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


  Friday 24 March 8:30 

A-9  -  FAM30:Child abandonment in Western Europe (19th-20th century)
Room A

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Virginie De Luca
Chair: Catherine Rollet
Discussant: Virginie De Luca
Guy Brunet, Alain Bideau & Nora Nader & Mathieu Debritto The foundling, the foster parents and the inspector. Long-term relations.
Julie Miller 'Children of Accident and Mystery': Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Ivan Jablonka The Fictive Kinship of French Foundlings and Their Foster Parents (1874-1939)
 

B-9  -  ETH12: Strangers in the eyes of Scandinavians
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Idesbald Goddeeris
Discussant: Idesbald Goddeeris
Mikael Byström The Nordic Privilege. Interpreting policy practice and public debate
Pär Frohnert Socialist refugees under Social Democratic control. The Labour Movement’s Refugee Committee and political refugees in Sweden, 1933-1945.
Christina Johansson Red Light? Swedish Refugee Policy Discourses of the late 1980s.
 

C-9  -  SOC05: Microfinances, Poor Law and Urban Sustainability, 19th-20th centuries
Room C

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Anne Mccants
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller Microfinance and Poor Laws in an urban Mediterranean context. The case of Barcelona in the XIX century
Duncan Ross Poverty and Individualism: Savings Banks as Capitalist Institutions
Sakari Saaritsa Credit, welfare and sustainable proletarianization: Microeconometrics of the urban family economy in early 20th century Helsinki
Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini The middle class against poverty. Legislative interventions and credit institutions in the Kingdom of Naples in the first half of 19th century.
 

D-9  -  FAM20: Gender differences in infant, childhood and teenage mortality
Room D

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Theo Engelen
Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Jan Kok
Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui The Massacre of the Innocent. Infant Mortality in Nijmegen and Lu-kang
Lucia Pozzi, Marco Breschi & Alessio Fornasin Gender mortality selection in the first years of life in Italy during the demographic transition
Evelien Walhout, Frans Van Poppel Sex differences in child mortality in a Dutch town, 1860-1920: Did social class and religion play a role?
Christine Théré, Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Facing death in the early days of life :Inequality between sexes in Enlightenment demographic thought.
 

E-9  -  RUR10: The environmental factor: agriculture, landscape and ecology
Room E

    Network: Rural
Chair: Janken Myrdal
Discussant: Janken Myrdal
Meri Vuohu Environment and Rural Administration in the Early Modern Tuscany
Dhirendra Dangwal Colonialism, Commodity Production and Commons: Extension of the State Control over the Commons in the Central Himalaya (India)
Kenneth Sylvester, Geoff Cunfer An unremembered diversity: mixed husbandry and the settling of Kansas grasslands, 1860-1940
Antonio Linares The forest planning in the South-West of Spain (1875-1925)
 

F-9  -  GEO04: Spaces of Exception 1. Bodies
Room F

    Network: Geography
Chair: Gerry Kearns
David Nally Faminescapes: the state of excpetion and the Great Irish Famine
Stephanie Egan Geographies of Resistance and Domination: States of Exception.
 

G-9  -  LAB30: Responses to Recent Changes in Global Capitalism
Room G

    Network: Labour
Chair: Lars Olsson
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Eszter Bartha Ideas in transition: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
Julie Guard Canada’s Steel Union Responds to the New Economy: Organizing Call Centres
Paula Mulinari Racializing and genderizing labour processes in the restaurant and hotel branch.
Jonas Sjölander The Detours of Solidarity: Labour Internationalism in the Third Industrial Revolution. The Swedish Metal Workers’ Federation in Colombia 1976-1986.
 

H-9  -  SEX05: Disruptive Women in Interwar Britain
Room H

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Hera Cook
Lesley Hall 'Vexed human beings who suffered intensely from male-adaptation of life': queering female sexuality in early twentieth century Britain
Alison Oram Decadent Seducer or Mannish Woman?: Class and Representations of Lesbianism in the British Popular Press 1910s-1939
Lucy Bland Hung for Adultery? The Condemnation of Edith Thompson in the Aftermath of the Great War
 

I-9  -  REL01: The Reformation in European Historical Consciousness, 1817-1917
Room A-2

    Network: Religion
Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Michael Bentley The Lutheran Reformation in English Historiography and Public Memory 1817-1917
Peter Kushner The Reformation in German Historiography, 1817-1917
Herman Paul, Bart Wallet Luther and Calvin in a Dutch Context: The Reformation in Dutch Protestant Memory Culture, 1817-1917
 

J-9  -  ETH27: Migration and Identity formation in Canada
Room J

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Nora Faires
Discussant: Nora Faires
Betsy Boer Identity and contacts of orthodox protestants Dutch emigrants in Canada
Amal Madibbo A socio-historical context of the immigration of Black French-speaking to Canada (1960-2000)
 

K-9  -  HEA10: Nutrition
Room K

    Network: Health
Chair: Hilary Marland
Discussant: Catherine Cox
Josep Lluís Barona Nutrition and Health: the International Sanitary Movement and Spain (1920-1939)
Francisco Muñoz Pradas, Roser Nicolau Milk consumption, health and survival in infancy in contemporary Spain (1860-1950)
Chad Ross Food for Thought: Diet, Health, Morality and the Reform of Life
Ulrike Thoms West versus East? Nutritional policy in the two Germanies 1945-1964
 

