Preliminary Programme

Showing: Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30 (single time slot)
Wed 23 April
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Thu 24 April
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Fri 25 April
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    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
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All days
Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
A-9 WOR08 Railway Towns as Portals of Globalization
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Geert Castryck
Organizer: Geert Castryck Discussant: Matthias Middell
Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae : A City Constructed by “des gens d’ailleurs”. Urban Development and Migration Policies in Colonial Lubumbashi, 1910-1930
Jonathan Hyslop : Durban in the Global Coal-Energy System: Mines, Railways, Docks, and Stokeholds in the Empire of Otto Siedle’s Natal Direct Line, 1889-1919.
Jamie Monson : Making Globalization Work: Railway Porters at Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia
Nitin Sinha : The imperial/global ‘connectedness’ of the small railway town of Jamalpur, India, 1860s-1880s


B-9 CRI08 Early Modern Criminal Justice and Legal Sources: New Perspectives
Hörsaal 16 raised ground floor
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado
Organizer: Stephan Sander-Faes Discussant: Martin Scheutz
Jose Cáceres Mardones : Bestiality in 17th-Century in Zurich. Subject – Practices – Discourses
Krista Kesselring : Sex and Murder in Early Modern England: Bodies of Evidence
Eric Piltz : All Matters of Faith? Criminal Cases in 16th Century Antwerp
Stephan Sander-Faes : Beyond the Normative Narrative(s): a Tale of Two Processes from 17th-Century Southern Bohemia


C-9 POL01 The Politics of Numbers: Petition Drives and Collection of Signatures in the Shaping of Modern Politics (1640-1960)
Hörsaal 21 raised groud floor
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Diego Palacios Cerezales
Organizer: Diego Palacios Cerezales Discussant: Diego Palacios Cerezales
Benoit Agnes : Imitating the ‘English Way of Petitioning’ : French Perceptions and Transfers of the British Agitation, 1830-1848
Daniel Carpenter : Spatial and Sequential Analysis of Petition Canvassing: a Geographic Analysis of Anti-slavery Petitions from New York City, 1837
Jean Gabriel Contamin : The Petitioning between Complaint, Pressure and Legitimation: the Right to Petition and the Uses of Petitioning in Contemporary France (1788-1960)
Henry Miller : ‘Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!’: Petitioning, Public Opinion and Popular Politics in Britain, c. 1800-1914
David Zaret : From Traditional Petition-and-Response to Political Mobilization in Early-modern England


D-9 SPA03 Spatial History of Rural Communities and Landscapes
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Robert Schwartz
Organizers: - Discussant: Robert Schwartz
Andrew Lowerre : Environmental Factors and Regional Variation in Historic Settlement Organisation in England
Jim Pimpernell : Researching the Evolution of a Large English 18th Century Agricultural Estate using GIS, a Database and Social Network Analysis Tools
Ad van Ooststroom : Reconstruction Landownership in 1400 in the Province of Utrecht
George Vascik : The Political Sociology of Northern German Moor and Fehn Communities
Anouk Vermeulen : Innovation Knows no Limites: Reconsidering Roman Centuriation in Tarragona and Arles


E-9 ECO09 Economic Development in the Age of Nation Building: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Late 19th and early 20 Centuries
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Alexander Klein
Organizer: Tamás Vonyó Discussant: Alexander Klein
Tomas Cvrcek, Miroslav Zajicek : School, What is it Good for? The Politics and Economics of Public Education in 19th Century Habsburg Empire
Matthias Morys : Central Banks and Nation-states in South-East Europe, 1878 – 1928
Max-Stephan Schulze, P. Caruana-Galizia : Empires Diverging: A Spatial Analysis of Habsburg and German Regional GDP, 1870-1910
Tamás Vonyó : By how much did socialist economies underperform? A cross-country investigation’


F-9 ANT07 Social Science Greek History
Elise Richtersaal first floor
Network: Antiquity Chair: Brooks Kaiser
Organizer: James Kierstead Discussant: Brooks Kaiser
James Kierstead : Associations and Citizenship at Athens: Incentives and Information in Demes, Phratries, and Subsidiary Groups
Roland Oetjen : Taxes or “Benefactions”? An Economic Analysis of “Euergetism” and its Emergence
Matthew Simonton : Aristotle the Game Theorist: Authoritarian Breakdown in Classical Greek Oligarchies
Claire Taylor : Social Capital and Marginalised Groups in the Ancient Greek World


