Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (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
U-1 SOC01 Childhood Inequality. Children and Social Inequality
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Jane Humphries
Organizer: Deborah Oxley Discussant: Jane Humphries
Vellore Arthi : The Influence of Infant Nutrition on Children's Growth and Mortality: Evidence from London's Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919
Sarah Campbell : Waists, Hips and Early Life Health Jeopardy: Validating the ‘Barker Hypothesis’ using Nineteenth Century Tailors’ Records
Mary Cox : The Economic History of Inequality: Childhood and the Fall of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Elisabeth Milne, Deborah Oxley : The Health of the Schoolchild before WW1



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
B-2 CRI16 Crime History and the Life Course: New Findings and New Dialogues
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Social Inequality Chair: Marion Pluskota
Organizer: Helen Johnston Discussant: Marion Pluskota
David Cox : Pros and Cons - Researching the Lives and Offences of Victorian Convicts: Advantages and Limitations of a Prosopographical Approach
Pamela Cox, Zoe Alker : Young Criminal Lives: ‘What worked’ in Historical Youth Justice Systems?
Helen Johnston : Long-term Imprisonment and Release: the Impact of Imprisonment on the Life Course of Adult Offenders in Victorian England
Christine Kelly : The Development of Probation for Young Offenders in Early Twentieth Century Scotland


U-2 SOC02 Elites, Inequality and Social Mobility
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Social Inequality Chair: Yolanda Blasco-Martel
Organizer: Miguel Artola Blanco Discussant: Yolanda Blasco-Martel
Miguel Artola Blanco : The Death of the Rentier, an Unexplored Transformation: Madrid, 1930-1950
Jean-Brieux Delbos : “Once in the Elite, always in the Elite? Franchised Parisian Voters, Wealth and Mobility (1845-1859, Paris, France)
Clément Dherbécourt : Social Mobilty among the Top 0.1% in France (1867-1977): a "Rank-rank" Approach
Martín Rodrigo Alharilla : A Transatlantic and Cosmopolitan Elite: Cuban Planters and Merchants in Europe (1830-1900)
Jose Miguel Sanjuan : When is an Oligarchy Formed? The Origins and Evolution of an Elite. Barcelona 1850- 1920



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


U-3 SOC03 Hospital Inmates in the Early Modern Society – Winners or Losers?
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Christina Vanja
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Martin Scheutz
Fritz Dross : The Comings and Goings: Entering and Leaving Nuremberg Leprosaria in 16th and 17th Century
Sarah Pichlkastner : Beer, Cereals, Credit Business, Subjects, Wine – but Inmates? Searching for Inmates in the Archival Sources of the Early Modern Viennese Civic Hospital
Irmtraut Sahmland : Winners or Losers? Negotiating Inmates’ Discharge and Expulsion Out of the Hessian High Hospitals (18th Century)
Alfred Weiss : Inmates as Actors or Chess Pieces in Early Modern Hospital Orders? The Example of Austria



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
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)



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
U-6 SOC06 Social Inequalities in Non-Western Societies: Unique Path or Convergence?
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Organizer: Tymofii Brik Discussants: -
Ingrid Bleynat, Amílcar Challú & Paul Segal : Inequality in Mexico: a Long-run Perspective
Tymofii Brik : Social Changes during Late Industrialization: Social Class Inheritance in Spain
Elena Crinela Holom : Changes within the Occupational Structure and Social Mobility in Transylvania (1850-1914)
Jacob Weisdorf, Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Ugandan Marriage Registers, 1895-2011



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 ASI03 Struggles for Control over Commodity Production: Southeast Asian Plantations, Smallholders, Bosses, and Workers
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Networks: , Asia , Social Inequality Chair: William Clarence Smith
Organizers: Ulbe Bosma, Lynn Lees Discussants: -
Ulbe Bosma : The Southeast Asian Plantation Revisited: Global Markets and Local Agents
Lynn Lees : Middling Groups on Malayan Plantations, 1880-1940: How Race and Ethnicity Complicate Stories of Struggle
Elizabeth Lublin : The Tobacco Advertising Wars in Meiji Japan: Iwaya Matsuhei, Murai Kichibei, and Competing Messages of Nationalism
Geoffrey Pakiam : Palm Trees and Small Growers in Malaya, 1919-1960


