Preliminary Programme

Showing: Elites and Forerunners (all days)
Wed 4 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 5 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30
    19.00 - 20.15
    20.30 - 22.00

Fri 6 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 7 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 17.00

All days
Wednesday 4 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
M-1 ELI01 Anarchism and Republicanism: Elites
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Ruth Kinna
Organizers: Bert Altena, Ruth Kinna Discussant: Ruth Kinna
Bert Altena : Lèse Majesté, Republicanism and the Dangers of Zoology
Federico Ferretti : Anarchism and Republicanism: James Guillaume, Elisée Reclus and the ‘true’ République
Jose Antonio Gutierrez : Anarchist Views: Britain-based Activists and Irish Republicanism (1886-1922)



Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
M-2 ELI03 From State to Local: Governing a Region
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Micu Cornel Aurelian : Land Owners or Office Workers? Rural Elites in Interwar Romania
Ovidiu Iudean : Building Middling Elites as Part of Minority Nation-building: the Romanian Middle Clergy and Law Graduates from Transylvania during Dualism
Svitlana Potapenko : Serving the Empire? Ukrainian Nobility in Late 18th and Early 20th Centuries
Maciej Tyminski, Piotr Korys & Dariusz Standerski : The Local Communist Party Elites and the Enterprises in the Years 1950-1980


Y-2 SOC15a Social Mobility I: Settlers Societies
11UQ/01/010 University Square
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Heidi Ing : Social Mobility in Colonial South Australia: a Three-generation Study of Occupational and Geographic Mobility
Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Jacob Weisdorf : Father-to-Son Mobility in British Africa: Long-Run Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers, 1880-2010
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas : Who Benefits, Stayers in the Motherland or Movers to the Colonies? Social Mobility and Migration to Algeria 1870-1910.



Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
I-3 ELI02 From Central Power to Local "Powers": the Government of a Territory
MST/OG/009 Main Site Tower
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Saara Hilpinen
Organizer: Idamaria Fusco Discussant: Saara Hilpinen
Idamaria Fusco : Governing during an Emergency. The Control of the Territory in the 17th-century Southern Italy
Jacopo Lorenzini : Élites and Institutional Trauma. The Officer Corps of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies before, through and after Italian Unification
Mariarosaria Rescigno : Local Finance and Territorial Government in Southern Italy in the 19th Century. Centre vs. Periphery


M-3 ELI04 Urban Hierarchisation Process in Castile. Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Middle Ages , Urban Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussant: Jesus Angel Solorzano-Telechea
Susana Guijarro : Clerical Elites in Late Medieval Castile
David Igual : Merchant Groups and Urban Oligarchies in Late Medieval Castile: Different Models of Interrelationship?
Sean Perrone : The Council of the Cruzada and its Agents: the Limits on Royal Bureaucracy in the Early Sixteenth Century
Ángel Rozas : Merchants between Toledo and Madrid. Family Strategies of Social Mobility


N-3 ELI16 Elite Property Strategies: Taxation, Consumption, Business, Finance
PFC/02/018 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Elites and Forerunners Chair: Susanna Fellman
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nadia Fernandez de Pinedo : Urban Elites: Social Stratification and Consumption Circa 1750
Elena Korchmina : Did Russian Nobles want to pay Taxes before the Napoleonic Invasion?
Shunsuke Nakaoka : The Age of Great Auction –Selling the Fine Art, Reallocation of the Precious Collection, and the Role of Modern Japanese Wealthy Business Elite


Y-3 SOC15b Social Mobility II:Times of Crisis
11UQ/01/010 University Square
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: Joana-Maria Pujades-Mora
Francesco Ammannati : Social Mobility and Inequality in Post-Black Death Tuscany
Stuart Borsch : Carpe Diem- Ightinâm al-yawm: Mobility and Immobility in Egypt's Landholding System in the Wake of the Black Death
Davide De Franco, Guido Alfani : Plague and Social Mobility in the Sabaudian State (Italy) during the Early Modern Period
Vincent Delabastita, Erik Buyst : A Dramatic Reversal of Fortune: Intergenerational Mobility of Sons and Daughters in 19th-century West Flanders, Belgium
Wouter Ryckbosch : Social Mobility and the Black Death in the Southern Low Countries



Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
M-4 ELI05 Family Strategies and Career Possibilities in Composite Monarchies, 16th–18th Centuries
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Jonathan Spangler
Organizers: Veronika Hyden-Hanscho, Klaas Van Gelder Discussant: Jonathan Spangler
Karin Friedrich : Kinship and Power across Borders: Boguslaw Radziwill (1620-1669) as Governor of Ducal Prussia
Veronika Hyden-Hanscho : Transterritorial Families from Border Regions: the Cases of Carretto and Arenberg between Madrid, Brussels and Vienna in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Klaas Van Gelder : Vienna, Naples, and Brussels: the Composite Habsburg Monarchy and the Career Strategies of the Counts of Harrach (1728-1749)



Thursday 5 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
M-5 ELI06 Female Entrepreneurs as Business Elite: Property Rights and Ownership, 18th - 20th Centuries
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Elites and Forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Galina Ulyanova Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Susana Martínez-Rodríguez : Business Enterprises with Female Partners in Spain. Evidence from the First 50 Years of the Spanish Business Register
Galina Ulyanova : Female Entrepreneurs as Board Directors and Stakeholders of the Biggest Russian Joint-stock Companies, 1870-1900



Thursday 5 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
M-6 ELI07 The European Country House (1880-2000): New and Old Forms of Sociocultural Distinction and Cultural Consumption
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Yme Kuiper
Organizer: Yme Kuiper Discussants: Michael Seelig, Marja Vuorinen
Daniel Menning : Reviving Country House Culture in Southwestern Germany around 1900
Jonathan Spangler : Leaving the Court - the Uses of the Country House for Princes in the Late Seventeenth Century
Fred Vogelzang : Old and New Elite Lifestyles in Nineteenth Century Country House Culture



Thursday 5 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
M-7 ELI08 The Urban Elite at Breaking Points in the Political History of Small European Nations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Urban Chairs: Martin Pekár, Andrea Pokludova
Organizers: Martin Pekár, Andrea Pokludova Discussants: Martin Pekár, Andrea Pokludova
Ondrej Ficeri : The Urban Elite as an Agent of Nationalism: the Case Study of a Disputed City Košice/Kassa in the 1st Half of the 20th Century
Brendan Humphreys : Urbanicide as Politicide. Reflections on Urban/Rural Dynamics from Recent Conflicts
Pavel Kladiwa, Andrea Pokludova : Rural Towns in Moravia as the Channels of Modernisation Processes at the Turn of the 19th Century
Zuzana Tokárová : Interventions in the Composition of Municipal Self-Governance as an Instrument of Anti-Jewish Measures during the Holocaust Period (Comparative Analysis)
Lili Zach : The Irish Intelligentsia and the Self-determination of Small Nations: Links and Parallels between Ireland and Habsburg Central Europe in the Early Twentieth Century



Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
M-8 ELI09a Walking the Line between Great Opportunities and Broken Careers: the Administrative and Political Elite in Central and Eastern Europe in the Years 1917-1921 I
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Pavel Kladiwa
Organizers: Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici Discussant: Pavel Kladiwa
Julia A. Bavouzet : The High Civil Servants in the Turmoil of the After War: Technocrats vs. Politicians
Mark Cornwall : Lawyers and their Transition out of the Habsburg Empire
Martin Klecacký : Building up a New State on Old Grounds. Austrian Imperial Bureaucracy in Republican Service
Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici : Changes and Continuities in the Civil Service from Transylvania before and after 1919



Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
M-9 ELI09b Walking the Line between Great Opportunities and Broken Careers: the Administrative and Political Elite in Central and Eastern Europe in the Years 1917-1921 II
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Pavel Kladiwa
Organizers: - Discussant: Pavel Kladiwa
Ewald Hiebl : In the Dawn of Democracy - the Political Elite in the Saline Town Hallein 1890-1925
Roman Holec : Aristocracy as Former Administrative Elite after 1918 on the Slovak Territory
Zarko Lazarevic : Creation of Yugoslavia and the Restructuring of Economic Power in Slovenia (Ideas and Praxis)
Sergey Valentinovich Lyubichankovskiy : Difficulties of Formation of New Local Elite in the Conditions of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917 (on the Example of the Southeast of Russia)
Martin Pekár, Zuzana Tokárová : On the Origin of Slovak National Oriented Political Elite in the Interwar Period – Gejza Fritz (1880-1957)



Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
M-10 ELI11 British Elite Education as Colonial/Global Phenomenon
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Education and Childhood , Elites and Forerunners Chair: Jukka Kortti
Organizers: Adam Howard, Jane Kenway Discussant: Anne Hedén
Robert Anderson : Lyon Playfair and the Irish University Question, 1871-1880
Adam Howard, Patrick Dickert : In Service of the Western World: Pan-African Education with an Elite Context
Jane Kenway, Michael Lazarus : Elite Schools, Class Disavowal and the Mystification of Virtues



Friday 6 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
M-11 ELI12 Officers and Gentlemen
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Jacopo Lorenzini
Tuula Okkonen : Protecting and Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Context of WWII and an Example of an Exceptional Expert
Konstantinos Raptis : Aristocratic Masculinities in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Central Europe
Alex Snellman : Uniformed Elites: Civil Uniforms as a Form of Imperial Power in Finland 1809–1917
Kati Toivanen : Between two Eras: a Soldier Building the New Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Gentlemen around 1900. Ideals, Culture, Equipment



Friday 6 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
M-12 ELI13 Regimes in Transition: Elite Reorginasation as Symptom of Change
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Adrian Magaldi : Clientelism and Elections in Spain. From Franco Dictatorship to Democracy
Philip Minehan : Avoiding 'Socialism' at all Costs: on the Origins and Ends of Modern Conflict and Warfare
Kristiina Silvan : From Komsomol to Pro-governmental Youth Organisations: Forging Cadres for Future Political Elites in Russia and Belarus
Anna Soulsby : Organizational Elites: Managerial Survival and Changing Reputations in Post-Communist Societies



Saturday 7 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
M-13 ELI14 Elites in Transformation: Individual and Family Strategies
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Organizers: - Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Eeva Kotioja : “Lone Soldier of the Women’s Movement”: Family Network as a Source of Social Capital for a Woman of the Intelligentsia in 19th Century Finland
Marie Steinrud : Beyond Patriarchy? Family, Hierarchy and Property among Wives of Swedish Ironmasters during the 18th and 19th Century
Marja Vuorinen : A nobleman with Bourgeois Attitudes: N. H. Pinello (1802-79) challenging the Political Role of the Noble Estate



Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
J-14 ELI15 Elites as Frontiers
MST/OG/010 Main Site Tower
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Micu Cornel Aurelian
Organizers: - Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Aappo Kähönen : Border Control as Tool of State-building of Finnish and Russian Elites 1917–2017
Radu Nedici : Re-catholicization and Elite Formation: Financing the Parish Clergy in the Eastern Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy before Josephism
Liviu Pilat : Moldavian Elites and the Ottoman Lifestyle in the Sixteenth Century



Saturday 7 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
M-15 ELI17 Elites, Philantrophy and Prosperity: from Donations to Welfare State
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Elites and Forerunners Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sophy Bergenheim : Non-governmental Expertise and the Welfare State in the Making. Finnish Social and Health Policy Organisations as Experts and Policy Actors in the 1940s–1960s
Norbert Götz : The Moral Economy of Humanitarian Subscriptions in the 19th Century
Saara Hilpinen : Business Nobility in 19th Century Finland
Helene Laurent : Trust or Compulsion? The Finnish Immunization Program in the 1950s


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