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9th European Social Science History Conference Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012
 
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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
   16.00 - 18.30
Friday 13 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30
Saturday 14 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30

All days


 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

R-1  -  POL16: Imperial and Post-imperial Visions
Maths Building: 203

    Network: World History
Chair: Jennifer L. Foray
Discussant: Jennifer L. Foray
Stefan Vogt Zionism and “Weltpolitik” in Wilhelmine Germany
Laura Cerasi The Necessary Empire. Italian Colonialism between Anglophilia and Anglophobia, from the Adwa Defeat (1896) to the Conquest of Addis Ababa (1936)
Zuzana Polackova, Pieter van Duin The Bewilderment of a Scottish Historian: R.W. Seton-Watson and the Hungarian Minority in Slovakia, 1918-1923

 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

I-1  -  WOR02: East Central Europe and Global History
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: World History
Chair: Matthias Middell
Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Raluca Maria Popa International Activism of State Socialist Women’s Organizations in the 1970s: Shaping the UN Women’s Agenda
Beata Hock Inscribing Socialist Eastern Europe into a Socialist World through Art
Katja Naumann Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the International Labour Organization
Isabella Löhr Transnational Civil Society Networks and Academic Refugees from East Central Europe in the Cold War
Attila Melegh Trojan Horses: ‘Reform’-discourses Relinking Local and Global Hierarchies in State Socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

M-2  -  WOR01: Natives as Missionaries
Main Building: Melville

    Network: World History
Organiser: David Lindenfeld
Chair: David Lindenfeld
Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Jin-heon Jung Korean Protestant Aspirations: Korean Mega-church Founders' Conversion Narratives
Xiaojing Wang “For the Salvation of Our Fellow Men”: A Study of the Chinese Home Missionary Society (1918-1948)
Ulrike Kirchberger The Pupils of Eleazar Wheelock's "Indian Charity School" as Native Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Emma Wild-Wood Powerful Words: Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, a Broker of Social and Intellectual Change (1895-1933)

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

M-3  -  WOR10: Humanitarianism and the Media, 1900-1930
Main Building: Melville

    Network: World History
Organiser: Volker Barth
Organiser: Daniel Roger Maul
Chair: Thomas Lindenberger
Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Volker Barth The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906: Humanitarian Intervention, the Local Press, and the World Communication Order
Daniel Roger Maul Selling "Red" Relief - American and British Quakers and Famine Relief in the Soviet Union 1921-
Carl Emil Vogt Fridtjof Nansen's Humanitarianism and the Media
Friederike Kind-Kovács Picturing the Poor Child: Photography as Social Politics of (Trans)national Child Philanthropy in Interwar Hungary

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

M-4  -  WOR05: Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000
Main Building: Melville

    Network: World History
Organiser: Matthias Middell
Organiser: Erik Van der Vleuten
Chair: Frank Schipper
Discussant: Matthias Middell
Discussant: Ruth Oldenziel
Erik Van der Vleuten Infrastructuring Europe: Technology, Society, and Nature in Transition
Andreas Fickers, Pascal Griset Eventing Europe.
Johan Schot The Origins of a European Technocracy, or the Governing of Europe by experts
Philip Scranton Introduction to the Making Europe book series

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

M-5  -  WOR06: Mastering Space: Shifting Patterns of Territorialization in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire since the 18th century
Main Building: Melville

    Network: World History
Organiser: Steffi Marung
Chair: Uwe Müller
Discussant: Frank Hadler
Steffi Marung Mastering Space, Shifting Patterns of Territorialization. Introduction into Conceptual Considerations.
Andreas Helmedach Towards a Modern Transport System: Roads, Rivers and Railways as Promoters of Integration and Differentiation in the Habsburg Monarchy since the 18th Century
Anton Tantner Counting the People: Street Numbers and Population Statistics in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th Century
Isa Blumi Inserted Ambitions: The Impact of Imperial Borderland Politics on the 19th Century Balkans

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

H-6  -  LAB17: Global History: Methods, Practices, Problems
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: World History
Organiser: Silke Neunsinger
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Silke Neunsinger, Mary Hilson Towards a Global History of Consumer Co-operation, 1800-2010
Raquel Varela In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (1950-2010). A Project on Global Labour History
Rossana Barragan Global Entanglements in the debate about the 'Slave-Indian' mita work of Potosi and its end, 1790-1812

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

W-9  -  ECO10: Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 I Mechanisms and Processes
Maths Building: 417

