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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


  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