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9th European Social Science History Conference Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012
 
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Wednesday 11 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 -18.30
Thursday 12 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.00 - 18.30
Friday 13 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30
Saturday 14 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30

All days


 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

S-1  -  RUR01: Common Rules. The Functioning and Regulation of Institutions for Collective Action at the European Countryside
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Tine De Moor
Chair: Angus Winchester
Discussant: Guido Alfani
Francisco Beltrán Tapia Collective Resources, Human and Social Capital: The Emergence of Agricultural Cooperatives in Early 20th Century Spain
Jose Miguel Lana Neighborhood Rules: Natural Resources, Belonging and Regulation in Northern Spain before 1850
René Van Weeren, Tine De Moor The Carrot and the Stick. An Exploration into the Sanctioning of Freeriders on the Dutch Commons in the Early Modern Period.
Claudio Tagliapietra Evolving Rules in the Commons: an Empirical Analysis of the Regulation in the Italian Alps 1200-1800

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

S-2  -  RUR03: Changing Water Uses, Flood Control and Conflicts
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Andras Vari (1953-2011)
Chair: Stefan Brakensiek
Discussant: Stefan Brakensiek
Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset Fighting against floods
Piet Van Cruyningen Changing Property Relations and Ecological Sustainability in the Southwest of the Netherlands, c. 1500-1700
Nadine Vivier “Ordinary” Floods in the 19th Century France: Events and Preventive Actions
Milja van Tielhof Conflicts around the Maintenance of Sea Dikes in the early Modern Period. A Comparison of Major Sea Dikes in the Northern Netherlands, Germany and Flanders

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

S-3  -  RUR02: The Countryside and the Moral Economy
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths
Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Elizabeth Madeleine Griffiths ‘Just, Faithfull and Laudable Advancement’: The Le Stranges of Hunstanton and their Attitude to Estate Management, 1605-1655
Briony McDonagh Propertied Women and the Moral Economy of the English Landed Estate
Manoela Pedroza The Moral Economy of the Land Lease (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19th Century)
John Broad A Hertfordshire Farmer's Response to the Crisis of Poverty and Inflation during the Napoleonic Wars - John Carrington, Small Capitalist and Poor Overseer

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

H-4  -  LAB15: Commercial Agriculture and Labor Relations
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Lars Olsson
Chair: Leen Van Molle
Discussant: Piet Van Cruyningen
Lars Olsson Landowning, Tenancy and Labor Relations in the English Northatlantic Economy in the 17th Century
Dionicio Valdés Primitive Accumulation and the Birth of Commercial Agriculture in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District on the US-Mexico Border, 1840-1930
Maria Papathanassiou Rural Labour, Gender and Social Hierarchies: Peasants’ Wives and Female Rural Servants in Austria during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

S-4  -  RUR04: Power, Actions and Mass Movements in Western Europe Countryside in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860)
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Chair: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Laurent Brassart Power, Social Dynamics and Political Change in the Northern France Rural Protest during the French Revolution
Domenico Cecere The Language of Complaints, Grievances and Riots. Political Issues of the Peasant Movements in Calabria (1760-1770).
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb New Perspectives and New Questions in the Studies about Social Movements in the Alps (18th and 19th Centuries)
Frédéric Vesentini Power and Rural Populations in Belgium during the 1845-48 Crisis

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

S-5  -  RUR07: Seeking Solutions to Rural Problems: Science and Social Life
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Catharine Wilson
Chair: Mats Morell
Discussant: Mats Morell
Catharine Wilson The Complicated Side of Neighbourhood: When Communal Work and Good Intentions End in Disaster
Raluca Musat Gender and Rural Transformation: Peasant Women in 1930s Romania
Ruth Sandwell “Read, Listen, Discuss, Act: the Farm Radio Forum as an Experiment in Adult Education, Rural Activism and the Creation of a Modern Rural, 1940-1980”
Paul Vickers Polish Memoir Sociology: Peasants' Memoirs of Settling the Former-German Territories of Post-war Poland

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

S-6  -  RUR14: European Agriculture, Feeding the World and Fed by the World
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Vicente Pinilla
Chair: Pedro Lains
Discussant: Pedro Lains
Vicente Pinilla, Miguel Martín-Retortillo The Transformation of the European Agriculture, 1950-2005
Paul Brassley European Agriculture since World War 2: Technical Change in South-west England 1940-1985
Peter Moser Access to the Lithosphere – A Crucial Key for a better Understanding of Aricultural Productivism in Western Europe after WWII

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

X-7  -  ECO08: Agricultural Development
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Juan Carmona, James Simpson Sharecropping Contracts and Conflicts. The Yunteros' Land Invasions in 1930' Spain
Paola Avallone Innovations in Credit Services in Pre-unification Southern Italy

