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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 

P-1  -  SOC01: European Almshouses
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Thomas M. Adams
Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Discussant: Frank Hatje
Henk Looijesteijn Founding almshouses in the Netherlands, ca. 1500-1800
Angela Schwarz Jewish foundations in Hamburg against homelessness
Nigel Goose The English almshouse and the mixed economy of welfare c. 1500-1900
Christina Vanja Hospitals and care for the Elderly in Hesse, 1500-1800
 

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

P-2  -  THE01: Self Images of the Historical Discipline or: What Philosophers of History Can(not) Learn from how Historians Understand their own Practice
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Discussant: Berber Bevernage
Herman Paul Mythic Genealogies of the Historical Discipline
Eugen Zelenak Who Should Characterize the Nature of History? The Wrong Question
Davide Bondì Why Philosophy of History Cannot be Restricted to the Historian’s Self-Image
 

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

P-3  -  FAM21: Family Foundations I. Anchoring the Family: Property Strategies of Migrants
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: David Warren Sabean
Discussant: Beshara Doumani
Astrid Meier Between Balkh and Damascus
Nurfadzilah Yahaya The Arab under English Law in the British Straits Settlements
Katalin Prajda Acting as one: Common action, collectivity and property strategies in the case of a double-rooted Florentine kinship network
Isaac Xerxes Malki The Transnational Politics of the West African Lebanese and the Pursuit of ‘Community’, c.1925-1962
 

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

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
 

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

P-5  -  FAM23: Family Foundations III. Occupying Religious Institutions
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Jon Mathieu
Discussant: Simon Teuscher
Sabine Mohasseb Saliba The Development of Maronite Family Monasteries in Mount Lebanon (17th- 19th centuries)
Hans Hummer Institutionalizing Kinship: Monasteries and Families in Early Medieval Europe
Monica Miscali Life, death and money. A analysis of the Sardinian post-mortem inheritance system
 

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

P-6  -  FAM24: Family Foundations IV. Settlement: Strict and Unstrict
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Warren Sabean
Chair: Simon Teuscher
Discussant: Christopher H. Johnson
Nathalie Büsser Collective property and individual claims in the families of Mercenary Entrepreneurs (16th–18th century)
Thomas Max Safley Wills, Transfers, Foundations and ‘Trust’ among South-German Merchant-Finaciers in the Early Modern Period
Michael Gilsenan Settlements and wills among migrant Muslims in colonial singapore
Ali Yaycioglu Power and Wealth of Ottoman Provincial Elite Households (1699-1838)
 

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

P-7  -  REL05: Old and New: Jesuits and Mendicant Orders in the Early Modern World
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Religion
Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Discussant: Simon Ditchfield
Karin Velez Old Shrines, New Shrines: The Disputed Connections and Wandering Relics of Loreto (Italy), Trsat (Croatia), Ancienne- and Jeune-Lorette (Canada), 1550-1750
Karen Melvin Old World, New World Orders
Silvia Mostaccio Old World, New Issues:Early modern Jesuits struggle with obedience
Tara Alberts Shared devotions: forms of lay piety in the early modern Catholic mission fields of Southeast Asia
 

 Wednesday 14 April 16.30 

P-8  -  Networkmeeting Labour
Auditorium D5, Pauli

   
 

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

P-9  -  FAM06: New developments with large historical databases
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Historical Computing and GIS
Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Kees Mandemakers
Chair: Onno Boonstra
Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Francisco Chacon, Raquel Sanchez Computer tools for the reconstruction of families applied to the Didactics of the History and the historical research
Edward Higgs, Kevin Schurer The British Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project
Paulo Lopes Matos The Portuguese Population Data System for the Overseas Territories (1766-1820)
Gunnar Thorvaldsen A discussion of two longitudinal databases
 

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

P-10  -  ECO07: Public Goods
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Discussant: Ben Gales
Tobias Alexander Jopp Social Security and Intergenerational Redistribution: The German Miners' Knappschaften Since 1854
Tomas Hogberg Organizing public goods with decentralized management: The Swedish road network in the 19th century
Ewout Frankema Comparing Colonial State Expenditure Patterns, 1870-1940: Did the colonial periphery suffer from weak public finances?
Brooks Kaiser Long run outcomes of conservation expenditures: Watershed destruction, rehabilitation and protection in Hawaii
 

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

P-11  -  ECO09: Long-term perspective on Economic Change
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Ewout Frankema
Discussant: Peer Vries
Graham Brownlow Structure and Change: Douglass North's Economics
Harry Kitsikopoulos Institutions and the crisis of feudalism
Jan Kunnas Economic Growth and Environmental Pressure in the Extremely Long Run
 

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

P-12  -  ECO08: Business History
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Peter Meyer
Discussant: Peter Meyer
Federico Rigamonti Real and monetary economy in nineteenth century Sicily: a case study
Harald Degner Large Sample Analysis and Firm-Level Business History
Knut Oyangen Core Rigidities and Soft Budget Constraints: Path Dependence in State-owned Industry
Tobias Karlsson Workforce reductions in theory and practice: Evidence from the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s
 

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

P-13  -  ECO10: The Role of Hamburg in Early Modern World Economy
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Network: Urban
Chair: Jochen Streb
Discussant: Jeff Fynn-Paul
Frank Hatje Neutral Flags, European Trade and the Rise of Hamburg in the 17th and 18th centuries
Toshiaki Tamaki Hamburg as a center of Logistics in Early Modern World Economy
Klaus Weber Hamburg’s and Central Europe’s Links with the Atlantic Slave Trade and Plantation Economies, 17th to 19th Centuries
Pourchasse Pierrick The Huguenots in Hamburg
 

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

P-14  -  ECO12: Post-War Twentieth Century
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jochen Streb
Olaf Mertelsmann On the Relation of Mortality and Income: An Example from Stalinism
Ophelia Ongena The history of the SERV and of the social economic dialogue in Flanders
Jeroen Touwen Paradigm or hyperbole? Categories of institutional change and the changing priorities in the post-war economies
 

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

P-15  -  FAM18: Methodological Tools for the History of the Economic Role of Siblings in Traditional Societies
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Chair: Vincent Gourdon
Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Francisco García González Brothers in the Household. Relationship and Corresidence in the Ancien Regine of Castile.
Gérard Le Bouedec Dynasties and siblings in the coastal navigation (golf du Morbihan 18th century)
Stéphane Minvielle The economic role of kinship : brothers and sisters in merchants families (Bordeaux, 18th century)
Llorenç Ferrer Alos Younger sons, economic progress and social mobility in Catalonia (XVIII-XIXth century)
 

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

P-16  -  CUL16: Ritual, Cultural Performance and Ideology
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Culture
Chair: Sabil Francis
Discussant: Sabil Francis
Eva Deak Ceremonial and Social Representation: The marriage of Catherine of Brandenburg and Gabriel Bethlen in 1626
Alexandra Silva Cultural consumption in the University of Coimbra in the 1980s