Preliminary Programme

Showing: room ZC (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
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 16.30 - 18.30
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



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZC-6 HEA07 Health, Ethnicity and Gender in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer
Organizer: Friederike Kind-Kovács Discussant: Sarah Marks
Friederike Kind-Kovács : International and National Jewish Child Relief in Interwar Hungary
Maren Roeger : Regulation of Prostitution: Poland 1914-1945
Katrin Steffen : Health, Poverty and Eugenics in Interwar Poland
Eszter Varsa : Health, Hygiene and Romani Assimilation in Hungary from an Intersectional Perspective, 1950s-1980s
Esther Wahlen : Alcohol Policy and the Treatment of Alcoholics in Late Socialist Romania and Czechoslovakia



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZC-10 TEC01 Patents and Technological Changes
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Economic History , Technology Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maurizio Lupo : Technological Innovation in a Peripheral Area: Research about Patents in the Italian Mezzogiorno during the First half of XIXth Century
Peter Meyer : Aeronautical technology flows at the start of World War I
Alessandro Nuvolari, Michelangelo Vasta : Independent Inventjon in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861-1913
Jochen Streb, Francesco Cinnirella : The Role of Human Capital in Prussia’s Economic Development: a Substitute for or a Complement to Technology?



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
ZC-11 ORA16 Life Story Approaches to Social Transformations
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Oral History Chair: Timothy Ashplant
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Knud Andresen : Trade Unionists and the Post-boom Economic Crisis – Stories of Decline and Innovation
Anna Kuismin : Ruptures of the Oral and the Written: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Vernacular Poetry in Finland
Claudia Graciela Perez : Experiences of Working Women. Chubut, Ends of the S XX
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander : Oral Histories Embedded in Written Sources - Finnish University Students and Working-class Youth as Writers and Narrators of their Own History



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
ZC-12 ORA17 Environment: Ruptures and Transformations
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : The Break-up of the United Kingdom, 1974-2014: Changing Perspectives on the Role of North Sea Oil and Gas in Post-imperial Crisis and Rupture, Informed by the Lives in the Oil Industry Oral-history Archive
Anna Green : '"Toxic Tide" or "Golden Oil"? Oral History and Representations of the Torrey Canyon Disaster, 1967'



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
ZC-13 ORA18 Rebuilding Societies: Germany, Canada and Austria after 1945
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Oral History Chair: Brigitte Halbmayr
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Linde Apel : High School as a Politicizing Agent
Johannes Hofinger : Retelling the End of WW II and the Allied Occupation in Austria
Janine Schemmer : Narrations by Former Hamburg Dockworkers. (Re)Presentations of the Transformation of Labor
Alexander Von Plato : Canada's Role in Ending the Cold War and Unifying Germany



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZC-14 ORA19 Methodological Issues: Comparisons of Nation, Generation, Sources & Reuse
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Oral History Chair: Anne Heimo
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Joanna Bornat, Daniela Koleva : Working across boundaries with Oral history
Mónica Patricia Cadenas Erazo : Comparative Study of the Construction of Two Types of Historical Memories: Peru from the End of the XIX Century until Current Times
Amaya Caunedo Dominguez : “Do you Know a Fear which Gets into your Body and Never Ever Leaves you?”. Comparing Children's Memories of War and Repression. Oral Testimonies and Memories of Children during Spanish Civil War and II World War
Abigail Knight, Julia Brannen and Rebecca O'Connell : Disruption, Childhood Memories and Food Practices: Re-using Oral History Narratives to Study Food and Families in Hard Times, England 1914-18



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
ZC-15 ORA05 Women's Memories of Political Conflict & Crisis
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Oral History , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Beorlegui : “I would love to have female friends, I want to… talk about my life!”; Emotion and discourse in the construction of feminist lesbian subjectivity in the Basque Country 1.
Sue Bruley : Second Wave Feminism and the Crisis of Revolutionary Socialism in Britain c1968-1982
Dieter Reinisch : Interviewing Female Irish Republican Militants: Cumann na mBan during the Northern Irish Troubles


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