Preliminary Programme

Showing: room U (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
U-1 SOC01 Authority and Resistance in Plebeian Spaces in 19th Century England
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizer: David Green Discussants: David Green, Susannah Ottaway
Paul A. Fideler : "Statistics and Society: Ameliorating a Manchester 'Little Ireland' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
David Green : Plebeian Spaces: Streets, Homes and Institutions in 19th-century London
Jane Hamlett : A Veritable Palace for the Hard-working Labourer? Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in Rowton Houses, Ltd., London, 1892-1914
Samantha Shave : Spaces of Female Sexual Violence and Consolation in New Poor Law Workhouses, 1834-1871



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
U-2 SOC02 Collections for the Poor. Voluntary giving and the Finance of Poor Relief
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Daniëlle Teeuwen, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
John McCallum : Collections for the Poor in the Post-reformation Church of Scotland
Karen Sonnelitter : Financing Improvement: Philanthropy and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Daniëlle Teeuwen : Collections for the Poor. Charitable giving in the Dutch Republic



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
U-3 SOC03 New Perspectives on Poor Relief and Poverty
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Christos Desyllas : Microfinancial Structures and Strategies of Social Policy
Kaat Louckx : The Classification of the Poor in Great Britain and Belgium at the End of the 19th Century. A Socio-historical Approach on Changing Classification Patterns
Inge Mønster-Kjær : The Poor Behind Barbed Wire
Klas Nyberg, Mats Hayen & Håkan Jakobsson : Credit, Trust and Financial Networks in 18th and 19th Century Stockholm
Olga Salamatova : On the Way to Nowhere: The Interpretation and Adaptation of Poor Relief Foreign Patterns by the Russian Public Men, 1890s – 1917



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
U-4 MAT03 Luxury Goods and Material Culture in Southern Europe: Continuity and Change (14th-18th Centuries)
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Beverly Lemire
Organizer: Andrea Caracausi Discussant: Paola Lanaro
Michela Barbot : Luxury, Consumption and Value: The Circuits of Alienable and Inalienable Goods in the Visconti and Sforza Court (Milan, 14th-16th Centuries)
Andrea Caracausi : Global Commodities, “Luxury” Goods and Market Policy in the Republic of Venice (17th-18th Century).



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
U-5 MAT04 Commissioning Consumption - Strategies and Impact of European Sponsored Films and Commercials
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Beata Hock
Organizers: Bert Hogenkamp, Lydia Nsiah Discussants: -
Sema Colpan, Lydia Nsiah : Shaping Industrial Modernity: Austrian Sponsored Films between 1920 and 1960
Bert Hogenkamp : Video Ergo Sum. The Impact of Video on the Sponsored Film in the Netherlands
Bjorn Sorenssen : Offshore Media. Audiovisual Mediation of the Norwegian Offhore Oil Industry 1967-2000



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
U-6 MAT05 Rethinking Consumer History: Consumer Power in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Jackie Clarke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ruth Oldenziel : The Consumer Politics of Bicycle Clubs in Europe and the United States, 1880-1945
Nicole Robertson : The Organised Consumer: Education, Empowerment and Experiments



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
U-7 MAT06 The Early Modern Consumer (R)evolution(s) in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist : Jewish Merchants and the Consumer Market in early 19th Century Sweden
Harm Nijboer : Trust and the early modern consumer revolution



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
U-9 ETH23 Trying to Regulate Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irina Mukhina
Organizers: - Discussant: Pascal Maeder
Wolfgang Goederle : Administrating Ethnicities: Central European Migrants in the Eyes of the Habsburg Empire’s Bureaucracy
Tobias Karlsson, Christer Lundh : Movers and Stayers: Labour Mobility in Gothenburg, 1924-1944
Hanan Sabea : Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: Regulatory Schemes and the Disposable Bodies of Migrants to Europe
Marta Silva : Considerations on the Clandestine Emigration and Resistance in the Portuguese Rural World, 1957-1974
Johan Svanberg : Labour Recruitment to a Gender Divided Labour Market in Sweden: The Reception from Schleswig-Holstein during the 1950s



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
U-10 ETH24 Taking Stock of Mobility
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Organizers: - Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Leo Lucassen, Jan Lucassen & Gijs Kessler : Cross-community Migration in Twentieth-century Europe; Towards a Systematic Quantitative Assessment
Silvia Pedraza, Lara Sung Back : Assimilation or Transnationalism? Evidence from the Latino National Survey (2006) for Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and South Americans who Immigrated to the USA during 1958-2005.
Paul Puschmann, Per-Olof Grönberg & Jan Kok & Koen Matthijs : Social Mobility of Migrants in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1920



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
U-11 MAT01 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling I
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Riitta Matilainen : Cultures of Gambling: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives
Gerda Reith : Gambling, Risk and Reason: The Creation of 'Pathology’ from Commerce
Eino Tuohino : Medicalization of Gambling Problems and Individual Responsibility: The Case of Finland



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
U-12 MAT02 Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling II: Law and Policy
Maths Building: 326
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Riitta Matilainen
Organizers: Sytze F. Kingma, Riitta Matilainen Discussants: -
Maria Heiskanen : Culture or Games? The History of Using the Profits of Money Games for Good Causes
Sytze F. Kingma : The Dutch Gambling Act of 1964 and the “Alibi-Model” of Gambling Regulation
Antti Myllymaa : European Offshore Jurisdictions as the Juridico-political Infrastructure for the Cross-border Online Gambling Industry



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
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



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
U-14 ETH22 Colonial Ties and their Effects on Migration
Maths Building: 326
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Hanan Sabea
Organizers: - Discussant: Per-Olof Grönberg
Shaun Marmon : Slavery, Race and Gender in the Circassian Period of the Mamluk Empire
Sara Park : The Smuggling Ring: A History of "Illegals" in Early Postwar Japan
Timo Särkkä : A Perspective on Nordic Colonialism: Finns as Empire-builders in Southern Africa, 1895–1945
John Schuster : Return Migrants as Strangers: The Dutch of Suriname



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
U-15 MAT09 The Ideology and Politics of Food
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Karin Dannehl
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elena Barbulescu : All We Eat is Poisoned. Food Choices in Contemporary Transylvanian Villages. Framing the Healthy Food in Rural Transylvania
Kennan Ferguson : Cooking Steel, Eating Aeroplanes: The Futurist Cookbook and the Ideology of Food
Nathalie Parys : Construction of a National Cuisine in two Belgian 19th-century Cookbooks?


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