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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 

J-1  -  CUL01: Dynamic Reconstruction of the Past in Societies of Transition
Room 3.1

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Nikolai Vukov
Organiser: Miglena Ivanova
Chair: Nikolai Vukov
Discussant: Nikolai Vukov
Miglena Ivanova Inscribing Global Identities into the Urban Space. Recent Bulgarian Graffiti Writers and their Identity Construction
Sylvia Stancheva (Re)presenting History in Museums in post-socialist Bulgaria
Marusa Pusnik Mediating Communism: Slovenian Media Coverage of the Recent Past and Historical Reprogramming
 

 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 

J-3  -  ECO01: Women and Investment: England, Wales and Canada in the late 19th century
Room 3.1

    Network: Economics
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Joyce Burnette
Discussant: Kris Inwood
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford Consols, Home Rails and Foreign Things: women and investment in England and Wales in the early twentieth century
David Green, Alastair Owens Lives in the balance? Women’s financial assets and debts in late nineteenth-century England and Wales
Peter Baskerville Women and Wealth: Urban and Rural Patterns in Late Nineteenth Century Canada
 

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

J-4  -  ECO02: The Material Well-Being of Women: Studies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 3.1

    Network: Economics
Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Peter Baskerville
Chair: Peter Baskerville
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Bernard Harris Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being
Stephan Klasen, Parvati Truebswetter Emigration and Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland, 1850-1930.
Kris Inwood The Changing Physical Standard of Living for British and Canadian Women, 1850-1950.
 

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

J-5  -  CUL03:Mixed Marriages I: Politics and Policies
Room 3.1

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Betty de Hart
Organiser: Marga Altena
Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Betty de Hart Protecting Dutch girls from the Harem. Dutch law and eduction on the dangers of marrying Islamic men
Sarah Carter Colonial Anxieties: The 1886 "Traffic" in Aboriginal Women Scandal, the Aborigines Protection Society, and Mixed-Marriages in Western Canada
Charlotte Laarman Ethnically mixed relationships in a postcolonial context, 1945-2000
 

 Wednesday 27 February 16.30 

J-6  -  CUL04: Mixed Marriages II: Representation and Agency
Room 3.1

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Betty de Hart
Organiser: Marga Altena
Chair: Betty de Hart
Discussant: Betty de Hart
Marga Altena Challenging Prejudice in Dutch News Media. The 'Black and White Marriage' of Joseph Sylvester and Marie Borchert (1928-1955)
Maayke Botman Representation of Dutch-Moroccan interethnic family relations and identity in Abdelkader Benali’s novel: De Langverwachte (The Long-Awaited)
Karin Schmidlechner Cross Cultural Marriages in Austria
 

 Thursday 28 February 8.30 

J-7  -  GEO02: The Spaces of Civil Society I: Sexuality
Room 3.1

    Network: Geography
Chair: Matthew Hannah
Mary Thomas The sexual attraction of racism: Hispanic and Armenian teenage girls explain a school race riot in Los Angeles, California, USA
Patricia Ehrkamp “Everyone here has two faces”: publicity, privacy, and Turkish migrants’ sexual identities in Duisburg-Marxloh, Germany
Tanya Erzen The Politics of Sexuality in the U.S. Christian Right
Mathew Coleman What Counts as Geopolitics, and Where? Sexuality and US Immigration Enforcement
 

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

J-8  -  GEO03: The Spaces of Civil Society II: Geopolitics
Room 3.1

    Network: Geography
Chair: Patricia Ehrkamp
Begum Basdas Stately interventions in the cosmopolitan public space: women’s engagements with police forces in Beyoglu, Istanbul
Stephanie Egan Geographies of power: The IPSC as a resisting community
Derek Gregory Uncivil society? The biopolitics of Baghdad
 

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

J-9  -  GEO04: The Spaces of Civil Society III: The City
Room 3.1

    Network: Geography
Chair: Gerry Kearns
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning
Michael Brown Everybody gets VD!: Sexualities & Urban Public Health Politics in PostWar
Stephen Legg Contesting colonial conduct of conduct: the Indian middle classes and the problem of prostitution
David Beckingham Drinking and drunkenness, temperance, and cultures of resistance in nineteenth-century Liverpool
Harm Kaal Public Order and Democracy in Amsterdam
 

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

J-10  -  Network meeting: Labour
Room 3.1

    Network: Labour
 

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

J-11  -  GEO06: The Geographies of Civil Society: a roundtable discussion
Room 3.1