L-9  -  WOM09: Roundtable: Varieties of Feminism III: International Perspectives
Room L

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Carolyn Eichner Getting the Dowry and Keeping Your Name: Feminist Perspectives on Race, Agency, and Empire in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Maria Martinez The feminist movement in the basque country: problems and challenges
Sharifa Wright Lionheart gyal, and what of radical feminism? - How gender inequality became the feminist agenda in Caribbean Nationalism
Hasmik Khalapyan Defining Feminism in Ottoman Armenian Women's Movement, 1875-1914
 

M-9  -  SOC10: Social inequalities in health I
Room M

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Bernard Harris Gender, Health and Welfare in England and Wales since 1800
Anne Løkke Patients at the Danish Royal Hospital (Rigshospitalet) 1757 - 2000 .
Astri Andresen Health differences and the policies to reduce them: Norway 1900s-1950s
Peter Razzell The Hazards of Wealth
Martin Gorsky "For the treatment of sick persons of all classes?" Social inequality and the transformation of the British hospital system in the 20th century
 

N-9  -  TEC04: Postwar Images of Science and Technology
Room N

    Network: Culture
Network: Technology
Chair: Thomas Misa
Dolores Augustine Boldly going where no socialist has gone before: Engineers and industrial scientists in East German popular culture and propaganda
Guillaume De Syon From Pyramids to Time Travel: The scientists as controller of fate
Jaakko Suominen Machines in Duckburg. Inventing in Walt Disney’s Comic Book ‘Donald Duck’ in Finland during the 1950’s
 

O-9  -  ETH17: Migration of domestic servants
Room O

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Labour
Network: Asia
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Marina de Regt "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Sjoukje Botman The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Monica Smith Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon
 

P-9  -  POL05: Political Outsiders in Swedish History 1848-1932
Room P

    Network: Politics
Chair: Lars Edgren
Discussant: Mary Hilson
Victor Lundberg Captain Julius Mankell’s Vision – Arming the People in Struggle for Democracy
Stefan Nyzell Contentious Politics and Social Democracy: Social Democracy, the Threat of Violence and Contentious Politics in Sweden 1848-1932
Magnus Olofsson Tullbergs Contention and the New Liberals: Forgotten Struggles
 

Q-9  -  CUL09: Was there a Cultural Turn? Representation, Discourse, and the Politics of Cultural History
Room N1-O1

    Network: Culture
Chair: Joan W. Scott
Discussant: Joan W. Scott
Brian Connolly Historicizing the Incest Prohibition: The Deceased Wife's Sister Controversy in Nineteenth Century America
Jean Terrier Culture and international exchange in the work of Marcel Mauss
Sandrine Sanos The Aesthetics of Far-Right Political Discourse in 1930s France
Jennifer Milligan Cultural History and the Archive: The Case of the Archives Nationales in the Nineteenth Century
 

R-9  -  ELI09: Rising to the top: the formation of elites in times of political reform.
Room R

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Chair: Cecilia Rosengren
Discussant: Cecilia Rosengren
Doina Pasca Harsanyi Working for Napoleon. The case of Moreau de Saint-Méry, general administrator of Parma and Guastala.
Mikael Alm The Making of the Bernadotte Dynasty
Heli Rantala Finnish cultural elite: an example of dynamic 19th century network
 

S-9  -  EDU05: Migration and Displacement
Room S

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Bengt Sandin
Sian Roberts "In the Margins of Chaos": children's experiences of refugee colonies in the Spanish Civil War
Jeffrey Mirel Confronting an "Invasion" of Immigrants: Americanization Education in the United State, 1890-1950
Annette Richardson Moving Beyond Beslan: Strategies and Preparedness Against Terrorist Acts
 

T-9  -  CRI09: Child Murder in North-Atlantic Europe 1700-1900
Room T

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Katherine D. Watson
Chair: Alysa Levene
Katherine D. Watson Crimes of the Blackest Dye? Judicial Responses to Child Murder in England and Wales, 1700-1900
Eva Bergenlöv Infanticide and Overlaying in Sweden c. 1680-1800
Anne-Marie Kilday ‘Monsters of the Vilest Kind’: Attitudes towards Child Killers in Eighteenth Century Scotland
Richard Mcmahon Children, Homicide and the Law in Nineteenth-century Ireland
 

U-9  -  SEX07: Historical (mis)representations
Room U

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Anne Lopes
Nina Attwood Re-thinking ‘Walter’: 'My Secret Life' and the pornographic representation of Victorian prostitution
Josie Mclellan Selling Sex under Socialism: East German erotica
Annette Timm Lebensborn: The Sexualization of the Nazi Past in Popular Culture
 

W-9  -  LAB23: Workers' organisations in the US (1937-1970s)
Committee Room 2

    Network: Labour
Chair: Brian Kelly
Discussant: Gail Malmgreen
Patrick Saunders Too Many Rail Chiefs and not enough Workers: The decline of the Railroad Unions in the U.S.
Kevyne Baar The Motion Picture and Television Industry: Their Major Trade Unions and the McCarthy Era Blacklist
Seth Wigderson Les Demoiselles Grévistes:” Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Shoe Strike
 

  Friday 24 March 10:45 

A-10  -  THE01: Meet the Author session with Avi Tucker: Our knowledge of the past: a philosophy of historiography and Martin L. Davies: Historics. Why History Dominates Contemporary Society
Room A

