Poster session presentations will present individual research projects. Wall-display presentations will give all congress participants the opportunity for quick, direct exposure to new themes. Poster-session participants will be allowed a 20-minute presentation of their projects.

Organiser: Arve Thorsen, Norway, e-mail: a.t.thorsen@hi.uio.no

Programme

Tuesday, 8 August, 09:00-17:00

Building D, Auditorium 2

• Sigridur Mathiasdottir, Iceland: "The Construction of Nationality and Gender in Iceland 1890-1939"
• Ruth Hemstad, Norway: "Scetches of a Pan-Scandinavian Ideology 1840-70"
• Frank Meyer, Norway: "What is the Difference between a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede?"
• Helge Danielsen, Norway: "Unionism or Nationalism? Concepts of Nationhood among Conservatives in Norway and Sweden 1885-1905".
• Preston Martin Perluss, USA: "Urban Habitat Economy and Daily Life ; Recreating Neighbourhood. Environments from the Vantage of Monastic Communities".
• Elena Dubrovskaya, Russia: "Russian Garrisons in Finland During World War I"
• Ekaterina Pavrilova, Russia: "Legality and Human Rights: Administrative Justice in Imperial Russia"
• Liliane Reynard, France: "Afficher ou taire ses ambitions: Snorri le Godi et Guillaume le Maréchal"
• Martin Dedman, UK: "Revisiting the process of European Integration: The Study of Failures and Lessons Form History?"
• Sverrir Jacobsson, Iceland: "The Icelandic World View 1100-1400"
• Yukari Takai, Japan: "Migration, Family, and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts 1900-1920"
• James F. Sleight, USA: "Developing New Models for Academic Peer Review: H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Karsten Borgmann, Germany: "Starting an H-Net Mailing List in Europe: Experience with Academic Networking in German Speaking Environment"
• Ibrahima Thioub, Senegal and Melvin E. Page, USA: "H-Net's African Connectivity Project: Building Resources and Bridging Barriers to Scholarly Research and Teaching"

Wednesday, 9 August, 09:00-17:00

Building D, Auditorium 2

• Elize S van Eeden, A.B. De Villiers (Geography) and Dr. L.E. Stoch (Geological expert and local inhabitant of Carletonville), South Africa
  "Mines, people and sinkholes – an analysis of the Carletonville Area in South Africa as case study regarding the national politics of secrecy"
• Maia Wellington Gahtan, USA: "The Abstract Notions of Past, Future and History in Italian Renaissance Culture"
• Tony Griffiths, Australia: "Scandinavia in the Eyes of an Australian"
• Yitzchak Kerem, Israel: "The Deterioration of Salonikan Jewry in the 1930s Prior to the Holocaust"
• Keith Dyrud, USA: "Life Magazine Declares the Cold war: 18 march 1946"
• William Wei and Susan Wei, USA: "The Struggle for Democracy in Hong Kong"
• Walter L.Hixton, USA: "Cultural Infiltration and the Collapse of the Cold War",
• Arve T.Thorsen, Norway: "The Gospels of the Fatherland ; Confession and National Thought in France and Germany in the 'Belle Epoque'"
• Hilda Rømer Christensen, Denmark: "Women's Organisations in Britain, Denmark and Germany"
• Edith Shaked, USA: "From Oriental to Occidental; the Jewish Identity & Community in Tunisia. The End of One of the Oldest Jewish Minorities in Tunisia 1881-1967"
• Bonny Ibhawoh, Nigeria: "Historizing the Human Rights Discourse. History, Culture and Human Rights"
• Bela Tomka, Hungary: "The Development of the Hungarian Banking in International Comparison 1880-1931"
• Svetoslav Stefanov og Nikola Robev, Bulgaria: "The Doomed Peninsula: Confronting National Stereotypes in the Balkans From the Enlightenment until the Second World War"

Thursday, 10 August, 09:00-17:00

Building D, Auditorium 2

• Joseph Gahama, Burundi: "Ethnicity and democratisation process in the Great Lakes region"
• Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan, Nigeria: "The Travails of History in a Third World Dictatorship: Nigeria Under the Military (1983-1998)"
• Peggy Anne Phillips, USA: "Migration, Photography and Popular Family History"
• Caoimhin P.O Feargail, USA: "Taking Some of the Guess Out of Historical Guesswork; Application of Geographic Information Systems in Historical Research"
• May Lunde, Norway: "Ethnicity of Kven Immigrants (Norwegian Finns) from Northern Norway in American Society"
• Radmila Slabakova, Czech Republic: «Europe de la noblesse multiethnique du XIXe siècle, vue par l'intermédiaire de sa langue»
• Lorenzo Fabbri, Italy: "The Magnificent Arbitrator: Lorenzo de Medici and the Patrician Families in Florence"
• Ibrahim Abdullah, South Africa: "Youth Culture, Rebellion and Violence in Post-Colonial Africa"
• Margareth McDonough Glenn, Australia: "The Uses and Misuses of History and the Responsibility of the Historians, Past, and Present"
• Mona Renate Ringvej, Norway: "Democratic Ideology of Fifth-Century Athens; Freedom of Speech or Consensus?"
• Ragnheidur Kristjansdottir, Iceland: "Nationalism and Communism in Iceland 1919-43"
• Jane Mitta, Australia: "The Influence of Count Birger Morner on the Australian Immigration Debate: 1906-1910"

Friday, 11 August, 09:00-17:00

Building D, Auditorium 2

• Girija Pande og Shekhar Pathak, India: "Annals of a Crumbling City; The City of Nainital"
• Dag Avango, Sweden: "Swedish Prospecting and Mining in Svalbard 1900-1934"
• Eric Flury-Dasen, Switzerland: "Swiss diplomatic Documents on the Internet: opportunities and disadvantages of a new way of publishing". Website: Swiss diplomatic Documents on the Internet
• Ilja Solomesch, Russia: "Image of Neighbour: the Karelian Question in the 20th Century European Context"
• Lize Kriel, South Africa: "A Contest for Converts? Missionary Rivalry in a Divided Community, Northern South Africa, Late 19th Century".
• Annette Richardson, USA: "War and the 'Schooling' Experience During the 20th Century",
• Alexander Sperl, Austria: "Letters of Noble Women, Relations and Relationsystems"
• Nils Johan Ringdal, Norway: "Gay History -Theory and Politics"
• Michael Margolis, USA: "Using the Internet for Teaching and Research: Benefits and Dangers for Established Western Universities"
• Kåre Bævre, Norway: "Norwegian Cohort Emigration"
• Kai Østberg, Norway: «La révolution; un progrès de civilisation? L'évolution des moeurs et des attachements chez les habitants d'Aix-en-Provence 1775-1815»
• Cawley St.Clair Bolt, Jamaica: "Rev. Edwin Palmer: Black Victim of Colonial Terrorism"
• Willem Erauw, Belgium: "Writing Global History in the Year 2000. Narrative Representation Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Theories of History"
• Kees Ribbens, The Netherlands: "Popular Historical Culture in the Contemporary Western World: A Case Study from the Netherlands"
• Knut Kjeldstadli, Norway: "Norwegian Immigration History"