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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

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  Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

A-4  -  FAM05: Measles and Other Childhood Diseases
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Renzo Derosas
Chair: Alice Reid
Renzo Derosas Measles epidemics in nineteenth-century Venice: dynamics and risk-factors
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, María Eugenia Galiana And Josep Bernabeu-Mestre And Angela Cremades Epidemiological factors and childhood in contemporary endemic trachoma in Spain 1900-1960
Sara García Ferrero, Jim Oeppen & Diego Ramiro Fariñas Estimating Reproductive Numbers for the 1889-90 and 1918-20 Influenza Pandemics in the city of Madrid.
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir Measles in virgin soil regions in Nordic countries during the 19th century
 

B-4  -  AFR01: Labour and Transport in Africa
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Africa
Chair: Jan-Bart Gewald
Ntewusu Aniegye From Cattle Ranch to Lorry Park: A Social History of Accra Tudu Lorry Park 1920-2007
Walter Nkwi “Human Lorries:” Labour mobillity and Transport in British Southern Cameroons, 1922-1961
Mary Davies Rest houses, recruitment centres and remote places: the social history of a ‘departure point’ in Northern Malawi 1933-1975
 

C-4  -  CRI18: Meet the author: Randolph Roth: Homicide in Europe and the US
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Criminal Justice
Chair: Paul Lawrence
Discussant: Manuel Eisner
Discussant: Pieter Spierenburg
Discussant: Pete King
Randolph Roth The Relationship between Guns and Homicide in the United States
 

D-4  -  LAB03: Politics and violence: 20th century Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Matthew Worley
Chair: Matthew Worley
Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Sylvain Boulouque French communist party and political violence
Marco Albeltaro Communism and violence in Italy 1921-1948
Nigel Copsey Transatlantic Perspectives on Anti-Fascism: Communists and the Anti-Fascist Struggle in Inter-War Britain and the United States
Andreas Wirsching Violence as discourse: For a 'linguistic turn' in communist history
 

E-4  -  EDU04: Childhood in Mental Health, Senses and Emotions
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Frank Simon
Antonella Cagnolati ‘Holy lives and joyful deaths’. Feelings of despair and hopes of salvation in children’s books (England, second half of XVIIth century)
Annemieke Van Drenth Anomalous children. The discovery of the Cornelia de Lange syndroom
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson Child therapy as an arena for normative regulation of childhood and individualization of children
Ian Grosvenor, Catherine Burke The Hearing School: an exploration of sound and listening in the modern school
Bengt Sandin Child Psychiatry between scholarly traditions in Sweden 1945-1985. Medical conferences as an arena for defining the borders and content of an emerging disciplinar field
 

F-4  -  WOR06: Interfaith Commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times IV: In and Around the Indian Ocean
Vestibule, muziekcentrum

    Network: World History
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Francesca Trivellato
Chair: Peer Vries
Discussant: Peer Vries
Roxani Margariti Coins and Commerce: the numismatics of the Indian Ocean's trading networks, 10th-13th centuries
Leonard Blusse Mammon meets the Gods: Dutch attitude towards Asian trading and religious practices
Ivana Elbl The Bull Romanus Pontifex of 1454 and the Early European Trading in Sub-Saharan Atlantic Africa
 

G-4  -  SOC17: Hands on session on coding historical occupations
Computerroom D4, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Richard Zijdeman
Chair: Richard Zijdeman
 

H-4  -  TEC04: Economy 2: Railways, Agricultural Development and Urbanization in Britain, France and Spain, 1840-1970
Hortazaal, Pauli

    Network: Technology
Network: Historical Computing and GIS
Chair: Anne Mccants
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Ian Gregory Where Can I Get the Train? Accessibility to Railway Transport in Great Britain, 1840-1950
Laia Mojica Gasol Measuring the impact of railways on urbanization through GIS: a case study of the Iberian Peninsula and France.
Robert Schwartz, Ian Gregory Railways and Agrarian Change in Rural Britain and France, 1850-1914
Thomas Thevenin, Arnaud Banos Exploring space and time dimensions of agriculture and population change in France, 1830 to1930
 

I-4  -  SEX02: Sexualities against the political orthodoxies
Room D1, Pauli

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: David Churchill
Discussant: David Churchill
Ana Cristina Santos Queering ‘the family’? Fifteen years of LGBT activism in Portugal
Sebastian Buckle 'The Coming of Age of the English Gay and Lesbian Movement": Section 28 and the Struggle for its Repeal
Peter Edelberg The De-dramatization of Homosexuality in Denmark 1945 - 80
Jens Rydström Scandinavian Disjunctures: Disability, citizenship and sexuality in Denmark and Sweden, from 1925 to the present day
Lesley Hall Interwar British women pushing at the boundaries: beyond the Me Tarzan, You Jane, Let's Make Babies paradigm
 

