Internal Commissions
Commissions Internes
1. Association Against the Manipulation of History
Association contre la manipulation de l'histoire
Programme not available
2. African Historians Association
Association des Historiens Africains
Programme not available
3. International Commission on Latin Paleography
Comité International de Paléographie Latine
Programme not available
4. International Commission for Historical Metrology
Comité International pour la Métrologie Historique
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building A, Auditorium 10
The Merchants' Books: Collection of Historical Sources from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century
Les livres de marchands, ensemble de sources historiques, du Moyen Age au XIXe siècle»
5. International Commission on the History of the French Revolution
Commission Internationale d´Histoire de la Révolution Francaise
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Saturday 12 August, 09:00-12:00
Building H, Auditorium 1
From the Directory to the Consulate: The Closing of the Revolutionary Episode
Du Directoire au Consulat: la clôture de l'épisode révolutionnaire
Friday 11 August
09:00-12:00
Introduction: Michel Vovelle, President of the commission
- Alan Forrest, United Kingdom (Les armées du Directoire et du Consulat: fin d'une révolution, début d'un souvenir)
- Tadami Chizuka/Akiro Matsushima, Japan (La situation religieuse de la France consulaire et la liberté des cultes)
- Michel Pertué, France (La création des Conseils de préfecture et les débuts de la justice administrative)
- Marcel Dorigny, France (Colonisation, esclavage et Révolution: le tournant brumairien)
Discussion
14:00-17:00
- Zang Zhilian, China
- Helmut Reinalter, Austria (Österreich um 1800. Nach wirkungen der Französichen Revolution)
- Alberto Gil Novalès, Spain (L'Europe révolutionnée vers 1800)
Discussion
Round Table: What is left of the revolutions when they have come to an end? (France, Mexico, Russia)
Table Ronde: Que reste-t-il des révolutions après leur achèvement? (France, Mexique, Russie)
Saturday 12 August
09:00-11:00
Modérateur: Claude Mazauric, Vice President of the commission
Participants:
- Bruno Drewski, France
- Adolfo Gilly, Mexico
- Alexandre Tchoudinov, Russia
- Kåre Tønnesson, Norway
Discussion
11:00-13:00
Assemblée générale de la commission
6. International Commission on Historical Journals
Friday, 11 August, 14:00-17:00
Saturday, 12 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building F, Auditorium 4
Historical Journals Between Generalist approach and extreme Specialisation
7. International Commission on Historical Demography
Commission Internationale de Démographie historique
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00 and Saturday 12 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building A, Auditoriums 3, 4
Friday, 11 August, 09:00-12:00
Family Strategies Revisited
Organiser: Tamara Hareven
- Michael Anderson
- Gerard Beaur
- Isabell Moll Blanes
- Theo Engelen
- James Lee
- Robert McCaa
- Andrejs Plakans
- Lex Herma Van Voss
- Richard Wall
- Claudia Zamorano
- Olivier Zeiler
Friday, 11 August, 09:00-12:00
Parallel sessions
1. The Role of Purposive Behaviour in Mortality Reduction
Organiser: Bruce Fetter, USA
A. Culture and Demography
1. 19th Century Europe
- G. Alter/M Oris (Family Behavior and Mortality Decline)
- P. Bourdelais (Cultural Reasons for Mortality Reduction, France)
- P. Skold (Cultural Aspects of Mortality Decline, Sweden)
2. Infants and Children
- A. Fauve-Chamoux (Abandoned Children 18th Century France)
- C. Rollet (Intemational Conferences)
- R. Millward and F. Bell (Mothers' Health, Fertility, Mortality)
3. Ethnic Differentials in Mortality
- M. Boleda (Ethnic Mortality Patterns in 18th Century South America)
- S-y Liu (Differential Mortality on Taiwan)
- R. Derosas (When Culture Matters: Differential Infant and Child Mortality of Jews and Catholics in 19th Century Venice)
Friday, 11 August, 14:00 -17:00
B. Politics and Mortality
4. Political Philosophy of Mortality Control
- S. Rusina (Soviet Health Policies)
- V. de Luca (The Part of Civil Servant Action in the Decrease of Mortality in France (1880-1920))
