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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 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