Preliminary Programme

Showing: room L (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
L-1 SPA11 Connectedness
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douglas Brown
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Aleksandra Dul : Popularity and Socialising in Early 19th Century Poland Rural Community
Albertina Ferreira, Fernanda Olival : An Integrated Model to Analyse Geo-temporal Networks
Sebastian Klüsener, Martin Dribe & Francesco Scalone : Social and Spatial Connectivity in the Fertility Transition
Peter Meyer : A Wiki for Linking Records of Aeronautics and Early Aviation, 1800-1916
Diogo Paiva, Francisco Anguita : Filling the Gap: Completing Individual Life Courses by Linking Dutch and American Data



Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
L-2 WOM01 Formal and Informal Networks of Migrant Women and Men in Settlement Process (14th-19th Centuries)
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizer: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Discussants: Amy Erickson, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Fabrice Langrognet : Gender in Crossings: Identifications and Networks of Migrant Men and Women in the Plaine-Saint-Denis, 1880-1914
Charmian Mansell : ‘I canne staye away no Longer’: Gendered Patterns of Servant Migration in the Church Court Depositions of Early Modern England
Thomas Verbruggen : The Strategies of Foreign Women and their Employers in the Belgian Domestic Service Labour Market (1850-1910)



Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
L-3 ECO17 War, Blockade and the Evolution of Trade and Organization of Trading Networks during the Napoleonic Period
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Pepijn Brandon
Organizer: Marjolein 't Hart Discussant: Christiaan van Bochove
Marjolein 't Hart : Wars, Blockades, and Economic Change in the Netherlands, 1795-1813
Hilde Greefs : International Trade during a Period of Disruption and Change. The Case of Antwerp, 1795-1815
Johan Joor : Dutch North Sea Fishery in Times of Trouble and Turmoil. Fishing, Smuggling, ‘Forced Communication’ and the Maintenance of Trading Networks by Dutch Fishermen during the Napoleonic Continental Blockade, 1806-1813
Dirk Lueb : Smuggling Networks in the Southern Netherlands during the French Period, 1795 – 1814



Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
L-4 TEC06 New STS Perspectives on Innovation and Resistance
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Viktor Borisov : A Steel Bullet for Russian Army (1760 – 1762): between Magic and Science
Felicitas Soehner : Social Ethical Implications and their Medical-historical Framework of Human Genetics in Germany – in the Memory of Contemporary Witnesses



Thursday 5 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
L-5 ECO25 Financial Markets and Intermediation
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Christiaan van Bochove
Organizers: - Discussant: Christiaan van Bochove
Christos Desyllas : Strange and Powerful Forms of Credit
Adrian Leonard : The Merits of Joint Stock: Floating Marine Insurance Companies on a Bubble
Christopher Pihl : Between Personal and Institutional Trust? The Bank of Sweden in the Seventeenth Century Credit Market
Tonia Ruppenthal, Rosemarie Schade : A Historically Successful Business Model: Financing Benedictine Abbey’s



Thursday 5 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
L-6 THE06 Anarchism and Republicanism: Theory
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Theory Chair: Bert Altena
Organizers: Bert Altena, Ruth Kinna Discussant: Carl Levy
Matthew Adams : Utopian Civic Virtue: Bakunin, Kropotkin and Anarchism's Republican Inheritance?
Guilherme Falleiros : Federalism in Anarchism, Republicanism and Amerindian Politics
Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard : Anarchism Violence and Freedom: the Evolution of an Anarchist-republican Debate
Peter Ryley : Patrick Geddes: Citizenship, Community and Social Evolution. His Theory of Civics



Thursday 5 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
L-7 ECO18 Was there Enough Food? Case Studies on the Availability of Foodstuffs in Times of Famine
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Timo Myllyntaus
Declan Curran : Silver Coin Shortages during the Great Irish Famine (1845-1850) and Sen’s Food Entitlement Approach
Marja Birgitta Erikson : Harvest Failure but no Famine: a Study of Relief Administration in East Central Sweden, 1840–1847
Gudmundur Jonsson : Food Availability in Iceland during the Famine of 1801–1805
Marten Seppel : How to Define and Determine the End Point of a Famine? The Comparison of Northern European Famines, 1603-1709



Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
L-8 TEC01 Patents and Innovation
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Michelangelo Vasta
Organizer: Alessandro Nuvolari Discussants: -
Ugo Gragnolati, Alessandro Nuvolari : Innovation, Localized Knowledge Spillovers and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Mario Holzner, Stefan Jestl : State Capacity and European Technological and Economic Development from 1870 to 1913
Jochen Streb, Sybille Lehman-Hasemeyer : Inventors' Experience and Expectation in the German State of Wuerttemberg, 1818-1866



Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
L-9 TEC02 Patents and Innovation in the European Periphery (Spain, Italy and Sweden)
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Andersson, Fredrik Tell : From Fighting Monopolies to Promoting Industry - Patent Laws and Innovation in Sweden 1819-1914
Patricio Saiz : "Use It or Lose It" - Innovation Under Short-Lived Patents: Evidence from 19th Century Working Clauses
Michelangelo Vasta : The Early Phases of the Italian Patent System (1861-1870)



Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
L-10 TEC03 Science and Technology in Authoritarian Regimes: Implications for STS
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Pedro Ruiz-Castell
Organizers: Pedro Ruiz-Castell, Carlos Tabernero Discussant: Carlos Tabernero
Dolores Augustine : The German Democratic Republic: a Technological Dictatorship
Lino Camprubí : Authoritarian or Capitalistic? Historical Categories for Spanish Cold War Science
Clara Florensa : Science and Science Communication in the Political Struggle between Different Francoist Factions



Friday 6 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
L-11 ECO03 Backlash by Nature or Backwardness? Comparison of Estonian and Finnish Famines in the 1860s
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Gudmundur Jonsson
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Mats Morell
Henrik Forsberg : ‘If They Do Not Want To Work And Suffer, They Must Starve And Die.’ Irish and Finnish Famine Historiography Compared
Antti Häkkinen : The Great Famine of the 1860's in Finland: a Man-made Disaster?
Jan Kunnas : Finnish Agricultural Production Capacity, Import and Export of Food during and at the Dawn of the 1866-1868 Famine: any Lessons for the Present?
Timo Myllyntaus : Substitute Food in Copying with Famines Comparison of Survival Strategies in Preindustrial Estonia and Finland



Friday 6 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
L-12 SEX14 New Books by Alana Harris (ed.), The Schism of ’68. Catholicism, Contraception and 'Humanae Vitae’ in Europe (1945-1975) and Andrew Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution. Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Sexuality Chair: Julie Gammon
Organizers: - Discussants: Alana Harris, Andrew Shield



Saturday 7 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
L-13 TEC05 Public Statistics and Quantification Tools to Measure the Rich and the Poor in Europe
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Science & Technology Chair: Cecilia Lanata Briones
Organizers: Cecilia Lanata Briones, Béatrice Touchelay Discussant: Béatrice Touchelay
Helena Bergman, Johan Edman & Lena Erikson : Scientific State or State Science? The Knowledge-base of Swedish Welfare Research and Welfare Policy 1915–2015
Florence Jany-Catrice : Conflicts in Measuring and Using a Price Index - the Case of France over the Twentieth Century
Andrew Newell, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos : Inequality among Working Households in Europe, 1890-1960
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk, Corinne Boter : Household Consumption in the Dutch Empire, 1890-1930



Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
L-14 TEC04 Scientific and Technological Expertise about Natural Resources: Cases from Russia and Neighboring Countries
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Science & Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizer: Julia Lajus Discussants: -
Alexandra Bekasova : Emergence of Material Scientists’ Expert Community in Imperial Russia: Intensive Industrial and Transport Network Development, Quality of Construction Materials and “the Cement Question”, 1880-1915
Evgeniya Dolgova : Was the Scientific Community in the USSR Communist (?): Statistical Documents on Scientists in 1929-1937
Julia Lajus : Concept of ‘Natural Resources’ and Changing Attitudes towards Resources and its Users in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Jonathan Oldfield : The Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS) and the Development of Russian Geography, 1915-1930



Saturday 7 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
L-15 ECO27 Mortality accross Europe
PFC/02/013 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography Chair: M. Erdem Kabadayi
Organizers: - Discussant: M. Erdem Kabadayi
Alan Fernihough, Mogan Kelly & Cormac Ó Gráda : Population and Poverty in Prefamine Ireland
Levente Pakot : Mortality Differentials and Vulnerability to Economic Stress in Western Hungary, 1828-1934
Cristina Victoria Radu, Peter Sandholt Jensen & Battista Severgnini & Paul Richard Sharp : Looking for Malthusian Mechanisms in Denmark


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