Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (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
B-1 SOC22 Fashion, Luxury, Credit and Trust. Early-modern and Modern Bankruptcies in Europe, North America or Elsewhere
OSCR Lanyon Building
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Heiko Droste
Organizers: Heiko Droste, Klas Nyberg Discussant: Heiko Droste
Axel Hagberg : The Argumentation in Bankruptcy Proceedings. Social and Financial Networks in Stockholm 1760-1850
Mats Hayen : Bankruptcies in the Book Printing Industry in Stockholm, 1750-1850
Håkan Jakobsson : The Economic and Social Argumentation in Bankruptcy Proceedings Relating to the Stockholm Silk Textile Industry, c. 1800-1850
Klas Nyberg : Credit and Trust in Early Modern Stockholm
Paula von Wachenfeldt : Luxury and Credit in Nineteenth-Century France


P-1 FAM16a Disabilities, Partnership and Family across Time and Space
PFC/02/025 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizer: Lotta Vikström Discussants: Lisa Dillon, Sonali Shah
Pierre Brasseur : A Calling to Love the Disabled. Jean Adnet and the Failure to Mobilize
Gildas Bregain : The Changing Status of Blind Women in France (1900-1975): from Godly Celibate to Recognized ‘Housewives and Mothers’
Kristin Bylund : Ableist Life-paths, Possible and Impossible Family Formations for People with Dis/abilities in the Pre Peak and Austerity Swedish Welfare State
Karin Ljuslinder, Josefine Wälivaara : Families, Relationships, and Futures: Portrayals of Disability in Swedish Cinema
Paul van Trigt : Equal Reproduction Rights? The Right to have a Family in the United Nations’ Disability Policy since the 1970s


Z-1 SOC01 Biography and Humanitarianism
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Pat Thane
Organizer: Melanie Oppenheimer Discussant: Pat Thane
Joy Damousi : Celia John and Save the Children Fund: Internationalism, Humanitarianism, and Pacifism in the Inter-War Years.
Rebecca Gill, Helen Dampier : Constructing a Humanitarian Self: Emily Hobhouse's Auto/Biographical Traces, 1899 - 1926
Melanie Oppenheimer : ‘In the Service of Others her Life was Spent’: Re-creating the Humanitarian Life of Helen Munro Ferguson & her Impact on the Red Cross Movement in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Wall : Voluntarism, Politics, and Humanitarianism: the Role of Lord Woolton as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross, 1943-1963



Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
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.


Z-2 SOC04 Financing Institutions: Making Money and Making Places in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizer: David Green Discussants: -
Douglas Brown : ‘The caprice of a local Board of Guardians’: Geographies of new poor law procurement in England and Wales
David Green : Making Money from Making Places
Alannah Tomkins : The Business of Poverty: Poor Relief and Local Economies of Welfare



Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
P-3 SOC27 Social Fragmentation and New Dividing Lines in the 20th Century
PFC/02/025 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Marjolein Schepers
Organizers: Matti Hannikainen, Jeroen Touwen Discussants: -
Henric Haggqvist : Openness to Trade and Unemployment in the Nordic Countries – Divergences and Convergences, 1920-2000
Matti Hannikainen : Tensions and Compromises between Agrarian and Wage-Work Interests in the Finnish Pension Policy
Ilaria Pavan : A Fascist Heritage? Continuity and Discontinuity in the Italian Welfare State between WWII and the Seventies
Sakari Saaritsa, Jarmo Peltola : Health Responses and Social Returns to Sanitary Investments in Finnish Cities, 1860s-1930s
Jeroen Touwen : Losing Jobs during a Boom: Unemployment and Foreign Trade in the Netherlands since 1950


