Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    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
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
H-1 ECO14a Social Mobility 1
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Zoltán Lippényi
Organizers: - Discussant: Zoltán Lippényi
Sofie De Veirman, Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström : Deaf and Unwanted? Marriage Opportunities of the Hearing Impaired. A Comparative Case-study of 19th-century Flanders and Sweden
Wouter Marchand : Aims and Effects of 200 Years of Student Grants in the Netherlands, 1815-2015
Levente Pakot : Family Size and Intergenerational Social Mobility: a Micro-level Study of Two Communities in Western Hungary 1850-1948
Paul Puschmann, Jan Kok, Per-Olof Grönberg & Koen Matthijs : A Life Course Approach to Social Mobility among Migrants in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Northwestern European Port Cities - Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm -
Hendrik Tieke : Social Agents in a Small Town before the Third Reich - How to Combine Stratification and Network Analysis


Y-1 SOC04 Early Modern Poor Relief
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Julie Marfany
Organizers: - Discussant: Julie Marfany
Magdalena Díaz Hernández : Indian and Black Slaves: the Miserable as a Social Concept of Resistance against the Injustice in Veracruz in the 18th Century
Olga Salamatova : The Corn and Trade Crises and the Making Welfare System in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England, 1590s-1640.



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
H-2 ECO14b Social Mobility 2: in the North Atlantic, 1850-1911
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Kris Inwood, Luiza Antonie, Robert Evan and Peter Baskerville : Social Mobility in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1850-1911
Evan Roberts, Peter Baskerville & Kris Inwood : Social Mobility in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1850-1911
Ulla Rosén : A “Peasant Road to Agrarian Capitalism”
Kevin Schürer, Tatiana Penkova : Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis of Household Structure and Variation in England and Wales, 1881


Y-2 SOC06 Economies and Emotion: Kinship, Work, Poverty and Deprivation in Nineteenth Century Britain
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Vincent
Organizer: Megan Doolittle Discussant: David Vincent
Megan Doolittle : Work and the Workhouse: Gender, Labour and the Poor Law in Local Context 1880-1914
Donna Loftus : Work and Poverty: Family Strategies and Economic Theories in Late Nineteenth-century England
Helen Rogers : Trouble in the Family? Kinship, Work, and Friendship in the Lives of Convict Boys, Transported c. 1836-46
Julie-Marie Strange : Love and Want: Fatherhood, Unemployment and Attachment in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Family



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-3 LAB01a A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change across Eurasia, 1840–1940 I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Erik Buyst : Changing Occupational Structure and the Industrial Revolution in Belgium, 1846-1910
Dimitrios Kopanas, Leda Papastefenaki : Occupational and Structural Change in Greece, 1840 – 1940, A Gender Perspective
Alexis Litvine : Assessing Changes in the Occupational Structure of France during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Y-3 SOC14 Mutual Aid in Comparative Perspective
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Bernard Harris
Organizers: - Discussant: Bernard Harris
Jackie Gulland : Witnesses of Truth and Moral Cowards: Discourses of Morality in Appeals about Sickness Benefits in the Early 20th Century UK
Julie Marfany : Mutual Aid in Early Modern Spain: Guilds, Confraternities and Public Granaries
Gerrit Verhoeven : The Tearing Tissue: Family, Friends, Neighbours, and the Resilience of Social Relations (Antwerp 1750-'95)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
I-4 LAB01b A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change Across Eurasia, 1840–1940 II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Esin Uyar & Berkay Kucukbaslar : Occupational and Structural Change from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change and Industrialization: from Russia to the Soviet Union (1897-1959)
Osamu Saito, Yoshifumi Usami : Changing Composition of the Workforce in British India, 1881-1931: with Special Reference to the Relationship between Principal and Subsidiary Occupations
Tokihiko Settsu, Osamu Saito : Changing Occupational Structure and Sectoral Labour Productivity Differentials in Japan’s Economic Growth before World War II


Y-4 SOC12 Migration and Inequality in Colonial Societies
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Asia , Social Inequality Chair: Ulbe Bosma
Organizer: Lynn Lees Discussant: Ulbe Bosma
Lynn Lees : Urban Civil Society and the Blurring of Racial Inequalities in British Malaya, 1900-1940
Natasha Pairaudeau : Mobility and Multiple Struggles for Equality within the French Empire: the Shaping and Practice of Colonial Citizenship in French India and Indochina
Jennifer Sessions : Debating Settler Sovereignty in Fin-de-Siècle French Algeria


