Preliminary Programme

Showing: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations (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
G-1 LAB07 International Solidarity: Radical and Leftwing Networks during the Interwar Period
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Aldo Agosti
Organizer: Holger Weiss Discussant: Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Gleb J. Albert : The USSR Section of the International Red Aid (MOPR): International Solidarity and Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kasper Braskén : Activating International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Germany, 1921–1933
Fredrik Petersson : Decolonization & Postcolonial Historiography: League against Imperialism, Anti-imperialist Movements, Networks, & Place, 1927-33
Holger Weiss : Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers


R-1 POL16 Imperial and Post-imperial Visions
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Jennifer L. Foray
Organizers: - Discussant: Jennifer L. Foray
Laura Cerasi : The Necessary Empire. Italian Colonialism between Anglophilia and Anglophobia, from the Adwa Defeat (1896) to the Conquest of Addis Ababa (1936)
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter van Duin : The Bewilderment of a Scottish Historian: R.W. Seton-Watson and the Hungarian Minority in Slovakia, 1918-1923
Stefan Vogt : Zionism and “Weltpolitik” in Wilhelmine Germany


T-1 POL02 Grey Areas of Multiethnic Citizenship: Shifting Borders, Changing Claims
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Anna Novikov : The Godfathers of the ‘New Citizen’: Politics, Borders and Nationalization in Interwar Polish Silesia
Ida Ohlsson Al Fakir : Swedish Gypsies and Welfare Practices in the Post-war Period
Ariel Salzmann : Citizens in Search of a State: Imperial Sovereignty, Local Claims, and Ethno-Religious Violence in Ottoman Syria (1820-60) and Anatolia (1880-1915)


Y-1 WOM01 Brothers of the Sisterhood? Men and Masculinities in 19th and 20th Century Feminisms
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Gunnel Karlsson
Katherine Hubler : “Shall men’s strengths therefore be doomed to idleness?” Feminist and Pro-feminist Masculinities in the First Wave of German Feminism
Hélène Quanquin : “With feebler voices?” Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and Men’s Contribution to 19th-century American Feminism
Cristina Scheibe Wolff : The “New Man”: Discourses on Masculinity and the Feminism in Left-wing Movements of the Southern Cone in the 1970s



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
R-2 POL17 The Europeanisation of the Environment: Actors, Institutions and Ideas
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Health and Environment , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Stéphane Frioux : Towards a Europeanisation of Air Pollution Management ? Late 1950s-1970s
Jan-Henrik Meyer : What is Europeanisation? Conceptual Clarifications and Empirical Examples from the History of the Emergent Environmental Policy of the European Communities in the 1970s
Sandra Tauer : Debates on Nuclear Energy along the Upper Rhine: An Example of the Europeanisation of Environmental Policy?


T-2 POL03 Transitions from Democratic Rule in Interwar Europe
Maths Building: 325
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Carl Levy
Organizers: - Discussant: Carl Levy
Laura Kepplinger : Statal Organization in Totalitarian Regimes: Austria (1933 - 1938) and Spain (1939 - 1945)
Liia Laanes : From One Transition to Another: Local Elections in Estonia in 1918-1940
Spyridon Ploumidis : Corporatist Ideas in Inter-war Greece: Theory and Practice
Jose Reis Santos : Breakdown of Democratic Rule in Interwar Europa and the Advent of Authoritarian Constitutionalism in the Mid-1930’s



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
N-3 POL15 Social and Cultural Approaches to the History of State Formation
Main Building: Senate
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Martin Almbjär : The Social Practice of the State
Marcelo Barroso Lacombe : Contrast or Convergence: The Evolution of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
Heike Mauer : Intersections of Gender, Nation and Class: The Regulation of Prostitution in Luxembourg (1900-1939) as Governmentality
Massimo Petta : Printing “Official” Documents: The Building of “Officiality” in the Border between Public Authority and Private Interest
Yanna Tzourmana : Constitutional Cultures and New Cultures of the Self


T-3 POL04 Radicalism, Politics and Citizenship in Northern Europe, c. 1850-1914
Maths Building: 325
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Andrew Newby
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrew Newby
Lars Edgren : Radicalism, Workers and Peasants. Folkets Tidning and Mid-nineteenth Century Democratic Politics in Sweden
Magnus Olofsson : Inventing a Swedish Citizen: The New Liberals, the Democratic Subject and a New Civic Culture
Chloe Ross : Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and Transnational Agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland
Sami Suodenjoki : Denunciations as Social Protest in Finland at the Turn of the 20th Century


