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7th European Social Science History Conference Lisbon, Portugal March 2008
 
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Tuesday 26 February
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 27 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 28 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 29 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Saturday 1 March
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

B-1  -  ELI01: The academe as an elite arena I: Early Modern Period to First World War
Cave B

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Marja Jalava
Chair: Robert Anderson
Discussant: Robert Anderson
Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss Advancing with the Army, the formation of the professional elite
Daniel Flueckiger Elite transformation and Democratization
Jan Eivind Myhre The Cradle of Elites - the University of Oslo in the 19th Century
László Szögi The Hungarian University and Academical System as Cultural Mediator in Eastern Europe in the 18th-19th Centuries

 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

E-1  -  ELI14: Mobilities, integration and formalisation of social relationships in the urban context
Cave E

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Vincent Gourdon
Chair: Kari-Matti Piilahti
Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Antonio Irigoyen Clergy as migrant receiver in Early Modern Spain
Stéphane Minvielle Formalisation of social relationships in urban context : The integration of migrants in 18th century Bordeaux
Etienne Couriol How urban newcomers use spiritual kinships : Lyons in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries
Guido Alfani Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Ivrea. XVIth-XVIIth Centuries

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

B-2  -  ELI02: The academe as an elite arena II: Postwar period
Cave B

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Marja Jalava
Chair: Xu Li
Discussant: Xu Li
Marja Jalava Cultural Revolution or Bureaucratic Jargon? - The Finnish Reform of Degrees in the 1970s
Kim Helsvig Norwegian academia: From social democratic egalitarianism to competitive elitism?
Robert Anderson University Expansion, Elites and Democratization in Britain since 1945
Maria Teresa Tomas Rangil How Did the Homo Oeconomicus Became an Homo bellicus? Economics and International Relations Theory in the 1980s and 1990s.

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

J-2  -  ELI08: Elite decadence: an image or an actuality?
Room 3.1

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Marja Vuorinen
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Marja Vuorinen Decadence as a projection: a tool for criticism
Henry French, Mark Rothery Practices of politeness: changing norms of masculinity in English landed society, 1660-1800
Sarah Toulalan Children and sexuality in early modern England

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

L-3  -  ELI03: The country house I: Power Houses
Room 5.1

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jon Stobart
Chair: Jon Stobart
Discussant: Jon Stobart
Peter Edwards Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle
Rosie Macarthur Knowledge as power: the imprint of a genteel education on the materiality of Kelmarsh Hall 1720- 1845.
Abigail Harrison Moore Furnishing the Elite House: Chippendale at Harewood

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

B-3  -  ELI11: Education as control
Cave B

    Network: Elites
Chair: Jan Eivind Myhre
Discussant: Jan Eivind Myhre
Xu Li Public and Knowledge: Critical Transformation of the Functions and Organization of Higher Education in the United States
Tuula Okkonen Control, dominance and educational policy in the post-war world
Olivier Longchamp, Yves Steiner The contribution of the Schweizerisches Institut für Auslandforschung to the international restoration of neoliberalism (1949-1963)
Karl-H. Fuessl The Emergence of Utopia. American Social Sciences, German Speaking Émigrés and U.S. Policy Toward Germany (1942-1945)

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

W-3  -  MAT05: Material Culture of the Aristocracy
Room 2.12

    Network: Elites
Chair: Bruno Blondé
Veerle De Laet "In his Majesty's Service". Cultural go-betweens in 17th and 18th centuries Brussels
Eva Deak Materials and colors of clothes in a princely court: the example of Alba Iulia during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

T-4  -  ELI04: The country house II: Family and consumption
Room 9

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Jon Stobart
Chair: Abigail Harrison Moore
Discussant: Abigail Harrison Moore
Jon Stobart Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England
Kerry Bristol The Yorke Connection
Paolo Cornaglia Families, gardeners and gardens

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

I-4  -  RUR04: Elites and agricultural modernization
Room 2.1

    Network: Elites
Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Daniel Samson British North American Elites and Agricultural Improvement in Transatlantic Context, 1791-1860
Ursula Schlude “To cultivate profitably and with good advice”. Creating Agricultural Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Dresden 1568 to 1572.
Alejandro Tortolero Elites and Haciendas in the 19th c. Mexico : routine or innovation ?
Nadine Vivier Elites and progress in Europe: a comparative view
Andras Vari (1953-2011) The guardians of agricultural change – Professionalization of estate stewards in 19th century Hungary

