Preliminary Programme

Showing: Rural (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
S-1 RUR01 Common Rules. The Functioning and Regulation of Institutions for Collective Action at the European Countryside
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Angus Winchester
Organizer: Tine De Moor Discussant: Guido Alfani
Francisco Beltrán Tapia : Collective Resources, Human and Social Capital: The Emergence of Agricultural Cooperatives in Early 20th Century Spain
Jose Miguel Lana : Neighborhood Rules: Natural Resources, Belonging and Regulation in Northern Spain before 1850
Claudio Tagliapietra : Evolving Rules in the Commons: an Empirical Analysis of the Regulation in the Italian Alps 1200-1800
René Van Weeren, Tine De Moor : The Carrot and the Stick. An Exploration into the Sanctioning of Freeriders on the Dutch Commons in the Early Modern Period.



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
S-2 RUR03 Changing Water Uses, Flood Control and Conflicts
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Stefan Brakensiek
Organizer: Andras Vari (1953-2011) Discussant: Stefan Brakensiek
Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset : Fighting against floods
Piet van Cruyningen : Changing Property Relations and Ecological Sustainability in the Southwest of the Netherlands, c. 1500-1700
Milja van Tielhof : Conflicts around the Maintenance of Sea Dikes in the early Modern Period. A Comparison of Major Sea Dikes in the Northern Netherlands, Germany and Flanders
Nadine Vivier : “Ordinary” Floods in the 19th Century France: Events and Preventive Actions



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
S-3 RUR02 The Countryside and the Moral Economy
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizer: Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
John Broad : A Hertfordshire Farmer's Response to the Crisis of Poverty and Inflation during the Napoleonic Wars - John Carrington, Small Capitalist and Poor Overseer
Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths : ‘Just, Faithfull and Laudable Advancement’: The Le Stranges of Hunstanton and their Attitude to Estate Management, 1605-1655
Briony McDonagh : Propertied Women and the Moral Economy of the English Landed Estate
Manoela Pedroza : The Moral Economy of the Land Lease (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19th Century)



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
H-4 LAB15 Commercial Agriculture and Labor Relations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Lars Olsson : Landowning, Tenancy and Labor Relations in the English Northatlantic Economy in the 17th Century
Maria Papathanassiou : Rural Labour, Gender and Social Hierarchies: Peasants’ Wives and Female Rural Servants in Austria during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century
Dionicio Valdés : Primitive Accumulation and the Birth of Commercial Agriculture in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District on the US-Mexico Border, 1840-1930


S-4 RUR04 Power, Actions and Mass Movements in Western Europe Countryside in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860)
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Brassart : Power, Social Dynamics and Political Change in the Northern France Rural Protest during the French Revolution
Domenico Cecere : The Language of Complaints, Grievances and Riots. Political Issues of the Peasant Movements in Calabria (1760-1770).
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb : New Perspectives and New Questions in the Studies about Social Movements in the Alps (18th and 19th Centuries)
Frédéric Vesentini : Power and Rural Populations in Belgium during the 1845-48 Crisis



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
S-5 RUR07 Seeking Solutions to Rural Problems: Science and Social Life
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Technology Chair: Mats Morell
Organizer: Catharine Wilson Discussant: Mats Morell
Raluca Musat : Gender and Rural Transformation: Peasant Women in 1930s Romania
Ruth Sandwell : “Read, Listen, Discuss, Act: the Farm Radio Forum as an Experiment in Adult Education, Rural Activism and the Creation of a Modern Rural, 1940-1980”
Paul Vickers : Polish Memoir Sociology: Peasants' Memoirs of Settling the Former-German Territories of Post-war Poland
Catharine Wilson : The Complicated Side of Neighbourhood: When Communal Work and Good Intentions End in Disaster



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
S-6 RUR14 European Agriculture, Feeding the World and Fed by the World
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Pedro Lains
Organizer: Vicente Pinilla Discussant: Pedro Lains
Paul Brassley : European Agriculture since World War 2: Technical Change in South-west England 1940-1985
Peter Moser : Access to the Lithosphere – A Crucial Key for a better Understanding of Aricultural Productivism in Western Europe after WWII
Vicente Pinilla, Miguel Martín-Retortillo : The Transformation of the European Agriculture, 1950-2005



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
S-7 RUR16 Round Table: Historicising Farming Styles: an Actor-Centred Approach to Rural History
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Theory Chair: Paul Brassley
Organizers: - Discussants: Stefan Brakensiek, Rita Garstenauer, Ernst Langthaler, Peter Moser, Ulrich Schwarz


X-7 ECO08 Agricultural Development
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paola Avallone : Innovations in Credit Services in Pre-unification Southern Italy
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Sharecropping Contracts and Conflicts. The Yunteros' Land Invasions in 1930' Spain



