Panels
This page provides an overview of all panels and papers. The abstracts of each panel and paper as well as a short CV of those participating in the panel are available in the pdf-file next to the title of each panel. The papers or the presentations which are sent to the organisers are attached as a pdf-file next to the title of the paper.
Panel 1.1. • Panel 1.2. • Panel 1.3. • Panel 1.4. • Panel 1.5. • Panel 1.6. • Panel 2.1. • Panel 2.2. • Panel 2.3. • Panel 2.4. • Panel 2.5. • Panel 2.6. • Panel 2.7. • Panel 3.1. • Panel 3.2. • Panel 3.3. • Panel 3.4. • Panel 3.5. • Panel 3.6. • Panel 3.7. • Panel 4.1. • Panel 4.2. • Panel 4.3. • Panel 4.4. • Panel 4.5. • Panel 4.6. • Panel 4.7. • Panel 5.1. • Panel 5.1. • Panel 5.3. • Panel 5.4. • Panel 5.5. • Panel 5.6. • Panel 5.7. • Panel 5.8. • Panel 6.1. • Panel 6.2. • Panel 6.3. • Panel 6.4. • Panel 6.5. • Panel 6.6. • Panel 6.7. • Panel 6.8. • Panel 7.1. • Panel 7.2. • Panel 7.3. • Panel 7.4. • Panel 7.5. • Panel 7.6. • Panel 8.1. • Panel 8.2. • Panel 8.3. • Panel 8.4. • Panel 8.5. • Panel 8.6. • Panel 8.7. • Panel 9.1. • Panel 9.2. • Panel 9.3. • Panel 9.4. • Panel 9.5. • Panel 9.6. • Panel 9.7. • Panel 10.1. • Panel 10.2. • Panel 10.3. • Panel 10.4. • Panel 10.5. • Panel 10.6. • Panel 10.7. • Panel 11.1. • Panel 11.2. • Panel 11.3. • Panel 11.4. • Panel 11.5. • Panel 11.6. • Panel 11.7.
1.1. Consumption of wood, energy transitions and woodland management from a historical perspective. Part I 
Panel organizer
Infante-Amate, Juan
Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki
Chair
Schwarz, Ulrich
1.1.1. The exploitation of wood resources from the wood-pasture commons of Shropshire between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries
Bowen, James
1.1.2. Effects on vegetation of historical charcoal making in Central Spain: The "Montes de Toledo" Case
González y González de Linares, Víctor
García-Viñas, Juan Ignacio
Carrero Díez, Leticia
Cuevas Moreno, Jorge
González-Doncel, Inés
Gil Sánchez, Luis
1.1.3. Are rural women to blame for misusing wood for livelihood and household use
in Burnt Forest Area, Kenya
Chabeda-Barthe, Jemaiyo
1.2. Continuing tensions in respect of common land in European high-mountain areas (17th-21st centuries)
Panel organizer
Head-König, Anne-Lise
Chair
Mocarelli, Luca
1.2.1. Management of common land in western alpine regions, 18th-19th centuries
Vivier, Nadine
1.2.2. Nature and Culture: tensions and challenges regarding landed property in High Alpine areas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Granet-Abisset, Anne-Marie
1.2.3.Common land and collective property in prealpine Switzerland. Tensions with regard to access and the allocution of resources
Head-König, Anne-Lise
1.2.4. The various problems with common land in Tyrol (Austria) from the 19th to the 21st century
Siegl, Gerhard
1.3. The provision of poor relief in rural Europe. Part I
Panel organizer
Marfany, Julie
Chair
Marfany, Julie
1.3.1. Rural poor relief in the coastal Netherlands: from a 'collective insurance' to a 'supplement-system' (Groningen 1770-1860)
Paping, Richard
1.3.2. Poverty and the Fabric of Daily Life in Rural England, 1762-1834: a case study
French, Henry
1.3.3. Rural poor relief in the Netherlands around 1800
Looijesteijn, Henk
van Leeuwen, Marco
1.4. "Virgin Lands": Land Reclamation Campaigns in the Twentieth Century.
A Rural Development History
Panel organizer
Unger, Corinna
Frey, Marc
Chair
Unger, Corinna
1.4.1. Dutch Land Reclamation and Settlement Projects in the Interwar Period
Van de Grift, Liesbeth
1.4.2. Agrarian Development in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1920s to the Present: The Office du Niger in Mali
Frey, Marc
1.4.3. The Virgin Lands Campaign, Khrushchev's Secret Rehabilitation of the Gulag
Pohl, Michaela
1.5. The open fields of Europe in their social and economic context: origins and use. Part I: Continental Europe and Scandinavia
Panel organizer
Thoen, Erik
Dyer, Christopher
Williamson, Tom
Chair
Williamson, Tom
1.5.1. Open fields, environment, peasants and manors. Medieval and early modern field-systems between the Meuse and the Ardennes
Schroeder, Nicolas
1.5.2. Micro-openfields in Flanders in the middle ages. New hypotheses on their origin and functioning
Thoen, Erik
1.5.3. The development and function of Scandinavian open fields
Gadd, Carl-Johan
1.5.4. Openfield systems in 17th century Sweden. Regular and irregular strip field systems in the Swedish lage scale maps; 1630-1655 & 1680-1700
Jupiter, Kristofer
1.5.5. Externalities of the Sun Division
Talvitie, Petri
1.6. Women on the land: Gender, patriarchy, ethnicity and nationhood in modern agrarian history
Panel organizer
Verdon, Nicola
Chair
Verdon, Nicola
1.6.1. "…With A Stout Wife": Doukhobor Women's Challenge to the Canadian
Androsoff, Ashleigh
1.6.2. "Disastrous for the Woman and for the Reputation of Canada": Debating Women as Farmers in Western Canada 1900 - 1930
Carter, Sarah
1.6.3. 'I cannot be idle': Patriarchy, Gender and the Yeoman Farmer Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Victoria, Australia
Nixon, Kerry
1.6.4. Willing and capable: Women as farmers in late Victorian British agriculture
Sayer, Karen
Verdon, Nicola
2.1. Subsistence strategies of single women in the European countryside, 17th-early 19th century
Panel organizer
Devos, Isabelle
Chair
Devos, Isabelle
2.1.1. Single women and the rural credit market in 18th century France
Dermineur, Elise M.