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

A-5  -  ELI20: Urban Elites in Transition: Features of Urbanity, Vectors of Change and Problems of Methodology
Cave A

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Eva Schandevyl
Organiser: Hilde Greefs
Chair: Eva Schandevyl
Discussant: Eva Schandevyl
Chair: Hilde Greefs
Discussant: Hilde Greefs
Stephanie Van Houtven Designing urban space: the Antwerp cités ouvrières, 1865 – 1885.
Inge Bertels City Architects and City Architects. Civil Servants for Public Building in Long Term Perspective, Antwerp 1794-2006
Craig Bailey Power, Pluralism and Exchange: Middle-Class Irish Networks in Eighteenth-Century London

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

E-5  -  ELI22: Emerging New Elite in the Academic Environment
Cave E

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Katalin Miklossy
Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Discussant: Aappo Kähönen
Tom Junes The Forging of a New Elite: Student Politics in Communist Poland
Nadja Duhacek Tolerance in a bubble
Abel Polese And if it were only a response to state managed sabotage? An alternative assessment on Ukrainian universities
Miguel Cardina Students Movements in the crisis of portuguese dictatorship

 Wednesday 27 February 16.30 

R-6  -  ELI05: Elites and nationalism in comparative perspective
Amphitheater 4

    Network: Elites
Organiser: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Chair: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Discussant: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Prachi Deshpande Foreign travel?: Homeland and Migration in 18th and 19th century India
Vanni Pettinà The United States against the Cuban nationalist elites: searching for the interlocutor
Eric Beverley Layered Sovereignty and Subaltern States: Nationalism and Other Global Visions
Aliye Fatma Mataraci A Merchant Network: Reading Muslim Merchants through Trade Letters

 Wednesday 27 February 16.30 

M-6  -  ELI21: The culture of difference (Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe)
Room 5.2

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Doina Pasca Harsanyi To be or not to be noble after the Civil Code
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen Dykes, Haubargs, Bullocks, and Teacups ... The peasant-farmer elite of Eiderstedt, Schleswig, and the symbolic establishing of status and hierarchy during early modernity
Marc Schalenberg Selling the City: How 18th century German residence towns “marketed” themselves

 Thursday 28 February 8.30 

W-7  -  ELI06: Elites and nationalism: (dis)location across borders
Room 2.12

    Network: Elites
Organiser: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Discussant: Carolina Rodríguez-López
Janne Nokki Austro -Hungarian Diplomats in St. Petersburg during the 1850s and 1860s - a Group of Aristocratic Conservatives
Nathanaelle Minard Social and cultural networks of Russian travellers in Finland during the first half of the 19th century
Mari Firkatian Nationalist Elites: Stancioffs, aristocrats to diplomats, cosmopolitans to patriots

 Thursday 28 February 8.30 

V-7  -  ELI23: Elites in Transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc I: transformation of the old power structures
Room 2.10

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Katalin Miklossy
Chair: Katalin Miklossy
Discussant: Katalin Miklossy
Maciej Tyminski Searching for the Origins of the Elite’s Habits in Postcommunist Poland:
Jouni Järvinen Making Identities: History, Memory and Politics
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez Constructing a ‘European’ Transition: From the Central and Eastern European Exile Memory to the Eastward Enlargement of the EU

 Thursday 28 February 8.30 

S-7  -  MID01: Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges I
Instituto de Arte

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Frederik Buylaert
Organiser: Arie van Steensel
Organiser: Véronique Flammang
Organiser: María Asenjo-González
Chair: José Antonio Jara Fuente
Frederik Buylaert Social Mobility in Flemish Urban Elites (14th – 16th century): a Quantitative Approach of the Flemish Nobility
Arie van Steensel Integrating institutions, networks, and agents: challenges arising from the application of the prosopographical method to late medieval nobility of the county of Zeeland
Justine Smithuis A Prosopography of Factions in Late Medieval Utrecht: What are the Risks and Gains?