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Chris Lorenz
Discussant: Martin L. Davies
Discussant: Aviezer Tucker
Discussant: Paul Roth
Discussant: Karsten Stueber
 

B-10  -  ETH31: Voices and narrators
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Brian Gratton
Discussant: Brian Gratton
Jutta Birmele Who is the Narrator? Voices of Emigrants in W.G.Sebald's Writing.
Lotta Weckström To whom are you talking?
Sirin Dilli New Sounds from Europe
 

C-10  -  SEX06: Homosexuality in France since 1945
Room C

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Judith Schuyf
Eric Fassin Marriage Matters: The inversion of the homosexual question.
Julian Jackson Homophile Politics in France 1954-1982
Philippe Chassaigne The Road to Le Marais : Gay Paris from Secrecy to Visibility in the 20th Century
Michael Sibalis Changing Public Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Post-1945 France
 

D-10  -  ECO08: Human Capital and Engineering
Room D

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jan-Pieter Smits
Camilla Josephson The productivity slowdown and the catching up in Swedish manufacturing industries 1952-2001
Nikolaus Wolf, Steve Redding & Daniel Sturm Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany
Simon Niklas Hellmich A Co-evolutionary Approach to Institutional and Technological Change in Industrial Regimes: Vocational Training, Technologies and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany 1900-1933
 

E-10  -  HEA05: Financing Health
Room E

    Network: Health
Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Godelieve van Heteren
Bruce Fetter The quest for clean numbers: The intersection of historical demography and classic methods for historical criticism
Stephanie Neuner State insurance and welfare policy for "war-neurotics" of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c. 1920-1939.
Joost van Genabeek, Leo Van Bergen Dutch history of social insurance medicine
Karel-Peter Companje Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply
 

F-10  -  SOC12: Social inequality in Europe's oversees empires
Room F

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Frances Gouda
Lynn H. Lees Different styles of Colonial Rule: Town and Plantation in British Malaya, 1880-1930
Jewel Spangler Poisoned Relationships: Slave Rebellion, Evangelical Religion, and Household Mastery on the American Plantation Periphery in the Age of Revolution
Kristy Warren Race and Class in Bermudian Society
Richard Price Missionary Culture, Race and Inequality in early nineteenth century South Africa
 

G-10  -  ASI04: Asian Historiographies
Room G

    Network: Asia
Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Subir Sinha Subalterns, Trans-nationality, Globalisation: On the crises of historiographies of resistance
Remy Delage Ethnography of Ancient Records for Exploring Historical Geography of Pilgrimage in Uttaranchal (North India)
Zoe Headley Structure and functions of the past(s) amongst a denotified caste (Tamil Nadu)
Ratna Saptari The Uses and Limits of Event-Based History: An Industrial Strike on Jakarta's Urban Fringe
 

H-10  -  SOC11: Social Inequalities in health II
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Bernard Harris
Teemu Ryymin Social and ethnic considerations in the Northern Norwegian antituberculosis campaign, app. 1900-1940
John Welshman Inequalities in Health in the UK, 1940-76: The Issue of Resource Allocation
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, Richard Levins Historical impact on social inequalities that lead to health disparities
Signild Vallgårda Social inequality in health – a comparative study of problematisations
Sam Willner Change and continuity in the regional mortality pattern in Sweden from pre-industrial to post-industrial society.
 

J-10  -  POL08: Human rights & Cold war in Europe
Room J

    Network: Politics
Chair: Dimitris Kousouris
Robin de Bruin `Europe' and the Recovery of Justice: Post-War Dutch Political Visions
Floribert Baudet Human rights and the Cold War
 

K-10  -  ETH08: Continuity and change of spatial mobility around World War I (1)
Room K

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Tobias Brinkmann Germans and Transmigrants: The Impact of American Immigration Policies in Europe before and after the First World War
Elizabeth Bright Jones Mobilizing Veterans: The Resettlement of Disabled
Thomas Klug “Work or Fight”: Employers, the State, and Bureaucratic Methods of Controlling the Labor Market in the United States during World War I
Christiane Reinecke Governing the Alien: Administrative Techniques and Migration Control in Great Britain and Germany, 1905-1930
 

L-10  -  NAT06: Nations, Regions, Minorities
Room L

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: John Breuilly
Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Janusz Ryzner Different Problems, The Same Solution? Central European Minority Policies Under The Communist Rule.
Paula Portas Marxist Minority Nationalism: how the Galicians narrate the nation from the margins.
Oscar Jané Checa France and the Catalan Identity in the XVIIth century
Pille Petersoo Scotland and its (non-)national Others: comparing 1979 and 1997
 

M-10  -  FAM32: International Families VI: Cultures of Diaspora
Room M

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: David Sabean
Chair: David Sabean
Discussant: Jon Mathieu
Elizabeth Bishop No Global Sisterhood, This: Soviet Women in Aswan
Mario A. F. Rutten, Pravin J. Patel Contested Family Relations and Government Policy Linkages among Patel Migrants in Britain and India
Elizabeth Macknight Cultural Strongholds of the Parisian Nobility in France of the Third Republic
 

N-10  -  GEO05: Spaces of Exception 2. Subjects
Room N

    Network: Geography
Chair: Stephen Legg
Mats Deland War Crimes Trials and the State of Emergency according to Agamben
Denise Eileen Mccoskey Gladiators, Slaves, and Tribunes: Reading Roman Law, Exclusion, and Agamben’s Homo Sacer
Ulf Strohmayer Suburban spaces of civic exception
 