2.1.2. Labor division in an early modern transhumance system: a Swedish case
Larsson, Jesper
2.1.3. Survival strategies of single women in the countryside around Bruges, 1814
Devos, Isabelle
2.2. How Mechanization and Mountains Have Been Interacting (19th/20th Century)
Panel organizer
Abt, Roman K.
Chair
Mooser, Josef
2.2.1. The 'Armament of the Village': Agricultural Restructuring in Mountainous Areas in Nazi Germany
Langthaler, Ernst
2.2.2. Dealing with Mechanization: Perspectives and Strategies of Farmers and Local Institutions in the Central Alps of Switzerland
Wunderli Götschi, Rahel
2.2.3. From „Nightingale" and „Helvetia" to Single-Axle-Machines. The Adaption of Agricultural Machinery to Steep Slopes
Abt, Roman K.
2.3. Protest(ing) Rural Heritages: The Making and Remaking of Heritage. Part I
Panel organizer
Griffin, Carl
Jones, Roy
Robertson, Iain
Chair
Griffin, Carl
2.3.1. Invoking Rural Heritage as Protest? The Western Australian 'Shack' Settlements of Wedge and Grey
Jones, Roy
Selwood, H. John
2.3.2. 'Old Events' as a Resource for Action in Times of Political Change: The Example of 'Ecovillage Brodowin'
Scholze-Irrlitz, Leonore
2.3.3. Creating Something From Very Little: Manufacturing a Protest Heritage Icon
Robertson, Iain
2.4. Rural Elites: towards a comparative history of rural elites in pre-modern Europe, Part I
Panel organizer
Soens, Tim
Thoen, Erik
Chair
Van Molle, Leen
2.4.1. Rural Elites in the East-Frisian Coastal Marshes (1648- 1806)
Cronshagen, Jessica
Schmekel, Frank
2.4.2. British farmers and the public sphere, 1815-1914
Hoyle, Richard W.
2.4.3. Gardens as exponents of rural élites. Peasant miners and ironmasters in Sweden 1600-1830
Ahrland, Åsa
2.5. Rural resilience to disaster: explaining regional divergences (Middle Ages - c. 1850). Part III: Welfare effects of climate anomalies
Panel organizer
Pfister, Ulrich
Chair
Pfister, Ulrich
2.5.1. Social and economic vulnerability to climatic fluctuations in the Burgundian Low Countries during the fifteenth century
Camenisch, Chantal
2.5.2. Why did welfare improve during the Little Ice Age? Famines, integration of grain markets and nutritional status in early-modern France (17th-18th centuries)
Ewert, Ulf Christian
2.5.3. Climate variability and transatlantic migration from Southwest Germany in the nineteenth century
Mauelshagen, Franz
2.6. Consumption of wood, energy transitions and woodland management from a historical perspective. Part II
Panel organizer
Infante-Amate, Juan
Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki
Chair
Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki
2.6.1. Seeing the wood for the trees: the diversity of local fuel sources and the transition to a coal-burning economy in England
Williamson, Tom
Warde, Paul
2.6.2. Fuel supply to Madrid and forest transformations in an organic economy
Hernando Ortego, Javier
Madrazo García de Lomana, Gonzalo
2.6.3. Wood and fuelwood in Spain: production and final uses in the long run (1850-2000)
Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki
Infante-Amate, Juan
González de Molina, Manuel
Soto Fernández, David
2.7. Agricultural exports and economic growth during the first wave of globalisation, 1850-1929. Part I
Panel organizer
Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra
Pinilla, Vicente
Chair
Brassley, Paul
2.7.1. Tropical Agricultural Exports: Changing Agrarian Structures and Long-run Development
Byerlee, Derek
2.7.2. Agriculture - the engine of growth in the Hungarian economy in the second half of the 19th century
Nagy, Mariann
2.7.3. Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain, during the first wave of globalization
Pinilla, Vicente
Ayuda, María Isabel
3.1. Intensification of animal husbandry in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Part I
Panel organizer
Jonasson, Maren
Chair
Bächi, Beat
3.1.1. Modern Livestock and Animal Technology: Livestock Exposition with a Global Mission, 1893-1920
Knapp, Neal
3.1.2. Horse breeding in Finland in the nineteenth century
Toivio, Hilja
3.1.3. Blinded by the beauty of science? - François Guénon's method of predicting milk yield
Jonasson, Maren
3.2. New Studies in Alpiculture: Moments of Change
Panel organizer
Mathieu, Jon
Chair
Mathieu, Jon
3.2.1. Prehistoric alpine animal husbandry - recent discoveries in the Silvretta range (Switzerland / Austria)
Reitmaier, Thomas
3.2.2. The intensification of alpiculture in the early modern period: the case of haversting „wild hay" in the high mountains
Blatter, Michael
3.2.3. Swiss alpine pasture farming since 1880 - a landscape historical assessment
Bürgi, Matthias
3.2.4. Adapting the management of alpine pastures to changes in the 20th century: the case of Ursern Corporation
Wunderli Götschi, Rahel
3.3. The provision of poor relief in rural Europe. Part II
Panel organizer
Marfany, Julie
Chair
Vanhaute, Eric
3.3.1. Poor relief in eighteenth-century rural Spain: a case study of Catalonia
Marfany, Julie
3.3.2. The provision of poor relief in the Polish countryside during the preindustrial period. A case study of Cracow and its surroundings.
