Preliminary Programme

Showing: room V (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
V-1 RUR01 Waste into Manure. The Recycling of Urban Waste in Agriculture (16th-20th Century)
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Tim Soens
Organizer: Tim Soens Discussant: Tim Soens
Pieter De Graef : The Sprawl of Urban Manure. A Micro-perspective on the Allocation and Recycling of Urban Waste in the Rural Economy of Early Modern Flanders
Sylvia Gierlinger : Pollution vs. Valuable Resource: Sewage in 19th Century Vienna
Marion W. Gray : The Berlin Rieselfelder: Intended and Unintended Consequences
Laurent Herment : 'Trash and Manure in Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century. "La société anonyme des vidanges et engrais"'.



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
V-2 RUR02 Animal Husbandry in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Production, Importance and Conceptualization in Belgium, Scandinavia and the UK
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Abigail Woods
Organizer: Carin Martiin Discussant: Abigail Woods
Maren Jonasson : Colliding Rationalities, Merging Realities: the 'Improvement' of Animal Husbandry in Finland as Depicted at Agricultural Meetings and Exhibitions 1840s to 1930s
Carin Martiin : Milk Production in Sweden from the 1860s to 1960s: Hundred Years of Different Parallel Production Systems
Karen Sayer : Perceptions of Change and the Emergence of Rural 'Modernity' in Britain 1900-2001
Yves Segers : The Influence of World War I on Livestock Improvement in Belgium, 1910-1920s



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
V-3 RUR03 History of the Emergence of the Modern Dairy Industry
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Carin Martiin
Organizers: Markus Lampe, Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp Discussant: Carin Martiin
Markus Lampe : The Productivity and Efficiency Effects of Revolutionary Change in Agriculture
Eoin McLaughlin, Ingrid Henriksen & Paul Sharp : Contracts and Cooperation: the Relative Failure of Irish Dairying Reconsidered
Paul Sharp : How the Danes discovered Britain: the Rise of the Danish Dairy Export Industry form the 1830s



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
V-4 RUR04 The Agrarian-Industrial Knowledge Society – a New Approach for a Better Understanding of the Interactions between Industrial Societies and their Agricultural Sectors
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Ernst Langthaler
Organizer: Peter Moser Discussants: Peter Moser, Anton Schuurman, Jakob Vogel, Verena Winiwarter



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
V-5 RUR05a Rhythm and Evolution of Staple Food Markets, 1650-1950 I
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Niccolò Mignemi
Organizers: Laurent Herment, Wouter Ronsijn Discussant: Niccolò Mignemi
Gerard Béaur : Speculating on the Price of Wheat in Ancien Regime France. A Good Deal?
Ingrid Henriksen : Seasonality of Staple Food Markets during the First Era of Globalization
Stephen Hipkin : The Seasonality of London’s Coastal Corn Supply in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth-centuries
Wouter Ronsijn, Laurent Herment : Provisioning Staple-food Markets in Belgium, France and England in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
V-6 RUR05b Rhythm and Evolution of Staple Food Markets, 1650-1950 II
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Eric Vanhaute
Organizers: Laurent Herment, Wouter Ronsijn Discussant: Eric Vanhaute
Jean-Michel Chevet : The operation of the “sliding scale” in England and the question of competition.
Richard W Hoyle : How are we to Understand Seasonal Movements in English Grain Prices?
Vicente Pinilla, Gema Aparicio : The Dynamics of International Trade in Cereals, 1900-1938



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
V-7 RUR07 Production and Productivity in European Agriculture C. 1700 to 1939
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Gerard Béaur
Organizers: Vicente Pinilla, Patrick Svensson Discussant: Jose Miguel Lana
Pedro Lains, Dulce Freire : The Development of Portuguese Agriculture in the Long Run, 1700-1939
Miguel Martín Retortillo, Vicente Pinilla : Productivity in the European Agriculture, 1870- 1914
Socrates Petmezas : Land Tenure Systems and Agricultural Productivity in the Southern Balkans (ca. 1870-1940)
Patrick Svensson, Mats Olsson : Total Factor Productivity in Scanian Agriculture 1700-1900



Thursday 24 April 2014 16.30 - 17.30
V-8 URB00 Network meeting Urban History
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
V-9 RUR08 Rural Factor Markets in Different Legal and Institutional Contexts. Towards a Methodological Framework
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Michael Limberger
Organizers: Nicolas De Vijlder, Michael Limberger Discussant: Markus Cerman
Frédéric Aparisi : Good Debt. The Credit Activities of the Wealthy Families in the Rural Communities of the Valencian Midlands during 15th Century
Nicolas De Vijlder : Manors, Manorial Accounts and Land Transfers in the Early Modern Low Countries. A Short Note on their Legal and Institutional Context
Eline Van Onacker : Small but Significant. The Micro-level Functioning of Markets for Land and Credit in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (The Campine area, Low Countries)



