> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S01.1. | Lands and natural spaces of the royal estate: categories, agencies, and rights in the Iberian world (15th-18th centuries)

Organisers Manuel Bastias Saavedra, María Carolina Jurado
Moderator María Carolina Jurado
Discussant Manuel Bastias Saavedra

1: Diogo Moreno. The Royal Wood Factory and the centralisation of the exploitation of the Leiria Pine Forest (1723-1807)

2: Carolina Jurado. Royal authority over colonial grasslands: contested claims during the 16th century vicerroyalty of Peru

3: Giacomo Pace Gravina. Royal domain and fief in Early Modern Sicily: the case of Camopetro

4: Alessandro Buono. Ownership and responsibility: the Spanish Crown’s claim to vacant inheritances (Italy and Spanish America, 17th-18th centuries)

5: Koldo Trapaga-Monchet. The construction of the (theoretical) eminent domain of the Crowns of Castile and Portugal over woodlands for shipbuilding in the Iberian Peninsula (XV-XVIIth centuries)

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S01.2. | Quality over time and across regions: evidence from the olive oil sector

Organisers Ramon Ramon-Muñoz, Silvia A. Conca Messina, Ana Duarte Rodrigues
Moderator Ramon Ramon-Muñoz

1: Gaia Bruno. A matter of quality: harvesting olives in the southern Italian countryside, late 18th – early 19th centuries

2: Patricia Trindade Monteiro, Ana Duarte Rodrigues. Rescuing traditional olive cultivars in Portugal for a more sustainable future

3: Ramon Ramon-Muñoz. Between divergence and convergence: regional patterns of technological change in Spain’s olive oil industry since the mid-19th century

4: Rita d’Errico, Silvia A. Conca Messina. Conquering quality: the transformation of the Italian olive oil sector from the 19th century to the present day

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S01.3. | Old and new configurations of rural Brazil: capital, social movements and education

Organisers Maria Cristina dos Santos, Luiz Bezerra Neto, Paulino José Orso
Moderator Maria Cristina dos Santos

1: Paulino José Orso. Agribusiness and education in Brazil 

2: Luiz Bezerra Neto. The struggle for education in the Brazilian countryside: from pedagogical ruralism to the Escola da Terra Program DOWNLOAD HERE

3: Maria Cristina dos Santos. The socio-historical and economic composition of rural Brazil: the protagonism of subjects in the struggle for land and education DOWNLOAD HERE

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S01.4. | Mutual construction and intertwining between community and hacienda in the Hispanic-Lusitanian worlds, 18th-20th centuries (Americas, Asia and the Caribbean) 1

Organisers Eric Léonard, Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Marta Martín Gabaldón

1: Marta Martín Gabaldón. Jesuits, Spaniards, haciendas volantes, caciques and Mixtec and Triqui pueblos in the Juxtlahuaca-Putla corridor, Oaxaca, during 18th century

2: Cynthia Radding. Pueblos, haciendas and ranchos between the river valleys and the monte in Northwestern New Spain: spaces, resources, and boundaries in the Mayo river basin

3: Manoela Pedroza. An unique system of transmission of property rights over land in a Brazilian civil parish during the 19th century

4: Alejandro Diez. Haciendas and indigenous communities in the dispute and collaboration in the management of water and territory: the valleys of Chira and Piura from the 19th to the 20th century

5: Alejandro Diez. Trajectories of communalization of haciendas in the sierra of Piura, 18th to 20th century

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S01.5. | Agricultural tractors, social change and rural communities in 20th century 1

Organiser & Moderator Bruno Esperante

1: Juri Auderset. Calibrating Interaction: tractors and draft animals in Swiss agriculture, 1900–1960

2: Derya Nizam Bilgiç, Aapo Jumppanen, Timo Suutari. Tractorization and social change: a comparative analysis of agricultural mechanization in Turkey and Finland

3: Bruno Esperante. Agricultural tractors and social change in rural communities. Galicia, Spain 1950-2000

4: Yves Segers. Street protests and festive parades: the multifunctional use of tractors in Belgium since the 1950s

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S01.6. | Exploring demographic patterns, epidemics and mortality crises in the rural communities of Late Medieval Northwestern Mediterranean

Organisers Pere Benito i Monclús, Albert Reixach Sala
Moderator Daniel R. Curtis

1: María Luz Rodrigo, Lidia C. Allué-Andrés. A peste, fame et bello libera nos, domine: mapping epidemics and famines in Late Medieval Aragón

2: Pere Benito i Monclús, Alberto Barber Blasco. Exploring demographic patterns and epidemic cycles in late medieval Crown of Aragon: will series from rural communities in Catalonia (1348-1530). The case of the small town of Sant Boi de Llobregat, near Barcelona (1371-1500)

3: Joan Busoms-Cabanas. Writing wills in agropastoral communities of the Catalan Pyrenees after the Black Death: a source for demography and economic and social history

4: Albert Reixach Sala. Exploring demographic patterns amid epidemic cycles in late medieval Crown of Aragon: will series from rural communities in Catalonia (1348-1530)

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S01.7. | Underemployment, seasonality and mobility in rural worlds (18th-20th centuries) 1

Organizers Niccolò Mignemi, Luca Andreoni, Francesco Chiapparino
Moderator & Discussant Niccolò Mignemi

1: Petri Talvitie. Coping with underemployment: migration, pluriactivity, and gender in Eastern Finland during the 19th century

2: Fabrice Boudjaaba. Refusing the factory: peasant attitudes to industrial work (Ivry -France 1800-1880)

3: Iosif Marin Balog. Seasonality, mobility and the evolution of the incomes of day laborers and agricultural servants in Transylvania (1895-1914)

4: Luca Andreoni, Francesco Chiapparino. Performances, mobilities, underemployment in Italian agriculture during the 1930s

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S01.8. | The time around 1525 from a gender and household economic perspective

Organisers Janine Maegraith, Siglinde Clementi
Moderator Elise Dermineur
Discussant Jane Whittle

1: Victoria Gierok. Women’s economic position in Southern Germany at the time of the Peasant Revolt: An analysis of taxable wealth

2: Siglinde Clementi. The feudal system and the inheritance rights of women in the Tyrolean nobility of the early modern period

3: Janine Maegraith. A male affair? Women’s wealth and their economic participation in the household in southern Tyrol around 1525

4: Margareth Lanzinger. Property and gender in rural areas: continuities and particularities in Tyrolean Court Practice around 1525

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S01.9. | Timber floatations in Europe: between continuity and discontinuity 1

Organisers Claudio Lorenzini, Katia Occhi
Moderator Jawad Daheur

1: Zsombor Attila Gal. The coming forth of the modern capitalist timber industry around the upper -stream of the river Mures

2: Robert-Miklos Nagy. Timber floatations on the river Mureș/Maros in the 18th and
19th centuries

3: Dimitri Langoureau, Nicolas Jacob. Timber floatation in Yonne

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S01.10. | Continuities rather than novelties? Technologies, imaginaries and practices in the ecologisation of agriculture 1

Organisers Romain Blancaneaux, Julie Hermesse, Nicolas Loodts
Moderators & Discussants Romain Blancaneaux, Julie Hermesse

1: Gianni Malica. Socio-ecological trajectories and historical roots of hedgerows in Europe: what role and prospects for hedgerows in the materialization of the tension between modernization and ecologization narratives?

