Preliminary Programme

Showing: Elites and forerunners (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    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
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
B-1 ELI08 The Persistence of the Elite Status - Aristocratic Methods against Declining Privileges
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Rafaella Pilo Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Kim Bergqvist : Constructing Medieval Aristocratic Ideology
Rafaella Pilo : Persistence and Surviving Strategy of the Spanish-Portuguese Clan of the Enríquez de Ribera-Moura (XVI-XVIII)
Blythe Alice Raviola : From a Small State to a Kingdom: The Élites of Monferrato in the Savoy System of Honours. Titles, Fiefs and Historical Interpretations
Rodrigo Ricupero : The Formation of the Colonial Elite - Honors and Graces: Patrimony and Power in the Brazilian's First Century



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
B-2 ELI03 The Self-presentation of Political Elites in Agrarian Regions of Central Europe, 19th to beginning of 20th Century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Organizer: Andrea Pokludova Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Roman Holec : Comparison of Self-presentation of Agrarian Political Elites in Central- and East-Europe at the beginning of 20th Century
Andrea Pokludova, Pavel Kladiwa : The Self-presentation of the German Political Elite in Rural Areas of the Czech Lands in the Second Half of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century: Public Celebrations, Commemorations, Monuments



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
B-3 ELI16 Elites and Religion
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Religion Chair: Lavinia Pinzarrone
Organizers: - Discussant: Kim Bergqvist
Stefanie Beghein : Sacred Music between Confessionalization and Secularization (Antwerp, 17th-18th Centuries)
Fabrizio D'Avenia : Making Bishops in the Malta of the Knights (1530-1798). An International Game of Parties, Patronage and Diplomacy
Shalin Jain : ‘Religiosity', ‘Piety’ and the Jain Elites in Medieval India
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson : Thy Will Be Done. The Path to the Office of Bishop in the Church of Sweden during the 20th Century
Maria Ana Travassos Valdez : Religious Elites Dreaming of Divine Empires in the Early Modern Portuguese World


W-3 ELI06 Anarchist Elite I: Elites in an Egalitarian Movement
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Ruth Kinna
Carl Levy : Italian Anarchism and Italian Fascism: The Subversive Force Field and the Fight to the Finish, 1914-1945
Dieter Nelles : Elites in an Egalitarian Movement: Anarchist Elites.
Davide Turcato : Malatesta’s Insider View on Anarchist ‘Elites’



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
B-4 ELI17 New Elite Formation: Theoretical Approaches
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Adrian Zimmermann
Lavinia Pinzarrone : The Foundations of Nobility. Elites, Colonisation and New Rural Towns in Early Modern Sicily
Andrei Volodin : How intellectuals tried to influence economic policy in the late Russian Empire?
Irina Zamfirache : Elites and the Social System. Structures and Functions


W-4 ELI07 Anarchist Elites II: Case Studies
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Pietro Di Paola
Organizers: - Discussant: Bert Altena
Vivien Bouhey : Parisian Anarchist Leaders from the Mid‐1880s to 1894
João Freire, Paulo Guimarães : Syndicalism and Anarchism in Portugal during the Interwar Period: Struggles, Dreams and Ideological Debates
Jorge Molero-Mesa, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena : “Doctor, Move Away from those People”: Inclusion-exclusion Dynamics Related to Medical Professionals within the Spanish Anarchist Movement in the First Third of the 20th Century



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
B-5 ELI04 Between the "Old" and the "New" - Furnishing Elite Interior, 1740-1940
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Kerry Bristol
Organizers: Kerry Bristol, Abigail Harrison Moore Discussant: Kerry Bristol
Abigail Harrison Moore : The Attraction of 'Old Stuff'. Percy MacQuoid's Yellow House
Annie Kemkaran-Smith : The Furnishing of Eltham Palace: A Public Image and a Private Indulgence
Barbara Lasic : ‘Something Old, Something New’: Displacing and Reviving ‘the Louis’ in Turn of the Century Plutocratic Interiors
Jon Stobart : ‘Rare and Curious ‘ or ‘Genuine and Fashionable’? The Material Culture of the Elite and Middle Classes, c.1760-1840