U-7 SOC07 Solidarity before the Welfare State: a Global Perspective (Middle Ages – Early 20th Century)
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Bert De Munck
Organizers: Bert De Munck, Hadewijch Masure Discussant: Isa Blumi
Hannelore Franck : The Effect of 'Foreign Wealth' on Late Medieval Bruges Poor Relief
Eyal Ginio : Local Communities and their Modes of Charity: the Role of Neighborhoods in 18th-Century Ottoman Salonica
Hadewijch Masure : Introduction: Solidarity before the Welfare State, a Global Perspective
Julia McClure : The Poverty Politics of the Entangled Americas
Angelie Sens : Solidarity from Above? Global Reformer and Social Engineer Johannes van den Bosch' (1780-1844) Works on Poverty and the Pre-welfare State



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
E-8 SOC05 The Landless and Social Inequality in the Early Modern Countryside
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Raisa Maria Toivo
Organizers: Riikka Miettinen, Ella Viitaniemi Discussants: Jonas Lindström, Raisa Maria Toivo
Sofia Maria Gustafsson : A Military Career as Means for the Landless to Obtain Land and Skills on the Early Modern Finnish Countryside
Riikka Miettinen : The Position and Opportunities of the Landless Labourers in the Early Modern Swedish Countryside
Mercè Renom : The Food Market System in Catalonia Eighteenth Century and its Effects on Economical Redistribution on Local Level
Merja Uotila : Poor or Wealthy? Rural Artisans’ Social Stratifications in Early Nineteenth-century Finland
Ella Viitaniemi : Assistant Pastors and Social Status in the 18th Century Swedish Realm



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
H-9 RUR11a Thinking about the Social Dynamics. The Recomposition of Social Structures in the European Countryside (I)
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Rosa Congost
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Gérard Béaur : Measuring the Changes in the Social Structure through the Marriage Contracts. The Countryside of Chartres (France), 1731-1790
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Social Reclassifications and Family Cultures: Farmers facing Urbanization (Ivry sur Seine 18-19th Centuries)
Thomas Brennan : Credit and Financial Power in Rural Champagne
Wouter Ronsijn : Developments in the Social Structure of Flemish Rural Society: Focus on the Eighteenth Century


U-9 SOC09 Voluntary Action for International Humanitarian Aid in the 20th Century
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Laura Downs
Organizer: Pat Thane Discussant: Paul Anthony Ginsborg
Emily Baughan : Mrs Jellyby Nation: The British State and Overseas Aid in Europe, 1918-1925.
Joy Damousi : Humanitarian Relief and Child Refugees in the Spanish Civil War: the Case of Esme Odgers and Australia
Melanie Oppenheimer : Voluntary Action by Children for Children: the Emergence of the Junior Red Cross in the 1920s
Tehila Sasson : Humanitarianism After Empire: Biafra and the Emergence of the “Humanitarian International”



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
C-10 ETH08 Labour Mobility and Social Rights
Seminario C, Nivel 0
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Social Inequality Chair: Anne Winter
Organizer: Marjolein Schepers Discussant: Anne Winter
Speranta Dumitru : Defining Migrants: from Social Justice to Methodological Nationalism
Olle Jansson : Industrial Makers of Labour Migration – the Case of the Metal and Engineering Industry of the County of Västmanland, Sweden, 1946-67
Elaine Moriarty : Mechanism for Exclusion? Social Protection Adjustments in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
Marjolein Schepers : Welfare and the Regulation of Labour Mobility: The Concordat of Ypres, 1750-1789


H-10 RUR11b Thinking about the Social Dynamics. The Recomposition of Social Structures in the European Countryside (II)
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Gérard Béaur
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Josep Colomé Ferrer : Rabassaires: Consolidation and Crisis of a Social Model in Southern Europe Viticulture in the Nineteenth Century
Antonio López Estudillo : Agrarian Change, Social Transformations and Inequalities in two Catalan Wine-growing Villages in the 18th and 19th Centuries: the Rabassaires of Rubí and Castellbisbal
Antonia Morey, Gabriel Jover : Composition, Levels of Wealth and Social Status of the Large Tenants. Mallorca (16th to 20th Centuries)
Manoela Pedroza : Customs, demands and stratagems on Royal land: Property rights, conflicts and demands between ‘interlopers’ and landowners (Fazenda Real de Santa Cruz Estate, Brazil, 1761 – 1822)
Rosa Ros, Rosa Congost, Enric Saguer : Unearthing Silent Social Changes. The Emergence of Intermediate Social Groups in a Rural Society: the Region of Girona in the 18th Century


