Preliminary Programme

Showing: Urban (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
O-1 ETH01 Between Local Autonomy and National Policy: Regulating Migration in European Cities, 1750-1914
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Urban Chair: Anne Winter
Organizers: Hilde Greefs, Anne Winter Discussant: Helena Wray
Alexander Coppens : Bringing Migration Policies into Practice: The Role of Local Authorities in Dealing with Foreigners in Brussels in the Nineteenth Century
Ellen Debackere : Between Local Autonomy and National Migration Policy : Dealing with ‘Foreigners’ in Antwerp during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Louise Falcini, Tim Hitchcock & Adam Crymble : Vagrant London in the Late Eighteenth Century
Jennifer Kain : “There can be Little Doubt that this Man was Perfectly Sane when he left England”: Attempts by New Zealand’s Agent-Generals to Select Migrants with ‘Sound Minds’ in the 1870s
Vicky Vanruysseveldt, Rik Vercammen : From Central Policy to Local Practice: The problem of vagrancy and mendicancy in Belgium (1880-1910)


ZC-1 URB04 Urban Communities in Europe, 1300-1650: New Social and Economic Perspectives
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Urban Chair: Justin Colson
Organizer: Justin Colson Discussants: Justin Colson, Maarten Prak
ESSHC Conference Crew : Social Networks, Capital, and Collateral in Early Modern Saxony
Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz : Media Change, ‘Communicative Capital’ and the Social and Political Development of Guilds in Urban Communities (ca. 1400-1650)
Dennis Hormuth : Social, Economic and Political Inclusion and Distinction in Late 17th-century Riga: the Great Guild’s Bench of Elders
Carla Roth : Fama in Foro. Oral Networks of Information in Sixteenth-century St. Gallen
Yannis Smarnakis, Eleni Tounta : The Making of a Political Community: a Reappraisal of the Zealot Revolt in Late Byzantine Thessaloniki (1342-1350)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZC-2 URB12 Economies of Urban Religious Memory: Central European Towns in a Comparative Perspective (14c-16c)
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Religion , Urban Chair: Christina Lutter
Organizer: Károly Goda Discussants: -
Elisabeth Gruber : Social Attachment in and between Central European Towns and Cities: Kinship, Friendship and Donations in Last Wills and Legal Records
Katerina Hornícková : “...uczinil pamatku po smrti geo a ke czti a chwale bozi.” Creating Memory with Inscriptions in Bohemian and Austrian Towns (14c-16c)
Judit Majorossy : How Far Local Memory Can Reach? Creating Memory through Testamentary Donations in West Hungarian Towns (Late 14th – Early 16th c.)
Sarah Rudolf : The Seven Deadly Sins and Socialisation Ideals: Growing up in French Seventeenth-Century Urban Society
Maria Theisen : Illuminated Books as Pious Donations ? Pious Donations as a Joint Effort



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
Z-3 URB10a Urban Memory, Language and the Social History of Politics (15th-17th Centuries) I
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Mario Damen
Organizers: Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers, Valerie Vrancken Discussants: -
Christian Kuhn : Mockery and Pamphlets in the Early Modern Public Sphere
Adam Morton : "From Mockery to Death: Stephen College's 'The Raree Show' - Libel and Death in Restoration England"
Valeria Van Camp : Li papiers de memores de ce que li eskevins de Mons ont besongniet. A Study of Social Groups and How they were Perceived by the Political Elite of Mons in the 15th Century
Tineke Van Gassen : The Archives of the City: the Social Memory of Fifteenth-century Ghent



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
L-4 URB06 Shaping the Post-war City: Europe East and West
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Urban Chair: Joel Rast
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Cheap Flats for Everyone? Housing in Yugoslavia 1945–1955
Liliana Iuga : Negligible Heritage: Negotiating “Socialist Urban Transformation” in the Historic City Center of Ia?i in the 1970s
Matej Spurný : Transformation of the City of Most
Philipp Ther : The Transformation of Central European Capital Cities: Berlin, Prague, Warsaw and Vienna since the late 1980s in Comparison
Christine Wall : Sculpting Urban Concrete: Building the South Bank Arts Complex 1961-5


