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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  

G-1  -  LAB07: International Solidarity: Radical and Leftwing Networks during the Interwar Period
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Holger Weiss
Chair: Aldo Agosti
Discussant: Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Holger Weiss Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Gleb J. Albert The USSR Section of the International Red Aid (MOPR): International Solidarity and Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kasper Braskén Activating International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Germany, 1921–1933
Fredrik Petersson Decolonization & Postcolonial Historiography: League against Imperialism, Anti-imperialist Movements, Networks, & Place, 1927-33

 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

T-1  -  POL02: Grey Areas of Multiethnic Citizenship: Shifting Borders, Changing Claims
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Anne Epstein
Discussant: Anne Epstein
Ida Al Fakir Swedish Gypsies and Welfare Practices in the Post-war Period
Ariel Salzmann Citizens in Search of a State: Imperial Sovereignty, Local Claims, and Ethno-Religious Violence in Ottoman Syria (1820-60) and Anatolia (1880-1915)
Anna Novikov-Almagor The Godfathers of the ‘New Citizen’: Politics, Borders and Nationalization in Interwar Polish Silesia

 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
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  

Y-1  -  WOM01: Brothers of the Sisterhood? Men and Masculinities in 19th and 20th Century Feminisms
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Discussant: Gunnel Karlsson
Cristina Wolff The “New Man”: Discourses on Masculinity and the Feminism in Left-wing Movements of the Southern Cone in the 1970s
Katherine Hubler “Shall men’s strengths therefore be doomed to idleness?” Feminist and Pro-feminist Masculinities in the First Wave of German Feminism
Hélène Quanquin “With feebler voices?” Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and Men’s Contribution to 19th-century American Feminism

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

T-2  -  POL03: Transitions from Democratic Rule in Interwar Europe
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Carl Levy
Discussant: Carl Levy
Jose Reis Santos Breakdown of Democratic Rule in Interwar Europa and the Advent of Authoritarian Constitutionalism in the Mid-1930’s
Liia Laanes From One Transition to Another: Local Elections in Estonia in 1918-1940
Spyridon Ploumidis Corporatist Ideas in Inter-war Greece: Theory and Practice
Laura Kepplinger Statal Organization in Totalitarian Regimes: Austria (1933 - 1938) and Spain (1939 - 1945)

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

R-2  -  POL17: The Europeanisation of the Environment: Actors, Institutions and Ideas
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Discussant: Ann-Christina Knudsen
Jan-Henrik Meyer What is Europeanisation? Conceptual Clarifications and Empirical Examples from the History of the Emergent Environmental Policy of the European Communities in the 1970s
Sandra Tauer Debates on Nuclear Energy along the Upper Rhine: An Example of the Europeanisation of Environmental Policy?
Stéphane Frioux Towards a Europeanisation of Air Pollution Management ? Late 1950s-1970s

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

W-3  -  ELI06: Anarchist Elite I: Elites in an Egalitarian Movement
Maths Building: 417

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Bert Altena
Organiser: Constance Bantman
Chair: Jose Reis Santos
Discussant: Ruth Kinna
Davide Turcato Malatesta’s Insider View on Anarchist ‘Elites’
Carl Levy Italian Anarchism and Italian Fascism: The Subversive Force Field and the Fight to the Finish, 1914-1945
Dieter Nelles Elites in an Egalitarian Movement: Anarchist Elites.

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

T-3  -  POL04: Radicalism, Politics and Citizenship in Northern Europe, c. 1850-1914
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Andrew Newby
Discussant: Andrew Newby
Lars Edgren Radicalism, Workers and Peasants. Folkets Tidning and Mid-nineteenth Century Democratic Politics in Sweden
Magnus Olofsson Inventing a Swedish Citizen: The New Liberals, the Democratic Subject and a New Civic Culture
Chloe Ross Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and Transnational Agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland
Sami Suodenjoki Denunciations as Social Protest in Finland at the Turn of the 20th Century

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

N-3  -  POL15: Social and Cultural Approaches to the History of State Formation
Main Building: Senate

