Preliminary Programme

Showing: Culture (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
K-1 CUL01 Another Greece: Unexplored Aspects of 19th and 20th-century German Philhellenism
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Jan Vermeiren
Organizer: Helen Roche Discussant: Richard Wetzell
Lara Day : The Disparate Nature of the Philhellenist Ideal in the Work of Artistic Polemicists Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Karl Scheffler and Paul Schultze-Naumburg
Norman Domeier : The Invention of the Hypervirile Homosexual: Military, Homosexual and Philhellenist Discourses c. 1900
Sebastian Matzner : The Renaissance of Eros Uranios: Benedict Friedländer, the ‘Gemeinschaft der Eigenen’, and Counter-cultural Philhellenism in Fin-de-Siècle Germany
Helen Roche : ‘Anti-Enlightenment’: National Socialist Educators’ Troubled Relationship with Humanism and the Philhellenist Tradition



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
K-3 CUL03 Book-keeping and Book-keepers: a New Approach to Court Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Ages
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Florence Berland
Organizers: - Discussant: Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier
Eric Hassler : Using and diffusing accountancy: The Vienna court bookkeeping as seen through the court almanacs (1702-1770)
Christelle Loubet : The Court of Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1302-1329), through its Bookkeeping Practices
John McEwan : Accounting for Goods: Administering the Purchase of Luxury Items at the English Court, c.1220-1300
Jonathan Spangler : 'Constructing a Multi-focal Courtly Space: Women of the House of Orléans as Satellites of the Sun King'



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
K-4 CUL06 Bridges of Culture. The Balkans at the Crossroads of Civilizations
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -


ZA-4 REL03 Roundtable: Comparison of Death Cultures
Hörsaal 24 basement
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: Maarten Duijvendak Discussants: -
Maarten Duijvendak : Fama Post Mortum - Funerals as Society Events in a Border Region
Alexander Holthuis : Spanish Flu and Funerary Culture in the Northern-Netherlands 1918-1919
Sonja König : Die Gruft Dornum - eine Häuptlingsgruft in Ostfriesland
Bart Ramakers : Tombstone Poetry in a Context



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
I-5 LAB03 Anarchists in Space: Spatial Concepts in Anarchist Studies
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Culture , Labour , Theory Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Saul Newman Discussants: -
Antonis Drakonakis : Space and Society of Greek Anarchism: a Socio-spatial Anatomy of the Greek Anarchist Movement in the 21th Century
Tom Goyens : The Choreography of Anarchism: Historians and the Mapping of a Movement
Saul Newman : Situating Anarchism: Spaces of Desire and Politics in Nineteenth Century Radical Thought


K-5 CUL04a Borders between Geopolitics and Everyday Experience I
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Unnur Dis Skaptadottir
Organizer: Magdalena Elchinova Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova
Ada Hajdu : Shared Heritage – National Architecture. Instrumentalization of the Byzantine Architecture as Specifically Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian
Tomas Kacerauskas : Borders between Cultures in Post-industrial Europe and Creative Industries
Eva Posch : Touristic Historiography and Nation Building in Central East Europe and the Balkans



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
K-6 CUL04b Borders between Geopolitics and Everyday Experience II
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Tomas Kacerauskas
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Vedran Duancic : Interwar Yugoslavia Between the East and West: ‘The Most Perilous’ or a ‘Beneficial’ Position? Anthropogeography and the Inbetweenness of Physical and Cultural Landscapes
Magdalena Elchinova : The Southern Bulgarian Border in the Context of Euro-regions and Local Practices
Unnur Dis Skaptadottir : The Closing of Gates: The Effects Higher European Fences on Filipino Migrants in Iceland



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
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


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



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
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



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
D-10 AFR04 Cultural Identity Constructions in a global comparative perspective
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Culture Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ndiouga Benga : Citizenship and Religious Identity in Postcolonial Senegal
Jonathyne Briggs : Salut les copains?: Decolonization and Youth Identity in 1960s France
Birgit Englert : Creating Comoria – popular music in translocal spaces
Luiz Moretto : Cimboa and Violin: Subjectivities in the Cape Verdean Diaspora


K-10 CUL10 Interpreting the Past: Photography and Nationalsocialism
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Andrea Strutz
Organizer: Ina Markova Discussant: Lucia Halder
Johannes Breit : Photography and Mentality: Forced Labor
Ina Markova : Austrovision of the Past. Iconic Pictures, Visual Tropes, and the Pictorial Discourse of Austria’s National-Socialist Past
Petra Mayrhofer : Which Perspectives on the Past? Visual remembrance cultures about National Socialism in Europe