O-4 ETH18 Migration and Migrant Communities in 18th and 19th Century Central European Cities
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Urban Chair: Annemarie Steidl
Organizers: - Discussant: Margareth Lanzinger
Tullia Catalan : The Jewish Community of Trieste during the Habsburg Empire: from Tradition to Modernity (1781-1918)
Wladimir Fischer : No Need for Community? South Slav Migrants in Vienna around 1900
Aleksej Kalc : Immigration and Immigrant Communities in 18th Century Trieste
Borut Klabjan : Czechs and the City. Identities, Loyalties and Assimilations of the Czech Community in Habsburg Trieste


Z-4 URB10b Urban Memory, Language and the Social History of Politics (15th-17th Centuries) II
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Jelle Haemers
Organizers: Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers, Valerie Vrancken Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert, Jelle Haemers : Nobility as a Commemorative Performance. The Lord of Dadizele between the City and the State in the Fifteenth-century Low Countries
Mario Damen : Patricians, knights or nobles? Historiography and identity in late medieval Antwerp
Felicia Rosu : The Decree of the Country: Constitutional Language and Practices in Early Modern East Central Europe
Valerie Vrancken : Ideology and Politics: the Joyous Entries of Brabant (14th-15th Centuries)



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
D-5 ETH03 Cities en Route: Central European Cities and Overseas Migration in the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Urban Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizer: Markian Prokopovych Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Ayse Caglar, Nina Glick Schiller : The Crisis, City Making and “Migrants”
Torsten Feys : The Reliance of Major Migrant Ports on Inland Transit Cities in Hinter- and Foreland: a Shipping Company’s Perspective
Markian Prokopovych : Urban History of Overseas Migration in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
Katalin Straner : Budapest and Hungarian Transatlantic Migration: Image and Agency in Public Discourse, 1881-1914


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



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
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



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


ZA-10 URB01b Conceived, Constructed, Contested Spaces’ – Gender and Household in the European Town II
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Katie Barclay
Organizers: - Discussant: Elaine Chalus
Marjo Kaartinen : Walks, Relationships and Networks: London in the 18th Century
Anne Montenach : Within or Beyond the Household? Female Economic Spaces in Eighteenth-century Lyon
Deborah Simonton : What’s Love Got to do with it? Gender, Endogamy and Urban Economies



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
ZA-11 URB03 The Emerging Visual Culture in Metropolitan Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Siegfried Mattl
Organizer: Marie-Noelle Yazdanpanah Discussants: -
Viviana Costabile : Language by Gesture: Photography as Enactment of Identity
Sabrina Rahman : The Wiener Werkstätte: Design and Consumption in Early Mass Culture
Marie-Noelle Yazdanpanah : Moving Desires: Homemovies in Interwar Vienna



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
Z-12 MID07 Medieval Cities in the Iberian Peninsula
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Frederik Buylaert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
María Asenjo-González : Social Ties and Political Representation in the City: the Presence of the Commoners in the City Council in Castile at the End of the Middle Ages
María Ángeles Martín Romera : From Representing Political Factions to Representing Different Social Groups: Changes in the Castilian Urban System at the End of the Middle Ages
Jesus Angel Solorzano-Telechea : The Development of the Commons’ Political Identity in the Late Medieval Towns of Northern Atlantic Spain
Irina Variash : Dialogue of Muslim and Christian Communities with the Crown (Kingdom of Aragon, XIVth century)


ZA-12 URB05 Composing the Urban Community
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Salvatore Bottari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Preston Perluss : Neighborhood Society in Paris: the rue Dauphine
Sarah-Maria Schober : Individuals, Group or Non-group? The Physicians of Basel about 1580 and the Complexity of their Embedment in the Urban Society
Elisabeth Thoss : Journeymen´s Migration from/to Cracow and Wroclaw from the 16th to the 19th Century



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
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)


ZA-13 URB07 The City Portrayed: 19th and 20th Centuries
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Lavinia Pinzarrone
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jakub Machek : Early Popular Press and its Common Reader in Fin de siècle Prague.
Carole O'Reilly : Planning Utopia: Urban Journalism, Town Planning and the Idea of the City
João Queirós : City, State, Stigma: Tracing the Origins and Consequences of a Territory’s Damaged Public Image in Porto, Portugal



