Preliminary Programme

Showing: Rural (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
H-1 RUR17 Regional Identities
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chairs: Dulce Freire, Tim Soens
Organizers: - Discussant: Sándor Horváth
Francisco Arenas-Dolz : Reshaping L’Horta’s Landscape: Experiences in Education for Rural Development around the Farinós Mill
Javier Calatrava : The Role of Farming Systems in Rural Tourism: Evolution (1965-2015) and Perspectives of Agro-tourism in Mountainous Areas of South-eastern Spain
Claus K. Meyer : Between Serene Beauty and “Dens of Infamy:” the Plantation Landscape, the Argument over Slavery, and the Regional Identity of the Antebellum South
Krisztina Slachta : The Dissapeared Village. The Process and Reasons of the Depopulation of the Village ‘Gyurufu’ in the Hungarian Countryside in 1971
Ira Spieker : Contact Zones. Constructing Identity in the Polish-Czech-German Border Region



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
H-2 RUR16 Improving Cash Crops
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Tim Soens
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Laurent Brassart : The Emperor’s Sheep: a Merinisation Plan for Europe (1800-1815)
Sanjukta Ghosh : Agricultural Improvement, Technology and Indigenous Sugar Business: Colonial India 1880-1930
Gabriel Jover-Avella, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora : Labour-demand Seasonality, Geographical Mobility and Family Reproduction in a Mediterranean Agrarian System: Majorca, 1650 – 1700
Mats Morell : Enclosures, Land Use Changes, Productivity and Demographic Development. The Case of Västmanland County, Central Sweden
Piet van Cruyningen : Land and Water, Institutions and Investments: Agriculture in the Dutch Coastal Provinces, c. 1400-1800



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
H-3 RUR15 Famines and Food Supply
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Ewout Frankema
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Richard W Hoyle : The Famines of 1586-87 and 1595-97 in England and Extreme Weather’
Piotr Miodunka : The Subsistence Crises of the 18th and First Half of the 19th Centuries in Rural Societies in Southern Poland
Kostadis Papaioannou, Michiel de Haas : Weather shocks, social upheaval and cash crops: Evidence from colonial tropical Africa.
Friederike Scholten : Landlords as Rational Investors? Grain Storage of Manorial Estates (Rhineland and Westphalia, 18th and 19th Centuries)



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
H-4 RUR14 Connecting Spaces: Transport, Technical Change, and Social Impacts, 1850-1920
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: History of Science & Technology , Rural Chair: Eduardo Beira
Organizer: Ellan Spero Discussant: Ellan Spero
Marta Felis Rota : A GIS Analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Densities in England and Wales, 1851-2000
Nancy Koppelman : Hierarchies of Energy on the Streets of New York: Movement by Machine as Social Capital, 1868-1903
Peter Meyer, Intan Hamdan-Livramento & Julio Raffo : Aeronautical Patents and Aviation History from 1880-1916
Bruno Navarro, Hugo Silveira Pereira : Building Railways in the Portugese Colonies of Africa and India: the Mormugao and Ambaca Railways
Robert Schwartz : Railways, Environmental Change, and Public Health in Great Britain, 1850 to 1914



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
H-5 RUR13 Agriculture in Modern World History
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Ray Hurt Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto, Miguel Cabo, Bruno Esperante & Beatriz Corbacho : The New Genetics of ODH Maize from America to Europe (1918-1940)
Catherine Higgs : Historicizing South Africa's Green Revolution: Land Alienation and Land Reform, 1913-2013
Ray Hurt : The Green Revolution in Latin America: Success and Failure
Siming Wang : Growing in Declining and Declining in Growing. Chinese Agricultural Development since 16th Century