2: Walpurga Friedl. The future is organic: narratives of organic farming in a 1978 TV documentary

3: Amber Striekwold. The role of the animal in a sustainable food system: an exploration of a contested issue in the Netherlands
1950-2000

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S01.11. | Rural economic inequalities in the Central and Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period 1

Organiser Radosław Poniat

1: Marzena Liedke, Radosław Poniat, Piotr Guzowski. Economic inequalities among nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16-18th centuries

2: Joanna Hryniewicka, Dawid Kowalik. Inequality among the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late 18th century

3: Ewa Kaźmierczyk, Monika Kozłowska-Szyc. Between rural roots and urban wealth: economic inequalities among the Polish-Lithuanian nobility in the 17th-18th centuries

4: Agnieszka Zoch. Peasant or townspeople wealth? Economic inequality among residents of agrarian towns in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th century

5: Aleksander Panjek. Wealthy peasants and poor nobles: inequalty and overlapping affluence in early modern Slovenia

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S02.1 | A field of one’s own? Long-term analyses of female landownership and land use 1

Organiser & Moderator Daniel R. Curtis

1: Leonor Salguinho Ferreira. Life between hardship and prosperity: asset management strategies of widows in Early Modern rural Portugal

2: Elise Dermineur. Women, indebtedness and the land market in eighteenth-century France

3: Joshua Rhodes. Gendered patterns of landownership in England, c.1780-1850

4: Paloma Miravet Llorens, Sergio Serrano Hernández. Black women and land cultivation: agency and resilience (Fernando Po, 1900-1919)

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S02.2 | Organization of agrarian production and labour relations in the Ottoman landed estates 1

Organisers Alp Yücel Kaya, Socrates D. Petmezas, Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
Moderator Socrates D. Petmezas

1: Antonis Hadjikyriacou. Τhe organisation of production in Ottoman estates according to the 1832/33 land and property survey of Cyprus

2: Dilek Akyalçın Kaya. Labor relations in olive production within large estates in the Ottoman Empire

3: Ezgi Burcu Işıl Sevgener. Landholding and class relations in the Ottoman countryside: çiftliks, villages, and textile production in the 19th-century Balkans

4: Alp Yücel Kaya. Evolution and peculiarities of primitive accumulation in the 19th century Ottoman Empire

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S02.3 | Agricultural tractors, social change and rural communities in 20th century 2

Organiser & Moderator Bruno Esperante

4: Judit Tóth. Story of an outlaw tractor: small farmers’ difficulties in purchasing machinery in Hungary during the Kadar era (1956–1989)

5: Francesca Uleri. Quinoa boom and agrarian change in the Bolivian Altiplano: “tractoristas” and new land questions within a reframed land use system

6: Miguel S. Albergaria. The design of sociotechnical systems and the mechanization of milking in the Azores

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S02.4 | Methods, sources and approaches in the study of the history of cattle 1

Organisers Bárbara Direito, Leonardo Aboim Pires, Inês Gomes, Marta Nunes Silva
Moderator Bárbara Direito

1: Laurent Herment. The industrial animal as an abstract technical object

2: Viktorija Jonauskienė. Revealing livestock farming in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (16th–18th centuries): insights from archaeological and historical source analysis

3: Marco Marigliano, Gianpiero Fumi. How much are parents worth? Herd books between science and market: the Italian case (19th-20th century)

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S02.5. | Economic nationalism and economic development of rural areas in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Central and Southeastern Europe

Organisers Nataša Henig Miščič, Janja Sedlaček

1: Petra Kavrečič Božeglav. Women’s national associations and their role in economic development

2: Miroslav Radivojević. Economic nationalism in Macedonia 1870–1908: a case study

3: Kristina Miličić. Consequences of the Custom War (1906-1911) on the rural population of the kingdom of Serbia: the Export Cooperative in Uzice and influence on Husbandryin rural areas the Uzice county

4: Ivan Smiljanić. Economic nationalism as a cause for financial failure in Slovenian rural areas from late 19th century to the Second World War

5: Nataša Henig Miščič. A comparative study of financial networks in the shadow of economic nationalism in rural areas of the Carniola province and Bács-Bodrog county before 1918

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S02.6. | Labour conflict and coercion in European rural households (16th-19th centuries)

Organisers Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Teresa Petrik
Moderator Carolina Uppenberg

1: Jonas Lindström. Relationships between masters and servants in Early Modern Sweden

2: Vilhelm Vilhelmsson. Discipline or abuse? Coercion and violence in rural labour relations in pre-modern Iceland

3: Raffaella Sarti, Cora Benetti. Coercion and conflict in rural households: the case of Urbino (Italy) (18th-19th centuries) from a gendered and comparative perspective

4: Teresa Petrik. Claiming labour(ers): disputes about servants’ work and the application of labour law in 17th–18th century Upper Austria

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S02.7. | Farm accounts in rural Europe (c. 1700-1914): to better know one’s own? 1

Organisers Nathalie Joly, Federico D’Onofrio
Moderator Giulio Ongaro

1: Piet van Cruyningen. Accounting on farms and landed estates in the Netherlands, c. 1700-1914

2: Oscar Dube. Between identity and profession: Farm records from Saxony, 1700 to 1914

3: Helena Benito Mundet, Àngel Ballarin Garnica, Margarita López-Antón. Accounting roots: economic and historical analysis of the marchioness of dou farm in Figueres (Spain) (1916-1924)

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S02.8. | Timber floatations in Europe: between continuity and discontinuity 2

Organisers Claudio Lorenzini, Katia Occhi
Moderator Jawad Daheur

4: Giulia Beltrametti. Environmental, social and economic aspects in the timber floatation system. The case of the Maritime Alps, Italy (late 18th – early 20th century)

5: Claudio Lorenzini. Concentration, processing, distribution: timber flows to and from Perarolo di Cadore (16th-19th centuries)

6: Nicolas Jacob. Logistical continuity versus river discontinuities: technical solutions for adapt rivers to timber floating, 18th-19th c., Morvan (France) with a comparison with Alps and Carpathians

7: Katia Occhi. Forests, rivers, and frontiers: the complexity of timber supply chain in the Early- Modern Alps

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S02.9. | Continuities rather than novelties? Technologies, imaginaries and practices in the ecologisation of agriculture 2

Organisers Romain Blancaneaux, Julie Hermesse, Nicolas Loodts
Moderators & Discussants Romain Blancaneaux, Julie Hermesse

4: Julie Hermesse, Gabrielle Fenton. Conventional farmers stretched between standards: from the absence of consultation to the perception of an enforced greening – case studies from Flanders and Wallonia (Belgium)

5: Séverine Lagneaux. The invisibility of agro-ecological levers in the context of farm transfers in Wallonia

6: Barbara Van Dyck, Larissa Mies Bombardi, Coline Prévost, Danya Nadar, Marjolein Visser. A political agroecology of the encounter of biodigital innovation and farming worlds
in Belgium

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S02.10. | Meet the author: Ownership regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850). The normative role of community and kinship

Manuel Bastias Saavedra

Organisers Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Alessandro Buono, Marta Martín Gabaldón

Discussants José-Miguel Lana Berasain, Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marta Martín Gabaldón, José Carlos de la Puente Luna, Alessandro Buono

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S02.11. | Rural economic inequalities in the Central and Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period 2

Organiser Radosław Poniat

5: Piotr Guzowski, Radosław Poniat, Maciej Kwiatkowski. Who in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a poor peasant and who was a rich one in the end of the 18th century?