Wyżga, Mateusz
3.3.3. Poor relief and taxation in the Southern Low Countries during the eighteenth century.
Lambrecht, Thijs
Winter, Anne
3.4. Ruling the Commons. Part I
Panel organizer
Alfani, Guido
De Moor, Tine
Chair
Alfani, Guido
3.4.1. Commons and Inequality in Renaissance Lombardy
Di Tullio, Matteo
3.4.2. The changing culture of commons governance in northern England, medieval to modern
Winchester, Angus
3.4.3. Participation versus punishment. The relationship between institutional longevity and sanctioning in the early modern times (case studies from the East of the Netherlands) 
De Moor, Tine
3.4.4. Local governance: controversy over distributive justice of the commons in early modern England, focusing on Gillingham Royal Forest dispute, c. 1620s-1650s
Inui, Hideaki
3.5. The open fields of Europe in their social and economic context: origins and use. Part II: General papers and UK
Panel organizer
Thoen, Erik
Dyer, Christopher
Williamson, Tom
Chair
Thoen, Erik
3.5.1. Open-field landscapes in Europe
Renes, Hans
3.5.2. Open fields, "planning" and the evironment
Williamson, Tom
3.5.3. Manorialization and demographic pressure in landscape areas in thirteenth-century England
Kanzaka, Junichi
3.5.4. The village meeting in organizing open fields in medieval England
Dyer, Christopher
3.5.5. Four new indicators for the origins and development of open-field farming in England
Jones, Richard
3.6. Agricultural politics in Europe between WWII and 1957. Part I
Panel organizer
Martiin, Carin
Pan-Montojo, Juan
Chair
Pan-Montojo, Juan
3.6.1. British Agriculture in transition: Food Shortages to Food Surpluses (1947-57)
Martin, John
3.6.2. Cold War Farm: international contexts for British farming in the 1940s and 1950s
Griffiths, Clare
3.6.3. Modernized farming but stagnated production: Swedish farming from WWII to the late 1950s
Martiin, Carin
3.6.4. Agricultural politics and production in the British West African colonies during and after World War II to 1960: Reflection on Nigeria's agro-production
Chimee, Ihediwa Nkemjika
3.7. Agrarian reforms or markets - causes of agricultural growth in comparative perspective
Panel organizer
Olsson, Mats
Chair
Pinilla, Vicente
3.7.1. Agricultural growth without agrarian reforms? The case of early industrializing Saxony c. 1770-1850
Kopsidis, Michael
3.7.2. Agrarian reform, markets and agricultural growth in Westphalia, 1820-1870
Fertig, Georg
3.7.3. Interaction between institutional change and market forces in Hungary in the second half of the 19th century
Nagy, Mariann
3.7.4. Institutional change, markets and agricultural growth in south Sweden 1750-1850
Olsson, Mats
Svensson, Patrick
4.1. Childhood and the Countryside in the Twentieth Century
Panel organizer
Griffiths, Clare
Chair
Griffiths, Clare
4.1.1. Country childhood in twentieth-century rural England: perceptions and experiences
Burchardt, Jeremy
4.1.2. Overwork and empowerment in the daily life of children on Swiss farms in the middle of the 20th century
Moser, Peter
4.1.3. Visiting 'farm' animals: 1940-2000
Sayer, Karen
4.1.4. 'It's not a big part of me but I know it's where I come from': Farm youth and their changing relationship with the countryside
Cassidy, Anne
4.2. Rural Health Tourism: a New Domain for Rural History
Panel organizer
van der Burg, Margreet
Chair
Keller, Irene
4.2.1. Rural Welcome for Health Activities and Medical Treatment: Connecting Histories of Health Tourism and Rural Change
van der Burg, Margreet
4.2.2. Magic Mountains: Rural Health Tourism in Early Twentieth Century United States
Jensen, Joan
4.2.3. The Search for Health in the High Alps of Switzerland: Sanatoria Treatments in Davos and Leysin
Barton, Susan
4.3. 'God is in the detail' - Agrarian technology 1000-1600
Panel organizer
Sapoznik, Alex
Chair
Brassley, Paul
4.3.1. The forgotten female agrarian revolution 1000-1300: Weaving, churning and cheese-making
Myrdal, Janken
4.3.2. Aspects of peasant arable productivity in late medieval England
Sapoznik, Alex
4.3.3. Learning by doing or expert knowledge? Technological innovations in dike-building in coastal Flanders (13th-18th centuries AD)
Soens, Tim
4.4. Peasants and their relationship to land. Part I
Panel organizer
Congost, Rosa
Béaur, Gérard
Chair
Béaur, Gérard
4.4.1. Which property? The rise of a class of powerful emfiteutes in Catalonia (15-18 centuries)
Congost, Rosa
4.4.2. English farmers and the land 1500-1926
Broad, John
4.4.3. Owning Land and Building "A Great Rural Civilization" for White Farmers in the U.S. South
Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth
4.5. Social movements and popular political participation in rural societies. Part II: XXth century
Panel organizer
Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro
Brassart, Laurent
Chair
Brassart, Laurent
4.5.1. "Individualizing" social research. Conflicts, kinship and sexuality in the Swiss Alps at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro
4.5.2. Bauern, Bonzen, und Bomben: Peasant protest in northwest Germany, 1927-1930
Vascik, George S.
4.5.3. Political Organization of the Peasantry in Communist Romania: the Case of Ploughmen's Front (1945-1953)
Radu, Sorin
4.6. Commons in premodern Europe: Uses, management and conflicts in comparative view
Panel organizer
Baydal, Vicent
Chair
Aparisi, Frederic
4.6.1. Commons in the late medieval Crown of Aragon: Regulation, uses and conflicts, 13th-15th centuries
Baydal, Vicent
Royo, Vicent
4.6.2. Managing the Commons: The role of the elites in the uses of common lands in the Midlands of the kingdom of Valencia during the Middle Ages
Aparisi, Frederic
Esquilache, Ferran
4.6.3. The common denominator: The regulation of the community of users within the Campine area during the 16th century
De Keyzer, Maïka
4.6.4. A new Mezzogiorno? Exploring the diverse and dynamic paths towards the inequitable distribution of property in Southern Italy through an examination of institutions for the collective management of resources in Apulia, 1600-1900
Curtis, Daniel R.
