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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 16:30 

M-4  -  URB01: Cities and Urban Unrest, 1500-2000
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Shane Ewen
Joseph Julius Varga “For Speaking Jewish in a Jewish Neighborhood”: Civil Rights and Community/Police Relations During the Post-War Red Scare, 1919-1922.
T.K. Vinod Kumar Administrative Response to Public unrest in the Malabar
Lars Nilsson, Mats Berglund City authorities and public unrest in Stockholm 1500-2000
Jelle van Lottum, Harm Kaal A tumultuous town: the Amsterdam City Government and Public Unrest, 1848-2000

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

M-5  -  URB02: Imaging the City
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Harm Kaal
Alexander Vari Between Local Realities and Global Aims: Paris and Budapest’s Location in the Transnational Urban Networks of the 1920s and 1930s
Wim Willems A Sense of Place: Urban Stories in postwar Dutch Cities
Leif Jerram Bureaucratic Passions and the Colonies of Modernity: An Urban Elite and the Rural Other in Germany, 1890-1920.

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

M-6  -  URB03: Managing the City 1: Urban Elites
Room M

    Network: Urban
Chair: Jelle van Lottum
Michael Limberger The advantage of the city and the service to the king. Political discourse and strategies in the Antwerp city council in the 17th century
Charlie Wildman Civic Elites in a Spectacular Environment: Liverpool and Manchester, 1918 -1939
Stefan Couperus Backstage municipal politics. The momentum of administrative change in the Netherlands and Amsterdam 1900-1930

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

R-7  -  URB04: Managing the City 2: Shaping Urban Life
Room R

    Network: Urban
Chair: Leif Jerram
Sandor Horvath The ‘Great Tree Gang’ and the Urban Space. Moral panics and mental maps in the socialist Budapest
Shane Ewen Regulating the modern urban landscape: fire, technology and the urban environment in Victorian Britain
Brigitte Le Normand Socialist suburbs? Urban growth and policy in Belgrade, 1945-1968

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

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

    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

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

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

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

V-13  -  URB05: Media Reconstructions of the City in the Aftermath of War
Committee Room 1

    Network: Urban
Chair: John Davis
Discussant: Karen Adler
Elizabeth Harvey Destruction and Reconstruction: German Women Photographers and Images of the Post-War City
Karl Christian Fuehrer The Vanished City: Representations of the Ravages of War in Hamburg Newspapers, 1943 - 1948
Helen Jones Cities celebrating, commemorating and reconstructing the Second World War