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7th European Social Science History Conference Lisbon, Portugal March 2008
 
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Tuesday 26 February
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 27 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 28 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 29 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Saturday 1 March
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

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 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

C-1  -  RUR01: Changing the rural in the Early Modern Period
Cave C

    Network: Rural
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Gareth Austin Moneylending and Witchcraft: The Moral Economy of Accumulation in Colonial Asante (Ghana)
Per Hallén Standard of living of farmers and rural workers in Sweden 1750-1900.
Clif Hubby Violence and Local Society in Late Medieval Bavaria: A Look at the Evidence
Reinoud Vermoesen Rural commercialisation of Inner Flanders (17th-18th century)
Isabelle Devos Environment, health and rural welfare in Flanders, 1700-1850

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

K-2  -  RUR02: From tradition to modernization
Room 4

    Network: Rural
Chair: Piet Van Cruyningen
Discussant: Piet Van Cruyningen
Conceição Andrade Martins Population and Agrarian system in 18th century Alentejo
Hervé Bennezon A village close to Paris, Montreuil during the reign of King Louis XIV
Jose Marques Household, land transmission and heritage in northern Portugal (Terra da Maia 1800-1950)
Florent Merot Paris and his countryside : the originality of the landscape in the Vallée de Montmorency in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
Merja Uotila, Maare Valtonen Entrepreneurial activities in a pre-industrial society: Artisans and industrialists in Finnish countryside

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

M-3  -  RUR03: Rural History and village life in Japan
Room 5.2

    Network: Rural
Chair: Michael Shackleton
Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Hiroshi Hasebe The succession of “IE” ;a case study of rural family in the Tokugawa Japan
Kouki Iwama The Mutual Financing Associatons in Japanese Farm Villages: A case study of Kami-shiojiri village at the end of the early modern period
Moto(yasu) Takahashi Family Continuity in Japan, in comparison with England
Futoshi Yamauchi About the several social relationships for life that surrounded landownership
Yoshiyuki Murayama Geographical setting and landownership of Kami-shiojiri
Martin Morris Silk-worm raising and the Japanese house - the minka of Shiojiri in a national and global context

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

I-4  -  RUR04: Elites and agricultural modernization
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Daniel Samson British North American Elites and Agricultural Improvement in Transatlantic Context, 1791-1860
Ursula Schlude “To cultivate profitably and with good advice”. Creating Agricultural Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Dresden 1568 to 1572.
Alejandro Tortolero Elites and Haciendas in the 19th c. Mexico : routine or innovation ?
Nadine Vivier Elites and progress in Europe: a comparative view
Andras Vari (1953-2011) The guardians of agricultural change – Professionalization of estate stewards in 19th century Hungary

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

F-5  -  RUR05: Modernization and Democratization in the Countryside
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos

    Network: Rural
Chair: Nadine Vivier
Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Ronald Rommes The rise of rural cooperatives in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Anton Schuurman The construction of Dutch Agriculture Inc.
Piet Van Cruyningen Political mobilization of the peasantry in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Zeeland, ca. 1880-1920
Remco Visschers Rural association before the co-operative: the case of the Agricultural Society in the Dutch province of Gelderland, 1845-1880

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

I-8  -  RUR06: Land reform and agricultural politics in France, Greece and England
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Jaime Reis
Discussant: Jaime Reis
John Beckett The New Domesday of Landownership, 1876
Noelle Plack Privatising the commons in Napoleonic France: the law of 20 March 1813
Brian Short National discourse and local struggle in the battle for land 1906-1914
Michael Turner The end of manorial ownership: copyhold enfranchisment after 1840

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

K-9  -  RUR09: Agriculture and the Second World War
Room 4

    Network: Rural
Chair: Paul Brassley
Discussant: Paul Brassley
Leen Van Molle, Yves Segers Changing faces of micro-farming in and around the Second World War, historical perspectives from the Belgian case
Carin Israelsson Sweden in the shadow of war: a paradise for administrators and some renaissance for the rural society
John Martin The State Induced Agricultural Revolution: case study of Britain 1939-55

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

P-10  -  Network meeting: Rural
Room 8.1

    Network: Rural

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

I-11  -  RUR08: Agriculture, Gender and Representation around the Second World War
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Leen Van Molle
Discussant: Leen Van Molle
Ernst Langthaler Struggling for ‘Peasantness’: Inclusion and Exclusion by Hereditary Court Proceedings in Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
Peter Moser The farmers and the state: Ireland and Switzerland 1935-1955
Margreet Van Der Burg Agricultural interests, identities and gender segregation under pressure. The effects of the siege over crisis and wartime to the Dutch agricultural organisational landscape.
Nicola Verdon '"The modern countrywoman": Farm women, rural domesticity and the farmhouse economy in interwar Britain