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
S-9 RUR09 Dowries or Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside? Social and Economic Effects of Familial Choices and Legal Choices
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Tiphaine Barthelemy : Dowries, Preciputs and Gifts to the Newmarried Children: Comparative Cases Studies about Peasants and Noble Families in Brittany (19th-20th Centuries)
Gérard Béaur : Dowries in Chartres Countryside and their Effects on Society and Economy (18th Century)
Anne-Lise Head-König : The Legal Constraints on Dowries and Advances on Inheritance: Their Influence in Shaping Different Swiss Rural Societies (19th-mid 20th Century)
Laurent Herment : Why People did not Provide their Children with a Dowry?
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo, Alexandra Esteves : The Dowries of Marriage of Peasant Families of Minho in the Modern Age


T-9 RUR11 Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Vicente Pinilla
Organizers: Johannes Bracht, Michael Kopsidis Discussant: Vicente Pinilla
Johannes Bracht : Demesne Production, 'Grundherrschaft' and Leasehold Tenancy – Manorial Economy and Agricultural Development in Northwest Germany, 1550-1900
Michael Kopsidis : Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c. 1870-1940 reinterpreted
Pedro Lains : Agricultural Productivity Growth in the Iberian Peninsula, 1830-1914
Yücel Terzibasoglu, Alp Yucel Kaya : Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Land Organisation in the Hinterland of Bursa in the Mid-19th Century



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
S-10 RUR10 Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Changes
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rosa Congost : Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Change
Richard Paping : ‘Making a Living of their Own’. Succession, Inheritance and Child Career Strategies of Households in the Dutch Rural Economy in the 18th and 19th Century
Ofelia Rey Castelao : Female and Male Dowries in Galicia (Spain): Tierra de Santiago in XVIII Century
Rosa Ros : Transformations in Women's Position in a Single Heir System: Dowries and Widowhood-usufruct in the Girona Region (Catalonia), 1750-1860
Albert Serramontmany : Dowries and Socioeconomic Grups: An Example of Use of an Indicator of Social Groups’ Wealth in a Rural Proto-industrial Area. The Besalú corregimiento, 1771-1841


T-10 RUR13 Landscape, Agriculture and the Environment between the Wars
Maths Building: 325
Network: Rural Chair: Rien Emmery
Organizer: Jeremy Burchardt Discussant: Rien Emmery
Jeremy Burchardt : Landscape, Preservation and Community in Berkshire (UK), 1900-50
Andrew Jackson : ‘”Homes fit for heroes”’?: The planning and design of inter-war council-estate housing in the countryside and on the urban fringe’.
John Martin : The Impact of Game Shooting on Agriculture and the Rural Environment (1918-39)
Tom Williamson : Farming and the Environment in Interwar Britain



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
N-11 SPA10 Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Alistair Geddes
Organizers: - Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall : Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain : Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson : Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Kenneth Sylvester : Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl
Nigel Walford : The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England


S-11 RUR08 Peasant and the Market: Between Accumulation, Distress and Life Cycle-strategies
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Economics , Rural Chair: Miriam Muller
Organizer: Tim Soens Discussant: Miriam Muller
Frédéric Aparisi : Peasants and Markets in the Kingdom of Valencia during the Later Middle Ages
James Davis : Negotiating the marketplace: the expectations and fears of medieval English peasants
Kristof Dombrecht, Erik Thoen : The Land Market in a Changing Peasant Society during the Late Middle Ages – 16th Century: The Case of Flanders
Piotr Guzowski : Land Market and Peasants’ Life-cycle in Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Tim Soens, Eline Van Onacker & Maïka De Keyzer : Beyond the Flock. Sheep Farming, Wool Sales and Peasant Economy in the Late Medieval Campine Area (Brabant, Belgium-The Netherlands)
Lies Vervaet, Erik Thoen : Tenure and Lease Holding Payments of Peasants and Farmers in Late Medieval Rural Flanders


T-11 RUR20 Is Farming the Only Way of Providing Food?
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Richard Oram
Organizer: Ruth Tittensor Discussant: Richard Oram
Jennifer Lee : Gathering: Reconnecting with the Landscape of Our Food
Ruth Tittensor : How Can Ecology Contribute to Food Provision?
Caroline Wickham-Jones : Fear of farming?



