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8th European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
 
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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 14.15 

E-3  -  ECO02: Interfaith commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times III: Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum

    Network: World History
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Francesca Trivellato
Chair: Amélia Polónia
Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Catia Antunes Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 1580-1776
Juan Gelabert Pecunia, Patria, Religio: Atlantic trade during the Dutch Revolt (1585-1609)
Silvia Marzagalli Trade across religious boundaries in Early Modern France
Jeroen Puttevils Commerce and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

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

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

K-6  -  LAB08: British industrial relations
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: World History
Organiser: Yann Béliard
Chair: Quentin Outram
Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Yann Béliard Rocking the Empire. The Gibraltar Dockers' Strike of 1902.
Peter Ackers Partnership & Productivity? British academic Industrial Relations & public policy, 1945-79: The failure of Workplace Reform & Lessons for Today
Constance Bantman The Strike as a Transnational and Transpolitical Invention, 1880-1914

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

U-7  -  WOR01: Chinese Military History in Global Perspective
M207, Marissal

    Network: World History
Organiser: Harriet Zurndorfer
Chair: Joanna Handlin Smith
Discussant: Robin D. S. Yates
Harriet Zurndorfer What is the Meaning of War in an Age of Cultural Efflorescence? War and Song Dynasty China (960-1279): The Views from Inside and Outside the Empire
Peter Lorge Exporting China’s Military Revolution : Guns around the World
Michael Szonyi Soldiers and Smugglers: Military Households and Maritime Asia Trade in the Ming
Paul Smith War and the Literati State: Military Adventurers and the Irredentist Campaigns of Late Eleventh-Century China

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

T-12  -  WOR02: Rethinking Global-Local: The Role of Overseas Organizations (and Networks) in Early Modern Global Encounters
M202, Marissal

    Network: World History
Chair: Tijl Vanneste
Discussant: Tijl Vanneste
Frasie Hertroijs Acquiring knowledge from China: a comparison of the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company as information agencies of eighteenth century Europe.
Matthias van Rossum Intercultural encounters in a global labour market: The Dutch East India Company and the development of intercultural relations between European and Asian sailors (1600-1800)
Karwan Fatah-Black The role of regional trade in the formation of a Dutch plantation colony: Suriname's New England connection
Antonella Viola Re-thinking trust in trading networks. The De Vecchi's enterprise in Mysore (1860-1872)

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

C-13  -  WOR03: International Conferences and the Construction of a World United by Knowledge and Politics
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: World History
Chair: Steffi Marung
Discussant: Nico Randeraad
Joao Rangel De Almeida Between Science and Politics. The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Construction an International Sphere of Public Health
Nir Shafir Both Individuals and States: the Hybridity of Diplomatic Power in an Early International Congress
Michael Christopher Low The 1866 International Sanitary Conference through Ottoman Eyes
Ashley Wright The 1931 Bangkok Opium Smoking Conference and British colonial opium policy in Burma.
Fabian De Kloe Beyond Babel: Language and Internationalism in Early 20th Century Science.
Frank Eisermann The Maghrebian-European peace treaties between 17. and 19. century and the importance of the islamic maritime law for the forming and development of the modern international maritime law

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

L-14  -  WOR04: Area Studies in Eastern Parts of Europe (and Beyond)
Room D14, Pauli

    Network: World History
Chair: Attila Melegh
Discussant: Attila Melegh
Katja Naumann Introduction: Uncharted Territory in the History of Area Studies
Torsten Loschke The Contrasting Case: The history of Latin American Studies in the U.S.
Steffi Marung African Studies in the Soviet Union
Robert Wolff Remembering the Amistad; Narratives of Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Frank Hadler Historiography on Latin America and Africa in East Central Europe

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

R-14  -  WOR05: Economic Thought: Past, Present and Future
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: World History
Chair: Matthias Middell
Giovanni Gozzini Economic History and Development Economics: Working Connections, 1950-2000
Gareth Austin The Making of a Global Economic Historiography? Towards the Reciprocal Integration of the Economic Historiography of the West and ‘the Rest’
Hagen Schulz-Forberg Fixing the Future: Social Imagination and Economic Thought

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

R-15  -  WOR07: Comparisons and Connections: the global and the local
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: World History
Chair: Patrick Karl O'Brien
Discussant: Patrick Karl O'Brien
Chair: Katja Naumann
Alessandro Stanziani Captives and slaves in Eurasia, XV-XVIIIth century: a global history at a local time
Attila Melegh Non-teleological Comparisons in the History of Nationalisms and Imperialisms in the Early 20th Century
Eric Vanhaute Global and local peasantries: comparisons, connections, and systems
Birgit Tremml Who reaped the benefits of the transpacific trade?

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

C-16  -  WOR08:History of Technology in a Global Perspective
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: World History
Chair: Steffi Marung
Discussant: Johan Schot
Maria Paula Diogo Shaping the African Landscape: Portuguese railways in Angola and Mozambique
Dirk van Laak Europe in a Global World
Matthias Middell Portals of Globalisation