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-14 MAT17 Jewish Space and Material Culture in Central Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Lisa Silverman Discussants: -
Dieter Hecht : The Mapping Wall: Framed Jewish Family Pictures
Louise Hecht : Appropriation of Jewish Space on the Wiener Ringstrasse: a Poet’s Apartment in Palais Schey
Elana Shapira : Bringing Culture to the Viennese? Jewish Patrons and Entrepreneurs Fashioning the Viennese Ring and the Entertainment Park Prater
Lisa Silverman : Vienna’s Jewish Geography: Imagining the Leopoldstadt


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



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
D-15 SPA04 Cities and Identities: New Methodological Approaches
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Luis Silveira
Organizer: Luis Silveira Discussant: Richard Sadler
Daniel Alves, Ana Alcântara : Urban Growth, Retail Trade and Industry: Changes in Lisbon’s Social Space in the Late Nineteenth Century
Branimir Brgles : Using GIS to Visualize and Interpret Early Modern Zagreb’s Urban and Environmental History
Don DeBats : Constrasting Identities: The Tale of Two Nineteenth Century American Cities
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Isabel del Bosque González, Sara García Ferrero, Lourdes Martín-Forero, Rocío Gutierrez : Cartography and Historical Demography: the Historical SDI of the City of Madrid around 1900 (HISDI-MAD)


ZA-15 URB08 Gender, Sexuality and the City
Hörsaal 24 basement
Networks: Sexuality , Urban Chair: Anita Kurimay
Organizers: - Discussant: Anita Kurimay
Deborah S. Bernstein, Delila Amir & Hila Shamir & Nomi Levenkron : Prostitution in Tel-Aviv and Jaffa from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Daniel F. Brandl-Beck : Berlin from Behind: a History of “Gay” Travel to Inter-war Berlin
Leslie Choquette : The Origins of Lesbian and Gay Commercial Culture in the French Third Republic
Simon Jenkins : Segregated Spaces, Isolated Types: Social Geographies and Spatial Narratives of Prostitution in Cardiff, c.1885-c.1950
Charlotte Wildman : Women of the Underworld: Gender, Crime and Urban Spectacle 1918-1939



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
M-16 LAB29 Culture, Community, and the Working Class
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Culture , Labour , Urban Chair: Görkem Akgöz
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Paulo Terra
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Simple People, High Principles: Indian Coffee Workers' Co-operative Society, 1958-2010
Paulo Fontes : The “Red Pugilism”: Communists, Boxing and Working Class Culture in São Paulo, Brazil
Monica Graciela Gatica : The Experience of the Chilean Workers in Chubut's NE.
Janine Lanza : Laughing the Master Down: Emotions and Eighteenth Century Guilds


T-16 FAM15 Kinship and Computer
Hörsaal 46 second floor
Networks: Family and Demography , Urban Chair: Glenn Sandström
Organizer: Cyril Grange Discussant: Lucia Pozzi
Jean-Pierre Bardet, Jacques Renard & Cyril Grange : Kinship Networks and Village Borders in Normandy (18th Century)
Michael Gasperoni : Kinship Networks and Jewish Mobility in Early Modern Italy
Cyril Grange : Kinship Networks: the Example of the Jewish Banking Families in Paris (XIX-XXth Centuries)
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, Pascal Christofoli : "Sex, Politics and Social Change in the 18th and the 19th Centuries. Evidence from the Swiss Alps"


W-16 MAT15 Visualizing Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Leif Runefelt
Organizers: Leif Runefelt, Karin Sennefelt Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Eva Deak : Clothing Colors in Early Modern Transylvania (17th-18th Century)
Lucas Haasis : O Captain! My Captain! Hierarchies in 18th Century Correspondences between Merchants and Ship`s Captains
Astrid Pajur : Order and Disorder in an Urban Setting: Perceptions and Practices of Social Order in Early Modern Tallinn
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Filtering Impressions: Meeting with Fashionable Goods in Danish Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Karin Sennefelt : Looking at Social Hierarchy: Stockholm 1650–1750


ZA-16 URB09 Managing the City
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Urban Chair: Elisabeth Thoss
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Salvatore Bottari : The Sicilian Port Towns in the Eighteenth Century: Trade, Social Actors, Infrastructure Improvements and Urban Development
Lars Nilsson : Local Reactions to Municipal Reforms, Sweden 1862-1971
Lavinia Pinzarrone : City Rules and New Urban Communitiesin Early Modern Sicily (16th-17th Centuries)
Joel Rast : Privatism and Housing Reform in Early Twentieth Century Chicago


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