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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
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   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
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All days


  Thursday 23 March 8:30 

A-5  -  LAB01: Labour Internationalism I
Room A

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Magaly Rodríguez García
Chair: Geert van Goethem
Discussant: Dave Lyddon
Magaly Rodríguez García Views on Internationalism: Socialists vs Liberals
Victor Silverman "Green Unions in a Grey World"
Robert Waters, Gordon O. Daniels The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana
Andrew Dawson “Bring Hollywood Home!” Studio Labour, Internationalism, and Runaway Production, 1998-2005.
 

B-5  -  SEX01: Sexual Rebellions and Emotional Experiences in Interwar Britain
Room B

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Alison Oram
Harry Cocks Private Reading: Pornography and its Readers in Britain, c 1918-1955
Hera Cook Masculine Sexual Ethics: Champagne Socialism and Sexual Adventuring in Interwar Britain
Stephen Brooke Writing New Worlds: Love, Emotion, Sex and Politics in the Work of Naomi Mitchison and Dora Russell in the 1920s and 1930s
 

C-5  -  HEA09: Health in the Middle East
Room C

    Network: Health
Chair: Iris Borowy
Patrick Zylberman Coping with a weak state. The Ottoman Empire, cholera and the Muslim Pilgrimage
Kenneth Collins Britons, Arabs and Jews: Three Approaches to Trachoma in British Palestine: 1918-1948.
Miri Shefer Medicine between the Universal and the Cultural -- The Ottoman Case
Sachlav Stoler-Liss, Shifra Shvarts “Does Mother Works for Tnuva Dairy?”: Breastfeeding, National Ideology, Public Health Nurses and the Mass Immigration to Israel during the 1950's
 

D-5  -  FAM33: Secular trends in regional population
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Tamás Faragó
Discussant: Richard Wall
Péter Öri Regional Patterns of Demographic Behaviour in 18-19th Century Hungary
Ferenc Sohajda The long-term demographic pattern of a micro-region. (The population development of the noble villages in county Zala(Hungary), 1828-1920.)
Levente Pakot Patterns of demographic behaviour in the long nineteenth century
Peter Teibenbacher Inherent variances or failed transitions? Fertility and mortality in a long run and micro-regional perspective
 

E-5  -  ELI06: Conservatism, Modernism and Early 20th Century Elites
Room E

    Network: Elites
Chair: José Antonio Sánchez Román
Discussant: Jaana Gluschkoff
Konstantinos Raptis Strategies of Survival and Forms of Social Resistance: Central European high nobles and nobility networks in the first half of the 20th century.
John Ellis Celticism and Conservativism; Cultural Nationalism and the Landed Elite in Edwardian Ireland and Wales
John Trygve Has-Ellison Imperial knights and Artistic Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Munich
Michael Jonas “Can one go along with this?” Conservative German Diplomats and the Changes of 1918/19 and 1933/34
 

F-5  -  FAM19: Permanent female celibacy and social mobility
Room F

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Sheila Cooper
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Permanent female celibacy and social mobility in the Pyrenees :The Basque case in the nineteenth century
Grazyna Ryczkowska Beyond the proper age at marriage: social trajectories to final celibacy in early nineteenth century Geneva
Sarah Pech Matrimonial situation and possibilities of social rise of the maidservants in Madrid in the second half of the XVIIth century
 

G-5  -  RUR06: Welfare and standards of living in the rural world
Room G

    Network: Rural
Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Antonio D. Cámara Living standards in the rural world during the transition to the industrial society: a case study from the South of Europe
Lucienne Neraud Mexican and Mexican-American farmworkers and the war of poverty in Texas (1960s-early 1970s)
Daniel Lanero Looking for "consensus": the spread of social assurances into Galician rural world (1940 - 1975)
Josep Pujol, Roser Nicolau Food and standards of living in a Catalan industrial town, 19th-20th centuries.
 

