Principles for Building a Castilian House in the Spanish Golden Age
Ian Mitchell : Tyrian Silks and Persian Carpets’: Aspects of Christian Thought and Material Culture in Britain from the 17th to 19th Centuries
Hugo Silva : The Role of Social Capital and Patronage in the Access to the Cathedral Chapters. The Portuguese Case (1564-1640)
Nadine Tauchner, Thomas Wallnig : Re-inventing Hildegard - Sustainable Economy and Monastic Reform in Benedictine Monasteries


L-14 MID07 Eurocore Cuius Regio Session I
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Dick de Boer
Organizer: Maarten Duijvendak Discussants: -
Jana Fantysová Matějková, Kurt Villads Jensen : Virtual Regions in History - a Comparative Approach
Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu, José Augusto Sottomayor Pizarro & Maria Cristina Pimenta & Mafalda Soares da Cunha : The Role of Nobility in Shaping the Regional Strategies in the Middle and in the early Modern Ages (The Comparative Cases of Transylvania and Portugal)
Flocel Sabaté : External Perception, Institutional Construction and Social Cohesion in the Building of Catalonia (XII-XV Centuries)
Job Weststrate, Juhan Kreem : Adapting Regional Strategies during the Long Sixteenth Century: Livonia and the Lower Rhine Area Compared
Przemyslaw Wiszewski, Flocel Sabate Curull : Catalunia - Silesia. Cohesive and Disruptive Forces in History of Regions


M-14 EDU06 Special Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Greetje Timmerman
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeanette Normanton Erry : ‘Excellence is merely a matter of opportunity.’ The role of physical education in schools for the blind in England and Wales in the mid-twentieth century.
Annemieke Van Drenth : Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Mental Retardation and Child Pathology in the Dutch Context
Pieter Verstraete : Deaf Sports and the Politics of Identity. The Development of Sport Associations for deaf People in Belgium, 1880-1945
Bart Vranckx, Pieter Fannes : Creativity in Crisis: A Conceptual Approach of an Educational Discussion


N-14 ETH15 Immigration Research, Many-Cultured Societies and Scholar-Migrants in the U.S., 1880s to 1930s: Columbia and Minnesota Schools Rather than 'Uprooted Marginal Man'
Main Building: Senate
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Donna Gabaccia : The Lives and Legacy of the Minnesota School of Immigration and Refugee Studies
Dirk Hoerder : “Neither Marginal Men nor Uprooted: The Columbia University Scholars’ Comprehensive Approach to Migrant Culture and Agency”
Henry Yu : The Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology


O-14 ORA12 Workplace, Community Change and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jackie Clarke : Losing Moulinex, Losing Fordism: Complexities of Nostalgia in Oral History Narratives after Factory Closures
Steven High : Vanishing Neighbourhoods: Oral History and Urban Change
Andrew Perchard : “A dying mutual friend”: Industrial Closures, Working Lives and National Culture in Post-war Scotland
Tim Strangleman : Erasure, Remembrance, Nostalgia, and Loss: Reflections on the Death of an English Brewery


P-14 ANT05 Thucydides and the Origins of Social-Scientific History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Networks: Antiquity , Theory Chair: Kelly Olson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Benjamin Earley : Citoyen Thucydides: Thucydidean Influences on French Revolutionary Political Thought
Neville Morley : Thucydides and ‘Geschichte als Wissenschaft’


Q-14 HEA13 Public Health Policies and Social Change
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Marie Clark Nelson
Organizers: - Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Logie Barrow : Wrightian Moments: Euphoric Despair among British Vaccinists, c.1910
Iris Borowy : Public Health between Global Economic and Environmental Developments
Ramón Castejón-Bolea, Enrique Perdiguero-Gil : The Protection of the Mother Section of Auxilio Social (Social Aid) and the Medicalization of Pregnancy and Delivery in Twentieth Century Spain
Sören Edvinsson, Peter Byass : Health in Old Age. The Epidemiological Transition among Elderly in Sweden 1910-2010


R-14 SPA08 Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Religion , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizer: David Bodenhamer Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer : One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan : Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris : Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees : The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach


