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Thursday February 25th

Amphimax – Room 414

1.30pm-2pm: Registration (in front of room 414, Amphimax)

2pm-2.15pm : Conference Opening: Prof. Alain Clémence, Dean of the SSP Faculty, University of Lausanne

2.15pm-2.30pm: Introduction: Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, History Department, University of Lausanne

1.  Family, kinship, networks – 2.30pm-5.30pm

Chair: Jon Mathieu (University of Lucerne)

2.30pm-3.30pm :

  • John Padgett (University of Chicago) : Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage and Family in Florence, 1282-1494
  • Stéphanie Ginalski (University of Lausanne) : Business Elites and Family Networks : The Case of the Swiss Metallurgy Industry During the 20th Century

3.30pm-4pm : Coffee break

4pm-5.30pm :

  • Christine Fertig (University of Münster) : Class Society and Social Networks in Rural Society : Peasants, Day Labourers and Their Family Strategies (19th century Westphalia, Northwestern Germany)
  • Cristina Munno (University of Venezia) : Les réseaux de parenté spirituelle entre familles et communautés. Outils d’analyse des dynamiques sociales dans la Vénétie du XIX siècle
  • Hilde Bras (Free University of Amsterdam) : Developments in Kin Networks Using Data of Witnesses at Marriage: The Netherlands, 1812-1940

7.30pm: Conference Dinner

Friday February 26th

Amphimax – Room 414

2. Methods – 9am-12pm

Chair: Laura Bernardi (University of Lausanne)

9am-10.30am :

  • Martin Everett (School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester) : Two mode techniques for social network analysis
  • Klaus Hamberger (CNRS, EHESS, Paris) : Analyzing Extended Kinship Networks with Puck
  • Lothar Krempel (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln) : Networks Visualization

10.30am-11am : Coffee break

11am-12pm :

  • Claire Lemercier (CNRS, IHMC-ENS, Paris) : Networks in Time and Space
  • Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (University of Ljubljana) : Analysis of Large Two Mode Networks

12pm-2pm: Lunch break

3.  Networks, mobilization, social movements – 2pm-4.30pm

Chair: Arnaud Bringé (INED, Paris)

2pm-3pm :

  • Mario Diani (University of Trento) : Network Analysis and Social Movements
  • Sandro Guzzi-Heeb (University of Lausanne), Pascal Cristofoli (EHESS, Paris) and Arnaud Bringé (INED, Paris): Parenté, réseaux sociaux et organisation politique dans une vallée alpine

3.pm-3.30pm : Coffee break

3.30pm-4.30pm :

  • Carola Lipp (University of Göttingen) : Soziale Netzwerke in der politischen Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland
  • Florence Passy (University of Lausanne) : Multiple Paths Leading to Political Altruism

7.30pm: Conference Dinner

Saturday February 27th

Amphimax – Room 414

4. Social networks and economic elites – 9am-11.30am

Chair: Gerarda Westerhuis (University of Utrecht)

9am-10am :

  • Mark Mizruchi (University of Michigan) : The Decline of the American Corporate Elite
  • Felix Bühlmann (University of Lausanne, FORS), Thomas David (University of Lausanne), André Mach (University of Lausanne),  and Gerhard Schnyder (King’s College London) : The Swiss Business Elite (1980-2000): How the Changing Elite Composition Explains the Decline of the Company Network

10am-10.30am :  Coffee break

10.30am-11.30am

  • Paul Windolf (University of Trier) : The German-Jewish Economic Elite (1900 – 1933)
  • Cyril Grange (CNRS, Centre Roland Mousnier) : Réseaux d’affaires et réseaux familiaux : le cas de la banque privée juive à Paris au XIXe siècle

11.30am-1.30pm: Lunch break

5. Cultural networks –  1.30pm-4.30pm

Chair: François Vallotton (University of Lausanne)

1.30pm-2.30pm

  • Martin Stuber (University of Bern) : Les réseaux savants de Haller et de la société économique de Berne
  • René Sigrist (Observatoire de Paris) and Eric D. Widmer (University of Geneva) : Collaborative Networks Among Botanists in the 18th Century Europe : the Master-Discipline Relation

2.30pm-3pm : Coffee break

3pm-4pm :

  • Renate Pieper (University of Graz) : Network Analysis of Early Modern Transatlantic Communication : a Challenge
  • Frédéric Rebmann (University of Lausanne) : The Transformation of the Swiss Extra-Parliamentary Commissions Networks (1910-2000) : Independent Expert Committees or Corporatist Bodies ?

4pm-4.30pm : Conclusion: Thomas David, IHES, University of Lausanne

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