H-5  -  LAB11: Horseracing and Gambling II: Labour relations
Room H

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Mats Greiff
Chair: Wray Vamplew
Discussant: Mats Greiff
Janet Winters “We still don't want to frighten the horses”: Lessons from the 1975 stable lads' strike
Susanna Hedenborg Betting, technical development and work in Swedish horseracing
Joakim Tranquist Catch drivers - a new phenomenon in Swedish harness racing
 

I-5  -  MID02: Solving conflict in the Medieval city I
Room A-2

    Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: Peter Stabel
Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Peter Stabel From Noble Vendetta to Commercial Arbitration. Mechanisms and Strategies of Solving Conflict in the Medieval City
Jan Dumolyn The language of negotiations between subjects and princes in late medieval Flanders
Frederik Buylaert Urban patriciate and social order in late medieval Ghent
 

J-5  -  POL03: Consensualism I ( in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Austria)
Room J

    Network: Politics
Chair: Christianne Smit
Discussant: Henrik Stenius
Johanna Rainio-Niemi Re-thinking varieties of European small states´ consensual political cultures: the Finnish and Austrian post-war societies in perspective
Andrea Strutz Hesitating cooperation: Historical path and roots for consensual politics in Austria in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Adrian Zimmermann From early modern Confederal Republics to 20th century liberal corporatism : Historical path and roots for consensual politics in the Netherlands and Switzerland compared
 

K-5  -  ECO06: From Economics to History - and back? Looking for feedback into theory
Room K

    Network: Economics
Organiser: Alexander Engel
Organiser: Ulf Christian Ewert
Chair: Dorothee Crayen
Alexander Engel A Tale of Two Disciplines. The Story of Price History in the 1920s and 30s
Ulf Christian Ewert, Stephan Selzer The Hansa as a Virtual Organisation: Some Historical Remarks on the Network Paradigm
Jochen Streb Incentives versus Transaction Costs: Regulating Construction in the Third Reich
Douglas Puffert Paths Through History: Contingency in Economic Outcomes
 

L-5  -  ETH05: Central European transatlantic migration in context
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Josef Ehmer
Chair: Josef Ehmer
Discussant: David Gerber
Dorota Praszalowicz Ethnic Mix of Overseas Migration Streams from Eastern Europe: Collective Memory and Facts
Hermann Zeitlhofer Vienna: Co-existing migration systems in Bohemia, 1870-1914
Zuzana Poláčková Between assimilation and integration; the struggle for the Czech-language school in Vienna. (1900-1920)
Annemarie Steidl Transatlantic, European, and Internal Migration in Late 19th Century Galicia
 

M-5  -  URB02: Imaging the City
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Harm Kaal
Alexander Vari Between Local Realities and Global Aims: Paris and Budapest’s Location in the Transnational Urban Networks of the 1920s and 1930s
Wim Willems A Sense of Place: Urban Stories in postwar Dutch Cities
Leif Jerram Bureaucratic Passions and the Colonies of Modernity: An Urban Elite and the Rural Other in Germany, 1890-1920.
 

N-5  -  TEC02: Designing Modern Childhood: Educational Architecture
Room N

    Network: Education and Childhood
Network: Culture
Network: Technology
Organiser: Ning de Coninck-Smith
Chair: Dick van Lente
Discussant: Ning de Coninck-Smith
Catherine Burke, Ian Grosvenor Designed Spaces and Disciplined Bodies: E.R. Robson's Grand Architectural Tour.
Amy Ogata Designing Education in Postwar American Schools
Lesley Whitworth School Children, Domestic Skills and Future Consumption in a British Midlands City: a 1930s case study
 

O-5  -  EDU03: Childhood in a religious setting
Room O

    Network: Education and Childhood
Organiser: Annemieke van Drenth
Chair: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Discussant: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Annemieke van Drenth Religious inspiration and professionalism in the care for the 'feebleminded'in the Netherlands around 1900.
Marjet Derks Prudence and excellence. Gender and physical education at catholic boarding schools and institutes in pre-war Netherlands.
Elizabeth Smyth Loretto Academy Niagara (1861-1969) : Education Below the Rainbow.
 