H-9 EDU07 Institutions for Children - Meaning and Character
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Johanna Sköld
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Branko Šuštar : Women Teachers and their Educational Activities for Improvement Family Life in Urban and Rural Areas in Slovenia from the End of 19th Century to Beginnig of 20th Century
Steven Taylor : Poverty, Emigration and Family: Experiencing Childhood Poverty in Late Nineteenth-Century Manchester
Dick van Gijlswijk : Schools for Poor Children in the Eighteenth Century


I-9 LAB08 Imperial Connections and Household Labour Relations
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Asia , Family and Demography , Labour Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Louella de Graaf Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Corinne Boter : The Dynamics of the Household. Labour Division in Dutch Households 1830-1940.
Louella de Graaf : Between Forced Labor and Market Work. Javanese Households, the Allocation of Labor and Time, and Consumption under Colonial Rule, 1830-1970
Michiel de Haas : Measuring African Rural Welfare: A Reconstruction of Ugandan Rural Living Standards in the 1920s-30s
Steffen Rimner : When Opium Enters the Household: the Division of Labor, Paternal Drug Consumption and Familial Impoverishment in India and China, c. 1880-1900


J-9 ETH14 Identity Construction in Multicultural Britain
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Panikos Panayi
Organizer: Panikos Panayi Discussant: Panikos Panayi
Saima Nasar : Unity in Diversity? Re-thinking East African Asian Identities in 1960s and 1970s Britain
Vimal Patel : 'Caste and Caste Identity in Leicester: A Splendid Isolation?'
Gavin Schaffer : What’s Behind the Open Door? Making Multiculturalism on British Television
Christopher Roy Zembe : Migrating with Colonial and Post-Colonial Memories: Dynamics of Ethnic and Racial Interactions within the Zimbabwean Community in the United Kingdom


K-9 CUL19 Representing the Child: The Innovative Role of the Arts
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Networks: Culture , Education and Childhood Chair: Jeroen Dekker
Organizer: Sanne Parlevliet Discussants: -
Mathilda Hallberg, Bengt Sandin : Visualizing Children´s Bodies in the Welfare State
Pieter Mooren : Picturing the child: The child in the 16th century Works of Mercy and the 20th century Frog picture books.
Jane Southcott : Tunes of Heritage: Changing Constructions of the Child in Music
Matthew Worley : 'Oi Oi Oi’: Class and Locality in British Punk


L-9 ETH20 Organizing Migration: Concepts and Limits of a Longitudinal Perspective
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Wladimir Fischer
Organizers: Rita Garstenauer, Anne Unterwurzacher Discussant: Wladimir Fischer
Rita Garstenauer, Anne Unterwurzacher : A Longitudinal View on Migration and Organisation in History and Sociology
Matteo Pretelli : Fascist Cultural Promotion in the 'Little Italies'
Zeynep Sezgin : Conceptualizing Transnational Migrant Organizations: Turkish Migrant Organizations in Austria
Hanna Sonkajärvi : Organizations and Migration in the Early Modern Period: Some Reflections on the Basque Case
Frank Wolff : From Peddler to Gaucho and Citizen: Global Jewish Relief Agencies as Mediating Organizers in the Age of Great Migrations, 1880-1939


M-9 LAB26 mig Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History (worldwide)
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizers: Stefan Berger, Ad Knotter, Chris Williams Discussant: Ad Knotter
Diethelm Blecking : Between Disintegration, Community Formation (Spoleczenstwo) and Integration – the Role of Sport for Polish Migrants to Germany in the Rhineland/Westphalen Industrial Area 1899-1939
Marion Fontaine : Football, Immigration and Identity in the French Mining Communities: the Case of the “Nord” and the “Lorraine” Coalfields (1930’-1960’)
Philip Slaby : “Dissimilarity Breeds Contempt: Mines, Foreigners, and the State in Interwar France”
Clarice Gontarski Speranza : Struggles and Assimilation: the Role of European Workers in Brazilian Coal Mining (São Jerônimo, RS, 1850-1950)


N-9 SEX14 Politics of Sexuality in the 70's
Hörsaal 33 first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Nathalie Le Bouteillec
Organizer: Virginie De Luca Barrusse Discussant: Wannes Dupont
Sylvie Burgnard : The Sex Education of Children and Adolescents in Geneva in the 1970’s
Antoine Idier : Gay Liberation and Pedophilia in Post 68 France
Mariette Le Den : Standards of Motherhood: from Young Mothers to Single Mothers in the 70's