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
B-6 ELI02 Transnational Elites in the Modern World
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizers: Daniel Laqua, José Antonio Sánchez-Román, Christophe Verbruggen Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Dina Gusejnova : Modernist Journals and the Crafting of a Cosmopolitan Point of View: Europe Nouvelle (1918-1940) and Europäische Revue (1925-1944)
Kristine Kjærsgaard : Individual Movement between Multiple Elites
Daniel Laqua : Activism Beyond the Nation? Pacifist Intellectuals in Germany, 1910–1921
Christian Mueller : The Politics of Legal Expertise. International Law Networks, the Institut de Droit International and its Transformations, 1880-1925
Konstantinos Raptis : Transnational Elites as Factors of Cohesion in Multi-ethnic Empires. The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy
Christophe Verbruggen : The Constitution of a Transnational Network. The International Confederation of Intellectual Workers between 1920 and 1930



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
B-7 ELI09 Early Professional Women in Scandinavia, c. 1700-1900
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Deborah Simonton
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Deborah Simonton
Johanna Ilmakunnas : Career at Court: Noble Ladies in the Service of Scandinavian Royals
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren : Early Swedish Female Teachers: Good-tempered and Modest Mistresses – or?
Marjatta Rahikainen : Headmistresses of Elite Girls’ Schools: Turning Cultural Capital into a Livelihood
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : Bold and Unbashed - Educated Urban Midwives in the 18th Century Scandinavia


J-7 ELI19 Memory and Family. Towards Comparative Research on European Elites in the Modern Era
Main Building: G466
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Yme Kuiper, Maria Malatesta Discussant: Jon Stobart
Longina Jakubowska : Public Records, Private Lives: Construction of Noble Family Image in Autobiographic Writing
Yme Kuiper : Among Aristocrats. Rethinking Memory, Identity and Faith in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Maria Malatesta : Noble Habitus and Nostalgic Emotivity: the Posthumous Encounter between Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Luchino Visconti in The Leopard
Marco Rovinello : Business Elite Migrants and Family Histories in Restoration Naples


X-7 ECO08 Agricultural Development
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paola Avallone : Innovations in Credit Services in Pre-unification Southern Italy
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Sharecropping Contracts and Conflicts. The Yunteros' Land Invasions in 1930' Spain



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


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


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)



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
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



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
B-13 ELI18 Soviet & Post Soviet Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Andrea Pokludova
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrea Pokludova
Meri E. Herrala : Elite Performers as Soviet Cultural Diplomats
Aappo Kähönen : Economic Reform and Alliance Cohesion from the Viewpoint of Competition


W-13 ELI05 Town and Country - Supplying Elite Consumers in the 18th to 19th Centuries I the country house
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
My Hellsing : Female Consumption at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Court. What a Duchess’ Cash-books Reveal
Ulla Ijäs : Elite Networks and Consumption in Vyborg and St. Petersburg in the Beginning of the 19th Century, Case Marie Hackman
Hannah Waugh : Supplying the Country House: Audley End, Essex, c.1760-1835



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
B-15 ELI14 Modern Political Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Sidsel Eriksen
Martin Åberg : Nonconformism and Political Elites: Swedish and German Liberalism in the 19th Century
Vlad Popovici : Blood, Kinship and Nationalism. The Romanian Political Elite from Hungary (1867-1900)
Francisco Precioso Izquierdo : In the Heat of the Family. Social Networks and Mobility in the Administration of the Spanish Monarchy: The Macanaz (XVII-XIX).
Pedro Urbano : The Recruitment of the Great Officials on the Royal Household in the Last Years of Portuguese Monarchy
Frederik Verleden : The transformation of the Belgian Parliamentary Elite



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
B-16 ELI15 Elite Masculinities and Chivalries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: My Hellsing
Organizers: - Discussant: My Hellsing
Pål Brunnström : The Making of Masculinity and Class among Swedish Industrialists 1918 to 1939
Benjamin Deruelle : To Behave « comme le requeroit leur devoir et profession»: The Chivalric Ideal in the French King Figure beyond All Religious Disputes in the 16th Century
Henry French, Mark Rothery : Reproducing Masculine Values among the English Landed Elite, 1700-1900


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