Thursday, 10 May
Registration from 12.30pm
13.00-13.30 Introduction
13.30-15.15 Spatial Patterns
Comment: Lutz Raphael (University of Trier)
Chair: Beate Althammer (University of Trier)
Douglas Brown (King's College London): New Geographies of the New Poor Law in England and Wales
Mel Cousins (Caledonian University, Glasgow): Spatial Patterns of Poor Relief in Ireland, 1800-1914
Hans-Christian Petersen (University of Mainz): Who Owns the City? Possibilities and Limits of Creating Social Spaces ‘from below’ – St. Petersburg and London in Comparison (1840-1914)
Christiane Reinecke (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg): Geographies of Poverty: Representing Marginality in Urban Space in West Germany and France, 1960-1990
15.15-15.45 Coffee
15.45-17.30 Rural Areas
Comment: Josef Ehmer (University of Vienna)
Chair: Tamara Stazic-Wendt (University of Trier)
Sonja Matter (University of Bern): "Neither Efficient nor Humane?" Social Welfare Practices in Rural Central Switzerland in the Early 20th Century
Elisabeth Grüner (University of Trier): Precarious Living in Times of Economic Boom. A Microperspective on Rural Poverty in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
Susanne Hahn (University of Trier): "Structurally Weak" and "Backwards"? - Rural Areas in the Poverty-Policy Debates of the 1950s and 1960s
Marcel Boldorf (Ruhr-University Bochum): Social Welfare in Rural Brandenburg. Local Studies between the Legacy of World War II and the Rise of GDR-State Socialism
17.30-18.00 Coffee
18.00 Keynote
Serge Paugam (EHESS): Filiation, Organic Participation and Citizenship: Social Ties and Norms of Poverty Policies in Modern Welfare Regimes.
Friday, 11 May
9.00-10.45 Languages of Poverty
Comment: Gabriele Lingelbach (University of Bamberg)
Chair: Inga Brandes (University of Trier)
Paul André Rosental/Elodie Richard (ESOPP): Assistance and Protection of 'Vulnerable Populations': A Lexicometric Comparative Project
Hubertus Jahn (University of Cambridge): Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in their Own Words
Dorothee Lürbke (University of Freiburg): Seen with their Own Eyes: Self-Presentations of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950 - 1975
Andreas Gestrich/Daniela Heinisch (German Historical Institute London): “… They sit for days and have only their sorrow to eat”. Old Age Poverty in German Pauper Narratives
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-13.00 Unemployment
Comment: Matthias Reiss (University of Exeter)
Chair: Susanne Hahn (University of Trier)
Tamara Stazic-Wendt (University of Trier): An Unbearable Social Existence. The Unemployed in (Rural) Poor Relief (Germany, 1918-1933)
Irina Vana (University of Vienna): The Unemployed and those Ineligible for Further Assistance. The Re-Assessment of Unemployment and Material Needs in the Process of the Establishment of Public Labour Offices (Austria, 1918-1938)
Elizabeth A. Scott (University of Saskatchewan): Unite Idle Men with Idle Land: The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905 – 1908
Wiebke Wiede (University of Trier): The Poor Unemployed. Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany 1964–90
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.30 Vagrancy and Homelessness
Comment: Sylvia Hahn (University of Salzburg)
Chair: Elisabeth Grüner (University of Trier)
Beate Althammer (University of Trier): Controlling Vagrancy. Germany, England and France, 1880-1914
Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna): Tramps on Trial (Austria, 1920-1938)
Tehila Sasson (UC Berkeley): The Politics of Home: Homeless Families and Public Welfare in Post-War Britain
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.45 Pauper Children
Comment: Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University)
Chair: Jens Gründler (IGM Stuttgart)
Katharina Brandes (University of Trier): Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892-1914
Ernst Guggisberg (State Archive Thurgau/ University of Basel): Reducing Poverty Starts with Children: the Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor (Armenerziehungsvereine) in the 19th/20th century
Friederike Kind-Kovacs (University of Regensburg): Save the (Hungarian) Children: WW I as a Trigger of Children's Social In/Exclusion
Nicoleta Roman (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History): Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in the first half of the 19th Century
17.45-18.15 Coffee
18.15 Keynote
Steve King (University of Leicester): Why are the ‘Unworthy’ not Excluded from Poor Relief?
19.45 Dinner in the Library of the German Historical Institute
Saturday, 12 May
9.30-11.15 Institutions
Comment: Peter King (University of Leicester)
Chair: Katharina Brandes (University of Trier)
Jens Gründler (IGM Stuttgart): Care and Control. How Families Used Asylums, Glasgow 1875-1920
Tanja Rietmann (University of Bern): Detaining the Non-Criminal Poor. Coercive 19th and 20th Century Welfare Policies Towards Socially Deviant Men and Women in Switzerland
David R. Green (King's College London): Working the System: Pauper Communities and Plebeian Spaces in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London
Christina Vanja (Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen): The Juvenile on the Margins of Society – Public Education in Reformatories in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.30 Final Discussion