Preliminary Programme

Showing: Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30 (single time slot)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
A-5 ASI02 Networking for Survival: the East India Companies, Local Merchants, and State Actors in 17th-century Asia
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Networks: Asia , World History Chairs: -
Organizers: Aske Brock, Erik Odegard, Byapti Sur, Guido van Meersbergen Discussants: -
Aske Brock : Directorate Interlocks in the Formation of Networks in the EIC
Erik Odegard : The Company’s Marriage Market: Marriage, Patrimonialism, and Smuggling in the Dutch East India Company, c. 1630-1680
Byapti Sur : The Dutch East India Company through the Eyes of a Broker: Seventeenth Century Mercantile Relations in Bengal
Guido van Meersbergen : Imperial Patronage and Commercial Exchange: Company Agents and the 17th-century Mughal State


B-5 CUL02 Communist Visual Culture
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Network: Culture Chair: Kimmo Rentola
Organizer: Tauno Saarela Discussant: Kimmo Rentola
Jean-François Fayet : The Spectacle of the Revolution: the Visual Culture of the October Commemorations
Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir : A New Woman? Representations of Women in Icelandic Communist Party Publications during the 1930s
Kevin Morgan : Stalinism, Film and the Leader Cult in the Mid-1930s: Three Songs of Lenin, Kämpfer and the Unrealised Stalin Cult Film of Henri Barbusse
Ole Martin Rønning : Nationalistic Internationalism? Norwegian Communists and Symbols of Nationalism
Tauno Saarela : Worker and Workingwoman in the Imagery of the Finnish Communist Periodicals in the 1920s


C-5 ANT08 Extra session Antiquity:Round Table Discussion: The Future of Social Science Ancient History
Seminario C, Nivel 0
Network: Chair: Neville Morley
Organizers: Neville Morley, Arjan Zuiderhoek Discussants: -


D-5 ETH06b Exile, Deportation, and Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Centuries: Perspectives from the Colonies II
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Christian De Vito : Coolies, Slaves, "Incorregibles" and "Laborantes". Practices of Exile, Deportation and Penal Transportation from Colonial Cuba (1850s-1880s)
Francesca Di Pasquale : Libyan Deportees in Italy during the Colonial Era (1911-1943)
Emre Erol : From ‘Heartland’ to ‘Borderland’ the Ottoman Political Centre’s Changing Perceptions of the Western Anatolian Coast and the Resulting Displacement Policies
Zhanna Popova : Siberian Exile and the Policies of Empire
Shyamal Chandra Sarkar : Influx of Refugees and Rise of Problems in Jalpaiguri District after Partition


E-5 WOM05 Gendering French Colonial Histories
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Rebecca Rogers
Organizer: Jennifer Sessions Discussant: Rebecca Rogers
Claire Eldridge : Gendering Memories of Empire: Female Pied-Noir Activists in Postcolonial France
Daniel Murphree : Promise and Disillusionment in the Shape of a Woman: Conquistadors in La Florida and Nouvelle France, A Comparative Perspective
Jennifer Sessions : Gendering the Social History of Rural Colonial Algeria


F-5 CRI05 Denunciation in Periods of War, Crisis and Dictatorial Regime in Twentieth-century Europe: Definition – Interpretation – Prosecution
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizers: Gertjan Leenders, Jan Julia Zurné Discussant: Xavier Rousseaux
Helen Grevers : The Demand for Prosecution in Liberated Belgium: Complaints against Collaborators
Jacqueline Ross : Undercover Policing in the United States and France: a Comparative Historical Perspective
Bas Von Benda Beckmann : Denunciation in the Netherlands in the Second World War: the Velsen Affair
Jan Julia Zurné, Gertjan Leenders : A Need for Malicious Intent? Defining Denunciation in Belgium during and after the World Wars


