Preliminary Programme

Showing: room T (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
T-1 ECO13 Wealth and Income Inequality in Preindustrial Europe and Beyond
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Economic History Chair: Carlos Santiago-Caballero
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: Wouter Ryckbosch
Guido Alfani : Economic Inequality in England: a Long-term Perspective (1290-1750 ca.)
Hulya Canbakal : Composition of Wealth and Factors of Inequality in Central Ottoman Lands, 1540-1840
Matteo Di Tullio : Long-term Trends in Wealth Inequality in Mediterranean Europe: Catalonia, Provence and Liguria compared
Federico Tadei : Income Inequality in Colonial Africa



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
T-2 SPA01 Social Networks and Social Structures in Space and Time
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douglas Brown
Organizers: - Discussant: Melodee Beals
Patricia Ferreira Lopes, Francisco Pinto Puerto : Understanding the Andalusia's Late Gothic Heritage in Space and Time. Roles of Constructions, Social Networks and Communication
Jim Pimpernell : Social Networks among Tenants of an 18th Century Agricultural Estate - the Use of Social Network Analysis Software and Relational Database
Ivo Zandhuis : Family Network Analysis



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
T-3 SPA02 Health, Place and Space
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Sebastian Klüsener
Organizers: - Discussant: Alice Reid
Douglas Brown : Generosity and Parsimony: Spaces of Pauper Experience in Nineteenth-century England and Wales
Konstantinos Daras, Zhiqiang Feng, Chris Dibben & Lee Williamson : Digitising and Geocoding Historical Vital Events in Scotland from 1855 to 1974
Cristina Munno, Renzo Derosas : Mapping Urban Mortality: Venice 1854, 1869
Isabelle Seguy, Nicolas Bernogaud & Arnaud Bringé & Stéfan Tzortzis & Davide de Franco : Measuring Urban Vulnerabilities in the Early XVIIIth Century (Martigues, South of France)
Kai Willführ, Sebastian Klüsener : Spatiotemporal Variation in Paternal and Maternal Mean Age at Childbirth since 1850



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
T-4 THE03 Narrative Explanations and Historical Objectivity
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Theory Chair: Berber Bevernage
Organizer: Karsten Stueber Discussants: -
Paul Roth : Reviving the Philosophy of History
Karsten Stueber : The Cognitive Function of Narratives
Eugen Zelenak : Non-representationalist Evaluation of Historical Narratives



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
T-5 THE05 Theories of Revolution, Reform and Democracy – and the Writing of History
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Norbert Fabian Discussant: Stefan Berger
Michael Onyebuchi Eze : The Crises of Democracy and the Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
Norbert Fabian : J.C. Davies’ Theory of Revolutions in History and Theory Discussions and in Didactics - a New J-curve to the English Revolution of 1381
Matthias Middell : The French Revolution - New Perspectives Emerging Since 1989
Dominic Sachsenmaier : Revolutions and Reforms in China



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
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 14.00 - 16.00
T-7 SPA04 Text and Digital Spatial History
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douwe Zeldenrust
Organizers: - Discussant: Ivo Zandhuis
Pau de Soto Cañamares, Rainer Simon & Elton Barker & Leif Isakson : New Resources for Spatial History: Pelagios, Recogito & Peripleo
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour : Historical Reasoning on the Web
Jane Seymour : Mining the Metropolitan Medical Officers’ Annual Reports: a Digital History Project
Ilari Taskinen : Challenges of Studying Large Handwritten Collections



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 11.00 - 13.00
T-10 SPA05 Digital Histories using Census Data
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Sebastian Klüsener
Organizers: - Discussant: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kees Mandemakers : Harmonizing Aggregate Historical Dutch Census Data: a Flexible Approach
Oksana Chekryzhova, Elena Bryukhanova : Spatial Analysis of the Russian Empire Occupation Data in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (based on 1897 Census)
Michal Gochna : From Tradition to Modernity. AtlasFontium.pl as an Interactive System of Digital History
Nigel Walford : Changing Household Composition and Structure in Selected Local Authorities of London and Middlesex during the First Decade of the 20th Century



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
T-12 SPA06 Innovative Perspectives on Urbanisation Processes
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Sebastian Klüsener
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Eduard Alvarez-Palau, J. Solanas, J. Marti-Henneberg and M. Morillas-Torne : HGIS Reconstruction of the Urbanisation Process
Ellen Janssens, Hilde Greefs, Tim Soens : Mapping Environmental Inequalities in 19th-century Antwerp: using Linear Referencing for Visualizing Large Historical Databases
Panu Savolainen : Visualising Centrality in Early Modern Urban Space
Miquel Valls-Fígols, Gabriel Brea; Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora; Anna Cabre : Social Groups and Urban Location along Industrialisation in the City of Barcelona, 1720-1880



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
T-13 LAT06 Work and Non-work in Latin America - Definitions, Distinctions, Boundaries
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Latin America Chair: David Mayer
Organizers: Rossana Barragán, David Mayer Discussant: Rossana Barragán
Marcelo Balaban : The Noble Stimulus of Work: Race, Slavery and Free Work during the Parliamentary Debates of Sexagenário’s Law – Brazil, 1884-1886
Lerice Garzoni : Defining Women’s Work and Women’s Career: the Debate in the Press at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Enriqueta María Quiroz Munoz : Work as a Code of Life: Manifestations of Utilitarian Thought in Mexico City (1692-1800)
María Ullivarri, Cecilia Cross : Boundaries of Labor. Women and Extra-domestic Spaces of Domesticity in Times of Crisis in Argentina
Angela Vergara : Work and Unemployment in Modern Chile
Brigida Von Mentz : Colonialism and Work. Free Labor and Unfree Labor Forms in Mexico (16th to 19th Century)



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
T-15 SPA07 Migration and Deportation
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douwe Zeldenrust
Organizers: - Discussant: Sebastian Klüsener
Alice B. Kasakoff, Diansheng Guo, Caglar Koylu, Yuan Huang, Jack Grieve : Mapping Migration to and within the US in the 19th Century using Big Data: Crowd Sourced Family Trees and the Full Count 1880 Census
James Perry : ‘The Alien Problem’; Immigration into England and Wales in the Mid-Late Victorian Period
Jean Luc Pinol : Territories and Routes of the Deportaion of Jewish Children from France, 1940-1944
Philipp Rode, Peter Pirker : Tracing and Retracing Remembrance in Vienna



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
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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