6: Maciej Kwiatkowski. Models of peasants’ budgets in the 18th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania

7: Radu Nedici. The prosperous serf: legal challenges and property accumulation strategies on the mining estate of Abrud in Habsburg Transylvania (first half of the eighteenth century)

8: Piotr Miodunka. Inequalities among the rural population of southern Poland at the end of the 18th century

> Room Instituto de História económica e social, 3rd Floor

S02.12. | Meet the project: ReSEED – Rescuing seed’s heritage: engaging in a new framework of agriculture and innovation since the 16th century

Organizer Dulce Freire
Discussants Alberto González Remuiñán, Anabela Ramos, Carlos Manuel Faísca, Dulce Freire, José Luís Barbosa

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S03.1. | Pigs in the late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Europe: breeding, production and consumption (11th-16th centuries) 1

Organisers Davide Cristoferi, Valentina Costantini
Moderator Antoni Furió

1: Edoardo Manarini, Lorenzo Tabarrini. Pork chains: pig breeding and economic change in High-Medieval Italy

2: Tommaso Vidal. Out of the woods, into the farms: patterns of pig farming and commoditization in the high and late Middle Ages

3: Valentina Costantini. Piggy cities: markets, distribution and pork consumption in Siena and Florence (14th-15th c.)

4: Davide Cristoferi. Mobile pigs: pig breeding and transhumance in late medieval and early modern Tuscany (14th-17th c.)

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S03.2. | Organization of agrarian production and labour relations in the Ottoman landed estates 2

Organisers Alp Yücel Kaya, Socrates D. Petmezas, Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
Moderator Alp Yücel Kaya

4: Socrates Petmezas. Revisiting the issue of “Gospodarlik/ağalik” (i.e. lordly) estates in 19th century Ottoman Central Balkans

5: Petar Dobrev. Çiftlik estates in Dobrudja in the XIX c.: a rare case of agrarian capitalism?

6: Andreas Lyberatos. Land and labor relations in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Kiustendil: the evidence of bulgarian court records

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S03.3. | Women and economic activity in rural communities: new perspectives and methodologies 1

Organisers Beatrice Moring, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Moderator & Discussant Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

1: Beatrice Moring. Women and work in pre-industrial rural Finland- Sources and Interpretations

2: Gabriel Jover-Avellà, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora. Women’s labour participation and family composition in the agricultural labour supply: 19th-century Majorca

3: Markéta Skořepová. Foster mothers: paid care for foundlings in the village society in the 19th-century Bohemia

4: Inês Tenreiro Bernardo. Women’s dowries and heritage in the municipality of Moimenta da Beira (18th-19th centuries)

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S03.4. | Violence in rural Central and Eastern Europe (17th-19th centuries) 1

Organisers Jan Błoński, Agata Koprowicz, Paweł Pietrowcew
Moderator Paweł Pietrowcew

1: Jan Błoński. “When the nobleman pressed too hard…”: violence against the tavernkeepers in early modern Poland

2: Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Mateusz Wyżga. “He was lost in the passion of drunkenness”: alcohol and violence among Polish peasants, 18th-19th century

3: Piotr Kołpak, Marta Raczyńska-Kruk. Peasant brawls: main spheres of violence in the early modern village of the Carpathian Foothills in the light of village court books

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S03.5. | Agricultural techno-scientific services and rural society before World War II: precedents for post-war extension services or alternative socio-political devices?

Organisers Juan Pan-Montojo, Mícheál Ó Fathartaig, Daniel Lanero Táboas
Moderator Mícheál Ó Fathartaig
Discussants Juan Pan-Montojo, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto

1: Jordi Planas, Yves Segers. Experts, farmers and livestock contests: the modernisation of cattle farming in Belgium and Catalonia in the early 20th century

2: Matthias Stettler. Trust, but verify: the Swiss Agricultural Society and the introduction of chemical fertiliser

3: Ulrike Heitholt. The German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft) as an interface between agriculture and the state

4: Marco Marigliano. Teaching and innovation in mountain rural societies: the role of the Cattedre ambulanti di Agricoltura in cattle farming in the Italian Alps (late 19th century – 1926)

5: Roque Sanfiz Arias, Alberto González Remuiñán. Scientific transfer and co-creation during the 1930s in Atlantic agriculture: the Galician Seed Producers Trade Union

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S03.6. | Work and gender

Organisers Carolina Uppenberg, Paul Warde
Moderator Carolina Uppenberg
Discussant Jane Whittle

1: Florian Probst, Ulrich Pfister. Breaking the gender mould: seasonal labour and wage gaps in German agriculture, 16th–19th c.

2: Nina Ošep, Brina Kotar. Between the hoe and the judgments: the ideal of the farm servantmaid in 19th-century Styria and Carniola

3: Patrick Svensson. Work organization on family farms in Sweden during the agricultural depression of the late 19th century

4: Paul Warde. Tamlaght 1840: work and gender in an Irish community

5: Carolina Uppenberg. Domestic decisions: how gender shaped labour organisation in semi-landless households

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S03.7. | Resilience and recovery in a historical context

Organiser & Moderator Elisabeth Engberg
Discussant Magnus Bohman

1: Erling Häggström Gunfridsson.  Demographic Impacts of the Finnish War and the 1860s Famine in 19th-Century Sweden: Acute and Long-Term Effects

2: Henrik Forsberg, Magnus Bohman. Economic and social history of a European famine: comparative perspectives on Northern European harvest failures in the 1860s

3: Elisabeth Engberg. The path to a new “normal”: societal recovery and transformation in rural Burträsk following the 1860s famine in Northern Sweden

4: Jen Yu-Chien. Further Investigations on the Famine in Yunnan Province, China from 1815 to 1817: Factors Other Than Climatic Issues

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S03.8. | Coping with the comparison: sources, methods, models for the study of the forest resources in Europe (1870-1914)

Organisers Giacomo Bonan, Luca Andreoni
Moderator & Discussant Federico D’Onofrio

1: Sofia Teives Henriques, Amélia Branco. Understanding the forest economy without forest statistics: the case of Portugal 1870-1938

2: Marcin Krasnodębski.  Standardizing resinous products in France and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of turpentine and rosin

3: Iñaki Iriarte Goñi. Estimating wood consumption in Spain, 1860-2000: sources and methods

4: Giacomo Bonan, Luca Andreoni. The statistics on woodlands and timber trade in Italy (1861-1914)

5: Martin Bemmann. Does it suffice? Statistical assessments of the world’s forest resources and their consequences, 1870-1914

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S03.9. | Agricultural practice, knowledge and the healthy farmers’ sense in the 20th and 21st centuries 1

Organisers & Moderators Jessica Richter, Přemysl Mácha

1: Elisa Botella-Rodríguez. “Necessity made us aware”: agrarian innovation and the search for alternatives during cuba’s special period (1993-2006)

