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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

All days


 Tuesday 13 April 8.30 

N-1  -  ELI01: Fascist Elites
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Sabil Francis
Antonio Costa Pinto Ruling Elites and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships. Comparative Perpectives
Goffredo Adinolfi The Fascist Elites, Government and the Grand Council
Heikki Länsisalo The National Socialist Idea of the "Man of Culture" ? An Analysis of the Propaganda Movie Friedrich Schiller
Alexandre Rocha The Portuguese Ruling Class after the Defeat of Hitler’s Germany: an Elite to be Seduced

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

N-2  -  ELI17: Workshop: the concept of power, applied (double session)
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Marja Vuorinen
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Marja Vuorinen What makes people tick? Cross-discipline approaches to ideological power
Francesco Aimerito Judicial and legal professions in the States of Savoy: élites and 'middle-class' (XVI-XIX centuries)
Raquel Sánchez Cultural politics and national identity in Spain
Pedro Urbano The Portuguese constitutional monarchy
Alex Snellman Remodelling Bourdieu's Capitals as Power Resources
Carlos Eduardo Rebello De Mendonça Trotsky and counter-hegemony in Western Europe in the interwar period
Jaana Gluschkoff Innovations and the rise and fall of elites

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

J-3  -  ELI02: Diplomatic Elites and the Shaping of National Ideas
Room D11, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Chair: Jukka Kortti
Discussant: Jukka Kortti
Chair: Aappo Kähönen
Michael Auwers A Theoretical Framework for the Study of the History of Diplomatic Culture in Times of Crisis: the Case of the Belgian Diplomats, 1910-1940
Ronald Gebauer Cadres on the Diplomatic Stage. The Social Origins and Career Patterns of GDR’s Former Diplomatic Personnel.
Vanni Pettinà Facing Nationalism: State Department vs. Embassy during the Cuban Insurrection, (1955-1958).

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

Y-3  -  ELI03: Methodological Discussions in the Exploration of the History of Elites
M212, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Chair: Violet Soen
Discussant: Ali Yaycioglu
Andrea Pokludova Forming Intelligence in Moravia and Silesia in the 2nd Half of the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Lynn Botelho Methodological Approaches to Writing the Social History of Elite Peasants: England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Henry French Corresponding Problems: Methodological Problems in the Reconstruction of Elite Identities in England, c. 1660-1900
William C. Lubenow Some Notes Toward A Social History of Modern Elites
Martin Gustavsson, Andreas Melldahl The Art of Success in Art. Using prosopographical methods in the study of social recruitment to elite schools and positions in the Swedish art field 1938–2007

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

N-3  -  ELI17b Workshop: the concept of power, applied, part 2 (double session)
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Marja Vuorinen
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

R-3  -  MAT04: Court Consumption
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jonathan Spangler
Chair: Peter Stabel
Discussant: Peter Stabel
Jonathan Spangler Material Culture in the Court of the Guise: inventories, libraries, furniture and visual representations of power and piety in 17th-century Paris
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier The "Menus Plaisirs" administration and its material sphere. A study on material court culture in the 18th century France
Christina Antenhofer Luggage for a life yet to live: The Bride’s treasure as an example for female material culture
Luc Duerloo Tangible Courtesies: Diplomatic Gift Exchange at the Archducal Court of Brussels
Dries Raeymaekers Living like Kings and Loving it. Consumption and Display at the Court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in Brussels, 1598-1621

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

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

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

C-5  -  ECO03: Fashion and Art Markets
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Jon Stobart
Ian Mitchell ‘I designe my books for posterity’: book collectors and conspicuous consumption in early modern England
Laura Ibisco, Valdo D'arienzo The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Klas Nyberg The economics of art and art industry: Patrons, artists and artisans in 18th century Stockholm

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

A-5  -  ELI05: Elites from the Communist World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Meri E. Herrala
Chair: Tauno Saarela
Discussant: Tauno Saarela
Meri E. Herrala Soviet Elite Composers and the Pressures of the Soviet System
Axel Salheiser Social Inequality, Mobility, and the Illegitimate Inheritance of Status: Empirical Findings on the Recruitment and the Career Patterns of GDR Business Elites.
Iina Kohonen Picturing Khrushchevian elite – photographic representations of Soviet cosmonauts
Maciej Tyminski The Local Nomenklatura System: Party Aparatus and Industry in Poland (1956-1970)

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

Z-5  -  ELI07 Academic Elites from 1930s to 1950: national carreer paths
M204, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Nathanaelle Minard
Organiser: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Chair: Nathanaelle Minard
Discussant: Nathanaelle Minard
Carolina Rodríguez-López Academic Exiles: The First Spanish Exiled Professors in the United States Universities (1936-1950)
Jukka Kortti Building New Cultural Finland - Student Magazine Ylioppilaslehti Creating Finnish Culture Elite in Post-War Decades
Andreas Åkerlund Nordic Studies in National Socialist Germany. A possible Career Path for Swedish Academics

