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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 

O-1  -  LAB24: The making of the welfare state. Working conditions and labour regulations in international perspective
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Labour
Chair: Widukind De Ridder
Discussant: Geert Van Goethem
Ruediger Von Krosigk Mastering the Labour Market: The Emergence of Employment Exchanges in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945
David Lyddon From Gowers to Robens: health and safety reform in the UK, 1945–74
Seth Wigderson Labor Movements Respond to Beveridge
 

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

O-2  -  ANT01: Economic Power in Ancient Greece I
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Olivier Mariaud
Discussant: Olivier Mariaud
Marie-Joséphine Werlings Solon's laws and the economic grounds for political power in Athens at the beginning of the VIth century BC
Christel Muller Wealth and Power: the Economics of Euergetism in the cities of Hellenistic Greece
Julien Zurbach Lineages of the Ancient City-State
Sylvie Rougier-Blanc Richesse, enrichissement et représentation dans la poésie grecque archaïque
 

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

O-3  -  ANT02: Economic Power in Ancient Greece II
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Hans Van Wees
Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Errietta M.A. Bissa Wealth and monopoly in the polis
Benjamin Keim Non-Material but not Immaterial: Demosthenes' Reassessment of the Wealth of Athens
Claire Taylor Wealth in fourth-century BCE Athens
John Davies Wealth and the power of wealth revisited
 

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

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
 

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

O-5  -  ANT04: Ancient Globalisation and Connectivity
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Network: Antiquity
Chair: Brooks Kaiser
Discussant: Brooks Kaiser
Colin Elliott Inflation, Debasement and Economic Integration in the Third Century AD
Neville Morley Consumption, commodities and control: the dynamics of Roman globalisation
Martin Pitts Globalising processes and connectivity in Roman Britain
 

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

O-6  -  ANT05: Citizenship in the Greco-Roman world: new perspectives
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Discussant: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Willem Jongman Citizenship and the decline of the Roman economy
Robin Osborne The Visibility of Citizenship in classical Athens
Saskia Hin Not of this Earth. Democracy and the demographic Fate of Migrants in Classical Athens
Marloes Deene Struggling for recognition. The social identity of new-made citizens in Classical Athens'
 

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

O-7  -  FAM25: Family Foundations V. Familial Property and Political Culture/Political Conflict
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Discussant: Michael Gilsenan
Hasan Karatas Between State, Disciples and Progeny: A Sheikh's Tough Decision in Fifteenth Century Anatolia
Yuen-Gen Liang Property, Foundations, and the Grounding of Familial Identity in Spain's Transition from Local Society to Empire: Evidence from the Fernández de Córdoba lineage
Regina Poertner Modernisation and Elite Survival: Family Entails and Legal Reform in Britain, 1770-1848
Martina Winkler From a Culture of Giving to a Concept of Keeping: The Russian Elite´s Property Politics, 18th and 19th Centuries
 

 Wednesday 14 April 16.30 

O-8  -  Networkmeeting Family & Demography and Health
Auditorium D3, Pauli

   
 

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

O-9  -  ANT06: Collegia: Voluntary Associations in the Ancient World
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Koenraad Verboven
Wim Broekaert Partners in Business. Roman merchants and the advantages of being a collegiatus
Matt Gibbs Professional collectives of Roman Egypt
Nicolas Tran Guilds or social clubs ? The case of professional collegia of the Rhone Valley
Ilias Arnaoutoglou Professional associations in Roman Lydia
 

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

O-10  -  ANT07: The Life Course from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Network: Antiquity
Chair: Karin Dannehl
Mary Harlow Late Antiquity, Later Roman Lives: The reception and Christianisation of life course models in late antiquity
Shaun Tougher Bearding Byzantium: Masculinity and the Byzantine life course
Francesco Trifilo Stages of Life, Age at Death and the Numerical Logic of the Roman Life Course
 

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

O-11  -  ANT08: Social Unrest in the Ancient World
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Neville Morley
Discussant: Neville Morley
Christelle Fischer-Bovet Social unrest in Greco-Roman Egypt and in the Seleucid
David Natal Talking about the poor: revolutionary speeches and social order in Late Antique Rome
Theresa Urbainczyk Slaves as consumables
 

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

O-12  -  ASI08: Historical Perspectives on Women's Lives in South Asia
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Asia
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Discussant: Sara Valentina Di Palma
Mallarika Sinha Roy Political Violence and Gender in the Age of Globalisation: A Case from India
Megha Kumar Sexual Violence, Neighbourhoods and Hindu Nationalism: Gujarat 1969-2002
 

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

O-13  -  POL12: Decolonization and the Colonial Heritage I
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Africa
Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Susan Pennybacker
Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Virginie Roiron Thinking beyond colonialism: Britain and the Commonwealth experience
Paulo Fernandes The end of a virtual empire. The Portuguese South East Africa and the representations of colonial rule at home (1878-1898)
Melanie Torrent From the Loi Cadre to the short-lived French Community: British perceptions of the French transition to independence in sub-Saharan Africa (1956-1960)
 

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

O-14  -  HEA13: Nutrition
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Health and Environment
Chair: Kari Tove Elvbakken
Discussant: Kari Tove Elvbakken
Matthew Smith Into the Mouths of Babes: Hyperactivity, Food Additives, and the History of the Feingold Diet, 1970-Present
 

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

O-15  -  POL15: Transnational Visions of the Nation
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Ido de Haan
Discussant: Ido de Haan
Lidia Jurek The influence of Italian Risorgimento on the construction of the concept “Pole-Catholic”
Eleonora Naxidou The characteristics of a national identity: Georgi Rakovski and the origins of the Bulgarians
Paula Portas Narrating colonialism: the UPG and the struggle for the nation.
Tadeusz Kopys Nationalism and Processes of Globalization in Central Europe
 

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

O-16  -  EDU07: Policies on Children, Care and Education
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Sonya Michel
Esbjörn Larsson, Johannes Westberg The Economics of Education: The Financing of the Swedish Common School, 1842-1936
Victor Satzewich, Linda Mahood The Save the Children Fund and the Russian Famine of 1921-23: claims and counter-claims about feeding 'Bolshevik’ children