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Special Session
Histories of International Organisations in the Making:
UNESCO as a Case Study
9 AM-12:15 PM
Room 1013, Club of Nanjiao Hotel
Organizer : Jens Boel (UNESCO’s Chief Archivist)
Discussant: Jean-François Sirinelli (Sciences Po Paris, Chair of the International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO History Project)
- Poul Duedahl (University of Aalborg):
The results of the research carried out by the Danish funded project
- Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney):
The UNESCO’s history in transnational perspective
- Ibrahima Thioub (Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar):
The question of identity in the context of writing and teaching national and regional histories
- Jens Boel (UNESCO’s Chief Archivist):
The main trends in the historiography of UNESCO
IAO 1
Shandong High Speed Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 2: Science and Religion
Chair : Yves Krumenacker (Université de Lyon, Member of the Board of CIHEC)
- John Gascoigne (University of New South Wales):
Church, State and the Patronage of Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon
- Etienne Bourdon (Université de Grenoble):
The Religious Discourse Faced with Early Modern Geographical Discoveries: A “Disenchantment”?
- Noémie Recous (Université de Lyon - Jean Moulin Lyon 3):
Scientific passion and religious commitment in the Republic of Letters : Nicolas Fatio of Duillier (1664-1753)
- Zhou Baowei (East China Normal University, Shanghai):
Religion and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Peggy Brock (Edith Cowan University, Perth):
Missionaries and Anthropology
- Norman Etherington (University of Western Australia):
Missionaries and Science versus Superstition in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Africa
IAO 2
Lu Xin VIP Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 2: Figures of Parliamentary Life (Biography and Prosopography). Personalities (and networks) in the Parliamentary History
Chair: Mario Di Napoli
- Joseba Agirreazkuenaga (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao):
On Historiographical Progress in Parliamentary History: Collective Biography and Prosopographic Analysis
- Maria Sofia Corciulo (University « La Sapienza », Rome):
The “Constitutional” Clergy in the Neapolitan Parliament of 1820-1821
- Mikel Urquijo (University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain):
The Speakership of the Parliament in the Contemporary Spain ( 1810-1939)
- Vittoria Calabrò (University of Messina):
The Italian Politician Emilio Colombo as President of the European Parliament (1977-1979)
IAO 3 The International Association of Historical Societies
for the study of Jewish History (IAHSSJH)
Jewish Diasporas
Jinan Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 1
Chair: Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Mordechai Cogan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
The Early Generations of the Babylonian Diaspora as Illuminated by the Cuneiform Documents from al Yaḫudu
- Doron Mendels (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
A Split Jewish Diaspora: A Language Divide and Two Systems of Law and “communication”
- Michael Toch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Medieval Jewish Diaspora(s): DNA Studies and the Formation of Medieval Jewries
IAO 4 International Standing Conference for the History of Education
Histories of Education in East Asia: Indigenous Developments and Transnational Entanglements
Qingdao Hall, Shandong Hotel
Chair and Introduction: Eckhardt Fuchs (University of Braunschweig)
- Klaus Dittrich (University of Luxembourg):
European and American Teachers in Korean Government Schools, 1883-1910
- Narae Seo (Yonsei University, Seoul):
The Educational Experiences and Identity formation of Overseas Chinese Students in Korea
- Seongcheol Oh (Seoul National University of Education Athletic Meeting):
Nationalism and Memory in Modern Korean Education
IAO 5
Linyi Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 3: Revolutionary Politics and Ideology
Chair: Matthias Middell (Secretary-Treasurer of the ICHFR, University of Leipzig)
- Annie Jourdan ((University of Amsterdam):
Les journées de prairial an II : un tournant de la Révolution ?
