Preliminary Programme

Showing: Urban (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 11.00 - 13.00
L-2 URB07 Urban Amenities
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Technology , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lena Eriksson : The Lost and Preserved City. Stockholm 1919-1994
Giuseppe Restifo, Carmelina Gugliuzzo : The Opening of the Harbour, the Closing of the Walls: Urban History of two Mediterranean Port Cities
Mikkel Thelle : Resisting Urban Modernity: The Copenhagen Tramways as Assembly



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
K-7 URB05 The Visual Archive and the City
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizer: Vrääth Öhner Discussants: -
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Urbanization in Socialism. Everyday life in Yugoslav towns 1945 - 1955
Karin Fest, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah : Double Exposure: Accredited and Fragile Images of Contested Space in Amateur Films
Vrääth Öhner : The Amateur’s View on the City
Paolo Simoni : On Home Movies and the City: Family Moments in Public Spaces



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
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



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
H-10 URB01 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe I. Demography and Occupation
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Sofie De Langhe : Flemish Exceptionalism? The Absence of Older Rural Born Single Women in early Nineteenth Bruges
Tine De Moor : Industrious and/or Religious. Motivating the Choice for Living as a Beguine in (Low Countries, early Modern Period)
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers : Life Course and Residential Career of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1870-1970
Dag Lindström : Singles in Swedish Towns, 1750 – 1870
Anna-Helena Wiechel, Ann Ighe : Without Title. The Dynamics of Status, Gender and Occupation in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1805-1845



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
H-12 URB03 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe III. Identity, Culture and Social Perception
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Julie De Groot
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot & Isis Sturtewagen : The Material Culture of Singles in the Cities of the County of Flanders under Burgundian-Habsburg Rule (16th Century)
Wendy Gordon : Singles Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861
Amy Harris, Amy Harris : Poor Single Men in Eighteenth-Century England
Raffaella Sarti : Unmarried Women and Men in Pre-industrial South- and North-European Cities



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
H-13 URB04 Gender in the European Town, 1650-1900
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Elaine Chalus
Organizer: Deborah Simonton Discussant: Elaine Chalus
Katie Barclay : Urban and Rural Manliness in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court
Nina Koefoed : To Act as a Citizen. Local Philanthropy as a Way to Conform to Male, Political Citizenship
Anne Montenach : Legal Trade and Black Markets: Women and the Sale of Food in Late Seventeenth- and early Eighteenth-century Lyon
Deborah Simonton : Negotiating the Eighteenth-century Urban Economy: Gender and Space in Northern Europe


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