O-10  -  CRI10: Police and Press in Historical Perspective
Room O

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Chair: Clive Emsley
Discussant: Clive Emsley
Haia Shpayer-Makov The Intricate Relationship between Journalists and Police Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian England
John Drabble Ensure that the group is disrupted, ridiculed or discredited’: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Media Campaign against Black Power Organizations, 1967-1971
 

P-10  -  POL10: French democracy
Room P

    Network: Politics
Chair: Matthijs Lok
Discussant: Ido de Haan
Charles Walton From Lèse-majesté to lèse-nation: the limits of free speech in democratic transition, the case of the French Revolution
Anne Epstein Moral Authority, Gender, and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual: Respectability as a Political Resource, ca. 1900
Annelien De Dijn Critizing democracy: a theme in nineteenth-century political thought
 

Q-10  -  CUL10: Witnesses in Early Modern England
Room N1-O1

    Network: Culture
Chair: Amy Erickson
Alexandra Shepard The ‘worth’ of witnesses and the language of self-description in early modern England
Andy Wood Narrative, community and custom in English court depositions, c.1500-1750
Malcolm Gaskill Witnesses, witches and the problem of proof in early modern England
 

R-10  -  ELI08: A foot in the door: Netherlands immigrant strategies to target European Elites, 16th- 17th centuries
Room R

    Network: Elites
Organiser: Maartje van Gelder
Organiser: Michiel van Groesen
Chair: Hans Cools
Maartje van Gelder Together apart? Netherlandish attempts to carve out a place in early modern Venetian society
Michiel van Groesen Pleasing the elite: The tailor-made construction of the De Bry collection of voyages (1590-1634)
Marie-Charlotte le Bailly A Dutchman in Rome: Cornelius de Fine of Bergen op Zoom (ca 1494-1570)
 

S-10  -  LAB17: Labour relations at the end of the 20th century
Room S

    Network: Labour
Chair: Patricia Thane
Discussant: Patricia Thane
Lars Hansson Against the neoliberal wind. The Swedish Paper Workers Unions defensive strategies from the 1990s .
Troy Sarina The Call for Reform: Explanations for the Introduction of Non-Union Collective Agreement Making
Carol Stephenson, Jean Spence Women, community and the British Miners' Strike 1984-5:
 

T-10  -  ORA09: Social Memory and Constructing the Self
Room T

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Joanna Bornat
Daniela Koleva Daughters' stories: gender, generation and memory
Edwin Reesink Being the last. The memories of a Lakondê woman of her people and on becoming its sole real member
Radmila Slabakova The "noble“ values of the descendants of Austro-Czech nobility – a trap of oral history?
Gunilla Bjerén Social memory and generations: forgetting (oral) history.
Graham Smith Collective and individual memories: older women remembering in group and in individual interviews
 

U-10  -  AFR02: Gender, Health and Migration in Colonial Africa
Room U

    Network: Africa
Chair: Tunde Zack-Williams
Discussant: Tunde Zack-Williams
Rachel Spronk ‘Kenya has become a society inflamed by sexual desire’. Transformations in sexuality over three generations
Isabel Jiménez-Lucena, Jorge Molero-Mesa & Francisco J. Martínez-Antonio On Oasis and Mirages: Emergent Spaces and Hybridization in Spanish Morocco's Health System
Olakunbi Olasope Differential Equations: Bride-price and dowry in ancient Roman and Yoruba Cultures
 

V-10  -  ELI10: The Bernadotte Dynasty: Change and continuity in the representation of an upstart royal family in post-Napoleonic Sweden and Norway
Committee Room 1

    Network: Elites
Chair: Britt-Inger Johansson
Discussant: Torkel Jansson
Karin Hallgren The Role of the Opera in Royal Image Building in Early 19th Century Sweden
Nils Ekedahl Celebrating the King: The Role of Panegyric in the Representation of the Bernadotte Dynasty
Per Sandin The World of Associations – a Meeting Place for the Swedish-Norwegian Monarchy and the Bourgeois Society during the First Part of the 19th Century
Cecilia Rosengren Journalism in the service of Karl XIV Johan
 

W-10  -  SEX09: Global differences in sexuality
Committee Room 2

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Geertje Mak
Paramita Banerjee Shifting standards. Sexuality and Indian Popular Culture in the New Millennium
Saskia Eleonora Wieringa Globalization and women's same sex practices in Asia
Cigdem Bugdayci Sexualities in the grip of Romantic Love
 

  Friday 24 March 14:15 

A-11  -  LAB02: Labour Internationalism II
Room A

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Magaly Rodríguez García
Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Ralph Darlington Revolutionary Syndicalist Opposition to the First World War: A Comparative Assessment
Geert van Goethem Class versus Gender
Wayne Thorpe Seeking New Paths: Anti-Authoritarian Labour and the Defense of Revolutionary Internationalism, 1914-1918
Constance Bantman Anarchist internationalism: theory and practices
 

B-11  -  ETH14: Roles of immigrant and minority organisations in European cities
Room B

