Conference Programme for Monday 13 September
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| 9.30 - 11.00 | Registration and coffee | |||||
| 11.00 - 13.00 | 1.1 Approaches through landscapes
Chair: Angus Winchester Tom Williamson: The origins of 'champion' landscapes in midland England: new evidence from Northamptonshire Brendan Chester-Kadwell: Farms and routeways in the High Weald Lies Vervaet: The estate management of the Bruges Saint John’s hospital before and after the Black Death: a geographical analysis |
1.2 Uses of natural resources in the Kingdom of Valencia
Conveners: Vicent Royo Peréz and Frederic Aparisi Romero Chair: Vicent Royo Perez Frederic Aparisi Romero: Uses of natural resources in the Kingdom of Valencia in the 13th to 15th centuries Vicent Baydal Sala and Ferran Esquilache Martí: Production, trade and use of salt in the 13th to 15th centuries Vicent Royo Pérez: The incidence of livestock in the organization of agrarian landscape in the village of Culla in the 15th Century |
1.3 The family farm
Chair: Ernst Langthaler Richard Paping: The transfer of farms in a Dutch commercial rural society from the 16th to the 20th century Ann Grubbström and Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Estonian family farms in transition: generational change and gender Ann Catrin Östman and Pirjo Markkola: Gendering land reforms: the early twentieth-century land question from the perspective of masculinity |
1.4 Anti-productivist agriculture: organicism and gardening
Chair: TBA Erin Gill: Anti-science bias and New Age religion in the early Soil Association: how the post-war British organic movement amplified its alienation from mainstream farmers and agricultural scientists Brunhilde Bross-Burkhardt: Development and practice of organic gardening in Germany since 1945 Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: Re-ruralisation: urban farming and the comeback of gardens in the urban and rural space Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz: Nature as resource: everyday life and socialisation during the twofold transition at the end of the 20th century in eastern Germany: ethnological perpectives on the conflict around sustainable methods of production |
1.5 Improvement
Chair: Mats Morell Laura Sayre: Agromanie: crisis, improvement and agricultural enthusiasm in Western Europe from the 18th century to the present Daniel Reupke: Credit markets in the 19th-century countryside: a comparative study in a rural border region Heather Holmes: The agricultural correspondent and Scottish agricultural periodicals and newspapers 1800-50 |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | |||||
| 14.00 - 15.30 | 2.1 CORN III/IV Round table: Rural Economy and Society in Northwestern Europe 500-2000, I Conveners: Leen Van Molle and Erik Thoen Chair: John Chartres Erik Thoen: A new comparative rural history of the North sea Area. Concept, goals and methodology of the four-volume project Bjørn Poulsen, Leen Van Molle, Yves Segers in collaboration with the other members of the book editorial board: The agro-food market: production, distribution and consumption. |
2.2 Commons and faux-commons Chair: Henry French Angus Winchester and Ellie Straughton: Defining the Commons: shifting legal conceptions of common land in England and Wales since c.1600 Bill Shannon: 'Sometymes on one mosse and sometimes on another': true intercommoning in early modern Lancashire Richard Hoyle: Stinted pastures in Craven: neither common nor enclosed |
2.3 Sources and experiences Chair: Nicola Verdon Natalie Joly: Shaping records on the farm? Farmers' diaries from the 19th-century to the present Ildikó Asztalos Morell: Experiencing collectivisation and decollectivisation in rural women's and men's life histories Yukari Shimizu: 'Drawing archives' as personal history describing early modern rural Japan |
2.4 Property rights, social inequality, and agrarian change in southern Europe, I Convener and Chair: Julie Marfany Rosa Congost and Sebastià Villalon Studying social groups and social inequality in a world of small and medium family farms. The example of eighteenth-century Catalonia Bélen Moreno: Measuring inequality: inventories post mortem as a source for studying inequality in pre-industrial societies Antonio López Estudillo: The evolution of inequality in the Campiña of Córdoba in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: preliminary findings |
