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Wednesday 11 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 -18.30
Thursday 12 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
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Friday 13 April
   8.30 - 10.30
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   14.00 - 16.00
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Saturday 14 April
   8.30 - 10.30
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   14.00 - 16.00
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  Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

A-11  -  CUL11: Utopia and European Construction / Imaginary, Realism and Ambivalences of Utopia
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A

    Network: Culture
Chair: Jurij Fikfak
Discussant: Jurij Fikfak
Ullrich Kockel Invoking Europe: The Spirit of Utopia and the Heritage of Our Time
Thomas Wolfe European Construction and Utopian Imaginary
Maria Vivod Europe’s Image of Future. Example Taken from a Serbian Prophecy
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar Europe as an Imagined Utopian Project of the EU Institutions
 

B-11  -  ELI12: Professional Elites
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B

    Network: Elites
Chair: Ilona Kemppainen
Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Conceição Andrade Martins Major Protagonists of the Portuguese Agricultural Development in Nineteenth Century
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss The Mid-Victorian Professions
Robert Anderson Three Models of Elite Education in Modern Britain
 

C-11  -  FAM12: Interfaith, Interethnic and International Marriage
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Ioan Bolovan
Chair: Ioan Bolovan
Discussant: Ioan Bolovan
Discussant: Peter Teibenbacher
Constantin Barbulescu Mixed Marriages in the medical discourse in Romania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Marius Eppel At the Border of the Empire and at the Confluence of Confessions: The Mixed Marriages in Oradea Area (Western Romania) in the Modern Times
Cyril Grange Alliances between Jewish and Christian Aristocratic Elites in Paris in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Marriage Contracts
 

D-11  -  CRI11: The Penal Colony in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Helen Grevers
Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Discussant: Xavier Rousseaux
Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Helen Grevers, Hans Meijer Dutch World War II Collaborators in Indonesia 1947-1950. The Colony of West New Guinea as a Post War Penal Settlement
Vivien Miller White Liberalism, Black Civil Rights, and the Origins of Florida’s Death Penalty Moratorium, [1964-1977)
Stephan Steiner Austria’s Penal Colonies – Facts and Visions
 

E-11  -  FAM24: Round table European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Anders Brändström
Organiser: Kees Mandemakers
Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Anders Brändström
Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Discussant: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Discussant: Siegfried Gruber
 

F-11  -  WOM22: Roundtable: Women's Movements III
Main Building: Randolph Hall

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Irena Selisnik, Marta Verginella Social Networks of Publicly Active Women
Åsa Bengtsson The White Ribbon - Temperate Women on Public Scenes.
Marie Hammond-Callaghan “Gender and International Peace Politics during the Cold War: Anticommunism and Surveillance of the Voice of Women, Canada, 1960-1964.”
Lorna Zukas Gender and Revolutionary Change: Zimbabwean Women’s Engagement for Freedom, Equality and Autonomy
 

G-11  -  LAB31: Strikes in Europe: Recent Development
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Kurt Vandaele
Chair: Bert Altena
Discussant: Raquel Varela
Kurt Vandaele Sustaining or Abandoning ‘Social Peace’? Strike Development and Trends in Europe since the 1990s
Heiner Dribbusch Organising by Conflict: Exploring the Relationship between Strikes and Trade Union Membership in Germany
David Lyddon A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK
Sjaak Van der Velden The 2010 Dutch Cleaners Strike, New Ways in Unionism
 

H-11  -  URB02: Singles in the City in Northwest Europe II. Survival Strategies and Social Networks
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Isabelle Devos
Organiser: Ariadne Schmidt
Organiser: Julie De Groot
Chair: Isabelle Devos
Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van der Heijden Singles and their Public Roles in early Modern Towns
Kim Overlaet Singles and their Family: Urban Networks in Sixteenth Century Mechelen and Aalst
Judith Spicksley Capital Benefits: The Social Networks of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster and Roneylending in Seventeenth Century Hereford
Christa Matthys Servants’ Solidarity Networks: Assistance by Close and Distant Kin in Job Placement and Critical Life Situations
Maja Mechant ‘One of the Few Ways a Woman Could Make it on her Own.’Prostitution as a Survival Strategy for Singles in Eighteenth Century Bruges
 