P-5  -  LAB14: Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 I
Room P

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Nina Fishman
Organiser: Chris Williams
Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Ben Gales
Discussant: Quentin Outram
Nina Fishman Checkweighers, Works Committees and Union Fragmentation: The Role of the State in Facilitating Union Density. A British-German Comparison, 1880-1930
Brian Mccook The Face of Mining: Markets, Labour Regimes, and State Regulation in the Coal Industries of the Ruhr Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914
Leighton James A stark contrast or underlying continuity? Miners' unions' attitudes to the state in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1933
Keith Gildart Industrial Relations in the Cumberland Coalfield, 1921-1926
 

Q-5  -  CRI06: New Trans-national Approaches to the History of Drugs
Room N1-O1

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Klaus Weinhauer
Organiser: Robert Stephens
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Robert Stephens Toward a Global History of Illicit Drug Markets
Paul Gootenberg The Pre-Colombian Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Cocaine, 1945-1973
Isaac Campos Costero The Transnational Origins of Marijuana Madness in North America
 

R-5  -  ORA08: Constructing the Body
Room R

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Hugo Manson
Silvia Ruschak ”Tints of Western Style” – Female Body Perception in Transition. An Oral History Project in South Ghana
Jeff Friedman "My Story is Like a Body": A Theoretical Framework for the Embodiment of Oral History Narratives
Saara Tuomaala Scars - Embodied experience as a site of narration and history
 

S-5  -  NAT05: Diasporas and Nations
Room S

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: Ton Zwaan
Discussant: John Breuilly
Kathy Burrell Performing and Consuming the Nation in the Polish Diaspora
Ruxandra Trandafoiu Tales of Strawberry Pickers: The Symbolic Geography of Romanian Migrant Workers and Diasporas
 

T-5  -  THE13: Nethistory
Room T

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Wulf Kansteiner
Georg Christoph Berger Waldenegg The net's "bomb war": World War II as internet history
Madeleine Herren From knowledge to information - a historical sea change
Peter Meusburger Power, Knowledge and Space
 

U-5  -  POL09: Banal militarism: Towards a militarization of political culture
Room U

    Network: Politics
Chair: Joy Damousi
Fabian Virchow Banal Militarism and the Culture of War
Katja Scherl “Show your Decorations, Elvis!”: How the Military Service was Whitening and Masculinizing Elvis Presley
Tanja Thomas Military as Ordinary Experience? - Popular Culture and Banal Militarism
Carsten Hennig The Militarization of the American Cinema of War after September 11th 2001
 

V-5  -  SOC04: Institutional care in Europe
Committee Room 1

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Ton Kappelhof, J.P. de Valk Ideas, ideals and practice in social politics: the example of the first Dutch minister for Social Affairs
Aline Steinbrecher Voices from Inside - internal perspectives of the Zurich Hospital in early modern times
Sabine Veits-Falk Social inequality in "hospitals" of the 19th century
Martin Scheutz, Alfred Stefan Weiss Order and disorder. Hospitals (("Bürgerspitäler") in Austrian and South German towns 1500-1800
 

W-5  -  ASI03: Contesting Asian Identities
Committee Room 2

    Network: Asia
Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Natasa Visocnik The role of food in identity processes in Japan
Sawarin Suwichakornpong History of Education and the Making of Identity: The Case of Southern Thailand
Pritam Singh Political Economy of the Cycles of Violence and Non-violence in the Sikh Struggle for Survival and Political Power
 

  Thursday 23 March 10:45 

A-6  -  HIS04: Roundtable: Historical Research from Historical Databases
Room A

    Network: History and Computing
Organiser: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Discussant: David G. Anderson
Discussant: Peter Teibenbacher
Discussant: Gunnar W. Knutsen
Discussant: Leslie Page Moch
Discussant: Margo Anderson
Discussant: Elena Glavatskaya
Discussant: Marie-Christine (Lotta) Vikström
 

B-6  -  ETH19: Labour migration and deportation in historical and contemporary perspectives
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Touraj Atabaki
Discussant: Touraj Atabaki
Ineke van Kessel The (forced?) migration of soldiers from West Africa to the Dutch East Indies
Cindy Hahamovitch Temporary Workers of the World: Guestworker Programs and the Making of Nationless Workers
Irina Mukhina “Masculinizing” their Bodies: German Women’s Perception of Labor in the Soviet Exile, 1941-1955
Pavel Markovich Polian Deportation and Ethnicity: the Case of the USSR
 

C-6  -  CUL07: Domestic interiors and the influence of social class, migration experiences and ethnicity
Room C

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Hester Dibbits
Chair: Hester Dibbits
Discussant: Adam Drazin
Alison Clarke, Ozlem Savas Taste Diasporas and the Relocated Interior
Hilje van der Horst, Daphne Duin Constructing identities in the home environment
Julie A. Botticello Lagos in London: making a home in the diaspora
Michael Mcmillan The "West Indian" Front Room in the African Diaspora
 