4.7. The evolution of productivity in agriculture, 16th to 19th century: the case of Germany
Panel organizer
Pfister, Ulrich
Chair
Svensson, Patrick
4.7.1. Land rental values in north-western German in a European context, c. 1600-1920
Bracht, Johannes
4.7.2. Agricultural development in a low-wage industrial setting: Saxony, c. 1790-1830
Kopsidis, Michael
Pfister, Ulrich
4.7.3. Labour productivity in agriculture: Germany, 1500-1850
Pfister, Ulrich
5.1. Agro-Food Chains in the First World War
Panel organizer
Langthaler, Ernst
Chair
Langthaler, Ernst
5.1.1. The Heroic Age of Food Control in Britain, 1917-18
Martin, John
5.1.2. New Zealand and the United Kingdom's 'Atlantic Orientation' during World War One
Watson, James
5.1.3. Food Provisioning and Culinary Recommendations in Belgium during the First World War
Segers, Yves
5.1.4. Famine in Lebanon: the Bloodiest Episode of the First World War
Pitts, Graham
5.2. Intensification of animal husbandry in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Part II
Panel organizer
Jonasson, Maren
Chair
Martiin, Carin
5.2.1. Cattle husbandry and breeding in Northern Italy (19th-early 20th century): the search for improvement
Fumi, Gianpiero
5.2.2. Agromania and Animal husbandry: The rise and decline of large-scale animal husbandry in Hungary in the 18-19th centuries
Kürti, László
5.2.3. Dutch Cows under the Mediterranean Sun: Friesian Cattle and the Formation of a Dairy Herd in Barcelona, 1865-1936
Hernández Adell, Ismael
5.2.4. Manors and the regulations on milk trade in Tampere
Mäntylä, Mirja
5.3. Social networks in rural society
Panel organizer
Fertig, Christine
Chair
Mathieu, Jon
5.3.1. Pyrenean households. Power, familiy and land
Deering, Dermot
5.3.2. Social Networks and Classes in Northwestern Germany, 18th and 19th centuries
Fertig, Christine
5.3.3. Sexuality, Networks, Social and Political Change in a rural Society. Western Valais (Switzerland) in the 18th and 19th centuries
Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro
5.3.4. Landholding and Kinship Networks in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mendes, Fabio Faria
5.4. Ruling the Commons. Part II
Panel organizer
De Moor, Tine
Alfani, Guido
Chair
De Moor, Tine
5.4.1. Managing the commons in unequal societies. The case of Lombard Alps in XVIIIth century
Mocarelli, Luca
5.4.2. Who, when, how and how much: The transformation of common property rights in alpine farming in early modern and modern times
Landolt, Gabriela
5.4.3. Village Federations. Institutional diversity and polycentric governance in northern Spain (Navarre, 14th-20th centuries)
Laborda Peman, Miguel
Lana-Berasain, Jose-Miguel
5.4.4. From total State to anarchical market. Lessons from the past for a collective action approach - the Albanian mountainous commons
Bernard, Claire
Lerin, Francois
Hoxha, Valter
5.5. Rural Elites: towards a comparative history of rural elites in pre-modern Europe, Part II
Panel organizer
Soens, Tim
Thoen, Erik
Chair
Thoen, Erik
5.5.1. Coqs de villages or ugly ducklings? Tenant farmers and their role in late medieval village communities: the Campine area (Low Countries)
Van Onacker, Eline
5.5.2. Between the countryside and the city. Rural Elites in the Midlands of Valencia in the 15th Century
Aparisi, Frederic
5.5.3. Rural elites in transition? Local upper classes in western Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1750-1850
Kasper, Michael
5.5.4. Rural 'bourgeoisie' in the 18th century Low Countries?
Vermoesen, Reinoud
5.6. Cotton, Race, and Labor in the Post-Civil War South
Panel organizer
Whayne, Jeannie
Chair
Hahn, Steven
5.6.1. The King is Dead: The Culture of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee
Giesen, James
5.6.2. Capturing Cotton's Metropolis: The Struggle for Political Control of Memphis Government, 1865-1900
Whayne, Jeannie
5.6.3. The Politics of Rural Violence in Comparative Perspective: South Carolina vs. Sicily in the late 1860s
Dal Lago, Enrico
5.6.4. Challenging the Southern Elite: Small White Farmers' Visions for a New and Segregated Rural South
Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth
5.7. Transforming Village Culture: Village Halls and Cultural Centres in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Part I
Panel organizer
Musat, Raluca
Chair
Burchardt, Jeremy
5.7.1. The Cultural Propaganda of the Ploughmen's Front and the Role of the Cultural Guides in Communist Romania (1945-1953)
Radu, Sorin
5.7.2. An Institutional Approach toward the Transformation of Countryside: the Collective Farms and Cultural Centers in the Communist Romania
Micu, Cornel
5.7.3. Comment
Burchardt, Jeremy
5.8. Agricultural exports and economic growth during the first wave of globalisation, 1850-1929.
Part II
Panel organizer
Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra
Pinilla, Vicente
Chair
Brassley, Paul
5.8.1. The impact of export's booms on the structure of land tenure: the case of tobacco in Montes de María (Colombia), 1850-1917
Colmenares, Santiago
5.8.2. Agro-climate suitability and comparative advantage in Mexico's agricultural exports during the first export era (1870-1929)
Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra
5.8.3. Tobacco exports and economic growth in Greece (ca 1900-1940)
Petmezas, Socrates
6.1. Authority, agency, autonomy? Change for rural women in Europe 1850-1914
Panel organizer
Clear, Caitriona
Chair
Clear, Caitriona
6.1.1. Public Women in Rural Ireland: Exploring the West, 1880-1918.
Clancy, Mary
6.1.2. Women, farm and family 1850-1922.
Clear, Caitriona
6.1.3. Comment
Verdon, Nicola
6.2. The Great Outdoors - 150 years of mountain sports and tourism in the Alps. Part I
Panel organizer
Barton, Susan
Chair
Roche, Clare
6.2.1. Löwenplatz in Lucerne - a factory for tourist photographs
Bürgi, Andreas
6.2.2. The symbiotic relationship between tourism and winter sports
Barton, Susan
6.2.3. Alpine Communities as Entrepreneurs: The Cultural Capital of 'Backwardness' and the Coercion of Urban Alpinists, 1890-1914
Anderson, Ben
6.3. Protest(ing) Rural Heritages: Land and Community Memory. Part II
Panel organizer
Griffin, Carl
Jones, Roy
Robertson, Iain
Chair
Robertson, Iain
6.3.1. Folklore, Collective Memory and Popular Protest in Seventeenth-Century Forest of Dean
Sandall, Simon
6.3.2. Landscapes of Conflict and Commemoration: Mousehold Heath, Norfolk
Whyte, Nicola
6.3.3. Community Memories of Protest History in Rural England: Forgetting, Un-forgetting and the Politics of 'Instant History'
Griffin, Carl
6.4. Peasants and their relationship to land. Part II
Panel organizer
Béaur, Gérard
Congost, Rosa
Chair
Congost, Rosa
6.4.1. Land ownership, an unattainable horizon for French peasants in the early modern and modern periods?
Béaur, Gérard
6.4.2. Retaining possession of the family farm and the interference of the Swiss State (19th-21st centuries)
Head-König, Anne-Lise
6.4.3. 'If my brother sold the farm in the future I'd probably be the first one trying to buy it back off him': an exploration of the relationship between non-inheritors and land in Irish farming families.
