Preliminary Programme

Showing: room H (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
H-7 ECO22 The Causes and Consequences of Women’s Empowerment
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Corinne Boter
Organizer: Selin Dilli Discussants: Vellore Arthi, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Andrea Bardyn : Crediting Women. Credit Markets, Gender Inequality and Economic Growth in Late Medieval Brabant
Selin Dilli, Auke Rijpma : Economic Development and Gender Equality Revisited: is there a U-Shape or Do Institutions Explain it all?
Susana Martínez-Rodríguez : "Duena y Senoras". Women-partners of Spanish Multiownerfirms in Spain, 1886-1936
Ana Tur Prats : Family Types and Intimate-Partner Violence: a Historical Perspective



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
H-8 ECO22b Merged with 22a: The Causes and Consequences of Women’s Empowerment II
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
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
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



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
H-12 SOC23 Equal in Death? Practices for Posterity and Performance of Social Differences in Early Modern Europe
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Mikael Alm
Organizer: Jonas Lindström Discussant: Dagmar Freist
Christoffer Åhlman : Making Her, Making Him: Gender Ideals in Funeral Sermons from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Alexander Engström : Pompa Funebris - Staging, Performance and Commemoration of Nobility in the Funerary Culture in Seventeenth Century Sweden
Jonas Lindström : ‘I ring the bell when I want to’: Social Stratification among Early Modern Peasants as seen in Burial Practices
Beverly Tjerngren : What Portends the Bell’s Toll? Social Differences in a Local Parish Made Evident at a Child's Burial



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



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)



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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