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Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006
 
 
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All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
 
Programme

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Wednesday 22 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Thursday 23 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Friday 24 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30

All days


  Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

A-4  -  ECO09: Explorations in Economic History
Room A

    Network: Economics
Chair: Joerg Baten
Daniel Schiffman Monetary Instability and the Evolution of Jewish Monetary Doctrine: The Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700
Anne Mccants Public Goods versus Private Spending:Surplus production, capital accumulation, and monumental architecture in Medieval Europe
 

B-4  -  ETH33: Jewish migrants, refugees and survivors 1930-1950s
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Michael G. Esch
Discussant: Michael G. Esch
Gerben Zaagsma Eastern European Jewish communists in Paris in the 1930s.
Orly Caroline Meron Ethnic Economy and Niches: Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica (1922)
Yair Seltenreich Efforts of Jewish Immigration to Syria and Lebanon during the 1930s: Social Aspects
 

C-4  -  ETH23: Gender and Migration IV
Room C

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Margo Anderson
Michelle Small The Feminization of Migration and Labour Market Segmentation
Lambrini Styliou The Albanian Family: Negotiating gendered ideologies and practices
Nikolina Sretenova Female Scientists on the Move: Catching up Societies in Transition
 

D-4  -  CUL03: Art and the representation of power
Room D

    Network: Culture
Chair: Fiona Smith
Discussant: Fiona Smith
Joy Kearney De Hondecoeter, the Dutch East India Company and exotic fauna in art
Britt-Inger Johansson Housing a Dynasty: Architecture as a tool for monarchical representation in early 19th century Sweden
Per Widén Dynastic Histories. Art museums in early 19th century Sweden
Eva Deak Clothing and Social Representation in Early Modern Transylvania: the Court of Gabriel Bethlen and Catherine of Brandenburg (1613-1630)
 

E-4  -  LAT05: Global Labour and Commodity Production
Room E

    Network: Latin-America
Network: Asia
Chair: Touraj Atabaki
Ulbe Bosma Global Labour and Commodity Production
Norbert Ortmayr Demographic changes in 19th and 20th century Trinidad
Willem van Schendel Blue Feet: Indigo Producers in India (1800-1860)
 

F-4  -  ORA07: Healthcare: Personal and Organisational Narratives
Room F

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Graham Smith
Anu Kajamaa “Employees narrated Memories as a valuable Resource in organizational Change and Development of Hospital Work
Philippe Denis Interviewing children in the context of AIDS. A critical reflection on the practice of the Memory Box Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Erzsebet Barat Feminist Rethinking of Narratology for Life Story Reserach
 

G-4  -  WOM05: Russian Women's Rights
Room G

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Rochelle Ruthchild The Myth of 'Bourgeois' Feminism in Russia, 1905-1917
Olga Shnyrova "If woman deserves to mount the scaffold, she deserves to enter the parliament": Women's Eguality Union and struggle for political rights of women during the first Russian revolution
Igor Shkolnikov Women's Liberation Movement in Russia in the Light of British Women's Suffrage.
Natalia Lvovna Pushkareva Feminism in Russia: Two Centuries of History
 

H-4  -  RUR05: Rural societies facing social change: European case studies from the 19th century
Room H

    Network: Rural
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Ulla Aatsinki Revival and labour movement in a rural society
Fernando Collantes A mobile history: peasants, markets and institutions in marginal Europe (1800-2000)
Tatjana Tönsmeyer Aristocracy and rural population in the second half of the 19th century in England and Bohemia
Anuleena Kimanen Explaining Religious Revivalism in a Northern Karelian Village - A Microhistorical Approach
 

I-4  -  POL06: Corruption
Room A-2

    Network: Politics
Chair: Robert von Friedeburg
Pieter Wagenaar, Otto Van Der Meij Villain or victim? A 17th Century Dutch bailiff and the moral dilemmas he faced
Geert Janssen Patronage and corruption
Mario Damen Courtly or corrupt behaviour? Gifts and gratuities in Holland at the end of the Middle Ages
 

J-4  -  LAB07: Strikes in International Perspective II: Belgium, the Netherlands and France
Room J

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Heiner Dribbusch
Chair: Dave Lyddon
Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
Kurt Vandaele The withering away of strikes in Belgium. The merits of social dialogue or statistical blindness?
Sjaak van der Velden Strike movements in the Netherlands, 1970-2000
Brigitte Lestrade Strike activity in France (1970-2000)
 

K-4  -  MID08: Urban elites and artistocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms II: Privilige Merchant elite and aristocratic manners
Room K

    Network: Elites
Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: María Asenjo
Chair: María Asenjo
Discussant: Peter Stabel
David Igual Social advancement of merchant elite in the cities of Valence Kingdom
Damien Coulon Ruling Class and Trade at the Later Middle Ages
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete “Gentlemen-Merchant” in the XVth century urban Castilian: forms of life and social aspirations.
Flocel Sabaté The treason of the medieval bourgeoisie: a mutation of values or a bibliographic myth?
 

L-4  -  LAB09: Diamond Workers at War and the relocation of the diamond industry: Belgium, Germany and Palestine
Room L

    Network: Labour
Organiser: David De Vries
Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
David De Vries Capital, labor and international politics: The Palestine diamond industry, 1937-1947
Eric Laureys The German diamond industry under nazi rule
Veerle Vanden Daelen The revival of the Antwerp Diamond Trade after the Second World War: A Jewish affair?
 

