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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  

U-1  -  SOC01: Authority and Resistance in Plebeian Spaces in 19th Century England
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: David Green
Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: David Green
David Green Plebeian Spaces: Streets, Homes and Institutions in 19th-century London
Jane Hamlett A Veritable Palace for the Hard-working Labourer? Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in Rowton Houses, Ltd., London, 1892-1914
Samantha Shave Spaces of Female Sexual Violence and Consolation in New Poor Law Workhouses, 1834-1871
Paul A. Fideler "Statistics and Society: Ameliorating a Manchester 'Little Ireland' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
 

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

U-2  -  SOC02: Collections for the Poor. Voluntary giving and the Finance of Poor Relief
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organiser: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Daniëlle Teeuwen Collections for the Poor. Charitable giving in the Dutch Republic
John McCallum Collections for the Poor in the Post-reformation Church of Scotland
Karen Sonnelitter Financing Improvement: Philanthropy and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
 

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

U-3  -  SOC03: New Perspectives on Poor Relief and Poverty
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Christos Desyllas Microfinancial Structures and Strategies of Social Policy
Klas Nyberg, Mats Hayen & Håkan Jakobsson Credit, Trust and Financial Networks in 18th and 19th Century Stockholm
Inge Mønster-Kjær The Poor Behind Barbed Wire
Olga Salamatova On the Way to Nowhere: The Interpretation and Adaptation of Poor Relief Foreign Patterns by the Russian Public Men, 1890s – 1917
Kaat Louckx The Classification of the Poor in Great Britain and Belgium at the End of the 19th Century. A Socio-historical Approach on Changing Classification Patterns
 

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

U-4  -  MAT03: Luxury Goods and Material Culture in Southern Europe: Continuity and Change (14th-18th Centuries)
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Andrea Caracausi
Chair: Beverly Lemire
Discussant: Paola Lanaro
Andrea Caracausi Global Commodities, “Luxury” Goods and Market Policy in the Republic of Venice (17th-18th Century).
Michela Barbot Luxury, Consumption and Value: The Circuits of Alienable and Inalienable Goods in the Visconti and Sforza Court (Milan, 14th-16th Centuries)
 

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

U-5  -  MAT04: Commissioning Consumption - Strategies and Impact of European Sponsored Films and Commercials
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Bert Hogenkamp
Organiser: Lydia Nsiah
Chair: Beata Hock
Bert Hogenkamp Video Ergo Sum. The Impact of Video on the Sponsored Film in the Netherlands
Sema Colpan, Lydia Nsiah Shaping Industrial Modernity: Austrian Sponsored Films between 1920 and 1960
Bjorn Sorenssen Offshore Media. Audiovisual Mediation of the Norwegian Offhore Oil Industry 1967-2000
 

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

U-6  -  MAT05: Rethinking Consumer History: Consumer Power in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Network: Technology
Network: Labour
Chair: Jackie Clarke
Ruth Oldenziel The Consumer Politics of Bicycle Clubs in Europe and the United States, 1880-1945
Nicole Robertson The Organised Consumer: Education, Empowerment and Experiments
 

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

U-7  -  MAT06: The Early Modern Consumer (R)evolution(s) in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Anne Mccants
Anna Brismark, Pia Lundqvist Jewish Merchants and the Consumer Market in early 19th Century Sweden
Bruno Blondé: no abstract
Harm Nijboer Trust and the early modern consumer revolution
 

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

U-9  -  ETH23: Trying to Regulate Migration
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Irina Mukhina
Discussant: Pascal Maeder
Tobias Karlsson, Christer Lundh Movers and Stayers: Labour Mobility in Gothenburg, 1924-1944
Wolfgang Goederle Administrating Ethnicities: Central European Migrants in the Eyes of the Habsburg Empire’s Bureaucracy
Hanan Sabea Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: Regulatory Schemes and the Disposable Bodies of Migrants to Europe
Marta Silva Considerations on the Clandestine Emigration and Resistance in the Portuguese Rural World, 1957-1974
Johan Svanberg Labour Recruitment to a Gender Divided Labour Market in Sweden: The Reception from Schleswig-Holstein during the 1950s
 

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

U-10  -  ETH24: Taking Stock of Mobility
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Dirk Hoerder
Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Silvia Pedraza, Lara Sung Back Assimilation or Transnationalism? Evidence from the Latino National Survey (2006) for Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and South Americans who Immigrated to the USA during 1958-2005.
Paul Puschmann, Per-Olof Grönberg & Jan Kok & Koen Matthijs Social Mobility of Migrants in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1920
Leo Lucassen, Jan Lucassen & Gijs Kessler Cross-community Migration in Twentieth-century Europe; Towards a Systematic Quantitative Assessment
 

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

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
 

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

U-12  -  MAT02: Historical Drivers of Commercial Gambling II: Law and Policy
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Riitta Matilainen
Organiser: Sytze F. Kingma
Chair: Riitta Matilainen
Sytze F. Kingma The Dutch Gambling Act of 1964 and the “Alibi-Model” of Gambling Regulation
Antti Myllymaa European Offshore Jurisdictions as the Juridico-political Infrastructure for the Cross-border Online Gambling Industry
Maria Heiskanen Culture or Games? The History of Using the Profits of Money Games for Good Causes
 

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

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

    Network: Women and Gender
Network: Culture
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 

U-14  -  ETH22: Colonial Ties and their Effects on Migration
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Hanan Sabea
Discussant: Per-Olof Grönberg
Timo Särkkä A Perspective on Nordic Colonialism: Finns as Empire-builders in Southern Africa, 1895–1945
John Schuster Return Migrants as Strangers: The Dutch of Suriname
Sara Park The Smuggling Ring: A History of "Illegals" in Early Postwar Japan
Shaun Marmon Slavery, Race and Gender in the Circassian Period of the Mamluk Empire
 

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

U-15  -  MAT09: The Ideology and Politics of Food
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Network: Rural
Chair: Karin Dannehl
Kennan Ferguson Cooking Steel, Eating Aeroplanes: The Futurist Cookbook and the Ideology of Food
Nathalie Parys Construction of a National Cuisine in two Belgian 19th-century Cookbooks?
Elena Barbulescu All We Eat is Poisoned. Food Choices in Contemporary Transylvanian Villages. Framing the Healthy Food in Rural Transylvania