Preliminary Programme

Showing: Urban (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
G-1 ELI01 Political Power Groups in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Jelle Haemers
Organizer: Janna Everaert Discussant: Jelle Haemers
Miet Adriaens : The Rural Elite and Seigniorial Lordships (County of Flanders, 16th Century)
Jelten Baguet : A Flemish Serrata? Political Oligarchization in the Medieval and Early Modern City of Ghent
Elise Leclerc : Only Status Matters: the Role of Historical and Political Notes in the Florentine Family Books (14th-15th Centuries)
Laurentiu Radvan : A Social Group yet Unknown: the Urban Patriciate in Medieval Wallachia
Danko Zelic : Urban Space Policies in Medieval Dubrovnik and Dalmatian Cities – Venetian Tradition vs. Present



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
K-3 MID01 A Socio-political History of Record Keeping: Town Councils, Reports, and their Use by Historians (14th-15th Centuries)
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Mario Damen
Organizers: Ben Eersels, Jelle Haemers, Jesús Ángel Solorzano-Telechea Discussants: -
Ben Eersels : Making Decisions with the Bigger Part of the Town. The Reports of the Town of Sint-Truiden in the 15th Century
Jelle Haemers, Valeria Van Camp : Unity and Unanimity? Fiction and Reality in the Reports of the Town Council of Mons (Hainaut) in the 1400s
Christian Liddy : Secrecy and Consensus: Town Council Reports in Late Medieval England
Fernando Martín-Pérez, Jesus Angel Solorzano Telechea : Petitions, Town Councils, and the Language of the Commons in Late Medieval Cantabria



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
H-6 RUR10 The Interweaving of Countryside and Town. Rural Textile Industries in the Premodern Period
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Urban Chair: Tim Soens
Organizers: Ruben Menten-Plesters, Jim van der Meulen Discussant: Tim Soens
Christof Jeggle : Shifting Locations. Producing and Labelling Linen in Preindustrial Westphalia
Victoria López Barahona, José Nieto Sánchez : Textile Manufactures between Town and Countryside. The Case of Early-modern Madrid and New Castile
Ruben Menten-Plesters : Urban and Rural Interactions regarding the Textile Industry in Roman Egypt
Jim van der Meulen : Cloths of a Thread. The Nature of the Draper in the Rural Textile Industry of the Flemish Heuvelland (16th Century)


T-6 URB01 Maids, Mothers and Matriarchs: European Women in Town
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Networks: Urban , Women and Gender Chair: Nina Koefoed
Organizer: Deborah Simonton Discussant: Nina Koefoed
Katie Barclay : Premarital Pregnancy in Domestic Service: the Impact on the Life-cycle of Scottish Women, 1660-1830
Elaine Chalus : All Women of a Certain Age? Life-Cycle Politics in Georgian England
Alison Duncan : Town and Country: Negotiating Appropriate Sociability across the Life-cycles of Single Scottish Gentlewomen, 1760–1830
Niina Lehmusjärvi : Independent Businesswomen or Deputies for Late Husbands? – Widowhood Uncovering Women in Early Modern Sweden
Kemille Moore : The Stages of Women’s Lives in Late Victorian Painting
Deborah Simonton : ‘All the Days of her Life’. Spinster, Spouse, Mother, Widow: the Business of Life



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
T-8 URB03 Cultural Transfers and Transnational Responses: Representations of Paris in Central and Eastern Europe
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Urban Chair: Alexander Vari
Organizer: Alexander Vari Discussant: Karla Huebner
Blazej Brzostek : “Little Parises of Other Europe”: Warsaw and Bucharest, 19th and 20th Centuries
Howard Lupovitch : Exemplar or Cautionary Tale: Paris as a Model for the Urban Jewish Experience
Jared Warren : Cracovian Students in Interurban Artistic Culture: Poland and Paris, 1890–1900



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
T-9 URB04 The Capital in a State of Flux. Vienna during the First World War and in the Early 1920s
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Urban Chair: Béla Rásky
Organizer: Katalin Teller Discussant: Béla Rásky
Sema Colpan, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah : Prowling Round the City. Juvenile Delinquency in Vienna around 1920
Deborah Holmes : Joseph Roth and Feuilleton Journalism as Social History
Michaela Scharf : “The Immanent Danger.” Prostitution in Vienna during the First World War and its Aftermath
Katalin Teller : Viennese Railway Stations at War and afterwards



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
T-11 URB05 Adriatic Cities in Transition
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Urban Chair: Brigitte Le Normand
Organizer: Brigitte Le Normand Discussant: Vanni D'Alessio
Marco Abram : A Bastion of Brotherhood and Unity. Socialist Yugoslavism and National Identities in Post-war Rijeka
Gaetano Dato : When Location Matters: Anglo-American Direct Rule in Trieste, 1945-54
Borut Klabjan : Monuments in Trieste/Trst and Koper/Capodistria after World War II