J-10 SOC22 New Directions in Welfare
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Pamala Wiepking
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Aurora Bosch : “The War on Poverty”, Socialist and Liberalism in the US in the Early Sixties
Birgitta Jansson : The Development of Income over 28 Years. A Study of Disposable Personal Income in Sweden from 1983 to 2010
Christina Reimann : The Emancipation and Exclusion Effected by the Workmen's Compensation Act: a Sociolegal Analysis of the Beginnings of the Dutch Welfare State
Maija Runcis : Swedish Sterilisations on Roma People and "Travellers" 1940-1955


U-10 SOC10 Voluntary Welfare and the State: Co-operation and Contest in 20th Century Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paul Anthony Ginsborg
Organizer: Pat Thane Discussant: Melanie Oppenheimer
Stefania Bernini : Competing for Souls, Bodies and Rights: Child Welfare and Catholic Politics in Postwar Italy and Poland
Clarisse Berthezène : ‘A Voluntary Organisation Financed by the State’ or ‘a State Service Furnished by Volunteers’? Women’s Voluntary Services, Local Government and the Debate around the Role of Voluntary Social Service in the British Welfare State, 1945-47
Laura Downs : Where do Civil Society and the State Meet? Para-political Spaces of Social Protection in Post-WWI Italy
Pat Thane : The Child Poverty Action Group, 1965-2015:1960s Radicalism and After



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
A-11 MID02 Hierarchies and Inequalities in Urban Europe, 1250-1750
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Networks: Middle Ages , Social Inequality Chair: Mario Damen
Organizer: Mario Damen Discussant: Mario Damen
David Alonso-Garcia : One Kingdom with Different Cities. Fiscal Inequalities between Territories in Castile, 1500-1530
Michael Depreter : Urban Hierarchies, Military Organisation and the State in the Burgundian Low Countries (1477-1493)
Eduard Juncosa Bonet : The Hierarchical Organization of Power in a Shared Jurisdictional Dominion. Tarragona and its Hinterland in the Late Middle Ages
Sean Perrone : Power, Taxes, and Conflict: Disputes over Ecclesiastical Taxation in Castile, 1520-1556
Peter Stabel : Industrial Change and Social Inequalities in the Textile Cities of Flanders around 1300


U-11 SOC11 19th and Early 20th Century Poor Law
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Green : Foreign Influences on the English Poor Law 1834 - 1948
Lucinda Matthews-Jones : Eating and Dining in Toynbee Hall, 1883-1914
Alastair Owens, David R. Green, Martin Daunton, Samantha Shave, and Lesley Hoskins : The Emergence of the ‘Wealth-fare’ State in Nineteenth-century Britain
Lisa Ramqvist : Rational Relief: the Development of Bureacratic Philantropy in Early 20th Century Sweden
Jan Adriaan van der Maas : Poor Relief in Amsterdam 1871-1940



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
H-12 SOC23 Equal in Death? Practices for Posterity and Performance of Social Differences in Early Modern Europe
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Mikael Alm
Organizer: Jonas Lindström Discussant: Dagmar Freist
Christoffer Åhlman : Making Her, Making Him: Gender Ideals in Funeral Sermons from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Alexander Engström : Pompa Funebris - Staging, Performance and Commemoration of Nobility in the Funerary Culture in Seventeenth Century Sweden
Jonas Lindström : ‘I ring the bell when I want to’: Social Stratification among Early Modern Peasants as seen in Burial Practices
Beverly Tjerngren : What Portends the Bell’s Toll? Social Differences in a Local Parish Made Evident at a Child's Burial


U-12 SOC12 Early Modern Charity
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Christina Vanja
Organizers: - Discussant: Irmtraut Sahmland
Thomas M. Adams : Enlightened Social Inquiry, Bureaucracy, and Revolution: the Strange Career of the abbé Leclerc de Montlinot.
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller : Household, Family Ties and Poor Relief in Southern Europe. Barcelona in Late-eighteenth Century
Henk Looijesteijn, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Princes of Mount Lebanon: Orientalism and Occidentalism in a Long Lasting Pan-European Philanthropy Scam, 1720-1810
Olga Salamatova : The Church of England and Changing Boundaries of Philanthropy in the Course of the Emergence and Implementation of the Old Poor Laws, 1550s – 1640s
Pamala Wiepking, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Henk Looijesteijn : The (Un)Charitables: Wealthy Donors in the Golden Age in the Netherlands



