Preliminary Programme

Showing: room D (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 11.00 - 13.00
D-2 ECO12 Understanding Economic Regions in Northern Europe, 14th-18th c.
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Jacob Weisdorf
Organizer: Angela Huang Discussant: Lars Boerner
David Chilosi, Max Schulze & Oliver Volckart : Decomposing Trading Costs: Capital and Wheat Market Integration in Central Europe, 1350-1800
Philipp Hoehn : Dealing with conflict – Legal pluralism and economic regions in pre-modern northern Europe (ca. 1350-1650)
Angela Huang : An Institutional Analysis of Northern European Commodity Trade, 12th-16th c.
Ulla Kypta : Hierarchy and Network, Factors and Friends: the Principal-Agent Problem in Pre-Modern Trade



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
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
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



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



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



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
D-8 WOR13 Situating transnational actors
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: World History Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács
Organizers: Antje Dietze, Katja Naumann Discussants: -
Antje Dietze, Katja Naumann : 'Introduction: Transnational Actors - Research Perspectives'
Maciej Górny : A Racial Triangle: Physical Anthropology and Race Theories between Germans, Jews, and Poles
Katja Naumann, Antje Dietze : 'Introduction: Transnational Actors - Research Perspectives'
Clemens Six : In search of the transnational mind: Intellectuals and artists between Bengal and Tokyo around 1900
Phillip Wagner : National Socialist Internationalisms? Karl Strölin between international engagement and domestic lobbying, 1938-1945



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 8.30 - 10.30
D-13 WOM20 Female Bodies and Sexuality: Historical and Global Perspectives
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Antonella Cagnolati : Unleashed Witches and Loving Grannies. The Body of the Elderly Woman between External Spaces and Domestic Intimacy (XVI-XVII Centuries)
Lessie Jo Frazier, Deborah Cohen : Gender and Sex in the Global 1968
Elaheh Hatami : Gendered Bodies in Motion: Representation of Iranian Women Dancers in Public Places of Tehran
Yannis Yannitsiotis : Modern Spatialities: Gender, Sexuality, and the Senses in the Seaside Resort New Faliron of Piraeus, 1890-1920



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
D-14 AFR02 Boat People: Past and Present
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Irial Glynn Discussant: Eliana Hadjisavvas
Marcel Berlinghoff : Vietnamese Boat People – A Counterflow in European Refugee Restriction?
Irial Glynn : Comparing the Politics of ‘Boat People’ in Italy and Australia Since the Early 1990s



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
D-15 WOM22 Masculinities, Power and Misogyny in the Twentieth Century
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: - Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Anders Ottosson : Herstories Hiding One History? The Lost Masculinity of American Physical Therapy ca 1900
Stephen Patnode : Globalising Hegemonic Masculinity in 1950s and 1960s Corporate America
Mina Roces : Wife Abduction and Filipino Masculinities in the Sugar Plantations of 1920s-1930s Hawaii


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