ZC-4 HEA09 Health, Society, Family: Biometric Approaches to Child Welfare
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: David Meredith
Organizer: Deborah Oxley Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Vellore Arthi, Jane Humphries : Gender-Differential Investment in Infant Nutrition and Health: Evidence from a Marylebone Maternity Hospital
Antonio D. Cámara : From Chromosomes to Societies: What, Why and How of a Biosocial Approach to the Past. The Example of Sexual Size Dimorphism
Mary Cox : Hunger Games: How the Allied Blockade in WWI deprived German Children of Nutrition and Allied Food Aid Subsequently saved them
Deborah Oxley, Sara Horrell : Factory Figures: Evidence for Gender Bias and Bargaining within Households in 19th Century Britain
Eric Schneider : The Mortality Transition and Biological Living Standards in Boston in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries


ZD-4 SOC20 Famine and Poor Relief on the European Periphery: Ireland and Finland Compared
Prominentenzimmer
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Declan Curran, Mary Kelly : Core-Periphery Dynamics and the Great Irish Famine
Peter Gray : ‘The Great British Famine of 1845-50’? Ireland, the UK and Peripherality in Famine Relief and Philanthropy.
Andrew Newby : Statebuilding, Peripherality and Famine Relief in Finland, 1867-8



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
Y-5 SOC01a Capitalism, Community and Charity: Giving in Mercantile and Industrial Economies (ca. 1300-2000) I
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Urban Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Hadewijch Masure : Poor Relief and Community Building in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1300-1600
Tsila Rädecker : Between Cohesion and Control: the Meat Hall in the Eighteenth-century Ashkenazi Community of Amsterdam


Z-5 MID02 Round Table: The Agency of Craft Guilds in the Medieval City
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Social Inequality Chairs: Bert De Munck, Peter Stabel
Organizers: Bert De Munck, Peter Stabel Discussants: Bert De Munck, Jan Dumolyn, Peter Stabel, Patrick Wallis



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Y-6 SOC01b Capitalism, Community and Charity: Giving in Mercantile and Industrial Economies (ca. 1300-2000) II
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Urban Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen Discussant: Julie Marfany
Henk Looijesteijn, Marco van Leeuwen : Rural Poor Relief in the Netherlands: a Cross-section ca. 1800
Melanie Oppenheimer : Charity and War
Will Rall : What did Charity mean under National Socialism? The Case of the Winter Help Relief, 1933-1939



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
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



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Y-10 SOC03 spe Special session. Cities and Social Inequality
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Urban Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizers: - Discussants: Michael Hanagan, Prashant Kidambi, Leo Lucassen, Leslie Page Moch, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
G-11 ECO11 The Political Economy of the Post-War Welfare State, 1950-2000
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizer: Jeroen Touwen Discussants: -
Pierre Eichenberger : Employers and the Shaping of the Welfare State : The Swiss Post-war Experience (1948-1960)
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : Labor, Capital and the Notion of the Social Wage
Jeroen Touwen : Employers' Preferences in the Welfare State, 1920-1940
Bruno Valat : Were Health Expenditures Keynesian ? Questions and Evidence from the French Post-War experience


W-11 ETH25soc13 Round Table: Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe’: Global and Long-term Perspectives
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Social Inequality Chairs: Steven King, Anne Winter
Organizers: Steven King, Anne Winter Discussants: David Green, Peter King, Steven King, Lutz Rafael, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Anne Winter


Y-11 SOC07a For Better or for Worse? Gender Equality and Family Policies (I)
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Women and Gender Chair: Ann-Catrin Östman
Organizer: Pirjo Markkola Discussant: Dorottya Szikra
Guðný Björk Eydal, Pirjo Markkola : Different Paths of Promoting Gender Equality: Family Policies in Finland and Iceland, 1960-2010
Arnlaug Leira : Gender Equality and Family Policies in Norway, 1960-2010
Åsa Lundqvist : Gender Equality and Family Policies in Sweden, 1960-2010



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
Y-12 SOC07b Global Gender Equality Politics II
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Women and Gender Chair: Ann-Catrin Östman
Organizers: Eva Blomberg, Ylva Waldemarson Discussant: Julia Roth
Eva Blomberg : Equal Opportunities Ombudsman in Sweden – a global task?
Heike Kahlert : Gender equality politics – key politics in ageing EU-Europe?
Pia Levin : Illegitimate Equality. The Role of Social Equality in Shaping the Legitimacy of Gender Equality
Ylva Waldemarson : A Nordic Gender Equality?