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

I-12  -  RUR12: Contestations of productivist agriculture
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Dulce Freire
Discussant: Dulce Freire
Erin Gill Stillborn? Organic farming in post-war Britain
Richard W Hoyle Grouse in history: non-agricultural uses of the English countryside
Mats Morell, Susanna Hedenborg A vehicle in the army, a lumber jack companion or a friend in the family - the riding horse and countryside economics in 20th century Sweden

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

V-12  -  WOR03: Sugar, Coffee and International Affairs
Room 2.10

    Network: Rural
Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Jim Norris World Affairs, Migrant Workers, and Sugar Production in the United States
Dorothee Wierling Phantasies of the „Origin“. The imagery of the coffee bean and the Hamburg coffee merchants.
Christiane Berth Transnational networks in coffee trade between Germany and Guatemala
Kathleen Mapes "'Barbarian' or 'Civilized' Sugar?: The Politics of Imperialism, 1898-1909

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

I-13  -  RUR13: Biodiversity, Environmental history and Agricultural history
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Chair: Claire Strom
Discussant: Claire Strom
Kenneth Sylvester, Eric Rupley Making landscapes agricultural in the American grasslands
Meri Vuohu Florentine Property and Public Administration in the Pisan Countryside in the Fifteenth Century: The Perspective of Environmental History

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

I-14  -  RUR15: Forest Products Industry and Trade in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 2.1

    Network: Rural
Organiser: Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno
Organiser: Amélia Branco
Chair: Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno
Discussant: Amélia Branco
Miguel Pestana, Isabel Tinoco The Industry and the Trade of Cork in Portugal during the 20th century
Antonio Serrano Cork Products Trade Through Seville's Harbour (18th-19th Centuries)
James Simpson Grapes and wines: the international transfer of technology during the first globalisation, 1850-1914.
Javier Soriano The forest residual utilizations in the Mediterranean mountain: cork and wood

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

K-15  -  RUR07: Living in the countryside in the first half of the 20th century
Room 4

    Network: Rural
Chair: John Martin
Discussant: Ernst Langthaler
Juan Pan-Montojo "Spanish agriculture, 1931-1951: crisis, wars and new policies in the reshaping of rural society"
Rien Emmery Continuity, theoretical innovation and practical immobility. The influence of the Second World War on country planning and rural housing policy in Flanders (1935-1955).
Will Wilson A Celebration of Power: Rural Festivity and Opposition in Nazi Germany
Fredie Floré, Bruno Notteboom The Open Air Museum of Bokrijk

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

K-16  -  RUR10: Land owners, Politics, and Agricultural Reform in the 20th century
Room 4

    Network: Rural
Chair: Mats Morell
Discussant: Mats Morell
Sónia Vespeira De Almeida Rural Portugal and the "Carnation Revolution"
Juan Carmona, James Simpson Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence in French's vineyards, 1800-1950
Victor Pereira Managing the decline of the landowners. The Portuguese government and the rural migration between 1957 and 1974
Lanero Táboas Francoism and local powers: intermediation, legitimation and socially differentiated access to extremely scarce resources.
Carla Almeida Sousa A Cultural Elite in a Village of the South of Portugal

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

V-16  -  RUR16: Man and beast. Human interactions with animals in a comparative context
Room 2.10

    Network: Rural
Chair: Margaret Derry
Discussant: Margaret Derry
Sandra Swart Horse Trading: comparing human-equine networks of control and socio-environmental change in South African, India, Australia and the Americas
Stefan Bargheer Moral Entanglements: The Emergence and Transformation of the Concern for Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1930
Jonathan Bryant Turning Deer into Rice: The deerskin trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world
Claire Strom Cattle, Ticks, and Humans: Disease Eradication in a Comparative Perspective

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

B-17  -  RUR11: Fordist agriculture: science, states and farmers
Cave B

    Network: Rural
Chair: Peter Moser
Discussant: Peter Moser
Shawn Parkhurst Analyzing the Intersection of Regional Representations, State Reform, Capital and the Conflict of Class Fractions: An Example from the Douro Region
Dulce Freire, José Raul Ribeiro Mediterranean agriculture and rural development. Causes and consequences of Portuguese state intervention after World War II
Wilson Picado Comparing Green revolution.State and technological change in Costa Rica, México and Spain.1940-1970.
Mathijs Witte Industrialization of agriculture: emerge of footloose farming in the Netherlands 1950-2000

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

C-18  -  RUR14: The role and meaning of the forest for rural life
Cave C

    Network: Rural
Chair: Kenneth Sylvester
Discussant: Kenneth Sylvester
Caroline Delph The (Re)-Formation of a landscape: Paul Schultze-Naumburg and the Landscape of Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Michael Imort The De-Professionalization of German Foresters, 1933-1945
Simona Niculae Falling off trees: Forest, community and the state in a Transylvanian village
Michael Shackleton The Japanese 'Satoyama' tradition of ecological woodland management