Programme at a glance

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 1.2 Uses of natural resources in the Kingdom of Valencia 1.3 The family farm 1.4 Anti-productivist agriculture: organicism and gardening 1.5 Improvement
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 2.1 CORN III/IV Round table: production, distribution and consumption: the agro-food market in north-western Europe, 500-2000 2.2 Commons and faux-commons 2.3 Sources and experiences 2.4 Property rights, social inequality and agrarian change in southern Europe, I 2.5 New green spaces: landscapes of remembrance, recreation and reconstruction in twentieth-century England and Wales
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 18.00 3.1 CORN III/IV Round table, continued 3.2 Oral history and the history of Forests 3.3 Dynamics in land use and animal husbandry in Sweden 3.4 Property rights, social inequality and agrarian change in southern Europe, II 3.5 Exploring Farming Styles
18.30 - 19.30 Reception sponsored by Brepols Publishers and launch of the first volume in the series, Rural Economy and Society in NorthWestern Europe, 500–2000
19.30 Dinner (cafeteria-style)
  Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
20.30 - 21.30 4.1 Rural New Zealand 4.2 Agrarian change and crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 4.3 China's agricultural history studies in historical perspective 4.4 Feeding the World: connecting Europe and Asia, 1930-1945

Tuesday 14 September

Room 103 Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
9.00 - 11.00 5.1 Animals 5.2 Food shortages in pre-industrial Europe 5.3 Co-operation and rural society, I. The economic functioning of rural co-operatives: bridges over social fissures or new cleavages? 5.4 The balance between city and countryside, the Netherlands, 1700-1860 5.5 Agricultural export trade, land tenure and town-country relations: south-east Europe, the Black Sea and the Aegean (1840s-1930s)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 6.1 Anglo-Saxon rural landscapes 6.2 Can we talk about an 'industrious revolution' in southern Europe? 6.3 Co-operation and rural society, II. Catalyts of rural mobilisation: co-operative movements with national or religious backgrounds 6.4 Transnational networks of learning: new ways of knowledge production by farmers and agronomists in the 19/20th century 6.5 Perspectives on technical change in agriculture
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 7.1 Poverty in rural societies in southern Europe 7.2 British landowners in the eighteenth century 7.3 Co-operation and rural society, III. Unequal partners: national elites and localised peasantries in the co-operative movement 7.4 Communal properties and agrarian collectivism in the north-west of Spain (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). Communal tradition, development and alternatives for the future 7.5 Aspects of agricultural productivity in western Europe, 1800-2006
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.00 8.1 The tragedy of the forests 8.2 Innovation and productivity in Italian agriculture 8.3 Meeting of the Inter-War Group 8.4 Fictional representations 8.5 Egyptian rural history
17.45 - 19.00 9. Plenary lecture: Bruce Campbell, Agriculture and national incomes in Europe, c.1300-1850 - chaired by John Chartres (past President, British Agricultural History Society)
19.30 Dinner (cafeteria-style)
  Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
20.30 - 21.30 10.1 A new social order: changing U.S. agricultural practices in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1945-2000 10.2 Biological innovation the new explanation of agricultural growth: a longue-durée perspective of European agriculture from Roman times to the Agricultural Revolution 10.3 Rural elites, local power and rural capitalism: state of the art and perspectives for comparative research 10.4 Rural movements and the transition to democracy in Spain

Wednesday 15 September

Room 103 Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
9.00 - 11.00 11.1 The active peasant: changing the rural world, 1250-1350 11.2 Captain Swing’s other spaces 11.3 Co-operation in rural society, IV. 11.4 Images of the peasant in Germany, the United States and Austria 11.5 Famine and village society: the response of Kami-shiojiri, Japan to the Great Famine in the Tenpo period
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 12.1 The active peasant: changing the rural world, 1350-1550 12.2 New institutions in southern Europe 12.3 State assistance and self-help in the English village 12.4 Agricultural research, peasant farming and the Green Revolution 12.5 Migration and occupational structure in modern Japan: rural society and the industrialising economy in the pre-war period
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 13.1 Round table: conceptualising 'class' in the English countryside 13.2 Choices and changes: sharefarming in a global context 13.3Enquiries, agrarian interests and response to economic change in the Atlantic world, c.1860-1900 13.4 Fascism and rural modernisation revisited 13.5 Expert knowledge in twentieth-century agriculture
  Sessions break for tea when appropriate
17.15 - 18.00 14. Launch of the European Rural History Organization, chaired by Paul Brassley
18.00 - 19.15 15. Plenary lecture: Jules Pretty, Sustainability in agricultural and rural systems: recent history and future challenges - chaired by Alun Howkins (President, British Agricultural History Society)
19.45 - 20.15 Reception
20.15 Conference Dinner

Thursday 16 September

Room 103 Room 104 Room 107 Room 202 Room 203
9.00 - 11.00 16.1 Law courts and contracts in the European countryside c.1300-c.1860: I 16.2 Property rights 16.3 Markets in butter, cheese and beef 16.4 Economic organisation processes and politicisation in European rural societies (c.1850-1940), I 16.5 Winners and losers in the modernisation of the countryside in the late twentieth century
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 17.1 Law courts and contracts in the European countryside c.1300-c.1860: II 17.2 The Scandinavian bonde - a challenge to the peasant/farmer dichotomy? 17.3 Agricultural development and colonisation 17.4 Economic organisation processes and politicisation in European rural societies (c.1850-1940), II 17.5 How local are local foods? Historical approaches to ‘new’ terroir products
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 18.1 Law courts and contracts in the European countryside c.1300-c.1860: III 18.2 New approaches to labour 18.3 Drink and Farming in the Modern World   18.5 Museums and movements in the Belgian countryside
16.00 - 16.30 Tea
16.30 Conference closes
   
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