2: Joan Tort-Donada. Rethinking everyday reality from an indispensable global perspective: the peasant’s gaze as an all-encompassing paradigm and expression of common sense

3: Antonio Allegretti. Rearticulating the past for a better future: exploring the transition to ‘ancient cultivars’ in the Daunian Mountains region of Southern Italy

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S03.10. | Acculturation of migrants and agriculture in the subtropics of the Americas

Organisers Laurent Herment, Angelo Carrara, Alejandro Tortolero
Discussant & Moderator Manoela Pedroz

1: Jawad Daheur. Agricultural clearing in the German colonies in Brazil: challenges of adaptation and variability of experiences (mid-19th to early 20th century)

2: Angelo Carrara. Cattle farming in Minas Gerais, Brazil, throughout the 18th century

3: Krzysztof Ziomek. The aculturation of the Polish Colonists in Brazil in the XIX century and the Interwar Period

4: Laurent Herment. A turbulent colony

5: Alejandro Tortolero. Searching for a new California: migration, agriculture and food for living in Sinaloa, Mexico at the end of the 19th century

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S03.11. | Wetlands as colonized and decolonized
spaces 1

Organisers Harro Maat, Joana Sousa
Moderator Harro Maat
Discussant Lavinia Maddaluno

1: Mark Raat. The Frisian peat landscape: a history of wetland transformation for the common good

2: Elisa Lopes da Silva. Wetlands, rice and migrants: a history of colonial violence and resistance in Portugal

3: Antonio Giráldez López. Artificial meadows and dry wetlands: a spatial analysis of the drainage, transformation and recovery of wetlands affected by Franco’s colonisation in A Chaira

4: Astrid Artner-Nehls, Sandra Uthes. Societal discourses and the transformation of the Western-Havelland wetlands, Germany

> Room Gama Barros, 3rd Floor

S03.12. | Politics, practices and epistemes: the rural in scientific ways of making society

Organisers Dietlind Hüchtker, Friedrich Cain
Moderator Margareth Lanzinger

1: Friedrich Cain. Crop, chemicals, and creativity. developing socialist innovation research in the GDR, 1970s

2: Dietlind Hüchtker. The voice of the object: studies on rural youth in socialist Poland in a European perspective

3: Clemens Six. Psychologising development: Durganand Sinha, the crisis of community development, and the modernisation of the rural mindset in India, c. 1950-1970

4: Jan Surman. Designing cattle: images of knowledge between peasants and academics

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S04.1. | Environment, health and disease: perceptions and problem-solving in rural and agricultural communities 1

Organisers Karen-Beth Scholdthof, Cherisse Jones-Branch, Jeannie Whayne
Discussant & Moderator Debra A. Reid

1: Jeannie Whayne. “A wild and sickly country”: Italian immigrants and the malarial fevers at Sunnyside plantation in Arkansas

2: Cherisse Jones-Branch. “In the interest of the health conservation of the American Negro:” National Negro Health week activist praxis in rural southern black communities

3: Karen-Beth Scholthof. Plant pathogen, poison, and medicine: ergot as a boundary object in exploring disease and health

4: Sara Müller. “Staub ist gift!” negotiating a healthy cattle barn environment in Switzerland during the 1950s

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S04.2. | Women and economic activity in rural communities: new perspectives and methodologies 2

Organisers Beatrice Moring, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Moderator & Discussant Beatrice Moring

1: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto. Work, family and mobility in rural regions of early modern Piedmont

2: Motoyasu Takahashi. Women and economic activities in early modern Japanese rural society: new ways of using genealogical data in Kamishiojiri Village, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture

3: Jadon Nisly-Goretzki. Carrying clover for Oxen: women’s labor in an intensive livestock exporting smallholder economy in Central Germany, ca. 1700-1850

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S04.3. | Access to credit and social change in rural Southern Europe (18th and 19th centuries): new insights

Organisers Enric Saguer, Ricard Garcia-Orallo, Marco Antonio Álvarez Sánchez
Moderator Jordi Planas

1: Borut Žerjal. “Livello” in Early Modern Venetian Istria: a vector of pauperization or also of social change?

2: Sebastià Villalón Barragán. From the annuity to the obligation: private credit and social change in the final stage of the Ancien Regime (Catalonia, 1768-1840)

3: Rosa Congost, Enric Saguer, Ricard Garcia-Orallo. More indebted, but more owners: the interlocking of land and credit markets (Girona, 1768-1800)

4: Juan Carmona, Joan R. Rosès. Costs and barriers to rural property rights formalization (Spain, 1845–1932)

5: Marco Álvarez Sánchez. Notaries as lenders, A Fonsagrada (NW Spain), 1845-1875

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S04.4. | Methods, sources and approaches in the study of the history of cattle 2

Organisers Bárbara Direito, Leonardo Aboim Pires, Inês Gomes, Marta Nunes Silva
Moderator Bárbara Direito

4: Tadej Pavković. Estimating cattle weights through 17th and 18th century meat tax records in Austrian Habsburg Duchies of Carniola and Styria

5: Nathan Brenu, Sofia Nannini. Cattle, architecture, and the Bureau of Animal Industry: Institutional documents for the production and dissemination of a new model of dairy farm (1884–1910)

6: Franciszek Ignacy Fortuna. Regulation of cattle pasture in the Kingdom of Prussia in the late XVIII and early XIX century

7: Bárbara Direito, Inês Gomes, Marta Nunes Silva, Leonardo Aboim Pires. This little cow went to market’: unveiling Portugal’s modern history of cattle through farmers’ markets and agricultural fairs

> Room Anfiteatro 1, 3rd Floor

S04.5. | Access to land, social practices, and institutional hybridizations in two hemispheres 1

Organisers José-Miguel Lana Berasain, Marta Martín Gabaldón, Manoela Pedroza

1: Marta Astier. Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez. One hundred years of milpas: a Mexican agrobiodiversity history

2: Bernardo Mayer Florentino. Access to municipal land in colonial Brazil: the case of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas

3: Lidia C. Allué-Andrés. Para dar execucion y cumplimiento a la dicha capitulacion y concordia: shaping and transformation of the livestock farming spaces in the royal lands of the Aragonese Extremadura (12th-17th centuries)

4: Caio Gomes da Costa. The Torrens System in early Republican Brazil

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S04.6. | Understanding contemporary rural energy transitions between decarbonization strategies and localized rural changes 1

Organisers Francesca Uleri, Federica Viganò, Monica Musolino
Moderator Monica Musolino
Discussant Federica Viganò

1: Astrid Artner-Nehls, Sandra Uthes. Democracy in the energy transition? Local resistance and the failure of democratic decision-making in in building europe’s largest biomethane plant

2: Dario Minervini, Ivano Scotti. Questioning energy prosumerism in poor rural areas

3: Joseba De la Torre, Mar Rubio-Varas. Governing wind energy with wide public acceptance: rural transformation and energy transition in Northern Spain, 1990s-2025

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S04.7. | The rural built environment. Histories between architecture and agriculture 1

Organisers Pedro Namorado Borges, Samuel T. Brandt, Attila Gábor Hunyadi
Moderator Samuel T. Brandt

