Preliminary Programme

Showing: Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30 (single time slot)
Wed 30 March
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Thu 31 March
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Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
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Sat 2 April
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All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
A-4 ECO14 WEast: Political and Monetary Crises and their Impact on Historical Economic Development of Eastern Europe
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Tamás Vonyó
Organizer: Mikolaj Malinowski Discussants: -
Piotr Korys, Maciej Tyminski & Cecylia Leszczy?ska : Economic Development in Partitioned Country. Mapping GDP of Polish Lands in Late 19th Century (1870-1910)
Mikolaj Malinowski : Freedom and Decline: Polish State Formation and Rye Market Disintegration, 1500-1772
Matthias Morys : The Gold Standard in South-East Europe between European Aspirations and Economic Reality, 1870-1939
Stefan Nikolic : 1931 Spells Financial Crisis: Was the Central European Financial; Crisis Contagious for South East Europe?


B-4 CRI18 Crime, Law, Race and Responsibility in British Imperial Spaces
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Criminal Justice Chair: Diana Paton
Organizer: Diana Paton Discussant: Diana Paton
Catherine Evans : Cannibals and Culpability: Assessing Criminal Responsibility in Colonial Canadian Murder Trials
Stacey Hynd : 'Madness' v. 'Badness': Criminal Insanity and Cultural Defence Narratives in British Colonial African Murder Trials, c. 1920-50s
Jonathan Saha : Murder in London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire in the Inter-war Years
Pieter Spierenburg : Did Violence Contribute to the Making of Race? A Hypothesis
Erica Wald : ‘Unremitting Drunkenness’: Race, Class and Alcohol Regulations in Nineteenth Century India


C-4 ELI18 Elites in Local Economies
Seminario C, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Louise Berglund
Organizers: - Discussant: Federica Duca
Mari Angeles Ballesta Muñoz, Juan Hernández Franco : Patronage and Kinship in the Village of Almazarrón. The Governors of the Properties of Velez and Villena as an Example of Change in the Society of the 16th Century
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss : The Professions in Victorian Britain
Elena Korchmina : The Practice of Personal Finance and the Problem of Debt among the Noble Elite in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Sergey Valentinovich Lyubichankovskiy : The Economic Position of Local Bureaucratic Elite in the Russian Empire’s Late Imperial Period


D-4 ETH06a Exile, Deportation and Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Centuries: Perspectives from the Colonies I
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussants: -
Anabela Francisca do Nascimento Cunha : Stereotypes about Exiles in Angola, 1892-1932
Lorraine Paterson : Ethnoscapes of Exile: Political Deportees from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
Katherine Roscoe : "Convict Mechanics", "Double-Dyed Malefactors" and "Aboriginal Offenders". Island Networks of Penal Expulsion in Colonial Australia
Minako Sakata : Unwilling Mobility: Labour Mobilization and Forced Relocation in the Japanese Empire, 1875-1945


E-4 WOM04 Gender, Deindustrialisation and Precarious Labour (20th-21st Centuries)
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Arthur McIvor
Organizers: Eloisa Betti, Chiara Bonfiglioli Discussants: -
Eloisa Betti : Gender, Deindustrialization and Precarious Work in Italy since 1945
Chiara Bonfiglioli : Gender and Deindustrialisation in Post-socialist Europe: the Case of Croatia
Jackie Clarke, Fanny Gallot : Gendering the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France


F-4 CRI04 Crime and Gender, 1600-1900: a European Perspective
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Manon van der Heijden
Organizer: Marion Pluskota Discussant: Pamela Cox
Jeannette Kamp : Female Crime and Household Control in Early Modern Frankfurt
Sanne Muurling : Violence and Gender in the Mid-18th Century: a Comparison between Bologna and Rotterdam
Marion Pluskota : National Legal Systems, Regional Fears and Local Criminals: Explaining Gender Differences in Criminality in 19th Century Europe
Ariadne Schmidt, Jaco Zuijderduijn : Comparative Perspectives on Crime: London and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period
Clare Wilkinson : Dutch Newspaper Reporting of Sex Crimes, 1918-1939
Jaco Zuijderduijn, Ariadne Schmidt : Comparative Perspectives on Crime and Gender: London and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period