Cassidy, Anne
6.5. Conflict and Negotiating Conflict in Pre-Modern Rural Societies. Part I
Panel organizer
Muller, Miriam
Chair
Muller, Miriam
6.5.1. Fighting Drainage: local resistance to wetland drainage across the North Sea Area
Soens, Tim
6.5.2. The common denominator: Institutions of collective action as the result of continuous negotiation between various stakeholders within the Campine area (Southern Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries)
De Keyzer, Maika
6.5.3. Conflict Correspondence and the medial structure of late medieval rural lordship
Schuerch, Isabelle
6.6. Agricultural politics in Europe between World War II and 1957. Part II
Panel organizer
Martiin, Carin
Pan-Montojo, Juan
Chair
Brassley, Paul
6.6.1. Agriculture and agricultural policies in Spain (1939 - 1959)
Fernández Prieto, Lourenzo
Cabana Iglesia, Ana; Díaz Geada, Alba; Freire Cedeira, Araceli; Lanero Táboas, Daniel; Soto Fernández, David
6.6.2. Changing Colors: the Green Law of 1955 and the Integration of German Peasants
Gerhard, Gesine
6.6.3. International recommendations and national decisions: Portuguese agriculture policies after WWII
Freire, Dulce
6.6.4. Agricultural politics in the Netherlands from WWII till 1957
Schuurman, Anton
6.7. Social movements and popular political participation in rural societies. Part I: 14th to 19th century
Panel organizer
Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro
Brassart, Laurent
Chair
Guzzi-Heeb, Sandro
6.7.1. A Failed Political Movement? The 1381 Peasants' Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire
Xu, Mingjie
6.7.2. Political Participation in Early Modern Rural Switzerland and Germany
Würgler, Andreas
6.7.3. Social Conflicts an Rural State-Building: Popular Political Participation in Pre-Constitutional South-West Germany
Grüne, Niels
6.7.4. Popular political actors and their communities during the French Revolution
Brassart, Laurent
6.8. Reproduction and Production: Sex and Gender in Rural Economies
Panel organizer
Bächi, Beat
Chair
Joris, Elisabeth
6.8.1. A women's domain? Sex and gender in poultry breeding
Heitholt, Ulrike
6.8.2. From Numan to Texel: A century of science in Dutch sheep breeding
Oldenburger, Jesper
6.8.3. The Organization of Pig Breeding: from women's towards men's business
van der Laan, Steven
6.8.4. Sex, Gender, and Cattle Breeding. An Outline for a Symmetrical Anthropology of Animal (Re-)Production.
Bächi, Beat
7.1. Female Activism in Rural Civil Society: Women on Farms and in Agricultural Organisations in the Twentieth Century
Panel organizer
Varley, Tony
Moser, Peter
Chair
Clear, Caitriona
7.1.1. An Irish Country Woman's Life: 'Miss Nora', a woman in a woman's world?
Byrne, Anne
7.1.2. On the margin of the centre? Comparing the activist careers of Elizabeth Bobbett in Ireland and Augusta Gillabert-Randin in Switzerland
Varley, Tony
Moser, Peter
7.1.3. Agricultural Internationalism: the pioneering efforts of Louise Howard at the ILO in the Interwar Years
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia
7.2. The Great Outdoors - 150 years of mountain sports and tourism in the Alps. Part II
Panel organizer
Barton, Susan
Chair
Barton, Susan
7.2.1. The British attitude to mountain guides through the eyes of Elizabeth Le Blond (Burnaby/Main) (1860- 1934) mountaineer, photographer and writer
Armstrong, Madie
7.2.2. Enabling Women: the influence of the Alpine environment
Roche, Clare
7.3. Rural history and "reenactment history": Challenges, questions, opportunities. Part I: Museums and beyond
Panel organizer
Sayre, Laura
Chair
Martin, John
7.3.1. Where have all the farmers gone? Gone to living history's greener fields?
Reid, Debra
7.3.2. Reenactment, reconstruction and performance at the Museum of English Rural Life, 1951-1956
Douglas, Ollie Angus
7.3.3. Toys, trials and information technologies: Miniaturization and virtualization as reenactment
Sayre, Laura
7.4. Conflict and Negotiating Conflicts in Pre-Modern Rural Societies. Part II
Panel organizer
Muller, Miriam
Chair
Van Bavel, Bas
7.4.1. Negotiating the common fields: making and breaking boundaries in Norfolk villages in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Whyte, Nicola
7.4.2. Irrigation and Rural Conflict in Medieval Iberia
Furio, Antoni
7.4.3. Water, boundaries, local economies and conflict in 13th and 14th century English villages
Muller, Miriam
7.5. Rural Russia: 1880s to present day
Panel organizer
Bruisch, Katja
Chair
Katzer, Nikolaus
7.5.1. Where is the backward peasant? Regional crop yields on peasant and private land in Russia 1883-1913
Kopsidis, Michael
Shilnikova, Irina
Bruisch, Katjasia
Bromley, Daniel W.