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
H-6 RUR10 The Interweaving of Countryside and Town. Rural Textile Industries in the Premodern Period
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Urban Chair: Tim Soens
Organizers: Ruben Menten-Plesters, Jim van der Meulen Discussant: Tim Soens
Christof Jeggle : Shifting Locations. Producing and Labelling Linen in Preindustrial Westphalia
Victoria López Barahona, José Nieto Sánchez : Textile Manufactures between Town and Countryside. The Case of Early-modern Madrid and New Castile
Ruben Menten-Plesters : Urban and Rural Interactions regarding the Textile Industry in Roman Egypt
Jim van der Meulen : Cloths of a Thread. The Nature of the Draper in the Rural Textile Industry of the Flemish Heuvelland (16th Century)



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
Y-7 RUR07 State Intervention in Post War Rural Scandinavia
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: Rural Chair: Mats Morell
Organizer: Anna R. Locke Discussant: Mats Morell
Thomas Christiansen : Danish Post War Agricultural Politics: Promoting and Directing the Export of Butter and Bacon
Martin Dackling : Instead of Marriage? Sibling Farm Partnership in 20th Century Sweden
Anna R. Locke : Planning the Rural Future – Regional Agricultural Surveys in Sweden 1948-50



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
E-8 SOC05 The Landless and Social Inequality in the Early Modern Countryside
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Raisa Maria Toivo
Organizers: Riikka Miettinen, Ella Viitaniemi Discussants: Jonas Lindström, Raisa Maria Toivo
Sofia Maria Gustafsson : A Military Career as Means for the Landless to Obtain Land and Skills on the Early Modern Finnish Countryside
Riikka Miettinen : The Position and Opportunities of the Landless Labourers in the Early Modern Swedish Countryside
Mercè Renom : The Food Market System in Catalonia Eighteenth Century and its Effects on Economical Redistribution on Local Level
Merja Uotila : Poor or Wealthy? Rural Artisans’ Social Stratifications in Early Nineteenth-century Finland
Ella Viitaniemi : Assistant Pastors and Social Status in the 18th Century Swedish Realm


I-8 RUR02 Energy in the Countryside, 1860-1960: Domesticating Energy on the Canadian Rural Homestead, and in the Cottages, Farms and Country Houses of Rural England
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Networks: History of Science & Technology , Rural Chair: Mona Gleason
Organizer: Ruth Sandwell Discussants: -
Abigail Harrison Moore : Specifying Energy Use in a Rural Setting: a Case Study of Phillip Webb at Standen
Michael Kay, Graeme Gooday : Electrifying the English Country House: Modern Energy and Communications in a Rural Setting
Ruth Sandwell : “‘An Almost Perfect Illuminant:’ Kerosene Lighting in Rural Canada, 1859-1940.”
Karen Sayer : Energy Transitions in the Farms and Cottages of Rural England, 1920-1960



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
G-9 ELI08 Aggressive Peasant Elites: Nordic Countries Compared, c. 1570-1650
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Rural Chair: Kimmo Katajala
Organizer: Ulla Koskinen Discussant: Kimmo Katajala
Knut Dørum : Peasants and Political Culture in Norway c. 1540–1660
Mats Hallenberg : A State of Aggression: War and Peasant Elites in Sixteenth Century Sweden
Johan Holm : The Rebellion as Part of a Statebuilding Process: the Swedish Case
Ulla Koskinen : Nuisance to their Neighbours, Asset to their Community - Western-Finnish Wealthy Yeomen as Bullies and Local Leaders, 1620-30’s
Tiina Miettinen : Trade and Power Struggle in Västerbotten and Ostrobothnia. Three Generations in Power: Fordell and Grubbe Families


H-9 RUR11a Thinking about the Social Dynamics. The Recomposition of Social Structures in the European Countryside (I)
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Rosa Congost
Organizer: Gérard Béaur Discussant: Rosa Congost
Gérard Béaur : Measuring the Changes in the Social Structure through the Marriage Contracts. The Countryside of Chartres (France), 1731-1790
Fabrice Boudjaaba : Social Reclassifications and Family Cultures: Farmers facing Urbanization (Ivry sur Seine 18-19th Centuries)
Thomas Brennan : Credit and Financial Power in Rural Champagne
Wouter Ronsijn : Developments in the Social Structure of Flemish Rural Society: Focus on the Eighteenth Century