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
S-4 RUR04 Power, Actions and Mass Movements in Western Europe Countryside in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860)
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Brassart : Power, Social Dynamics and Political Change in the Northern France Rural Protest during the French Revolution
Domenico Cecere : The Language of Complaints, Grievances and Riots. Political Issues of the Peasant Movements in Calabria (1760-1770).
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : New Perspectives and New Questions in the Studies about Social Movements in the Alps (18th and 19th Centuries)
Frédéric Vesentini : Power and Rural Populations in Belgium during the 1845-48 Crisis


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


Y-4 WOM17 Gender, Nationalism and Politics
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Grimshaw
Sara Valentina Di Palma : Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda. Violence, Silencing and Feminist Answers
Jaswandi Wamburkar : Issues of Gender,Identity and Nationalism in India: A Case Study of Vibhavari Shirurkar



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
R-5 POL22 Making and Unmaking of Border Populations
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Oral History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Muriel Blaive : Changing Generational Identities on the Hungarian-Slovak Border
Astrid M. Eckert : The East of the West: The Making of West Germany‘s Borderlands
Alena Pfoser : The Meaning of the Border in Life-story Narratives of Russians Living in Narva, Estonia
Dariusz Stola : Social space and state frontiers: migrations from communist Poland to Germanies and Israel


Z-5 POL08 Beyond Left and Right: Political Discourse and Political Parties in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Roberto Colozza : The Unbearable Reasonableness of Revolution. Lelio Basso, Anti-Capitalism and the Building of Democratic Citizenship
Anne Heyer : The Birth of the Mass Political Party
Maartje Janse : Origins and early History of the Pressure Group
Fertikh Karim, Mathieu Hauchecorne : Party Politics and the Genesis of Political Platforms in Contemporary France
Emily Robinson : Progress and Progressivism, 1888-1914: Contested Cultural and Political Discourses



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)


Z-6 POL09 Political Cultures in Transition
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Epstein
Ido de Haan : Transitional Politics and Constitutional Debates in Western Europe: 1598, 1814, 1945
Marthe Hommerstad : Peasants making Policies – The Norwegian Parliament 1814-1837
Vit Simral : The Habsburg Legacy: Political Continuity in East Central Europe
Geerten Waling : Political Organization in the February Revolution of 1848



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
R-7 POL07 Postcolonial Transitions: The Politics of State and Nation Building
Maths Building: 203
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Laura Cerasi
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hayley Brown : The Abdication of Edward VIII as a Defining Cultural Moment of Empire
Jennifer L. Foray : Forging a Harmonious Future Between Equals? The Dutch Commonwealth Idea in Theory and Practice
Paul McGarr : 'Out with English': History, Memory and Cultural Politics in Post-Colonial India
Vivek Prahladan : Embedding Castes and Communities: the Indian Constitution and Post-colonial Discourses of Power
Virginie Roiron : Crossing the Shadow Line: An Analysis of Rhodesia’s Illegal Independence and its Influence on the Commonwealth of Nations


T-7 POL21 Party Life, Lives of Parties
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Aldo Agosti Discussant: Aldo Agosti
Marco Albeltaro : The Party Life of the Militants of the Italian Left
Gidon Cohen : Social Life and the Politics of Membership: the Conservative Party in Post-War Britain
Ana Sofia Ferreira : Autonomy and Armed Struggle: The Case PRP/BR?
João Nunes : The Portuguese Communist Party, the Comintern and the Question of Antifascism
Giulia Strippoli : Party Life, Lives of Parties: The Portuguese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
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)



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
K-10 MID01 Hidden Politics in Late Medieval Iberia
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Maria Antónia Almeida
Organizer: Tiago Faria Discussants: -
Marcelo Encarnação : Game of Thrones - Kings, Queens and Noblemen in Quest for Power in the Late Fifteenth-Century Castile
Tiago Faria : Dom João’s Thugs – Warmongering and Intimidation in International Conflict (1385-1420)
Flávio Miranda : Secrecy in Atlantic Politics, 1415-1500
Manuela Santos Silva : Princess Isabel of Portugal – 1st Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428)


N-10 POL01 Gender and Citizenship: a Roundtable
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Judit Acsády
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Epstein : Connecting Conversations about Gender Injustice and Citizenship: “Transnational Feminism” in the Revue de morale sociale (1899-1903)
Rachel Fuchs : "Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Women, their Bodies, and the Courts in Modern France"
Maria Kyriakidou : "Party Politics before the Right to Vote: Interwar Greek Feminists and the Individual vs. Collective Citizen Issue"
Irina Novichenko : Age, Gender and Civil Society: Soviet Informal Associations in 1960s-1970s
Irma Sulkunen : Religion, Gender and Civil Society