2.5 New green spaces: landscapes of remembrance, recreation and reconstruction in twentieth-century England and Wales Convener: Clare Griffiths Chair: Paul Brassley Keith Grieves: Commemorating the fallen in open spaces Clare Griffiths: Democratic parklands: writing golf courses into the English landscape Keith Halfacree: Getting it together in the countryside? Revisiting artistic back-to-the-land experiments of the 1970s |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea | |||||
| 16.00 - 18.00 | 3.1 CORN III/IV Round table: Rural Economy and Society in Northwestern Europe 500-2000, II Conveners: Leen Van Molle and Erik Thoen Chair: TBA Thijs Lambrecht, Eric Vanhaute, Isabelle Devos in collaboration with the other members of the book editorial board: Making a living: family, income and labour Bas van Bavel, Richard Hoyle in collaboration with the other members of the book editorial board: Social relations, property and power |
3.2 Oral history and the history of forests Chair: Carin Martiin Rosemarie Fiebranz: 'I never liked doing housework': a discussion on intersections of norms, made visible by a woman doing men's work in forestry in mid-20th century Sweden Maria Vallström : Father's little helper: the construction and contradiction of gender, place, and modernity in a Swedish lumberjack village, 1950-75 Ruth Tittensor: Using oral methods to understand rural change (Scottish afforestation) |
3.3 Dynamics in land use and animal husbandry in Sweden Convener: Jesper Larsson Chair: Janken Myrdal Per Lagerås: Long-term changes in land-use according to pollen data Anna Dahlström: Short- and long-term changes in grazing intensity 1600–1850, applications for current biodiversity Jesper Larsson: The rise and expansion of transhumance in Sweden 1550–1850 |
3.4 Property rights, social inequality, and agrarian change in southern Europe, II Convener and Chair: Julie Marfany Gabriel Jover: Agricultural intensification and changes in the farm demand for daily-labourers in seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Son Costa farm, Majorca Island Enric Tello and Marc Badia-Miró Patterns in inequality of land ownership and changes in land use in the province of Barcelona in the mid-19th century Rui Santos: Social stratification and the hierarchy of agrarian contracts in southern Portugal, from the early modern period to the mid-twentieth century |
3.5 Exploring farming styles
Convener: Dr Ernst Langthaler Chair: Peter Moser Discussant: Paul Brassley Dr Ernst Langthaler: Exploring farming styles: theory, methods, sources Ulrich Schwarz: Exploring farming styles: analysis of an Austrian farmer's journal, 1940s to 1980s Rita Garstenauer and Sophie Kickinger Exploring farming styles: analysis of farm records in two Austrian regions, 1940s to 1980s |
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| 18.30 - 19.30 | Launch of CORN Volume IV, Rural economy and society in north-western Europe, 500-2000: social relations, property and power – Bas van Bavel and Richard Hoyle (eds), in collaboration with Stefan Brakensiek, Piet van Cruyningen, Christopher Dyer, Mats Morell and Nadine Vivier; and reception sponsored by Brepols Publishers in Bramber House Conference Centre, Second Floor | |||||
| 19.30 | Dinner (cafeteria-style) | |||||
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| 20.30 - 21.30 |
4.1 Rural New Zealand Tom Brooking and Tom Isern Learning from the Lindis: toward a new regional history in the New Zealand High Country Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson Empires of grass: how a reconsideration of the transformation of New Zealand’s grasslands aids our understanding of rural history in Britain’s farthest flung colony Chair: Liz Griffiths |
4.2 Agrarian change and crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 Speaker: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos Chair: Bas van Bavel |
4.3 China's agricultural history studies in historical perspective Speaker: Siming Wang Chair: Ted Collins |
4.4 Feeding the World: connecting Europe and Asia, 1930-45 Speakers: Patricia Clavin and Sunil Amrith Chair: Margreet van der Burg |
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