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
G-10 ELI09 Noble Decline: A European Perspective
Aula 4, Nivel 0
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Rural Chair: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Organizer: Mark Rothery Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Henry French : Noble Decline in Britain and Ireland: a European Perspective
Daniel Menning : How to remain a Significant Landed Elite? Germany's southwestern Nobility 1870-1939
Olwen Purdue : Ulster 'Lords of the Manor': Landed Elites, Protestant Identity and Partition in Early Twentieth-century Ireland
Mark Rothery : “England Changing Hands”: Land Sales in England 1918-1921 and the Decline of English Landed Society in a European Context


H-10 RUR11b Thinking about the Social Dynamics. The Recomposition of Social Structures in the European Countryside (II)
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , Social Inequality Chair: Gérard Béaur
Organizer: Rosa Congost Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Josep Colomé Ferrer : Rabassaires: Consolidation and Crisis of a Social Model in Southern Europe Viticulture in the Nineteenth Century
Antonio López Estudillo : Agrarian Change, Social Transformations and Inequalities in two Catalan Wine-growing Villages in the 18th and 19th Centuries: the Rabassaires of Rubí and Castellbisbal
Antonia Morey, Gabriel Jover : Composition, Levels of Wealth and Social Status of the Large Tenants. Mallorca (16th to 20th Centuries)
Manoela Pedroza : Customs, demands and stratagems on Royal land: Property rights, conflicts and demands between ‘interlopers’ and landowners (Fazenda Real de Santa Cruz Estate, Brazil, 1761 – 1822)
Rosa Ros, Rosa Congost, Enric Saguer : Unearthing Silent Social Changes. The Emergence of Intermediate Social Groups in a Rural Society: the Region of Girona in the 18th Century


K-10 ECO20 Demesne Farming and the Agency of Large Landownership in Medieval and pre-Modern Europe
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Networks: Economic History , Middle Ages , Rural Chair: Vicent Baydal
Organizer: Frédéric Aparisi Discussant: Tim Soens
Frédéric Aparisi, Ferran Esquilache : Valencian Demesnes in the Bottom Line: Management, Production and Commercialization (13th-18th Centuries)
Branimir Brgles : Development of Demesne Lordship in Croatian-Slavonian Kingdom in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Nicolas Schroeder : Management of Demesne Land in Southern Belgium and Luxembourg, 1000-1300 AD
Alexis Wilkin : Boon Work and Exploitation of the Demesne in Early and High Middle in Eastern Belgium



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
H-11 RUR08 The Impact of Wars on Agriculture, Food and Landscapes
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Yves Segers
Organizers: Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle Discussant: Yves Segers
Dries Claeys : The Restoring of the Countryside in Flanders after the First World War
Sophie Elpers : The Reconstruction of Farmhouses in the Netherlands during and after the Second World War – between Tradition and Modernization
Laura Eskens, Sara Mispoulier : Agro-food Policies after the First and Second World War in Belgium
Yelda Kaya : Soldiers, Farmers and Consumers: Effects of Second World War on Land Reform Politics in Turkey
Christine Strotmann : Bombs and Fertilizer: Nitrogenous Fertilizers from Wartime Ammunition Facilities



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
K-12 RUR01 Assessments of Food Intake, Food Intake and Height at the Local, Regional and National Level
Aula 8, Nivel 0
Networks: Family and Demography , Rural Chair: Niccolò Mignemi
Organizers: Laurent Herment, Laurent Heyberger Discussant: Niccolò Mignemi
Brian A'Hearn : The Anthropometric History of the Mediterranean World
Ulf Christian Ewert : Food Production and Rural-urban Differentials in Nutritional Status: the Case of Early-industrial Saxony
Hector García Montero : Height, Food and Inequality in Rural Central Spain, 1765-1840
Laurent Heyberger : Stature, Nutritional Availabilities and Population Censuses in 19th-century Algeria: a Calling into Question of the Classic Vision of Demographic History