G-5 ELI03 Calls for Engagement and Reciprocity of Aid
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Norbert Götz
Organizers: Katarina Friberg, Norbert Götz Discussant: Johannes Paulmann
Anna Bocking-Welch : Symbolic Sacrifice and the Language of Solidarity: British Fundraising for Development in the 1960s
Georgina Brewis : ‘School Aid’: Young People, Fundraising and Famine Relief for 1980s Ethiopia
Katarina Friberg : Make a Sacrifice or give what you can Spare: Religious and Secular Approaches to Relief in the 1940s
Steffen Werther : "Send Bread and Medicine", "Suffer a Little for them!", "Help Russia, help yourself" - a Classification and Analysis of Appeals in the Context of the Russian Famine 1921


H-5 RUR13 Agriculture in Modern World History
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Ray Hurt Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto, Miguel Cabo, Bruno Esperante & Beatriz Corbacho : The New Genetics of ODH Maize from America to Europe (1918-1940)
Catherine Higgs : Historicizing South Africa's Green Revolution: Land Alienation and Land Reform, 1913-2013
Ray Hurt : The Green Revolution in Latin America: Success and Failure
Siming Wang : Growing in Declining and Declining in Growing. Chinese Agricultural Development since 16th Century


I-5 SPA03 Exploring Cultural and Social Links with Text Analyses
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douglas Brown
Organizers: - Discussant: Douglas Brown
Melodee Beals : Georgian Pingbacks: Mapping Attribution Networks in a 19th Century Newspaper Corpus
Shannon Smith, Ann M. Hale : “You know my methods”: The Strand Magazine’s Networks of Investment and Imagination
Douwe Zeldenrust : The Creation, Curation and Dissemination of Humanities Digital Resources: the Dutch Dialect Database


J-5 ECO05a Dynamics of Occupational and Demographic Change in Eurasia 1700-2000: Diverging Paths or Convergence in Occupational Structures and Population Densities? I
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Guido Alfani
Sven Damen, Erik Buyst : Industrialization and De-industrialization in Belgium, 1850-2010: What do Occupational Structures tell us?
Herman J. de Jong, Dirk Stelder : Industrialization and Occupational Structure in the Netherlands since 1800
Carmen Sarasua : Women’s and Men’s Occupational Structure in 18th Century Spain
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Xuesheng You : Female Occupational Structure in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


K-5 ECO15 Markets and Financial Instruments in Modern Europe
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Christiaan van Bochove
Organizers: - Discussant: Christiaan van Bochove
Marc Deloof, Leentje Moortgat & Jan Annaert : Investor protection, taxation and dividend policy: Evidence from Belgium, 1838-2012
Philipp Kessler : The Resumption of Foreign Investment in West Germany after WWII, 1950-1955
Stefano Ungaro : An Inquiry on Determinants of Risk: the French Money Market between 1880 and 1914


L-5 EDU05 Evacuations of Children and Families in Europe before and during the Course of WWII (I): Humanitarian Concerns, Political Struggles, and Conflicts of Interest
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Lindsey Dodd
Organizers: Lindsey Dodd, Karin Zetterqvist Nelson Discussants: -
Célia Keren : The Evacuation of Spanish Children to France (1936-1939): the Theory and Practice of a Public-private Humanitarian Partnership
Julia Torrie : “The Ripping Apart of the Family”: Gender, Family Cohesion, and Civilian Evacuations in National Socialist Germany
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson : Pediatric experts, welfare politics and the Finnish War children


M-5 HEA05a History of Nuclear Energy and Society I: Nuclear Power, International Organizations and Anti-nuclear Movements in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Networks: Health and Environment , History of Science & Technology Chair: Albert Presas I Puig
Organizer: Jan-Henrik Meyer Discussant: M. del Mar Rubio-Varras
Christian Forstner : Transnational Reactions: How International Organizations Perceived National Anti-Nuclear Protests and Responded to Them
Arne Kaijser : Explaining the Rise and Fall of Anti-nuclear Movements: the Case of Sweden
Jan-Henrik Meyer : Challenging the Ultimate Resource. Reviewing Social Movement Approaches to the Nuclear Energy Conflict in a Historical Perspective


