Preliminary Programme

Showing: room R (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
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



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?



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
R-3 FAM17 The Founders and Survivors Research Project
Maths Building: 203
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Timothy Cuff
Organizer: Rebecca Kippen Discussant: Bernard Harris
Damminda Alahakoon, Sue Bedingfield & James Bradley & Sandra Silcot & Len Smith : TextCat:: A Text Mining Tool for Deriving Categories from Unstructured Text
John Cranfield, Professor Kris Inwood : Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914–1918 War in Comparative Perspective
Rebecca Kippen, Janet McCalman : Gold and Freedom: Convicts and the Victorian Gold Rush, 1851–1861
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart : Work, Punishment and Death in Convict Australia



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
R-4 SOC16 Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizer: Lynn Botelho Discussants: -
Lynn Botelho : ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler : ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway : Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?



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



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



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
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)



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
R-13 ORA16 Gendered Lives, Antinomical Nostalgia: Women's Memories of State Socialism
Maths Building: 203
Network: Oral History Chair: Amia Lieblich
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrea Peto
Izabella Agardi : "One had to Adjust to Everything: to the Kádár -regime, to the Tito-regime here, to Ceausescu there". Structural Nostalgias in Hungarian Women's Life Narratives from Serbia, Romania and Hungary
Ana Luleva : Gender Dimensions of Post-socialist Nostalgia in Bulgaria
Natalia Pushkareva : The Oral History of Russian Academy Community: Transformations of Gender-discrimination Practices
Veronica Shapovalov : "There is No Place Like Home": Trauma and Nostalgia in Women's Memoirs of the Gulag



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
R-14 SPA08 Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Religion , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizer: David Bodenhamer Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer : One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan : Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris : Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees : The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach


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