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
H-13 RUR06 Rural Planning in Modern Europe
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Daniel Brett
Organizer: Liesbeth van de Grift Discussants: -
Katja Bruisch : The Muddy Side of Modernity: Peatland Reclamation in 20th Century Russia
Fátima Ferreira, Natália Oliveira; Jorge Mano Torres : Corporatism and Agriculture in the North of Portugal: os Grémios da Lavoura (Farmers Guilds) (1939-1974)
Elizabeth Jones : Staging Agricultural Improvement: Wasteland Reclamation in Germany, 1880-1930
Liesbeth van de Grift : Rural Planning in Northern Sweden


Y-13 RUR18 Fatal Flaws of Administration? “Management of Famines” in Holland, Finland and Russia in Comparison
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: Rural Chair: Timo Myllyntaus
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus Discussant: Marten Seppel
Jessica Dijkman : Managing Food Crises in Early Modern Holland
Tuomas Jussila : The Great Finnish Famine and the Municipal Reform of 1865
Lari Rantanen : The Finnish Senate and the Famine Disaster of 1867-1868 in International Context



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
H-14 RUR05 Rural Commons and Collective Agrarian Practices in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Alp Yücel Kaya
Organizers: Alp Yücel Kaya, Yücel Terzibasoglu Discussant: Yücel Terzibasoglu
Dilek Akyalçin Kaya : Marshlands around Lake Lapsista in the Late Nineteenth Century: Entrepreneurs, Landholders, Sharecroppers and Fishermen
Selçuk Dursun : The Fishing Weirs (Dalyans) of Lake Karla: Property Rights and Artisanal Fishing in Thessaly in the Nineteenth Century
Fatma Öncel : Legal and Social Contestations over Pastures in the Late Ottoman Empire
M. Erdem Ozgur, Sule Gunduz : Property and Commons in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Economic Thought



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
H-15 RUR04 Land Reform: from the State to the Village, or the Village to the State?
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Tymofii Brik
Organizers: Juan Carmona, James Simpson Discussants: -
Camilla Audia : Land Tenure and Social Organisation. Exploring Linkages and Patterns in Northern Burkina Faso
Juan Carmona : Too Many Workers or Not Enough Land? Why Land Reform Failed in Spain in the 1930s.
Irina Marin : Outcomes of Land Reform across a Triple Frontier
Socrates Petmezas : The Implementation of Land Reform in Greek Thessaly (1917-1940)


N-15 LAB23 Women's Work in Rural North-west Europe, 1400-1800: New Approaches and Evidence
Aula 11, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Jonas Lindström
Organizer: Jane Whittle Discussant: Maria Ågren
Rosemarie Fiebranz, Jonas Lindström : The Verb-oriented Method: a New Approach to the Women’s Work in Rural Europe
Charmian Mansell : Exploring the Lives of Female Servants through Church Court Depositions: Patterns of Work and Employment in South-west England, 1560-1640
John Styles : Spinning with Arthur Young 1768-90: the Employment of Women and Children in Rural England
Lies Vervaet : Female Harvest Labourers in Coastal Flanders (15-16th Century)
Jane Whittle : Using Incidental Evidence from Court Depositions to Document Women’s Unpaid Work in Rural England, 1500-1700



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
H-16 RUR03 Horses in Changing Societies, 19th and 20th C.
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Rural Chair: Karen Sayer
Organizers: Gianpiero Fumi, Carin Martiin Discussant: Karen Sayer
Gianpiero Fumi : Scientists, Experts, Public Policies and their Impact on Horse Husbandry in Italy, 1860s-1920s
Susanna Hedenborg : Horses in Changing Societies: Work Mate and Leisure Pursuit
Laurent Herment : French equine, breeds and spread in French agriculture


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