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
F-12 RUR15 Meet the Author: Agrarian History of England and Wales
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Rural Chairs: -
Organizer: Dulce Freire Discussants: John A. Chartres, Mats Morell, Juan Pan-Montojo, Anton Schuurman, Nadine Vivier



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
S-13 RUR17 Food and Region. Towards a History of Terroir
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Ernst Langthaler
Organizer: Rengenier Rittersma Discussant: Vincent Marcilhac
Amândio Barros, Gaspar Martins Pereira : Port Wine and the Douro Region in the Early Modern Period
Marco Batignani : An Introduction to Saffron in Val d'Orcia and the Crete Senesi. Short Story of a Forgotten and Rediscovered Product (14th –21th Centuries)
Kolleen Guy : The Invention of Terroir in Champagne and Burgundy
Rengenier Rittersma : Truffle of Discord : Truffe du Périgord versus Tartufo di Norcia
Monica Truninger, Cristina Joanaz : Freshness and Democratization of Food Consumption in the Western Societies (18th- 21st Centuries)


T-13 RUR05 Corporatism in Rural Europe, 19th - 20th Centuries
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Rural Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Stéphane Le Bras Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Rien Emmery : Cruce et Aratro. The Symbiosis of Catholicism and Agrarianism in Belgium, 1919-1939
Dulce Freire : Corporatism in Portugal: institutions and modernization of agriculture during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)
Stéphane Le Bras : Protecting a Dominating Position: Corporatism in the Wine Market in Languedoc (1900s-1950s)
Jordi Planas : Agricultural cooperatives and winegrowers mobilization in Catalonia in the early twentieth century



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
S-14 RUR18 Rural History and World History
Maths Building: 204
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Roser Alvarez Klee : The Incredible Famine, 1876-1879. A Case Study of the Province of Henan
Özgür Burçak Gürsoy : Restriction of the “Poison”: Changing Agricultural Politics on Opium in Early Republican Turkey, 1923 - 1939
Richard W Hoyle : Brenner in the Atlantic World
Miriam Muller : Peasant Memory, Resistance and Community
Yves Segers : Farming in tropical Africa. The migration of Belgian farmers to Congo, 1908-1933
Bina Sengar : Rural Politics and Peasant Movements in Colonial Western India



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
S-15 RUR19 Kinship and Gender Dynamics of Farm Households in Rural Society Past and Present
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Women and Gender Chair: Hannes Grandits
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martin Dackling : From family to spouses? Property rights transformation in Sweden, 1850-1950
Patrick Heady : Close Marriages and Distinct Lives: Kinship and Gender in the European Countryside
Nancy Konvalinka : Embodied Inheritance. The Clash between Gender-Equal Inheritance and a Gender-Differentiated Division of Work in a Spanish Village Today
Ira Spieker : Foreign Territory. “Resettlers” and their Impact on the Emerging Socialist Society in East Germany (after 1945)
Laura Stark : Early Debates on Farm Women's Inheritance and Property Rights in the Finnish-language Press 1850-1870


T-15 RUR06 Technology, Modernity and Agricultural Transitions
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Rural , Technology Chair: Michael Kopsidis
Organizers: - Discussant: Michael Kopsidis
Hanne De Winter : How to Feed Crops? The Long Search for Parcel Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in Belgium (1885-1945).
Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia & Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Daniel Lanero Táboas : Agricultural Extension Programmes in Postwar Europe: A Comparative Study of Two Extreme Cases: Spain and the Netherlands (1946 - 1973)
Heather Holmes : The Diffusion of Labour Saving Technology and Technological Innovations: English Reaping Machines in Scotland 1850 to 1910
Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe : Greasing the Wheels of Rural Transformation? Margarine and the Emergence of the Danish Dairy Industry
Jens van de Maele : The Resonance of 'Silent Spring'. An Inquiry into the Reception of Rachel Carson’s Environmental Critique in Belgium and the Netherlands (1962-1963)


U-15 MAT09 The Ideology and Politics of Food
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Rural Chair: Karin Dannehl
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elena Barbulescu : All We Eat is Poisoned. Food Choices in Contemporary Transylvanian Villages. Framing the Healthy Food in Rural Transylvania
Kennan Ferguson : Cooking Steel, Eating Aeroplanes: The Futurist Cookbook and the Ideology of Food
Nathalie Parys : Construction of a National Cuisine in two Belgian 19th-century Cookbooks?



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
Z-16 RUR21 Approaches to the New Rural History
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Miguel Cabo, Araceli Freire Cedeira : Together we fight. Communitarian violence in rural Galicia, 1870-1970.
Eoin McLaughlin, Chris Colvin : Why was Raiffeisen More Successful in Some Countries than Others? Ireland and the Netherlands Compared
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen : Godparents - Methodological Questions in the Study of Social Relations in 18th and 19th Centuries’ Danish Rural Society
Leen Van Molle : Networks of Knowledge: Mapping the Agricultural and Rural Press in Belgium from the 18th to the 21st Century


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