1: Alessandra Miglio. The evolution of the spatial relationship between housing and farms in rural France: an historical approach shedding light on current issues

2: Antonio Giráldez López. The promise of architecture: infrastructure and alternative modernity in the Francoist colonisation of Terra Chá

3: Attila Gabor Hunyadi. The architecture of cooperative buildings in pre-war Transylvania compared to interwar Romania

4: Francesca Tanghetti, Carlotta Coccoli. Protecting Rural Heritage: risk assessment and conservation strategies in the Lower Brescia Plains

5: Emilia Țugui. Between ideal a real: two model villages in Romania

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S04.8. | Food wastage in common agricultural policy: rationales, criticisms and coping strategies over time

Organisers Laura Prosperi, Paolo Tedeschi, Andrea Maria Locatelli

1: Laura Prosperi. The dynamic and profitable side of institutional food wastage: the case of the Common Agricultural Policy

2: Paolo Tedeschi. Waste and economic crisis in the Common Agricultural Policy after the oil shock: green currencies and monetary compensatory amounts

3: Andrea Maria Locatelli. CAP, production and consumption between the 1960s and 1980s

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S04.9. | Farm accounts in rural Europe (c. 1700-1914): to better know one’s own? 2

Organisers Nathalie Joly, Federico D’Onofrio
Discussant Federico D’Onofrio

4: Richard W. Hoyle. Farm accounts or unexpired improvements’ or ‘tenant right’ in nineteenth-century England

5: Giulio Ongaro. Agricultural accounting in the Eighteenth-century Po Valley: models and actual procedures

6: Nathalie Joly, Federico D’Onofrio, Nadine Vivier. Farm accounts in rural Europe, c.1700-1914: to better known one’s own? An overview and a commentary

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S04.10. | The spatial mobility of the peasants in the system of serfdom

Organiser Piotr Guzowski

1: Marian Niedermayr. The mobility of peasants and the rural workforce in the Lower Austrian manorial system (ca. 1500–1700)

2: Gulyás László Szabolcs. The frameworks of peasant-migration in the medieval Hungarian kingdom

3: Radosław Poniat, Piotr Guzowski. The mobilization and immobilization of labour under the serfdom system

4: Veronika Lešková. Spatial mobility of rural population on the estate of Česká Kamenice in the early modern period 17th to 18th centuries

5: Marten Seppel. Classifying peasant mobility under serfdom: the case of Estonia and Livonia, 1600–1800

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S04.11. | Water, upland settlement, and memory: multidisciplinary perspectives on rural history in the 20th century

Organisers Giovanni Agresti, Luis Gomes da Costa, Eltjana Shkreli

1: Eltjana Shkreli. Water system in Nikc in one century (Kelmend, Albanian Alps)

2: Silvia Pallini, Renata De Rugeriis Juárez. Language, water, and heritage: exploring the role of local identities in sustainable water management and community resilience along the watercourses in the Upper Vomano Valley and the Aterno Valley

3: Luís Gomes da Costa. Imagining a third river bank: a case study of history-based artistic research in rural contexts

4: João Luís Fernandes. The implementation of dams, the transformation of space, the dispossession of local communities and the death of places (topocide) – examples from Portugal

5: Maciej Adam Kierzkowski, Magdalena Masewicz-Kierzkowska. Post-German swimming pools in the Owl Mountains: oral histories, cultural heritage, and community memory
in rural Poland

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S05.1. | A field of one’s own? Long-term analyses of female landownership and land use 2

Organiser & Moderator Daniel R. Curtis

 5: Mary Kyameti. Challenging boundaries: women’s dynamic relationship with the land in post-war Samos (Greece, 1950-1980)

6: Gudmundur Jonsson. Women, property and households in Iceland in the 18th and 19th centuries

7: Iain Riddell. Finding female farm authority in the 19th century British context: Combining the Scottish public records to quantify and locate Grampian women who controlled twelve-year land leases to farm

8: Andreu Seguí Beltrán. Female landownership in an island rural context: the Majorcan Pla (16th century)

9: Daniel R. Curtis. In one hand and out the other? Women’s ownership and access to land in a seventeenth-century rural community, Oudenbosch (West Brabant, Netherlands)

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S05.2. | Using rural black women to reimagining the limits of activism in the modern black freedom movement

Organisers Beatrice J. Adams, Pamela Walker, Brooke A. Thomas
Moderator Cherisse Jones-Branch

1: Camille Goldmon. “A good garden will free you from the plantation store!”: black women’s horticulture and food power as resistance in the Alabama Black Belt, 1881–1940

2: Pamela Walker. Black women lives behind the cotton curtain: food, the Welfare State, and the Freedom Movement

3: Brooke Alexis Thomas. “If they can’t come to us, we’ll go to them:” black sorority women, black midwives, and the New Deal, 1935-1942

4: Beatrice J. Adams. “Hope Comes From These Ideas:” Eva Clayton, Rural Development, and Writing Black Women into the Political Impact of the Civil Rights Movement

> Room Instituto de História económica e social, 3rd Floor

S05.3. | Violence in rural Central and Eastern Europe (17th-19th centuries) 2

Organisers Jan Błoński, Agata Koprowicz, Paweł Pietrowcew
Moderator Agata Koprowicz

4: Rita Regina Trimonienė, Violence by mayors against “their own”: the case of the Šiauliai economy in the late of the 17th century

5: Marcin Śrama. Violence in the Greater Poland countryside based on parish and town records in the Early Modern Period (17th-18th century)

6: Paweł Pietrowcew. Evidence of sexual violence by soldiers recorded during the Great Northern War in parish registers in the Lublin area

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S05.4. | Family farming from a gender perspective in the 20th century 1

Organisers & Moderators Ana Cabana Iglesia, Uxía Otero González, Alba Díaz Geada

1: Mercedes Chinea Oliva. Women of the home versus sharecroppers: the difficult reconciliation between the model of the rural woman under Francoism and the reality of a marginal space in southern Europe

2: Francesca Frisone. Rural communities and social change: the role of women in the socioeconomic development of 1960s Sicily

3: Margreet van der Burg. Women in diverse and changing family farming in the Netherlands: acknowledgement of intersectional women’s gender differentiations and changes

4: María Fernández Blanco. “Cousas de mulleres”: a gendered reading of the newspaper Terra e tempo (1963-1985)

5: Elisa Botella Rodríguez, Vanesa Abarca Abarca. The Evolution of Women-led Farms in Castilla y León: A Historical Overview

> Room Sala TP1, 4th Floor

S05.5. | Coastal fishing in rural communities of the medieval Iberian Peninsula and
its actors

Organisers & Moderators Antoni Ginot-Julià, Olegário Nelson Azevedo Pereira

1: Maria Rosário Bastos. Pastoralism and ploughing or fishing and salt production? A mixed economy on the new medieval coast of Laguna de Aveiro

2: Olegário Pereira. Human settlement and coastal fishing in the mainland Portuguese medieval coast

3: Sérgio Lira. “Musealising” the rural and the fishing medieval material and intangible heritage

4: Frederic Aparisi. The material culture of fishing families in medieval Valencia

5: Antoni Ginot-Julià. Communal fisheries management in late medieval rural Catalonia

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S05.6. | Insect invasions and agriculture in Europe: institutions, tools and strategies of defense (17th-20th centuries) 1

Organisers Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi
Moderator Luciano Maffi

1: Laura Prosperi. The Catholic Church against pests: the other side of the moon

2: Jesús Catalá-Gorgues. Insects in transit: USA, Spain and the Mediterranean basin in the extension of biological pest control

3: John B. Seitz. Chemical and bacteriological locust control on the Kazakh Steppe in the Late Russian Empire

4: Anna Teijeiro Fokkema. Miracle or disaster? The pesticide industry and Dutch discourses of economic necessity, food security and doubt (1973-2000)

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S05.7. | Water, environment and conflicts in contemporary history

Organisers & Moderators Sergio Salazar-Galán, Francesco D’Amaro

1: Judit Gil-Farrero. Environmental conflicts around dam building in 20th century Spain

2: Ricardo Vale. Rough lives and lost hopes in Montesinho and Douro international natural parks: who benefits from nature conservation?