7.5.2. Russia's rural modernity and how it was sacrifized
Bruisch, Katja
7.5.3. From Heartland to Hinterland: Transformation of the Russian Countryside in the late Soviet and Post-Soviet Period
Nikulin, Alexander
7.6. Transforming Village Culture: Village Halls and Cultural Centres in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Part II
Panel organizer
Musat, Raluca
Chair
Burchardt, Jeremy
7.6.1. Village Halls, local leisure cultures and sense of place in 1930s Lakeland
Andrew, Rebecca
7.6.2. Landownership and Village Cultural Centres in Mid Nineteenth Century England
Holland, Sarah
7.6.3. New moralities, new peasants, new rituals: the place of folklore in the hearth and home of socialist culture
Urdea, Alexandra
8.1. Gender and other diversities. The empirical, scholarly, written and tacit knowledge and its transfers in plantology, ecology and agriculture (Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century)
Panel organizer
Rippmann Tauber, Dorothee
Chair
van der Burg, Margreet
8.1.1. „...quod terra est mater et sol est pater plantarum". Bartholomäus Anglicus' Book of Plants
Rippmann Tauber, Dorothee
8.1.2. Diversity of media - diversity of gender and social strata
Schlude, Ursula
8.1.3. Deviant Concepts of Knowledge: Women Pioneers in Organic Farming and Gardening
Spieker, Ira
Schmitt, Mathilde
8.1.4. "For the Edification of the Common People": The Parish Library in Eighteenth-Century England
Allen, David
8.2. Social and economic convergences and divergences in the rural world: the Alpine space (16th-19th Century)
Panel organizer
Lorenzetti, Luigi
Mocarelli, Luca
Chair
Mocarelli, Luca
8.2.1. Territorial systems and political idioms: diverging pathways in the Western Alps
Albera, Dionigi
8.2.2. Notes on the Rural World in the Alpine valleys of Lombardy (18th-19th Centuries)
Tedeschi, Paolo
8.2.3. Continuity and change: economy and institutions in the rural space in Friuli and Trentino-Tyrol (16th-19th Century)
Bonoldi, Andrea
8.2.4. Rural economy in the Julian Alps: a Slovenian model?
Panjek, Aleksander
8.3. Rural history and "reenactment history": Challenges, questions, opportunities. Part II: Rural development and oral history projects
Panel organizer
Sayre, Laura
Chair
Sayre, Laura
8.3.1. Agro-sylvo-pastoralism in Albania: From past to present
Bernard, Claire
Lerin, François
8.3.2. Meadows and pastures in the Italian Alps: New opportunities for traditional agricultural systems
Lorenzini, Claudio
Ambrosoli, Mauro
8.3.3. "Rude, rough and lawless": Reinterpreting the field woman's story through scholarly research and performance art 
Hunt, Abigail
Martin, Nicola
Blair, Annie
8.3.4. Landscape and Youth: An oral history project on local knowledge and landscape
Strohmeier, Gerhard
Sieber, Andrea
8.4. Land rights and rural development in the non-European world in the long 20th century
Panel organizer
Vanhaute, Eric
Chair
Langthaler, Ernst
8.4.1. Regressive rights to personhood and property on the Canadian Prairies, 1870 to 1910
Ward, Tony
8.4.2. Social Structure and Land Reforms in the Yangzi Delta between 1940 and 1980
Wang, Yang (John)
8.4.3. Global land commodification, national land reform and communal land tenure in Carangas (Bolivia, 19th-20th centuries)
Cottyn, Hanne
8.5. Crises, fluctuations, land-use changes and its long term consequences 1300-1870. Multidisciplinary approaches
Panel organizer
Morell, Mats
Isacson, Maths
Chair
Morell, Mats
8.5.1. Agricultural and social responses to the Black Death in Sweden
Lagerås, Per
8.5.2. The agrarian household as a social-ecological system
Lennartsson, Tommy
8.5.3. Settlement and desertion processes in the Northern Harz region
Küntzel, Thomas
8.5.4. Pre-industrial agrarian households' adaptions to harvest crises and fluctuations: a social-ecological approach
Dahlström, Anna
Isacson, Maths
8.6. Cadastral sources from Scandinavia as gateway to Rural History
Panel organizer
Dam, Peder
Chair
Rasmussen, Carsten Porskrog
8.6.1. The total registration of farms in Sweden 1530-1630
Karsvall, Olof
8.6.2. Old Swedish geometrical maps
Tollin, Clas
8.6.3. Danish land registers
Dam, Peder
8.6.4. Finding agrarian capitalism in Norway c. 1500-1800
Dørum, Knut
8.7. Rural Resilience to Disaster: explaining regional divergences (Middle Ages - c. 1850).
Part I: Epizootics
Panel organizer
Soens, Tim
Chair
Soens, Tim
8.7.1. Power, Economics and the Seasons. Local Differences in the Perception of Cattle Plagues in 18th Century Schleswig and Holstein
Huenniger, Dominik
8.7.2. God's Hand striking the Netherlands? The Dutch response to Cattle Plague in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Looijesteijn, Henk
Van Leeuwen, Marco H.D.
8.7.3. Explaining regional variations in the impact of rinderpest. Flanders and Brabant in the 18th century
Van Roosbroeck, Filip
8.7.4. Tradition, Judgment, and Response: Combatting Cattle Plague during an Era of Disaster
Sundberg, Adam
9.1. Land- and credit-market participation and inequality - a self-sustaining process?
Panel organizer
Limberger, Michael
De Vijlder, Nicolas
Chair
Limberger, Michael
9.1.1. Rural credit, peasant land market and inequality in Eastern Spain in the late Middle Ages. The kingdom of Valencia, 14th-15th centuries