I-11  -  SPE02: The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Technology
Network: Urban
Michael-W. Serruys, Giovanni Favero The 2010 Eruption of the Eyfjallajokull Volcano and its Impact of Travelling in Europe. The ESSHC's Participants in Ghent as a Test Case
 

J-11  -  LAB16: Working Hours in Catholic World: A Long Term Perspective, 16th-19th Centuries
Main Building: G466

    Network: Labour
Network: Religion
Organiser: Corine Maitte
Chair: Manuela Martini
Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Corine Maitte Working Times in the Italian Glassblowing Industry, XVe-XVIIth Centuries
Didier Terrier Working Times in Textile and Mine Industries, Liège (Belgium), Mid-XIXe Century
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto What's Children Labour? Some Educational and Professional Patterns in 18th Century Turin
 

K-11  -  AFR02: Knowledge, Culture and Empowerment
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250

    Network: Africa
Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Paulo Fernandes Press, Public Opinion and the emergence of “Civil Society” in late 19th Century South East Africa
Kamini Krishna Empowerment of Zambian Women
Fouad Mami The Cultural Poetics of Desire in the Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah
 

L-11  -  MID04: Court Culture and Court Consumption I
Main Building: Room 355

    Network: Middle Ages
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Chair: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Visa Immonen The Distributed Personhood of the Elite: Medieval and early Modern Heraldry in Finland as Material Culture
Thomas Småberg The Receptions of Queens: Rituals Surrounding Medieval Scandinavian Courtly Culture
David Nogales Rincón, Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova The Material Environment of Castilian King Henry III (1390-1406)
Marisa Costa Art Consumption in the Burgundian Court and the Agency of Isabel of Portugal (1430-71)
 

N-11  -  SPA10: Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate

    Network: Rural
Network: Spatial and Digital History
Chair: Alistair Geddes
Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Nigel Walford The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Kenneth Sylvester Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl
 

O-11  -  ORA14: Archives and Oral History: Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Partnership, Collection and Use
JWS Room J355 (J10)

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Rob Perks
Discussant: Rob Perks
Discussant: Mary Stewart
Discussant: Joanne Bartholomew
Discussant: Elspeth Millar
Discussant: Sarah Smith
 

P-11  -  SPA09: Expanding the Range of HGIS
JWS Room J361 (J7)

    Network: Spatial and Digital History
Organiser: Don DeBats
Chair: Jan Reiff
Discussant: Jan Reiff
Don DeBats Space,Race, and Politics: Using GIS to Explore the Social Logic of Politcs in Urban and Rural Settings in Nineteenth Century America
George Vascik Pigs and Protest: The Crisis of Swine Husbandry and the Electoral Success of anti-Semitic Political Parties in Northwest Germany, 1924-1930
Don Lafreniere, Jason Gilliland Beyond the Narrative: Using H-GIS to Reveal Hidden Patterns and Processes of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Cities
 

Q-11  -  HEA01: The Mine as a Specific Field for Experimenting New Methods and Revealing New Stakes in Occupational Health (20th c.) I
JWS Room J375 (J15)

    Network: Health and Environment
Organiser: Judith Rainhorn
Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
John Murray, Javier Silvestre Improving Workplace Safety in European Coal Mining, 1851-1913
Bernard Thomann From Labor Rationalization to Social Citizenship: Professional Expertise and Social Mobilization in the Recognition and Compensation of Pneumoconiosis in Japanese Coal Mining Industry
Eric Geerkens Collective Bargaining on Occupational Health: Silicosis in Belgium (c. 1937-c.1990)
 

R-11  -  POL20: Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Technology
Network: Spatial and Digital History
Chair: Ido de Haan
Discussant: Ido de Haan
Discussant: Leonid Borodkin
Uwe Lübken Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space
Marija Drėmaitė Reading the Spatial Patterns of Soviet Modernization: Regional and Urban Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the 1960s
Vincent Lagendijk How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning
 

