Preliminary Programme

Showing: room S (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
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



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



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



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
S-12 WOM12 Women and Power
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Nagata
Stefan Amirell : The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson : Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky : Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility



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)



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


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