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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

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 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
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 11.00 - 13.00 

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Health and Environment
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 

R-3  -  FAM17: The Founders and Survivors Research Project
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Rebecca Kippen
Chair: Timothy Cuff
Discussant: Bernard Harris
Rebecca Kippen, Janet McCalman Gold and Freedom: Convicts and the Victorian Gold Rush, 1851–1861
John Cranfield, Kris Inwood Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914–1918 War in Comparative Perspective
Damminda Alahakoon, Sue Bedingfield & James Bradley & Sandra Silcot & Len Smith TextCat:: A Text Mining Tool for Deriving Categories from Unstructured Text
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Work, Punishment and Death in Convict Australia
 

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

R-4  -  SOC16: Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Family and Demography
Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Lynn Botelho
Lynn Botelho ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?
 

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Oral History
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 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
 

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Spatial and Digital History
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 

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

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Spatial and Digital History
Network: Technology
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
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
 

 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: Latin-America
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
 

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

R-13  -  ORA16: Gendered Lives, Antinomical Nostalgia: Women's Memories of State Socialism
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Amia Lieblich
Discussant: Andrea Peto
Veronica Shapovalov "There is No Place Like Home": Trauma and Nostalgia in Women's Memoirs of the Gulag
Izabella Agardi "One had to Adjust to Everything: to the Kádár -regime, to the Tito-regime here, to Ceausescu there". Structural Nostalgias in Hungarian Women's Life Narratives from Serbia, Romania and Hungary
Ana Luleva Gender Dimensions of Post-socialist Nostalgia in Bulgaria
Natalia Pushkareva The Oral History of Russian Academy Community: Transformations of Gender-discrimination Practices
 

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

R-14  -  SPA08: Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Spatial and Digital History
Network: Religion
Organiser: David Bodenhamer
Chair: Andreas Kunz
Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach