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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 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