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
K-11 CUL11 Iron Curtain Crossings: Cold War Cultural Encounters between East and West
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Organizers: - Discussant: Ulf Brunnbauer
Theodora Dragostinova : Communist Bulgaria's Cultural Extravaganza in the United States: From Ideological Rigidity to Cultural Cosmopolitanism in the 1970s and 1980s
Malgorzata Fidelis : Irresistible Empire in Poland: Exploring American Cultural Influences in the Eastern Bloc, 1950s-1960s
Danielle Fosler-Lussier : Music and Media in U.S.-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
E-12 CUL14 Constructions of National Heritage and National Identity
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Culture Chair: Arnold Witte
Organizers: - Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova
Priyanka Basu : At the Cross-roads of Culture and History: The Problematics of 'Folk' in Bangladesh and West Bengal (India)
Pablo Giori : Nationalism and Cultural Conflict: Castells, Sardanas and Bullfight in Spain during Francoism
Stephanie Goncalves : "Dance as a Weapon": Ballet and Propaganda in the Cold War, 1947-1968
Sarah Katharina Kayß : The Relevance and Understanding of the National Past in Relation to the Motivation to Enlist – A Comparison of British and German Officer Cadets
Kobi Peled : The Reconstruction of Islamic Sacred Places and the Construction of Cultural Identities: Architecture, History and Politics in a Mosque in Israel


K-12 CUL12 Representing Mixed Couples: Stereotypes, Symbols and Real Life Identities
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Unnur Dis Skaptadottir
Organizer: Marga Altena Discussants: -
Betty de Hart, Marga Altena : Challenging Transnational Family Law: Mixed Couples in Legal and Cultural Debates about International Child Abduction in the Netherlands
Alexandra Rijke : 'Stepping Out of Line': the Experiences of Mixed Couples in the Netherlands
Margaretha van Es : Mixed Relationships and the Al Nisa Organisation for Dutch Muslim Women



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
E-13 CUL08 Corporate Art Collections and their Social Histories
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Culture Chair: Priyanka Basu
Organizer: Arnold Witte Discussant: Peter Birke
Roosmarij Deenik : What Art can do: Dutch Entrepreneurs and the Founding of Stichting Kunst en Bedrijf
Gaia Salvatori : Contemporary Art in Italian Universities: a History of Art and Society
Celine Van Kleef : The Social and Historical Origins of Renault’s Department of Recherches, art et industrie


K-13 CUL13 Understanding Difference: Diplomacy as Cultural Encounter (1814-1914)
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Henk de Smaele
Organizer: Houssine Alloul Discussant: Frederick Dickinson
Houssine Alloul : Between Orientalism and Turcophilia: Belgian Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire (1838-1914)
Athan Biss : The Voice of the Race: the Fisk Jubilee Singers and African American Musical Diplomacy
Robert Kane : The Color Line and Future Conflict: The U.S.-Japan Immigration “Crisis” of 1913


ZB-13 POL22 Cultural Communism between National traditions and International Impacts, 1918-1989
Hörsaal 26 basement
Networks: Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Tauno Saarela Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Gavin Bowd : Communist Cultures in the Cold War: the Franco-Romanian Friendship 1948-1968
Adrià Llacuna Hernando : Political Activism in the Years of the Popular Front: British Communists and Militant Cinema, 1935-1939
Ole Martin Rønning : The struggle against Trotskism in Norway 1935-37
Tauno Saarela : The Attitude of the Finnish Communist Youth towards Popular Music, 1944–1979.
Mari-Leen Tammela : Linkages between Esperantist Circles and Communist Movement in Estonia in 1920s and 1930s



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
E-14 CUL18 Producing and Exchanging Knowledge
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Culture Chair: Martin Luger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sandra Pfistermüller : Origins of Early Modern National Stereotypes' Testimonials of Knowledge
Anca Elisabeta Tatay : Incursion into the Engravings of Old Romanian Writings in Bucharest (1582-1830)
Rineke van Daalen : The Shadow of the Past in Interactions in the Present


K-14 CUL15 Material Culture and Memory Practices
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chair: Huub Sanders
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tuula Okkonen : Screening and Purging Statues – The US Monument Policy in Post-war Japan
Lukasz Posluszny : Material Culture and Memory Practices: Clothes of Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps
Marusa Pusnik : Fashion and Socialist Legacy: Media as Cultural Entrepeneurs of Fashion Tastes in Socialism



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
K-15 CUL16 Narratives and Practices of Memorization
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Claudia Jerzak : Sacred Space and Institutionalization of Multiperspective Narrating – A Comparison of Commemorative Practices in Hamburg and Dresden
Sopio Kadagishvili, Mariam Chkhartishvili : Saints and Collective Memory: Georgian Case
Morakot Jewachinda Meyer : The ‘Thawiphop’ Phenomenon: Reimagining Nationalism in a Contemporary Thai Novel and Its Stage and Screen Adaptations



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
K-16 CUL17 Performances of Race and Ethnicity
Hörsaal 30 first floor
Network: Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sergius Kodera : Mr. Ed, the Emancipator (1963) The Domestic Sitcom and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Michael Mcmillan : 'Saga Bwoys and Rude Bwoys': Migration, Grooming and Dandyism
Enrico Orsingher : The Comic Turk and the Tragic Turk. The Presence of the Turks in Mozart and Da Ponte's Così fan tutte, between Cultural Fashions and Returns of the Repressed


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


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