3: Francesco D’Amaro. The Tagus-Segura water transfer project as a national and environmental struggle

4: Dominique Françoise Aviñó McChesney. Mapping social and economic history through the journey of water

5: Sergio Salazar-Galán. Invisible water and agriculture in Spain: a historical perspective

6: Stefano Morosini. Dams in the Alps and Apennines: A Post-Colonial and Post-Positivist Analysis of Urban-Mountain Relations

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S05.8. | Understanding contemporary rural energy transitions between decarbonization strategies and localized rural changes 2

Organisers Francesca Uleri, Federica Viganò, Monica Musolino
Moderator Francesca Uleri

4: Ángel Sanjuán-Ruiz. Rural ironworking and environmental (in)efficiency during the energy transition to fossil fuels in Spain, 1850-1920

5: Aurore Dudka. The role of thermal energy communities in empowering rural transitions: the case of Forest’Ener

6: Monica Musolino. Models of rurality and energy transition in the Italian Alps

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S05.9. | Underemployment, seasonality and mobility in rural worlds (18th-20th centuries) 2

Organisers Niccolò Mignemi, Luca Andreoni, Francesco Chiapparino
Moderator & Discussant Gérard Béaur

5: Florian Probst, Ulrich Pfister. Labour rhythms and the evolution of seasonal work in German agriculture, late sixteenth century to c. 1850 

6: Gabriel Jover-Avellà. Conflict and/or complementarity? Seasonal labour demand, female work and agricultural specialisation in Mallorca between 1798 and 1809

7: Leonida Ravšelj, Anđela Nedeljković. Gendered labor and agricultural underemployment in the Karst region

8: Henry French. (Male) seasonal underemployment and poor relief in a saturated rural labour market: South-East England in the early 19th century

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S05.10. | Water in rural areas: memory, conflicts and landscape dynamics

Organisers João Luís Fernandes, Ramon Garcia Marin

1: Enikő Rüsz-Fogarasi. The water management at the end of the 16 to early 18th century in Cluj neighborhood

2: Inês Jordão Pinto. Water and rural dynamics: hydraulic management and watermills in the lease contracts of the Monastery of Seiça (Portugal) in the Early Modern Period (1754-1834)

3: Martin Andersson. Milling monopolies in Early Modern Sweden

4: Petra Mátyás-Rausch. The use of hydropower in early modern Transylvania: Conflicts over water mills (16th-17th centuries)

5: Carlos Manuel Faísca. Dams, irrigation and regional development in Southwestern Iberia, 1950-2040

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S05.11. | Breeding with or without breeds?

Organisers Jadon Nisly-Goretzki, Ulrike Heitholt

1: Tadej Pavković. Racial classifications of horses at the Habsburg Imperial stud farms of Lipica and Kladrub in the 17th century

2: Amber Striekwold. “Alternative” cultures of breeding: contesting intensive livestock breeding in the Netherlands (1950-2020)

3: Jadon Nisly-Goretzki. Breeds before herd books? Defining German cattle populations in the early 19th century

4: Esben Bøgh Sørensen. Breeding for bacon: the Danish landrace pig

5: Ulrike Heitholt. Breed in German poultry breeding in the 19th century

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S05.12. | From exotic to local seeds. Global circulation and local impact of cultivated seeds since the
15th century

Organisers Dulce Freire, Alberto González Remuiñán
Moderator  Alberto González Remuiñán

1: Mauro Ambrosoli. The progress of cultivated clovers before the Columbian Exchange: the case of Lombardy-Piedmont 1550s

2: Alberto González Remuiñán, José Luis Barbosa, Carlos Manuel Faísca, Anabela Ramos, Leonor Salguinho Ferreira. New seeds and changes in seasonal resource management: changing landscapes and new challenges.

3: Mariana Rodrigues, José Bettencourt, João Tereso, Dulce Freire. New foods in Lisbon: an archaeobotanical perspective on the introduction of American plant foods in Europe

4: Fernando Mouta. Rice in Atlantic history: crops as culture or the culture of crops?

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S06.1. | Pigs in the late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Europe: breeding, production and consumption (11th-16th centuries) 2

Organisers Davide Cristoferi, Valentina Costantini
Moderator Pere Benito i Monclús

5: Salvador Vercher-Lletí. Pig farming in the Valencian rural world: breeding and consumption (14th-15th centuries)

6: Lluís Sales Favà. Swine husbandry amongst serf peasants in late medieval Catalonia

7: Ricardo Córdoba. Pig breeding and pork consumption in 15th century Castile

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S06.2. | Environment, health and disease: perceptions and problem-solving in rural and agricultural communities 2

Organisers Karen-Beth Scholdthof, Cherisse Jones-Branch, Jeannie Whayne
Moderator Debra A. Reid
Discussant Karen-Beth Scholdthof

5: Camille Goldmon. Nutrition as freedom: George Washington Carver’s rural health agenda

6: João P.R. Joaquim. “A natural protective mechanism in favour of the potato”: remote rural landscapes and disease-free seed potato production in interwar Great Britain

7: Bina Sengar. Kavli among humans and livestock: genres of healing in the rural landscapes of Vindhyanchal

8: Louis M. Kyriakoudes. Using oral history to chart community resilience in response to climate change and environmental disaster: insights from the deepwater horizon oil spill oral history project

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S06.3. | Family farming from a gender perspective in the 20th century 2

Organisers & Moderators Ana Cabana Iglesia, Uxía Otero González, Alba Díaz Geada

6: Michelle McVicker. We feed you: protest fashion and the United Farm Workers Union

7: María Dolores Haro Gil, María del Carmen Pérez Artés. Sexual division of labour and rural economy in the grape sector of south-eastern Spain (20th century)

8: Maria Vanha-Similä. Women’s everyday life on the family farm in Finland in the 1950s and 1960s

9: Rita Calvário, Cecília Honório. «We women fought hard in the fields»: rural women and the Portuguese Revolution

10: Laura Cabezas Vega, Silvia Canalejo Alonso. The Myth of the “bumpkin” Woman and Rural Modernization: Gender, Identity, and Social Change in Francoist Spain

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S06.4. | The organisation of work and workers in England (c. 1250 – 1850)

Organiser Grace Owen
Moderator Jane Whittle

1: Nick Collins. Women’s hidden agricultural work and the slow transition to the breadwinner-homemaker family in England, 1700-1850