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Anne Epstein
Discussant: Anne Epstein
Massimo Petta Printing “Official” Documents: The Building of “Officiality” in the Border between Public Authority and Private Interest
Yanna Tzourmana Constitutional Cultures and New Cultures of the Self
Martin Almbjär The Social Practice of the State
Marcelo Barroso Lacombe Contrast or Convergence: The Evolution of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
Heike Mauer Intersections of Gender, Nation and Class: The Regulation of Prostitution in Luxembourg (1900-1939) as Governmentality

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

W-4  -  ELI07: Anarchist Elites II: Case Studies
Maths Building: 417

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Pietro Di Paola
Discussant: Bert Altena
João Freire, Paulo Guimarães Syndicalism and Anarchism in Portugal during the Interwar Period: Struggles, Dreams and Ideological Debates
Vivien Bouhey Parisian Anarchist Leaders from the Mid‐1880s to 1894
Jorge Molero-Mesa, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena “Doctor, Move Away from those People”: Inclusion-exclusion Dynamics Related to Medical Professionals within the Spanish Anarchist Movement in the First Third of the 20th Century

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

S-4  -  RUR04: Power, Actions and Mass Movements in Western Europe Countryside in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860)
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Brassart Power, Social Dynamics and Political Change in the Northern France Rural Protest during the French Revolution
Domenico Cecere The Language of Complaints, Grievances and Riots. Political Issues of the Peasant Movements in Calabria (1760-1770).
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb New Perspectives and New Questions in the Studies about Social Movements in the Alps (18th and 19th Centuries)
Frédéric Vesentini Power and Rural Populations in Belgium during the 1845-48 Crisis

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

Y-4  -  WOM17: Gender, Nationalism and Politics
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Fia Sundevall
Discussant: Patricia Grimshaw
Jaswandi Wamburkar Issues of Gender,Identity and Nationalism in India: A Case Study of Vibhavari Shirurkar
Sara Valentina Di Palma Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda. Violence, Silencing and Feminist Answers

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

Z-5  -  POL08: Beyond Left and Right: Political Discourse and Political Parties in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Ido de Haan
Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Fertikh Karim, Mathieu Hauchecorne Party Politics and the Genesis of Political Platforms in Contemporary France
Emily Robinson Progress and Progressivism, 1888-1914: Contested Cultural and Political Discourses
Roberto Colozza The Unbearable Reasonableness of Revolution. Lelio Basso, Anti-Capitalism and the Building of Democratic Citizenship
Anne Heyer The Birth of the Mass Political Party
Maartje Janse Origins and early History of the Pressure Group

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

R-5  -  POL22: Making and Unmaking of Border Populations
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Dariusz Stola Social space and state frontiers: migrations from communist Poland to Germanies and Israel
Muriel Blaive Changing Generational Identities on the Hungarian-Slovak Border
Astrid M. Eckert The East of the West: The Making of West Germany‘s Borderlands
Alena Pfoser The Meaning of the Border in Life-story Narratives of Russians Living in Narva, Estonia

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

Z-6  -  POL09: Political Cultures in Transition
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Anne Epstein
Discussant: Anne Epstein
Ido de Haan Transitional Politics and Constitutional Debates in Western Europe: 1598, 1814, 1945
Vit Simral The Habsburg Legacy: Political Continuity in East Central Europe
Geerten Waling Political Organization in the February Revolution of 1848
Marthe Hommerstad Peasants making Policies – The Norwegian Parliament 1814-1837

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

W-6  -  THE08: National Turn in Anarchist Studies I: The National in the Historiography and Theory of Anarchism
Maths Building: 417

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Constance Bantman
Organiser: Bert Altena
Chair: Constance Bantman
Discussant: Davide Turcato
Bert Altena State and Nation in the Historiography of Anarchism
Ruth Kinna Anarchism: Practice and Politics in Kropotkin’s Theory of the State
Martin Baxmeyer "Mother Spain, we love you!" Neonationalism in Anarchist Literature during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Iveta Leitane Jewish Anarchism in North Eastern Europe: The Case of Abba Gordin (1887 - 1964)
Isabelle Felici Anarchists as Emigrants