N-5 HEA15 Children and Mental Health in the 20th Century
Aula 11, Nivel 1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment Chair: Nelleke Bakker
Organizer: Nelleke Bakker Discussant: Ning de Coninck-Smith
Anna Larsson : Framing Mental Health Problems in 20th Century Swedish Schools
Christian Sandbjerg Hansen, Trine Øland : Inside the Child: the Institutionalization of Psychological Theories of Children and Education in Denmark, 1930s-1960s
Peter Skagius : Assembling the child: Child psychiatric and psychological expertise in a Swedish morning paper, 1968-2008


O-5 POL23 Politics from Below
Aula 12, Nivel 1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Anne Epstein
Organizers: - Discussant: Christianne Smit
Nina Koefoed : Negotiating Citizenship through Poor Relief in Denmark Late 19th Century
Karen Lauwers : Democratization from Below? The Impact of the First World War on the Direct Interactions between MPs and ‘Ordinary Citizens’ in Belgium and France, 1910-1930
Bernard Rulof : Voting for a Monarchy in Montpellier (Hérault): Legitimist Politics from Below, 1848-1852
Sami Suodenjoki : Land Redistribution Rumours as Politics from Below in the Grand Duchy of Finland, c. 1880-1905


P-5 POL27 Problematic Citizenship? Civic Identity, Ethnicity and the Nation from the Late 19th Century through the 1980s
Aula 13, Nivel 1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Izabela Dahl
Organizers: - Discussant: Nives Rumenjak
Per Boberg : The Collective Actorship of Finnish and Yugoslav Immigrants in Katrineholm, 1945-1980. Citizenship, Social Democratic “Swedish Model” Hegemony and Social Relations in a Swedish Locality in the Era of Labour Immigration
Robert Knight : Liberalism and Assimilation in Post-Nazi Society
Ivan Kosnica : Dimensions of Inclusion and Exclusion: Politics towards Roma in Croatia-Slavonia in the Second Half of 19th and in the Beginning of 20th Century
Zuzana Polackova : Assimilation Versus Cultural Autonomy: the Struggle for the Czech and Slovak Minority Rights in Austria in the 20th Century (1900-1920)
Tatiana Teterevleva, Oleg Reut : “Citizens of Non-Existent State”: Citizenship, Loyalty, Sovereignty in the Public and Political Discourse of the Russian Diaspora, 1920s-1930s


Q-5 FAM05 Modernization and Infant Health in Europe during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Aula 14, Nivel 1
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Ingrid van Dijk
Organizers: Nynke van den Boomen, Jörg Vögele Discussant: Isabelle Devos
Rina Kralj-Brassard, Kristina Puljizevic : The Impact of Modernisation of Public Health on Infant Mortality in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Dubrovnik
Verena Limper : The periphery of Europe at the forefront of modernization? – Swedish Pediatrics and their relationship with Germany in the first half of the 20th century
Nynke van den Boomen, Paul Rotering : The Regionality of Infant Mortality Patterns in the Netherlands, 1875-1899
Jörg Vögele : Infant Mortality and Infant Welfare in Germany during Twentieth Centuries


R-5 REL03 Comparative Perspectives on Religion and Secularity in the 20th C.
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: John C. Wood Discussants: -
Shin-yi Chao : Religion and Identity of Taiwan
Thomas Schulte-Umberg : Coming to Terms with the Soul of the Soldier. Secular and Religious Psychology in Germany in World War I
Manfred Sing : The Meanings of Islam in Egyptian Debates on Secularism in the Early 20th Century
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak : Religious Leadership in Brazil at the Turn of the XIX and XX Centuries
John C. Wood : Explorations on the ‘Frontier’: Christian Principles and Secular Knowledge in a British Intellectual Network, 1937-1949