O-9 ETH28 The Role of the Judiciary in the Making of Immigration Policies
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Betty de Hart
Organizers: Saskia Bonjour, Betty de Hart Discussant: Betty de Hart
Ben Herzog : Revoking Citizenship: The Role of the Courts in Expatriation Policies in the United States
Ewen McIntosh : Judicial Impact on UK Asylum Removals Policy and its Political Framing (1990 – 2012)
Sonia Morano-Foadi : Judicial reflections on the interplay between human rights and migration
Devyani Prabhat : Constructing a Virtuous Citizen: Judgments of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission
Helena Wray : The Role of the Judiciary in the Making of Immigration Policies. Family Migration, Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court


P-9 SEX09 Defining Female Sexualities
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Kirsten Leng
Organizers: - Discussant: Kirsten Leng
Jean-Noël Castorio : The Messalina Complex / Le complexe de Messaline
Tamara Chaplin : Lesbopolis: Bagdam Cafée and Lesbian Life in Toulouse, 1970 to the present
Julie Gammon : The 'Female-Husband' in 18th Century England
Riikka-Maria Pöllä : Madame de Sévigné & Ninon de Lenclos: Possibility to Take Control of Their Own Sexuality?


Q-9 ORA08 Disrupted Lives, Disrupted Identities
SR IOGF first floor
Network: Oral History Chair: Helga Amesberger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gulie Ne'eman Arad : Bearing Witness to the Twisted Road of Constructing Life Narrative(s)
Michaela Raggam-Blesch : Ruptured Lives and Identities: Persecution and Survival of Women and Men of “Half-Jewish” Descent during the Nazi Regime in Vienna
Andreas Schmoller : Personal Testimony and Local Memory in Dialogue? On the Life Story of a Polish Survivor of the Ebensee Concentration Camp who Stayed in Ebensee
Christa Whitney : Empty/Full: Jewish Lithuania and Poland in the Memory of its Residents and Descendents


R-9 ELI11 Elite Positions across Time: Prosopgraphic and Generational Approaches
Hörsaal 42 second floor
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Antti Häkkinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Antti Häkkinen
Miguel Artola Blanco : Madrid Private Bankers: The Social Profile of a Discrete Elite (1900-1939)
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : The Old and New Professions in 19th Century Britain
Nuno Severiano Teixeira, Isabel Alcario : Who is the Portuguese Foreign Minister? 1890-2010 - The Study of an Elite
Frederik Verleden, Emmanuel Gerard : Representatives and Senators in Belgium 1831-2013: the Transformation of a Parliamentary Elite


S-9 RUR18 lb13 Mobilization and Stabilization of Rural Labor Force
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Stéphanie Barral
Organizer: Stéphanie Barral Discussant: Benoit Daviron
Mustafa Aslan : Between the Sheet and the Hangar: The Housing Issue of Kurdish Seasonal Workers in Turkey
Guillaume Vadot : Living and Struggling in a Plantation: Housing, Wage Labor and Labor Struggles in a Post Structural Adjustment Plan Agro-industrial Plantation in Cameroon
Wessel Visser : "Marikana has come to the Farms!!!" The Socio-economic Impact of the November 2012-January 2013 Agricultural Strike in the Western Cape, South Africa


T-9 FAM05a Long-term Perspectives on Divorce and Union Dissolution in Western Countries I
Hörsaal 46 second floor
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Glenn Sandström
Organizer: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Helena Bergman : Divorce in the Century of the Child. The Politics of Post-divorce Parenthood in Sweden during the 20th Century
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Brynja Björnsdóttir : The Implications of Divorce in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Iceland
Bente Rosenbeck : Divorce in the Nordic Countries
Pasi Saarimäki : Bourgeois Women’s Organizations and the Question of Divorce in Finland 1884–1930


U-9 FAM23 Immigation and Marriage Strategies in Comparative Context
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Network: Family and Demography Chairs: Isabelle Seguy, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Organizers: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Discussants: Anne-Lise Head-König, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga : Marriage Strategies and Alliances among French Immigrants in America: a Gender Approach
Juan Francisco Henarejos López, Francisco Chacón Jiménez : Marital Strategies, Social Mobility and Consanguinity in Mediterranean Spain: Murcia: Centuries XVIII- XIX
Hans Jørgen Marker, Nanna Floor Clausen : Moving to or from Marriage?
Mateusz Wyzga : Migrations to Cracow during the Preindustrial Period


