Home ESSHC | Home IISH
 
7th European Social Science History Conference Lisbon, Portugal March 2008
 
Browse Networks  
    or search for  



Programme

Menu
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 

M-1  -  WOR01: World Regions in Transnational Perspective
Room 5.2

    Network: World History
Chair: Katja Naumann
Discussant: Katja Naumann
Mathias Mesenhoeller Poland and the Polish Diaspora Communities in the 20th century
Maria Hidvegi Marketing strategies and economic nationalism in the interwar years
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos Whose multinational? The relationship between British and Belgian national interests in the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (1906-1925).
Sarah Lemmen Czechs in the world: National representations and global encounters, 1890-1938
 

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

M-2  -  POL19: The ethos of commercial and political advocacy in twentieth-century Europe
Room 5.2

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Lawrence Black
Dominic Wring Selling Politics Like Soap Powder? Electioneering in Inter-war Britain
Corey Ross Advertising, Publicity and Politics in Inter-war Germany
Stefan Schwarzkopf Professionalisation, “Americanisation”, and the cult of rationality in an age of extremes: changing practices and identities in British marketing communication, 1920s-1960s
Veronique Pouillard France and Belgium (1910-1950): From the Early Debates on Advertising in the Public Space to the Late Adoption of PR Expertise.
 

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

M-3  -  RUR03: Rural History and village life in Japan
Room 5.2

    Network: Rural
Chair: Michael Shackleton
Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Hiroshi Hasebe The succession of “IE” ;a case study of rural family in the Tokugawa Japan
Kouki Iwama The Mutual Financing Associatons in Japanese Farm Villages: A case study of Kami-shiojiri village at the end of the early modern period
Moto(yasu) Takahashi Family Continuity in Japan, in comparison with England
Futoshi Yamauchi About the several social relationships for life that surrounded landownership
Yoshiyuki Murayama Geographical setting and landownership of Kami-shiojiri
Martin Morris Silk-worm raising and the Japanese house - the minka of Shiojiri in a national and global context
 

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

M-4  -  SEX03: Diversions and Perversions in the Early Modern Period I
Room 5.2

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Julie Gammon
S. Drake Bennett Popular Medicine, Erotica, and Sexual Aesthetics in 17th Century France and England
Sofia Tůma Uncovering a homosexual network: Patronage and the Inquisition in C17th Portugal
Julie Peakman Perversions and Divergence. Sexual Difference in the Early Modern Period
 

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

M-5  -  ECO03: Inequality and Human Capital Acquisition in the 17th - 19th centuries I
Room 5.2

    Network: Economics
Chair: Ewout Frankema
Discussant: Ewout Frankema
Jaime Reis Is Education a Good Proxy for Human Capital? Measurement and Distributional Issues in Portugal during the 19th Century
Leandro Prados De La Escosura International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the Western World
Dorothee Crayen, Joerg Baten Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: European and Global Trends in Comparative Perspective
Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch L'histoire immobile? Or how to measure social structures and mobilities in pre-industrial urban societies
Tim Wegenast Educational distribution within countries: the legacy of landlords
Kerstin Manzel, Jörg Baten Gender Inequality in Numeracy: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870-1940
 

 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 

M-7  -  URB08: Shaping Urban Space
Room 5.2

    Network: Urban
Chair: Marc Schalenberg
Rosana Steinke, M. Brehpol History of urbanization in Brazil: a dialogue between Europe, USA and America.
Ruth Wallach The City as an Aesthetic Object
Jose Maria Cardesin Diaz Urban development in Spain after 1950
Isabel Haupt Flying Cities: Architectural Utopias of the early 20th Century and their cultural Context
 

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

M-8  -  ASI05: Colonialism, Capitalism and Network Formation: the Indian Ocean Region, 1800-1950 1
Room 5.2

    Network: Asia
Organiser: Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Organiser: Takashi Oishi
Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Bhaswati Bhattacharya Solid ground beneath their feet? Armenian entrepreneurs in India, 1800-1950
Takashi Oishi Intra-regional Network and Trust: Indian Muslim merchants in Southeast and East Asia, 1800-1950
Claude Markovits Bombay as the hub of Indian merchant networks in the Indian Ocean c. 1800-1950
 

