Preliminary Programme

Showing: room U (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
U-1 SOC01 Childhood Inequality. Children and Social Inequality
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Jane Humphries
Organizer: Deborah Oxley Discussant: Jane Humphries
Vellore Arthi : The Influence of Infant Nutrition on Children's Growth and Mortality: Evidence from London's Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919
Sarah Campbell : Waists, Hips and Early Life Health Jeopardy: Validating the ‘Barker Hypothesis’ using Nineteenth Century Tailors’ Records
Mary Cox : The Economic History of Inequality: Childhood and the Fall of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Elisabeth Milne, Deborah Oxley : The Health of the Schoolchild before WW1



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
U-2 SOC02 Elites, Inequality and Social Mobility
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Social Inequality Chair: Yolanda Blasco-Martel
Organizer: Miguel Artola Blanco Discussant: Yolanda Blasco-Martel
Miguel Artola Blanco : The Death of the Rentier, an Unexplored Transformation: Madrid, 1930-1950
Jean-Brieux Delbos : “Once in the Elite, always in the Elite? Franchised Parisian Voters, Wealth and Mobility (1845-1859, Paris, France)
Clément Dherbécourt : Social Mobilty among the Top 0.1% in France (1867-1977): a "Rank-rank" Approach
Martín Rodrigo Alharilla : A Transatlantic and Cosmopolitan Elite: Cuban Planters and Merchants in Europe (1830-1900)
Jose Miguel Sanjuan : When is an Oligarchy Formed? The Origins and Evolution of an Elite. Barcelona 1850- 1920



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
U-3 SOC03 Hospital Inmates in the Early Modern Society – Winners or Losers?
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Christina Vanja
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Martin Scheutz
Fritz Dross : The Comings and Goings: Entering and Leaving Nuremberg Leprosaria in 16th and 17th Century
Sarah Pichlkastner : Beer, Cereals, Credit Business, Subjects, Wine – but Inmates? Searching for Inmates in the Archival Sources of the Early Modern Viennese Civic Hospital
Irmtraut Sahmland : Winners or Losers? Negotiating Inmates’ Discharge and Expulsion Out of the Hessian High Hospitals (18th Century)
Alfred Weiss : Inmates as Actors or Chess Pieces in Early Modern Hospital Orders? The Example of Austria



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 8.30 - 10.30
U-5 SOC04 Litigation, Popular Legalism and Contemporary Conceptualisations of ‘Poverty’ in Early Modern Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Criminal Justice , Social Inequality Chair: Simona Cerutti
Organizers: Simona Cerutti, Griet Vermeesch Discussant: Tim Hitchcock
Alexandra Shepard : Worthless Witnesses: Marginal Voices and Popular Legal Agency in Early Modern England
Massimo Vallerani : Poverty and Supplications in Late Medieval Italy
Laurence Van Goethem : Premodern Impostors. Identity Fraud in the Ancien Regime in the Low Countries
Ans Vervaeke : The Great Litigation Decline Unraveled? The Impact of Changes in the Social Profiles of Litigants of Civil Courts in the Franc of Bruges (1650-1795)



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
U-6 SOC06 Social Inequalities in Non-Western Societies: Unique Path or Convergence?
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Organizer: Tymofii Brik Discussants: -
Ingrid Bleynat, Amílcar Challú & Paul Segal : Inequality in Mexico: a Long-run Perspective
Tymofii Brik : Social Changes during Late Industrialization: Social Class Inheritance in Spain
Elena Crinela Holom : Changes within the Occupational Structure and Social Mobility in Transylvania (1850-1914)
Jacob Weisdorf, Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Ugandan Marriage Registers, 1895-2011



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
U-7 SOC07 Solidarity before the Welfare State: a Global Perspective (Middle Ages – Early 20th Century)
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Bert De Munck
Organizers: Bert De Munck, Hadewijch Masure Discussant: Isa Blumi
Hannelore Franck : The Effect of 'Foreign Wealth' on Late Medieval Bruges Poor Relief
Eyal Ginio : Local Communities and their Modes of Charity: the Role of Neighborhoods in 18th-Century Ottoman Salonica
Hadewijch Masure : Introduction: Solidarity before the Welfare State, a Global Perspective
Julia McClure : The Poverty Politics of the Entangled Americas
Angelie Sens : Solidarity from Above? Global Reformer and Social Engineer Johannes van den Bosch' (1780-1844) Works on Poverty and the Pre-welfare State



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
U-9 SOC09 Voluntary Action for International Humanitarian Aid in the 20th Century
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Laura Downs
Organizer: Pat Thane Discussant: Paul Anthony Ginsborg
Emily Baughan : Mrs Jellyby Nation: The British State and Overseas Aid in Europe, 1918-1925.
Joy Damousi : Humanitarian Relief and Child Refugees in the Spanish Civil War: the Case of Esme Odgers and Australia
Melanie Oppenheimer : Voluntary Action by Children for Children: the Emergence of the Junior Red Cross in the 1920s
Tehila Sasson : Humanitarianism After Empire: Biafra and the Emergence of the “Humanitarian International”



