Networks

Chairs:

• Stefano Bellucci |  IISH, Leiden University, NL
• Cassandra Mark-Thiesen | African Knowledges and the History Public*ation, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Since interdisciplinarity constitutes the essence of African studies, and area studies more in general, the ESSHC represents a unique venue to present research on Africa, within the various subjects covered by the numerous ESSHC networks.

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Chairs:

• Bart Danon | University of Groningen, Department of History, NL
• David Lewis | University of Edinburgh, Greek History and Culture, UK
• Arjan Zuiderhoek | Ghent University, Department of History, Belgium

The Antiquity Network covers the economic and social history of all societies before the medieval era, but with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region in classical antiquity.

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Chairs:

• Nandini Gooptu | Queen Elisabeth House, Oxford, UK
• Sneha Krishnan | School of Geography and the Environment,  Oxford, UK

The Asia Network is interested in regional histories of Asia, as well as in transnational and global histories that draw attention to Asia’s positioning within larger discursive constructions and socio-historical and economic processes. 

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Chairs:

• Emmanuel Berger | ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
• Marion Pluskota | Leiden University, NL
• Sarah Wilson | York University, UK

The Criminal Justice Network explores all aspects of crime, policing, justice and punishment in all societies, but with a particular focus on the early-modern and modern periods.

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Chairs:

• Eveline Bouwers | Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany
• Heidi Kurvinen | University of Turku, Finland

The network Culture is interested in how earlier generations viewed the world they lived in and the meanings they attached to it. It probes the norms and values of past ages, examines the encounters of different peoples, analyses knowledge, and queries the rituals and material culture on which people drew. 

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Chairs:

• Sarah Carmichael | Utrecht University, NL
• Kathryn Gary | Lund University, Sweden
• Mikolaj Malinowski |  Groningen University, NL

Economic history studies from myriad angles the most elementary question of all: how mankind managed to unleash an unprecedented growth of affluence, which has been a blessing for many, a hope for many more, and a challenge for future generations. 

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Chairs:

• Johanna Sköld | Linköping University, Department of Child Studies, Sweden
• Friederike Kind-Kovacs | Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden, Germany
• Michèle Hofmann | Research Center "Historical and Comparative Childhood and Youth Studies" , University of Zürich,  Switzerland

The Education and Childhood network is open for all aspects of both the history of education and of children and childhood.  

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Chair:

• Marja Vuorinen | University of Helsinki, Social Science History, Finland

"From counter-elites to establishment to stagnation, to decline and fall."

As always, Elites and forerunners network recommends a dynamic approach to the history of elites. Elites are defined primarily as forces of societal change, not merely as holders of status and privilege or agents of stagnation. The decline and subsequent downfall of historical elites, sometimes followed by a re-emergence, also deserve attention. Elite formations can be explored across the full length of their life span and even beyond.

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Chairs:

• Marlou Schrover | Leiden University, History, NL
• Phillipe Rygiel | Université Paris I, Centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, France
• Per-Olof Gronberg | Centre for Population Studies, Umeå University, Sweden
• Linda Reeder | University of Missouri, USA

The Ethnicity and Migration network deals with sessions revolving around movement and settlement, from antiquity until today, over the whole world. 

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Chairs:

• Hideko Matsuo | Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
• Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora | Open University of Catalona & Center for Demographic Studies,  Spain
• Mikolaj Szoltysek | University of Warsaw, Poland
• Evelien Walhout | Leiden University, NL

This network addresses the lives of individuals, households, families and population in past societies using a variety of sources.  Our network also serves to discuss and develop historical methods, historiographies and the history of science and ideas related to family and demographic history.

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Chairs:

•  Lisa Hellman | Lund University
•  Megan Maruschke | Leipzig University
• Matthias Middell | University of Leipzig, Germany
• Holger Weiss |  Abo Akademi, Finland

This network encompasses all aspects of transnational, transregional, and global historical approaches. Our network also serves as a space to discuss global challenges across disciplinary boundaries and supports scholarship on and scholars from world regions other than Europe.

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Chairs:

• Ida Milne | Maynooth University, Ireland
• Ian Miller | Ulster University, Northern Ireland

This network addresses the basics of human wellbeing: health and human environment. Both fields are connected to (almost) all other fields of life, so presentations can address a wide range of health and environment related topics, including social, scientific, cultural, medical, economic, political or climate related aspects.