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

H-6  -  ELI11: When Elites Dream of Empires
Hortazaal, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Chair: João Marcelo Ehlert Maia
Discussant: João Marcelo Ehlert Maia
Ewa Kociszewska The dream of a French Empire of Henry de Valois, King of Poland (1573)
José Antonio Sánchez-Román Henri Coudreau and the dream of a French Empire in the Amazon

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

D-6  -  LAB01: The Cult of Communist Leaders
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Kevin Morgan
Chair: Kevin Morgan
Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti The cult of leaders in Italian Communism: Gramsci, Togliatti, Di Vittorio
Balazs Apor Exporting Charisma: Leader Cults in the Stalinist Soviet Bloc
Tauno Saarela Kuusinen versus Mannerheim - Finnish leader cults in comparison

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

V-7  -  ELI16: Elites' strategies of survival I: families, power and status in Early Modern Europe
M209, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Konstantinos Raptis
Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Violet Soen, Hans Cools The nobility between France and the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands: Changing loyalties? (1470-1580)
Francisco Chacón Jiménez, Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez Between the Social Thing and the Political Thing. Some Reflections about the Aristocracy in the Hispanic Monarchy. The Example of the House of Los Vélez
Fabrizio D'Avenia Elites and Ecclesiastical Carreers in Early Modern Sicily: Bishops, Abbots and Knights
Lavinia Pinzarrone Urban elite and social mobility in early Modern Sicily: The Bologna family from the 16th to the 17th century

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

D-7  -  LAB02: Leadership in Western European Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Tim Rees
Chair: Matthew Worley
Discussant: Matthew Worley
Tim Rees 'Where There's a Will There's a Way': Leaders and Leadership in the Spanish Communist Party, 1919-1943
Thomas Beaumont Pierre Semard and Communist trade union leadership: The Case of the French Railway Workers
Andrew Thorpe Failure in Communist Party Leadership: Harry Pollitt and the British Communist Party after 1945
John Bulaitis The notebooks and diaries of Maurice Thorez: a new source for the history of French communism

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

Q-7  -  RUR08: Rural Life and Power
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Chair: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Discussant: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Eugénia Rodrigues Female Landowners and political power in the Zambezi valley during the 18th century
John Beckett, M.E.Turner The decline of manorial control over village and community governance, 1603-2010
Claus K. Meyer 'Coerced service,' 'service coercion,' and peasant flight. Reflections on manorial estates in Old Prussian Brandenburg in the light of the history of plantation slavery in antebellum South Carolina

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

T-7  -  URB01: Social-Political Ideas in European Architecture and Urban Planning, 1919-2009
M202, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Sae Matsuno
Chair: Harm Kaal
Sae Matsuno Residents of the “Cities of Tomorrow”: Urban Development and Identity Formation in the Social Housing of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Vienna (1919-1935)
Nicole Muennich Appropriation of Space: The New Socialist Metropolis of „Novi Beograd“ and the Urbanism From Below in the 1960s
Georg Leidenberger A trans-Atlantic Courier of Socialist Modernism: Hannes Meyer’s Cooperative Housing Projects in Europe and Mexico, 1919-1949
Manfredo Di Robilant A 'White' Plan for a 'Red' Region: the Piano Inacasa in Emilia Romagna, Italy, through the case of quartiere Sant’Agnese, Modena 1952-1957
João Queirós City, State and social change. A sociohistorical approach to the consequences of State-led housing projects in Porto's historical centre

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

X-9  -  ELI08: Business Elites I: Women Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Europe
M211, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Galina Ulyanova
Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Discussant: Martin Wottle
Discussant: Andrea Pokludova
Galina Ulyanova Female entrepreneurial elite in nineteenth-century Russia: ‘noble’ and ‘merchant’ patterns
Polly Thanailaki Female Illiteracy and Women Domestic Servants in the 19th Century Greek Society
Stefanie Van De Kerkhof Women Entrepreneurs in the Early Industrialization - A Regional Comparison of the Ruhr and Upper Silesia

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

A-9  -  MAT08: Old Collectables in a Modern World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Ilja Van Damme
Organiser: Dries Lyna
Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Chair: Dries Lyna
Discussant: Dries Lyna
Adriana Turpin The emerging antiques market in early 19th century England
Julia Petrov "Bits of Kernooze"; Homosociality and antiquarianism in Britain, 1880-1914
Manuel Charpy Trafficking the world, trafficking the times. The market of exotic antiques in Paris between 1850 and 1914
Jozef Glassée Collecting and donating art. On the relationship between private art consumption and donations to the fine arts museums of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent (c. 1800–c. 1914)