- Pang Guanqun (Beijing Normal University):
Fabricating Madame Roland in China: Transnational Imagination of a French Revolutionary Heroine
General Assembly of the ICHFR and election of the Board/Assemblée générale de la CIHRF et élection du bureau
IAO 6
Zaozhuang Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 2: Usages of History for Tourism in the Present
Discussant: Bertram M. Gordon (Mills College, Oakland, California)
- Elena Belova (Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities):
The Small Historic Town of Uglich as a Tourist Brand of the Golden Ring of Russia Route
- Aditya Kiran Kakati (The Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies Geneva):
From Periphery to Paradise: Re-imagining the Eastern 'Frontier' Borderlands of India in the Contemporary Context of Emerging Alternative Narratives Manifested in Liminal Tourist Enclaves
- Ilaria Porciani (University of Bologna):
Recent History Museums and Tourism: a Comparative Approach
- Jun Shang (University Institute of Lisbon) and Weiqun Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, ZheJiang College):
Red Tourism in China: A Special Type of Heritage Tourism
- Julien Tassel and Hécate Vergopoulos (University Paris-Sorbonne):
Portrait of the Tourist as an Historian: How the Contemporary Tourist Mediation of
Paris Turns the Practice of Space into a Search for Historical Clues
- Rachel A. Varghese (Jawaharlal Nehru University):
The Muziris Assemblage: A Dialogue between History and Heritage
- Pim Verweij (University of Amsterdam):
Homestay Tourism and Its Impact on the Local Villager in Vietnam
IAO 7
Rizhao Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 2: The Importance of the Concept of Veracity in History Education
Chair: Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia)
- Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia):
Veracity: a neglected facet of history education in schools?
- Elisabeth Erdmann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg):
History – but what is correct now?
- Arja Virta (University of Turku):
Approaches to Historical Truth in History Education
- Elize van Eeden (South Africa):
Assessing the historiography of fact and fiction in understanding and teaching History in South Africa
- Susanne Popp (University of Augsburg):
Counterfactual History – an appropriate means to develop historical thinking skills in the classroom?
- Victor Nemchinov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
Shaping Truth through Dialoguing in the World without a Paradigm
- Pieter Warnich (North-West University, Republic of South Africa):
Assessing multi-perspectives and the historical 'truth' in the post-apartheid history school curriculum and textbooks
IAO 8
8:30 AM-12:45 PM
Session 6(8:30 AM-10:30 AM), Session 8(10:45 AM-12:45 PM) at Liaocheng Hall,
Session 7(8:30 AM-10:30 AM), Session 9(10:45 AM-12:45 PM) at Binzhou Hall,
Business Meeting(8:30AM-10:30 AM), Session 10(10:45 AM-12:45 PM) at Yantai Hall; Shandong Hotel
Session 6 : Marriage Strategies Among Transcontinental Migrants
Organizers: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Claudia Contente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (EHESS, Paris)
Discussant: Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle)
- Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga (University of Cergy-Pontoise):
Gender and Marriage among the French in California in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century
- Carmen Alveal and Dayane Dias (Universidades Federal do Rio Grande del Norte):
National and international immigrants settlement in Goianinha village (Brazil) in the nineteenth century: analysis of social relationships through parish records
Session 7 : Abortion and Infanticide in Comparative Historical Perspective:
crime and/or demographic technique? (Part 3)
Organizers: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (EHESS, Paris)
Ioan Bolovan (Romanian Academy, Center of Transylvanian Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Discussant: Kawaguchi Hiroshi (Tezukayama University)
- Gregory Hanlon (Dalhousie University):
Infanticide « à la chinoise » in early modern Europe in comparative perspective
- Dalia Leinarte (Vilnius University):
Unwanted Children. Infanticide in Lithuania in a Historical Perspective
- Paulo Teodoro de Matos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa):
Infanticide in Goa (Portuguese India) through sex ratios (1776-1900)
- Evelien Walhout (Radboud University Nijmegen):
Female infanticide: exploring evidence in the Netherlands
Business Meeting : Board meeting
Session 8 : Women and Migration, 16th – 21st Centuries (Part 1)
Organizers: Claudia Contente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Cristina Cacopardo (Universidad Nacional de Luján)
