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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
 
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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 

R-1  -  ELI01: Enlightened Loyalties: Conceptual Construction of Social Identities in Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Pasi Ihalainen
Discussant: Britt-Inger Johansson
Peter Hallberg The Making of "the Middle Classes": Ideology and Identity Formation in the Age of Democractic Revolutions
Jon Stobart Who were the urban gentry? A social elite in English provincial towns, 1680-1760
Charlotta Wolff Love of fatherland and hate of sovereignty. Aristocratic philosophy of state in 18th-century Sweden
Jouko Nurmiainen Particular interests in common good. Finnish politicians, fatherland and nation in the 18th century

 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

E-1  -  RUR04: Elites and progress in agriculture
Room E

    Network: Elites
Chair: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Richard W. Hoyle Landowning elites and progress in English agriculture, 1500-1800
Stefan Brakensiek Experts and progress in agriculture, Germany 1750-1850
María Dolores Muñoz Dueñas Élites, liberal reformation and development in Spanish agriculture (1750-1868)
Laurent Bourquin Country Gentlemen and Noble Agronomists. Agriculture and Noble Identity in Modern France (XVIth-XVIIIth Century)

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

R-3  -  ELI03: Cultural Networking, Identities and Sociability in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Jon Stobart
Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Göran Norrby Noble Identities in 19th Century Sweden
Bård Frydenlund The Norwegian Anker-family in relation to Danish, Swedish and British trade and politics 1780-1820
Edwin van Meerkerk The Learned Journal as a Cultural Network in the Enlightenment
Douglas Palmer The Sacred Heart and Sociability: The Clerical Elite of the Eighteenth-Century Jansenism

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

G-3  -  MID07: Urban Elites and Aristocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms I: Status and Privilige
Room G

    Network: Elites
Organiser: María Asenjo
Chair: Tuula Hockman
Discussant: Peter Stabel
María Asenjo Aristocratic ambitions in Oligarchic Urban Society: Social and political consequences in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Angel Galán Sanchez "Hidalgos moriscos": from Muslims merchants and fuqaha to Christian Nobles in the Kingdom of Granada
José Antonio Jara Fuente Performing Aristocratic Roles? The Building Process of Status and Privilege in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Eloísa Ramírez-Vaquero The elites of Pamplona at the end of the Middle Ages

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

R-4  -  ELI04: Church and Nation in Late Eighteenth-Century Protestant Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Discussant: Joris van Eijnatten
Peter van Rooden Religion and Nationalism in the Dutch Republic
Pasi Ihalainen Clerical Constructions of National Community in Late-Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe: Comparisons Between England, The Netherlands, France, Prussia and Sweden
Carl Joachim Östlund The monarchy and the rhetoric of the nation in Swedish pulpits during the late-eighteenth century
Michael Bregnsbo Church, Clergy and National and Ethnical Identity within the Danish Composite Monarchy in late eighteenth Century

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

K-4  -  MID08: Urban elites and artistocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms II: Privilige Merchant elite and aristocratic manners
Room K

    Network: Elites
Organiser: María Asenjo
Chair: María Asenjo
Discussant: Peter Stabel
David Igual Social advancement of merchant elite in the cities of Valence Kingdom
Damien Coulon Ruling Class and Trade at the Later Middle Ages
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete “Gentlemen-Merchant” in the XVth century urban Castilian: forms of life and social aspirations.
Flocel Sabaté The treason of the medieval bourgeoisie: a mutation of values or a bibliographic myth?

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

E-5  -  ELI06: Conservatism, Modernism and Early 20th Century Elites
Room E

    Network: Elites
Chair: José Antonio Sánchez Román
Discussant: Jaana Gluschkoff
Konstantinos Raptis Strategies of Survival and Forms of Social Resistance: Central European high nobles and nobility networks in the first half of the 20th century.
John Ellis Celticism and Conservativism; Cultural Nationalism and the Landed Elite in Edwardian Ireland and Wales
John Trygve Has-Ellison Imperial knights and Artistic Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Munich
Michael Jonas “Can one go along with this?” Conservative German Diplomats and the Changes of 1918/19 and 1933/34

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

O-6  -  ELI07: Economy, Regime and Resistance
Room O

    Network: Elites
Chair: Konstantinos Raptis
Discussant: Konstantinos Raptis
Discussant: Michael Jonas
Nives Rumenjak Ethnicity and Modernization: the Serbian Elite in Croatia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century
Maciej Tyminski Managers and the Regional Party Committee. The Case of Warsaw in the Stalinist Time.
José Antonio Sánchez Román Corporatism Revisited: Economic Elites and the State in Argentina, 1900-1945
Nataliya Senkivska, Maryna Kachynska Western Ukrainian Elite Confronting the Soviet Totalitarian Regime

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

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

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

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)

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

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

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

R-11  -  ELI12: Political and cultural exchanges in early modern Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Peter Hallberg
Discussant: Peter Hallberg
Stefania Tutino Political network, scientific discussions and confessional controversy: the case of Thomas White.
Kirstie Mcclure John Locke and Republican Letters
Marc Lerner Conceptions of Republicanism in Eighteenth Century Switzerland.
Helen Mcmanus Beyond the Masham-Astell Dialogue: Wit, Enthusiasm, and Anonymity in Mary Astell’s Political Writings

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

R-13  -  ELI13: Cultural and Social Elites on the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Douglas Palmer
Discussant: Douglas Palmer
Anne Mclaren Renegotiating ‘carnal bands’ in early modern England and Scotland
Ulla Koskinen "Benevolent Lord" and "Willing Servant": manipulation of social ideals in the correspondence of Arvid Henriksson Tawast, 1573-1599
Fernanda Olival The Portuguese knights of the Military Orders (17-18th centuries): what kind of elite?

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

M-14  -  ELI02: Polity, Power and Taste
Room M

    Network: Elites
Chair: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Discussant: Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Michael Carignan William Hogarth and the Vantage Point of Bourgeois Consciousness
Ola Teige A merchant in the capital - A Norwegian merchant in Copenhagen 1703-1712
Markku Kekäläinen James Boswell's Theory of Urban Politeness

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

O-14  -  ELI14: Elites in Transition, 19th and early 20th centuries
Room O

    Network: Elites
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Marja Vuorinen
Hilde Greefs Continuity or change? Business elites during transition moments in history. The case of Antwerp in the first half of the 19th Century
Janne Nokki Old and New Perspectives for the Nobility in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1850-1880: The Case of Count Friedrich Thun-Hohenstein.
Aappo Kähönen State-Making, Elites and Political Culture: The Finnish Case of 1905 in the Russian Empire
Antti Häkkinen Captain Kock - A Personification of the "Moment of Madness", the Great Strike in Finland 1905

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

R-15  -  ELI15: Elites, Democratization and Knowledge
Room R

    Network: Elites
Chair: Antti Häkkinen
Discussant: Urban Lundberg
Tomas Nilson, Martin Åberg Sweden´s Road to Democracy - the contribution of various regional and local elites
Marja Vuorinen Different media, different audiences, different messages? Print publicity as a tool for hegemony
Eva Schandevyl Cultural and Political Identities within Leftist Intellectuals in 20th Century Brussels
William Lubenow Elite Anxiety and the Organization of Knowledge in Europe from the Renaissance Through the Cold War