Preliminary Programme

Showing: Theory (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
M-1 WOM05 Gender, Political Thought and the Shaping of Early Modern Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Lynn Botelho
Anna K. Becker : Machiavelli and the Early Modern Conception of Politics: Rethinking the Relationship of Public and Private in Renaissance Political Thought
Sari Nauman : Gender, Power and the Oath – The Early Modern State and the Oaths of Allegiance
Claudia Opitz-Belakhal : Jean Bodin, Gender, and the Origins of the Modern State



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
F-2 THE10 European National Museums Negotiating Truth, Identity and Conflicts 1760-2010
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Theory Chair: Peter Aronsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Lorenz
Felicity Bodenstein : Uses of the Past – Narrating the Nation and Negotiating Conflicts
Alexandra Bounia : Museum Citizens: Experience and Identity of Audiences
Gabriella Elgenius : Mapping and Framing Institutions 1750-2010: National Museums Interacting with Nation-making
Uta Protz : The Museum as Diplomat: the British Museum, the Musée du Louvre and the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in China


Z-2 THE02 Transnational Perspectives on Post-War Historical Thought and Culture
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Ian Gwinn : Radical Historians and the Making of Social History in Britain and West Germany: The Case of the History Workshop Movement
Christoph Laucht : Towards the Transnational Study of Nuclear Culture: Environmental Concerns and Medical Activism against Nuclear War in Britain and West Germany in the 1980s
Stephan Petzold : Anglo-American Reeducation, Transnational Scholarly Relations and the Westernisation of Fritz Fischer’s Historical Thought, 1945-1965



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
Z-3 THE03 Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Nordic Historiography
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Ragnar Björk
Organizers: - Discussant: Ragnar Björk
Marja Jalava : The Nordic Countries as a Historical and Historiographical Regime
Claus Møller Jørgensen : Scandinavian National History Writing in the Interwar Period
Petteri Suominen : Social Property Regimes and the 20th Century Nordic Historiography



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
D-4 THE01 Regimes of Historicity and Politics of Time
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Network: Theory Chair: Chris Lorenz
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Lorenz
Berber Bevernage, Lore Colaert : Burying the Past? Bodies and Spirits of the Dead in the Struggle over History, Memory and Transitional Justice
Cecilia Macon : Argentina, 1985-2004: Politics, Agency and Memory
Derk Venema : Time and Identity in Transitional Justice


Z-4 THE04 Institutions and Actors: Perspectives on Structurisation in History
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Stefanie Middendorf : The Politics of Debt and War Society: The Reich’s Ministry of Finance, 1920s to 1940s
Ulrike Schulz : The Recognition of Property Rights: The Case of the Simson Company in Suhl, Thuringia
Corinna Unger : Private Agents, Official Politics: American Foundations in the International Development Arena, 1950s to 1970s



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
I-5 THE06 Political Regimes and Historical Writing
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: - Discussant: Toby Mendel
Antoon De Baets : Historical Writing and Democracy
Jie-Hyun Lim : Victimhood Nationalism in the Post-totalitarian Historiography. -On the Third Republic of Poland and the Sixth Republic of Korea
Sacha Zala : Democracy, Privacy and Access to Sources: Cassandra's Point of View



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
W-6 THE08 National Turn in Anarchist Studies I: The National in the Historiography and Theory of Anarchism
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Theory Chair: Constance Bantman
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Davide Turcato
Bert Altena : State and Nation in the Historiography of Anarchism
Martin Baxmeyer : "Mother Spain, we love you!" Neonationalism in Anarchist Literature during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Isabelle Felici : Anarchists as Emigrants
Ruth Kinna : Anarchism: Practice and Politics in Kropotkin’s Theory of the State
Iveta Leitane : Jewish Anarchism in North Eastern Europe: The Case of Abba Gordin (1887 - 1964)



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
S-7 RUR16 Round Table: Historicising Farming Styles: an Actor-Centred Approach to Rural History
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Theory Chair: Paul Brassley
Organizers: - Discussants: Stefan Brakensiek, Rita Garstenauer, Ernst Langthaler, Peter Moser, Ulrich Schwarz


W-7 THE09 National Turn in Anarchist Studies II Conflicting Scales of Analysis
Maths Building: 417
Network: Theory Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizers: Bert Altena, Constance Bantman Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Raymond Craib : No Gods, no Masters, no Peripheries: On the Political Economy of Anarchism in early 20th-century Santiago, Chile
Pietro Di Paola : The Game of the Goose. Italian Anarchism: National or International Perspective?
Thai Jones : The Anarchist City, 1871-1921
Nino Kuehnis : The National in Anarchist Studies: More than Just a Contradiction
Lilian Tuerk : A Kingdom of Kings. Abba Gordin (1887-1964) and the Disputes on the Role of Jewish Law (Halakha) for Anarchist Ideas
Kenyon Zimmer : Local, National, and Global Histories of Anarchism: The Case of San Francisco, 1881-1940



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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’



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
F-15 THE05 Transnational Humanities: Possibilities and Prospects
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Theory Chair: Jie-Hyun Lim
Organizer: Jie-Hyun Lim Discussant: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Daham Chong : Transnational History of Borders: East Asian Perspectives
Young-Jun Ha : Mass Dictatorship and Transnational History: Exploring the Conceptual Basis for the Connection
Sang-Hyun Kim : Does Transnational History Problematize Science and Technology Enough?
Kyung Hwan Oh : Social Scientific Imagination of the Man: Durkheimian Anthropos and Weberian Humanitas


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