Conference Programme for 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
Convener: Chris Briggs
Chair: Phillipp Schofield
Chris Briggs:
Courts, contracts, and rural society in medieval Europe: an overview
Jaco Zuijderduijn:
Law courts and contracts in late-medieval Holland
Xavier Soldevila i Temporal:
To live indebted in medieval Catalonia: the rural world in the bishopric of Girona, 1270-1348 		16.2 Property rights over time
Chair: TBA
José Vicente Serrão:
Property rights, land settlement and land conflict in the colonial Americas: a comparative study
Christopher Jessel:
The structure of farming in England since 1970: a legal perspective
Martin Dackling:
Landownership rights in 20th-century Sweden: revitalising an old system? 		16.3 Markets in butter, cheese and beef
Chair: Hilary Crowe
Paul Sharp, Ingrid Henriksen and Markus Lampe
The strange birth of liberal Denmark: Danish trade protection and the growth of the dairy industry in the mid‐nineteenth century
James Watson:
When food-miles really mattered: New Zealand meat exports and the First World War 		16.4 Economic organisation processes and politicisation in European rural societies (c.1850-1940), I
Conveners: Gloria Sanz Lafuente and Corinne Marache
Chair: Miguel Cabo Villaverde
Gloria Sanz Lafuente and Corinne Marache
Introduction: economic organisation processes and politicisation. Current state of research
Clemens Zimmermann:
Politicisation in German rural society 1875-1945. Internal dynamics and external drives
Antonio Herrera, David Soto and Manuel González de Molina
Socialism and agrarian issues in Spain (1890-1930)
Dulce Freire:
Local movements with national goals. Political mobilisation during the First Portuguese Republic (1910-26)
 16.5 Winners and losers in the modernisation of the countryside in the late twentieth century
Chair: TBA
Erwin Karel:
The modernisation of the Dutch agriculture system after the Second World War (1950-70)
Carin Martiin:
Ruling the rural: incorporation of the Swedish countryside into the welfare state
Korrie Melis:
Secondary education in the rural region of North-Groningen, the Netherlands, 1950s to 1990s
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 17.1 Law courts and contracts in the European countryside c.1300-c.1860: II
Convener: Chris Briggs
Chair: Tracy Dennison
Olivier Mery:
Credit registration and guarantee clauses in late medieval Provence
Lluís Sales Favà:
Credit and nonpayment in late medieval Catalonia: court proceedings of Caldes de Malavella (1330-50)
Pere Orti Gost:
Sant Feliu de Guíxols and its jurisdictional court during the 14th century 		17.2 The Scandinavian bonde: a challenge to the peasant-farmer dichotomy?
Convener: Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen
Chair: Janken Myrdal
Bjørn Poulsen:
The free bønder of Scandinavia – who were they?
Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen:
Primitive peasants or free yeomen: bønder in early modern Scandinavia
Mats Morell:
The modern bønde in Scandinavia 		17.3 Agricultural development and colonisation
Chair: TBA
Seung-Jin Chung and Takenori Matsumoto:
The Japanese Hosokawa Family Farm at a Colonial Korean Village: Its Experiences at the Obamura Village in North Cholla Province
Bina Sengar:
The villages of Marathwada transforming themselves from Maratha-Nizamat hegemony to British: perceptions of the villagers

17.4 Economic organization processes and politicization in European rural societies (c.1850-1940), II
Conveners: Gloria Sanz Lafuente and Corinne Marache
Chair: Miguel Cabo Villaverde
András Vári:
Political mobilisation and economic support for agriculture. Austria and Hungary (from the 1870s to the First World War)
Leen van Molle:
Peasants, political parties and national identities in a multilingual state: Belgium c.1880-1940
Edouard Lynch:
'The wine and the bread': the socialist co-operative movement and the politicisation of countrysides, 1890-1940 		17.5 How local are local foods? Historical approaches to 'new' terroir products
Conveners: Dulce Freire and Monica Truninger
Chair: TBA
Atle Wehn Hegnes:
Thinking and doing protected designations: a tale from the 'food specialisation' of Norway
Dulce Freire and Monica Truninger:
The qualification process of the Western Rocha Pear: inventing a 'new' terroir product?
Stefano Grando:
Non-food agricultural production and rural development. A story of success and failure from southern Italy
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 18.1 Law courts and contracts in the European countryside c.1300-c.1860: III
Convener: Chris Briggs
Chair: Chris Briggs
Piotr Guzowski:
Village court rolls and the Polish peasant economy in the late middle ages and early modern period (15th-16th centuries)
Quentin Duquesne:
'Taking disputes to the altar of concord'. Debt litigation before local judges in France: the case of some rural communities of the Dauphiné from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution (1770-1800)
Tracy Dennison:
Contract enforcement in Russian serf society 		18.2 New approaches to labour
Chair: Richard Hoyle
Joyce Burnette:
Measuring the seasonality of agricultural employment, 1740-1850
Ryutaro Mizuta:
Labour exchange and peasant economy: evidence from modern rural Japan
Jeannie Whayne:
Building it of brick and hollow tile: Lee Wilson and black labour
Johann Custodis:
Employing the enemy: the economic contribution of German and Italian prisoner-of-war labour in British agriculture, 1941-47		 18.3 Drink and farming in the modern World
Convener: John Chartres
Chair: TBA
John Chartres:
Drink versus bread and feedstuffs in Britain, c.1600-1914
Noelle Plack:
Common land, wine and the French Revolution, c.1789-1820
James Simpson:
Wine, brands and consumers: vertical coordination in the New World wine industry, 1880-1914 		  18.4 Museums and movements in the Belgian countryside
Chair: Leen Van Molle
Chantal Bisschop:
The Flemish rural movement on the move (1960s-1970s)
Rien Emmery:
The 'Year of the Village' (1978) in Flanders: scenes from a Christian-Democrat tragedy
16.00 - 16.30 Tea
16.30 Conference closes
   
< Wednesday   Participants >