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
G-12 ELI11 City Spaces as Elite Arenas I: Plans, Buildings, Exhibitions
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Urban Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Hedén
Topi Artukka : Assembly House and High Society in the Early Nineteenth-century Turku
Eeva Kotioja : Making it Happen: Finnish Pavilion in the Exposition Universelle 1889 and the Elite Network behind it
Mika Mäkelä : Elite as an Actor in the Urban Renewal of Helsinki´s Kallio District
Shunsuke Nakaoka : Integrated Euro-American Culture into their Own Life-style – Modern Japanese Business Elite and Patterns of Building Residence


P-12 POL12 Urban Space and Politics
Aula 13, Nivel 1
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Urban Chair: Stefan Couperus
Organizers: - Discussant: Stefan Couperus
Anders Forsell : A Site for Politics? The Changing Nature of Swedish Municipalities, 1900-1920
Valerie Mast : Narratives of Space and Identity in the Budapest Ghettos, 1944-45
Álvaro París : Urban Space, Sociability and Popular Counterrevolution in Madrid (1823-1833)
Karen Vannieuwenhuyze : Using and Producing Urban Political Space: the Antwerp Urban Government and its Claim of the (Im)material Urban Landscape (1830-1914)


Y-12 URB10 Latin American Cities in the 19th Century: Workers, Municipality and the Struggle for Rights
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Networks: Labour , Latin America , Urban Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizer: Fabiane Popinigis Discussants: -
Amy Chazkel : A Pre-history of the 'Right to the City': Civil and Political Rights in an Nineteenth-Century Brazilian City, from the Constitution to the Streets
Valeria Pita : Workers, Neighbors and Municipal Employees during the Yellow Fever Epidemic. Buenos Aires, 1871
Fabiane Popinigis : Claming for Rights in the Early Brazilian Republic: Commerce Workers and Municipal Authorities in the XIX Century



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
G-13 ELI12 City Spaces as Elite Arenas II: Careers, Reputations, Identities
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Urban Chair: Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Anna-Maria Åström
Federica Duca : New as Fake and Old as Real? Considerations on the “Rites of Passage” towards Becoming the Elite in in South Africa
Saara Hilpinen : How Scandals Affect Reputation? A Case Study on the Career of Wilhelm Klinckowström (1778–1850)
Brita Planck : Women and Politics during the Age of Liberty


K-13 URB07 Space and Identity in the Post-war City:
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Network: Urban Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gökçen Beyinli : Shifting National Identities in the City: Tangible Reconstruction of “Shrine Visit Tradition” in Istanbul after Second World War
Tommaso Bobbio : Re-signifying Places: Changing Community Balances and Urban Geographies after the Partition of India and Pakistan
Ann Ighe : A Heritage of their Own? Counter Culture as an Ambivalent Agent for Urban Heritage. The Who’s? and What? Questions Revisited
Peter Jones : Power of the Powerless: the Case of Danilo Dolci and Partinico, Sicily1952-1968
Milica Lekovic, Javier Ruiz Sánchez : Disremembrance and Resilience in Belgrade Traumascapes



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
K-14 URB08 Rejuvenating the Post-war City
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Network: Urban Chair: John Davis
Organizers: - Discussants: -
João Queirós : Reframing History, Redesigning Space: the Role of the State in the Production of Historical Justifications for Urban Regeneration in Working Class Locations in Porto, Portugal, and Valencia, Spain
Ulrich Ufer : Claiming Sustainable Urban Spaces 1968 to 2010 – from “Drop Outs” to “Pioneers of Change”
Tim Verlaan : Urban Renewal and Modernity's Moral Imperatives



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
M-16 ETH03 Claiming Public Space: Religious Minorities and Urban Peripheries in Democratic Spain
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Urban Chair: Daniele Conversi
Organizer: Aitana Guia Discussant: Sarah Hackett
Andrea Davis : Reassessing the Pacto de Silencio: Claiming Public Space in Santa Coloma de Gramenet during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Noemi de Haro García : The Neighbourhood Associations' Imagined Public Space during the Transition to Democracy
Mar Griera, Avi Astor : Performing Religion in the Street: a Comparative Analysis of the Religious Uses of Public Space in Barcelona
Aitana Guia : Nativism and Symbolic Exclusion: Street Festivals, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in Democratic Spain


T-16 URB06 Retailing Iberian Port Cities: from the Belle Époque to the Second World War
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Networks: Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Jonathan Morris
Organizer: Daniel Alves Discussant: Jonathan Morris
Daniel Alves : Shopkeepers and the City: the Spatial Economy of Shopkeeping in an European Capital City (Lisbon, 1890-1930)
Jose Maria Beascoechea, Arantza Pareja & Susana Serrano : New Actors to a Modern Services Sector. The City of Bilbao in the First Third of the Twentieth Century
Nadia Fava : Traditional Food Retailing versus New Forms of Commercial Concentration: Barcelona, 1859-1940
Jesús Mirás-Araujo : Changes in Retail in a Spanish Port City: a Coruña during the First Third of the Twentieth Century


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