Schedule students

N.W. Posthumus Conference, 5-6 June 2014 - Preliminary Program
Thursday 5 June
Time
11.00 - 12.30
Room
Round table "(non-)academic career options" followed by a Meet & Greet brunch with NWP Alumni
Verkeersruimte, Fryske Akademy
12.30 - 13.00
Welcoming coffee and registration
13.00 - 13.30
Opening by Jeroen Touwen, scientific director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute,
and welcome by Hanno Brand, director of the Fryske Akademy
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Plenary session - (p.m.)
Keynote speaker (p.m.)
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
13.30 - 14.00
14.00 - 14.40
Pitches (Phd's and Research directors)
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
14.40 - 15.20
15.20 - 16.40
Coffee Break
PhD Session I:
PhD student
1
15.20 - 16.00
2
16.00 - 16.40
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Lotte van der Vleuten (RU) Tine De Moor (UU)
Erik Odegard (UL)
The Indian North-South: Regional differences in educational attainment in India by gender, ca. 1881-2001
Karin Lurvink (VU)
Marcel van der Linden (IISG)
Rick Hölsgens (RUG)
Helpless victims or rational actors? The truck system in Louisiana and the Netherlands, 1865-1920
PhD Session II
PhD student
3
15.20 - 16.00
4
16.00 - 16.40
Discussant 1
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
???
Room
Historisch Centrum
Chair
Room
Inneke Baatsen
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
Huub Sanders (IISG)
Lex Heerma van Voss (Huygens ING)
Alexander Coppens (VUB)
The International network of the International Institute of Social History in the 1970s and 1980s
Arjen Ligtvoet (RUG)
Herman de Jong (RUG)
Gertjan Leenders (UGent)
The shifting genocidal frontier of Auschwitz
PhD Session III
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
5
15.20 - 16.00
6
16.00 - 16.40
Rik Vercammen (VUB)
Margo De Koster (VUB)
Hadewijch Masure (UA)
No title
Miguel Laborda Peman (UU) Jan Lucassen (IISG)
Boris Horemans (VUB)
Guilds and Skills. The Urban Economies of Italy and the Low Countries Compared, 12th-19th centuries.
16.40 - 17.00
Room Change
17.00 - 18.30
Research Session I
Chair
Theme: The role of religion in 20th century civil society
Marlou Schrover (UL) / Griet Vermeesch (VUB)
Speakers
1. Kristian Mennen (WWU Münster) and Marijn Molema (UL) - Dutch Scouting as a case-study
2. Patrick Pasture (KU Leuven) - Reaction on the Dutch debate from a Belgian perspective
Social History of Communities I
Room
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Research Session II
Chair
Life-course, Family and Labour
Theme:
Christa Matthys (UGent)
Room
Speakers
Historisch Centrum
1. Thijs Lambrecht (Rijksarchief Gent / UGent) - Growing contrasts. The state, the family and welfare in Western Europe, 17th-18th centuries
2. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (WUR) - Colonial connections of household labour. Women’s and children’s work in the Netherlands and
the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1830-1940
Research Session III
Chair
Theme: The pre-industrial Low Countries in a world history perspective
Speakers (Round Table):
1. Peer Vries (Vienna)(p.m.)
2.
3.
18.30 - 20.00
Conference dinner
21.00 -
Social Event - Pub Quiz
Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries
Room
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
Fryske Akademy
Grand Café De Walrus
N.W. Posthumus Conference, 5-6 June 2014 - Preliminary Program
Friday 6 June
9.00 - 10.20
7
9.00 - 9.40
8
9.40 - 10.20
PhD Session IV
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
???
Room
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Selin Dilli (UU)
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (WUR) ???