Chair: Ioan Bolovan (Romanian Academy, Center of Transylvanian Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Discussant: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
- Veronica Villarespe and Carlos Quintanilla Yerena (UNAM):
Women and Poor Laws: England (16th-18th centuries)
- Corneliu Sigmirean (University Tirgu Mures):
Migration and its Impact upon the Family. A Case Study: the Romanians from Spain
- Dana-Maria Rus (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca):
La migration des femmes Roumaines en France contemporaine. Etude de cas : devenir gardiennes d’immeuble à Paris
Session 9 : Illegitimacy and Non-marital Partnerships, Past and Present: a Global Comparison
Organizer: Peter Teibenbacher (Karl-Franzens-Universität)
Chair: Peter Teibenbacher (Karl-Franzens-Universität)
Discussant: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (EHESS, Paris)
- Catherine Dol (EHESS, Paris):
Adoption as a means of legitimizing illegitimate children in 19th century France
- Ólöf Garđarsdóttir (University of Iceland):
An Icelandic marriage pattern
- Peter Teibenbacher (Karl-Franzens-Universität):
Illegitimacy and marriage hindrances in 18th century Styria. Anticipating preventive check policy
- Ioan Bolovan (Romanian Academy, Center of Transylvanian Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca):
Illegitimacy in Transylvania before World War I
- Ana Victoria Sima (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca):
The Church and the Phenomenon of Illegitimacy in Transylvania during World War I
Session 10 : Round Table discussion (to be determined)
IC 1
Dongying Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 2: Museums and Public History
Chair: Michael Devine (Truman Library, National Archives and Records Administration)
- Anna Adamek (Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation):
Collecting and Preserving Contemporary Technologies at the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation as Historical Evidence for Future research
- Andreas Etges (Amerika-Institute,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich):
Hot Debate over the Cold War – Checkpoint Charlie
- Annarita Gori (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa):
Story of a Monument Never Built: The Infante dom Henrique’s Monuments and Museums and the Estado Novo Public Use of the Past
- Kathleen Franz (American University, Washington DC) and Nancy Davis (National Museum of American History, Washington DC):
Making Business History Public: Material Culture, Museums and Histories of Capitalism
- Anastasia Remes (Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt):
Memory, Identity and the Supranational History Museum:the House of European History
- Song Mingchang (General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Television, P. R. C.)
Chinese Publishing: Inheriting and Promoting Chinese Civilization
IAO 9
Zibo Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session2: Ports
Chair: Giulia Lami (University Milano)
Comments: Martin Schulze Wessel (President of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands)
Jonathan Bull (University of Hokkaido)
- Marco Dogo (University of Trieste): The Slavonic dimension of Trieste as an imperial port-city, 1751-1914- Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg):
Fiume/Rijeka: Emigrants and the National State
- Andreas Renner (University of Tübingen):
Lüshun/Port Arthur 1905/45. A Russian and Soviet site of memory
- Ulrike von Hirschhausen (University of Rostock):
Russian Riga in the early 20th century - local products as a global commodity?
IAO 10
Dezhou Hall, Shandong Hotel
Session 3: Regional Approaches: Asia
Chair: Robert MacMahon (Ohio State University)
Discussant: David Lowe (Deakin University)
- Chiara Chiapponi (University of Roma " la Sapienza"):
le Japon à la recherche d’un nouveau rôle: la «diversification » et les relations avec le Vietnam du Nord
- Valdo Ferretti (University of Roma " la Sapienza"):
China and the international system of alliances at the beginning in the XXth century
- Hirotaka Watanabe (Tokio University of Foreign Studies):
The path ahead for Japanese diplomacy: need for consciousness of being a global player
- Jae Yeong Han (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
Old and new players in the evolution of South Korea
- Mauro Elli (Università di Padova):
New actors in a long-standing relationship: Indo-British dealings in the aviation industry
Session 4 : Regional Approaches: Europe, Mediterranean, Latin America
Chair: María Dolores Elizalde (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC, Madrid)
Discussant: Alfredo Canavero (University of Milan)
- Bohumila Ferenčuhová (Slovenskej akadémie vied Historicky ustav SAV):
La Petite Entente – nouvel acteur dans les relations internationales dans l´entre-deux-guerres : un échec de l´Europe démocratique ?
