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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 

C-1  -  MAT02: Life Stories of Consumption
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Lewis Siegelbaum
Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Matleena Frisk New consumer goods, adolescent identities and embodied gender in mid 20th century Finland
Joeri Januarius Keeping Up Appearances? Clothing, Haircuts, and Material Culture of Mineworkers’ Families in the 1950s
Lesley Whitworth The American Notebooks: Natasha Kroll's 1948 US retail research trip
 

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

C-2  -  CUL01: History, National Identity and Representation
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Culture
Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova
Jyoti Atwal Representation of Iconic ‘Hindu Widowhood’ and the Cinematic ImagiNation
Eveline G. Bouwers Defying Germany. The Symbolic Codification of the Pan-German Walhalla Pantheon (Regensburg), ca. 1807-42
Heli Rantala Finnish national identity and the question of "culture"
 

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

C-3  -  CRI07: Evolutionary Perspectives on the History of Violence
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Manuel Eisner
Chair: Clive Emsley
Discussant: Clive Emsley
Manuel Eisner Killing Kings - Elite Violence in Evolutionary Perspective: Europe, 600-1800
Frédéric Vesentini Ordinary Violence, Lethal Violence and Economic Crisis in Belgium in the mid-19th century
Ian Armit The prehistory of warfare and inter-personal violence
Pete King The Rapid Rise of recorded Homicide and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Britain 1800-1860
John C. Wood A change of perspective: integrating evolutionary psychology into the historiography of violence
 

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

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
 

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

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

    Network: Economics
Network: Elites
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
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 10.45 

C-6  -  CUL06: Dealing with History in Public Discourses and Media
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Culture
Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Discussant: Eveline G. Bouwers
Katrin Van Cant Dealing with the past in a transformation process. The past relationship in Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republik: 1989/91-2004
Ewa Ochman The Politics of Memory and Postsocialist Change in Poland
Olga Pak Socialism on display: paradoxes of soviet exhibitionism
Carlota Coronado Ruiz, José Carlos Rueda Laffond Transferring, Assimilation and Adaption Strategies: Notes on the Circulation of Television Historical Fiction in the European Market
 

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

C-7  -  POL06: Science, Networks and Democracy
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Maria Zarifi Surviving through networks. Rescuing policies for the German science in the Weimar Republic.
Ana Monica Fonseca The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy
 

 Wednesday 14 April 16.30 

C-8  -  Networkmeeting Antiquity and Middle Ages
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

   
 

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

C-9  -  FAM08: How to Fight or How to Pray Away Disease
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Chair: Mary Louise Nagata
Discussant: Alice Reid
Hiroshi Kawaguchi Did peasants have agood choice of treatments for diseases?
Peter Sköld Sami causes of death in the nineteenth century
Anna Lundberg Of a sorrowful constitution – sadness and selfperception among mental patients at Furunäset asylum in Sweden 1893-1912
 

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

C-10  -  URB05: Urban Space and Social Divisions
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Urban
Chair: Harm Kaal
Erika Hanna Dublin’s ‘Georgian Heritage’ and the Politics of Dissent 1960 - 1970
Diederick Klein Kranenburg Social divisions in the Schilderswijk of The Hague, 1920-1939
Fiona Cosson A sense of loss: exploring the social anxieties over the demise of community in Britain, 1887-2001
 

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

C-11  -  FAM03: Family Transmission Systems: From Customs to Civil Code II
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Christine Dousset French Civil Code and widows in southern France
Dalia Leinarte And only if he married Agota, everything would remain as was before: Inheritance and Marriage in the XIXth Century Lithuania
Manoela Pedroza, Carmen Alveal The persistence of a moral economy in common lands in a Brazilian civil parish, in the XIX century
Béatrice Craig Relicts of Former Economic Partners? Widows in the English Common Law and the French Civil Code
 

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

C-12  -  MAT10: Branding across Borders
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Network: Economics
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Bert De Munck Guilds, branding and the location of value. Trade marks and monograms in early modern tableware industries
Katarina Friberg Without boundaries – a consumer co-operative ideal and logo
Ilja Van Damme A ‘knowledgeable’ retailer or a ‘recognizable’ product? An inquiry into early-modern branding strategies (Antwerp, 17th-18th centuries)
Jennifer Scanlon Branding Girlhood
Oliver Kühschelm The Call for Patriotic Consumption in the Interwar years
 

 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 

C-14  -  WOM05: Biography as Political Project I
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Kirsti Niskanen
Organiser: Christina Florin
Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Natalia Pushkareva The oral history of Russian Academy Community 1991-2010
Anneke Ribberink Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundland: Two women Prime Ministers in the West from the spectre of a collective biography
Birgitte Possing An Unspoken Word does not Convince Anyone
Gunnel Karlsson The Making of Political Women – Inga Thorsson and Ulla Lindström in Swedish Politics
 

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

C-15  -  WOM06: Biography as Political Project II
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Kirsti Niskanen
Organiser: Christina Florin
Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Discussant: Birgitte Possing
Kirsti Niskanen, Christina Florin Female Professors on Scholarship, Life and Power – Reflections from a Book Project
Tiina Kinnunen Male and Female Historians and the Cultures of Commemoration: The Finnish Case
Mineke Bosch Contesting biographical memory in science: two examples
 

 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