A Long Term Look at the Relation between Women’s Empowerment and Regional Development in India
Robin Satter (RU)
Erik Nijhof (UU)
Giselle Nath (UGgent)
Ageing, expert knowledge, and the rise of the Dutch welfare state (1945-1957)
PhD Session V
PhD student
9
9.00 - 9.40
10
9.40 - 10.20
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
Ellen Debackere (UA) Historische Centrum
Ruben Schalk (UU)
Jan Luiten van Zanden (UU)
Pieter De Messemaeker (Ugent)
Educating for office: training white collar workers in the Netherlands between 1870 and 1935
Xiaodong XU (UL)
David Henley (UL)
Frank Ochsendorf (UL)
Trade Connection between Singapore, Johor and Riau, 1870s-1970s
PhD Session VI
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
11
9.00 - 9.40
12
9.40 - 10.20
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
Nynke van den Boomen (RU) Willibrord Rutten (SHCL)
Jeannette Kamp (UL)
Region, religion and infant death. An analysis of cause-specific infant mortality differentials in the Netherlands, 1875-1900
Paul Rotering (RU)
Angelique Janssens (RU)
Pieter De Graef (UA)
Intergenerational transmission of reproductive behavior in Sweden and the Netherlands, ca 1850-1920
10.20 - 10.50
Coffee Break
10.50 - 12.10
PhD Session VII
PhD student
13
10.50 - 11.30
14
11.30 - 12.10
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Bastian Mönkediek (RU)
Richard Zijdeman (UU)
Mark van de Water (UL)
About apples and trees: Studying parent-offspring fertility similarities over different family regimes
Yuliya Hilevych (WUR)
Eva-Maria Merz (NIDI)
Liesbeth De Strooper (EUR)
Abortion culture(s) and individuals’ personal relationships in Ukraine, 1950-1970
PhD Session VIII
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
15
10.50 - 11.30
16
11.30 - 12.10
Historisch Centrum
Ophelia Ongena (UGent)
Marijn Molema (UL)
Lilianne Laan (TU/e)
National and regional tensions in Belgian economic politics after the Second World War (1950-1980). An integrated analysis of economic thought,
institutions, organizations and policy
Ariette Dekker (RUG)
Joost Jonker (UvA)
Joris van den Tol (UL)
Biography Anton Kröller (1862-1941)
PhD Session IX
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
17
10.50 - 11.30
18
11.30 - 12.10
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
Kim Overlaet (UA)
Peter Hoppenbrouwers (UL)
Tineke Van Gassen (UGent)
The importance of extended family reconsidered. Care of the elderly in sixteenth-century Mechelen
Jelle Versieren (UA)
Sven Steffens
Sandra de Pleijt (UU)
The transformation of labour in the ceramic industry. The nineteenth century evolution of the wage rate, wage differentials and cost accounting
in Maastricht’s factories
12.10 - 13.30
Lunch Break
13.30 - 14.50
PhD Session X
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
Room
???
19
13.30 - 14.10
20
14.10 - 14.50
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
Nicolas De Vijlder (UGent)
Tim Soens (UA)
Britt Denis (UA)
Manors, manorial accounts and land transfers in the Early Modern Southern Low Countries. A Short note on their legal and institutional context
Filip Van Roosbroeck (UA)
Peter Koolmees (UU)
Alberto Feenstra (UvA)
Mirage or reality: state policy and its effectiveness during the rinderpest epizootic of 1769-1785
PhD Session XI
PhD student
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
Chair
???
Room
22
14.10 - 14.50
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
Wouter Heijveld (EUR)
Joost Jonker (UvA)
Kate Ekama (UL)
Government strategies on North Sea oil and gas. Do The Netherlands fit the Noreng/Andersen model on government strategies where the
North Sea oil and gas industry is concerned?
Dirk Koppenol (EUR)
Dirk Jan Wolfram (RUG)
Stephanie Kerckhofs (KU Leuven)
The decision making process preceding Maasvlakte 2
14.50 - 15.10
Room Change and Coffee in the rooms
21
13.30 - 14.10
15.10 - 16.40
Research Session IV
Chair
People, Space & Places in History in the Middle Ages
Theme: Results and new directions from recent PhDs
Paul Brusse (UU) / Tim Soens (UA)
Room
Speakers
Room 3, Fryske Akademy
1. Roos van Oosten (UL) - Looking for the dawn and the end of the cesspit era
2. Eline Van Onacker (UA) - Leaders of the pack. Village elites and social structures in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Campine area
3. Anita Boele (UU) - 'If anyone sees his brother in need…' Cultural expectations about family and community responsibilities to the poor (the
Netherlands, 15th-17th century)
Research Session V
Chair
Theme: Colonialism / Postcolonialism?
Marlou Schrover (UL)
Speakers
1. Peter Meel (UL) - The Surinamese Javanese diaspora
2. Petra Boudewijn (RUG) - Blurred copies: Eurasians in Dutch colonial and postcolonial literature
3. Idesbald Goddeeris (UL) - Postcolonial Belgium
Social History of Communities II
Room
Historisch Centrum
Research Session VI
Chair
Drivers and Carriers of Globalisation
Theme: Upscaling Global History: Major Research projects from conception to provisional outcomes
Room
Speakers
Torsten Feys (UGent)
Room 2, Fryske Akademy
1. Catiá Antunes (UL) - Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western
Europe and the Ottoman Empire (ERC Grant) / Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period (NWO VIDI)
2. Herman de Jong (RUG) - Pessimism and prosperity. The welfare paradox of interwar Europe in a global perspective (NOW VICI)
16.40 - 17.30
Diploma Ceremony, Closing and Drinks

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