- Houda Ben Hamouda (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
From independence to the "Jasmine Revolution", the genesis and the movement counter-power in Tunisia
- José Flávio S. Saraiva (University of Brasília):
Brazil: An emergent power and the sense of autonomy and history
- Hortense Faivre D’Arcier-Flores (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne):
La CELAC : une avancée dans la construction d’un monde multipolaire ?
- Lùcia Guimaraes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro):
Portugal and Brazil: a Declining Empire and Luso-Brazialian Connections early 20th Century
IAO 11
Main Theme Panel 6 at Auditorium, Nanjiao Hotel.
Sub-Theme B Panel 1 at Room 3012, Club.
Sub-Theme A Panel 2 at Room 3013, Club.
Main Theme Panel 7 at Room 3015, Club.
Main Theme Panel 8a at Room 3018, Club.
Lunch and informal networking(12-2 PM) at Room Ju Xian, Blue Hall, Nanjiao Hotel.
MAIN THEME: Women and Modernity
Panel 6: Modernity, Working-Class Women and Social Welfare
Chair and Discussant: Eileen Boris(University of California Santa Barbara)
- Priyanka Srivastava (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
Working-class mothers and medical modernities in colonial Bombay
- Patricia Ysabel Wong (Ateneo de Manila University):
Educating women, educating nation: the gendering of hygiene and sanitation education in Manila, 1900s-1930s
- Eloisa Betti (University of Bologna):
Creating a New Modernity for Italian Women: Labour rights and Welfare Services in the Golden Age (1945-1975): The Role of the Union of Italian Women (UDI)
- Ute Chamberlin (Western Illinois University):
Testing the Limits of Womens’ Work: Women in the Mining Industries of the Ruhr during the Great War
SUB-THEME B: Small/Recently Uncovered Archives
Panel 1: Retrieving Lost Histories
Chair and Discussant: Clare Midgley(Sheffield Hallam University)
- Mahua Sarkar (Binghamton University, SUNY):
The practice of memory as alternate archiving: using oral histories to capture the everyday experiences of Hindu-Muslim Women in the context of social reform in late colonial urban Bengal
- Hemjyoti Medhi (Tezpur University):
Where is the archive? Women’s public performances and the collective of the Mahila Samiti in Assam
- Yuthika Misra (Vivekananda College, University of Delhi):
Women’s rights and the archive of the All India Women’s Conference
- Isobelle Barrett Meyering (University of New South Wales):
Beyond the ‘South Eastern Axis’: retrieving a national history of Australian women’s and children’s liberation (1969-1979)
- Joszef Borocz (Rutgers University):
An archive thrown away: fragments of a ballet dancer’s life
SUB-THEME A: Resistant Subjectivities
Panel 2: Racial and Gender Justice
Chair: Carolyn Eichner (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
- Dianne Bartlow (California State University):
Maria Miller Stewart: African American anti-slavery activism
- Gwen Jordan (University of Illinois):
Building our world: Edith Sampson and the power of transnational coalitions of Women of Colour during the Cold War
- Kennan Ferguson ( University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee):
Feminism and freedom
- Choonib Lee (State University of New York at Stony Brook):
Fashioning revolutionary women: Black Panthers and the Third World during the late 1960s and early 1970s
Panel 7: Women and Modernity Revisited: Northern Europe, 1750-1950
Chair and Discussant: Mary O’Dowd (Queen's University Belfast)
- Maria Ägren, Rosemarie Fiebranz, Jonas Lindström (Uppsala University):
Does modernity eclipse the history of women’s work? Results from the Gender and Work Project
- Pirjo Markkola and Ann-Cartin Östman (University of Jyväskylä and Aboakademi University):
Intersections of modernity: rural women in Northern Europe in the 19th century
- Pasi Saarimäki and Pirita Frigen (University of Jyväskylä):
Methodological reflections on women and modernity: the case of Finland
- Kirsi-Maria Hyotönen and Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki):
Women against modernity?
