26.11.
Panel 1: Structural Economic Transformations in Comparative
Perspective
- Werner Abelshauser (Bielefeld): Germany after the Miracle: A Return to
Normality?
- Martin J. Daunton (Cambridge): Floating and Inflation: The Political Economy
of Domestic Institutions and the International Economy in Britain, 1971-1979
- Norbert Götz (Helsinki): „We Don’t Move!“: 1968, 1973 and the Fall of
the Swedish Model
(Comment: Jeroen Trouwen, Leiden)
Keynote Lecture
The Break Down of the Western World Order in the 1970s through the
Retrospect Lenses of the Collapse in 2008
(Bo Stråth, Helsinki)
27.11.
Panel 2: The Search for Remedies to Problems of Work and
Unemployment in the Seventies
- Bernhard Rieger (London): The Crisis at Volkswagen
- Antoine Capet (Rouen): „The British Worker Has Priced Himself out of a Job“:
Full Employment and the „Culture of Work“ in 1970s Britain
- Gustav Sjöblom (Göteburg): Mainframe Computing and the Transformation of
Business Practices in Sweden
(Comment: Lutz Raphael, Trier)
Panel 3: Beyond Utopias: Expectations of the Future in
Societies of Work during the Seventies
- Rüdiger Graf (Bochum): A Transformation of Politics? Oil and
Energy-Politics in West Germany and Great Britain in the 1970s
- Elke Seefried (Augsburg): Towards the Limits to Growth? Future Studies in
West Germany and Britain
- Jens Ljungren (Lund): The (Re)invention of the Future: The Conception of
Time in Post-war Swedish Political Debate
(Comment: Holger Nehring, Sheffield)
Panel 4: Politics of Education in Societies of Work
- Wilfried Rudloff (Kassel): Conflicting Aims and Shifting Priorities in
the Crisis Years of Social-Democratic Educational Politics
- Jenny Andersson (Paris): Human Capital Policy in Sweden: From Man Power to
Brainpower
- Michaela Brockmann, Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch (London): Skilled Versus
Qualified Labour: Convergence and Divergence in Vocational Educational
Training in Britain and Germany in the 1970s
(Comment: Cornelia Rauh, Hannover)
28.11.
Panel 5: The Expansion of Consumerism During a Period of
Economic Problems
- Fernando Esposito (Tübingen): Lose your Illusions. Punk, Rebellion
and Advanced Consumerism
- Orsi Husz, Helena Matsson (Stockholm): Between Idealism and Materialism.
Changing Discources of Consumption in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s
- Alex Mold (London): Illegal Drugs and the Consumer in 1970s Britain
(Comment: Frank Trentmann, London)
Panel 6: The Changing Role of Families in the 1970s
- Hans Bertram (Berlin): Three Revolutions: Continuity and Change in
Family Development in Germany
- Hilary Land (Bristol): The 1970: The Beginning of the End of the British
Male Breadwinner Model
(Comment: Andreas Gestrich, London)