S-14 RUR18 Rural History and World History
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Roser Alvarez Klee : The Incredible Famine, 1876-1879. A Case Study of the Province of Henan
Özgür Burçak Gürsoy : Restriction of the “Poison”: Changing Agricultural Politics on Opium in Early Republican Turkey, 1923 - 1939
Richard W Hoyle : Brenner in the Atlantic World
Miriam Muller : Peasant Memory, Resistance and Community
Yves Segers : Farming in tropical Africa. The migration of Belgian farmers to Congo, 1908-1933
Bina Sengar : Rural Politics and Peasant Movements in Colonial Western India


T-14 LAT03 Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Latin America , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Organizers: Kim Clark, Paulo Drinot Discussant: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Kim Clark : Negotiating Prostitution: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Health
Laurent Corbeil : "Se conocían carnalmente": Sexual Criminality and Violence among Amerindians of early San Luis Potosí, New Spain (1592-1630)
Lessie Jo Frazier : Desiring the Working Class: A Spanish Anti-Clerical Feminist, a Catholic Bishop, a Negligent Patriarchal State, and Working-Class Sex
Cynthia Milton : Gendered Memories of Peru’s ‘Internal War’ as Recounted through Art


U-14 ETH22 Colonial Ties and their Effects on Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Hanan Sabea
Organizers: - Discussant: Per-Olof Grönberg
Shaun Marmon : Slavery, Race and Gender in the Circassian Period of the Mamluk Empire
Sara Park : The Smuggling Ring: A History of "Illegals" in Early Postwar Japan
Timo Särkkä : A Perspective on Nordic Colonialism: Finns as Empire-builders in Southern Africa, 1895–1945
John Schuster : Return Migrants as Strangers: The Dutch of Suriname


V-14 ETH11 Migration in the British Empire
Maths Building: 416
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Tanja Bueltmann
Organizers: - Discussant: Tanja Bueltmann
Melodee Beals : ‘We Feel Highly Flattered in Perceiving that Articles are Occasionally Copied’: Public Conversations of Immigration and Settlement in New South Wales, 1803-1842
Lisa Chilton : Creating Anglo-British Homogeneity in a Heterogeneous Population: Cultural Imperialism and Identity Reconstructions in a Colonial Case Study
Marjory Harper : *‘Everything is English’: Expectations and Experiences of English Migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1970
Amy Lloyd : Who Emigrated? Using Passenger Lists and Census Returns to Study English Emigration to Canada, 1900-1914


W-14 ELI01 Town and Country - Supplying Elite Consumers in the 18th to 19th Centuries II networks and suppliers
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Jon Stobart
Anna-Maria Åström : Consumption Routes, Habits and Goods in Eastern Finland in the Late Eighteenth Century
Lucy Bailey : Rural Retailing in Popular Literature: Exploring the Cultural Image of the Village Shop in the Nineteenth Century
Kerry Bristol : Shop Local, Buy Global? Consumer Practice at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, c.1737-1785


X-14 ECO09 Economic Development since 1800
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Network: Economics Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ernesto Clar : Was Spain Different? Spanish Production and Consumption of Cereals and Meat in South European Comparison, 1950-1980
David Greasley, Nick Hanley, Les Oxley, Paul Warde & Eoin McClaughlin : History and the Future: Predictive Power of Sustainable Development Indicators in the UK since 1750
Gudmundur Jonsson : Economic Crises in Iceland since 1870
Conor Mccabe : The Irish Economy from 1922 to the 2008 Bank Guarantee: Tracing the Decisions which Undermined a State
Korinna Schoenhaerl : Giving Money for the Revolution: The Greek Loan of Independence in 1825


Y-14 SEX09 Transnational Transmutations
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Network: Sexuality Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Wannes Dupont : ‘Homosexuality is far from being a Singular Entity.’ The Role of Interpol and Belgium’s Belated Discovery of a Socio-criminological Issue in the 1950s
David Minto : An American Wolfenden in London: The Atlantic Crossings of a “Peculiarly British” Sex Report
Kate Stevens : Sexuality, Criminal Justice and Imperial Rivalry in the New Hebrides, 1906-1920


Z-14 POL12 Institutions, Identity and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Astrid M. Eckert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martina Becker : Delineation by the Architecture Office: The İnşaât ve Tamirât Müdürlüğü in the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic
Anja Hansen : Archival Access: The Dutch Case
Michael Karabinos : The Post-Colonial Archival Transformation
Vanja Lozic : Museums and the Making of ‘Ourselves’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina


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