Preliminary Programme

Showing: room Z (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
Z-1 HEA15 The Modern Therapeutic Bath under Social, Medical and Economic Aspects
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Alfred Weiss
Organizer: Alfred Weiss Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Elke Hammer-Luza : The Spa as a Commercial Enterprise. The Beginnings of Commercialization by using the Example of Styria in the First Half of the 19th Century
Elisabeth Lobenwein : « Suivrai vos conseils et attendrai en philosophie d’apprendre mon sort et probablement de toute l’Europe à la Gastein (26.05.1798) ». Prince Archbishop Colloredo’s Visits to the Spa Town Gastein.
Andrea Puehringer : From “Montecarlization” to “Medicalization” – the Case of Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe
Christina Vanja : Women as Visitors of Spas (18th and 19th Centuries)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Z-2 HEA16 Occupational Health between the 18th and 20th Century
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussant: Iris Borowy
Daniel Blackie : Disability, Work, and Class in British Coalmining Communities, 1780–1880
Mike Mantin : Coalmining and the National Scheme for Disabled ex-Servicemen after World War I
Alfredo Menendez-Navarro : Asbestos, Cancer and Workers’ Mobilizations during the Transition to Democracy in Spain
Judith Rainhorn : Reassessing the History of Occupational Health and Safety through the Template of the Prohibition of hite Lead. A Transnational Perspective



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
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
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
Z-6 MID03 Morality, Law and Sexual Behaviour in the (late) Medieval City
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Sexuality Chair: Tineke Van de Walle
Organizer: Tineke Van de Walle Discussant: Peter Stabel
Anke De Meyer : The Perception of Women as Active or Passive Contributors in Conjuring up an Honourable Society in Late Medieval Letters of Remission
Jelle Haemers : Sex and Politics in the City: about Insults in Late Medieval Flanders
Jonas Roelens : Sodomy and Citizenship. The Repression of Same-sex Acts within Different Social Groups in Late Medieval Southern Netherlandish Society
Claire Weeda : Sex as Preventative Medicine in Late Medieval Cities



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
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



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Z-10 MID05 Analysing Networks of Communication: China and Europe in Comparative Perspective (800-1600)
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Asia , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: - Discussant: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Francisco Javier Apellániz : Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in the Islamic Cities of Commerce (1350-1500)
Hilde De Weerdt : Analyzing Political Affiliations in Notebooks and Correspondence: Factionalist Politics Revisited
Franz-Julius Morche, Sergio Currarini : An Economic Model of Political Communication: Informational Networks in Venetian Long-Distance Trade, 1350-1500
Maria Riep : tba



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
Z-11 MID06 Italian Businessmen in Medieval Central and Eastern Europe
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Stephan Sander-Faes
Organizers: - Discussant: Stephan Sander-Faes
Francesco Bettarini : Foreign Moneylenders in Renaissance Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
Katalin Prajda : Florentine Metal and Textile Trade in Buda and Venice. A Commercial Triangle in 15th-Century Europe
Martin Štefánik : Italians’ Participation in Metal Mining and Trade in the Territory of Central Slovakia in the 13th and 14thCenturies
Roman Zaoral : Church and Money. Papal Collections Management in Central Europe, 1250-1350



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)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Z-14 POL29 Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Organizer: Richard Wetzell Discussant: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Regina Mühlhäuser : Antisemitism, Gender, Violence: the Nazi Handling of “Race Defilement” in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1941–1945
Devin Pendas : Racial States in Comparative Perspective
Mark Roseman : Jews, Race and Volk in Nazi Germany
Richard Wetzell : Biopolitics, Science, and Nazism: was there a Genesis of the “Final Solution” from the “Spirit of Science”?



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
Z-15 POL30 Victims of Nazism between War and Cold War
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Margit Reiter
Organizer: Robert Knight Discussant: Maria Fritsche
Robert Knight : The Carinthian Slovenes in the Cold War: Provincial, Federal and International Interactions
Rafael Kropiunigg : Life after the Concentration Camp? A Comparative Approach
Peter Pirker : From International Solidarity to Patriotic Anticommunism: Persecution, Exile and Remigration of Austrian Socialists



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
Z-16 REL07 Transnationalism in Mission History
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: Seija Jalagin
Organizers: Iris Busschers, Seija Jalagin Discussant: Seija Jalagin
Iris Busschers : Missionary Barend Schuurman and the (Trans)national in the Context of Dutch Calvinist Mission in East Java
Margo S. Gewurtz : Knowledge Transfer from China and London via Canada: Kala-azar in North Henan
Malin Gregersen : In the Palace of Fifth Lady Tso. Changsha YWCA and Scandinavian Missionary Networks in China during the Interwar Period
Maryse Kruithof : Interreligious Contacts and Religious Adaptation on Java, 1850-1920
Maria Småberg : On Mission in the Cosmopolitan Land. Alma Johansson and the Role of Transnational Humanitarian Networks in the Armenian Refugee Crisis, 1915-1940


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