Preliminary Programme

Showing: room M (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
M-2 WOR01 Natives as Missionaries
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizer: David Lindenfeld Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Jin-heon Jung : Korean Protestant Aspirations: Korean Mega-church Founders' Conversion Narratives
Ulrike Kirchberger : The Pupils of Eleazar Wheelock's "Indian Charity School" as Native Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Xiaojing Wang : “For the Salvation of Our Fellow Men”: A Study of the Chinese Home Missionary Society (1918-1948)
Emma Wild-Wood : Powerful Words: Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, a Broker of Social and Intellectual Change (1895-1933)



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
M-3 WOR10 Humanitarianism and the Media, 1900-1930
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Thomas Lindenberger
Organizers: Volker Barth, Daniel Roger Maul Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Volker Barth : The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906: Humanitarian Intervention, the Local Press, and the World Communication Order
Friederike Kind-Kovács : Picturing the Poor Child: Photography as Social Politics of (Trans)national Child Philanthropy in Interwar Hungary
Daniel Roger Maul : Selling "Red" Relief - American and British Quakers and Famine Relief in the Soviet Union 1921-
Carl Emil Vogt : Fridtjof Nansen's Humanitarianism and the Media



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
M-4 WOR05 Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Technology , World History Chair: Frank Schipper
Organizers: Matthias Middell, Erik Van der Vleuten Discussants: Matthias Middell, Ruth Oldenziel
Andreas Fickers, Pascal Griset : Eventing Europe.
Johan Schot : The Origins of a European Technocracy, or the Governing of Europe by experts
Philip Scranton : Introduction to the Making Europe book series
Erik Van der Vleuten : Infrastructuring Europe: Technology, Society, and Nature in Transition



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
M-5 WOR06 Mastering Space: Shifting Patterns of Territorialization in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire since the 18th century
Main Building: Melville
Network: World History Chair: Uwe Müller
Organizer: Steffi Marung Discussant: Frank Hadler
Isa Blumi : Inserted Ambitions: The Impact of Imperial Borderland Politics on the 19th Century Balkans
Andreas Helmedach : Towards a Modern Transport System: Roads, Rivers and Railways as Promoters of Integration and Differentiation in the Habsburg Monarchy since the 18th Century
Steffi Marung : Mastering Space, Shifting Patterns of Territorialization. Introduction into Conceptual Considerations.
Anton Tantner : Counting the People: Street Numbers and Population Statistics in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th Century



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
M-6 ASI03 Nationalism, Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Asia , Economics Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Farabi Fakih : The Rise of the Developmental State in Indonesia
Anuradha Jaiswal : Gandhi's Success with Satyagraga: a Case Study of Agrarian Unrest in Champaran and the Nationalist Movement in Bihar
Thomas Lindblad : State and Economy During Modern Indonesia's Change of Regime
Pham van Thuy : The Political Economy of Decolonization in Indonesia, 1945-1960



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
M-7 ASI02 Religion and Globalization in Asia in Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizer: Nandini Gooptu Discussants: -
Rahilya Geybullayeva : History, National Identity, and Criteria of "Nationality" of Literature
Nandini Gooptu : Religion in the Globalised Post-colony: New Spirituality, Religious Identity and Nationalism in India
Wang Huayan : The Return of the Tradition and the Religious Revival in North China: the Case of the Cui Fujun Cult
Lucia Michelutti : Postsecular Political Experimentations. Comparisons across India and Latin America



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
M-9 ASI04 Commodity Networks and Production Systems: Tobacco and Coffee (with Sugar)
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Embedding Coffee: Beginnings of Large Scale Coffee Plantation in South India in the Nineteenth Century
Martin Prowse : A Century of Growth? Recurrent Patterns in the History of Tobacco Production and Marketing in Malawi 1890-2005
Ratna Saptari : Circuits of Jember Na Oogst Tobacco: Connecting Europe and the Netherlands-Indies in consumption, distribution and production networks (early 20th century)
Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff : The Domestication of a Global Commodity, a Case Study of Tobacco in Bihar



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
M-10 ASI01 World War II in Asia and the Changing Status of Chinese Women
Main Building: Melville
Network: Asia Chair: Paul Ropp
Organizer: Harriet Zurndorfer Discussant: Karen Turner
Louise Edwards : Female Spies, ‘Miscegenation’ and Race-nation Loyalties
Helen Schneider : International Organizations and Professional Chinese Women, 1937-1947
Harriet Zurndorfer : “Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism 1937-1940”



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
M-12 WOM08 Gender and the Sciences of the State
Main Building: Melville
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Helene Carlbäck
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine De Moor
Simone Diender : Governing the Family Home: Social Science and the Education of American Citizens in the Early Cold War
Elizabeth Jones : Gender and the 'Sciences of the State' in Rural Germany: The Social and Environmental Reclamation of Farm Households, 1866-1914
Marynel Ryan Van Zee : A Gendered Ordering of Self-Interest: Family and State in Nineteenth-Century German Economics



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
M-13 EDU05 Health, Welfare and Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Catherine Burke
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Mona Gleason : Children, Sexual Health, and Identity in Canada, 1900 to 1950
Anna Larsson : Enhancing the Social and Psychological Health of Swedish School Children 1940–1980: Children’s Needs and Expert’s Competences
Bengt Sandin, Mathilda Hallberg : Visualizing Children´s Bodies in the Welfare State



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
M-14 EDU06 Special Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Greetje Timmerman
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeanette Normanton Erry : ‘Excellence is merely a matter of opportunity.’ The role of physical education in schools for the blind in England and Wales in the mid-twentieth century.
Annemieke Van Drenth : Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Mental Retardation and Child Pathology in the Dutch Context
Pieter Verstraete : Deaf Sports and the Politics of Identity. The Development of Sport Associations for deaf People in Belgium, 1880-1945
Bart Vranckx, Pieter Fannes : Creativity in Crisis: A Conceptual Approach of an Educational Discussion



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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)



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
M-16 LAB33 Social Histories of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry
Main Building: Melville
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Touraj Atabaki : Changing Pattern of Labour Recruitment in the Early Iranian Oil Industry
Peyman Jafari : The political economy of oil and democratization in Iran: Revisiting the rentier state theory
Maral Jefroudi : After Nationalization: the Social Setting of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry


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