Furio, Antoni
9.1.2. The "Interessegulden" of 1635 - Styria`s First Tax on Credit Transactions
Khull-Kholwald, Martin
9.1.3. Land markets in Early Modern Inland Flanders and Brabant. Two contrasting experiences?
De Vijlder, Nicolas
9.1.4. Integrated rural economy in Early Modern Western Slovenia
Panjek, Aleksander
9.2. Nature control and land use in flood areas
Panel organizer
Takahashi, Motoyasu
Yamauchi, Futoshi
Chair
Yamauchi, Futoshi
9.2.1. Communal Organisations in the English Fen-edge Area: for a Study of Historical Parallel and Contrast with the Warichi (Land Distribution) System in Echigo, Japan
Takahashi, Motoyasu
9.2.2. Nature control and land use in flood areas: a case study of Naka-go-ya, Nishi-kanbara, Niigata, Japan
Yamauchi, Futoshi
Murayama, Yoshiyuki
9.2.3. Governance System of Flood Control in Tokugawa Japan: a case study on the coexisting system of human beings and nature in Echigo Plain
Hasebe, Hiroshi
9.3. The economic enlightenment and beyond. Collecting, evaluating and spreading knowledge to exploit agrarian resources, 1750-1850
Panel organizer
Dauser, Regina
Stuber, Martin
Popplow, Marcus
Chair
Popplow, Marcus
9.3.1. Hands-on Agriculture. Conceptualizing the Empirical in German Agricultural Enlightenment
Lehmbrock, Verena
9.3.2. The more Information - the more Expertise? Collecting, Evaluating, and Implementing advanced Agrarian Knowledge in the Electoral Palatinate, c. 1776-1800
Dauser, Regina
9.3.3. From «Pflantz-Gart» to «Stammregister» - On the history of knowledge of fruit cultivation in the canton of Bern
Stuber, Martin
9.3.4. From mobilizing knowledge, to sustained productivity growth? Agricultural prizes in Geneva during the long 19th century
Wenger, Sylvain
9.4. Wetland reclamation in Early Modern Europe
Panel organizer
Van Cruyningen, Piet
Chair
Hoyle, Richard W.
9.4.1. Managing the risks of drainage. A micro-perspective on risk assessment in early modern Flemish drainage projects
Soens, Tim
De Graef, Pieter
9.4.2. Dutch investors and the drainage of Hatfield Chase, 1626-1656
van Cruyningen, Piet
9.4.3. Draining the coastal marshes of North West Norfolk. The Le Stranges of Hunstanton, 1604-1724
Griffiths, Elizabeth
9.5. Rural Resilience to Disaster. Part II: Warfare
Panel organizer
van Bavel, Bas
Chair
van Bavel, Bas
9.5.1. The impact of the Italian Wars (1494-1559) on the rural areas of northern Italy
Alfani, Guido
Di Tullio, Matteo
9.5.2. The effects of military destruction in late medieval Flanders: explaining regional differences
Thoen, Eric
Dombrecht, Kristof
Vervaet, Lies
Soens, Tim
9.5.3. Venetian rural communities during the "Italian Wars": Institutional evolution and tightness of the rural economic system
Ongaro, Giulio
9.5.4. Rurality and Warfare: Portugal in the context of the Peninsular War (1807-1811)
Couceiro, Pedro
9.6. Long-term effects of agrarian crisis and agrarian depressions on commercial networks
(1750-2000)
Panel organizer
Herment, Laurent
Chair
Chatriot, Alain
9.6.1. The Great Depression and the Greek rural economy: agrarian crisis and rural production's commercialisation
Brégianni, Catherine
9.6.2. Harvest crises and dearth crises: a comparison of the causes and effects of the food crises of the 1840s and 1850s in Belgium
Ronsijn, Wouter
9.6.3. What about subsistence crisis in the middle of nineteenth century in England?
Herment, Laurent
9.7. Knowledge networks in rural Europe, 1700-2000. Part I
Panel organizer
Segers, Yves
Chair
Fernández - Prieto, Lourenzo
9.7.1. Knowledge networks in rural Europe: theories, concepts and historiographies
Segers, Yves
Van Molle, Leen
9.7.2. Agrarian press and its contribution to technical change in Galicia, 1900-1975
Cabo Villaverde, Miguel
9.7.3. Diffusion of agricultural science and technologies: the innovation system in Galicia (Spain),
1880 - 1936
Fernández - Prieto, Lourenzo
Soto Fernandez, David
Cabo Villaverde, Miguel
Lanero Táboas, Daniel
9.7.4. Technical change and knowledge networks in Great Britain 1945-1980s
Brassley, Paul
10.1. Knowledge networks in rural Europe, 1700-2000. Part II
Panel organizer
Segers, Yves
Chair
Brassley, Paul
10.1.1. Agricultural literature in Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon countries c. 1700-1800
Myrdal, Janken
10.1.2. Julien Gabriel Sugy's agrarian knowledge
Herment, Laurent
10.1.3. Learning to farm: the diffusion of the agronomical knowledge in the Eastern Lombardy from the Napoleonic age to the WWI
Tedeschi, Paolo
10.1.4. The contribution of human capital to agricultural growth in Germany, 1870-1939. Research strategy
Albers, Hakon
10.2. Imagining the Rural: The Politics of Rural Representation
Panel organizer
Hartman, Rebecca
Chair
Ineichen, Martina
10.2.1. "Look in her Eyes": Cultural, Political and Personal Constructions of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"
Cannon, Brian
10.2.2. The Aesthetics of Improvement in Rural Domestic Art and Architecture
Samson, Daniel
10.2.3. Toward an Indigenous Parkland: Saskatchewan Métis beyond the official story, in photograph and narrative
Andersen, Chris
10.2.4. Gender Implications in Representations of the Rural in 1950s Photo Reportages
Joris, Elisabeth
10.3. Innovation and change in European agriculture via the spread of new crops from the 16th to the 19th century. Part I
Panel organizer
Moriceau, Jean-Marc
Olivier, Sylvain
Chaussat, Alain-Gilles
Chair
Moriceau, Jean-Marc
10.3.1. A plant for the planet : a contribution towards a world history of herba medica, alfalfa, luzerne
Ambrosoli, Mauro
10.3.2. Alfalfa in the agricultural manuals of the Eastern Mediterranean
Sopov, Aleksandar
10.3.3. Artificial pastures and tithes in Normandy (17-18th centuries)
Poncet, Fabrice
10.3.4. Spanish Broom in the changes of Southern France agriculture, from the 17th to the 19th century
Olivier, Sylvain
10.4. This land is not quite your land: tenancy and leaseholding in the pre-industrial period. Part I
Panel organizer
González Agudo, David
Vervaet, Lies
Chair
van Bavel, Bas J.P.