- G. Restifo (Plague in 19th Century Ottoman Empire)
5. Health policy
- A. Reid (Health Visitors in Early 20th Century England)
- S. Filimontbchik (Mortality during Northern Russian Urbanization)
- L. Gutormsson/O. Gardarsdottir (19th Century Iceland Neonatal Tetanus)
6. Expenditure Studies
- L. Cain/F. Rotella (U.S. Water, Sewerage, and Solid Waste)
- E. Cavieres (Public Health, Fiscal Policies, and Cultural Change in Valparaiso, 1920-80)
- H. Southall/G. Mooney/R. Campos (Mortality Expenditure in 19th Century London)
Friday, 11 August, 14:00 -17:00
(Parallell sessions, to be continued Saturday)
Demographical characteristics of migrants: pools of departure and arrival
Organisers: Anne-Lise Head, Rene Leboutte, Tamas Farago
1. Female In-migrants into Towns: Integration, Labour, Marriage
L'émigration des femmes vers les villes: integration, travail mariage
- Angelina Arru (How to Marry a Locally Born Man (Rome 18th- 19th Centuries)
- Jean-Paul Bougard (Domestiques et femmes immigrantes a Mons au début du XIXe siecle)
Montserrat Carbonell (Female Urban Migrants and Their Integration in the Labour Market Through Public Assistance Institutions in XVIIIth Century Barcelona)
- Cesary Kuklo (L'émigration des femmes et leurs activités professionnelles dans les villes polonaises (XVIII-XIXe s))
- W. Robert Lee (Female In-migration, Labour Market, Segregation and Demographic Change in Nineteenth Century Bremen)
- Beatrice Moring (Brewers' Widow or Fisherman's wife, Destinies of Female Migrants in 17th and Early 18th Century Stockholm)
- Andrejs Plakans/Charles Wetherell (Rural-to-Urban Migration in the Russian Baltic Provinces, 1850-1900)
- Edith Saurer (Impoverished and Transported into the Husbands Parish. Austrian Case Studies From the Early 19th Century)
- Latta Vikstrom (Female Cityward Migrants and Their Sociogeographical Mobility - The Case of Sundsvall During the Course of Nineteenth-Century)
- Richard Wall (The Family Circumstances of Women Migrating Temporarily and Permanently to Sundsvall in the Nineteenth Century)
Friday, 11 August, 17:30
ICHD General Assembly
Saturday, 12 August, 09:00-12:00
Mortality Session (continued)
C. Measuring Mortality Reduction
7. Genetic and Natural Environments
- R Steckel/J. Prince (19th Century Plains Indians)
- K. R. Smith et al. (Genetic Predispositions to Longevity)
8. Central Governments and Mortality Measurement
- M. Haines (U.S. Urban Mortality Transition)
- J. Wood (Registrar-General in 19th Century England)
- R. Gehrmann (Vaccination in 19th Century Northern Germany)
9. Mortality Transitions
- Dj. Sari (Colonial Algeria)
- I. Dubert (N. Spain)
- M. Fowlis (Gambia and Swaziland)
Saturday, 12 August, 14:00-17:00
Migration Session (continued)
2. Mass Migration/Emigration de Masse; Networks and Specialized
Migration/Réseaux et migration de main d'oeuvre specialisée
- Marcelo Borges (Patterns of Migration in Southern Portugal (Algarve) and Portuguese Immigration in Argentina)
- Rose Duroux (Migrants et corporations (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Auvergne/Espagne))
- Enda Delaney (Networks, Social Structure and Migration in Postwar Ireland)
- Karl Kaser/Sigfried Gruber (Mass Migration from Montenegro to Serbia in the Nineteenth Century: Its Impact on the Family Structures)
- Shireen Moosvi (Skilled Labour Mobility in Pre-Colonial India, 16th-18th Centuries)
- Mary Louise Nagata (Female Labor Migration in Early Modern Japan, 1672-1870)
- Muriel Neven (Terra incognita: les migrations des personnes agees et la nuclear hardship hypothesis)
- Portia Robinson, Family Consequences of Forced Migrations)
- Glenda Strachan (Creating a European Community in the Antipodes: Settlement in Rural New South Wales, 1850-1880)
- Blanca Zeberio (Migration et famille dans la 'Pampa Argentine'. Formation des patrimoines et des parentes entre Basques et Castillans (1850-1950))
Conclusion/Closing Session
8. International Commission of Diplomatics
Commission Internationale de Diplomatique
Friday 11 August, 14:00-17:00
Building A, Auditorium 5
Presentation of the current Research Programs and of the Programs patronized by the C.I.D.