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

M-9  -  ETH06: VEIL. Debates about headscarfes in Europe
Room 5.2

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Sexuality
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Birte Siim
Discussant: Birte Siim
Discussant: Sieglinde Rosenberger
Rikke Andreassen VEIL. Debates about headscarves in Europe. The Danish case
Petra Rostock, Sabine Berghahn VEIL Germany: The hegemonic use of the headscarf as a symbol of subordination
Sawitri Saharso, Doutje Lettinga Moral conflicts and practical solutions: policies and debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering in the Netherlands
Leila Hadj-Abdou, Nora Gresch & Sieglinde Rosenberger Unveiling the Austrian headscarf debate
 

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

M-10  -  Network meeting: Poltics, Citizenship and Nations
Room 5.2

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
 

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

M-11  -  CUL15: Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice I: The Performativity of Practice
Room 5.2

    Network: Religion
Network: Culture
Organiser: Bruno Boute
Organiser: Thomas Småberg
Chair: Wim François
Bruno Boute Engineering the Sacred. The Performativity of Sacramental Practices in the Low Countries (17th Century)
Paolo Quattrone Organizations, organizing, and the spread of rationalizing practices: The Jesuit Order as continuous ordering
Joris van Eijnatten Gratifying audiences: towards a cultural history of the sermon in eighteenth-century Europe
 

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

M-12  -  ELI12: Economic elites
Room 5.2

    Network: Economics
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 

M-13  -  POL12: Methods and analysis: renewing the histories of anarchism, state-building and citizenship
Room 5.2

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Labour
Organiser: Lucien Van Der Walt
Organiser: Bert Altena
Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Discussant: Lucien Van Der Walt
Bert Altena How about the history of anarchism as a national social movement?
Tom Goyens Social Space and the Practice of Anarchist History
Carl Levy Social Histories of Anarchism
Davide Turcato: no abstract
Eduardo Romanos Analysing anarchist mobilisation in a highly repressive political context: the Spanish case
 

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

M-14  -  ANT06: Thinking about Peace in the Ancient World
Room 5.2

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Hans Van Wees
Discussant: Hans Van Wees
Kurt Raaflaub Thinking about Peace in Ancient Greece
Johannes Bronkhorst Thinking about peace in Ancient India
Susanne Bickel The Concept of Peace in Ancient Egypt
Robin D. S. Yates Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China
 

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

M-15  -  ANT10: Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity I
Room 5.2

    Network: Antiquity
Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Mary Harlow
Discussant: Nelleke Bakker
Ray Laurence Children in the Roman City: Taking another look at Pompeii
Patricia Baker Children and Health in the Greco-Roman World
Ville Vuolanto Socialisation of the Children in the Family Discourses of the Ascetic Fathers in Late Antiquity
 

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

M-16  -  ANT13: Rethinking the History of Childhood in Antiquity II
Room 5.2

    Network: Antiquity
Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Ray Laurence
Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Louise Revell Breaking the paradigm: experiences of childhood in the Roman provinces
Susan Blundell Engendering childhood: boys and girls in Attic vase painting
Tim Parkin Ancient children and their demography
Mary Harlow Childhood and sibling relationships at Rome
 

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

M-17  -  WOM12: Breaking Down the East-West Divide
Room 5.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Borbala Juhasz
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary
Roxana Cheschebec Gender, Race and Class in Definitions of Modern Social Work in Interwar Romania
Jacqueline Heinen Breaking sown the East-West Divide through the Case Study of Polish Child care 1945-1989
 

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

M-18  -  LAB25: Women as servants in Northern Europe
Room 5.2

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Marjatta Rahikainen
Organiser: Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen
Chair: Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Discussant: Beatrice Moring
Anu Lahtinen Servants in medieval and early modern urban and rural households
Elina Waris The work of children and female servants in 19th-century rural Estonia
Linda Lane Women in domestic service in Sweden 1920–1940