2: Li Jiang. The value of waged labour: a reconsideration of remuneration in early modern rural England

3: Grace Owen. Acknowledging the known unknowns: gender and wage labour in medieval England

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S06.5. | Agroecological landscapes and food systems in Europe in the long term 1

Organisers Guiomar Carranza Gallego, David Soto Fernández, Gloria Guzmán Casado
Moderator Manuel González de Molina

1: Alexandre Macedo João. The Portuguese Wheat Campaign: evaluating the impact of production inputs

2: Nele Lohrum, Morten Graversgaard, Tommy Dalgaard. From wetland to farmland: historical transformations of Denmark’s agricultural landscapes through land drainage

3: Oscar Dube. Where happened the agricultural revolution? Food production Saxony

4: Guiomar Carranza-Gallego, Gloria Guzmán Casado, Pablo Saralegui-Díez, Sergio Salazar Galán, Manuel González de Molina. Landscape assessment to sustain a healthy diet: case of the Vega (Granada, Spain), 1983-2016

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S06.6. | Rural cooperatives in East Central and South-Eastern Europe in the interwar period: growing influence of national politics and simultaneous internationalizaton of the cooperative movement?

Organizer Uwe Müller
Moderator Zarko Lazarevic

1: Torsten Lorenz. Polish rural cooperatives in the interwar period between nationalization and internationalization (1918-1939)

2: Jan Slavíček. Rural cooperatives in interwar Czechoslovakia: roles, political affiliations and interactions with a democratic state

3: Katerina Brégianni. Rural conferences in the Interwar Greece and the gradual perception of cooperatives as State’s ‘’bodies’’: an appraisal using discourse analysis

4: Gábor Koloh. Consumer cooperatives in Hungary (1898–1923)

5: Uwe Müller. Rural co-operatives as instruments of national economic policy in interwar East Central Europe

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S06.7. | Meet the author: The formation of agricultural governance. The interplay between state and civil society in European agriculture, 1870- 1940
Jordi Planas, Anton Schuurman, Yves Segers

Organisers Jordi Planas, Anton Schuurman, Yves Segers
Discussants Clare Griffiths, Vicente Pinilla, Nigel Swain, Jordi Plana, Yves Segers

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S06.8. | Insect invasions and agriculture in Europe: institutions, tools and strategies of defense (17th-20th centuries) 2

Organisers Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi
Moderator Luciano Maffi

5: Paulien Daelman. Mapping agricultural pests: patterns of insect damage in the Low Countries, 1780-1840

6: Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Matteo Di Tullio. Insects in scientific and agricultural knowledge, 1600-1800

7: Attila Nóbik. The role of Hungarian elementary school teachers in the fight against phylloxera at the end of the 19th century

8: Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi. The phylloxera invasion in Italy: new empirical evidence on policies and instruments of counteraction (19th century)

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S06.9. | Rural economic inequalities in the Central and Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period 3

Organiser Radosław Poniat

9: Marija Koprivica. Economic aspects of the activities of the rural population in the Medieval Serbian lands

10: Martin Andersson. Wealth inequality in Early Modern Northern Europe: Sweden 1571–1627

11: Rita Regina Trimonienė. Economic stratification and entrepreneurship in the Šiauliai economy community in the late of seventeenth century

12: Antal Szántay. Economic Inequality in 18th-century Hungary

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S06.10. | Historical perspectives on accounting as a social practice in organisational management: Pathways to accountability and sustainability 1

Organisers Liliana Pimentel, Leonor Fernandes Ferreira, Andreia Fernandes
Moderator Liliana Pimentel

1: José Luís Barbosa. Inequality in Northern Portugal through the “Foral” charters (16th to 19th centuries)

2: Leonida Ravšelj. Beyond farm accounts: methodologies for analyzing farm self-sufficiency without written records

3: Eva Laczka. Sources of rural history and its use in Hungary

4: Inês Milheiras, Liliana Pimentel, Dulce Freire. Accounting history: bibliometric analysis between 1992 – 2024

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S06.11. | Meet the author: Rural Films (Rural History Yearbook 2024)
Brigitte Semanek, Peter Moser, Andreas Wigger

Organisers Brigitte Semanek, Peter Moser, Andreas Wigger
Discussants Brigitte Semanek, Peter Moser, Andreas Wigger, Karen Sayer

S07.8. | Engineers and the rural> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S07.1. | The history of horticulture 1

Organisers & Moderators Magnus Bohman, Inger Olausson

1: Hilde Røsstad. Technological Entanglement and Exclusion: Growers, Insects and Pesticides in Horticulture, 1945-1960

2: Rodrigo Simões Ferreira Gomes. The role of horticulture in the food supply of a besieged city in the Hellenistic period: an analysis of the Paraskeuastika by Philo of Byzantium (fl. c. 200 BCE)

3: Nina Edgren-Henrichson. The Finnish Horticultural Society and the breakthrough of horticulture in the late 19th century: a case study

4: Niccolò Mignemi. Cultivating fruit specialization in Italy (1920s-1960s)

5: Laurent Brassart. The horticultural machine of the Napoleonic state: its ambitions, achievements and limitations

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S07.2. | Comparing agrarian reforms throughout the 20th century: conflicts and oppositions 1

Organisers Sergio Riesco Roche, Carlos Manuel Faísca, Dimitris Angelis-Dimakis
Moderator Sergio Riesco Roche
Discussant Carlos Manuel Faísca

1: Irhan Jubica, Eltjana Shkreli, Liridona Ura. How land reforms affected Albanian highlands (communities)

2: Hestia-Ioana Delibas. By design: de-collectivisation in post-socialist Romania and the rise of land grabbing

3: Beatrice Penati. Mobilise, modernise, and re-intensify: land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan

4: Elisa Botella-Rodríguez. Nicaragua and Cuba: experimental, coyuntural or alternative land reforms in Latin America?

5: Horacio Mackinlay. Amortisation and Disentailment in Mexican Agrarian Reform. 20th century

> Room Sala 1, 3rd Floor

S07.3. | Meet the author: Before banks: the making of credit and debt in preindustrial France
Elise Dermineur

Organiser Elise Dermineur
Moderator Elise Dermineur
Discussants Janine Maegraith, Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S07.4. | Rural violences in Europe 1

Organisers  Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Óscar Bascuñán Añover
Moderator Óscar Bascuñán Añover
Discussant  Miguel Cabo Villaverde

1: Marta Nunes Silva. State violence and control of population mobility on the Portuguese-Spanish border (1950s)

2: Jean-Paul Gagey. The village and the military: violent contestations and enforcements of the land distribution at both ends of the Tsarist empire & USSR (1875-1935)

3: Judit Tóth. Violence against farmers classified as kulaks in Hungary

4: Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Antonio Míguez Macho. The contentious Galician: a long-term analysis of violence in a rural society (1850-1950)

5: Natalia Jorge Pereira. From threat to violence: the use of force in the border communities of Tomiño and Vila Nova de Cerveira

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S07.5. | Commons and economic inequality in rural Europe (1500-1800) 1

Organisers Giulio Ongaro, Matteo Di Tullio, Benedetta Maria Crivelli
Moderator Giulio Ongaro