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Floris Vermeulen
Discussant: Floris Vermeulen
Sanna Saksela Shifting between ethnic mobilization and mediation: Immigrant associations as bridge builders between local policy-makers and immigrants in Finland
Tiziana Caponio Policy Networks and Immigrants’ Associations in Italy: The Cases of Milan, Bologna and Naples
Pontus Odmalm Institutional effects on migrant voluntary organisations: a comparison between Sweden, France and the UK
Gamze Avci Does policy matter?: A study of Turkish migrant organizations in the Netherlands and Germany
 

C-11  -  FAM18: Marriage and remarriage in Eurasian perspective
Room C

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Satomi Kurosu
Chair: Tommy Bengtsson
Discussant: Jan Kok
Satomi Kurosu, Marco Breschi & Christer Lundh Economic and Household Factors of Remarriage in Eurasian Perspective
George Alter, Cameron Campbell & Renzo Derosas Household context and the timing of first marriage in Eurasian comparative
Matteo Manfredini, Martin Dribe & Michel Oris Marriage and migration in Eurasia
 

D-11  -  GEO06: Spaces of Exception 3. Geopolitics
Room D

    Network: Geography
Chair: Ulf Strohmayer
Derek Gregory Vanishing points: seriality, spaces of exception and the "war on terror"
John Morrissey Shaping the Middle-East for the 21st Century: US Centcom's 'States of Exception'
Mathew Coleman Exceptionality as the Rule: Liberal Geopolitics and US Immigration Policing After 9/11
Nadia Abu-Zahra Population control for exclusion and expropriation: Why do states control people they reject as citizens?
 

E-11  -  EDU06: Understanding childhood
Room E

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Annemieke van Drenth
Dirk Schumann The Paradox of Realism. How the “Realistic Turn” in Pedagogy Affected West German Schooling from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.
Johannes Fredriksson From education to maternal care: the discursive conditions of the transformation of pre-school governmentality in Sweden, 1830-1930
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson, Bengt Sandin Swedish Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - treatment and policies in a historical perspective
André Turmel Children of the margins: lessons from the past
 

F-11  -  SOC08: Social Endogamy in Comparative Perspective
Room F

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Paul Lambert
Bart Van De Putte, Andrew Miles Demographic class formation in 19th century England and Belgium
Richard L. Zijdeman Status attainment through marriage in an industrialising agricultural seaprovince, 1800-1920
Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen Social endogamy in a comparative perspective
 

G-11  -  THE12: Comparison in History: the case of small countries
Room G

    Network: Politics
Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Matthieu Leimgruber The Business of Social Policy. Commercial Insurers and the Development of Welfare States in Comparative Perspective (1890-1970)
Martin Lüpold, Gerhard Schnyder Protecting insiders against foreigners? Aspects of corporate governance in three small states, Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands, 1900-1960
 

H-11  -  SOC14: The Welfare State: past, present and future I
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lars Magnusson
Sofia Murhem Privatisations of Swedish elder care- how are industrial relations affected?
Jenny Andersson Discursive strategies of welfare state modernisation. Rethinking the social democratic and the liberal model.
Helene Brodin, Helén Strömberg Making a Market of Care? Visions and Divisions of Responsibilities in Swedish Health and Eldercare during the late 20th century
 

I-11  -  LAT01 Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Global South: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Room A-2

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Steven Hirsch
Organiser: Lucien Van der Walt
Chair: Steven Hirsch
Lucien Van der Walt, Steven Hirsch Comparing Anarchist and Revolutionary Syndicalist Movements in the Periphery: Peru and South Africa, 1905-1928
Kirwin Shaffer Taking the Struggle North: Latin American Anarchists in the United States, 1890-1930
Dongyoun Hwang Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitan Outlooks: Korean Anarchism in the 1920s-1930s
Arif Dirlik Anarchism in China or Chinese Anarchism: The Importance of Local Articulations in Anarchist Practice
 

J-11  -  TEC03: Water in the City
Room J

    Network: Technology
Network: Urban
Chair: Thomas Misa
Discussant: Thomas Misa
Cornelis Disco Living with Urban Water. “Inner” water and “outer” water in Amsterdam 1200-2000
Hans Buiter Transforming water infrastructures in Amsterdam and Utrecht, 1860-2000: power relations, social functions and urban identities.
Dieter Schott Urban Water systems and the metamorphosis of a city: the case of Mannheim
 

K-11  -  HEA08: Health and Sexuality
Room K

    Network: Health
Chair: Roger Davidson
Discussant: Roger Davidson
Hans Neefs From moralism to pragmatism? A historical comparison of Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) prevention during the interwar period and the last decades of the 20th century in Belgium.
Eva Canaleta Safont, Joana Maria Pujades Mora Medical speech and municipal policy about the prostitution. Palma de Mallorca, 1862-1900
Kamila Uzarczyk Hereditary burdened ? Discussion on the causes of prostitution in interwar Poland
Herwig Czech Sex and the Gender of Infection: Venereal Disease, Prostitution and Medical Control of Sexuality in Nazi Vienna
 

L-11  -  ETH29: The management of migrants: Case studies from the US and Canandian Borders (1830-1930)
Room L

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Organiser: Barbara Lüthi
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Barbara Lüthi “Invading bodies” and the construction of disease: Medical border control and Immigration in the USA, 1880-1920
Lisa Chilton Managing Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada
Dorothee Schneider Women Immigrants confront the Border
 