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


Z-3 SOC05 Languages and Practices of Difference in Europe and the World
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Gudrun Andersson
Organizers: Mikael Alm, Margaret Hunt Discussant: Margaret Hunt
Mikael Alm : The Nature of Order: Languages of Difference and Social Imaginaries in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Michael Bennett : Theory and Practice in the Construction of Slave Labour Regimes: the Case of the English East India Company, c. 1660-1683
Tobias Larsson : Identifying Responsibility: the Ordering Vocabulary of Sweden’s First Police
Mary O'Dowd : Old Age in Early Modern Ireland: an Agenda?
Victor Wilson : A Transient Maritime Community during the Age of Revolution: Gustavia, St. Barthélemy, 1793–1815



Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
Z-4 SOC06 Mutual aid and State Provision: Mutual Insurance, Social Policy and Individual Welfare in Europe in the 19th and 20th Century
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: Jonathan Fink-Jensen Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Lars Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson : Adverse/Propitious Selection in Swedish Mutual Health Insurance Societies, 1905-1930
Jonathan Fink-Jensen : Mutual Sickness Insurance Traditions and Social Policy in England and the Netherlands, 1870-1950
Fernando Largo Jiménez : “Cooperate or Perish“. The Public Social Insurances in Spain and the Strategies of the Federation of Friendly Societies of Catalonia



Thursday 5 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
W-5 LAB20 Workers’ Education: Enlightenment, Education, and Empowerment
6 CP/01/037 6 College Park, School of Sociology
Networks: Education and Childhood , Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: Jenny Jansson, Jonas Söderqvist Discussant: Jane Kenway
Jenny Jansson : Portraying Organized Labor in Workers’ Education: a Comparison of Self-images in German and Swedish Educational Material
Jan Kellershohn : Vocational Retraining and De-industrialisation. Trade Unions, Lifelong Learning and Workers’ Subjectification in Germany during the 1960s
Elena Musiani : Popular Education and Vocational Training in Italy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: a Comparative Analysis
Jonas Söderqvist : Social Mobility or Class Formation? Goals and Ambitions among the Students at Brunnsvik Folk College, Sweden 1906-­1920


Z-5 SOC03 Comparative Perspectives on Poor Relief in European Rural Societies 1700 - 1830
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Esther Beeckaert
Organizer: Nick Van den Broeck Discussant: Wouter Ryckbosch
Thijs Lambrecht, Anne Winter : The Determinants of Poor Relief in Early Modern Rural Societies: Western Flanders C. 1700
Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini & Marco Rochini : Poor Relief Systems in Northern Italy Rural Societies in the 18th Century.
Julie Marfany, Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller & Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora : Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, 1762-1803
Nick Van den Broeck : Between Regions and Localities: Framing and Explaining Micro-Variations in Rural Poor Relief Practices in the Southern Low Countries (1750-1830)



Thursday 5 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
D-6 MID06 Certifying Inequalities in Late Medieval Europe. England, Italy and France in Comparative Perspective
MAP/OG/005 Maths and Physics
Networks: Middle Ages , Social Inequality Chair: Massimo Vallerani
Organizer: Marta Gravela Discussant: Massimo Vallerani
James Davis : Social Stratification in the Streets and Markets of Medieval English Towns
Ian Forrest : Inequality and Trustworthiness in Late Medieval England
Marta Gravela : Unequal Citizenship. The Fiscal Assessment of Inequalities in Late Medieval Italy
Clément Lenoble : Microcredit and Inequalities in the Middle Ages


K-6 SPE02 The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century, by Walter Scheidel
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Antiquity , Economic History , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizer: Neville Morley Discussants: Guido Alfani, Lucy Grig, Willem Jongman, Brooks Kaiser, Geoffrey Kron, Wouter Ryckbosch, Walter Scheidel


V-6 LAB04b Roundtable: Domestic Service and Regulation in Colonial Societies
6 CP/01/035 6 College Park, School of Sociology
Networks: Family and Demography , Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Raffaella Sarti
Organizer: Nitin Varma Discussants: Victoria Haskins, Raffaella Sarti, Samita Sen