J-4  -  REL04: Material Religion in Early Modern Europe: Images, Objects and Spaces
Room D11, Pauli

    Network: Religion
Organiser: Silvia Evangelisti
Chair: Simon Ditchfield
Discussant: Simon Ditchfield
Silvia Evangelisti Devotional objects, and the senses in early modern Italy
Paula Bessa Uses of images: Late Medieval wall paintings in Portuguese parish churches
Silvia De Renzi Bad air at the Collegio Romano: physicians and the health of communities in Counter Reformation Rome
Tara Hamling Old Robert’s Girdle: Visual and Material Props for Protestant Piety in Post-Reformation Britain
 

K-4  -  ETH21: History, Memory and Migration II
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Culture
Organiser: J. Olaf Kleist
Organiser: Irial Glynn
Chair: J. Olaf Kleist
Discussant: J. Olaf Kleist
Irial Glynn What role has a country’s migration history in its migration present? Immigration debates in Ireland and Italy compared.
Mary Hickman Past Immigrations, Contemporary Representations: in UK life narrative interviews
José Lingna Nafafé African Migrants: Past and Integration in Northern Europe
Christopher Kennedy Death and Despair, Prosperity and Plenty: Irish Visions of America
Kevin Myers Cultures of history: minority histories and the politics of the past in post-war Britain
 

L-4  -  HIS05: GIS, the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Room D14, Pauli

    Network: Middle Ages
Network: Historical Computing and GIS
Chair: Ian Gregory
Discussant: Ian Gregory
Lies Vervaet Using GIS in a research on the correlation between the socio-economic features and the geographical aspects of a rural village in Early Modern Flanders
Tim Bisschops GIS and real property: a view of Antwerp before its Golden Age (ca 1390–1430)
Joachim Laczny The late medieval ruler Frederick III (1440–1493) on the journey – the creation of the itinerary using a Historical GIS (his-GIS)
 

M-4  -  POL04: Communism and National Legitimacy in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Martin Mevius
Chair: Muriel Blaive
Discussant: Muriel Blaive
Martin Mevius “Defending Our Historical and Political Interests”: the Hungarian Communist Party and the 'History of Transylvania'
Markus Wien National Legitimacies and Nation Building in Communist Bulgaria
Stefano Bottoni Reassessing the Communist Takeover in Romania: Violence, State-building, National Legitmacy
Celia Donert Wandering about Europe: Communism, Nationalism and "Gypsies" in Postwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania
 

N-4  -  ELI06: Academic elites after World War II: nationalists, democrats, technocrats
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jussi Välimaa
Organiser: Marja Jalava
Chair: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Discussant: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Discussant: Jussi Välimaa
Marja Jalava Higher Education and the Question of Equality in the Post-World War II Nordic Welfare States
Pieter Dhondt Democratisation of university education in Belgium: wishful thinking or reality?
Per Lundin, Niklas Stenlås The Reform Technocrats: Identifying the Nation Building Elite in Post-War Sweden
Kazimierz Musial Elitist turn in higher education in the context of recent reforms in the Nordic countries
 

O-4  -  ANT03: Quantifying the Roman Economy
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Alan Bowman
Discussant: Alan Bowman
Hannah Friedman Atmospheric pollution proxies for Roman metal production
Dario Nappo The scale of Roman wine exports to Arabia and India
Ben Russell Trends in the production and distribution of sculpted stone
Andrew Wilson Quantifying growth and contraction in the Roman economy
 

P-4  -  FAM22: Family Foundations II. Gender and Property Devolution
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Discussant: Jon Mathieu
David Warren Sabean Revival of Patrilineage and Family Foundations in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany
Randi Deguilhem Women’s Family Foundations in Late Ottoman Damascus: Identifying the Endowers, Understanding their Objectives
Nada Moumtaz Family and Philanthropic Waqfs in 19th century Beirut
Beshara Doumani The Waqf Foundation as a Family Charter
 

Q-4  -  RUR05: Wills and Marriage Contracts in impartible Inheritence System
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Rural
Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Joseph Goy
Chair: Joseph Goy
Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Gertrude Langer-Ostrawsky, Margareth Lanzinger Joint or separate? Marriage contracts and the consequences of different marital property regimes in the Habsburg Empire in the 18th Century
Rolande Bonnain-Dulon From macro to micro, marriage contracts a key for social history
Anne-Lise Head-König The undivided farm in Switzerland before and after the implementation of the 1912 Swiss Civil Code: ways and means to attain this objective
Rosa Ros The decline of impartible inheritance system. The example of Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia), 1780-1860
 