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

X-10  -  ELI15: Business Elites II: modernizing peripheries, transforming port cities
M211, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Piotr Korys Modernizers on the periphery. Ruling elites and choice of the patterns of modernization in Poland between 18th and 20th century
Huibert Schijf Elites in Port Cities
Aappo Kähönen Formation of Foreign and Trade Policy in New Nation-States: Case of Finnish and Estonian Bourgeois Elites, 1918-1925

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

N-11  -  ELI04: Elites' Strategies of Survival II: class, distinction and identity markers, 18th -20th centuries
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Charlotta Wolff
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Charlotta Wolff "Old and true". The survival and identity of merchant families in 19th-century Finland (ca. 1770–1920)
Jouko Nurmiainen Elite survival. Theories and patterns
Bertrand Goujon The Arenberg family from Early Modern Times until WW I

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

F-11  -  ELI14: Business Elites III: Politics and Class Identity
Vestibule, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Chair: Per Lundin
Discussant: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Kari-Matti Piilahti Formation and Generational Continuity of the Finnish Business Elite 1850¬-1940
Aliye F. Mataraci A Profile of Business Elites in Istanbul by the End of the Ottoman Empire
Pål Brunnström The making of class among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939
Maiju Wuokko In the Woods with President Kekkonen – Field Sports as a Means of Interaction between the President and Finnish Forest Industrialists

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

K-11  -  MAT09: Authenticity, Canonization, Professionalization and the Museum
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Mark Westgarth Putting History in Order: Sir Samuel Meyrick’s ‘Period Rooms’ at Goodrich Court, 1828-1831
Abigail Harrison Moore Authentic Objects?: The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Antiques Trade in the early Twentieth Century
Uta Protz The Construction of New Cultural Elites: The Foundation of the Vereniging Rembrandt (1883), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (1897), the Société des Amis du Louvre (1897) and the National Art Collections Fund (1903)

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

S-11  -  POL20: Historians as Citizens: Political Interventions in the Americas
M101, Marissal

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Margaret Power
Chair: Ido de Haan
Margaret Power Historians and Political Engagement: The Strengths and Challenges of Conducting Research on a Movement with which You Work
Andor Skotnes Politics, Citizens, and Nation
Barbara Weinstein Professional Politics: A View from the Presidency of the American Historical Association
Temma Kaplan Historians as Citizens: Political Interventions in the Americas”
Teresa Meade Historians and Political Practice: Some Thoughts about the US, Latin America, and Beyond

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

N-12  -  ELI09: Re-inventing the urban elite
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jon Stobart
Chair: Jon Stobart
Discussant: Jon Stobart
Sheryllynne Haggerty Elite Mercantile Networks in Liverpool 1750-1810: Power, Status and Control
Jan Hein Furnee Nobles and notables. The integration of elites in post-restauration The Hague, 1813-1820
Hilde Greefs Change in composition and definition of urban elites during a period of transformation. The case of Antwerp, 1750-1850
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss Towards a deeper knowledge of professionalisation in nineteenth-century Britain

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

N-13  -  ELI10: Cornerstones of noble identity
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Bertrand Goujon
Organiser: Mirella Marini
Chair: Bertrand Goujon
Chair: Mirella Marini
Discussant: Francisco Chacón Jiménez
Nicola Cowmeadow Scottish Noblewomen, the Family and Scottish Politics in the Era of the Union of 1707
Anne-Valérie Solignat The Auvergne Nobility and the Constable of Bourbon’s Betrayal (1523)
Klaas Van Gelder Loyalty towards Anjou versus loyalty towards Habsburg. The elites in the Southern Netherlands in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725)
Cristina Ramos Cobano Fighting oneself, or the transformation of the Spanish nobility at the end of the Old Regime

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

A-14  -  ELI12: Elites through material culture
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jari-Matti Kuusela
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Jari Okkonen
Jari-Matti Kuusela Burials of the Finnish Iron Age as material discourses of the elite
Samuel Vaneeckhout The origin of prehistoric elites in Finland
Laura Giacomini The Life of the Milanese Elite in their Residences as Reconstructed through Estate Inventories (XVI-XVII century)
Danielle De Vooght Performing power at the table. Dining at the Belgian royal court of the nineteenth century

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

N-16  -  ELI13: Elites by the book: novels, diaries, autobiographies, account books, recipe books, inventories
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Organiser: Yme Kuiper
Chair: Paul Janssens
Discussant: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Yme Kuiper Nobility and Fiction: the representation of the nobility in the 'roman fleuve' around 1900
Hanneke Ronnes The memory of the noble house
Jon Stobart Tea and cakes: elite consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England
Jaap Moes Some aspects of the life style of Dutch aristocracy around 1900
Wybren Verstegen Private landownership, nobility and nature conservation in the Netherlands 1928- 1973