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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 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 

I-3  -  THE10: Historiography, comparison and national identity
Room A-2

    Network: Theory and Historiography
Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Daniela Saxer The emergence of new objects of historical knowledge: The «Schweizerische Urkundenregister» as factual history (1850-1880)
Galia Valtchinova “Let me tell you the truth…”: ‘Balkan’ Antiquity in historiography, fiction, and visionary experience
Stephen Tuck Looking Backwards, Thinking Forwards: the present-minded focus of modern American historical writing."
Eugenia Afinoguenova Pedro de Madrazo's Theory of History and the Representations of the Spanish Nation in the Prado Museum, 1843-1910.
Allan Smith Circumstance Differs and Circumstance Counts: The National/Transnational Interface in European/North American Historical Writing
 

 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 

I-5  -  MID02: Solving conflict in the Medieval city I
Room A-2

    Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: Peter Stabel
Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Peter Stabel From Noble Vendetta to Commercial Arbitration. Mechanisms and Strategies of Solving Conflict in the Medieval City
Jan Dumolyn The language of negotiations between subjects and princes in late medieval Flanders
Frederik Buylaert Urban patriciate and social order in late medieval Ghent
 

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

I-6  -  MID03: Solving conflict in the Medieval City II
Room A-2

    Network: Middle Ages
Organiser: Peter Stabel
Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Gabriella Erdélyi Violence and Justice in Late Medieval Society
Bart Lambert Conflict solving strategies in an international commercial metropolig (Bruges in the late medieval period)
 

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

I-7  -  LAB16: International Communism and Espionage
Room A-2

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Alan Campbell
Chair: John McIlroy
Discussant: Michael Hughes
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy British Communists and Russian Spies
Peter Anthony Glees The UK as the target of the East German Secret Intelligence and Security Service
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes The Historiography of Soviet Espionage and American Communism: from Separate to Converging Paths
Reiner Tosstorff Case closed: The assassination of Andreu Nin and what we know now of Soviet espionage
 

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

I-9  -  REL01: The Reformation in European Historical Consciousness, 1817-1917
Room A-2

    Network: Religion
Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Michael Bentley The Lutheran Reformation in English Historiography and Public Memory 1817-1917
Peter Kushner The Reformation in German Historiography, 1817-1917
Herman Paul, Bart Wallet Luther and Calvin in a Dutch Context: The Reformation in Dutch Protestant Memory Culture, 1817-1917
 

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

I-11  -  LAT01 Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Global South: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Room A-2

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Steven Hirsch
Organiser: Lucien Van der Walt
Chair: Steven Hirsch
Lucien Van der Walt, Steven Hirsch Comparing Anarchist and Revolutionary Syndicalist Movements in the Periphery: Peru and South Africa, 1905-1928
Kirwin Shaffer Taking the Struggle North: Latin American Anarchists in the United States, 1890-1930
Dongyoun Hwang Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitan Outlooks: Korean Anarchism in the 1920s-1930s
Arif Dirlik Anarchism in China or Chinese Anarchism: The Importance of Local Articulations in Anarchist Practice
 

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

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
 

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

I-13  -  ORA12: Collective Memory and Identity
Room A-2

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Ene Kõresaar
Niina M.A. Lappalainen Deindustrialization and Collective Identity
Kenneth J. Bindas The people remember: collective memory and the depression era
John Nassari Understanding master narratives in Cyprus: reciting and opposing
Hanna Snellman Finnish Immigrants' Legacy in Sweden
 

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

I-14  -  LAB21: Labour and Welfare Regimes
Room A-2

    Network: Labour
Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Thomas Adams
Discussant: Jussi Vauhkonen
Ignazio Masulli Welfare State and Social Citizenship in 20th Century Europe
Duco Bannink Social policy from Olson to Ostrom
Alexander Elu The origin of public old age insurance in Spain. An economic study of the Retiro Obrero (1909-1936).
 

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

I-15  -  ETH32: Roundtable on Identity: concepts and case studies
Room A-2

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Leo Lucassen
Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Chester Proshan Drawing Lines: The American Population Resident in the Yokohama Treaty Port, 1884, and the Question of Group Boundaries
Dimitrios Zachos Sedentary Rom (Gypsies): The case of Serres basin
 

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

I-16  -  LAB19: Class and other identities, 1870-1932
Room A-2

    Network: Labour
Chair: Seth Wigderson
Discussant: Seth Wigderson
Kylie Smith Larrikins, Labour and the Creation of the New Human Subject, Sydney 1870-1900
Malini Cadambi, Evan Daniel (Re)Examining Class: Transnational Workers and Nationalist Struggles in the late 19th Century United States
Brian Kelly Black Workers and the Overthrow of Reconstruction in South Carolina: 1874-1876
Joel Perlmann Dissent and discipline in Ben Gurion's Workers' Party: younger critics on the left, 1932