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Working papers

Thursday June 20th, 2013

BLOCK 1: SOCIAL FABRIC

Mark L. Thompson (American culture & Cultural Theory) - Resilient Subjects: Negotiating Allegiance in a Contested Colonial Territory. (abstract)

Joanne van der Woude (American Culture & Cultural Theory) - Diaspora and Suffering (Huguenots in the American colonies). (text presentation)

Margriet Fokken (Modern History) - Material culture and the affective bonds between Hindustani immigrants in Suriname, 1873-1916. (abstract)

Zweder von Martels (Latin Language & Literature) - History as correction, political protest and moral support: Groningen in the years preceding the Reduction (1594).

Marco van der Schuur (Latin Language & Literature) - Confronting Civil War under Nero: the Case of Seneca’s Tragedies and Lucan’s Bellum Civile. (abstract)

Megan Williams (Early Modern history) - Problems Papered Over? Early Modern Strategies of Paper Supply in Wartime and Economic Crisis. (abstract)

BLOCK 2: SOFT POWERS

Annette Harder (Ancient Greek Language & Literature) - Mirrors for the Athenians? The Presentation of Citizens’ Reactions to Disasters and Dilemma’s in Greek Tragedy. (text presentation)

Sabrina Corbellini (Historical Dutch Literature) - Translation as Resilience. Religious Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (abstract)

Dagmar Reichardt (Historical Romance Literature & Culture) - Giovanni Verga: Verism as Resilience. (abstract)

Bart Ramakers (Historical Dutch Literature) - Haarlem in de 16e Eeuw: het Toneelwerk van de Rederijker Louris Jansz als Instrument voor de Veerkrachtigheid van Burgers. (abstract)

Raingard Esser (Early Modern History) - ‘... te erhaldinge van alle goede frunttschap en naaburschap’: Citizens' Solidarity Across the Changing Border of the Eighty Years’ War'.

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Friday June 21st, 2013

BLOCK 3: HARD POWERS

Wim Jongman (Ancient History) - The Antonine Plague: the Beginning of the End. (abstract)

Remi van Schaik (Medieval History) - Financial crises and socio-political conflicts: an inter-urban comparison of guild movements in the early 16th century (abstract)

Dimitry Kochenov (Corporate & European Law) - The Citizenship Paradigm (abstract)

BLOCK 4A: STUDENTS ON SOFT POWERS

Julia Dijkstra (ReMa Art History & Archaeology, Groningen) - Antwerp Cityscapes as Acts of Resilience and Civic Self-Representation. (abstract)

Aaltje Hidding (ReMa CMRS, Groningen) - Forbidden Fruit: Christian Amulets as Sources of Resilience. (abstract)

Sanne Roefs (ReMa Art History & Archaeology, Groningen) - March of the Statues; Crisis in Early Quattrocento Florence and its Resilience in Art. (Full article published in Acta Historica.)

BLOCK 4B: STUDENTS ON SOCIAL FABRIC

Florence Scialom (Ma Cultural Antropology and Development Sociology, Leiden) - Alternatives to Economic Growth: Citizen Engagement in Re-Defining Measures of Progress and Re-Gaining Control of Local Economies. (abstract)

Maria van der Harst and Joan van Geel (Social Cultural Science, Nijmegen / Social Cultural Transformations, Utrecht) - Navigating Together; Key Actors in Today’s Greek Society Working their Way through the Challenges of a Crisis. (abstract)

Kirsten Poortier (Literary and Cultural Studies, Groningen) - Tactical New Media and Electronic Civil Disobedience (abstract)

BLOCK 4C: STUDENTS ON WHERE SOFT POWERS AND SOCIAL FABRIC MEET

Sjoukje Kamphorst (ReMa CMRS, Groningen) - A funeral to remember. The imagined past of the Athenian funeral oration as a source of resilience. (Full article published in Acta Historica.)

Leonie-Carlijn Groot Bramel (ReMa Art History & Archaeology, Groningen) - The construction of the black body as antitype to white society in early German advertisement . (abstract)

Alisa van de Haar (ReMa CMRS, Groningen) - The Comeback of Peeter Heyns: Rebuilding a Reputation in the 1585 Antwerp Diaspora (abstract)

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