Preliminary Programme

Showing: Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00 (single time slot)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
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    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 WOR06 Cultures of Time in World History, 1760-1830
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizer: Ulrike Kirchberger Discussants: -
Milinda Banerjee : Time of Gods, Time of Men: South Asian Temporalities and Transnational Early Modern Connections, ca. 1760-1830
Mandy Izadi : Payne’s War, 1812-1814: A Study of Black-Indian Politics in the Circum-Caribbean
Ulrike Kirchberger : Cultures of Time in the Atlantic World, 1760-1830


B-7 CRI10b Round Table: Justice and Occupations in Western Europe: Actors and Practices. 1914-1945 (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway). II : Judges Facing Occupiers
Hörsaal 16 raised ground floor
Networks: , Criminal Justice Chair: Stanislas Horvat
Organizers: Mélanie Bost, Derk Venema Discussants: -
Mélanie Bost : An Example of “Murky” Collaboration in the Judicial Field: Unusual Practices of Cooperation between Magistrates and Patriotic Associations in Wartime (Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918)
Derk Venema : Supreme Courts under Nazi Occupation: Causes of Post-war Reputations
Jan Julia Zurné : The Belgian Judiciary and Police facing the Resistance during the Second World War


C-7 CRI17 Witch Hunters
Hörsaal 21 raised groud floor
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Heather Shore
Organizer: Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen Discussant: Heather Shore
Tyge Krogh : A Lutheran Plague. Suicide Murders in the Eighteenth Century
Raisa Maria Toivo : From Conviction to Scepticism: a Witch Hunter Judge in 17th century Finland
Rita Voltmer : The Personal Factor. Witch Hunters and the Dynamics of Witch Hunting in the Border Regions between France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy


D-7 AFR03 Special session. Memories of African Internal Slavery and Migration on Film: Constructed Visuals of Citizenship and Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Culture Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mirjam de Bruijn


E-7 LAT05 afr Biography and History: Exploring Transnational Lives
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Latin America Chair: Henk Looijesteijn
Organizer: Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Matthew Guterl : "Josephine Baker as a Historical Problem: Transnationalism, Diaspora, Celebrity, and Biography"
Tanya Harmer : Individual Lives, Collective Histories? Beatriz Allende, Latin American Revolutionary Movements and Transnational Solidarity Networks
Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney : Negotiating Global Tensions and Local Needs: Benjamin Viel Vicuña and the Politics of Public Health in Cold War Chile
Theresa Runstedtler : Jack Johnson and the Fight against the Global Color Line


F-7 ANT09 New Developments in Ancient Social History
Elise Richtersaal first floor
Network: Antiquity Chair: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Organizers: - Discussant: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Nikola Koepke : Brothers and Sisters: European Gender Inequality in the Very Long-Run
Myles Lavan : Coping with High Uncertainty: Quantifying the Enfranchisement of Provincials in the Roman Empire
Mick Stringer : Why were Clever Men so Stupid? Scepticism and Gullability in Roman Agricultural Treatises
Justine Walter : Constructing Catastrophe: A Comparison of Ancient Europe and Early China


G-7 ECO06b Agency, Gender, Human Capital and World Economic Development II
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Lotte van der Vleuten
Organizers: Sarah Carmichael, Lotte van der Vleuten Discussant: Tracy Dennison
Selin Dilli : The Role of Female Agency in Politics: A Global Study, 1850-2000
Felix Meier zu Selhausen : What Determines Age at Marriage in Uganda? Empirical Evidence from Colonial and Post-colonial Marriage Registers, 1908-2008
Jacob Weisdorf, Jane Humphries : What did English Women earn in the Past? A Long-term Wage Series for Unskilled Female Workers, 1260-1860