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
S-13 SOC16 Practices of Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Henrik Ågren
Organizer: Henrik Ågren Discussant: Dagmar Freist
Mikael Alm : The Making of Difference: Imagined Order and Practices for Differentiation in Eighteenth Century Sweden
Carl Mikael Carlsson : Class by Counting
Elias Hall : Violence and Estates – Creating a Group Identity with Fist and Blade
Philip Withington : Honestas and the Science of Living in Early Modern England


Y-13 SOC17a Real Estate and Social Topography in Pre-modern Europe (1100-1800) - Part 1
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Brecht Dewilde
Organizers: Heidi Deneweth, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Discussant: Maarten Prak
William C. Baer : Using Housing Rents to Track Changes in Housing Quality and the Standard of Living: Applysing Social Science and Urban Planning Techniques to Seventeenth-Century London
Heidi Deneweth : Moving Up or Down the Housing Market? Real Estate and Social Change in Bruges, 1550-1650
Boris Horemans : A Phoenix from the Ashes: Real Estate Developers, Entrepreneurs, Master Craftsmen and the Rebuilding of Brussels (1685-1704)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Y-14 SOC17b Real Estate and Social Topography in Pre-modern Europe (1100-1800) - Part 2
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Heidi Deneweth
Organizers: Heidi Deneweth, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Discussant: Marjolein 't Hart
Ana Plosnic Škaric : Decline of Medieval Urban Symbols of Power: Tower Houses in Trogir (Croatia)
Miki Sugiura, Genki Takahashi : Maintaining Polycentric Small Cites under De-urbanization. Local Merchants’ Real Estate Strategy in Bolsward, Friesland.
Tineke Van de Walle, Peter Stabel : Living in Late Medieval Suburbia. Social Topography and Housing in Antwerp and Oudenaarde 15th-16th Century


ZD-14 SOC13 Disability in the Early Modern Society
Prominentenzimmer
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Christina Vanja
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Elisabeth Lobenwein
Bianca Frohne : Records of Infirmity: Disability and Life Writing in 16th Century Germany
Irmtraut Sahmland : A Life in Darkness
Angela Schattner : Disablement as Disability? Public Welfare and the Disabled Poor in Early Modern Germany



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
E-15 SOC18 Representations of the Poor and Social Welfare, c. 1220-1850
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Elizabeth Robertson
Organizer: Paul A. Fideler Discussant: Elizabeth Robertson
Thomas M. Adams : The Uses of Print in the Promotion of Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Europe
Susan Broomhall : Huguenot Charity in Sixteenth-Century France and England
Paul A. Fideler : Utilitarianism Abroad and Its Domestic Critics: The Company Raj and India’s Poor
Anne Scott : Conflicting Representations of the Poor in Middle English Texts and Images


J-15 SOC15 Philanthropy
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marjolein 't Hart
Organizer: Madalena Eça de Abreu Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Ismael Albertin : Charitable Donors Struggling against Social Inequality? – Philanthropy in Zurich around 1900: People, Projects, Motives
Madalena Eça de Abreu, Ana Felgueiras; Ana Simaes; Marta Rey Garcia : National Campaigns for Charitable Causes in Portugal: a First Road Map
Anina Eigenmann : The Soziale Käuferliga der Schweiz and the “Flower Days” – the Collision of Old and New Forms of Philanthropy
Ana Felgueiras, Marta Rey Garcia, Luis Ignacio Alvarez-Gonzalez & Ricard Valls-Riera : National Campaigns for International Co-operation and Emergency Aid: a Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Emerging Spanish Civil Society and Philanthropic Market


Y-15 SOC09 Historical Social Stratification in Central- Eastern Europe and Russia
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Zoltán Lippényi
Organizer: Zoltán Lippényi Discussant: Zoltán Lippényi
Zsuzsanna Hanna Biró : The Gender Factor in Patterns of Professional Mobility of Hungarian secondary School Teachers (1920-1945)
Victor Karady : Parliamentary Elites and Pressure Groups in pre-1919 Hungary
Peter Tibor Nagy : The Methodological Aspects of Evaluating Educational Mobility of the 20th Century



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
U-16 SOC05 Economic Inequality in the Early Modern World
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Osamu Saito
Organizer: Hulya Canbakal Discussant: Osamu Saito
Guido Alfani : Long-term Trends in Economic Inequality in Western Europe: the Case of Piedmont, Fourteenth - Eighteenth Centuries
Hulya Canbakal, Alpay Filiztekin : Wealth and Inequality in the Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia, 1500-1840
Carlos Santiago-Caballero, Eva Fernandez : Economic Inequality in Madrid, 1500-1850


Y-16 SOC19 Social Homogamy
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Hao Dong
Organizers: - Discussant: Hao Dong
Antti Häkkinen : Homogamy, Marriage Patterns and Industrialization in Finland
Zoltán Lippényi, Marco van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Occupational Status and Industry Homogamy in Hungary between 1870 and 1950
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Social Homogamy in the Netherlands: Explaining Trends and Regional Differences
Koen Matthijs, Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Paul Puschmann : Social Homogamy in Flanders during the 19th and Early 20th Century
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Danièle Rébaudo & Jean-Pierre Pélissier : Homogamy in France 1800-1900


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