D-6  -  ORA05: Repressed Memories, Memories and Repression I
Room D

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Nanci Adler
Selma Leydesdorff Women of Srebrenica. Distance and identification in oral history
Jim House Leaving silence behind? Algerians and the memories of repression by French security forces in 1961
Rudolf Egger That’s history. So what? Stories and structures in the social and poltical transformation processes in the life-courses of Kosovo people
Constantin Iordachi Colectivisation, Identity and Memory in a Village of Russian Old Believers, Dobrogea region
 

E-6  -  ETH06: Writing home
Room E

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Philippe Rygiel
Discussant: Philippe Rygiel
Machteld Venken Workshop: Communication between Sending and Host Countries.The impact of the Polish Communist Party on the Polish Organisations in Belgium, 1950-1990.
David Zwart Receiving the Homeland: Dutch-Americans and the Netherlands Information Bureau; 1940-1960
Mathieu Grenet Citizens from abroad. The reception by the Greek community of Marseilles of the political events in Greece during the first half of the 19th century
Ewa Ignaczak Between the church and the republic
 

F-6  -  HEA06: Health and Nations
Room F

    Network: Health
Chair: Lion Murard
Discussant: Lion Murard
José Pardo-Tomás, Àlvar Martínez-Vidal & Enrique Perdiguero “Per la Ciència i per la Pàtria”: medical catalanism (1898-1936)
Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou Orientations of the health policy in Greec during the inter-war period: the first attempts to develop social hygiene services for children
Julie Boddy Radiation Sickness and Nation Building in the United States during the Cold War: Testimony to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
José Martínez-Pérez "On 'the fit' vs. 'parasites': Scientific Management, Orthopaedics,disability and the modernisation of the Nation (Spain, 1922-1932)
 

G-6  -  ANT02: Competition in the Ancient World
Room G

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Henri Willy Pleket
Discussant: Henri Willy Pleket
Nick Fisher Benefits of organised competition in Classical Greece
Hans van Wees Competition in the Ancient World
Laurens E. Tacoma The councillor's dilemma. Political competition in third-century Roman Egypt
 

H-6  -  RUR07: Rural life, Family and Gender
Room H

    Network: Rural
Chair: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Sally Mcmurry Sharecroppers – in Pennsylvania? Kinship-Based Share Tenancy and Agrarian Culture in the Northern United States, 1830-1880
Ulla Rosén Old duties and new demands. A study of property, gender and elder care in the Swedish agrarian society 1815-1939.
Nicola Verdon Women on the farm; or how female farmers fared in mid 19th century England
Heidi Lampenius Ideas of education and upbringing of children among peasant population in the district of Raseborg in southern Finland, 1860s to 1920s.
 

I-6  -  MID03: Solving conflict in the Medieval City II
Room A-2

    Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: Peter Stabel
Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Gabriella Erdélyi Violence and Justice in Late Medieval Society
Bart Lambert Conflict solving strategies in an international commercial metropolig (Bruges in the late medieval period)
 

J-6  -  POL04: Consensualism II (Copenhagen business school)
Room J

    Network: Politics
Chair: Lars Bo Kaspersen
Discussant: Pauli Kettunen
Björn Horgby, Gullan Gidlund Changing Conditions of the Cooperation between the Trade Unions and the Social Democratic Party in Sweden
Hans-Ulrich Jost Consensual politics: roots and adaptations in the context of a global capitalist economy (Holland, Denmark and Switzerland)
Martin Pletersek Never Mind the Gap – Elite Cooperation in Austria after WWII
Johannes Lindvall, Lars Bo Kaspersen Why No Political Religion? Denmark and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
 

K-6  -  FAM10: Family situation, foster children and young paupers
Room K

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Olof Gardarsdottir
Chair: Olof Gardarsdottir
Discussant: Olof Gardarsdottir
Discussant: Richard Wall
Elisabeth Engberg Master or substitute parent? Household structure and motives for fostering in a 19th century Scandinavian context
Johanna Sköld For love or money? Fosterparent´s motives to take in fosterchildren 1891-1925. A Swedish example.
 