S-5 LAB05 New Perspectives on Labor History I
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Corinne Boter
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussants: -
Bruno Blondé, Bert de Munck : Transforming Tablewares in Early Modern Europe
Andrea Caracausi : Ribbon-makers in Early Modern Europe
Thomas Max Safley : Mercury Mining and Miners: the Transformation from Boutique Metal to Strategic Commodity


T-5 THE05 Theories of Revolution, Reform and Democracy – and the Writing of History
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Norbert Fabian Discussant: Stefan Berger
Michael Onyebuchi Eze : The Crises of Democracy and the Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
Norbert Fabian : J.C. Davies’ Theory of Revolutions in History and Theory Discussions and in Didactics - a New J-curve to the English Revolution of 1381
Matthias Middell : The French Revolution - New Perspectives Emerging Since 1989
Dominic Sachsenmaier : Revolutions and Reforms in China


U-5 SOC04 Litigation, Popular Legalism and Contemporary Conceptualisations of ‘Poverty’ in Early Modern Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Criminal Justice , Social Inequality Chair: Simona Cerutti
Organizers: Simona Cerutti, Griet Vermeesch Discussant: Tim Hitchcock
Alexandra Shepard : Worthless Witnesses: Marginal Voices and Popular Legal Agency in Early Modern England
Massimo Vallerani : Poverty and Supplications in Late Medieval Italy
Laurence Van Goethem : Premodern Impostors. Identity Fraud in the Ancien Regime in the Low Countries
Ans Vervaeke : The Great Litigation Decline Unraveled? The Impact of Changes in the Social Profiles of Litigants of Civil Courts in the Franc of Bruges (1650-1795)


V-5 LAT03 Women and Transborder Health Crossings in Mexico-U.S. Relations, 1930s-1970s
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Latin America Chair: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Organizer: Alexandra Puerto Discussant: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Lina-Maria Murillo : What’s in a Number? Women, Birth Control, and Reproductive Health
Stephanie Opperman : Anthropological Approaches to Public Health: the Work of Dr. Isabel Kelly in 1950s Mexico
Alexandra Puerto : Refugee Nuns: the Cristero Diaspora and the Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Los Angeles, 1927-1955


W-5 LAB07c Perfect Cosmopolitans. North-West Atlantic Anarchists and Colonialism
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Lucien van der Walt
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Bert Altena : English and Dutch Anarchists during the Boer War
Ole Birk Laursen : Guy Aldred and the Indian Nationalists in London
Kenyon Zimmer : Anti-Imperialism at War: the Anticolonial Roots of American Anarchist Debates Over World War I


X-5 ORA04b Remembering Repression II
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: David Beorlegui
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nanci Adler : Post-Repression Narratives and the Stifling Effect of Repression in Russia
Kirsti Jõesalu, Ene Kõresaar : Mnemonic Turn & Post-Soviet Memories in Estonia
Sabine Kittel : “Poisoned Fields” in the Memory on the GDR Past – how to analyze Biographical Recollections in a Challenged Social Context
Radmila Svarickova Slabakova : Constructing Identities of Older Women: the Private and the Public in Memories


Y-5 TEC01 Opening the Future. The Inauguration Ceremonies of Large-scale Technological Projects
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: History of Science & Technology Chair: Frank Schipper
Organizers: Benjamin Brendel, Lyubomir Pozharliev Discussant: Eduardo Beira
Nikola Bakovic : Ritualizing the Technology. Yugoslav “Train of Brotherhood and Unity” – between Spatialization of History and Ideologization of Space
Benjamin Brendel : Dams in Spotlight: Inauguration Ceremonies and the Presentation of Power
Valentina Fava : From Large Technological Projects to “Deals of the Century”: Italian Businesses and their Global Events in the 1960s
Lyubomir Pozharliev : Roads to the Future and the Past – the Inauguration Ceremonies of Highways in PR of Bulgaria and SFR of Yugoslavia


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