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

R-7  -  POL07: Postcolonial Transitions: The Politics of State and Nation Building
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Laura Cerasi
Virginie Roiron Crossing the Shadow Line: An Analysis of Rhodesia’s Illegal Independence and its Influence on the Commonwealth of Nations
Jennifer L. Foray Forging a Harmonious Future Between Equals? The Dutch Commonwealth Idea in Theory and Practice
Hayley Brown The Abdication of Edward VIII as a Defining Cultural Moment of Empire
Paul McGarr 'Out with English': History, Memory and Cultural Politics in Post-Colonial India
Vivek Prahladan Embedding Castes and Communities: the Indian Constitution and Post-colonial Discourses of Power

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

T-7  -  POL21: Party Life, Lives of Parties
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Aldo Agosti
Chair: Matthew Worley
Discussant: Aldo Agosti
João Nunes The Portuguese Communist Party, the Comintern and the Question of Antifascism
Marco Albeltaro The Party Life of the Militants of the Italian Left
Giulia Strippoli Party Life, Lives of Parties: The Portuguese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century
Sofia Ferreira Autonomy and Armed Struggle: The Case PRP/BR?
Gidon Cohen Social Life and the Politics of Membership: the Conservative Party in Post-War Britain

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

R-9  -  POL18: Experimental Spaces I: Governing the Social
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Liesbeth van de Grift
Chair: Corinna Unger
Discussant: Corinna Unger
Liesbeth van de Grift “A New Society” – The Dutch Wieringermeer Polder as an Experimental Garden of Social Planning (1918-1940)
David Kuchenbuch "A laboratory of anarchy"? The Peckham Health Centre and the Experimentalisation of the Social in the 1930s
Timo Luks Building the “House of Industry”. Social Engineering and the Industrial Workplace in Britain and Germany, c. 1920-1965
Geert Somsen Planning for a Better World: British Scientists’ Wartime Discourse on a Postwar Planned Society

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

K-10  -  MID01: Hidden Politics in Late Medieval Iberia
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Tiago Faria
Chair: Maria Antónia Almeida
Tiago Faria Dom João’s Thugs – Warmongering and Intimidation in International Conflict (1385-1420)
Manuela Santos Silva Princess Isabel of Portugal – 1st Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428)
Marcelo Encarnação Game of Thrones - Kings, Queens and Noblemen in Quest for Power in the Late Fifteenth-Century Castile
Flávio Miranda Secrecy in Atlantic Politics, 1415-1500

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

N-10  -  POL01: Gender and Citizenship: a Roundtable
Main Building: Senate

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Judit Acsády
Rachel Fuchs "Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Women, their Bodies, and the Courts in Modern France"
Irma Sulkunen Religion, Gender and Civil Society
Maria Kyriakidou "Party Politics before the Right to Vote: Interwar Greek Feminists and the Individual vs. Collective Citizen Issue"
Irina Novichenko Age, Gender and Civil Society: Soviet Informal Associations in 1960s-1970s
Anne Epstein Connecting Conversations about Gender Injustice and Citizenship: “Transnational Feminism” in the Revue de morale sociale (1899-1903)

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

R-10  -  POL19: Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Sandrine Kott
Discussant: Vincent Lagendijk
Stefan Couperus Beyond New Jerusalem: The Practice of Postwar (Re)construction Rotterdam and Coventry 1920-1960
Sébastien Gardon Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970)
Frank Schipper Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century
Anette Schlimm What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
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

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

R-12  -  LAT02: New Histories of Latin America in the Cold War: Politics, Culture and International Perspectives
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Feminism, Communism and Women's Transnational Activism in the Cold War: The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)
William Booth The Mexican Communist Party in Comparative Perspective: Towards a Schema for the Postwar Conjuncture
Benjamin Cowan Making Machismo: Cold War Alignment and the Political Terminology of American Masculinities

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

S-12  -  WOM12: Women and Power
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Bettina Brandt
Discussant: Mary Louise Nagata
Stefan Amirell The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