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

S-7  -  RUR16: Round Table: Historicising Farming Styles: an Actor-Centred Approach to Rural History
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Chair: Paul Brassley
Discussant: Stefan Brakensiek
Discussant: Rita Garstenauer
Discussant: Ernst Langthaler
Discussant: Peter Moser
Discussant: Ulrich Schwarz

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

S-9  -  RUR09: Dowries or Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside? Social and Economic Effects of Familial Choices and Legal Choices
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Gérard Béaur
Discussant: Rosa Congost
Gérard Béaur Dowries in Chartres Countryside and their Effects on Society and Economy (18th Century)
Tiphaine Barthelemy Dowries, Preciputs and Gifts to the Newmarried Children: Comparative Cases Studies about Peasants and Noble Families in Brittany (19th-20th Centuries)
Anne-Lise Head-König The Legal Constraints on Dowries and Advances on Inheritance: Their Influence in Shaping Different Swiss Rural Societies (19th-mid 20th Century)
Laurent Herment Why People did not Provide their Children with a Dowry?
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo, Alexandra Esteves The Dowries of Marriage of Peasant Families of Minho in the Modern Age

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

T-9  -  RUR11: Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Johannes Bracht
Organiser: Michael Kopsidis
Chair: Vicente Pinilla
Discussant: Vicente Pinilla
Johannes Bracht Demesne Production, 'Grundherrschaft' and Leasehold Tenancy – Manorial Economy and Agricultural Development in Northwest Germany, 1550-1900
Michael Kopsidis Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c. 1870-1940 reinterpreted
Pedro Lains Agricultural Productivity Growth in the Iberian Peninsula, 1830-1914
Yucel Terzibasoglu, Alp Yucel Kaya Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Land Organisation in the Hinterland of Bursa in the Mid-19th Century

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

S-10  -  RUR10: Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Changes
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Rosa Congost
Discussant: Gérard Béaur
Rosa Congost Dowries and Advances on Inheritance in the Countryside as Indicators of Economic and Social Change
Richard Paping ‘Making a Living of their Own’. Succession, Inheritance and Child Career Strategies of Households in the Dutch Rural Economy in the 18th and 19th Century
Ofelia Rey Castelao Female and Male Dowries in Galicia (Spain): Tierra de Santiago in XVIII Century
Rosa Ros Transformations in Women's Position in a Single Heir System: Dowries and Widowhood-usufruct in the Girona Region (Catalonia), 1750-1860
Albert Serramontmany Dowries and Socioeconomic Grups: An Example of Use of an Indicator of Social Groups’ Wealth in a Rural Proto-industrial Area. The Besalú corregimiento, 1771-1841

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

T-10  -  RUR13: Landscape, Agriculture and the Environment between the Wars
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Jeremy Burchardt
Chair: Rien Emmery
Discussant: Rien Emmery
Jeremy Burchardt Landscape, Preservation and Community in Berkshire (UK), 1900-50
John Martin The Impact of Game Shooting on Agriculture and the Rural Environment (1918-39)
Tom Williamson Farming and the Environment in Interwar Britain
Andrew Jackson ‘”Homes fit for heroes”’?: The planning and design of inter-war council-estate housing in the countryside and on the urban fringe’.

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

S-11  -  RUR08: Peasant and the Market: Between Accumulation, Distress and Life Cycle-strategies
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Tim Soens
Chair: Miriam Muller
Discussant: Miriam Muller
Tim Soens, Eline Van Onacker & Maïka De Keyzer Beyond the Flock. Sheep Farming, Wool Sales and Peasant Economy in the Late Medieval Campine Area (Brabant, Belgium-The Netherlands)
Lies Vervaet, Erik Thoen Tenure and Lease Holding Payments of Peasants and Farmers in Late Medieval Rural Flanders
Frederic Aparisi Romero Peasants and Markets in the Kingdom of Valencia during the Later Middle Ages
James Davis Negotiating the marketplace: the expectations and fears of medieval English peasants
Kristof Dombrecht, Erik Thoen The Land Market in a Changing Peasant Society during the Late Middle Ages – 16th Century: The Case of Flanders
Piotr Guzowski Land Market and Peasants’ Life-cycle in Poland in the 15th and 16th Centuries

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

T-11  -  RUR20: Is Farming the Only Way of Providing Food?
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Ruth Tittensor
Chair: Richard Oram
Discussant: Richard Oram
Ruth Tittensor How Can Ecology Contribute to Food Provision?
Caroline Wickham-Jones Fear of farming?
Jennifer Lee Gathering: Reconnecting with the Landscape of Our Food

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

N-11  -  SPA10: Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate

    Network: Rural
Chair: Alistair Geddes
Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Nigel Walford The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Kenneth Sylvester Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

F-12  -  RUR15: Meet the Author: Agrarian History of England and Wales
Main Building: Randolph Hall

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Dulce Freire
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Mats Morell
Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Discussant: John A. Chartres

