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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


 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

I-1  -  POL01: Europe at Liberation : Western Europe
Room A-2

    Network: Politics
Organiser: Nele Beyens
Chair: Ido de Haan
Nele Beyens Contending for Power after the Dutch Liberation
Peter Romijn, Remco Raben Political transitions in wartime and postwar Europe and Asia: the Dutch and Indonesian cases compared
Johannes-Dieter Steinert British Humanitarian Assistance in Northwest Europe during and after the Second World War

 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

G-1  -  POL17: Justice and Statebuilding I
Room G

    Network: Politics
Chair: Matthijs Lok
Zacharoula Kouki The right to Reform and the reform of Right: the show trials of the late 60s in the Soviet Union
Michail Sotiropoulos State building through Law formation: the role of university (law) professors in the case of 19th century Greece and Italy
Dimitris Kousouris Justice, Ideology and Politics of Liberation: The Winners' Law as Established by the Trials of Collaborators and War Criminals. Greece, Italy and France

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

I-2  -  POL02: Europe at liberation: Eastern Europe
Room A-2

    Network: Politics
Organiser: Liesbeth van de Grift
Chair: Ido de Haan
Discussant: Ido de Haan
Liesbeth van de Grift Political Reconstruction in East Germany and Romania after WW II
Vieru Mihaela The National Liberal Party of Romania and Communism
Ioannis Sygkelos National discourse as a factor legitimising a communist regime [Bulgaria 1944-1948]
Dietrich Orlow "Short-Term Illusions in Central Europe: The 'Eastern Orientation' and the Non-Communist Left in Austria and Germany, 1945-1948"

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

S-3  -  CRI16: Justice and Statebuilding II
Room S

    Network: Politics
Organiser: Sophie Bollen
Chair: Peter Romijn
Sophie Bollen The professional purge of female employees at the Belgian Regie voor Telegrafie en Telefonie (RTT) (Department of Telecommunications) after World War II: a gender analysis of epuration files
Matthijs Lok The politics of oblivion and the purges of Napoleonic officials in Restauration France and the Netherlands (1813-1830)
Machteld De Metsenaere Women and the repression of collaboration in Belgium after the Second World War

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

E-3  -  POL12: From disaster to democracy: differenent approaches to Spain 1898-1975
Room E

    Network: Politics
Chair: Francisco Segado
Fernando Furquim De Camargo The Conservative Ideology of José Antonio Primo de Rivera 1931-1936
Andrew H. Lee, From Disaster To Democracy: Different Approaches To Spain, 1898-1975 The Conscious Mother and The Natural Child in the Novelas of Federica Montseny
Francisco Acosta Ramírez, Salvador Cruz Artacho From subversion to negotiation: Political socialization in rural Andalusia

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

I-4  -  POL06: Corruption
Room A-2

    Network: Politics
Chair: Robert von Friedeburg
Pieter Wagenaar, Otto Van Der Meij Villain or victim? A 17th Century Dutch bailiff and the moral dilemmas he faced
Geert Janssen Patronage and corruption
Mario Damen Courtly or corrupt behaviour? Gifts and gratuities in Holland at the end of the Middle Ages

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

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

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

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

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

J-6  -  POL04: Consensualism II (Copenhagen business school)
Room J

    Network: Politics
Chair: Lars Bo Kaspersen
Discussant: Pauli Kettunen
Björn Horgby, Gullan Gidlund Changing Conditions of the Cooperation between the Trade Unions and the Social Democratic Party in Sweden
Hans-Ulrich Jost Consensual politics: roots and adaptations in the context of a global capitalist economy (Holland, Denmark and Switzerland)
Martin Pletersek Never Mind the Gap – Elite Cooperation in Austria after WWII
Johannes Lindvall, Lars Bo Kaspersen Why No Political Religion? Denmark and Sweden in Comparative Perspective

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

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

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

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

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

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

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

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

    Network: Politics
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

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

E-12  -  POL13: Totalitarianism
Room E

    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

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

J-13  -  POL11: Lords, Vassals and burghers: powerplay in the medieval and early modern periods
Room J

    Network: Politics
Chair: Robert von Friedeburg
Aart Noordzij Cities and territorial consciousness. The duchy Guelders in the late Middle Ages
Jaco Zuijderduijn Urban leagues as exponents of state-formation: the case of medieval Holland
Femke Deen An arena of voices. Public opinion and political decision-making in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt (1566 – 1590).
Liesbeth Geevers Maintaining noble influence in composite monarchies: “Brussels” and “Madrid” in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1555-1570

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

J-14  -  POL14: Insecure professionals
Room J

    Network: Politics
Organiser: Chris Nottingham
Chair: Berteke Waaldijk
Discussant: Berteke Waaldijk
Chris Nottingham Insecure Professionals in Theory and Practice
John Stewart Psychiatric Social Work in Britain, 1929-1950
Pamela Dale The creation of a profession? Health visitors, colleagues and clients in the United Kingdom before and after 1948
Åsmund Arup Seip School teachers in higher education 1890 –1980: a lost profession?

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

P-15  -  POL15: Modern political thought & charisma
Room P

    Network: Politics
Chair: Ido de Haan
Ringo Ossewaarde The New Social Contract: Social Identity, Citizenship and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Netherlands
Dominique Bauer Proceduralism and the erosion of substantive values as a historical mechanism