G-4 ELI05 Elites in Central Europe during World War 1 and its Aftermath
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Pavel Kladiwa
Organizer: Judit Pál Discussant: Pavel Kladiwa
Thomas Bryant : “No more War!” – Ideal und Illusion of a Pacifist Slogan in the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Roman Holec : Slovak Economic Elites in Austria-Hungary, Russia and USA and their Different Strategies in WWI and Short after 1918
Andrea Pokludova : Did the Great War Change the Living Conditions, Career, Social Status and Development of the high-ranking Civil Servants? The Example of the North Moravia and Silesia Cities
Vlad Popovici : Civil Servants from North-Eastern Transylvania during World War I and its Aftermath


H-4 RUR14 Connecting Spaces: Transport, Technical Change, and Social Impacts, 1850-1920
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: History of Science & Technology , Rural Chair: Eduardo Beira
Organizer: Ellan Spero Discussant: Ellan Spero
Marta Felis Rota : A GIS Analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Densities in England and Wales, 1851-2000
Nancy Koppelman : Hierarchies of Energy on the Streets of New York: Movement by Machine as Social Capital, 1868-1903
Peter Meyer, Intan Hamdan-Livramento & Julio Raffo : Aeronautical Patents and Aviation History from 1880-1916
Bruno Navarro, Hugo Silveira Pereira : Building Railways in the Portugese Colonies of Africa and India: the Mormugao and Ambaca Railways
Robert Schwartz : Railways, Environmental Change, and Public Health in Great Britain, 1850 to 1914


I-4 CUL05 Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Networks: Culture , History of Science & Technology Chair: Michael John
Organizer: Sandra Pfistermüller Discussants: -
Ana Duarte Rodrigues : The Legacy of Hispano-Moorish Water Technology in Portugal during the Early Modern Period
Harald Kleinberger : Transformation of Depicted Knowledge. Technical Literature and Drawings of Machines in Practice in the 18th Century
Peter Paul Marckhgott : Early Modern Mining Technology: a Transatlantic Space of Knowledge
Sandra Pfistermüller : Producing Geographical Knowledge in Time of Metamorphosis: an Analysis of Zedler's Universal-Lexicon using the Methodology and Questions of the History of Knowledge


J-4 ECO07 From Natural Resources to Human Capital: the Historical Development of Institutions for Knowledge and Skill Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizers: Ewout Frankema, Dacil Juif, Marlous van Waijenburg Discussant: Gareth Austin
Joerg Baten, Gabriele Cappelli : Colonial Influence or African Agency? Numeracy Across West African Regions, c. 1770 – 1900
Ewout Frankema, Marlous van Waijenburg : Here has all the Education Gone. The ‘Free-fall’ of Skill Premiums in Africa and Southern Asia in the Long 20th Century
Dacil Juif : Resource Curse or Blessing? The Impact of Mining Activities on Human Capital Formation in Zambia and Congo
Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen, Shane Doyle & Jacob Weisdorf : The Returns to Religious Conversion: Lessons from Ugandan Hospital Registry, 1908-1970


K-4 MID04 Policies of Disciplined Dissent in the 12th to Early 16th Centuries
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Jelle Haemers
Organizer: Fabrizio Titone Discussant: Jelle Haemers
María Asenjo-González : Political Dissent through Complaints and Petitions to the Royal Power in the Towns and Cities of Castile-León (13th-15th Centuries)
Peter Coss : Forms of Disciplined Dissent in 13th and 14th Century England
Jeffrey Fynn-Paul : Disciplined Dissent: Party Politics and Political Language in Manresa on the Eve of the Catalan Civil War
Fabrizio Titone : How Marriages were Reformed by Plaintiffs in the Court of the Bishop in the Diocese of Catania (End of XIV Century-mid of XVI Century)


L-4 EDU04 Schooling and Childhood - Contested Territories. New Perspective
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Antonella Cagnolati
Organizer: Mona Gleason Discussants: -
Ramona Caramelea : An Instrument of Education: School Buildings in the Second Half of the 19th Century Romania
Ning de Coninck-Smith : The School at The Elbow – a Micro History of School Design and Children’s Geographies
Mona Gleason : Families Without Schools: Rurality, Remoteness, and the Promise of Schooling in Western Canada, 1930 to 1960
Tamara Myers : ‘Les policier-éducateurs,’ or Cops by any Other Name, in Schools: the History of a Quiet Invasion


