Conference Programme for Monday 13 September

Room 103 Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
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
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
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
18.30 - 19.30 Launch of CORN Volume IV, Rural economy and society in north-western Europe, 500-2000: social relations, property and powerBas 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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