Preliminary Programme

Showing: room K (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 14.00 - 16.00
K-3 TEC02 Text and Technology
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Robert Bud : Defining Applied Science through Allegorical Narratives
Vitaly Gorokhov : From Theory to Design in the Technoscience: Some Remarks on the History of Engineering
Peter Meyer : Networks and Publications of Aeronautical Invention up to 1910
Hugo Silveira Pereira : Railways and Parliament in Portugal (1851-1892)
Yousef Yassi : Reconstruction and Experimental Validation of a Magic Jar - An Ancient Invention for Liquid Separation



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
K-4 SOC15 Cancelled!: Roundtable: Social Mobility in Eastern Europe and Russia, Sources and Methods
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizer: Vladimir Vladimirov Discussants: Antonie Knigge, Zoltán Lippényi
Valery Kanishchev : The Sources and Methods of Studies of Social Mobility of Population of Middle and Little Cities of the Central Russian at the end of 18th - beginning of 20th
Marya Markova, Dmitry Sarafanov & Vladimir Vladimirov : Russian Parish Register Books and Research of Social Mobility
Irina G. Silina, Andrei Iluhin : Spatio-social Organization of the Russian Empire in the Second half of XIX - early XX Centuries
Vladimir Vladimirov, Elena Brukhanova & Evgeny Lubanets : Russian Historical Sources and the Study of Social Mobility



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
K-6 TEC03 Early Mechanization and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ugo Gragnolati, Emanuele Pugliese & Daniele Moschella : The Spinning Jenny and the Guillotine. The Mechanization of Cotton Spinning in England and France during the Eighteenth Century
Harilaos Kitsikopolous : The Early Development of Steam Power Technologies
Alessandro Nuvolari, Sean Bottomly : James Watt's 1769 Patent and the Development of Steam Power Technology



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 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)



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
K-11 AFR02 Knowledge, Culture and Empowerment
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Africa Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paulo Fernandes : Press, Public Opinion and the emergence of “Civil Society” in late 19th Century South East Africa
Kamini Krishna : Empowerment of Zambian Women
Fouad Mami : The Cultural Poetics of Desire in the Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
K-12 ORA15 Lost and New Homes. Coming to terms with Ambivalent Pasts and Present Belongings
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eveline Buchheim : In Search of the Unknown Fatherland
Marjo Buitelaar : The Contested Waterjar. Moroccan Home-making in a Diasporic Context
Aya Ezawa : Telling the Unknown Past: Indisch-Japanese and the Memory of WWII
Ellis Jonker : Hard to Digest. Educated Nostalgia among the Moluccan Dutch (1951-2011)
Stefania Scagliola : Coming of Age in the arms of the Baboe – Reminiscences of Former Dutch-conscripts Who served in Indonesia of their Love-affairs with Local Female Servants



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
K-13 WOR07 Public Diplomacy and Civil Society: Experience of 19th and 20th Centuries
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: World History Chair: Steffi Marung
Organizer: Mikhail Lipkin Discussant: Michael Kandiah
Ekaterina Grantseva : Russia and Spain: Intellectual contacts and transformation of the countries' image
Mikhail Lipkin : British public organizations and a phenomena of public diplomacy during Soviet-British cultural "indian summer" on the edge of 1950s-1960-s
Elena Mironova : Council of Ambassadors of Russians Abroad as an example of social diplomacy.
Denis Sekirinskiy : The American press as an element of public diplomacy and an instrument for shaping the image of the late Soviet Union
Samuil Volfson : The role of non-governmental organizations in the development of US foreign policy in 1920s



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
K-16 SOC14 Account-books and Budget Surveys as a Source for Individual Charitableness
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Dragica Cec : Personal Charitableness in Ljubljana at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Aurelie Chatenet-Calyste : A Charitable Princess at the End of the 18th Century
Tom De Roo : Public and Private Charities of the Moretus Family (Antwerp, 17th-18th Century)
Henk Looijesteijn : Keeping Account of Charity: Dutch Account-books as a Source for Individual Charitableness, 1600-1800


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