M-4  -  URB01: Cities and Urban Unrest, 1500-2000
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Shane Ewen
Joseph Julius Varga “For Speaking Jewish in a Jewish Neighborhood”: Civil Rights and Community/Police Relations During the Post-War Red Scare, 1919-1922.
T.K. Vinod Kumar Administrative Response to Public unrest in the Malabar
Lars Nilsson, Mats Berglund City authorities and public unrest in Stockholm 1500-2000
Jelle van Lottum, Harm Kaal A tumultuous town: the Amsterdam City Government and Public Unrest, 1848-2000
 

N-4  -  FAM06: Infant mortality and gender
Room N

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Solvi Sogner
Discussant: Solvi Sogner
Anders Brändström, John Rogers & Sören Edvinsson Who were the winners - infant girls or infant boys? A study of infant mortality in nineteenth century Sweden
Patricia Thornton, Sherry Olson ‘This wicked city’ : intra-urban and urban / rural contrasts in sex-differences in youth mortality in late 19th century Montreal.
Janet McCalman ‘Social Parenthood’ and Adult Survival Time in Australia: 1857-1985
Kristina Bohman Infant mortality in Ådalen, Sweden 1870 – 1910
 

O-4  -  FAM17: Marriage patterns according to death in parental generation
Room O

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Richard Wall
Chair: Richard Wall
Discussant: Richard Wall
Paulo Teodoro De Matos The Demography of Portuguese Goa, India: 1720-1830. Subsidies for its study.
Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies Death knell and wedding bells’; the relationship between parental death and the timing of marriage in nineteenth century Scotland, an urban-rural comparison.
Carola Lipp, Astrid Reinecke Marriage, death and division in a region with partible inheritance
Beatrice Moring Family organisation and re-organisation in the pre-industrial Nordic countries
 

P-4  -  GEO03: Spaces of Sexual Citizenship 3. Identity
Room P

    Network: Geography
Chair: Matthew Hannah
Kath Browne, Andrew Church Count me in too!: The margins of Brighton and Hove's "gay capital"
Adrian Mulligan, Sallie Marston Shamrocks and Shenanigans: the St. Patrick’s Day Parades of New York City.
Andy Tucker "Gay" on the Cape : Sexual identities and gay activities in Cape Town, South Africa.
 

Q-4  -  CRI05: Policing & Transition to Democracy
Room N1-O1

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Gerald Blaney
Chair: Maurice Punch
Discussant: Maurice Punch
Gerald Blaney Trying to put a square peg into a round hole. The police and the Spanish transition to democracy, 1976-1986
Diego Palacios Cerezales Fascist lackeys or just police officers? Dealing with police past during Portuguese transition to democracy.
 

R-4  -  ELI04: Church and Nation in Late Eighteenth-Century Protestant Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Network: Religion
Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Discussant: Joris van Eijnatten
Peter van Rooden Religion and Nationalism in the Dutch Republic
Pasi Ihalainen Clerical Constructions of National Community in Late-Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe: Comparisons Between England, The Netherlands, France, Prussia and Sweden
Carl Joachim Östlund The monarchy and the rhetoric of the nation in Swedish pulpits during the late-eighteenth century
Michael Bregnsbo Church, Clergy and National and Ethnical Identity within the Danish Composite Monarchy in late eighteenth Century
 

S-4  -  TEC01: Designing Modern Childhood: Toys and Food
Room S

    Network: Education and Childhood
Network: Culture
Network: Technology
Organiser: Ning de Coninck-Smith
Chair: Bengt Sandin
Maria Papathanassiou Poor children’s material cultures in the german-speaking world (1880-1940)
Aaron Alcorn Packaging Modernity: Model Airplanes, Model boys, and the Culture of Making in the United States
Rudolf Dekker Changes in the Appreciation of Toys and Play in Dutch Childhood Memoirs, 17th-20th Centuries.
 

T-4  -  LAB10: Horse racing and gambling I: ethnicity, class and gender
Room T

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Mats Greiff
Chair: Janet Winters
Discussant: Susanna Hedenborg
Mats Greiff From "Horsemanship" to "Softhanded Nursing". Gender Relations within Swedish Harness Racing 1930-2005
Chris Mcconville “An erratic journey?" Gender, race and national identity at the Melbourne Cup Carnival 1960-1979
Wray Vamplew Captains Courageous: The Gentleman Rider in British Racing 1866-1914
Åsa Bonn The pictures of the gypsies in Finnish horse journals 1924 to 1965
 

U-4  -  FAM26: Marriages and social networks in urban context
Room U

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Gérard Béaur
Chair: Gérard Béaur
Discussant: Joseph Goy
Christine Fertig Urban markets and rural marriage networks: Social Networks in two Westphalian parishes (19th century).
François Joseph Ruggiu, Vincent Gourdon The choice of witnesses at the civil wedding in the XIXth Century among the countries with Napoleonic Code heritage
Sylvie Perrier Remarriage and Social Networks in the Toulouse Region in the XVIIIth Century
Harm Nijboer, Yme Kuiper Merchants, Mennonites & Marriage. Commercial, social and family networks in the Dutch port town of Harlingen in the 17th and 18th century.
Tom Ericsson Integration and social networks. The lutherans in revolutionary Paris 1789-1797
 

W-4  -  REL02: Survival Strategies of Religious Minorities
Committee Room 2

    Network: Religion
Chair: David Appleby
Geoff Baker Catholic networking in seventeenth century Lancashire: The social survival of William Blundell
Zanda Mankusa Lutheran network in the Soviet Union 1945-1985
Hilda Nissimi Judeoconversas and Mashhadi Women – A Common Fate or Worlds Apart? Familistic Values and Gender Roles in Crypto-Faith Communities.
Ekaterina Emeliantseva Situative Religiousness: Everyday Strategies of Religious Nonconformists. Warsaw Frankists and St. Petersburg Chlysty in Comparison (1750-1850)