Z-6 SOC07 Nomadic Livelihoods: Norms and Practices of Labour, Peddling, and Mobility in Pre-Industrial Nordic Societies
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Matias Kaihovirta
Organizer: Hanna Lindberg Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Theresa Johnsson : Our Not So Peaceful Society: Compulsory Service and Vagrancy in Sweden during the 1830s
Hanna Lindberg, Jutta Ahlbeck : Trading with Strangers. Roma and Karelian Peddlers and the Regulation of Peddling in Nineteenth-Century Finland
Hanne Østhus : Forced into Farm Service? Compulsory Service in Norway in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Vilhelm Vilhelmsson : The Survival Tactics of Vagrants and Daylabourers in 19th Century Rural Iceland



Thursday 5 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 SOC12 The Concept of the Welfare State and the Mixed Economy of Welfare ca 1930--1980
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Nils Edling Discussant: Julia Moses
Nils Edling : The Four Different Welfare States of the Interwar Years
Irene Hardill, Georgina Brewis : Voluntary Action and the State: Debates within England’s Voluntary Organisations in the 1940s
Klaus Petersen, Pauli Kettunen : Welfare State Conceptualizations and the Cold War
Dan Wincott, Paul Chaney : When was the Welfare State? Voluntarism, the State and Welfare Policy, 1945-1980: a Case-Study of Wales


Z-7 SOC08 Regulating the Labouring Poor: Discourses and Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in 18th and 19th Century Europe
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Nick Van den Broeck
Organizers: Marjolein Schepers, Linn Spross Discussant: Thijs Lambrecht
Marjolein Schepers : The Problematization of Poor Migrants: Discourses Versus Quantitative Data at the Borders of Eighteenth-Century Flanders and France
Linn Spross : The Dangers of a Free Labour Market – Poor-Relief, Mobility and Regulations in Sweden during the 19th Century
Carolina Uppenberg : Gender at Work: Servants and Free Labour in 18th and 19th Century Sweden



Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
B-8 RUR14 Growth and Inequality. Explaining Unequal Growth Paths in European Pre-Industrial Societies (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century)
OSCR Lanyon Building
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Tim Soens
Organizer: Davide Cristoferi Discussant: Tim Soens
Ana Avino de Pablo : Inequality and the Evolution of the Land Market(s) within Peasant Societies. An Aspect of the Relations between Economic Growth and Inequality in Late Medieval England (14th-16th c.)
Esther Beeckaert, Eric Vanhoute : Access to Land and Regional Inequalities in Belgium, ca. 1800-1850
Pinar Ceylan : Regional Variations in the Sixteenth Century Western Anatolia
Davide Cristoferi : Inequalities and Growth in the Late Medieval Mezzadria Tuscany (15th-early 16th c.): First Results from an Ongoing Research


Y-8 SOC23 Unwed Motherhood in 18th- and 19th-century History. Contextualizing Pauper and Female Agency
11UQ/01/010 University Square
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Manon van der Heijden
Organizers: Ariadne Schmidt, Griet Vermeesch Discussant: Manon van der Heijden
Loraine Chappuis : Unwed Mothers and their Illegitimate Child in 18th Century Geneva
Ariadne Schmidt, Sanne Muurling & Jeanette Kamp : Unwed Mothers, Urban Institutions and Female Agency in Northern and Southern European Towns
Griet Vermeesch : Contextualising Pauper Agency. Unwed Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century Antwerp
Marian Weevers : Unwed Mothers in the State Labour Institution the Netherlands, Late 19th Century



Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
Z-9 SOC10a The Co-Constitution of Public and Private Actors (I): Building the Field of Social Protection in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Fabio Giomi
Organizers: Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, Morgane Labbé Discussant: Morgane Labbé
Efi Avdela : “Hand in Hand for the Welfare of Others?”. Voluntary Associations and the State in Twentieth–Century Greece
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino : The Contemporary Extension of the Field of Social Aid: a Public-Private Interaction (France, 1980s-2010s)
Joelle Droux : A Quintessential Mixed Economy? Enduring Boundaries of Private and Public Collaboration in Swiss Child Welfare (1910-1970)



Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
N-10 SOC25 Economic and Wealth Inequalities in the Long Run
PFC/02/018 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Green
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elizaveta Blagodeteleva, Olga Pavlenko : Income Inequality, Tax Collection, and Tax Evasion in Times of War and Revolution: a Case Study of Moscow
Michael Buchner : Income and Wealth Inequality in 18th Century South-Western Germany
Petri Roikonen, Sakari Heikkinen : Shocks, Growth and Social Classes. Income and Wealth Inequality in Finland, 1920–1966.