M-11  -  ORA10: Memory and Testimony: Between Public and Private
Room M

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Leyla Neyzi
Hugo Manson, Terry Brotherstone & Owen Logan Claiming the memory of the North Sea: enterprise, tragedy and representation
Miroslav Vanek Political Elites and Dissidents in the years 1969 - 1989. Biographical interviews.
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz Prisoner to Her Own Memories: Repressed Memory vs. Official History
Ene Kõresaar The politics of memory in a transition society: conflicting narrative templates in Estonian post-Soviet life stories
 

O-11  -  NAT07: Genocide, Anti-Semitism, Jewish Activism
Room O

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: John Breuilly
Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Maurice Zeitlin Les Resistants Juives: Who Were They?
Bernardas Gailius The Concept of Genocide - Back to Lemkin
William Brustein Comparative and Empirical Examination of anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
 

P-11  -  ECO05: Role of Gender in Economic and Social development
Room P

    Network: Economics
Chair: Anne Mccants
Amy Erickson Identifying women's occupations in early modern London
Maria Sjöberg "Mutter Courage" - Facts and Fiction
Maria Ågren Protecting Women Through Their Legal Property Rights -- Or In Other Ways? Sweden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compared to some other European countries
Ariadne Schmidt Female access to the labour market and guilds in the early modern Netherlands.
 

Q-11  -  CRI11: Criminal Justice in the Early Modern Era
Room N1-O1

    Network: Criminal Justice
Chair: Clive Emsley
Maria Boes Suicides by Unwed Mothers in Early Modern Germany
Elmar Henrich Jurisdiction, Communal Conflict and Bounty Hunting: the Destabilization of a Central Italian Mountain Frontier in the Early Modern Period.
Olli Matikainen "Raving madness or "Devil´s plot?" Intentionality in Early Modern Finnish Homicide Trials, 1500 - 1800
 

R-11  -  ELI12: Political and cultural exchanges in early modern Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Peter Hallberg
Discussant: Peter Hallberg
Stefania Tutino Political network, scientific discussions and confessional controversy: the case of Thomas White.
Kirstie Mcclure John Locke and Republican Letters
Marc Lerner Conceptions of Republicanism in Eighteenth Century Switzerland.
Helen Mcmanus Beyond the Masham-Astell Dialogue: Wit, Enthusiasm, and Anonymity in Mary Astell’s Political Writings
 

S-11  -  FAM31: International Families V: Labour Migration
Room S

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Jose Moya
Chair: Elizabeth Bishop
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Jose Moya International Families and Labor: A Global and Historical Perspective
Raffaella Sarti Family Ties over Borders: Transnational Families of Slaves and Migrant Domestic Workers (Past and Present in Comparative Perspective)
Jennifer Miller At Home with the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Marcelo Borges Migratory Strategies and Gender Relations among Portuguese Transnational Families 1850s-1920s
 

T-11  -  LAB22: Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour I
Room T

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Patricia Van Den Eeckhout
Chair: Nina Fishman
Discussant: Ad Knotter
Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jérôme Bourdieu Wage forms and hierarchy in late 19th-century industry
Philip Slaby Gender, Family, and Managerial Control: Immigrants and the French Coal Industry between the World Wars
Philippe Lefebvre A persistant enigma for business history and organization theories : the emergence and rise of factory hierarchy in big business (end of XVIIIth century-beginning of XXth century)
 

U-11  -  WOM02: Gender, Islam, and European Multiculturalism
Room U

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Frances Gouda
Discussant: Karen Vintges
Jytte Klausen The Sexual Politics of Islam in Europe
Judith Vichniac Other Reactions: Christian and Jewish Responses to the Foulard Controversy
Linda Duits, Liesbet Van Zoonen Headscarves and porno-chic: Disciplining girls’ bodies in the European multicultural society
Sonja van Wichelen, Marc de Leeuw "Please, Go Wake Up!" Submission, Hirsi Ali, and the War on Terror in the Netherlands
 

V-11  -  WOM04: Women Interpret Historical Change
Committee Room 1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Hanneke Hoekstra
Discussant: Hanneke Hoekstra
Marianna Muravyeva History at crisis: Gender studies, national identity and contemporary Russian history profession
Rosemarie Schade Looking at America: Alice Salomon and Charlotte Lütkens
Isabela Campoi Gender and politics: Adalgisa Nery in the Brazilian political jornalism
 

W-11  -  ASI02: Globalization and change
Committee Room 2

    Network: Asia
Chair: Ratna Saptari
Nikita Sud The global face of new Hinduism in Gujarat
Nandini Gooptu The Indian Civil Service and Changing Conceptions of Work
Anna Lindberg “‘Modernization’, Globalization and Change: Marriage, Gender Relations and Traditions
 

  Friday 24 March 16:30 

A-12  -  THE07: What are books on the historians's methodology written for?
Room A

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Discussant: Peter Aronsson
Markku Hyrkkänen What is historical method and what is it for?
Jorma Kalela Politics of History and the Methodology of Scholarly Historians
Pertti Haapala The Method and National History: method books in Finland
Matti Peltonen In Defence of History: Three Generations of Historical “Method Books” from Marc Bloch to Richard J. Evans
 

B-12  -  SEX03: Intersex in a long-term perspective
Room B

    Network: Sexuality
Chair: Dan Healey
Ulrike Klöppel Hermaphroditism as paradigmatic case for the new sexual sciences at the beginning of the 19th century
Alison Redick What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols, 1950-55
Geertje Mak The legal position of hermaphrodites in the 19th century. A legal-medical interplay.
 

