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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 

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 10:45 

R-2  -  ORA02: Remembrance and Cultural Patterns: Individual memory, official offers and collective patterns of memory of slave and forced labourers
Room R

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Alexander von Plato
Gelinada Grinchenko Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich: commemoration strategies
Christoph Thonfeld Homecoming across Europe - former slave and forced labourers on the move
Piotr Filipkowski Narrating slave- and forced labour in Poland.
 

 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 16:30 

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

    Network: Elites
Network: Religion
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
 

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

R-5  -  ORA08: Constructing the Body
Room R

    Network: Oral History
Chair: Hugo Manson
Silvia Ruschak ”Tints of Western Style” – Female Body Perception in Transition. An Oral History Project in South Ghana
Jeff Friedman "My Story is Like a Body": A Theoretical Framework for the Embodiment of Oral History Narratives
Saara Tuomaala Scars - Embodied experience as a site of narration and history
 

 Thursday 23 March 10:45 

R-6  -  LAB12: Covering the world
Room R

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Organiser: Els Hiemstra
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Chair: Gareth Austin
Discussant: Sam Davies
Lex Heerma Van Voss, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Els Hiemstra-Kuperus A global history of textile workers, 1650-2000
Janet Hunter Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1650-2000
Andrea Komlosy Globalized Textiles: Spatial division of labour, global inter-relations, and imbalances in regional development
 

 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 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 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
 

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

R-12  -  LAT02: Affect, Sentiment, and Democracy in Political Cultures of the Americas
Room R

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Lessie Jo Frazier
Chair: Kim Clark
Lessie Jo Frazier Memory as Modes of Affect for Political Subject Formation in Chile’s Democratic ‘Tradition’
Jennifer Burrell “The Vicissitudes of Transition: Agency and Waiting in Post-war Guatemala”
Laura Westhoff Democratic Social Knowledge in Progressive Era Chicago
Deborah Cohen Ties that Bind: Race, Democracy, and Mexican Migration to the U.S. In the Age of Modernity
 

 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 

R-14  -  LAT03: Gender, Politics and Health in Latin America
Room R

    Network: Latin-America
Organiser: Kim Clark
Chair: Michiel Baud
Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Kim Clark Female Health Workers and the Professionalisation of Midwifery and Nursing in Ecuador, 1890-1950
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney Population Control and the Construction of State Power: (Forced) Sterilization Campaigns in Puerto Rico and Peru
Paulo Drinot Venereal Disease, Hygiene, and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Lima
 

 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