H-7 EDU03 Marginalized Children, Vulnerable Histories: Methodological and Ethical Issues in the History of Childhood
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Heini Hakosalo
Organizer: Kaisa Vehkalahti Discussant: Louise Jackson
Johanna Sköld : Hierarchies of Documentation
Ingrid van der Bij : Child Protection Ethics in the Work of the Juvenile Court Judge in the Netherlands, 1922-1995
Annemieke Van Drenth : The ‘Truth’ about Idiocy. Examining the Files of the First Children in Van Koetsveld’s ‘School for Idiots’ in the Netherlands in the Second half of the 19th Century
Kaisa Vehkalahti : Problem Girls and Problem Stories. Child Welfare Accounts and the Construction of Girls’ Social Problems in Finland, 1945–1969
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson : In Search of Children’s Perspective in Medical Case Files – Mission Impossible?


I-7 LAB04b Das Haus/Households in Practice II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography , Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Göran Rydén
Organizer: Karin Hassan Jansson Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Karin Hassan Jansson : Households in Practice: Agency and Authority in Early Modern Sweden
Dag Lindström : House, Households and Spaces in 18th Century Swedish Towns
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : From Household to Streets: Female Food Sellers in 18th Century Turku (Åbo)


J-7 ASI04 Work, Skill and Professions in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Network: Asia Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizer: Nandini Gooptu Discussants: -
Nandini Gooptu : Soft Skills, Emotional Labour and Class Relations in the Contemporary Indian Labour Market
Prashant Kidambi : Between Capital and Labour: Clerical Workers in Late Colonial Bombay
Divya Nambiar : Teaching India’s Youth to Dream? Shaping Aspirations through Skill Training Initiatives in India


K-7 CUL07 Contextualized Histories of Social Science Methods and Methodologies
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Verena Halsmayer
Organizer: Christian Daye Discussant: Christian Daye
Thibaud Boncourt : Importing Behaviourism. Transatlantic Transfers and the Creation of the European Consortium for Political Research
Matthias Duller : The Internationalization of Systems Analysis. Epistemological Consequences of a Global Encounter
Fran Osrecki : Defending Corruption, Defending Modernity: the Rise and Fall of a Radical Idea
Andrea Ploder : Social Movements and the Rise of Interpretive Research. Towards a Contextualized History of Qualitative Social Research in the German-speaking countries between 1965 and 1980


L-7 SEX05b The Cultural Mobility of Sexual Liberation II
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Agnes Andeweg
Organizer: Agnes Andeweg Discussant: Agnes Andeweg
Henk de Smaele : “On a Five-Foot Bookshelf”: Literary Same-sex Plots and the Science of Homosexuality (c. 1950-1975)
Franz Eder : National and International Images of Sexual Liberation in the German Speaking Countries (1950s to 1970s)
Eir-Anne Edgar : Day Tripper: Suburban Swingers
Bart Eeckhout : Coming after the Transnational Commuter James Baldwin: Sexual Liberation's Troubled Relation with Queer Questions of Home and Futurity


M-7 LAB25 Work in the Knowledge Society
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Labour , Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: Peter-Paul Baenziger, Brigitta Bernet Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Peter-Paul Baenziger : A Consumerist Knowledge Society? Work (Ethic), Bodies, and Consumption, c. 1950-1990.
Brigitta Bernet : Human Capital as Resource of the Knowledge Society.
Eloisa Betti : Precarious Work as a Historical Phenomenon: a Gendered Global Approach
Olivier Giraud : Decentralizing Production, Dismantling the Company, Reinventing the Labor Contract?