Z-10 SOC10b The Co-Constitution of Public and Private Actors (II): Building the Transnational Field of Welfare in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Morgane Labbé
Organizers: Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, Morgane Labbé Discussant: Fabio Giomi
Linda Guerry : Transnational Mobilizations for a Social Approach to Migration. The Case of the International Migration Service (1921-1939)
Célia Keren : Is a Transnational Social Welfare Programme Possible? The Evacuation of Spanish Children to France, the International Working-Class Movement and the Spanish Republic (1936-1939)
Catherine Maurer : The Co-Constitution of Public and Private Actors: Building the Transnational Field of Social Protection in German and French Cities at the End of the 19th Century
Judith Rainhorn : From the « Social Settlement » to the Public Labor Administration: Dr. Alice Hamilton, a Female Pathway through the American Welfare State under Construction (1889-1935)



Friday 6 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
Z-11 SOC13 Women in Changing Labour Markets
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Tim Riswick
Organizers: Tymofii Brik, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen Discussants: -
Tymofii Brik : Women’s Labor Force Participation the Netherlands during Socio-Economic Modernization.
Joyce Burnette : Why we Should not Measure Female Labor Force Participation Before the Twentieth Century
Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli & Auke Rijpma : Women's Work and the Globalisation Process: Structural Change, Institutions, and Culture.
Constance Hsiung : Occupational Mobility and Gender Composition in the U.S., 1971-2009
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



Saturday 7 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
Y-13 SOC24 Land, Housing, Property and Inheritance: Inequalities in the 19th and 20th Centuries
11UQ/01/010 University Square
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Mazhar Abbas : Role and Influence of Landed Aristocrats in the General Elections in Pakistan
Sinikka Okkola : Senior Housing – a Case Study of Socio-Economic Inequality in St. John`s, Newfoundland, Canada 1991 to 2011
Kjartan Emil Sigurðsson : The Icelandic "Million Homes Program". Housing and Social Corporativist Agreements 1964-65


Z-13 SOC16 Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Networks: Economic History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Social Inequality Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: Pierre Eichenberger, Dennie Oude Nijhuis Discussant: Nils Edling
Pierre Eichenberger : No Monster Like the Beveridge Plan: Employers and the Shaping of the Welfare Mix in Switzerland
Susanna Fellman : Private or Public? Employer Attitudes and Strategies towards Welfare Reforms in Finland in the 1950s and 60s
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : Business Interests and the Development of the Dutch Welfare State
Thomas Paster : Business Interests and the Development of the German Welfare State



Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
Z-14 SOC17 Social Stratification and Mobility
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: David Kilgannon
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Raluca Botos : Education as a Vehicle for Social Mobility in 19th Century in Transylvania a Comparative View on Romanians and Hungarians in the Gurghiu Valley.
Sudhi Mandloi : Social Inequality, Stratification and the Hindu Social Order: the Socio-Cultural Mobility among the Mahar Community
Anne Mccants, Dan Seligson : Polygamy, Social Institutions and Long Run Economic Growth
Ulla Rosén : Marital Status, Gender and Class.



Saturday 7 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
Z-15 SOC18 Welfare Institutions
Music Lecture Theatre School of Music
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Peter Gray
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Thomas M. Adams : 18th Century Bienfaisance and 16th Century Benefaciendum
Ingrid de Zwarte : Fighting Vulnerability: Child Feeding Initiatives during the Dutch Hunger Winter, 1944-45
Carole Holohan : Understanding Poverty in the Republic of Ireland: the Influence of the Second Vatican Council.


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