Conference Programme for Wednesday 15 September
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| 9.00 - 11.00 | 11.1 The active peasant: changing the rural world, 1250-1350 Convener: Christopher Dyer Chair: Ben Dodds Christopher Dyer: English peasant agriculture in an age of crisis Miriam Muller: Communal identity, peasant agency and lordship Phillip Schofield: Peasants and litigation in the manor court |
11.2 Captain Swing's other spaces Convener: Carl Griffin Chair: Peter Jones Carl Griffin: Swing in the 'city': alien presences and phantasmagoria Rose Wallis: 'What a phantom they contrived to conjure': the spectre of Swing and the Somerset magistracy Iain J. M. Robertson: Putting Swing in its space: beyond orthodoxy in rural Gloucestershire Katrina Navickas: Swing in the North: incendiarism and agricultural machine-breaking in northern England, 1812-34 |
11.3 Co-operation in rural society, IV
Convener and chair: András Vári Debra Reid: The National Federation of Colored Farmers: constructing self-segregated networks during the 1930s Frederik Eriksson: Co-operatives, corporatism and politics: agrarian organisations and the Swedish Right during the 1940s Johan Eelland: The seeds of the nation: rural co-operatives and the formation of an agrarian ideology in Estonia at the turn of the 20th century |
11.4 Images of the peasant in Germany, the United States, and Austria Convener: Gesine Gerhard Chair: Jonathan Harwood Gesine Gerhard: The image of the peasant in West Germany: 'spongers off the state' or 'threatened species'? Frank Uekötter: The American Way: US Farming as a transatlantic myth Ulrich Schwarz: The image of the peasant in Austria: guidance in times of change or repository of antiquated moral virtues? |
11.5 Famine and village society: the response of Kami-shiojiri, Japan to the Great Famine in the Tenpo period Conveners: Moto Takahashi and Hiroshi Hasebe Chair: Peter Spufford Moto Takahashi: Kin relationships and families in Kami-shiojiri: with a contrasting parallel study of Willingham, Cambs., UK Hiroshi Hasebe: Famine, crises and mutual aid in Kami-shiojiri Futoshi Yamauchi: The effect of bad harvests in Kami-shiojiri on landholding and land use Kouki Iwama: The provisions against bad harvests in Kami-shiojiri: a case study of the Eizoku-ko after the bad harvests of the 1830s |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee | ||||
| 11.30 - 13.00 | 12.1 The active peasant: changing the rural world, 1350-1550 Convener: Christopher Dyer Chair: TBA Frederic Aparisi Romero: Peasants in action. Political leadership and economic dynamism in the rural communities of the Valencian country during the fifteenth century Hipolito Rafel Oliva Herrer: Peasant agency, politics and the boundaries of the political community in late medieval Castile Ben Dodds: Tithe, subsistence and commercialisation |
12.2 New institutions in Mediterranean Europe Chair: Socrates Petmezas Raluca Mușat: The 'model village' of Dioști: sociologists and the future of the Romanian countryside Paolo Tedeschi: New institutions for agrarian development: the Cattedre Ambulanti di Agricoltura in Lombardy during the early decennia of the 20th Century Elisabeth Kontogiorgi and Dimitris Panagiotopoulos: Land reform and the rural settlement of refugees in Greece during the inter-war period: the role of the agriculturalists |
12.3 State assistance and self-help in the English village Chair: Jeremy Burchardt Samantha Shave: The impact of Sturges Bourne's Acts (1818 and 1819) in rural southern England Shaun Morley: Social provision in a rural community: the network of voluntarism in Whitchurch, Oxfordshire 1834–1900 Nick Mansfield: Paternalistic consumer co-operatives in rural England, 1870-1930 |
12.4 Agricultural research, peasant farming and the Green Revolution Convener: Joseph Morgan Hodge Chair: Jules Pretty Jonathan Harwood: Do development programmes learn from experience? Experts reflect upon the weaknesses of the first generation of Green Revolution programmes Joseph Morgan Hodge: The British 'School' of Tropical Agriculture: approaches, debates and legacies Mark Tauger: Soviet famines, agricultural research, and the Green Revolution |
12.5 Migration and occupational structure in modern Japan: rural society and the industrialising economy in the pre-war period
Convener: Masayuki Tanimoto Chair: Chiaki Yamamoto Penelope Francks: Understanding Japanese rural history in a comparative context: from surplus labour to the labour-intensive path of development Masayuki Tanimoto: Trends and patterns of migration in rural Japan: an analysis of movement notifications from an agrarian village Shinji Sugayama: Migration and career formation among young male workers from rural areas: evidence from physical examinations for conscription |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.00 - 17.00 | 13.1 Round table: conceptualising 'class' in the English countryside Convener and chair: Carl Griffin Alun Howkins, Steve Hindle, Peter Jones and Andy Wood |
13.2 Choices and changes: sharefarming in a global context Convener: Liz Griffiths Chair: Mark Overton Liz Griffiths: Sharefarming in England and New Zealand: a 21st century perspective Rui Santos: For a diversified approach to sharecropping: a comparative framework Annie Antoine: Revisiting French sharecropping from the medieval period to the mid-20th century Jennifer Holt: Farming to halves in the north-west of England Benedita Câmara: Landlord's choice between agricultural contracts in an entail of Madeira in the 19th century |
13.3 Enquiries, agrarian interests and response to economic change in the Atlantic world, c.1860-1900 Convener: Nadine Vivier Chair: TBA Peter Gray: The development of official knowledge about Irish rural society in the 19th century Ingrid Henriksen: The parliamentary enquiry report in Denmark 1896 Alp Yucel Kaya: Searching for economic and administrative reforms: the enquiry of 1863 in the Ottoman Empire James Simpson and Juan Carmona: Enquiries in Spain Nicola Verdon: Agricultural reports on the household budgets and living standards of agricultural labourers' families, 1864-1914 |
13.4 Fascism and rural modernisation revisited Conveners: Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, and Juan Pan-Montojo Chair: Zsuzsanna Varga Ernst Langthaler: Fascism and modernity revisited: the case of agricultural development in German-annexed Austria, 1938-45 Daniel Lanero Táboas and André Tabuada Casteleiro: The Portuguese 'Estado Novo': programmes and hindrances for agrarian modernisation (1932-1974) Ana Cabana Iglesia and Alba Díaz Geada: Agrarian technicians and the modernization of agriculture in Francoist Spain (1936-1975) Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Juan Pan-Montojo: Fascism and modernity in the European countryside: a reconsideration Tatsushi Fujihara: 'Erbhofgesetz' in Manchukuo: a case study of the acceptances of the NS agricultural ideology by the Japanese Empire |
13.5 Expert knowledge in twentieth-century agriculture Chair: Jules Pretty Jan Roobrouck: Promoting agricultural progress through science in Belgium (1944-1995) Gabriel Söderberg: Science and scale: application of knowledge in 20th-century Swedish agriculture Jovica Lukovic: Peasants: an anti-modernist class? Introducing expert knowledge to Yugoslav agriculture, 1918-1941 Yves Segers: Agricultural science and the establishment of a knowledge network in Belgian Congo, 1908-33 Margreet van den Burg: Rice Research for Global Food Security, Stability and Welfare: 50 years of International Rice Research Institute, IRRI, Philippines |
| Sessions break for tea when appropriate | |||||
| 17.15 - 18.00 | 14. Launch of the European Rural History Society in the Chichester Lecture Theatre, chaired by Paul Brassley | ||||
| 18.00 - 19.15 | 15. Plenary lecture in the Chichester Lecture Theatre: 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 | ||||
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