Panel 8a: ‘New Women’: Transnational Perspectives and Global Political Contexts – part 1
Chair: June Purvis (University of Portsmouth)
- Noriko Ishii (Sophia University):
Women and mission between the empires
- Kye-hyeong Ki (Hanyang University):
Comparison of the ‘New Woman’ of the 1920s in colonial Korea and Soviet Russia: quest for modernity
- Sung Eun Kim (Daegu Haany University):
Life of Induk Pahk as New Woman and Korean version of Nora
Lunch and informal networking
IAO 12
Conference Room on the 4th Floor, Southern Building, Nanjiao Hotel
Session 2: Histories of Reading and Writing
Organizers: Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales)
Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor)
- Seokyung Han (State University of New York, Binghampton):
Writing of the Korean script Han’gŭl by and for Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392‐1910)
- Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University):
What Peasants Read: the Expansion of the Reading Public in Early Modern China
- Joan Judge (York University):
Everyday Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in Early-Twentieth-Century China
- Adam J. Kosto (Columbia University):
The Documentary Practices of Laypeople in Early Medieval Europe
- Lodovica Braida (University of Milan):
Writing for Others: Renaissance Printed Epistolary Collections: between models for “good writing” and means of information
- Henning Hansen (University of Tromso):
Modern Reading: Swedish Book Consumption in the Late 19th Century
IAO 13
Conference Room on the 5th Floor, Nanjiao Hotel
Session 2: Cultural Reflections on World War II (continuation)
- Alya Aglan (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
Representations of war through the joint reading of two novels: French Suite Irene Nemirovsky (2002) and The Silence of the Sea Vercors (1942)
- David Ulbrich (Rogers State University), Colin Colbourn (University of S Mississippi) and Earl J. Catagnus Jr (Valley Forge Military College):
Cultural Constructions and Media Representations of the U.S. Marine Corps during the Pacific War
- Bernd Martin (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg):
From the Pacific War to Good Neighbourliness
- Fumitaka Kurosawa (Tokyo Women’s Christian University):
Reconsideration of Perceptions of Modern History in Post-war Japan
- Peter Romijn (NIOD, Amsterdam):
The Limits of Military Justice - the failure of persecuting crimes of war committed by Dutch troops in Indonesia, 1946-1949
IAO 14
Conference Room on the 3rd Floor, Southern Building, Nanjiao Hotel
Session 2: Themes and Methods: Trends and Innovations
Chair: Dirk Hoerder (Arizona State University and University of Salzburg)
- Peter Winn (Tufts University):
Latin America
- Karin Hofmeester (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and University of Antwerp):
e-Humanities and social history
- Marcel Van Der Linden (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam):
New themes in social history
- Jürgen Kocka (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin):
Social History: substantive and methodological prospects
IAO 15
Room 1018, Club of Nanjiao Hotel
Session 2: Big History – Our Shared Diversity
Chair and Discussant: Barry H. Rodrigue (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
- Sun Yue (Capital Normal University, Beijing):
Big History: History of the Globalization Era and China’s Contribution
- Qi Tao (Shandong University, Jinan):
Flood Myths v. Historical Realities: A Big History Approach and a Chinese Case
- Seohyung Kim (Ewha Womans University, Seoul):
A New Paradigm of Convergence Education: Big History, a History of Everything
- Duan Huichuan (Shandong Normal University, Jinan): Chinese History in ChronoZoom
IC 2 International Association for the History of State and Administration/ Association Internationale de l'Histoire de l'État
Room 1012, Club of Nanjiao Hotel
General Assembly
Organizer : Jean-Pierre Deschodt
