Preliminary Programme

Showing: room V (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
V-1 WOR12 Transregional Encounters
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Felix Brahm : Moralizing and Controlling the African Arms Trade. On the (dis)Entanglement of Civil and Governmental Action, 1870s to 1900s
Megan Maruschke : Do Special Economic Zones have their Origins in Past Free Ports? A View from Mumbai, 1858 - today
Edgar Pereira, Kaarle Wirta : The Forgotten Emporia: Visions of Overseas Commerce and Transnational Connections in 17th-century Glückstadt (1617-1700)



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-2 LAT01 An Iberian Atlantic ‘Tradition’? Examining Social, Political and Intellectual Underpinnings (1770-1840)
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Latin America Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizer: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea Discussant: Alejandra Irigoín
Gregorio Alonso : The Atlantic Contagion of Freedom in the Age of Independence
Manuel Barcia : The Zangroniz Business Network: a Nineteenth-Century Forerunner of Modern Globalization in the Iberian Atlantic World
Jesús Sanjuro : Liberalism, Abolitionism and Imperialism in the Atlantic World: Confronting the ‘Evolutionary Approach’
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea : The Military Montepío in Nineteenth Century Peru and its Atlantic Origins



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
V-3 LAB16 Women and Gender Labour Relationships in the Mines, 1500-2000
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizers: Rossana Barragán, Leda Papastefanaki Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Rossana Barragán : Women as “informal workers” in the silver mines of Potosi , 18th century
Patience Mususa : Women Trying to Harness Zambia’s Copper Boom
Leda Papastefanaki : Family and Gender Labour Relationships in the Greek Mines, 19th-20th Centuries



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
V-4 WOR09 Maritime Areas: Spaces of Changing Expectations
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Rolf Petri
Organizers: Deborah Paci, Rolf Petri Discussant: Marta Grzechnik
Jussi Kurunmäki : Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region in Quasi-Parliamentary Assemblies
Deborah Paci : From Isolation to Connectivity: the Views of European Union on Mediterranean and Baltic Islands in the 20th and 21th Century
Vasileios Petrogiannis : Layers of Spatial Identification: European Mobility from the Baltic and Mediterranean Regions to Sweden
José Damião Rodrigues : Widening the Ocean: Eastern Atlantic Islands in the Making of Early-Modern Atlantic



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
V-5 LAT03 Women and Transborder Health Crossings in Mexico-U.S. Relations, 1930s-1970s
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Latin America Chair: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Organizer: Alexandra Puerto Discussant: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Lina-Maria Murillo : What’s in a Number? Women, Birth Control, and Reproductive Health
Stephanie Opperman : Anthropological Approaches to Public Health: the Work of Dr. Isabel Kelly in 1950s Mexico
Alexandra Puerto : Refugee Nuns: the Cristero Diaspora and the Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Los Angeles, 1927-1955



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-6 LAT02 ROUNDTABLE: Forging Feminist Studies of Health, Science, Sexuality, and the Body in the Americas
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Latin America Chair: Kim Clark
Organizer: Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney Discussants: Jelke Boesten, Kim Clark
Lessie Jo Frazier : Histories of Violence, Mental Health, Kinship, and the Body (in Central America’s Northern Triangle)
Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney : Medicalization as Liberation? Experts’ Advice and the Gendering of Sexual “Revolutions” in Chile



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
V-7 LAT04 New Perspectives on Labor and Populism in Latin America, c.1930-c.1970
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizer: Steven Hirsch Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Populism, the State, and the 'Popular' Subject: Uses of Nation, Class and Resistance in Pre and Post-Peronist Argentina, 1916-1968
Alexandre Fortes : From Technocratic Reformism to Mass Nationalism: World War II and the Rise of Brazilian Laborism
Hilary Francis : Even the Road is Red: the Roots of Right-Wing Populism in 1950s Nicaragua
Steven Hirsch : APRA and Organized Labor during the Bustamante i Rivero Government, 1945-1948: a Reappraisal of Party-led Labor Incorporation
Amparo Sánchez Cobos : Race and Nationality in the Anarchist Discourse in Cuba after the Independence.