L-6  -  SEX11: Psychiatry and sexual deviances
Room L

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Theo van der Meer
Chris Waters Psychiatry and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Britain, 1916-1925: From Roger Casement to the Departmental Committee on Sexual Offences against Young People
Natalia Gerodetti Problematised Sexual Identities: Individual Responses in the Context of Psychiatric Institutions
 

M-6  -  URB03: Managing the City 1: Urban Elites
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Michael Limberger The advantage of the city and the service to the king. Political discourse and strategies in the Antwerp city council in the 17th century
Charlie Wildman Civic Elites in a Spectacular Environment: Liverpool and Manchester, 1918 -1939
Stefan Couperus Backstage municipal politics. The momentum of administrative change in the Netherlands and Amsterdam 1900-1930
 

N-6  -  FAM04: International Families IV. The management of Capital
Room N

    Network: Family and Demography
Network: Economics
Organiser: Ghislaine Lydon
Chair: Simon Teuscher
Discussant: Laurence Fontaine
Ghislaine Lydon Family Finance or the Limits of Cooperative Behavior in nineteenth Century Trans-Saharan Trade
Huibert Schijf International Jewish Bankers 1850-1914, the Case of the Koenigswarters in Amsterdam
Francesca Trivellato Marriage, Dowry, and Diaspora: Sephardic Merchant Families in Livorno (17th and 18th Centuries)
Oscar Gelderblom Family Capital and the Expansion of Trade in Pre-Industrail Europe
 

O-6  -  ELI07: Economy, Regime and Resistance
Room O

    Network: Elites
Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Discussant: Michael Jonas
Nives Rumenjak Ethnicity and Modernization: the Serbian Elite in Croatia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century
Maciej Tyminski Managers and the Regional Party Committee. The Case of Warsaw in the Stalinist Time.
José Antonio Sánchez Román Corporatism Revisited: Economic Elites and the State in Argentina, 1900-1945
Nataliya Senkivska, Maryna Kachynska Western Ukrainian Elite Confronting the Soviet Totalitarian Regime
 

P-6  -  FAM25: Inheritance and family patterns in rural societies with seasonal and temporary migrations
Room P

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Bernard Derouet
Chair: Margarida Durães
Discussant: Bernard Derouet
Ofelia Rey Castelao Emigration from North Western Spain: family and labour, 18th-19th centuries
Constanta Ghitulescu Temporary Migration and Romanian Family in the Eighteenth Century
Luigi Lorenzetti Professional Reproduction and Family Patterns of Temporary Migrants in Italian Alps (17th-19th Centuries)
 

Q-6  -  CRI07: Reporting Murder
Room N1-O1

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Ivan Crozier
Chair: Katherine D. Watson
Ivan Crozier Murder in the Psychiatric Journal, 1864-1922
Daniel Vyleta Murder in the Viennese Press, 1895-1910
Judith Rowbotham Murder, She Wrote….Mrs Henry Wood’s Use of Newspaper Reporting, 1858-1887
 

R-6  -  LAB12: Covering the world
Room R

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Organiser: Els Hiemstra
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Chair: Gareth Austin
Discussant: Sam Davies
Lex Heerma Van Voss, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Els Hiemstra-Kuperus A global history of textile workers, 1650-2000
Janet Hunter Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1650-2000
Andrea Komlosy Globalized Textiles: Spatial division of labour, global inter-relations, and imbalances in regional development
 

S-6  -  EDU04: Childhood and work
Room S

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Frank Simon
Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen
Discussant: Kaisa Vehkalahti
Mats Sjöberg Child Labour Legislation in Sweden since 1949
Kristina Engwall Children’s paid work in Sweden during the second half of the 20th century
Ingrid Söderlind Parents' views on children's work in Sweden today
 

T-6  -  FAM08: Life course and family relations
Room T

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: David Luke Robichaux
Discussant: Yda Schreuder
Siân Pooley Sisters in service: a case study of domestic servants and family relations in Lancaster, England, 1880-1914
Lionel Kesztenbaum Who invests in who ? Migrants and their family in France, 1870-1940.
Cristina Munno Relative life-course dependance from family networks and kinship": an Italian community (1854-1881)
Vera Sollova The growth of female labor force participation and fertility; the case of metropolitan zone of Toluca, 1970-2005
 

U-6  -  LAB15: Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 II
Room U

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Nina Fishman
Organiser: Chris Williams
Chair: Nina Fishman
Discussant: Brian Mccook
Discussant: Leighton James
Chris Williams Striking Images: Cartoons, Coal and Commentary in South Wales, 1898-1921
Quentin Outram Discourses on Work and the Liberal-Labour Alliance, 1870-1910: The view from the Coalfields
Carolyn Brown Creating 'Responsible' Workers by Restructuring African Family Life: Britain's Colonial Office and African Miners at the Nigerian Government Colliery, 1935-1945
Ben Gales Miners in a market without frontiers?
 

