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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 

S-1  -  CUL13: Inter-Faith Commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times (I): Culture, Normes and Negotiations
M101, Marissal

    Network: Culture
Chair: Francesca Trivellato
Discussant: Francesca Trivellato
Leor Halevi Religion and cross-cultural trade: interdisciplinary reflections
David Harris Sacks The Blessings of Exchange: economic theology and religious accomodation in the making of the English Atlantic world
Yvonne Friedman Trade as a factor in peace treaties in the Latin East
Giuseppe Marcocci Trade and Commerce with the Muslim World: Moral Limits and Proscriptions in the Portuguese Empire, ca. 1540-1560
 

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

S-3  -  AFR03: Mapping Africa
M101, Marissal

    Network: Africa
Chair: Jan-Bart Gewald
Andrew Macdonald Mind Maps: Migrant Associations and the Social Meaning of Borders in Southern Africa c.1900- c.1950
Ana Roque Disputing Borders: the case of Mozambique-Tongaland Border (19th-20th century)
Arthur Hanna Jr. Rastafari, Repatriation, Reparations, African National Identity and the Concept of Globalization: A Critical Re-evaluation of the PanAfrican Black Star Agenda in the 21st Century
Paulo Polanah Westernity in Africa: Cui Bono?
 

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

S-4  -  THE03: Gender and Conceptualization of Work
M101, Marissal

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Hege Roll-Hansen The gendering of work in Norwegian official statistics 1865 - 1930
Kerstin Bornholdt Gendering sports and physiology: The concept of work in work and sport physiology
Synne Corell Conceptualizations of work in the writing of national history
 

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

S-5  -  CUL14: The Call of Authenticity
M101, Marissal

    Network: Culture
Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Leila Koivunen Constructing Authenticity: Africa in European illustrations and imagination
Sřren Rud Ethno-politics: The re-introduction of “tradition” in Greenland
Anne Folke Henningsen Longing for Authenticity
Idesbald Goddeeris Return to the 19th century? Representations of the Caucasus, 1800-2010
 

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

S-6  -  AFR04: Digitising the Black Diaspora
M101, Marissal

    Network: Africa
Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov Invisibility and Visibility of the Black Diaspora: A Database Project on Blacks in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
Robert Aitken Making an African Presence Visible: Cameroonians in Germany, 1884-1960
Laura Stapane, Martin Klimke The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany: Digital Archive, Oral History Collection and Research Project
 

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

S-7  -  WOM01: How to be a Man. Historical Norms about Masculinity
M101, Marissal

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Maria Bucur
Discussant: Maria Bucur
Thomas Buerman Convey Catholic manliness in the nineteenth century
Naoko Seriu Male Military Cleanliness in the Age of the Enlightenment
Jacobus A. Du Pisani A closet is meant for clothes. Afrikaans-speaking gays in the 'new' South Africa
Josephine Hoegaerts Raising their voices: teaching boys to sing like men in the nineteenth century primary school
Simona Slanicka Calvities – a sign for loss of masculinity, hidden vices or a sign for wisdom and chastity?
 

 Wednesday 14 April 16.30 

S-8  -  Networkmeeting Sexuality and Women & Gender
M101, Marissal

   
 

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

S-9  -  URB04: Using and Abusing Urban Space
M101, Marissal

    Network: Urban
Chair: Manon van der Heijden
Discussant: Manon van der Heijden
Fredrik Björk, Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Pernilla Ouis From City of Industry to City of Consumption: the transformation of urban space in Malmö 1960-2000
 

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

S-10  -  ASI03: Neoliberalism in South Asia
M101, Marissal

    Network: Asia
Chair: Ratna Saptari
Rochana Bajpai Liberalism in India and Comparative Political Thought: Some Reflections
Nikita Sud Political illiberalism in an era of economic liberalisation
Ami Shah Structures of Superfluity: India’s Neoliberal Cityscapes
 

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

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

    Network: Elites
Network: Latin-America
Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
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 

S-12  -  SEX10: Sexing the Nation: Issues of Sexuality in Migration Societies
M101, Marissal

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Sexuality
Organiser: Irina Schmitt
Chair: Eleonore Kofman
Discussant: Eleonore Kofman
Irina Schmitt Surprisingly exclusive? Non-heteronormativity in school policies in Sweden, Germany and Canada
Isabel Crowhurst Preserving ‘national identity’ and disciplining ‘dangerous sexuality’: the regulation of ‘foreign prostitution’ in contemporary Italy
Jana Häberlein Culturalisations of gender and sexuality in the migration society of Switzerland
Ilgin Yorukoglu Out in Kreuzberg: Queer Turkish Immigrant Women in Germany
 

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

S-13  -  SEX09: Sexual Perversity from Early Modernity to Modernity
M101, Marissal

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Marianna Muravyeva How perverse is perverse: sex with birds in 18th century Europe.
Sarah Toulalan Child sexual abuse and paedophilia in early modern England
Julie Peakman Naming and Shaming of Sexually Perverse Behaviour in C18th Print Culture
 

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

S-14  -  REL09: The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming & Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950 II
M101, Marissal

    Network: Religion
Chair: Rajesh Heynickx
Discussant: Rajesh Heynickx
Agnčs Desmazičres Psychology against Medicine ? Mysticism in the Light of Scientific Apologetics
Pieter Verstraeten The Mystical and the Literary. Meanings and Functions of Catholic Mysticism in Flemish Interwar Literature and Literary Criticism
Evert Peeters Burning Bodies. Performing Mysticism in Catholic Medicine
 

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

S-15  -  WOM04: Gender Regimes under Communism
M101, Marissal

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Discussant: Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Yulia Gradskova Childcare in Soviet Russia – expert discourses on preschool education and parents’ memories on kindergarten
Milica Antić Gaber, Sara Rožman & Irena Selisnik Gender and everyday life in Socialist Slovenia
Georgeta Nazarska Muslim Women and Women’s Movement in Bulgaria (the 1940s-1970s): Emancipation, Modernization, Assimilation
Stefan Wiederkehr “… if Jarmila Kratochvilova is the future of women’s sports, I’m not sure I’m ready for it.” Sport, Gender Verification, and the Cold War
 

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

S-16  -  WOM12: Gender and Citizenship in Post-1945 Europe
M101, Marissal

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Pat Thane
Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Elisabeth Elgán Mothers' right to work. Swedish feminism in the 1970's
Maria Bucur The Everyday Experience of Women’s Emancipation in Romania in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Riikka Taavetti Between Socialism and Feminism: The Case of Marxist-Feministerna in Finland, 1974-1978