C-12  -  WOM16: Roundtable: Gender and the Politics of Representation
Room C

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Allaine Cerwonka
Discussant: Allaine Cerwonka
Francisco Segado Spanish women in the late Franco dictatorship: an approach through political cartoons
María Del Carmen Suescun Pozas Modern Feminity, Shattered Masculinity: The Scandal of the Female Nude During Political Crisis in Colombia, 1930-1948
Aurora Morcillo Body Politics and Spanish Transition to Democracy
Elizabeth Menon Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France
Joan E. Greer Untying the Bonds in Late Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: a Male Artist's Radical Visual Language in an Early Feminest Periodical
Carlota Coronado Ruiz Italian women representation during war time: The Luce film news programs (1940-1945)
 

D-12  -  LAB03: Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour II
Room D

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Patricia Van Den Eeckhout
Chair: Ad Knotter
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Patricia Van Den Eeckhout Customs and contracts: firing foremen in 19th century Ghent
Cristina Borderías Skill, work organization and gender in Catalan self-acting spinning
James Jaffe Managing the Effort Problem: The Ambiguities of Workplace Supervision during British Industrialization
Peter Scholliers "Meestergasten": work, wages and authority in the Ghent cotton mills
 

E-12  -  POL13: Totalitarianism
Room E

    Network: Labour
Network: Politics
Chair: Ido de Haan
James Ryan Tinkering with Totalitarianism: The American Communist Party's Attempts at Liberalization, 1934-1949
Maryse Ramambason From USSR to the Federation of Russia : a democratisation process and emergence of a competitive political area
Uwe Backes What does totalitarianism mean? Reformulating the Concept in the Framework of a Universal Typology of Political Systems
Mike Schmeitzner Criticism of Totalitarian Regimes from the Left. The Council-Communist Totalitarianism Theory of Otto Rühle
Federigo Argentieri Hungary 1956: historiography and interpretative debate
 

F-12  -  NAT04: Nations and Nationalism in Northern Europe
Room F

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: John Breuilly
Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Martin Estvall Shipping on stormy seas - the Swedish maritime industry faced with the threat of nazism 1932-1936
Ilona Kemppainen National heroes and national character
Jennica Thylin The Standardization of the Finland-Swedish Language 1809 - 1922 from a Nation-Building Perspective
Catarina Lundström, Anna Lindkvist Internal mission and internal colonization in 19th and 20th century Sweden
 

G-12  -  CRI12: Policing and Civil Liberties
Room G

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Chris A Williams
Organiser: Anja Johansen
Chair: Joanne Klein
Chris A Williams Constables for hire: the long and significant history of private 'public' policing in the UK
Anja Johansen Getting away with murder? Police accused of causing death and injury in Berlin, Paris and London c.1900-1914
Margo De Koster What did the police do? New visions on policing and day-to-day activities and strategies of the Antwerp municipal police, 1890-1914
Paul Lawrence Vagrants, the Police and ‘Civil Liberties’ during the Interwar Period
 

H-12  -  SOC15: The Welfare State: past, present and future II
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lars Magnusson
Urban Lundberg Social Democracy Lost: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform, 1978-1998
Klas Amark Scaninavian Welfare Politics - universalism or wage-earners paradise?
Klaus Petersen Welfare reforms in Denmark 1891-2005
 

I-12  -  THE08: Newspapers and the construction of national identiy
Room A-2

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Alun Munslow
Discussant: Alun Munslow
Paul Kerry Zionist Ideology in Die Welt
Mark Hampton Objectivity in British Journalism 1880-1980
Troy Paddock Contested Communities: Newspapers and National Identity in Imperial Germany
 

J-12  -  HEA11: Health in Northern Europe
Room J

    Network: Health
Chair: Anne Hardy
Discussant: Anne Hardy
Cecilia Riving A madman in the family. Conceptions and definitions of mentally ill in the community and the asylum during the second half of the nineteenth century
Anne Cameron The Establishment of General Registration in Scotland
Katarina Piuva Mental hygiene in Sweden- Biopolitics of body and mind
Jens Widding Conflict and Negotiation. The introduction of public health legislation in 19th century Sweden
 

K-12  -  ECO10: Historical Economic Geography
Room K

    Network: Economics
Chair: Oscar Gelderblom
Elisende Paluzie, Miren Lafourcade European Integration, FDI and the Internal Geography of Trade: Evidence from Western-European Border Regions
Joan R. Roses, Daniel A. Tirado Regional Convergence and Industrialization in Spain: a long-run
 

L-12  -  URB06: Drugs and Big Cities, 1960s - 1980s
Room L

    Network: Urban
Chair: Virginia Berridge
Alex Mold The Development of a National Drug Problem and the Funding of Services for Drug Users in Britain During the 1980s
Klaus Weinhauer Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Drugs in the Media: Press Images of Drug Consumption in London and Berlin during the 1960/70s
John Davis The topography of drug use in London, 1960-1980
 

M-12  -  ETH28: Migration to and within the Americas
Room M

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Donna Gabaccia
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia
Jennifer Bickham Mendez Suburban Space Invaders: Globalization, Gender, and Latino/a Migration
Christopher Paetzold Cuba, Spain and transatlantic nationalisms, 1885-1930
Margo Anderson Race and Ethnic Classification and the McCarran Walter Act
 

N-12  -  CUL12: Relationship with the Past among Youngsters
Room N

    Network: Culture
Chair: Ed Jonker
Discussant: Ed Jonker
Lies Klerkx How do youngsters cope with the past?
Keith Barton, Alan W. Mccully Secondary students’ perspectives on school and community history in Northern Ireland
Kees Ribbens A historical canon for whom?
 

