Preliminary Programme

Showing: room I (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
I-1 WOR02 East Central Europe and Global History
Main Building: Humanities
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Beata Hock : Inscribing Socialist Eastern Europe into a Socialist World through Art
Isabella Löhr : Transnational Civil Society Networks and Academic Refugees from East Central Europe in the Cold War
Attila Melegh : Trojan Horses: ‘Reform’-discourses Relinking Local and Global Hierarchies in State Socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s
Katja Naumann : Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the International Labour Organization
Raluca Maria Popa : International Activism of State Socialist Women’s Organizations in the 1970s: Shaping the UN Women’s Agenda



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
I-2 SOC12 Welfare State Concepts in a Historical and Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Noel Whiteside
Organizers: - Discussant: Noel Whiteside
Lovisa Broström : General Old-Age Pensions in Sweden –The Rise of the Poorest Group in the Welfare State 1913-1960
Irène Herrmann : Welfare State vs Democracy in Switzerland
Pauli Kettunen, Nils Edling : The History of the Welfare State in Northern Europe
Klaus Petersen, Jørn Henrik Petersen : Confusion and Diffusion? The Term Welfare State in Germany and Britain



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
I-3 LAB13 Performing as Work
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Georg Schinko Discussant: Tracy C. Davis
Angele David-Guillou : Early Musicians' Unions in France and Britain. New Status of the Professional Musician: Artist and Worker
Georg Schinko : Music-making as (Non-)Work in Austria 1918-1938
Laure Schnapper : Herz, Musician and Business Man
Julia H. Schroeder : Street Music as Sound of a City: The Street Musician “Harfenjule” in Berlin around 1900



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
I-4 SOC05 Inmates of Hospitals and other Care Institutions in the Early Modern Period
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Irmtraut Sahmland : Inmates - Their Life Before, In and Beyond the Hospital in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Martin Scheutz : Austrian Hospitals in the early Modern Times. Inmates – Authorities – Organizational System
Christina Vanja : The Kitchen Managers’ View – Inmates of the Haina Hospital on 1803 Food Bills
Alfred Weiss : House Rules and Instructions of Austrian Hospitals in the Early Modern Times



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
I-6 SOC06 Social Mobility in Europe's Boundary Regions
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Zoltán Lippényi
Organizer: Paulo Guimarães Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Intergenerational Transfer of Occupational Status in Portugal, 1850-1960: Unravelling Modernization Processes
Antti Häkkinen, Marco van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Family Structure, Marriage Patterns and the Slow Industrialization of Finland
Olga Solodyankina : Occupation of a Tutor / Governess in the Russian Empire as the Resource of Vertical Social Mobility



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
I-7 SOC07 Textile Production, Social Relations and Welfare
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizer: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: -
Thomas M. Adams : Textiles, Inequality, and Welfare
Santosh Kumar Rai : Community as Capital: The Handloom Industry in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces, India
Peter Stabel : Dress, textiles and social identity in a changing economy: the lower social strata in late medieval Bruges (15th century)
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Social Fabrics? Textiles as Provisions of Mutual Aid and Poor Relief in the Pre-industrial Dutch Republic



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
I-9 MAT07 Dress and Identity
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Neville Morley
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hannah Greig : Faction and Fashion: The Sartorial Politics of Court Dress in Eighteenth-Century England
Beverly Lemire : Mariners & Material Culture: Deep-Sea Sailors as Fashion Actors in the British Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800
Kelly Olson : Luxury and Status in Roman Male Clothing
Giorgio Riello : Stitched Together, Cut Apart: Fashion's Encounters with Cannibals, 1450-1650



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
I-10 SEX03 Sexual Transgression, Transnational Travel and Abortion
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Sexuality Chair: Lesley Hall
Organizer: Christabelle Sethna Discussants: -
Katrina Rose Ackerman : Protecting 'Tomorrow's Citizens': The Rise of the International New Right, Fundamentalisms and Identity Politics in the New Brunswick Abortion Debate
Nancy Janovicek : The Influence of American Pro-Life Activism on Abortion Services in Western Canada
Lena Lennerhed : The Psychiatrization of Abortion in Sweden 1946-1970
Christabelle Sethna : “Foreign Girls Come to London: North American Women, Travel and Abortion Access, 1960-1975



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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
I-12 LAT04 Latin American Politics, Economy and Society in Transnational Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Latin America , Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Jose-Maria Aguilera-Manzano : The Novel Sab and the Construction of the Cuban Identity during the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey M. Shumway : Argentine Nation Building and French Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Carolina Vicario : Rural Labor Force in Rio de la Plata between 1760 and 1860. An Approximation to the Social Mobility



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
I-13 SOC04 International Institutions and the Production of International Knowledge on Social Security
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizer: Jill Jensen Discussant: Sonya Michel
Eileen Boris : When Equal Rights May Not Be Enough: The ILO and the Woman Worker
Sonja Matter : Enforcing International Standards in Social Work: The Exchange Programmes of the United Nations in the Field of Social Work in the Post-War Period



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
I-15 SOC11 Social Structure and Mobility in Industrial Societies
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizers: - Discussants: Paul Lambert, Paul Puschmann
Susan Bandias, Don Fuller & Tanjil Whitnell & Darius Pfitzner : Gender Pay Equity - A Myth or a Reality
Antonie Knigge : The Total Influence of Family Background on Status Attainment in the Netherlands from 1842-1922
Colin Pooley : Balancing Social Justice and Environmental Justice: Mobility Inequalities in Britain since circa 1900
Wiebke Schulz : Employer’s Choice – Meriocratization of Selection Criteria during Industrialization in the Netherlands



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
I-16 WOR03 Knowing the Others in Empires without Colonies - Latin American Studies in the Habsburg Monarchie and its Succeeding states
Main Building: Humanities
Network: World History Chair: Katja Naumann
Organizers: - Discussant: Torsten Loschke
Jana Lenghardtová : Latin American Area Studies in Slovakia
Ursula Prutsch : Latin American Studies in Austria from 1918 to 1960
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak : Latin American Studies in Poland


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