M-4 HEA04 Environment, Health and the Soldier's Lot
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Mary Dobson
Organizer: Margaret Humphreys Discussant: Maureen Malowany
Anne Hardy : 'A Good Friend to the Private Soldier': Meningitis Research in Britain, 1915-19
Annika Hartmann : Doctors with Guns? - Civil War, Health and Medical Practice in Guatemala, 1960-1996
Margaret Humphreys : Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War
Sebastian Pranghofer : Rural and Urban Health Environments during Wartime in Eighteenth-century Germany


N-4 SEX04 LGBTQ Heritage and History across Twentieth Century Europe
Aula 11, Nivel 1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Matt Cook
Organizer: Alison Oram Discussant: Matt Cook
Claire Hayward : LGBTQ Monuments and Memorials as Les Lieux de Mémoire
Johann Karl Kirchknopf : Female and male homosexuality in the files of criminal court procedures from 20th century Austria – Challenges and opportunities of a LGBTQ history project
Alison Oram : Ticking the Boxes or Walking the Talk?: the Impact of Equality Policies on the Management and Curatorship of LGBTQ Heritage in England and Wales
Frédéric Stroh, Regis Schlagdenhauffen : Compensation and Recognition of “Homosexuals” as Victims of Nazism in France (1945 until Today)


O-4 POL24 Establishing the Nazi Dictatorship: New Approaches to the Formative Period of the Third Reich
Aula 12, Nivel 1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Constantin Iordachi
Organizer: Richard Wetzell Discussant: Constantin Iordachi
Robert Beachy : Instrumental Homophobia? The Nazi Crackdown on “Sexual Perversion”
Norman Domeier : The Rise of National Socialism and the International Press
Richard Wetzell : Science, Ideology, and Nazi Racial Policy: Conflicts over Racial Theory during the Formative Period of the Third Reich, 1933-1935
Will Wilson : “Measured by the Size of the Keg of Free Beer”: Working-Class Dissent and the Politics of Public Celebration in Nazi Germany


P-4 CUL09 Travel as a Commodity in Twenthieth-century Cultural Industries
Aula 13, Nivel 1
Network: Culture Chair: Ingo Zechner
Organizer: Nico de Klerk Discussant: Nico de Klerk
Paulo Cunha : Cinegraphic Missions and Image Hunters
Kristin Kopp : The Geopolitics of Travel: the Colonial Representations of Colin Ross
Sofia Sampaio : Miguel Spiguel: Filmmaker, Propaganda-maker and Tourist
Joachim Schaetz : Branding Colin Ross


Q-4 FAM03b Siblings and Life Transitions II
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Tim Riswick Discussant: Ineke Maas
Lisa Dillon, Alain Gagnon & Marianne Caron : Shared Fertility Histories: Biosocial Influences of Siblings on Intergenesic Birth Intervals, 18th-century Québec
Stephanie Klages, Christine Fertig : The Impact of Sibling Composition on Family Strategies in 19th Century Westphalia
Diogo Paiva, Paulo Teodoro de Matos : To Stay or to Migrate: Siblings and Life Transitions in 19th Century Ribeira Seca, Azores
Joana-Maria Pujades-Mora : Siblings and Intergenerational Transmission of Social Status and Occupations in the Preindustrial Area of Barcelona, 16th – 17th Centuries
Alice Velková : Selection of Heir to Rural Property and its Influence on Marige Conditions of his Siblings, Štáhlavy 1650-1850


R-4 REL10 Antisemitism in Muslim Communities and Islamophobia in the Context of Conflicts in the Middle East (2000-2014): France, Great Britain and Austria
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Religion Chair: Sabine Veits-Falk
Organizer: Helga Embacher Discussant: Albert Lichtblau
Bernadette Edtmaier : Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations in 2010 and 2014 in Austria. “Grey Zones” between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Helga Embacher : Debates about “Muslim Antisemitism” in Great Britain from the Second Intifada to the Gaza-War in 2014
Alexandra Preitschopf : « Nous sommes tous des Palestiniens » / « We are all Palestinians ». Solidarity with Palestine, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism among Muslims in Contemporary France
Bernhard Trautwein : “Austrian Turkish” Organizations and “Turkish Antisemitism” in the Context of the Gaza wars (2010-2014)


S-4 LAB04 Roundtable: From the Local to the Global: Relocating Women’s Labor History (Special labour session 2)
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Cristina Borderias
Organizer: Eileen Boris Discussants: -
Eileen Boris : (On Home Labors)
Mónica Burguera : (Rethinking Women’s Work. A perspective from Spain.)
Silke Neunsinger : (Women, Unions, and Labor Federations)
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk : (De-industrialization or Overlooking the Local?)


