Preliminary Programme

Showing: room A (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
A-1 AFR01 Roundtable: Labour, Education and Children in Africa
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Africa Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Pedro Goulart, Joan-Pau Jordà, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Erik Green
Kleoniki Alexopoulou : Education and Child Labour as Communicating Vessels: Portuguese Africa (1890s-1970s)
Pedro Goulart : Child Labour, Agency and Africa’s Colonial System
Joan-Pau Jordà : The Race for Education in Africa


Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
A-2 MAT04 Global Goods in Early Modern Europe
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Janine Maegraith
Organizers: Christine Fertig, John Jordan Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Henning Bovenkerk : Cupboards, Clothes and Crockery. Material Culture and Consumer Revolution in 18th Century (Northwestern Germany )
Christine Fertig : Sweet Coffee, Pretty Scarves: Global Goods and Rural Households in 19th Century (Northwestern Germany)
Josef Loeffler : Material Culture and Consumption of Austrian Aristocrats in Religious Exile in the 17th Century


Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
A-3 AFR02 Coerced Labour in Africa: between Past and Present. Analysing Forms of Free and Unfree Labour through the Lenses of Social Sciences
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Africa Chair: Carlos Fallas Santamaria
Organizer: Marta Scaglioni Discussant: Carlos Fallas Santamaria
Valerio Colosio : From Slave-reservoir to Labour Reservoir. Trajectories of Exploitation in Central Chad
Emilia Melossi : "Caporalato": Ethnicity and Exploitation in Southern Italy
María José Pont Cháfer : A Changing Landscape of Roads and People in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
Marta Scaglioni : The Legacy of Slavery in Tunisia: Blacks' Post-abolitionist Emancipatory Trajectories


Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
A-4 ASI01 Borders, Migration, Identity
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussant: Ratna Saptari
Subhasree Ghosh : Border-Making, Making of Identity: a Case-Study of the Indo-Bangladesh Border, 1947-1971
Shyamal Chandra Sarkar : Origin and Development of International Boundary Problems between Berubari and Bangladesh (1947-1974)


Thursday 5 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
A-5 ASI04 A Geo-spatial Analysis of Agricultural Productivity in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Asia , Economic History Chair: Michael Pammer
Organizer: Semih Celik Discussant: Michael Pammer
Ayca Akarcay, Nurhan Davutyan & Sezgin Polat : Agricultural Output and Other Consequences of 1915 in the Turkish Transition from Empire to Republic
Semih Celik, Erdem Kabadayi : Agricultural Productivity in Western and Central Anatolia: a Regional Perspective 1840-1950
Antonis Hadjikyriacou : Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Analysis of Agricultural Production Data from the 1572 Ottoman Fiscal Survey of Cyprus


Thursday 5 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
A-6 AFR03 Contemporary Politics in Mozambique and Angola
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Africa Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizer: Eric Morier-Genoud Discussants: -
Alexander Keese : Managing the Social Transition Locally: Land, Development, and Local Power under the PAIGC/PAICV Regime in the Barlavento (São Vicente and Santa Antão)
Eric Morier-Genoud : The Catholic Church in Mozambique and World Politics
Augusto Nascimento : The Course of Violence in São Tomé and Príncipe in the Last Half Century
Justin Pearce : History, Legitimacy and Renamo’s Return to Arms in Central Mozambique
Didier Péclard : Nervous Hegemony in Angola. Control, Growth and Resistance in Post-war Politics
Nikkie Wiegink : Armed Opposition in “these Times of Democracy”: Violence and Politics in Mozambique


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


Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
A-8 ASI02 Histories of Contestation and Contested Histories
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration , World History Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussant: Ratna Saptari
Stephanie Mawson : Upland Resistance to Spanish Colonisation in the Seventeenth Century Philippines
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson : Colonial Minorities in Young and Old Colonies during the Era of Decolonisation


Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
A-9 AFR05 Urbanism in Central Africa: (Extra)ordinary Ways of Understanding Zambian and Congolese Cities in the 20th Century
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Africa Chair: Miles Larmer
Organizer: Iva Pesa Discussant: Miles Larmer
Kristien Geenen : Kolwezi, the City of “Copper Eaters”: Urban Planning Determined by Mining Activities
Rita Kesselring : An Ordinary Player in Town: the Local State in a New Mining Area, Northwestern Province of Zambia
Stephanie Lammert : Spiritual Identities in the Central African Copper Towns, c.1950-1990
Iva Pesa : Farming on the Copperbelt: Urban Agriculture and Central African Urbanism


Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
A-10 ASI03 Labour Exploitation and Labour Activism
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Asia Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anis Misiyanti : Cigarette Industry in Indonesia during the Revolutionary Period to the Period of Liberal Democracy
Jari Okkonen : Democratizing and Demilitarizing the Past – Japanese Archaeological Heritage and U.S. Occupation Forces in 1945–48


Friday 6 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
A-11 AFR06 African Economic Development since Independence: Country Experiences
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Chibuike Uche
Organizer: Gareth Austin Discussant: David Green
Gareth Austin : Ghana, the Perennial Test-Case in Africa’s Dramatic Development History, 1957-2011
Erik Green : Why is Malawi Lagging Behind? A Revision of its Post-colonial “Peasant-based” Economic History
Ellen Hillbom : Mauritius: the Post-colonial Success of an African Small Island State


Friday 6 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
A-12 AFR07 Control, Discipline and Revolt in Africa, 1900-Present
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Network: Africa Chair: Mark McQuinn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark McQuinn
Samuel Andreas Admasie : Cycles of Labour Radicalism in Ethiopia: Causes and Effects, 1960-2010
Pedro Cerdeira : African Chiefs under PAIGC Rule – War and Transition in Guinea-Bissau
David Damtar : Imagining Sub-Saharan Gold Mining Communities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives: the Case of Obuasi in Ghana (1950-1970)


Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
A-14 ETH19 Refugees and Refugee Policy
LAN/OG/049 Lanyon Building
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Thierry Hinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Thierry Hinger
Ildiko Barna : Unaccompanied Hungarian Jewish Displaced Children in the IRO Care and Maintenance Program
Emma Meyer : Resettling Burma's Refugees: Labor and Rehabilitation in Visakhapatnam, India, 1941-1948
Aiko Nishikida, Yutaka Takaoka and Shingo Hamanaka : Comparative Study of the Dynamics of the Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden


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