R-10 POL19 Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Lagendijk
Stefan Couperus : Beyond New Jerusalem: The Practice of Postwar (Re)construction Rotterdam and Coventry 1920-1960
Sébastien Gardon : Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970)
Frank Schipper : Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century
Anette Schlimm : What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
R-11 POL20 Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: Leonid Borodkin, Ido de Haan
Marija Drėmaitė : Reading the Spatial Patterns of Soviet Modernization: Regional and Urban Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the 1960s
Vincent Lagendijk : How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning
Uwe Lübken : Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
R-12 LAT02 New Histories of Latin America in the Cold War: Politics, Culture and International Perspectives
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizer: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
William Booth : The Mexican Communist Party in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Schema for the Postwar Conjuncture
Benjamin Cowan : Making Machismo: Cold War Alignment and the Political Terminology of American Masculinities
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney : Feminism, Communism and Women's Transnational Activism in the Cold War: The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)


S-12 WOM12 Women and Power
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Nagata
Stefan Amirell : The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson : Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky : Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
T-13 RUR05 Corporatism in Rural Europe, 19th - 20th Centuries
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Stéphane Le Bras Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Rien Emmery : Cruce et Aratro. The Symbiosis of Catholicism and Agrarianism in Belgium, 1919-1939
Dulce Freire : Corporatism in Portugal: institutions and modernization of agriculture during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)
Stéphane Le Bras : Protecting a Dominating Position: Corporatism in the Wine Market in Languedoc (1900s-1950s)
Jordi Planas : Agricultural cooperatives and winegrowers mobilization in Catalonia in the early twentieth century


U-13 WOM10 Gendered Memories and Historiographies
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Krassimira Daskalova : History Wars: Gender Representations in Textbooks
Ute Lischke : Whose Memories? Whose History? Addressing Nostalgia and Trauma in the Films of Sibylle Schönemann
Falko Schnicke : The Bodies of History. Genderization and Sexualization in 19th-century German Historiography


Z-13 POL11 The Politics of Memory and History: Finding a Usable Past
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Ariel Salzmann
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jasper Heinzen : ‘To Heal a Soreness which has been Kept up Among our Waterloo Allies’: Festive Commemorations of Waterloo and the Politics of Memory. An Anglo-Hanoverian Case-study
Guldeniz Kibris : The Turkish Past and the Cold War
Markus Wien : Nationalism in Communist Bulgaria



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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


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



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
L-15 MID08 Eurocore Cuius Regio Session II
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Middle Ages , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Maarten Duijvendak
Organizer: Maarten Duijvendak Discussants: -
Dick de Boer : Regions and State Formation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands
Martin Klatt, René Ejbye Pedersen : Labour Mobility in the Danish-German Border Region of Schleswig in a Longue Durée Perspective
Ad Knotter : ‘Unfamiliarity’, ‘Social Control’, or ‘Push-and-pull’. Mining and Cross-border Labour in the Dutch-Belgian-German Borderland, 1900-1973
Nils Holger Petersen : Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints


M-15 WOM11 Women Entering Institutional Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Gunnel Karlsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Isabela Campoi : Women Access at the Institutional Politics in Brazil: A Long Term Analysis until the First Female President
Ramona Mihaila, George Lazaroiu : Power and Public Stage: Political Involvement of 19th Century Romanian Women Writers
Pamela Schievenin : Women’s Way of Doing Politics? Women Politicians and the Reform of Italy’s Maternal and Infant Welfare in a Comparative Perspective (1960s – 1970s)


V-15 POL14 Shaping National(ist) Identities: Belonging, Hegemonies, Otherness
Maths Building: 416
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Markus Wien
Organizers: - Discussants: Jose Reis Santos, Markus Wien
Olindo De Napoli : Racism and the Totalitarian Turn in Fascist Italy. The Legal Debate
Eleonora Naxidou : Reshaping the Image of the Greek: The Bulgarian Version (19th Century)
Ismee Tames : Nationalists Excluded from the Nation
Xosé Ramón Veiga Alonso, Miguel Cabo Villaverde : Brothers in Arms? The Spanish Army as a Factor of Nation-building in the Long Nineteenth-century: Galicia as a Case-study


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