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
V-10 RUR09 Private Credit and Social Change in the Countryside.
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Gerard Béaur
Organizer: Gerard Béaur Discussant: Gilles Postel-Vinay
Thomas Brennan : Life and Debt in 18th Century Champagne
Rosa Congost : Becoming Richer through Debt: the Impact of a Reduction of Interest Rates on Humble pPople (Catalonia, 18th Century)
Ricard Garcia-Orallo : Indebted Landlords or Rentiers with a New Strategy? Landlords in Face of the Agrarian Crises of the End of the 19th Century. The Catalan Example
Arlette Schweitz, Beaur Gerard : Standard of Living and Credit in the Brie in 17th and 18th Centuries



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
V-11 RUR10 Becoming Richer, becoming Poorer: the Emergence or Decline of "Middling" Social Groups in the Countryside
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Rosa Congost
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Rosa Lluch-Bramon : Becoming Richer in Medieval Catalonia: Unfree Peasants (XIV-XVI Centuries)
Gilles Postel-Vinay : Becoming Richer, becoming Poorer through Inheritance
Enric Saguer, Rosa Ros : Beyond life-cycle, inherintance strategies and the industrious revolution. The rise of a middling social group in an Anciene Régime Society (Catalonia, 18th century)
Albert Serramontmany : Change in Southern European Rural Consumption. Besalú (Catalonia) 1750-1800



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
V-12 RUR11 Budget of Ie, Family and Household: an Empirical Historical Study for the Paralleling and Contrasting of Regions in Japan and Europe
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Moto(yasu) Takahashi
Organizer: Moto(yasu) Takahashi Discussants: Janine Maegraith, Beatrice Moring
Martin Dackling : Reinventing the Lineage: Regulation of Inherited Land in Sweden, 1850-1950
Tine De Moor, Richard Zijdeman : Making the Household Work. Non-kin Deployment as a Survival Strategy in the Early Modern Household (The Netherlands, 18th Century)
Hiroshi Hasebe : The Formation of 'Ie' and the 'Family Budget' in
Judit Klement : The Economic Role of the Family in the Second Half of the 19th Century in Hungary
Craig Muldrew : Household Income and Expenditure in English Labouring Households in the Eighteenth Century



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
V-13 RUR12 Interdependence among Rural Households: Farm Diaries, Informal Work Groups and Local Networks, 1790s - 1950s
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizer: Catharine Wilson Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Maths Isacson : Co-operation among Peasants in Sweden during Industrialization, 1890 to 1950
Mats Morell : Horizontal and Hierarchical Work Organization Explored in Peasant Diaries: 18th and 19th Century Sweden
Nicholas Van Allen : On the Farm, in the Town, and in the City: Farmers’ Lives and Community in Rural Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, 1855-1908
Catharine Wilson : The Intersections of Family and Neighbourhood: Understanding the Persistence of Reciprocal Work Using Farm Diaries: Ontario, Canada 1830-1920



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
V-15 RUR14 Global Agro-Food Histories
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Peer Vries
Organizer: Ernst Langthaler Discussant: Peer Vries
Benoit Daviron : An Ecological History of Fats used in Europe Since 1800
Ernst Langthaler : Food or Feed? Soybeans in a Globalizing World since 1870
Martine Napoléone, Jean-Pierre Boutonnet : Between the Local and the Global: which Reconfiguration within the Dairy Production Basin? A Comparative Analysis from North to South Case-Studies
Rudolph Ng : Sweetness for the World. Chinese Coolies and Sugar Production in 19th Century Latin America



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
V-16 RUR15 Lobbies and Agrarian Organizations in Europe (19th and 20th Centuries)
Hörsaal 48 second floor
Network: Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizer: Jordi Planas Discussant: Leen Van Molle
Juan Pan-Montojo : Aristocratic Landowners and Mass Politics: National Agrarian Associations in Europe, 1870-1940
Jordi Planas : Winegrowers' Lobbies in France and Spain in Early Twentieth Century
Gloria Sanz Lafuente : Food Control and Lobbies. Germany and Spain in Comparative Perspective. (End of the 1870s to the First Third of the 20th Century)


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