N-7 THE06 Evolving Politics and Theory among (Some) Radical Baby Boomer Historians in the U.S.
Hörsaal 33 first floor
Network: Theory Chair: Erich Goode
Organizers: - Discussant: Erich Goode
Temma Kaplan : Theory as Movement
Teresa Meade : I’ll Probably Survive Capitalism, but will the Planet? Sustainability and Capitalism in the 21st Century
Andor Skotnes : Polarities of Social History Praxis: Edward Thompson, Louis Althusser…and Mao
Barbara Weinstein : From Marxist Political Economy to Latin American Social History


O-7 ETH06b Early Medieval Migrations II: Migrations in Byzantium and Armenia
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Claudia Rapp
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Rapp
Alexander Beihammer : Turkish Migration Processes and Patterns of Cross-Cultural Permeation in Medieval Anatolia (Eleventh – Thirteenth Century)
Johannes Koder : Remarks on the Slavic Immigration and landnahme in the Byzantine Balkans
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller : Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean and Near East (6th to 11th century)
Ioannis Stouraitis : Migrating within Medieval Empire: Towards a Typology of Movement of People and Groups in Post-Seventh Century Byzantium


P-7 WOM07 Gender, Political Violence and Narratives of the Self in the 20th Century
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva
Organizers: - Discussant: Dagmar Ellerbrock
Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann : The Burden of being a Son: Narratives of an Abduction Victim’s Son
Clare Bielby : Narrating the Politically Violent Self: Masculinity and Violence in Post-Terrorist Life Writing in the Federal Republic of Germany
Vandana Joshi : The Holy Ghost, the Sleeping Beauty and the Prince Charming: Soldiers’ Reflections on State Violence perpetrated on their sexually deviant Wives
Stephanie Yuhl : Gendered Invisibility, the Construction of Public Memory, and Homelessness: Militarized U.S. Women from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan


Q-7 ORA06b The Soviet Union & Eastern Europe II: Transitions since 1989
SR IOGF first floor
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nanci Adler : Competing Narratives on the Stalinist Past
Miroslav Vanek : We and They: Identification with the Political System


R-7 ELI08 Social Ties and Political Representation in Urban Contexts in Late Middle and Early Modern Ages
Hörsaal 42 second floor
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, María Ángeles Martín Romera Discussant: Jelle Haemers
David Alonso-Garcia : Who Represented What? The Castilian Parliament Deputation and Tax System during XVIth Century
Ludolf Pelizaeus : Rebellion and Representation: the Example of Villigen and Jaén at the beginning of XVIth
Sean Perrone : The Assembly of the Clergy and Political Representation in Sixteenth-Century Castile
Fabrizio Titone : Late Medieval Sicily: Patterns of Representation


S-7 SPA14 Big Data and its Management: Lessons from the Past
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Keith Breckenridge
Organizers: - Discussant: Keith Breckenridge
Margaret Adams : Challenges to Laws and Access Traditions for Historical Digital Records in an Era of “Big Data"
Margo Anderson : Can there be a Data Breach of Aggregate Data?
Douwe Zeldenrust : The Exploration and Visualisation of Big Data in the Humanities, Comparing Data Representation of a Large-scale E-infrastructure (CLARIN) and a Dedicated Virtual Research Environment (Soundbites)


T-7 FAM08 Family Systems, Family Relations and Fertility
Hörsaal 46 second floor
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Lotta Vikström
Organizer: Paul Rotering Discussant: Pier Paolo Viazzo
Jeanne Cilliers, Martini Mariotti : Examining Female Fertility in the Settler Cape Colony
Yuliya Hilevych : Children’s Independence and Fertility Behavior in Stem and Joint Family Systems: a Comparison between Western and Eastern Ukraine, 1950-1970
Paul Rotering : Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behaviour in Sweden and the Netherlands, ca 1850-1920
Kai Willführ, Charlotte Störmer : Reproductive Behavior of Landless Agricultural Workers, Small Farmers and of the Economic Elite in the Historical Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, Germany, 1720-1874)


U-7 FAM22 Widows Family and Economy in Historical Perspective
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Beatrice Moring Discussant: Sølvi Sogner
Anne-Lise Head-König : The Survival of Widows in Relation to Legal Entitlement, Citizenship, Residence and Family Ties (Switzerland, 18th-20th Centuries)
Margareth Lanzinger : Widowers and their Sisters-in-Law – the Rivalry between Domestic Organisation and Marriage Impediments
Beatrice Moring : Widows, Family and Property in Northern Europe
Dana Stefanova : The Position of Widows in Early Modern