V-6  -  WOM06: Social Policy and the Politics of Intimacy
Committee Room 1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Sonya Michel
Discussant: Sonya Michel
Hannelore Vandebroek An allowance for mothers? Re-interpreting Belgian post-war family policy (1949-1957)
Yvonne Svanström The Early Swedish Welfare State and Prostitution 1920-1980
Sibylle Brändli Blumenbach Close Encounters, Time for Change: Psychological Counseling for Children and Their Families in Public Institutions after WW II (Germany and Switzerland)
Richard Wilson, Paula Nicolson & Graham Smith The historiography of domestic violence in Great Britain and the United States, 1960-1980.
Ingela Naumann Unions, gender politics and childcare. West Germany and Sweden compared
 

W-6  -  AFR03: Political Ethnicity, Conflicts and Historical Memory
Committee Room 2

    Network: Africa
Chair: Tunde Adeleke
Discussant: Tunde Adeleke
Tunde Zack-Williams ‘Sierra Leone: Diamonds Extraction and Regional Conflict’
E. Ike Udogu Ethnic Politics and Economic and Social Development in Africa
Birgit Englert Continuity and Change in Land Tenure Practices – a Case Study of the Peri-Urban Areas of Morogoro Town, Tanzania
 

  Thursday 23 March 14:15 

A-7  -  ETH10: Meet the author panel on Migration in world history by Patrick Manning
Room A

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Dirk Hoerder
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Discussant: Pat Manning
Discussant: Jan Lucassen
 

B-7  -  SEX02: Folklore in Forensic Sexuality: An Examination of Historical Practices
Room B

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Chris Waters
Jens Rydström Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880–1950
Theo van der Meer Locus Delicti. Folklore, Medical Science and the Castration of Sex Offenders in the Netherlands, 1928 - 1968
Rebecca (Beck) Young Sorting “Pedophiles” from “Normal” Child Rapists: Diagnostic Technology and the Sexual Hierarchy in Forensic Sexology
 

C-7  -  FAM16: Migration and demographic impact
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Chair: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Discussant: Cristiana Viegas De Andrade
Rui Maia Migrants and natural in urban way: differentiated behaviours of the marriage and the reproduction
Maude Letendre, Louis Houde & Hélène Vezina & Marc Tremblay Demographic and genetic impact of Irish settlement in Quebec (Canada) : Evidence from deep-rooted genealogies.
Tarcisio Rodrigues Botelho Immigration and family demography within urbanization contexts, Belo Horizonte (MG, Brazil), 1890-1940
Mary Louise Nagata, Kiyoshi Hamano Mortality in Early Modern Kyoto: mortality in a mobile population
 

D-7  -  ORA06: Repressed Memories, Memories of Repression II
Room D

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Nanci Adler Repression's Endurance: Gulag Incarceration and Attitudes Toward the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
Jennifer Orth A Difficult Encounter: Liberators, Survivors, and the Opening of the Camps
Karel Berkhoff Dina Pronicheva’s Story of Surviving the Babi Yar Massacre in German, Jewish, Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian Records
 

E-7  -  WOM01: Varieties of Feminism II: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Room E

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Maria Bucur
Discussant: Maria Bucur
Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova Varieties of Feminisms in the Life Stories of Women and Men from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Anna Loutfi Putting Law in its Place. Contextualising Feminist Responses to the Hungarian Draft Civil Code of 1913
Dominika Gruziel The Meaning of Polish Catholic Female Activism for the Emancipation of Polish Women in the Context of the Nation-State Building Processes (1880s-1918)
 

F-7  -  LAB27: Business interest, professionalism and changing borders of public and private. Transformation of employer strategies after World War II
Room F