10.4.1. Long and short term tenancies. Catalonia and Valencia
Garrido, Samuel
10.4.2. Sharecropping leaseholds organized by village communities in pre-World War II Japan
Kanzaka, Junichi
10.4.3. Land rent and lease markets in Central Spain, 1500-1600
González Agudo, David
10.5. Towards a comparative approach to rural inequality in the transition debate
Panel organizer
Ryckbosch, Wouter
Furio, Antoni
Chair
Ryckbosch, Wouter
10.5.1. Long-term trends in economic inequality in rural areas. Central and northern Italy, fifteenth-eighteenth centuries
Alfani, Guido
10.5.2. Patterns of economic inequality in town and countryside: Holland and Flanders (15th-16th centuries)
Ryckbosch, Wouter
10.5.3. Comment
Furio, Antoni
10.6. Institutional encounters: European property rights in colonial contexts. Part I: Asia and Latin America
Panel organizer
Serrao, Jose Vicente
Chair
Serrao, Jose Vicente
10.6.1. European property rights in colonial contexts: overview and topics for debate
Serrao, Jose Vicente
10.6.2. Constructing a legal language: the Landraad and the thombo in Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka
Seneviratne, Nadeera
10.6.3. Property rights and land use in the Portuguese Empire of the East, 16th-18th centuries
Münch Miranda, Susana
10.7. Co-operatives under authoritarian (socialist and capitalist) regimes in Europe in the 20th century
Panel organizer
Varga, Zsuzsanna
Chair
Swain, Nigel
10.7.1. The liberal, democratic and authoritarian regulation of co-operatives in Spain, 1906-1950
Pan-Montojo, Juan
10.7.2. Diverging roads from the Soviet kolkhoz-model inside and outside the Soviet Union
Jörgensen, Hans
Varga, Zsuzsanna
10.7.3. Co-operatives, peasants and agriculture in fascist Italy: from self-organization to social control
Mignemi, Niccolò
10.7.4. The agrarian co-operatives and the policy of the Greek governments: from the enactment of the law of 1914 until the establishment of the compulsory co-operatives
Angelis-Dimakis, Dimitris
11.1. Why were some pre-industrial societies resilient over the long-term while other pre-industrial societies were vulnerable to exogenous crises?
Panel organizer
Curtis, Daniel
Chair
Curtis, Daniel
11.1.1. Irrigation and social structure in medieval Egypt
Borsch, Stuart
11.1.2. Why India was vulnerable to famines during British rule. Local power structures and 'forced incorporation' into a world market in the case of opium production in northern India, ca. 1800-1900
Bauer, Rolf
11.1.3. Medieval land reclamation: The creation of new societies and their environmental problems. Comparing Holland and the Po Valley, c. 800 - c. 1500
Curtis, Daniel
11.1.4. Rural Risks in the Netherlands 16th-19th centuries
van Leeuwen, Marco
Looijesteijn, Henk
11.2. Cheese Making in the Alpine Space from the 18th to the 21st Century
Panel organizer
Roth, Ernst
Chair
Roth, Ernst
11.2.1. The history of Cheese Making and the development of cheese-dairies in Switzerland from the 18th to the 21st Century.
Eichenberger, Ernst
11.2.2. The dairy in Lombardy, between mountains and plains, during the nineteenth century
Besana, Claudio
Locatelli, Andrea Maria
11.2.3. The Development of Cheese-Export in Switzerland in the 19th century
Roth, Ernst
11.3. Innovation and change in European agriculture via the spread of new crops from the 16th to the 19th century. Part II
Panel organizer
Moriceau, Jean-Marc
Olivier, Sylvain
Chaussat, Alain-Gilles
Chair
Moriceau, Jean-Marc
11.3.1. Study of the changes arised from the introduction of buckwheat in the rural population in Western France (16th to the 19th century)
Chaussat, Alain-Gilles
11.3.2. The story of the relationship between farmers and the potato in France (16th to the 19th century)
Charras, Florian
11.3.3. Creation of a factory farm in Normandy with the object of cultivating the beetroot for distillation to produce 90° alcohol, 1858-1879
Birée, Patrick
11.3.4. Potatoes in southern Poland: spread and impact on demography to the mid-19th century
Miodunka, Piotr
11.4. This land is not quite your land: tenancy and leaseholding in the pre-industrial period. Part II
Panel organizer
González Agudo, David
Vervaet, Lies
Chair
van Bavel, Bas J.P.
11.4.1. Property, exploitation and land-rent prices in Western Andalusia, 1500-1700
González Mariscal, Manuel
11.4.2. Leasehold in Sweden 1500-1800, the intersection between Nordic user rights and property rights inherited from Roman law
Wästfelt, Anders
11.4.3. Every little bit helps? The leasehold of small parcels of land in late medieval Flanders
Vervaet, Lies
11.5. Everyday Relations between Tenant Farmers and Landlords in the Middle Ages
Panel organizer
Sonderegger, Stefan
Chair
Sonderegger, Stefan
11.5.1. Entails - greater dependency on landlords or more freedom for tenant farmers?
Krauer, Rezia
11.5.2. A convent and its farmers - conflict and consensus
Sutter, Claudia
11.5.3. Micro-history - an important approach to the everyday history of Late Medieval rural society
Zwahlen, Adrian
11.6. Institutional encounters: European property rights in colonial contexts. Part II: Africa
Panel organizer
Serrao, Jose Vicente
Chair
Serrao, Jose Vicente
11.6.1. Explaining the diversity of property rights regimes in the Tropics within the British Empire, 1850-1950
Byerlee, Derek
11.6.2. Endogenous Colonial Institutions: lessons from fiscal capacity building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940
Frankema, Ewout
11.6.3. How European concepts of marriage and land ownership excluded rural women in Kenya from accessing and owning property
Chabeda-Barthe, Jemaiyo
11.6.4. The 'registro de inmuebles' as a tool of colonization in the Spanish Protectorate of Northern Morocco (1912-1956)
Marchán, Jesús
11.7. Agricultural Policies in the 20th Century
Panel organizer
Federico, Giovanni
Spoerer, Mark
Chair
Spoerer, Mark
11.7.1. Lobbies and state intervention in wine markets in the early twentieth century. Why were Spain and France so different?
Planas, Jordi
11.7.2. From data to policy: statistics, enquiries, and monographs in the 1930s
D'Onofrio, Federico
11.7.3. The Institutionalization of Support Purchases in the Turkish Tobacco Market, 1940-1961
Gürsoy, Özgür
11.7.4. Agricultural Protection in the European Economic Community, 1962-1992: Rent-seeking or Welfare Policy?
Spoerer, Mark