Présentation des projets scientifiques en cours et des projets patronnés par la C.I.D.
There will be an exhibition of the published projects and reports.
Une exposition des rapports et des publications parues est prévue
- Theo Kölzer, Germany (Die neue Editionen der Urkunden der merowingischen Könige)
- Hartmut Atsma, Germany/Jean Vezine, France (Les Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi)
- Giovanna Nicolaj, Italy (Le projet des Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters)
- Walter Koch, Germany (Die Edition der Diplome Kaiser Friedrichs II)
- Walter Prevenier, Belgium (Les résultats de 35 ans de recherche au sein de la Commission Internationale de Diplomatique)
Saturday 12 August 09:00-12:00
- Cultural Factors and Intellectual and Material Conditions in the Elaboration of Diplomatic Documents
- Facteurs culturels et conditions intellectuelles et matérielles dans l'élaboration des documents diplomatiques -
- Olivier Guyotjeannin, France (L'écriture des actes à la chancellerie royale française, XIVe-XVe siècles)
- Peter Johanek, Germany (Der Aufschwun(Unig des Urkundenwesens im 12. Jahrhundert und seine Rahmenbedingungen).
- Reinhard Härtel, Austria (Geistliche und weltliche Bildung in Urkunden des Hochmittelalters (Alpenraum und Oberitalien))
Saturday 12 August 14:00-17:00
Assemblée Générale de la Commission Internationale de Diplomatique.
- session introduction
9. International Commission on the History of the Russian Revolution
Commission Internationale pour l´histoire de la Révolution russe
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Saturday 12 August, 09:00-12:00
Building D, Auditorium 7
I. Historiography of the October Revolution 1995-2000
II. Ethnopsychology of Russian Revolution
III. Parties and Masses in Revolution
IV. Gender and Revolution
10. Commission for the Conservation and Publication of Contemporary Sources
Commission pour la Conservation et la Publication des Sources Contemporaines
Programme not available
11. International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
Friday, 11 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Saturday, 12 August, 09:00-12:00
Building A, Auditorium 1
Friday, 11 August, 09:00-12:00
Factual Film and the Portrayal of History
Chair: Pierre Sorlin, France
- Luisa Cigognetti, Italy (Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War)
- Valeria Camporesi, Spain (Spanish Factual Films)
- Lia Beltrami (Austrian Documentary Films and The First World War)
- Rainer Rother, Germany (Germany and the Factual Film)
- Jens Ulff-Moeller, Denmark (Danish Newsreels 1940-1955)
- Pierre Sorlin, France (Italian Newsreels in the 1950s)
Friday, 11 August, 14:00-17:00
Film and History: Using Film and History in the University Classroom as Representations of the Past
Chair: John Whiteclay Chambers II, USA
- David Culbert, USA (Teaching the Civil Rights Revolution in the USA using Local and National Television News)
- Susan Carruthers, United Kingdom (Teaching War and the Cold War in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century through Film and Television in the United Kingdom)
- Thomas Doherty, USA (Cold War, Cool Medium: Teaching Television and American Culture of the 1950s
- Jacques Portes, France) (How Classical Hollywood Movies make the History of their Time)
Saturday, 12 August, 09:00-12:00
Audiovisual Media in the 21st Century: Access and Use
Chair: Christine Whittaker, United Kingdom
- Tedd Johansen, Norway/Steve Bryant, United Kingdom (Access to TV Archives for Academics - The FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Workgroup)
- Sue Malden, United Kingdom (The Current Structure of Archives Within the BBC - In Preparation for the Digital Future, and Their Use Within BBC Production)
- Lasse Nilsson, Sweden (The TV Programmes No One Believed Existed: Co-operation Between Scholars and the Broadcasting Archives)