    Network: Geography
Chair: Gerry Kearns
Discussant: Mary Thomas
Discussant: Derek Gregory
Discussant: Karen Till
Discussant: Matthew Hannah
Discussant: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
 

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

J-12  -  CUL16: Devising Order, Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice II: Arranged Performativity: Spaces, Objects, Signifiers and Situations
Room 3.1

    Network: Religion
Network: Culture
Organiser: Thomas Småberg
Organiser: Bruno Boute
Chair: Thomas Småberg
Irene Stengs Giving Public Space a Face: the Agency of Monuments and Portraits. Three cases from Thailand and the Netherlands
Anna Stark The Unequal Rites of Death
Karel Arnaut Making space for performativity: a multi-layered public ritual in the town of Bondoukou (Côte d’Ivoire)
Martin Kjellgren Rituals of the Printing-House: Power, Profit and Piety in Swedish Almanacs 1580-1620
 

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

J-13  -  CUL17: Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice III: Transition, Adaptation, and Appropration of Pefomative Practices
Room 3.1

    Network: Religion
Network: Culture
Chair: Bruno Boute
Bodil Liljefors Persson Place, Power and Prophecy: Ritual Space and Speech among the Yucatec Maya from Colonial Time to Present Time.
Julia Zunckel Symbolical communication in the Early Modern Period: Papal Ceremonies and Universalism
Thomas Småberg The joust, the wedding and the knight. Rituals and symbols in medieval Sweden ca 1250-1320
Els Rose Re-inventing the Apostolic Tradition: Moments of Transition and Appropriation in the Cult of Apostles through the Middle Ages
Eugenio Menegon Believing or Performing? Textual Authority and Ritual Performance in the Jesuit-Dominican Debate about the “Chinese Rites” (1630-1740)
 

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

J-14  -  CUL08: Beyond the Text: Landscapes of Colonial Memory in the Portuguese Speaking World
Room 3.1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Culture
Organiser: Isabel Rodrigues
Chair: Andrea Klimt
Discussant: Andrea Klimt
Isabel Rodrigues Miniaturizing Empire at “Portugal dos Pequenitos”
Joanna Davidson Ulysses in West Africa: Transatlantic Transformations and the Epic of Bolama
Clara Carvalho Women in Colonial Pictures. Representation, Gender and Colonialism in the Guinea-Bissau’s Photographic Archives.
Timothy Sieber Architecture Rewriting History: the Portuguese Pavilion, Architecture, and Site-Planning at Expo ‘98
 

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

J-15  -  FAM27: Demography of Indigenous Populations
Room 3.1

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Peter Sköld
Chair: Göran Broström
Discussant: Per Axelsson
Peter Sköld Ageing in the north. The Sami life expectancy.
J. David Hacker, Michael R. Haines American Indian Demography at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Mario Boleda Demographic Dynamics in Aboriginal Populations.
Gabriella Edholm Marriage patterns among Sami nomads and Swedish settlers under the impact of the colonization process in 19th century northern Sweden.
 

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

J-16  -  POL16: Gender of politics in Scandinavia, 1800-1921
Room 3.1

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Discussant: Gro Hagemann
Josefin Rönnbäck The right to stand by? The Swedish suffragists and the right to stand for election
Christina Florin Heightened feelings. Emotions as capital in the suffrage movement.
Irma Sulkunen Suffrage, nation and citizenship
 

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

J-17  -  ETH40: Migration and periphery
Room 3.1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Bina Sengar
Deborah Michaels The Dynamics of National and Global Framing in the History of Romani Social Movements
Miika Tervonen ‘Peasants’, ‘Gypsies’ and ‘travellers’: ethnic boundary-drawing and -crossing in Finland and Sweden, c.1865-1905
Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska The Migration in Western Part of Macedonia (Changes and Consequences)
Marta Petryk The Revitalization of the Kven culture in northern Norway
 

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

J-18  -  SOC10: Welfare after WW II
Room 3.1

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Discussant: Larry Frohman
Christiane Streubel Hyperactive or Hopelessly Infirm? Post-Modern Visualizations of Pensioners in US-American and German Print Media
Birgitta Jansson, Björn Gustafsson Poverty in the city of Göteborg, Sweden, from 1925 to 2003
Sonya Michel The Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Explaining Inequalities in American Old-Age Provision since World War II