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
M-13 HEA11 The Lessons of History: the European Experience in the Control of Poverty Related Diseases
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Lucia Pozzi Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Lucia Pozzi & Maria Eugenia Galiana : The Experience in the Fight against Poverty related Diseases in Mediterranean Europe: the Case Studies of Italy and Spain
Ida Milne : Changing the Landscape of Childhood Disease in Ireland, 1910-1960
Lucia Pozzi, Lorenzo Del Panta : The Burden of Malaria in the Italian Demographic History (19-20th Centuries)
Bárbara Revuelta Eugercios, Anne Løkke : Dying Like a Poor? Poverty and Infections in Childhood in Late 19th Century Copenhagen


U-13 SOC13 Social Homogamy in Comparative Perspective
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Nigel Kragten
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Antti Häkkinen : Homogamy, Marriage Patterns and Industrialization in Finland
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Partner Choice in the Netherlands 1812-1914: the Importance of Ascribed and Achieved Status
Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen : Variations in Time and Space of Social Homogamy in Flemish-Brabant (Flanders, Belgium) during the 19th and Early 20th Century
Simon Seiler : Social Homogamy in the Canton of Luzern (Switzerland)



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
G-14 ELI13 Elite Giving
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Social Inequality Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Galina Ulyanova Discussant: Adele Lindenmeyr
Halina Beresnevi?i?t? Nosálová : The Institutions of Care for the Children at Risk in the Nineteenth-century Moravia as the New Arena for Elite Socialisation
Nikolaos Chrissidis : Personal Charity and Institutionalized Philanthropy: Russian Patriarchs and Poor Relief in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
Galina Ulyanova : The Philanthropic Activities of the Russian Empire’s Elite, 1914-1917: Solidarity before Collapse
Laurien van der Werff, M.H.D. van Leeuwen, H.L.J. Looijesteijn : Bourgeois giving in the Golden Age


U-14 SOC14 Social Inequality in Russia
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Tymofii Brik
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elena Bryukhanova : Using HISCLASS System for Social Structure Reconstruction of Siberian City Tobolsk based on 1897 Census
Dmitrii Sarafanov : Siberian Parish Register Books and the Study of Social Status (on the basis of Barnaul parish register books of the second half of the XIXth century)
Anna Shcetinina : Categories of social difference in civil and church sources of Russian empire in XIX-XX centuries
Vladimir Vladimirov : Social Inequality in Siberian City of Barnaul in the 19th Century - Early 20th Century: Classification Schemes and Russian Reality



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
U-15 SOC15 Social stratification and inequality
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Simon Seiler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nigel Kragten, Marco van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas : Women’s occupational status in a modernizing society: the effect of selective labour force participation in Sweden, 1800-1900
Wouter Marchand, J. Teitsma Joha : Intergenerational mobility of pastors in a Dutch province before industrialization
Sadananda Nayak : Christian Identity in India: a Historical Analysis


V-15 SOC17 Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Trafficking of Women and Children
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Networks: Social Inequality , Women and Gender Chair: Inga Thiemann
Organizer: Carole Murphy Discussants: -
Jon Hackett : A Textual Analysis of Recent Film Representations of Trafficking
Mark Mackarel : A Review of the Specific Recognition in Law of Women and Children as Victims of Human Trafficking
Chi Maher : An Exploration of Local Authorities and Third Sector Organisations Partnership and Management Arrangements to Support Victims of Human Trafficking
Carole Murphy : Findings from a Qualitative Study of Female ‘Survivors’ of Trafficking in the UK



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
U-16 SOC16 You're Doing It Wrong! The Morals of Social Differentiation in Early Modern Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Culture , Social Inequality Chair: Jonas Lindström
Organizer: Mikael Alm Discussant: Jon Stobart
Mikael Alm : What to Wear: the Moral Ramifications of Sartorial Practices in Early Modern Sweden
Gudrun Andersson : Too Anxious to Please. Moralising Gender in Fashion Magazines in Early 19th Century
Astrid Pajur : The Curious Case of the Nightcap, or Religious Morality and Social Order in Early Modern Sumptuary Legislation


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