V-9 RUR08 Rural Factor Markets in Different Legal and Institutional Contexts. Towards a Methodological Framework
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Michael Limberger
Organizers: Nicolas De Vijlder, Michael Limberger Discussant: Markus Cerman
Frédéric Aparisi : Good Debt. The Credit Activities of the Wealthy Families in the Rural Communities of the Valencian Midlands during 15th Century
Nicolas De Vijlder : Manors, Manorial Accounts and Land Transfers in the Early Modern Low Countries. A Short Note on their Legal and Institutional Context
Eline Van Onacker : Small but Significant. The Micro-level Functioning of Markets for Land and Credit in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (The Campine area, Low Countries)


W-9 MAT11 Rural Artisans, Shops and Consumers
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lucy Bailey : ‘A Veritable Palace of Delight’: The Sentimental Portrayal of Childhood and the Village Shop in Victorian Literary and Visual Culture
Béatrice Craig : Modernity, Respectability and the Early 18th Century Canadian Rural Consumer
Marie Ulväng : Clothing, Gender, Values and Valuations in 19th Century
Merja Uotila : Rural Artisans in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland
Ann Wilson : Production, Consumption and Agency: Catholic Images in Late Nineteenth-century Ireland


X-9 HEA18 Social Determinants of Health: Sanitary Reform and Nutrition
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussant: Iris Borowy
Emiko Higami, Kenichi Tomobe : What's the Most Important was to Reduce the Infant Mortality Rate: a Scheme at Osaka City of the Early 20th Century
Tenna Jensen : The Role of Food in Elderly Care
Corinne Pernet : Food, Development, and the Return of the Local at FAO


Y-9 SOC10 Round table: Identification and Registration - Documenting the Individual in World History
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizer: Gayle Lonergan Discussants: Margo Anderson, Beatrice de Graaf, Henk Looijesteijn
Gayle Lonergan, Ilsen About : Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective
Simon Szreter, Keith Breckenridge : Registration and Recognition. Documenting the Person in World History


Z-9 MID04 The 'Props' of Everyday Life? Material Culture, Daily Practices and Urban Values in Late Medieval and early Modern Urban Society
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Inneke Baatsen Discussants: -
Kim Overlaet, Inneke Baatsen : A Spoonful of Meanings? An Analysis of the Layered Meanings of Silver Spoons in Sixteenth-century Mechelen
Maxime Poulain : Cultural Identity and Social Standing: the Case-study of Middelburg
Isis Sturtewagen : Clothing the Children. Dress and Daily Life at the Begard School of Bruges in the mid-16th Century.
Katherine Wilson : The Function of Textiles in Domestic Spaces from the Evidence of Testaments and Inventories from Later Medieval Dijon, Douai and Tournai


ZA-9 URB01a Conceived, Constructed, Contested Spaces’ – Gender and Household in the European Town I
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Anne Montenach
Organizers: - Discussant: Deborah Simonton
Katie Barclay : Marginal Households and Households across Margins: the ‘Kept Mistress’ in Late-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Elaine Chalus : ‘Our House is like a Coffee room’: The Fremantles in Italy, 1815–19
Alison Duncan : ‘Elegant Economy’, the ‘Family of Friends’, and ‘a Love for Amusements’: the Urban Household as a Foundation for Never-married Scots Gentlewomen’s Status and Relationships


ZB-9 TEC05 Rewriting the Histories of Innovation
Hörsaal 26 basement
Network: Technology Chair: Henk Wals
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Catarina Caetano da Rosa : Traumatic Memory and Technology
Heather Holmes : A Neglected Innovation: the Double Furrow Plough in Scotland, its Early Adoption and Use, 1870-1880
Miroslaw Sikora : Intelligence Service as a Tool of Science. Example of Poland during the 70. and 80. of XX'th Century
Anna Zawadzka : Ideological Aspects of Roman Military Engineering


ZD-9 ETH37 Postcolonial Identity
Prominentenzimmer
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mirjam de Bruijn
Hanan Sabea : Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: the Unbound Laboring Body and Migration in Tanzania and Egypt
Timo Särkkä : Colonial Identity-building in Southern and Central Africa: the Case of Finns 1900–1960
Aniek Smit, Maya Wester : On the border of the Musi: Dutch expatriates in Indonesia during the process of economic decolonization (1949-1965)


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