Research Sessions 2-4

2. Session title: Challenging Central European Borders
Organizer: Elisabeth van Meer
Chair: Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast
Commentator: Valentina Fava
Papers:
- Elisabeth van Meer: Engineers without Borders? Scientific Management in Interwar Europe
- Karen Freeze: Theater Technology under Communism: Enabling an Ambassador to the West
- Jan Oliva: The Czechoslovak State and its Transport Policy Facing the New Boundaries in Central Europe (1918-1923)

3. Session title: Colonial Knowledge Exchange in European and Post-Colonial Water Management
Organizers: Wim Ravensteijn, Esha Shah and Maurits Ertsen
Chair: Donna C. Mehos
Commentator: Nil Disco
Papers:
- Maurits Ertsen: The Dutch Irrigation Regime
- Tiago Saraiva: Forests, Dams, and Colonization: The Portuguese Civilizing Mission in Africa and the Discovery of Portugal
- Wim Ravesteijn: Colonial Technology and the European Unification: The Case of Integrated River Basin Management

4. Session title: Ethnic Issues:Tensions between Traditional and Modern / Consumption in Eastern Europe
Chair: Lars Heide and Dobrinka Parusheva
Commentator: Paul Josephson
Papers:
- Milla Hannula: From Sovhozes to Tourist Resorts: The Karelian Isthmus of Russia in the 21st Century
- Dianne van Oosterhout: Transcending Ethnic Borders: European Farmer Colonies, Transmigration and Migration of Technologies in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indonesia
- Malgorzata Mazurek: No More Wasting Time: Home Economics and the Fight against Queing Up in Communist Poland, 1966-1970

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