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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 

O-1  -  FAM09: Specific mortality patterns
Room O

    Network: Family and Demography
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Discussant: Olof Gardarsdottir
Alice Reid Infant life chances in nineteenth century urban and rural Scottish communities
Maria J. Wisselgren Victim or Pioneer? The Role of the Mother in the Hospitalization of Childbirth in Sweden
Gayle Davis Stillbirth Registration and Conceptions of the Newborn, c.1900-1950
Robert C.H. Shell Poverty and Aids or is it Aids and poverty? The historical demography of HIV in the poorest province of South Africa, 1988 to 2001
Andrew Hinde, Michael Edgar Death on a strange isle: mortality among the stone workers of the Isle of Purbeck in southern England, 1850-1900
 

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

O-2  -  RUR03: Reshaping identities in rural Europe in the 20th century
Room O

    Network: Rural
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Miguel Cabo Villaverde Written words in an oral world: press and social change in Galicia, 1900-1936
William Wilson The Making of the Nazi Countryside: The Reich Food Estate Exhibition and the professionalization of agriculture in Nazi Germany, 1933-39.
Francisco Cobo Romero, Teresa Maria Ortega Lopez Political Languages and Cultures of Mobilisation. The Heterogenious Social Support to the Francoist Regime in the Rural Andalusia (1936-1948)
Ernst Langthaler Constructing the Peasantry: Discourses of Identity and Difference in an Austrian Rural Community, 1938-1945
 

 Wednesday 22 March 14:15 

O-3  -  TEC05: Normalizing Society and Technology
Room O

    Network: Technology
Chair: Cornelis Disco
Patrick Kammerer The Digitalization of the Mobile Phone -The GSM Standardization as a Successful Learning ProcessThe Digitalization of the Mobile Phone
Otto Kroesen, Wim Ravesteijn Inspired standardization: technology and revolution in the Netherlands 1550-1700
Wim Ravesteijn, Otto Kroesen A cascade of inspiration: a new perspective on the periodization of European history
 

 Wednesday 22 March 16:30 

O-4  -  FAM17: Marriage patterns according to death in parental generation
Room O

    Network: Family and Demography
Organiser: Richard Wall
Chair: Richard Wall
Discussant: Richard Wall
Paulo Teodoro De Matos The Demography of Portuguese Goa, India: 1720-1830. Subsidies for its study.
Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies Death knell and wedding bells’; the relationship between parental death and the timing of marriage in nineteenth century Scotland, an urban-rural comparison.
Carola Lipp, Astrid Reinecke Marriage, death and division in a region with partible inheritance
Beatrice Moring Family organisation and re-organisation in the pre-industrial Nordic countries
 

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

O-5  -  EDU03: Childhood in a religious setting
Room O

    Network: Education and Childhood
Organiser: Annemieke van Drenth
Chair: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Discussant: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Annemieke van Drenth Religious inspiration and professionalism in the care for the 'feebleminded'in the Netherlands around 1900.
Marjet Derks Prudence and excellence. Gender and physical education at catholic boarding schools and institutes in pre-war Netherlands.
Elizabeth Smyth Loretto Academy Niagara (1861-1969) : Education Below the Rainbow.
 

 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
 

 Thursday 23 March 14:15 

O-7  -  HEA07: Moral Transgression and Illness: Comparative Perspectives in the Cultural History of Medicine, 900-1900
Room O

    Network: Health
Chair: Douglas Aiton
Discussant: Douglas Aiton
Eilola Jari Moral Transgression and Illness in the Early Modern North
Alaric Hall Elves, illness, sex and gender in the early medieval British Isles
Markku Hokkanen Moral Transgression, Disease, and Holistic Health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Northern Malawi.
Karen Nolte Cervical Cancer and "sexual deviancy“ – history of a moral discourse
 

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

O-9  -  ETH17: Migration of domestic servants
Room O

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Network: Labour
Network: Asia
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Marina de Regt "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Sjoukje Botman The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Monica Smith Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon
 

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

O-10  -  CRI10: Police and Press in Historical Perspective
Room O

    Network: Criminal Justice
Organiser: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Chair: Clive Emsley
Discussant: Clive Emsley
Haia Shpayer-Makov The Intricate Relationship between Journalists and Police Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian England
John Drabble Ensure that the group is disrupted, ridiculed or discredited’: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Media Campaign against Black Power Organizations, 1967-1971
 

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

O-11  -  NAT07: Genocide, Anti-Semitism, Jewish Activism
Room O

    Network: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: John Breuilly
Discussant: Ton Zwaan
Maurice Zeitlin Les Resistants Juives: Who Were They?
Bernardas Gailius The Concept of Genocide - Back to Lemkin
William Brustein Comparative and Empirical Examination of anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
 

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

O-12  -  WOM14: Gender and Professionalism
Room O

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Katrin Schultheiss
Discussant: Katrin Schultheiss
Michelle Denbeste Russian Women Physicians 1867-1905: Professionalism, Feminism, Radicalism
Mary Jane Mossman Women Lawyers of the 19th century: gender, law and the legal professions
Sonja Matter Contested Experts. Swiss Women in the Field of Professional Social Work and Welfare (1900-1960)
Susan McGann Nurses are Citizens: the politics of the College of Nursing (UK) as a non-feminist organisation in the interwar period
 

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

O-13  -  RUR02: From custom to profession. The professionalization of agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room O

    Network: Rural
Chair: Sally Mcmurry
Discussant: Sally Mcmurry
Maren Jonasson Agricultural expositions in Finland 1870-1932
Erwin Karel Modelling the Dutch farm-family 1953-1970
Piet van Cruyningen Professionalization of the design of farm buildings in the Netherlands, 1850-1940
 

 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 

O-15  -  ETH15: Perspectives on short-range mobility
Room O

    Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Marlou Schrover
Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Pawel Kaczmarczyk Seasonal migration and other types of short-term mobility: the case of Poland
Paul Philip Thompson A micro-scale analysis of intra-urban mobility in nineteenth century lancaster, England
Dariusz Stola Sealing off and opening Poland: the disappearance and reemergence of short-term mobility from communist Poland
Colin Pooley Everyday mobility in the twentieth century: a global perspective
 

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

O-16  -  LAT04: Imagining Latin America: Constructing National Identities in Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay
Room O

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Michael Gonzales
Chair: Kim Clark
Discussant: Michiel Baud
Michael Gonzales Imagining Mexico in 1910: Elite Construction, Audience, and Reception in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City
Lyman Johnson The Dead Reburied: Argentina's Complicated Relationship with Its Heroes
Susan Socolow Monumental Memories: Constructing Nationhood in Argentina and Uruguay