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

Q-8  -  ELI07: Elites and corporatism in the Iberian World
Amphitheatre 3

    Network: Elites
Organiser: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Chair: Line Schjolden
Discussant: Line Schjolden
José Antonio Sánchez-Román From the Congress of Productivity to the Economic Agreement: Taxes, Inflation and Corporatism in Argentina, 1955-1976
Carolina Rodríguez-López Academic Elites and Power in the University of Madrid, 1939-1951
Manuel Loff «Ours is a Fascist Century!» Salazarism and Francoism elites and Nazi-Fascist New Order (1936-45)

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

V-8  -  ELI24: Elites in transition: coping with the collapsing system in the small countries of the Eastern bloc II: Old Elites' Revival in the New System
Room 2.10

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Katalin Miklossy
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Katalin Miklossy Hungarian Socialists’ Identity Crisis
Nadezhda Stoyanova Desecuritizing Identity in South-Eastern Europe
Bojan Bilic, Adriana Marcolini Two Serbias: the Persistence of ‘Old Elites’ after the Fall of Socialism

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

X-8  -  MID02: Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New Perspectives and Methodological Challenges II
Room 2.13

    Network: Elites
Organiser: María Asenjo-González
Organiser: Frederik Buylaert
Organiser: Véronique Flammang
Organiser: Arie van Steensel
Chair: María Asenjo-González
Jan Dumolyn, Wim De Clercq From social position to social representation. The grammar of sign systems expressing noble identity in the late medieval Burgundian Netherlands.
Mario Damen Prosopography and elites: perspectives for research and dissemination of data concerning political elites in the Low Countries.
José Antonio Jara Fuente Perceiving the «self», perceiving the «others»: an enquiry over the construction of political identities in fifteenth-century urban Castile

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

O-9  -  ELI09: Elites in Russia/ Soviet Union and abroad
Room 7.1

    Network: Elites
Chair: Jouni Järvinen
Discussant: Leonid Borodkin
Aappo Kähönen Elites and Continuity: Georgii Chicherin and the foundations of Soviet foreign policy, 1904-1922
Piotr Korys Four concepts of nationalism. Nationalist Elites and Inventing National Community in Poland
Alastair Kocho-Williams Forging the Soviet Foreign Elite in the Interwar Years
Jaana Gluschkoff The Elite without Borders

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

H-9  -  MAT03: Courts and food
Room 1.1

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Peter Scholliers
Organiser: Danielle De Vooght
Chair: Peter Scholliers
Discussant: Peter Scholliers
Danielle De Vooght Culinary networks of power (Belgium, 2nd part 19th century)
Anne Lair France: Examples of Food Court during the Second Empire
Özge Samanci Ottoman Courtly Banquets Arranged in French Style (1850-1918)
David Burrow Food at the Russian court in the 19th century

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

G-10  -  Network meeting: Elites
Amphitheatre 2

    Network: Elites

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

P-11  -  ELI19: The idea of progress, enlightenment & national identity among urban elites in (Northern) Europe 1770-1830
Room 8.1

    Network: Elites
Chair: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Discussant: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Jouko Nurmiainen Progress and Common Good in Swedish Eighteenth-Century Historical and Economic Thought
Bård Frydenlund The spheres of interest of an elite in transition: the merchant and proprietor classes in Norway during the Napoleonic wars 1800-1815
Rasmus Glenthøj National identity within the Danish-Norwegian Elites in the early 19th Century

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

U-11  -  ELI25: Women as political actors in early modern Europe
Room10.2

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Svante Norrhem
Chair: Svante Norrhem
Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Ida Bull Elite women: From mistress in an open household to participant in a new public sphere.
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren Gender and Voting in 18th Century Sweden
Nina Koefoed Female strategies of political influence and resistance in 18th century absolutist Denmark
Mirella Marini Managing social, cultural and financial capital during the Counter Reformation in the Southern Netherlands: Anne of Croy (1564-1635), duchess of Aarschot, sovereign countess of Arenberg

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

M-12  -  ELI12: Economic elites
Room 5.2

    Network: Elites
Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Yovanna Pineda Identifying the Relationship of Elite Entrepreneurial Networks through Marriage, Social Clubs, and Litigation: Argentina’s Elite Business Networks, 1890-1940
Thomas David, Stéphanie Ginalski, André Mach, Frédéric Rebmann The social origins and education of economic elites in 20th Century Switzerland
Matthieu Leimgruber Bringing Private Insurance Back In. The “Geneva Association” and the Rise of Elite Business Policy Groups in the post-Keynesian Decades (1970-2000)
Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen Social mobility in Finnish Who’s Who data during 1909-2005