- Luke McKernan, United Kingdom (The British Universities Newsreel Project - The Development of the Unified Database of British Newsreel Records and Its Importance for Commercial and Historical Research)
- David Thaxton, USA/Christine Whittaker, United Kingdom (Changing History - Looking Back Over Three Decades of Research and Production of Television History Programmes)
12. International Commission for the Application of Quantitative Methods in History
Programme not available
13. International Standing Conference for the History of Education
Saturday 12 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building A, Auditorium 2
The Uses and Misuses of Gender in the History of Education
L'éducation dans l'école et dans la famille du point de vue du rapport masculin/féminin
Panel 1
The Use and Abuse of Biography in the History of Education
- Gaby Weiner, Sweden (Disrupting Auto/Biographical Narratives: Methodological and Interpretive Considerations and the Role of Gender)
- Ruth Watts, United Kingdom (Science, Gender and Biography: The Case of Mary Sommerville)
- Joost Coté, Australia (Excavating Kartini's Ideas on Women's Education: Feminisms, Nationalisms, Education and the Text, 1904-1994)
Panel 2
Education and the Creation of Gendered Role Expectations
- Stephanie Spencer, United Kingdom (Were Girls 'People' in 1950s Britain? Using a Gendered Analysis of 1950s Sociological Surveys for a Historical Project)
- Geoffrey Giles, USA (The Smoking Gun: Role Model Coercion for Girls through German Cigarette Cards)
Panel 3
Breaking the Mould of Educational Traditions
- James Albisetti, USA (Experimental Psychology, Gender Difference, and European Debates about Coeducation, ca. 1890-1930)
- Yuval Dror, Israel (Misuses of Gender in the History of Kibbutz Education from 1910)
Panel 4
Women's Identity Through Education
- Joyce Goodman, United Kingdom (Gender and the Historiography of English Technical Education)
- V.P. Franklin, USA (Out of the Crucible of Race and Sex: Civil Rights, Student Activities, and the Origins of Women's Studies Programs in the United States, 1960-1974)
Discussion and closing comments
14. Study of Sovereignty
Majestas, Études de la Souveraineté
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building F, Auditorium 5
Rulership at the End of the First and the Beginning of the Third Millenium
Chair: Richard A. Jackson, USA
Part I: Around A.D. 1000
- Richard Landes, USA (Hierarchical vs. Anarchic Millennialism at the Turn of the Millennium: From Emperor Cult to the Peace of God)
- David A. Warner, USA (The Ottonian Coronations)
- Gabor Klaniczay, Hungary (The Coronation of Saint Stephen in the Light of His Hagiography)
Part II: Around A.D. 2000
- Sverre Bagge, Norway (Studies On Scandanavian and German Rulership)
- Donna P. Sadler,USA (Images of Kingship)
- Janos M. Bak, Hungary (New Debates on Old Crowns: the Vienna 'Reichskrone' and the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen')
- Richard A. Jackson, USA (Recent and Future Ordines Studies)
- Mack P. Holt, USA (Beyond the Kantorowicz School of Kingship)
15. Peace History Society
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Saturday 12 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
To be held at the Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19 (see city map)
Orienting the Twentieth Century to Peace
Friday, 11 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Scott Bills (President of the Peace History Society) and Geir Lundestad (Director of the Nobel Institute)
Session 1
A century of Nobel Peace Prizes
(Break, 10:45-11:15)
Chair: Irwin Abrams, with introductory personal reflections on a century of Peace Prizes
- Øyvind Tønnesson (Nomination Statistics - a Useful Point of Departure in Studies of the Nobel Peace Prize?)
