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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


  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