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Chairs:

• Görkem Akgöz | Humbold University, Berlin, Germany
• Peyman Jafari | William & Mary, USA
• Hanne Østhus | University of Oslo, Norway
• Zhanna Popova | CEU, Austria/Hungary

The Labour Network encompasses all aspects of work, labour relations and labour struggle in a global and long-term perspective, including the influence of these global developments on local cases, and vice versa. 

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Chair:

• Lucas Poy | International Institute of Social History / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL

The Latin America network brings together scholars working on all aspects of the region’s history and of its relations with other parts of the world. It is open to, and indeed encourages, inter and multidisciplinary perspectives and comparative approaches. Covering a wide range of subjects, scholars affiliated with this network explore varied historical landscapes, examining the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions that have shaped the region throughout its history.

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Chairs:

• Christine Fertig | University of Münster, Germany
• Jon Stobart | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Ilja van Damme | University of Antwerp, Belgium

Our focus in this network is on the production and consumption of material goods, and the systems of exchange, knowledge and meaning that link these together. 

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Chairs:

• Jelle Haemers | Leuven University, Belgium
• Jesús Ángel Solorzano Telechea | University of Cantabria, Spain

Nursery of society: political and socioeconomic developments in the medieval period.

The network Middle Ages focuses on the political and socioeconomic developments in the medieval period (roughly 500-1500). We welcome sessions that address social history from a comparative perspective, across country and language borders. 

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Chairs:

• Anne Heimo | University of Turku, Finland
• Andrea Strutz | LBI for Research on Consequences of War and University of Graz, Austria
• Malin Thor Tureby | Malmö University, Sweden

The Oral History and Life Stories Network brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narratives, and history. 

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Chairs:

• Izabela Dahl | Örebro University, Sweden
• Anne Epstein | University of Helsinki, Finland
• Ivan Kosnica | University of Zagreb, Croatia

The Politics, Citizenship and Nations network brings together scholars studying all aspects of the history of politics, broadly understood as both formal and informal dimensions of political activity, expression, and governance. 

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Chairs:

• Silvia Evangelisti | University of East Anglia, School of History, UK
• Tine Van Osselaer | University of Antwerp, Belgium

This network discusses all forms of spiritual beliefs and behaviour as well as practices inspired by ideologies explicitly acting against expressions of religious or spiritual engagement.

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Chairs:

• Lev Centrih | University of Primorska, Slovenia; Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana
• Davide Cristoferi | Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Harm Zwarts | Groningen University, NL

Rural History embraces economic, social, ecological, geographical, demographical, cultural and political approaches to the rural. 

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Chairs:

• Geoffrey Zylstra | New York City College of Technology, USA
• Harro Maat | Wageningen University, NL

The network studies technology and technological networks and their interactions with social and economic change.

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Chairs:

• Chiara Beccalossi | University of Lincoln, UK
• Wannes Dupont | University of Edinburgh, UK
• Andrew Shield | Leiden University, NL

The Sexuality Network brings together scholars who study the history of human sexuality in its countless varieties.

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Chairs:

• Tymofii Brik | Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
• Lynn Hollen Lees | Department of History, Collega Hall, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Marco van Leeuwen | Utrecht University, NL
• Ludwig Pelzl | Institute for Historical Studies 'Benedetto Croce' , Italy

The Social Inequality network deals with patterns and processes of social inequality, its causes and consequences globally. 

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Chairs:

• Michal Gochna |  Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Acadamy of Sciences, Poland
• Ivo Zandhuis | Ivo Zandhuis Research & Consultancy, NL
• Douwe Zeldenrust | Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, NL
• Jakub Wysmułek | Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

This network is concerned with using digital technologies to study the past. 

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Chairs:

• Stefan Berger | Institute for Social Movements, Bochum, Germany

• Kenan Van De Mieroop | Leiden University, NL

• Victoria Fareld | University of Stockholm, Sweden

The Theory and Historiography network is interested in exploring all aspects of the theory of history and the history of historiography in global perspective and with special emphasis on bridging the gap between the theory of history and the writing of history.

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Chairs:

• Jeannette Kamp | NL
• Sanne Muurling | Radboud University, NL

This network focuses on the rich subfield of urban history, operating under the premise that cities and towns - as a nexus of human interaction - serve as a helpful lens into broader social dynamics. 

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Chairs:

• Katie Barclay | University of Adelaide, Australia
• Taanya Kapoor | Oxford University, UK
• Marianna Muravyeva | University of Helsinki, Finland
• Mari Välimäki | University of Turku, Finland

The Women and Gender network addresses gender as a historically and culturally variable category that is constitutive of classifying and interpreting the social world, of organizing social and power relations, of producing knowledge (such as historical knowledge), and of shaping experiences of women and men in the past. 

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