R-4  -  MAT03: Homemaking, Cherishing and the Senses
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Paddy Dolan
Discussant: Paddy Dolan
Natalie Scholz Whose authority reigns in the living room? Contested meanings of the past and the present in West German discourses on ‘Wohnkultur’ during the 1950s
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger Consumption fantasies in modern literature 1820-1860
Margaret Ponsonby A Home of One's Own? Spinsters, Bachelors and the Consumption of Homemaking in the Long 18th Century
Kennan Ferguson Eating the Nation
Sara Pennell Home is where the hearth is? Exploring the uses and means of the hearth in Restoration & later Stuart London (17th c.)
 

S-4  -  THE03: Gender and Conceptualization of Work
M101, Marissal

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Hege Roll-Hansen The gendering of work in Norwegian official statistics 1865 - 1930
Kerstin Bornholdt Gendering sports and physiology: The concept of work in work and sport physiology
Synne Corell Conceptualizations of work in the writing of national history
 

T-4  -  WOM14: Women and the Military Establishment
M202, Marissal

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Beate Fieseler
Discussant: Simona Slanicka
Carol (Kira) Stevens Soldiers' Wives in early 18th century Russia
Maria Sjöberg Women in Campaigns 1550-1850 Household and Homosociality in the Swedish Army
Fia Sundevall “Please note: No amazons wanted!”. Continuity and change in Swedish women’s military work 1865–1965
 

U-4  -  SOC13: New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief II
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Discussant: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Olga Salamatova Ideology of ‘the common weal’ and Implementation of the Poor Law in Early Stuart England
Thomas M. Adams Juan Luis Vives and the Traditions of Welfare Reform
Julie Marfany Responses to poverty in Catalonia: hospitals, charitable funds and outdoor relief (c.1750-1820)
 

V-4  -  ETH04: Exclusion and Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain
M209, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Panikos Panayi
Chair: Panikos Panayi
Discussant: Panikos Panayi
Wendy Ugolini Narratives of ‘Unbelonging’: Recovering Italian Scottish Experience
Gavin Schaffer The Boundaries of Britishness: Jewish Refugees and the War Effort
David Dee ‘I’m afraid we have a Jewish quota’ – Golf, Anti-Semitism and Anglo-Jewry 1900-1980
Quyen Vo The reception of the Hungarian and British refugees in Britain, 1956-57
 

W-4  -  CUL04: Oral Communication in History: Problems and Methodology
M210, Marissal

    Network: Culture
Chair: Frank Bösch
Discussant: Frank Bösch
Filippo De Vivo Studying communication in early modern Italy: Possibilities and pitfalls
Arjan Van Dixhoorn Intermediality of oral communication in the early modern world
Brigitte Mral Methodological Problems Concerning Women's Rhetoric in the 19th Century
Joris van Eijnatten Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Audiences: Diffuse, Simple and Mass
 

X-4  -  URB02: Theorizing Gateway
M211, Marissal

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Michael-W. Serruys
Chair: Robert Sweeny
Discussant: Takashi Okunishi
Michael-W. Serruys Trade flows, transport networks and urban systems: the search for a theoretic framework
Takashi Okunishi From consumption center to gateway city: Ghent and grain circulation
Per Hallén Gateway cities – connecting to the world
Harm Kaal, Abdel El Makhloufi From airfield to airport: An Institutionalist approach of the early development of the Schiphol airport; 1916-1940
Giovanni Favero Inter-modal nodes in different ages: a case study.
 

Y-4  -  ORA04: Teaching and Using Oral History
M212, Marissal

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Almut Leh
Miroslav Vanek Between the conservatists“ and the „investigators“. Oral history in the Czech Republic 15 years after and its current problems
Hana Pelikanova How to Teach „Complex“ Oral History - Oral History as a M.A. studies. A Prague Example
Agnes Khoo Why Oral History matters and the teaching of oral histories - incorporating oral histories in undergraduate social science learning - Asian University for Women as a case study
 

Z-4  -  TEC01: The Development of New Consumer Cultures
M204, Marissal

    Network: Technology
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Dick Van Lente
Discussant: Lesley Whitworth
Hiroki Shin, Colin Divall Rapid travel in comfort: quality of passenger experience in the history of Britain's railways
Gabriele Balbi How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone case study
Clive Edwards Developing new markets in the European furniture industry through the use of lamination and bentwood design and technology, 1830-1880
Alberto Grandi The refrigeration industry and changes in food consumption