S-11  -  RUR08: Peasant and the Market: Between Accumulation, Distress and Life Cycle-strategies
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Network: Economics
Organiser: Tim Soens
Chair: Miriam Muller
Discussant: Miriam Muller
Tim Soens, Eline Van Onacker & Maïka De Keyzer Beyond the Flock. Sheep Farming, Wool Sales and Peasant Economy in the Late Medieval Campine Area (Brabant, Belgium-The Netherlands)
Lies Vervaet, Erik Thoen Tenure and Lease Holding Payments of Peasants and Farmers in Late Medieval Rural Flanders
Frederic Aparisi Romero Peasants and Markets in the Kingdom of Valencia during the Later Middle Ages
James Davis Negotiating the marketplace: the expectations and fears of medieval English peasants
Kristof Dombrecht, Erik Thoen The Land Market in a Changing Peasant Society during the Late Middle Ages – 16th Century: The Case of Flanders
Piotr Guzowski Land Market and Peasants’ Life-cycle in Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries
 

T-11  -  RUR20: Is Farming the Only Way of Providing Food?
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Ruth Tittensor
Chair: Richard Oram
Discussant: Richard Oram
Ruth Tittensor How Can Ecology Contribute to Food Provision?
Caroline Wickham-Jones Fear of farming?
Jennifer Lee Gathering: Reconnecting with the Landscape of Our Food
 

U-11  -  MAT01: Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling I
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Sytze F. Kingma
Organiser: Riitta Matilainen
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Riitta Matilainen Cultures of Gambling: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives
Gerda Reith Gambling, Risk and Reason: The Creation of 'Pathology’ from Commerce
Eino Tuohino Medicalization of Gambling Problems and Individual Responsibility: The Case of Finland
 

V-11  -  ETH13: Public Identity Formation and Construction
Maths Building: 416

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Saara Pellander
Discussant: Colin Pooley
Lars Amenda Migration and the Media in Nazi Germany
Johanna Leinonen Hierarchies of Desirability: International Marriages in the Finnish Media, 1982-2006
Grazia Biorci Stereotypes on Migration Matter in Italian Press
Marlou Schrover Constructing Problems: Debates on Immigration and Integration Issues in Press and Parliament (the Netherlands 1945-2000)
 

W-11  -  ECO12: Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 III The Atlantic Context
Maths Building: 417

    Network: Economics
Network: World History
Organiser: Amélia Polónia
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Chair: Amélia Polónia
Discussant: Catia Antunes
Bram Hoonhout 'Subprime Mortgages in the Caribbean: the Financial Opportunities Illegal Trade Created, 1740-1815
Silvia Marzagalli The French Colonies in the Late 18th Century, or the Necessity of Cross-imperial and Foreign Trade
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva Trans-imperial and Cross-cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s-1800s
 

X-11  -  ETH17: Comparing Refugees
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Bina Sengar
Discussant: David Struthers
Tycho Walaardt Attempts to select refugees: Inviting Hungarian refugees by the Netherlands in 1956
Eva Becsei-Kilborn Aspects of Hungarian Migration to the UK
Lukasz Gorniok Reception of Czechoslovakian and Polish Jewish Refugees to Sweden 1968-1972
Bethany Hicks “Not Real Germans at All”: GDR Refugees in the West, 1989 - 1990
 

Y-11  -  SEX05: Sex Philosophy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Dan Healey
Tanya Cheadle Realizing an ‘Earthly Paradise of Love’ in Late-Victorian Edinburgh: The Sexual Ethics and Intimate Life of Patrick Geddes
Lesley Hall “Sentimental follies” or ‘instruments of tremendous uplift”? contrasting views of women’s same-sex relationships in interwar Britain
Anastasia Jones The Normal Lesbians: Sex Studies and the Growth of Modern Sexual Identities in Interwar Era U.S.
 

Z-11  -  EDU10: Voices of Child Saving
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Shurlee Swain
Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Claire Gallagher In the “Schools” on Ellis Island: The Children, Their Classrooms and Experience
Daniel Nilsson Ranta Acting Child In Distress – on Philanthropy, Child Care and Societal Saving Eagerness
Nell Musgrove Imagining Foster Mothers – Historical Perspectives
Karen Robbins Discipline and Polish: Creating Identity through Space at Girls' Reforms Schools in 19th Century America
Andrew Sanders, Val Wood One Hundred Voices