Preliminary Programme

Showing: room ZA (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
ZA-1 THE03 The Practical Past
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Theory Chair: Berber Bevernage
Organizers: - Discussant: Herman Paul
Broos Delanote : The Practical Past and the Ethics of History
Anton Froeyman : When the Past Becomes Practical: Consensus and/or Recognition in Historical Debate
Kalle Pihlainen : History as Recreation: Relating Professional and Popular Pasts
Kenan Van De Mieroop : The Emplotment of the “Memory Boom”: How the Historical Past has Subsumed the Practical Past



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZA-2 POL32 (Old) Antisemitism in the 21st Century? France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Austria
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussant: Margit Reiter
Bernadette Edtmaier : Antisemitism in Austrian Turkish communities
Helga Embacher : Antisemitism and “Homemade Terrorism”. Debates about Antisemitism and Radical Islam in the UK
Alexandra Preitschopf : Voix des Banlieues (Voices of the Suburbs). Political Criticism, Self-victimisation and Muslim Anti-semitism expressed in French Rap Lyrics
Annemarike Stremmelaar : What is Islamic about “Muslim Antisemitism”? Turkish-Dutch Antisemitism since the 1980s



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
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
ZA-5 REL05 Early Modern Forms of Devotion
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Religion Chair: Igor Sosa Mayor
Organizer: Silvia Evangelisti Discussant: Igor Sosa Mayor
Paula Bessa : Women and Consumption/gift giving of Devotional Objects in Early Modern Eastern Algarve
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá : Written Culture and Devotion: Portuguese Queens in the 15th and 16th century
Silvia Evangelisti : Learning from Home: Education and Domestic Spaces in Early Modern Italy
João Peixe : De Ensalmis: a Contribution to Investigate, Define and Judge some Superstitious Rituals in Early Seventeen Century



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZA-6 REL02 Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-century Europe
Hörsaal 24 basement
Network: Religion Chair: Paul Lawrence
Organizer: John C. Wood Discussant: Paul Lawrence
Thomas Schulte-Umberg : “Creating an Other Europe”: the “Review of Politics” and its Contributors in Postwar and War
Yvonne Maria Werner : The Catholic Danger”: Anti-catholicism and the Formation of Scandinavian National Identity
John Wolffe : The Secularization and Re-sacralization of Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland 1914-1923’
John C. Wood : The Rock of Human Sanity stands in the Sea where it always stood”: Britishness, Christianity and the Experience of Defeat, 1939-1941



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
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
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
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
ZA-14 WOM01 Travel Reports: Transnational Journeys for Abortion Services
Hörsaal 24 basement
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva
Organizer: Christabelle Sethna Discussant: Massimo Perinelli
Hayley Brown : The Trans-Tasman Abortion Travel Service: Abortion Services for New Zealand Women
Gayle Davis : Shopping, Lotteries and Tourism: an Intra-Regional History of Abortion in Britain
Sheelagh McGuinness : A Long Way From Tipperary: the Impact of Travel for Abortion Services on Irish Women
Christabelle Sethna : A Stitch in Time: From the Abortion Caravan to the Radical Handmaids in Canada



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
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
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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