    Network: World History
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Amélia Polónia
Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Catia Antunes, Amelia Polonia Beyond Empires: Self-Organizing Cross-Imperial Economic Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800
Jessica Roitman Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Negotiating Nationality across Imperial Boundaries
Daniel Strum Netherlandish Insurers and Ibero-Jewish Policyholders: Reviewing the Information Asymmetry Problem in Business Relationships Beyond Religious and Ethnic Affiliations
Alexander Bick Informal Networks within Institutions: Noblemen at the States General

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

Y-9  -  WOR08: Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise I
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2

    Network: World History
Organiser: Jenny Andersson
Chair: Jakob Vogel
Jenny Andersson, Egle Rindceviziute The Political Life of Prediction. The Future as a Space of Scientific World Governance in the Cold War Era
Frédéric Graber A History of "Projects" as Socio-political Objects
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz From Past Matters of Law to Actual Matters of Fact: the “Expert Revolution and our Historicity Regime towards Nature
Paul Warde, Sverker Sörlin Expertise for the Future: the Emergence of ‘Relevant Knowledge’ in Environmental Predictions and Global Change, c.1920-1970.

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

W-10  -  ECO11: Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 II The European Context
Maths Building: 417

    Network: World History
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Amélia Polónia
Chair: Catia Antunes
Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Ana Crespo Solana Networks between Transnational Systems: Theoretical Rapprochements in the Case of the Hispanic Atlantic World (XVII-XVIIIe)
Ana Sofia Ribeiro The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age. The Case Study of Simon Ruiz’s Network (Second Half of the 16th Century)
Siobhan Talbott There is Many English and Severall Scots that you Might Deall with.’ Self-organizing European Entrepreneurial Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century: The Case Study of Britain and France

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

F-10  -  WOR04: Meet the Author. Dominic Sachsenmaier: Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Main Building: Randolph Hall

    Network: World History
Chair: David Lindenfeld
Discussant: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Discussant: Luo Xu
Discussant: Matthias Middell
Discussant: Patrick Manning

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

Y-10  -  WOR09: Towards a History of the Future? Historicizing Anticipation, Future Knowledge, and Expertise II
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2

    Network: World History
Chair: Jenny Andersson
Discussant: Jakob Vogel
Elke Seefried Futures Studies of the 1960s and early 1970s: From Creating Futures to Predicting Doom?
Elodie Vieille Blanchard Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: Forecasting and Modelling in the Debate over the Limits to Growth
Holger Nehring Perceptions of ‘Crisis’, the Semantics of Time and the Technopolitics of the West German Peace Movements during the 1980s

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

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

    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

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

W-12  -  ECO13: Beyond Empires: Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks vs Institutional Empires, 1500-1800 IV The Indian Ocean and Beyond
Maths Building: 417

    Network: World History
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Amélia Polónia
Chair: Catia Antunes
Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Michael Kempe The „Pirate Round“. Self-Organizing and Illegal Economic Networks beyond Empires around 1700
Leos Muller Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire. Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1750-1800
Chris Nierstrasz In the Shadow of the Companies, Empires of trade in the orient and informal entrepreneurship, 1600-1800
Guido Van Meersbergen “The Nature of the People and their Government”: The Role of Cultural Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Dutch and English East India Company Commercial and Diplomatic Strategies

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

K-13  -  WOR07: Public Diplomacy and Civil Society: Experience of 19th and 20th Centuries
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250

    Network: World History
Organiser: Mikhail Lipkin
Chair: Steffi Marung
Discussant: Michael Kandiah
Mikhail Lipkin British public organizations and a phenomena of public diplomacy during Soviet-British cultural "indian summer" on the edge of 1950s-1960-s
Elena Mironova Council of Ambassadors of Russians Abroad as an example of social diplomacy.
Samuil Volfson The role of non-governmental organizations in the development of US foreign policy in 1920s
Ekaterina Grantseva Russia and Spain: Intellectual contacts and transformation of the countries' image
Denis Sekirinskiy The American press as an element of public diplomacy and an instrument for shaping the image of the late Soviet Union

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

Z-14  -  POL12: Institutions, Identity and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: World History
Chair: Astrid M. Eckert
Michael Karabinos The Post-Colonial Archival Transformation
Anja Hansen Archival Access: The Dutch Case
Vanja Lozic Museums and the Making of ‘Ourselves’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Martina Becker Delineation by the Architecture Office: The İnşaât ve Tamirât Müdürlüğü in the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic

 Saturday 14 April 16.30 - 18.30 

I-16  -  WOR03: Knowing the Others in Empires without Colonies - Latin American Studies in the Habsburg Monarchie and its Succeeding states
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: World History
Chair: Katja Naumann
Discussant: Torsten Loschke
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak Latin American Studies in Poland
Christina Schmutzhard: no abstract
Ursula Prutsch Latin American Studies in Austria from 1918 to 1960
Jana Lenghardtová Latin American Area Studies in Slovakia