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
U-10 SOC10 Voluntary Welfare and the State: Co-operation and Contest in 20th Century Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paul Anthony Ginsborg
Organizer: Pat Thane Discussant: Melanie Oppenheimer
Stefania Bernini : Competing for Souls, Bodies and Rights: Child Welfare and Catholic Politics in Postwar Italy and Poland
Clarisse Berthezène : ‘A Voluntary Organisation Financed by the State’ or ‘a State Service Furnished by Volunteers’? Women’s Voluntary Services, Local Government and the Debate around the Role of Voluntary Social Service in the British Welfare State, 1945-47
Laura Downs : Where do Civil Society and the State Meet? Para-political Spaces of Social Protection in Post-WWI Italy
Pat Thane : The Child Poverty Action Group, 1965-2015:1960s Radicalism and After



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
U-11 SOC11 19th and Early 20th Century Poor Law
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Green : Foreign Influences on the English Poor Law 1834 - 1948
Lucinda Matthews-Jones : Eating and Dining in Toynbee Hall, 1883-1914
Alastair Owens, David R. Green, Martin Daunton, Samantha Shave, and Lesley Hoskins : The Emergence of the ‘Wealth-fare’ State in Nineteenth-century Britain
Lisa Ramqvist : Rational Relief: the Development of Bureacratic Philantropy in Early 20th Century Sweden
Jan Adriaan van der Maas : Poor Relief in Amsterdam 1871-1940



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
U-12 SOC12 Early Modern Charity
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: , Social Inequality Chair: Christina Vanja
Organizers: - Discussant: Irmtraut Sahmland
Thomas M. Adams : Enlightened Social Inquiry, Bureaucracy, and Revolution: the Strange Career of the abbé Leclerc de Montlinot.
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller : Household, Family Ties and Poor Relief in Southern Europe. Barcelona in Late-eighteenth Century
Henk Looijesteijn, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Princes of Mount Lebanon: Orientalism and Occidentalism in a Long Lasting Pan-European Philanthropy Scam, 1720-1810
Olga Salamatova : The Church of England and Changing Boundaries of Philanthropy in the Course of the Emergence and Implementation of the Old Poor Laws, 1550s – 1640s
Pamala Wiepking, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Henk Looijesteijn : The (Un)Charitables: Wealthy Donors in the Golden Age in the Netherlands



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
U-13 SOC13 Social Homogamy in Comparative Perspective
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Nigel Kragten
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Antti Häkkinen : Homogamy, Marriage Patterns and Industrialization in Finland
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen : Partner Choice in the Netherlands 1812-1914: the Importance of Ascribed and Achieved Status
Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen : Variations in Time and Space of Social Homogamy in Flemish-Brabant (Flanders, Belgium) during the 19th and Early 20th Century
Simon Seiler : Social Homogamy in the Canton of Luzern (Switzerland)



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
U-14 SOC14 Social Inequality in Russia
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Tymofii Brik
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elena Bryukhanova : Using HISCLASS System for Social Structure Reconstruction of Siberian City Tobolsk based on 1897 Census
Dmitrii Sarafanov : Siberian Parish Register Books and the Study of Social Status (on the basis of Barnaul parish register books of the second half of the XIXth century)
Anna Shcetinina : Categories of social difference in civil and church sources of Russian empire in XIX-XX centuries
Vladimir Vladimirov : Social Inequality in Siberian City of Barnaul in the 19th Century - Early 20th Century: Classification Schemes and Russian Reality



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
U-15 SOC15 Social stratification and inequality
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Simon Seiler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nigel Kragten, Marco van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas : Women’s occupational status in a modernizing society: the effect of selective labour force participation in Sweden, 1800-1900
Wouter Marchand, J. Teitsma Joha : Intergenerational mobility of pastors in a Dutch province before industrialization
Sadananda Nayak : Christian Identity in India: a Historical Analysis



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
U-16 SOC16 You're Doing It Wrong! The Morals of Social Differentiation in Early Modern Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Culture , Social Inequality Chair: Jonas Lindström
Organizer: Mikael Alm Discussant: Jon Stobart
Mikael Alm : What to Wear: the Moral Ramifications of Sartorial Practices in Early Modern Sweden
Gudrun Andersson : Too Anxious to Please. Moralising Gender in Fashion Magazines in Early 19th Century
Astrid Pajur : The Curious Case of the Nightcap, or Religious Morality and Social Order in Early Modern Sumptuary Legislation


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