- Olof Tandberg (Reflections on Sweden and the Nobel Peace Prize)
- Ivar Libæk (The Decision-Making Process Within the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1901-1917)
- Asle Sveen (The Decision-Making Process Within the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1919- 1931)
- Øivind Stenersen (The Decision-Making Process Within the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1932-1939)
- Walter Kendall (The Peace Prize Concept of Peace and Justice
- Doris Linder (Human Rights as a Criterion for the Peace Prize Award in the Time of Nobel Committee Member Aase Lionæs (1948-78))
Session 2
Arms Control and disarmament since 1945
Chair: Lawrence Wittner
- Olav Njølstad (A Long and Winding Road to Nuclear Abolitionism: The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Bomb, 1945-1995)
- Günter Wernicke (The Race to Tip the Scales: Nuclear Paradox for the Eastern Bloc from the Late 1970s)
- Lawrence Wittner (West Bloc Nuclear Disarmament Policies, 1977-1991)
- Kevin Clements (The Costs and Benefits of Unilateral Anti-Nuclear Policies: The New Zealand Experience)
Saturday, 12 August, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Session 3
Gender, Peace and Peace Research
(Break, 10:30-11:00)
Chair: Sandi E. Cooper
- Irene Anderson (Women's Unarmed Revolt Against War, 1935)
- Jutta Birmele (The Rise and Decline of the Pacifist and Feminist Agenda in the German Green Party)
- Blanche W. Cook (Eleanor Roosevelt and the Campaign for Human Rights)
- Amy Swerdlow (Left Feminism to Left Materialism: Two Decades of Women's Peace Politics in Cold War America)
- Svetlana Slepsak (Armed Heroines: National Freedom Fighters and Communist Partisans in the Balkans)
- Carolyn Stephenson (Gender, Peace and Conflict Research)
Chair: Regina Braker
Toward a Culture of Peace
Session 4
Culture and Peace in the 20th Century
Chair: Peter van den Dungen
- Tatiana Pavlova (From Leo Tolstoy to Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Concept of Nonviolence in Russia in the 20th Century)
- Mary Montgomery (Working for Peace While Preparing for War: The Creation of the United States Institute for Peace)
- Klaus Schlichtmann (Article IX of the Japanese Constitution: Monument of a Culture of Peace?
- Kazuyo Yamane (Instruments for Creating a Culture of Peace)
Session 5
Past Paradigms and cultures of Peace in the twenty-first century
Chair: Charles Chatfield
- Scott L. Bills (Looking Back from the Internet: Colonization and Indigenous Elsewheres)
- Carolyn Nordstrom (Shadows Across the Landscapes of Power)
- Robert A. Rubinstein (Intervention, Identity, and the Reshaping of International Cooperation)
- Raymond L. Hall (Human 'Nature' Revisited: Re-creating Peace Cultures in the 21st Century)
16. Society for the Study of Crusades and the Latin East
Société pour l'Étude des Croisades et de l´Orient latin
Friday 11 August 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00
Building E, Auditorium 3
Cultural Encounters in the Frankish Levant
Presider: Benjamin Z.Kedar, Israel
- Charles Burnett, United Kingdom (Scholarly Translations in the Frankish Kingdoms and the Evidence They Afford for Intellectual Exchange)
- Cyril Aslanov, Israel (Three Cases of Linguistic Interaction in the Frankish Levant: Acre, Morea, Cyprus)
- Maria Georgopoulou, USA (Art and Material Culture in the Context of Local and International Trade)
The Turks and the Crusade: 1400-1540
- Michael Angold, United Kingdom (The West and the Fall of Constantinople 1453)
- Nancy Bisaha, USA (Pius II's Letter to Sultan Mehmed II)
- Norman Housley, United Kingdom (The Three Turks: Images of 'Turkishness' in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries)
- Margaret Meserve, United Kingdom (Francesco Filefo and the Turks)