Preliminary Programme

Showing: room G (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 11.00 - 13.00
G-2 ELI02 Social Mobility and Elites in Commercial Towns (15th-16th Centuries)
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Christian Liddy
Organizer: Jelten Baguet Discussant: Christian Liddy
Sandra de la Torre : Powerful Alliances: Economic and Political Powers Collaborating in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Janna Everaert : Power in the Metropolis. The Impact of Economic and Demographic Growth on the Antwerp City Council (1400-1550)
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Vying for Political Participation: Competing Aims and Cooperative Policies. Cuenca in the XVth Century
Stephan Sander-Faes : An Elite Divided: Distinctions of Urban Elites in the 16th-Century Venetian Commonwealth



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
G-3 ELI04 Elites in Central and Northern Europe during World War I
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Pavel Kladiwa
Organizer: Judit Pál Discussant: Pavel Kladiwa
Iván Bertényi : Well-Known Soldiers. Hungarian MPs Fallen during the Great War
Anne Hedén : The Finnish Civil War and the Swedish Volunteers Participation in the Conflict
Judit Pál : The Hungarian Administrative Elite between Administration and War: the Government Commissioners
Stefan Wedrac : The Triestine Political Elite between Austria-Hungary and Italy 1914-1918



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 8.30 - 10.30
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
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
G-7 ELI06b Landes Elites and Life Styles in Modern Europe II
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: Jose Miguel Hernandez Barral, Yme Kuiper Discussant: Yme Kuiper
Jose Miguel Hernandez Barral : Polo: Distinction, Sport and Stygma in the Nobility. Spain, 1900-1950
Kersti Lust : Estate Owners of Peasant Origin: New Elite?
Elyze Storms-Smeets : Transfer and Transformation of Dutch Landed Estates, 1880-1950



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
G-9 ELI08 Aggressive Peasant Elites: Nordic Countries Compared, c. 1570-1650
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Rural Chair: Kimmo Katajala
Organizer: Ulla Koskinen Discussant: Kimmo Katajala
Knut Dørum : Peasants and Political Culture in Norway c. 1540–1660
Mats Hallenberg : A State of Aggression: War and Peasant Elites in Sixteenth Century Sweden
Johan Holm : The Rebellion as Part of a Statebuilding Process: the Swedish Case
Ulla Koskinen : Nuisance to their Neighbours, Asset to their Community - Western-Finnish Wealthy Yeomen as Bullies and Local Leaders, 1620-30’s
Tiina Miettinen : Trade and Power Struggle in Västerbotten and Ostrobothnia. Three Generations in Power: Fordell and Grubbe Families



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
G-10 ELI09 Noble Decline: A European Perspective
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Rural Chair: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Organizer: Mark Rothery Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Henry French : Noble Decline in Britain and Ireland: a European Perspective
Daniel Menning : How to remain a Significant Landed Elite? Germany's southwestern Nobility 1870-1939
Olwen Purdue : Ulster 'Lords of the Manor': Landed Elites, Protestant Identity and Partition in Early Twentieth-century Ireland
Mark Rothery : “England Changing Hands”: Land Sales in England 1918-1921 and the Decline of English Landed Society in a European Context



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
G-11 ELI10 Ideas and Collective Thought in Elite Family Networks
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Henrika Tandefelt
Organizers: Julia Dahlberg, Reetta Eiranen Discussant: Henrika Tandefelt
Pernille Arenfeldt : Elite Women as Confessional Advocates in Protestant Territories, 1550?1590
Julia Dahlberg : Family Networks and Scientific Ideas. The Arrival of Darwinism in Finland
Reetta Eiranen : Intertwined Emotions and Ideas – Construction of Finnish Nationalism in a 19th Century Family Network
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar : “All the ’Evil’ in me has been born of a Desire for Good, for Beauty and for Truth.” Marie Under’s Epistolary Conceptualizations of Marriage and Divorce



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



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



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



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
G-15 ELI14 Elite Rearrangement and Regime Change, 17th to 20th Centuries
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Karl Fuessl
Organizers: - Discussant: Jacopo Lorenzini
Djamila Aissat : Understanding the Paradoxiacal Policy of British Colonial Education in the Decolonization Discourse
Aappo Kähönen : Elites and Founding of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1918–1927
Marja Vuorinen : Serving the Emperor and/or the Fatherland? The Dilemma of the Finnish 19th Century Nobility



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
G-16 ELI15 Elite Rearrangement during and after Totalitarian Regimes
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Karl Fuessl : Nazified to the Core?: German-Jewish Émigrés and Postwar German-American Culture
Kaisa Hirvonen : National Socialist Ideology Reaches the Private Sphere. Festival Culture in NS-Frauenwarte
Maria Malatesta : The Italian Nobility, the Fascist Regine and the Court of the Savoia (1922-1946)


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