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Pauli Kettunen
Chair: Pauli Kettunen
Discussant: Klaus Petersen
Jussi Vauhkonen Finnish employers’ strategies in the development of statutory social insurance 1954–1964
Susanna Fellman Employer Strategies and Upper White-Collar Employees in Finnish Firms in the 1960s and 1970s.
Melissa Kerr Managers, Workers but where were the unions? Labour Management Practices in Non-Union Firms 1945-1970
Gunnel Maria Holmér Immigrant Workers in the Swedish Glass Industry 1940 -1970
 

G-7  -  CUL05: Travellers and Travel Narratives. Nature and Culture in the Discourse of Modernity
Room G

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Ricardo Cicerchia
Chair: Ricardo Cicerchia
Discussant: Joan Bestard
Angela Thompson, Jason Thompson Poltergeist! Frederick Catherwood in the Old World and the New
Anna Konstancja Marszal The Imagine of Rome in the Grand Tour Tradition
Ricardo Palma Travel and Scientific Reports in the era of Modernity: Our most faithful travelling companions: lice
Kris Alexanderson International Maritime Culture, 1920-1940
Carmen Andras British travel literature about Romania in the 18-19th centuries
 

H-7  -  LAB13: State Regulation and Household Agency in Twentieth Century Russia
Room H

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Gijs Kessler
Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Jan Kok
Gijs Kessler The Urban Household and Economic Dictatorship in the Soviet Union, 1920s-30s
Timur Valetov Peasant Migration and Urbanisation in pre-1917 Russia: the role of the state
Victoria Tyazhelnikova Welfare Policy and Cooperation within the Russian Urban Household, 1960s-1980s
Sergey A. Afontsev Affecting Policy without Political Action: Household Agency in Post-Communist Russia
 

I-7  -  LAB16: International Communism and Espionage
Room A-2

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Alan Campbell
Chair: John McIlroy
Discussant: Michael Hughes
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy British Communists and Russian Spies
Peter Anthony Glees The UK as the target of the East German Secret Intelligence and Security Service
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes The Historiography of Soviet Espionage and American Communism: from Separate to Converging Paths
Reiner Tosstorff Case closed: The assassination of Andreu Nin and what we know now of Soviet espionage
 

K-7  -  WOM18: Masculinities and Feminist Historiography
Room K

    Network: Women and Gender
Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Stefan Dudink
Discussant: Sonya Rose
Discussant: Anita Göransson
Marilyn Lake Men against Men
Ann-Catrin Östman Masculinity, citizenship and traditions of agrarian historiography
 

L-7  -  FAM21: Family strategies and the Church
Room L

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Ferrer Alos Llorenç
Chair: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Discussant: Ofelia Rey Castelao
Ferrer Alos Llorenç Younger Sons in Church. A Strategy of Reproduction of the small Nobility in Central Catalonia (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
Antonio Irigoyen Family Networks and Social Networks in an Ecclesiastical Institution. The Murcia Cathedral Chapter in the Seventeenth Century
Isabel Moll-Blanes The role of the church in controlling family reproduction in Majorican Society: A "long duree perspective", 17th-19th centuries
Benedetta Borello Italian and european siblings in aristocratic families: church and family destiny (16°-19° centuries)
 

M-7  -  NAT02: Presentations of the National Past
Room M

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: Ton Zwaan
Discussant: John Breuilly
Jacques Lemière The construction and defence of a national cinematographic exception : the case of the Portuguese cinema (1970-2005)
Deborah Michaels Fascist Ally or Anti-Fascist Uprising?National Identity and Changing Narratives of Slovakia’s World War II History in Textbooks from 1948 to 2004
 

N-7  -  ECO07: Dynamics of Regional Interaction in Northwestern Europe
Room N

    Network: Economics
Chair: Paul M Hohenberg
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Christiaan van Bochove, Jelle van Lottum Shifting focus? The dynamics of economic interaction in the early modern North Sea region
Martin Bellamy Labour migration and technology transfer in early modern Danish shipbuilding
David Ormrod Commercial growth and the long industrial revolution: a world systems approach
Leos Müller Scandinavian shipping and markets for shipping services, 1700-1800
 

O-7  -  HEA07: Moral Transgression and Illness: Comparative Perspectives in the Cultural History of Medicine, 900-1900
Room O