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

N-13  -  ELI13: Economic, political and cultural capital in 20th century Scandinavia
Room 6.1

    Network: Elites
Chair: Thomas David
Discussant: Thomas David
Niklas Stenlås A Swedish Model of Management? How Sweden's Business Elite adapted to Social Democratic Power
Kari-Matti Piilahti Power and Networks of Finnish Business Elite 1850-1940
Pål Brunnström Class identity and class politics among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939
Lars Berggren Industrial capitalists, political democracy and trade union organization

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

S-13  -  MID03: The intermediate rulers: the contribution of the nobility to urban domination in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian Netherlands I
Instituto de Arte

    Network: Elites
Organiser: María Asenjo-González
Organiser: Véronique Flammang
Organiser: Arie van Steensel
Organiser: Frederik Buylaert
Chair: María Asenjo-González
Véronique Flammang The Role of the Nobility in the Power Structures of the County of Hainault (15th Century)
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete The conflict between the nobility and the urban identity in Burgos in XVth century
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero Cities without communal charts: ruled by noble elites?

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

T-14  -  MID04: The intermediate rulers: the contribution of the nobility to urban domination in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian Netherlands II
Room 9

    Network: Elites
Organiser: María Asenjo-González
Organiser: Frederik Buylaert
Organiser: Véronique Flammang
Organiser: Arie van Steensel
Chair: Mario Damen
María Asenjo-González Small town’s rulers and urban influence in Castile in XVth
David Igual Economy and social power in Castile. The intermediate rulers in XVth century
Juan Antonio Barrio Barrio The intermediate rulers in Towns of Valencia Kingdom from XIIIth to XVth century.

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

I-15  -  ELI15: Elites strategies in Europe and across the seas
Room 2.1

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Vincent Gourdon
Chair: Anu Lahtinen
Discussant: François-Joseph Ruggiu
Erica Bastress-Dukehart Imprisoned, Empowered, Engendered: The Dialectic of Sibling Relationships within Early Modern Germany’s Princely Dynasties
Christian Kühner Friendship in the Early Modern French Nobility
Xabier Lamikiz Merchant Guilds and Merchant Networks in Eighteenth-Century Spain: A Comparison between Cadiz and Bilbao
Nuno Camarinhas Serving abroad: foreign origin magistrates in early modern Portugal
Annick Foucrier-Binda Marriage networks among French migrants in San Francisco at the time of the Gold Rush

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

K-16  -  RUR10: Land owners, Politics, and Agricultural Reform in the 20th century
Room 4

    Network: Elites
Chair: Mats Morell
Discussant: Mats Morell
Sónia Vespeira De Almeida Rural Portugal and the "Carnation Revolution"
Juan Carmona, James Simpson Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence in French's vineyards, 1800-1950
Victor Pereira Managing the decline of the landowners. The Portuguese government and the rural migration between 1957 and 1974
Lanero Táboas Francoism and local powers: intermediation, legitimation and socially differentiated access to extremely scarce resources.
Carla Almeida Sousa A Cultural Elite in a Village of the South of Portugal

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

U-17  -  ELI17: Estate Society in Transition: burghers and noblemen from the 18th to the 19th century
Room10.2

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Charlotta Wolff
Chair: Bård Frydenlund
Discussant: Bård Frydenlund
Charlotta Wolff Multiculturalism and merchant elite networking in the Baltic area, ca. 1770–1830
Nuno Miguel Lima Lisbon’s highest taxpayers during the Constitutional Monarchy. The Portuguese experience of the notables’ model?
Arnout Mertens Nobles into Belgians, 1750-1850
Alex Snellman Defining new elite: ennoblements in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1912

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

A-18  -  ELI10: New ideas, new elite formations, 1880s to 1940s
Cave A

    Network: Elites
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Zoltán Völgyesi The composition and disintegration of historical élites
M. B. B. Biskupski The Gentry Intelligentsia Playing Soldier: The Polish Legions as a Multiple Elite Formation
Fredrik Björk Urban green space as an arena for inclusion and exclusion: Discourses of the Swedish labor movement 1880-1940
Michel Geertse Garden Cities to the World! The international propagation of the garden city idea 1913-1926