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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 

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

    Network: Criminal Justice
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 

G-2  -  WOM19: Roundtable: Women and Investment
Room G

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Kirsti Niskanen
Discussant: Maria Ågren
Mary Beth Combs A Measure of Legal Independence: The Married Women's Property Act and the Portfolio Allocations of British Wives
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford “A nesting instinct”? Women investors and risk in England 1800-1930
Stephanie Wyse Gender, wealth and margins of empire: women's financial decision making in New Zealand c.1890 to 1950
Stefania Licini Women as investors, some evidence from the case of Milan, Italy (1860-1900)
Alastair Owens Feathering the nest: property, investment and the English bourgeois household 1800-1860
David Green Women providing for women: money, emotion and duty 1800-1870
 

 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
Network: Middle Ages
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 

G-4  -  WOM05: Russian Women's Rights
Room G

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Rochelle Ruthchild The Myth of 'Bourgeois' Feminism in Russia, 1905-1917
Olga Shnyrova "If woman deserves to mount the scaffold, she deserves to enter the parliament": Women's Eguality Union and struggle for political rights of women during the first Russian revolution
Igor Shkolnikov Women's Liberation Movement in Russia in the Light of British Women's Suffrage.
Natalia Lvovna Pushkareva Feminism in Russia: Two Centuries of History
 

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

G-5  -  RUR06: Welfare and standards of living in the rural world
Room G

    Network: Rural
Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Antonio D. Cámara Living standards in the rural world during the transition to the industrial society: a case study from the South of Europe
Lucienne Neraud Mexican and Mexican-American farmworkers and the war of poverty in Texas (1960s-early 1970s)
Daniel Lanero Looking for "consensus": the spread of social assurances into Galician rural world (1940 - 1975)
Josep Pujol, Roser Nicolau Food and standards of living in a Catalan industrial town, 19th-20th centuries.
 

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

G-6  -  ANT02: Competition in the Ancient World
Room G

    Network: Antiquity
Chair: Henri Willy Pleket
Discussant: Henri Willy Pleket
Nick Fisher Benefits of organised competition in Classical Greece
Hans van Wees Competition in the Ancient World
Laurens E. Tacoma The councillor's dilemma. Political competition in third-century Roman Egypt
 

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

G-7  -  CUL05: Travellers and Travel Narratives. Nature and Culture in the Discourse of Modernity
Room G

    Network: Culture
Organiser: Ricardo Cicerchia
Chair: Ricardo Cicerchia
Discussant: Joan Bestard
Angela Thompson, Jason Thompson Poltergeist! Frederick Catherwood in the Old World and the New
Anna Konstancja Marszal The Imagine of Rome in the Grand Tour Tradition
Ricardo Palma Travel and Scientific Reports in the era of Modernity: Our most faithful travelling companions: lice
Kris Alexanderson International Maritime Culture, 1920-1940
Carmen Andras British travel literature about Romania in the 18-19th centuries
 

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

G-9  -  LAB30: Responses to Recent Changes in Global Capitalism
Room G

    Network: Labour
Chair: Lars Olsson
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Eszter Bartha Ideas in transition: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
Julie Guard Canada’s Steel Union Responds to the New Economy: Organizing Call Centres
Paula Mulinari Racializing and genderizing labour processes in the restaurant and hotel branch.
Jonas Sjölander The Detours of Solidarity: Labour Internationalism in the Third Industrial Revolution. The Swedish Metal Workers’ Federation in Colombia 1976-1986.
 

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

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
 

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

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

    Network: Politics
Network: Theory and Historiography
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 

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
 

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

G-13  -  WOM11: Gender and Communism, East and West
Room G

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Anna Loutfi
Discussant: Susan Gal
Raluca Maria Popa “Women of the Whole (Socialist) World”: The Involvement of Women’s Organizations from State Socialist Hungary and Romania in International Women’s Activism, 1965 –1990
Tiina Lintunen "Dangerous to the State and Society”: 'Red' women in court after the Finnish Civil War
Basia Nowak ‘Inconvenient’ for the Party-State: The League of Women in Poland and the Dissolution of Workplace Chapters in 1966
 

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

G-14  -  EDU07: From Letter to Library
Room G

    Network: Education and Childhood
Chair: Frank Simon
Lorna R. McLean Making Canadians: Education, Identities and Citizenship, 1930s-1950s
Kaisa Vehkalahti Lessons in self-discipline: Educational encounters in the early 20th century letter writing
Karen Taylor Reading in the Provinces: The Library Inventory of the Collège de Castelnaudary, 1792
Maurizio Lupo Literacy in Southern Italy: a different historical approach (XVIIIth - XiXth century)
 

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

G-15  -  REL06: Roundtable: Gender and Religion
Room G

    Network: Women and Gender
Network: Religion
Chair: Francisca de Haan
Discussant: Kristen Ghodsee
Bart Latré Feminist Christians and the feminization of religion: a case study of groups in Flanders (1979-1990)
Maria Bucur Gender, Religion, and Collective Memory in 20th Century Eastern Europe
Teresa Polowy Beyond Cookbooks and Choirs: Women's Role in the Doukhobor Community in Canada
Mohamed Malchouch Gender and masculinity in Islam
Georgeta Nazarska Women from Religious Minorities in the Bulgarian Political, Economic and Cultural Life (19th -20th Centuries)