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

T-13  -  RUR05: Corporatism in Rural Europe, 19th - 20th Centuries
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Stéphane Le Bras
Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Stéphane Le Bras Protecting a Dominating Position: Corporatism in the Wine Market in Languedoc (1900s-1950s)
Jordi Planas Agricultural cooperatives and winegrowers mobilization in Catalonia in the early twentieth century
Rien Emmery Cruce et Aratro. The Symbiosis of Catholicism and Agrarianism in Belgium, 1919-1939
Dulce Freire Corporatism in Portugal: institutions and modernization of agriculture during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

S-13  -  RUR17: Food and Region. Towards a History of Terroir
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Rengenier Rittersma
Chair: Ernst Langthaler
Discussant: Vincent Marcilhac
Rengenier Rittersma Truffle of Discord : Truffe du Périgord versus Tartufo di Norcia
Monica Truninger, Cristina Joanaz Freshness and Democratization of Food Consumption in the Western Societies (18th- 21st Centuries)
Amândio Barros, Gaspar Martins Pereira Port Wine and the Douro Region in the Early Modern Period
Marco Batignani An Introduction to Saffron in Val d'Orcia and the Crete Senesi. Short Story of a Forgotten and Rediscovered Product (14th –21th Centuries)
Kolleen Guy The Invention of Terroir in Champagne and Burgundy

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

S-14  -  RUR18: Rural History and World History
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Roser Alvarez Klee The Incredible Famine, 1876-1879. A Case Study of the Province of Henan
Özgür Burçak Gürsoy Restriction of the “Poison”: Changing Agricultural Politics on Opium in Early Republican Turkey, 1923 - 1939
Richard W Hoyle Brenner in the Atlantic World
Miriam Muller Peasant Memory, Resistance and Community
Bina Sengar Rural Politics and Peasant Movements in Colonial Western India
Yves Segers Farming in tropical Africa. The migration of Belgian farmers to Congo, 1908-1933

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

U-15  -  MAT09: The Ideology and Politics of Food
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Rural
Chair: Karin Dannehl
Kennan Ferguson Cooking Steel, Eating Aeroplanes: The Futurist Cookbook and the Ideology of Food
Nathalie Parys Construction of a National Cuisine in two Belgian 19th-century Cookbooks?
Elena Barbulescu All We Eat is Poisoned. Food Choices in Contemporary Transylvanian Villages. Framing the Healthy Food in Rural Transylvania

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

T-15  -  RUR06: Technology, Modernity and Agricultural Transitions
Maths Building: 325

    Network: Rural
Chair: Michael Kopsidis
Discussant: Michael Kopsidis
Hanne De Winter How to Feed Crops? The Long Search for Parcel Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in Belgium (1885-1945).
Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia & Lourenzo Fernández Prieto & Daniel Lanero Táboas Agricultural Extension Programmes in Postwar Europe: A Comparative Study of Two Extreme Cases: Spain and the Netherlands (1946 - 1973)
Heather Holmes The Diffusion of Labour Saving Technology and Technological Innovations: English Reaping Machines in Scotland 1850 to 1910
Jens van de Maele The Resonance of 'Silent Spring'. An Inquiry into the Reception of Rachel Carson’s Environmental Critique in Belgium and the Netherlands (1962-1963)
Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe Greasing the Wheels of Rural Transformation? Margarine and the Emergence of the Danish Dairy Industry

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

S-15  -  RUR19: Kinship and Gender Dynamics of Farm Households in Rural Society Past and Present
Maths Building: 204

    Network: Rural
Chair: Hannes Grandits
Martin Dackling From family to spouses? Property rights transformation in Sweden, 1850-1950
Patrick Heady Close Marriages and Distinct Lives: Kinship and Gender in the European Countryside
Ira Spieker Foreign Territory. “Resettlers” and their Impact on the Emerging Socialist Society in East Germany (after 1945)
Laura Stark Early Debates on Farm Women's Inheritance and Property Rights in the Finnish-language Press 1850-1870
Nancy Konvalinka Embodied Inheritance. The Clash between Gender-Equal Inheritance and a Gender-Differentiated Division of Work in a Spanish Village Today

 Saturday 14 April 16.30 - 18.30 

Z-16  -  RUR21: Approaches to the New Rural History
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3

    Network: Rural
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Leen Van Molle Networks of Knowledge: Mapping the Agricultural and Rural Press in Belgium from the 18th to the 21st Century
Miguel Cabo, Araceli Freire Cedeira Together we fight. Communitarian violence in rural Galicia, 1870-1970.
Eoin McLaughlin, Chris Colvin Why was Raiffeisen More Successful in Some Countries than Others? Ireland and the Netherlands Compared
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen Godparents - Methodological Questions in the Study of Social Relations in 18th and 19th Centuries’ Danish Rural Society