Preliminary Programme

Showing: Material and Consumer Culture (all days)
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
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
D-1 MAT01 Country House and Comfort in Early-Modern Europe
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Mark Rothery
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Gudrun Andersson
Johanna Ilmakunnas : Comfort, Sociability and Skills: Gendered Elite Handiwork in Eighteenth-century Swedish and Finnish Country Houses
Cristina Prytz : The Appearance of Comfort: Personal Reflections on Comfort in England and Sweden in the 1780s
Jon Stobart : The Discomforts of Home, or How to Endure Life in the English Country House



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
D-3 MAT03 Living Standards and Material Culture in Pre-industrial Europe: a Perspective from Building Craftsmen
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Social Inequality Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: Wouter Ryckbosch Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Heidi Deneweth, Anne McCants : Building Wealth? The Material Culture of Building Craftsmen in Early Modern Amsterdam and Antwerp (16th-18th Centuries)
Andreia Durães : Experiencing Prosperity and Adversity (Lisbon, 1750-1833)
Sebastian Keibek : From Inventories to Households: what Removing Inventories' Social Bias Reveals about Eighteenth-century English Consumption
Wouter Ryckbosch : A Material Culture Approach to Living Standards in Flanders & Brabant (Belgium), 14th-18th Centuries
Judy Stephenson : Inequality within the Trades: Variance in Wealth and Living Standards among Masons and Carpenters in London, 1650 – 1800



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
D-6 MAT06 Transregional Consumers and Actors: Navigating the Local and Global in Central Europe
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: John Jordan
Organizers: Anne Sophie Overkamp, Jutta Wimmler Discussant: Jutta Wimmler
Anne Sophie Overkamp : Markets and Hinterlands: the Transregional Connections of the Wupper Valley in the Age of Revolutions
Maria Pakucs : “Turkish” Textiles in South-Eastern Europe: Circulation and Distribution in the Early Modern Period
Gabi Schopf : Connecting Swiss Cotton Printer and Global Consumer: Merchants and Sales Agents in Atlantic Port Cities


G-6 ELI06a Landed Elites and Life Styles in Modern Europe I
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Maria Malatesta
Organizers: Jose Miguel Hernandez Barral, Yme Kuiper Discussant: Jon Stobart
Yme Kuiper : Traditional Landed Elites in Twentieth-Century Europe. A Historiographical Balance
Elizabeth Macknight : Nobles in Rural Social Relationships of Post-revolutionary France
Alex Snellman : The Transformation of the Finnish Landed Elite 1750–1919
Henrika Tandefelt : Educating a Nobleman around the Year 1900: Professional Knowledge, Emotions and Everyday Practices of Education and Formation in a Finnish Elite Family



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
D-7 MAT05 The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries, AD 1000-1700
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Leah Clark
Organizer: Leah Clark Discussants: -
Julie De Groot : The Sense of Sight: Mirrors in Sixteenth Century Bruges Homes
Jennifer Hillman : Relic Translations and Sacred History in seventeenth-century France
Thomas Pickles : The Mobility of Objects 1000-1700: Some Historical Paradigms
Katherine Wilson : Choice, Concealment and Settings. The Chest in the Medieval Urban Theatre



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
D-9 MAT02 Dowries and Morning Gifts: a Comparative Perspective on Women and Property in Early Modern Italy and Sweden
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Women and Gender Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizer: Liise Lehtsalu Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Mia Korpiola : Sanctioning Insubordination: Denial of Dowry and Patrimony in Early Modern Sweden
Liise Lehtsalu : Monastic Dowry Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Bologna
Tuula Rantala : Widows and Morning Gift Property in Late Medieval Sweden
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : A Family Matter or a Woman's Choice? Kin Relationships, Female ork and Charity Institutions in Italian Dowry System (Turin, 18th Century)



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
D-10 MAT07 New Materials in the Old World. European Encounters with Exotic Substances
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: John Jordan
Organizer: Christine Fertig Discussant: John Jordan
Christine Fertig : Rhubarb, Cinchona, Devil’s Dung: Exotic Substances in Northwestern Germany (18th/19th Centuries)
Wouter Klein : The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Adoption and Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (1650-1720)
Pia Lundqvist : A Question of Taste – Consumption of Colonial Goods and Alcohol in Three Swedish Nineteenth-Century Novels



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
D-11 MAT08 Public and Private Consumption in Modern Europe
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lynn Abrams, Valerie Wright : It was “a Wee Bit Class” to live in a High Flat’: Living High in Post-war Glasgow c. 1950-75
Dorella Dinardo, Angela Carbone & Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto : Social structures and consumer cultural in Southern Italy (19th-20th centuries)
Ute Hasenoehrl : Empires of Light and Darkness: Explorations on the Social Consumption and Meaning of Artificial Light in the British Empire
Preston Perluss : Smoke, Mirrors and Mirth. Cafés, Comestibles and High Spirits in 18th Century Paris
Marie Ulväng, Inger Jonsson : New Commodities, New Habits and Changing Household Strategies in Sweden 1880-1930



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
D-12 MAT09 Shifts in the Global Commodity Chain of Luxury Commodities (Silver, Diamonds, Glass Beads, Fur and Ivory) and their Consequences for Labour Relations and Environment
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ulbe Bosma
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Rossana Barragán, Ulbe Bosma, Robrecht Declercq, Karin Hofmeester, Karin Pallaver, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-14 MAT04 What should we do with Family and Personal Photography?
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Laura King
Organizer: Jane Hamlett Discussant: Laura King
Jane Hamlett : Framing Intimacy: Photographs and Family Papers in England, 1880-1939
Nicole Hudgins : The Gender of Photography: Play, Performance, and Fantasy in Women’s “Private” Camera Work, c. 1850-1880
Annebella Pollen : Known Unknowns: Social and Historical Methodologies in Search of the Found Photograph
Penny Tinkler : Friendship in Focus: Photography and the Representation and Performance of Girls’ Friendships in England, 1950-70


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