O-12  -  WOM14: Gender and Professionalism
Room O

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Katrin Schultheiss
Discussant: Katrin Schultheiss
Michelle Denbeste Russian Women Physicians 1867-1905: Professionalism, Feminism, Radicalism
Mary Jane Mossman Women Lawyers of the 19th century: gender, law and the legal professions
Sonja Matter Contested Experts. Swiss Women in the Field of Professional Social Work and Welfare (1900-1960)
Susan McGann Nurses are Citizens: the politics of the College of Nursing (UK) as a non-feminist organisation in the interwar period
 

P-12  -  FAM28: Family strategies I
Room P

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Béatrice Craig
Chair: Solvi Sogner
Discussant: Solvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig Surviving mechanization: inter-generational occupational strategies among skilled workers during the French industrial revolution.
Claire Dolan Collective biographies : the success and failure of family strategies. The « procureurs » in urban Southern France, 1550-1650
Noriko Tsuya, Satomi Kurosu The Demographic Effects of Household Socioeconomic Status in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Farming Villages 1716-1870
Nathalie Ostroot Love and Money: Family and gender patterns in the choice of occupations in 19th century France
 

Q-12  -  LAB31: The Origins of Stalinism
Room N1-O1

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Kevin Murphy
Chair: Gijs Kessler
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Kevin Murphy Soviet Workers and the Formation of the Stalinist System
Alexei Gusev Totalitarian phenomenon in interpretations of Russian Dissident Marxists
Mike Haynes Rethinking Class Power in the Russian Factory 1929-1991
 

R-12  -  LAT02: Affect, Sentiment, and Democracy in Political Cultures of the Americas
Room R

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Lessie Jo Frazier
Chair: Kim Clark
Lessie Jo Frazier Memory as Modes of Affect for Political Subject Formation in Chile’s Democratic ‘Tradition’
Jennifer Burrell “The Vicissitudes of Transition: Agency and Waiting in Post-war Guatemala”
Laura Westhoff Democratic Social Knowledge in Progressive Era Chicago
Deborah Cohen Ties that Bind: Race, Democracy, and Mexican Migration to the U.S. In the Age of Modernity
 

S-12  -  RUR08: From one generation to another: rural heritage systems
Room S

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Mats Morell
Chair: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Discussant: Jürgen Schlumbohm
Mats Morell Generational change and property transfer in sweden in the late 19th and early 20th century
Piotr Guzowski Inheritance system of Polish Peasants in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Iréne A. Flygare, Mats Morell & Ildikó Asztalos & Ann Grubbström Transferring Landed Property - Gender, Power and Inheritance in Sweden 1880-2000
Sofia Holmlund Gender, Inheritance, and the Development of Property Rights in 19th Century Sweden
Antonio Presedo Garazo Inheritance of the House of Montaos in Galicia during the XVthh and XVIth centuries
 

T-12  -  ORA11: Cultural Confrontations in Oral History: Comparative Perspectives in the American Context
Room T

    Network: Oral History
Organiser: Deborah Kwon
Chair: Marsha Siefert
Deborah Kwon Confronting the Menories of a Past Generation through Oral History
Richelle Schrock Gendered Narratives of Forced Migration: From Somalia to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Sagal Ali Asylum Narratives and the Reconstruction of Collective Memory: The secondary migration of Somali Bantu to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Nancy Yan Memory, Pan-Ethnicity, and the Erosion of Cultural Animosities in Oral History
 

U-12  -  WOM24: Representations of the Sexed Body in Medicine and Society
Room U

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Ivan Crozier
Discussant: Ivan Crozier
Christabelle Sethna "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex and the Single Girl, 1960-1970
Hans-Georg Hofer Challenging sex differences when becoming old. Discourses on the “male menopause” in Twentieth-century German medicine
 

W-12  -  HEA03: Health, Africa and Race
Committee Room 2

    Network: Health
Chair: Bruce Fetter
Discussant: Bruce Fetter
Julie Livingston Debility and the History of AIDS Care in Botswana
Jennifer Brier Internationalizing AIDS
Rosa Medina Scientific technologies of national identity as colonial legacies, The case of Spain and the African colony of Equatorial Guinea (1900-1959)
Kristen Intemann Science, Health, and Values: Ideology and the Concept of Race in U.S. Epidemiology 1980-Present
 

W-12  -  CUL11: Borders and Multiple Identities
Committee Room 2

    Network: Culture
Chair: Magdalena Elchinova
Discussant: Magdalena Elchinova
Katerina Pouliasi, Maykel Verkuyten Bicultural identities in cultural divergencies
Zehra Ayman Border as the space of memory and its beyond: Arakel Eloyan’s Boundary and Migration Experience
Jyrki Korkki Border identities. Ethnicity, Nationality and Conflict in Village of Raivola, 1870-1930.
Christine Delhaye Diversity in the cultural field of Amsterdam (working title)
Roxann Prazniak Trecento Tuscany in Eurasian Context
 

X-12  -  TEC06: Water in the City II: Canal Boat Tour. See also special events.
Canal Boat

    Network: Technology
Organiser: Hans Buiter
Organiser: Cornelis Disco