T-4 THE03 Narrative Explanations and Historical Objectivity
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Theory Chair: Berber Bevernage
Organizer: Karsten Stueber Discussants: -
Paul Roth : Reviving the Philosophy of History
Karsten Stueber : The Cognitive Function of Narratives
Eugen Zelenak : Non-representationalist Evaluation of Historical Narratives


U-4 URB02 Cities as Centres of Knowledge Creation in Early Modern and Modern Times
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Karel Davids Discussants: -
Karel Davids : Cities and 'Open Air' Sciences in the Early Modern Period: Antwerp and Amsterdam as Global Centres of Accumulation of Knowledge, 16th- 18th Centuries
Bert De Munck : Disassembling the City: a Historical and Epistemological View on the Agency of Cities
Oliver Hochadel, Agusti Nieto-Galan : Barcelona: an Urban History of Science and Modernity (1888-1929)
Daniel Margócsy : La magie du Pont Neuf: the Circulation of Knowledge and Manners in 17th-century Paris
Simona Valeriani : Knowledge Formation between Centres and Peripheries: Medical Practitioners in Plymouth, Exeter and London in the 17th Century


V-4 WOR09 Maritime Areas: Spaces of Changing Expectations
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Rolf Petri
Organizers: Deborah Paci, Rolf Petri Discussant: Marta Grzechnik
Jussi Kurunmäki : Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region in Quasi-Parliamentary Assemblies
Deborah Paci : From Isolation to Connectivity: the Views of European Union on Mediterranean and Baltic Islands in the 20th and 21th Century
Vasileios Petrogiannis : Layers of Spatial Identification: European Mobility from the Baltic and Mediterranean Regions to Sweden
José Damião Rodrigues : Widening the Ocean: Eastern Atlantic Islands in the Making of Early-Modern Atlantic


W-4 LAB07b Perfect Cosmopolitans. South-European Experiences and Approaches
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Bert Altena
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Steven Hirsch
Martin Baxmeyer : Una conquista libertaria? The Reinterpretation of the Spanish Colonization of Latin America in Anarchist Literature during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Daniel Evans : ‘España para los españoles’. 'National Anarchism’ and its Discontents during the Spanish Civil War
Davide Turcato : Anti-colonial Struggles in the Italian Anarchist Pres: Egypt, Cuba, India


X-4 ORA04a Remembering Repression I
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Terry Brotherstone
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Rory Archer : “It was better when it was worse.” Working Class Temporalities of 1980s Yugoslavia
Rutt Hinrikus : From Written to Oral
Sevil Kilincoglu : Diverse Memories and Making Sense of the Past: Remembering the 1970s with Iranian and Turkish Radical Leftist Activist Women
Pavel Mücke : Passing through the Iron Curtain and Beyond. Metamorphosis of Czech Abroad Travelling and Tourism Experience Before and After 1989 in Oral History Perspective
Irina Rebrova : Traumatic Childhood: Narratives about Evacuation of Jews and their Surviving in the Holocaust in the North Caucasian region of the Former USSR


Y-4 POL28 Conceptual History/ies of Politics
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Pertti Ahonen
Organizers: - Discussant: Pertti Ahonen
Eleni Braat : Tensions between Secrecy and Democracy. Parliamentary Argumentation on Intelligence in France and the Netherlands, 1975-1995
Charles Lenoir : Conservatives and the Rise of the Modern State: a Struggle against Nationalization and Regulation at the Turn of the Century, France and the United States, Early 20th Century
Sérgio Matos : Iberisms and Pan-Hispanism: a Historical Reflection from the Viewpoint of Conceptual History


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