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
V-9 LAT05 State Agents and State-Society Relations in 20th Century Latin America
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Networks: Latin America , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Michael Gonzales
Organizer: Kim Clark Discussant: Michael Gonzales
Kim Clark : Public Health Leaders and Ecuadorian State Formation, 1900-1930
Paulo Drinot : State Agents and Venereal Disease in Peru, 1900-1950
Irène Favier : Ethnopsychiatry in Peruvian and Brazilian Contexts



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-10 WOR10 Translators as Cultural Brokers: Cultural Mediation in the Peripheries
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Diana Roig Sanz
Organizer: Diana Roig Sanz Discussant: Ventsislav Ikoff
Yehua Chen : Shen Yanbing’s (1896-1981) Cultural Mediation Activities In The Construction Of New Chinese Literary Identity
Amotz Giladi : Hebrew Nationalism and the Import of Foreign Literatures: the Case of Yonatan Ratosh
Hanna Pieta : Translation of Polish literature into European Portuguese: Translators as Cultural Mediators
Serena Talento : Nyerere Translates Shakespeare in Post-colonial Tanzania: Translation as Legitimation of Swahili and Negotiation between Localism and Globalism



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
V-11 SPE01 Big Data in Economic and Social History: Global and Regional Perspectives
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Networks: Economic History , Labour , World History Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Pim de Zwart, Jan Luiten van Zanden : "How was Life? Global Well Being since 1820"
Karin Hofmeester, Jan Lucassen : The Collab on Global Labour History, 1500-2000": Stock Taking Spring 2016
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1800-2000
Andrei Markevich : Economic Development of the Late Russian Empire in a Regional Perspective
Auke Rijpma : The Clariah-project and the Quantity-quality Tradeoff: Understanding Household Size and Investment in Human Capital through Big Data



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
V-12 THE01 Conceptualizing Global History: A critical look at some of the field’s central terms
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Roland Wenzlhuemer Discussants: -
Julia Angster : Notions of the National in a Global Perspective
Martin Dusinberre : Problems with the “Global” Scale in Global History
Benedikt Stuchtey : Imperial Lives and Global Lives
Roland Wenzlhuemer : Reconceptualizing Global Connections in History



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
V-13 THE02 History and Present-Day Social Action
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Theory Chair: Berber Bevernage
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Anton Froeyman : Moral Anachronisms: What are they, and how should we deal with them?
Kalle Pihlainen : On the Conservatism of Historians’ Theory
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon : History, Change, and the Future



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-14 WOR11 Transnational Actors and Networks of the Trade Union Movement
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Stefan Mueller
Organizer: Johanna Wolf Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Silke Neunsinger : The Long Walk to Wage Justice: Transnational Influences on Measuring, Defining, Standardizing Wages during Apartheid in South Africa
Steven Parfitt : The Knights of Labor as a Global Movement
Johanna Wolf : Introduction: the State of the Art on Transnational Actors in the Trade Union Movement
Adrian Zimmermann : Leading Trade Unions Nationally and Internationally: the Case of the Swiss General Secretaries of the International Metalworkers’ Union (IMF) Konrad Ilg and Adolphe Graedel



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
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
V-16 POL29 Political History and Peoples' Struggles in Europe and the Americas
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Barbara Weinstein
Organizers: Teresa Meade, Andor Skotnes Discussant: Barbara Weinstein
Teresa Meade : The Political Crisis of Refugees from Occupied Poland in World War II to the Mexican Border Today
Margaret Power : Connections between the Social and the Political in the Forging of Puerto Rican Nationalism in Chicago
Andor Skotnes : The Long Black Freedom Movement and US Politics from the Great Depression to the Present


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