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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

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 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

W-2  -  THE01: The Writing of National Histories in 19th and 20th Century Europe
Room 2.12

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Matthias Middell
Discussant: Matthias Middell
Ilaria Porciani, Jo Tollebeek The Instiitutionalisation and Professionalisation of Historical Writing
Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger Nation and Society: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Religion and Gender
Stefan Berger, Christoph Conrad National Historical Cultures in Comparative Perspective: An Outline
Andrew Mycock Education, identity and empire? History teaching in multi-national post-imperial Britain
 

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

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

    Network: Elites
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
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 

W-4  -  ORA10: Contested Pasts
Room 2.12

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Ene Kõresaar
John Cox “Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany”
Sabine Kittel Today’s memories of the socialist Past : Interviews with employees of an educational institution in eastern Germany.
Anselma Gallinat The social production of ‘oral history’?
Niina Lappalainen "There was no Civil War in this village." The referential way of communication.
 

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

W-5  -  ASI02 : The City in Asia (I): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

    Network: Asia
Network: Urban
Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Prashant Kidambi Rethinking the Asian City: Recent perspectives in Indian and Chinese Historiography
Manish Kumar Thakur The Making of A Mofussil Netaji: A Study in Urban Political Culture
Markus Daechsel Dr. Doxiadis and the people of Korangi
 

 Wednesday 27 February 16.30 

W-6  -  ASI03 : The City in Asia (II): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

    Network: Asia
Network: Urban
Chair: Ratna Saptari
Ami Shah Global Dreams, Local Nightmares: Urban 'Development' and Destruction in Ahmedabad, India
Nandini Gooptu Globalization, Work and Urban Identities in Kolkata, India
Jaideep Gupte Communal Violence, Organised Crime and Vulnerability: urban survival strategies in Mumbai, India
 

 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 10.45 

W-8  -  ORA05: Testimony, memory, memorials
Room 2.12

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Nanci Adler
Gulie Ne'eman Arad Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs: A Challenge for Historians
Eva Bruecker Negotiating the Truth of Memory: Oral History and the difficulties of public presentations
James Mark Using Victim Biographies: Sites of Terror in Central-Eastern Europe
Nikolai Vukov The Rewriting of the Past in a Ritual Setting: Public Commemorations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
 

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

W-9  -  LAB26: Race and Internationalism: New Research on Black Activists in the Ambit of the Comintern
Room 2.12

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Network: Labour
Organiser: Eve Rosenhaft
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Discussant: James Miller
Corinne A. Pernet Nationalism, Regionalism or Cosmopolitanism? Latin American Intellectuals at UNESCO, 1948 to 1958
Fionnghuala Sweeney CLR James' The Black Jacobins and radical leadership in the interwar period
Robbie Aitken German-Speaking Cameroonians: Exchange and Knowledge Transfer within Networks of Anti-Colonialism
 

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

W-10  -  Network meeting: Theory and Historiography
Room 2.12

    Network: Theory and Historiography
 

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

W-11  -  ANT12: Approaches to Ancient Warfare
Room 2.12

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Kurt Raaflaub
Discussant: Kurt Raaflaub
José Varandas The Roman Army in the Western Iberia: military, political and social impacts in the Atlantic coastline at the time of Punic Wars.
Fernando E. Rey Technological determinism. The Argive shield and the origins of the Greek phalanx
Francisco Caramelo Thinking about war in ancient Mesopotamia: a prophetic discourse of legitimacy
 

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

W-12  -  LAT02: Labor and the Law in 20th Century Latin America
Room 2.12

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Oliver Dinius
Chair: Michael M. Hall
Discussant: Michael M. Hall
Oliver Dinius Industrial Relations and the Brazilian Labor Courts under State Capitalism
Line Schjolden Outgrowing Legal Liberalism: Argentine Labor Law in the 1930s
Fernando Teixeira Da Silva Brazilian Labor Courts in Comparative Perspective
William Suarez-Potts The Development of Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1917-31
 

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

W-13  -  LAB14: The Formal - Informal Dichotomy: Social and Economic Agency and the Cultural Heritage of the Soviet Past
Room 2.12

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Gijs Kessler
Chair: Gijs Kessler
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Leonid Borodkin Transformation of Soviet Workers' Social Practices in Post-Soviet Russia: From Informal Practices to Formal Ones?
Sergey Afontsev Looking Back or Looking Forward? Soviet Heritage and the Evolution of Informal Labor in Post-Soviet Russia
Irina Novichenko Soviet 'Public Organizations': Official Structure and Informal Activity
Timur Valetov Self-organised seasonal labour collectives in the USSR of the 1960-1980s: economic and social aspects
 

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

W-14  -  LAT03: Health, Medicine and Social Problems in Latin America
Room 2.12

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Kim Clark
Chair: Paulo Drinot
Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Discussant: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Kim Clark Bubonic Plague and the Problem of Indigenous Culture in Highland Ecuador
Steven Palmer The Plantation Complex of Doctors in Late Colonial Havana
Alexandra Puerto Medical Brigades, Maya Culture and Rural Development in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Diego Armus Smoking in Buenos Aires during the 20th century. A research agenda.
 

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

W-15  -  POL04: Ethnic minorities in transition: Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Room 2.12

    Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Chair: Ido de Haan
Alina Silian The Making of Romani Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Romania
Celia Donert 'Citizens of Gypsy Origin': Marginality and Citizenship in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Rosa Lehmann Poland's struggle with its Ukrainian minority, 1944-1960
 

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

W-16  -  LAB22: Global Commodities
Room 2.12

    Network: Asia
Network: Labour
Organiser: Ratna Saptari
Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Ratna Saptari Cultures of Tobacco: The shaping of Peasant Worker Communities in 19th century Java
Ulbe Bosma, Marga Alferink Transition from local to world market production: early 19th century sugar production in East Java.
Emile Schwidder Forced Labour in the Coffee Cultivation of West Java: Report of Otto van Rees on the 'Preanger Stelsel' (1867)
 

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

W-17  -  ANT14: Ancient Demography: a round table discussion of M.H. Hansen's: The Shotgun Method
Room 2.12

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Frederick Naerebout
Discussant: Renzo Derosas
Discussant: Mogens Herman Hansen
Discussant: John Davis
Discussant: Bruce Frier