V-7 RUR07 Production and Productivity in European Agriculture C. 1700 to 1939
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Gerard Béaur
Organizers: Vicente Pinilla, Patrick Svensson Discussant: Jose Miguel Lana
Pedro Lains, Dulce Freire : The Development of Portuguese Agriculture in the Long Run, 1700-1939
Miguel Martín Retortillo, Vicente Pinilla : Productivity in the European Agriculture, 1870- 1914
Socrates Petmezas : Land Tenure Systems and Agricultural Productivity in the Southern Balkans (ca. 1870-1940)
Patrick Svensson, Mats Olsson : Total Factor Productivity in Scanian Agriculture 1700-1900


W-7 HEA19 Doctors, Health Professionals and Institutions
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Nava Blum
Organizers: - Discussant: Nava Blum
Christopher Gale : Patients, Professionals, Politicians and the Public Purse: the Rise and Professionalisation of the UK Mental Health Service User Movement from the Mid-Twentieth Century
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios : The Effect of the Institutional Environment on Children Mortality in La Inclusa de Madrid (Madrid,1890-1935)
Sara Silverstein : “We are still dead”: Refugee Doctors and the Rehabilitation of Europe after the Second World War


X-7 TEC03b Domestic Technologies
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg : Make Music but Waste no Energy: The Player Piano, Political Economy and Psychophysiology
Clive Edwards : Consumer Timber Choices as Signifiers in 20th Century Furniture
Isabelle Favre-Felix : The Rise of Television in France: a Path towards a New Consumer Society ? (1945-1985)
Susan Haight : Modeling Domesticity in Toronto: the T. Eaton Company’s House Displays 1926-1950


Y-7 SOC11 Institutions of Exclusion? Guilds, Citizenship and Inequality in Early Modern Europe
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Patrick Wallis Discussant: Peter Stabel
Laura Crombie : Festive and Devotional Communities among the Craft-guilds of Late Medieval Ghent
Bert De Munck, Karel Davids : Beyond Exclusivism. Entrance Fees for Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries (c.1450-1800)
Maarten Prak : Access to the Trade: Urban Craft Guilds and Social and Geographical Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Patrick Wallis, Chris Minns : Open Access? Guilds and Citizenship in Early Modern England


Z-7 MID01 Risk vs Uncertainty: Between Rational Investments and Gambling in the Middle Ages
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Wouter Ryckbosch
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nicholas Scott Baker : Taking Chances: Gambling and Commerce in Late Medieval Italy
Jonas Braekevelt : Monopolising Lotteries, Restricting Gambling. Institutional and Socio-cultural Contradictions in the Game of Chance-policy of the Burgundian-Habsburg State (15th Century)
Giovanni Ceccarelli : Making Business out of Gambling in Medieval Italy
Jeroen Puttevils : The Lure of Lady Luck: Lotteries and Economic Culture in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Low Countries
Thomas Max Safley : Considerations of Risk in Early Modern Bankruptcy Proceeding


ZB-7 POL19 Private Eyes and Public Spies: Surveillance in the United States
Hörsaal 26 basement
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Andrew Zimmerman
Organizer: Dolores Janiewski Discussant: Andrew Zimmerman
Dolores Janiewski : Private Scrutiny, Public Exposure: Anti-Communist Surveillance and the Media in the United States, 1919-1956
Simon Judkins : Duelling Committees: 1930s Californian Surveillance Groups and Their Legislative Allies
Robert Lichtman : The Role of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI in Creating and Perpetuating McCarthyism
Jacqueline Ross : Undercover Policing and Entrapment in Comparative Perspective


ZD-7 LAB34 Round Table: Political Change as a Determinant of Shifting Labour Relations
Prominentenzimmer
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Christine Moll Murata, Alessandro Stanziani, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk


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