    Network: Health
Chair: Douglas Aiton
Discussant: Douglas Aiton
Eilola Jari Moral Transgression and Illness in the Early Modern North
Alaric Hall Elves, illness, sex and gender in the early medieval British Isles
Markku Hokkanen Moral Transgression, Disease, and Holistic Health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Northern Malawi.
Karen Nolte Cervical Cancer and "sexual deviancy“ – history of a moral discourse
 

P-7  -  WOM10: Sexuality, Gender, and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Room P

    Network: Asia
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Ruth Mandel
Discussant: Ruth Mandel
Tuba Kanci Women and Men of an Imagined Community: Gender Constructions of the Turkish Republic in Textbooks
Selçuk akşin Somel Woman, state, and religion: The Issue of Abortion in the Late Ottoman Empire
Elif Gozdasoglu Thinking About Turkish Women's Past: Some Reflections on the Intersection of Turkish Nationalism and Gender
 

Q-7  -  CRI08: Criminal Justice, Politics and Everyday Life in Modern Germany and Italy
Room N1-O1

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Richard Wetzell
Chair: Richard Wetzell
Discussant: Richard Wetzell
Ann Goldberg Defamation Law and the Politics of Everyday Life in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Paul A. Garfinkel Prevention, Prophylaxis and Paternalism: The Liberal Roots of Fascist Criminal Law in Italy, 1910-1934
Greg Eghigian The Correctional Imagination of Totalitarianisms: Criminal Justice and Rehabilitation in Nazi and East Germany
 

R-7  -  URB04: Managing the City 2: Shaping Urban Life
Room R

    Network: Urban
Chair: Leif Jerram
Sandor Horvath The ‘Great Tree Gang’ and the Urban Space. Moral panics and mental maps in the socialist Budapest
Shane Ewen Regulating the modern urban landscape: fire, technology and the urban environment in Victorian Britain
Brigitte Le Normand Socialist suburbs? Urban growth and policy in Belgrade, 1945-1968
 

S-7  -  MID01: Networking Medieval Friendship: methods, approaches, scope and perspective of an international and interdisciplinary research-project
Room S

    Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: Walter Ysebaert
Chair: Walter Ysebaert
Julian Haseldine Friendship and networks in the Latin West
Margaret M. Mullett Friendship and networks in Byzantium.
Jon V. Sigurdsson Friendship and networks in medieval Scandinavia.
 

T-7  -  THE04: From historicism to historicity: traversing Foucault with Slavoj Zizek
Room T

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner
Heiko Feldner The historian's gaze: the rise of scientific objectivity
Fabio Vighi The strange case of the missing gaze in film historiography
 

U-7  -  FAM07: Power and dependance in the family: intergenerational relationships
Room U

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Béatrice Craig
Steven Ruggles Intergenerational coresidence and economic opportunity of the younger generation in the United States, 1850-2000
Margarida Durães Being Bourgeois:family, patrimony, hereditary behaviours and mobility (1800 - 1911)
Leonardo Fusé Ageing and Children Network. Ageing and Household Structure: Intergenerational Relationships and Living Arrangements of Old People in the 19th Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden
Hans Jørgen Marker House holds structure in Denmark in 1801
 

V-7  -  ETH07: Spanish bi-lateral labour treaties in the 1960s
Committee Room 1

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Axel Kreienbrink
Discussant: Axel Kreienbrink
Maria Jose Fernandez The Signing of the Spanish-French Immigration Treaty of 1961.
Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado The Bilateral Labour Treaty between Spain and Switzerland (1961)
Carlos Sanz The Labour Recruitment Agreement between Spain and the Federal Republic of Germany (1960)
 

W-7  -  RUR09: Historical approach to a Japanese Rural Community
Committee Room 2

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Michael Shackleton
Organiser: Motoyasu Takahashi
Chair: Michael Shackleton
Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Motoyasu Takahashi The Cross-reference of the Families in the Family Trees and in the Religious Faith Registers: Kinship Relationships, Pedigrees and Generation Continuity in Kami-shiojiri, Japan
Hiroshi Hasebe On the Role of Regional Communality: The Analysis of the Silkworm-egg Traders’ Association and Their Village Communality
Yoshiyuki Murayama Geographical Settings of Kamishiojiri Village
Futoshi Yamauchi Land ownership structure of Japanese villages at the end of the early modern age
 

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