Z-13  -  POL11: The Politics of Memory and History: Finding a Usable Past
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Ariel Salzmann
Jasper Heinzen ‘To Heal a Soreness which has been Kept up Among our Waterloo Allies’: Festive Commemorations of Waterloo and the Politics of Memory. An Anglo-Hanoverian Case-study
Markus Wien Nationalism in Communist Bulgaria
Guldeniz Kibris The Turkish Past and the Cold War

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

T-13  -  RUR05: Corporatism in Rural Europe, 19th - 20th Centuries
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Stéphane Le Bras
Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Stéphane Le Bras Protecting a Dominating Position: Corporatism in the Wine Market in Languedoc (1900s-1950s)
Jordi Planas Agricultural cooperatives and winegrowers mobilization in Catalonia in the early twentieth century
Rien Emmery Cruce et Aratro. The Symbiosis of Catholicism and Agrarianism in Belgium, 1919-1939
Dulce Freire Corporatism in Portugal: institutions and modernization of agriculture during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

U-13  -  WOM10: Gendered Memories and Historiographies
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Krassimira Daskalova History Wars: Gender Representations in Textbooks
Falko Schnicke The Bodies of History. Genderization and Sexualization in 19th-century German Historiography
Ute Lischke Whose Memories? Whose History? Addressing Nostalgia and Trauma in the Films of Sibylle Schönemann

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

L-14  -  MID07: Eurocore Cuius Regio Session I
Main Building: Room 355

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Maarten Duijvendak
Chair: Dick de Boer
Job Weststrate, Juhan Kreem Adapting Regional Strategies during the Long Sixteenth Century: Livonia and the Lower Rhine Area Compared
Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu, José Augusto Sottomayor Pizarro & Maria Cristina Pimenta & Mafalda Soares da Cunha The Role of Nobility in Shaping the Regional Strategies in the Middle and in the early Modern Ages (The Comparative Cases of Transylvania and Portugal)
Jana Fantysová Matějková, Kurt Villads Jensen Virtual Regions in History - a Comparative Approach
Przemyslaw Wiszewski, Flocel Sabate Curull Catalunia - Silesia. Cohesive and Disruptive Forces in History of Regions
Flocel Sabaté External Perception, Institutional Construction and Social Cohesion in the Building of Catalonia (XII-XV Centuries)

 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: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
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 14.00 - 16.00 

L-15  -  MID08: Eurocore Cuius Regio Session II
Main Building: Room 355

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Maarten Duijvendak
Chair: Maarten Duijvendak
Dick de Boer Regions and State Formation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands
Nils Holger Petersen Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints
Ad Knotter ‘Unfamiliarity’, ‘Social Control’, or ‘Push-and-pull’. Mining and Cross-border Labour in the Dutch-Belgian-German Borderland, 1900-1973
Martin Klatt, René Ejbye Pedersen Labour Mobility in the Danish-German Border Region of Schleswig in a Longue Durée Perspective

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

V-15  -  POL14: Shaping National(ist) Identities: Belonging, Hegemonies, Otherness
Maths Building: 416

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Markus Wien
Discussant: Markus Wien
Discussant: Jose Reis Santos
Eleonora Naxidou Reshaping the Image of the Greek: The Bulgarian Version (19th Century)
Xosé Ramón Veiga Alonso, Miguel Cabo Villaverde Brothers in Arms? The Spanish Army as a Factor of Nation-building in the Long Nineteenth-century: Galicia as a Case-study
Ismee Tames Nationalists Excluded from the Nation
Olindo De Napoli Racism and the Totalitarian Turn in Fascist Italy. The Legal Debate

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

M-15  -  WOM11: Women Entering Institutional Politics
Main Building: Melville

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Gunnel Karlsson
Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Ramona Mihaila, George Lazaroiu Power and Public Stage: Political Involvement of 19th Century Romanian Women Writers
Isabela Campoi Women Access at the Institutional Politics in Brazil: A Long Term Analysis until the First Female President
Pamela Schievenin Women’s Way of Doing Politics? Women Politicians and the Reform of Italy’s Maternal and Infant Welfare in a Comparative Perspective (1960s – 1970s)