1: Pedro Mota Tavares. Exploiting the commons: resource management and economic inequality in the mountain borderlands of Portugal and Spain (18th–19th centuries)

2: William Renström. Redefining the commons: forest rights, resource access and economic inequality in late 17th century Sweden

3: Martina Motta, Matteo Di Tullio, Umberto Signori. Political inclusion and management of the commons in Early Modern Alps

4: Matteo Di Tullio, Giulio Ongaro. Taxation, public spending and economic inequality in Venetian Lombardy (1400-1800)

5: Petra Mátyás-Rausch. Property relations and unequal distribution of wealth in Transylvanian mining towns (16th and 17th centuries)

6: Jerónimo Miguel Rueda Dicenta. Common rights vs. Landlords’ below Etna’s shadow: the case of Bronte against the Duke of Carcaci (Sicily, 1770 ca. -1842)

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S07.6. | Working with visual archives 1

Organisers Patrick Wichert, Peter Veer, James Quinn
Moderator Karen Sayer
Discussants Peter Veer, James Quinn

1: Agata Koprowicz. Images in the archive, stories on the web: retelling the peasant past in contemporary Poland

2: Yashaswi Sagar. Printing propaganda: recovering the Russian countryside from the textile archive

3: Andreas Wigger. Commissioned films – a multifaceted source for thematising the agrarian worlds of the 20th century

4: James Quinn, Craig Barber. Site-visit: a joint practice-led investigation of Norfolk’s archival footage

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S07.7. | Rural landscape of Medieval Slavonia

Organisers Branimir Brgles, Hrvoje Kekez, Marija Karbić

1: Petar Seletković. The oppidum in the Late Medieval South Hungary between rural settlement and urban center. an overview of the central functions of the rural market towns on the example of settlements in the lower interamnium of the Drava, Sava and Danube rivers

2: Hrvoje Kekez. How to locate a medieval landed estate based on scarce medieval written sources and early modern cartographic sources: a case study of Poljana on the river Una

3: Branimir Brgles. Development of medieval rural settlements in Western Slavonia

4: Marija Karbić. Towns and villages – societies in interaction: examples from the Sava and Drava interamnium in the Middle Ages

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S07.8. | Engineers and the rural environment in 20th century Europe 1 (Crops and agronomic research)

Organisers Iñaki Iriarte Goñi, Francesco D’Amaro, Judit Gil-Farrero
Moderator Iñaki Iriarte Goñi

1: Roque Sanfiz Arias, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto. The economic life of the peasant: Cruz Gallástegui Unamuno’s vision of environment and the agricultural economy of Galicia (1891-1960)

2: Alberto González Remuiñán. Endangered agrobiodiversity: the generalisation of foreign varieties in Iberian rye breeding

3: Jesús Catalá-Gorgues. From the breeding insectary to the open field: biological pest control and the action of spanish agronomists (1924-1936)

4: Silvia Pérez-Criado. Agricultural engineers and the DDT dilemma: studying effectiveness, convincing farmers, and balancing impact

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S07.9. | Meet the project: Soy and agro-food change

Organiser Ernst Langthaler
Moderator Brigitte Semanek
Discussants Harro Maat, Zsuzsanna Varga, Jeannie Whayne, Gabriel Tober

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S07.10. | The making of naturalistic and technical-environmental knowledge: a long-term perspective across different chronologies, geographic areas, and disciplinary approaches 1

Organisers Simona Boscani Leoni, Giulia Beltrametti
Moderator  Simona Boscani Leoni

1: Monika Kozłowska-Szyc. Building agronomic knowledge: the origins and development of agronomic literature in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (16th–18th centuries)

2: Guillaume Favrod. The construction of viticultural technical and environmental knowledge through physiocratic and scientific publications in the Pays de Vaud from 1750 to 1900

3: John B. Seitz. Knowledge and infrastructures of empire: peasant settlement and the environment on the Kazakh Steppe, 1880s-1917

4: Giulia Beltrametti. Imperial commissions, universal expositions, and local practices: the woods of the Habsburg Karst on the trial of forestry knowledge (late 19th – early 20th century)

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S07.11. | Reassessing narratives on land tenure and empire (16th-17th centuries)

Organisers Roger Lee de Jesus, Alina, Rodríguez Sánchez
Moderator José-Miguel Lana Berasain

1: José Carlos de la Puente. General land inspections in sixteenth century Peru: new approaches to old problems

2: Edson Edy de Brito. Beyond mortality: capelas as guardians of spiritual and material legacies in Cape Verde (16th-18th centuries)

3: Roger Lee de Jesus. How to think about land ownership in the Portuguese Empire: the case of the villages of Goa (16th-17th centuries)

> Room Instituto de História económica e social, 3rd Floor

S07.12. | Sustainability in the wine supply chain in Europe after World War II to the present: institutions, technologies, and markets

Organisers Luciano Maffi, Omar Mazzotti
Moderator Omar Mazzotti

1: Andrea Maria Locatelli, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Pineiro. The wine of Italian valleys: some case studies

2: Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi, Dario Dell’Osa. Sustainable agriculture, organic production and quality certification in the Italian wine supply chain

3: Carla Sequeira, Pedro Almeida Leitão. The Douro wine region in the second half of the 20th century: technical innovation, vertical integration and new business players

> Room Sala 2, 3rd Floor

S08.1. | Combatting starvation: how communities have fought hunger

Organiser & Moderator Claire Strom

1: Rebecca Sharpless. Women, social science, and the ongoing problem of hunger in the American South before World War II

2: Kornelija Ajlec. Yugoslavia’s agricultural transformation: western aid, hybrid corn, and the quest for food security

3: Marcela Hennlichová, Stanislav Holubec. Food and coal crises in Prague, Vienna and Paris in winter 1916/1917

4: Claire Strom. Privatizing hunger: food relief after World War II and the development of food banks

> Room Anfiteatro VI, 3rd Floor

S08.2. | The history of horticulture 2

Organisers & Moderators Magnus Bohman, Inger Olausson

6: Eli Ashkenazi, Guy Bar-Oz, Amots Dafni. Desert, nomads and sacred trees – place attachment and landscape memories in the Negev desert of southern Israel

7: Dominique Aviñó McChesney. On the words and water trails of Mediterranean Basin horticulture: the Palmeral of Elche as a case study

8: Peter A. Coclanis. A bias for hope: small-scale agriculture in Singapore

9: Inger Olausson, Magnus Bohman. A muddy boot in the door: horticultural education as a mean for female emancipation?

10: Dániel Luka. Horticulture during collectivization in the Hungarian countryside

> Room Anfiteatro III, 4th Floor

S08.3. | Mutual construction and intertwining between community and hacienda in the Hispanic-Lusitanian worlds, 18th-20th centuries (Americas, Asia and the Caribbean) 2

Organisers Eric Léonard, Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Marta Martín Gabaldón

 6: Edinson Ceballos Bedoya. The hacienda larandia and the expansion of the agrarian frontier towards the Colombian amazon floorland: 1933-1972

7: Olivia P. Topete Pozas. An overview of water conflicts between villages and haciendas in the central valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, 19th to 20th century

8: Guillermina Esposito. The farm-school of Carahuasi: tenant system and school system. Puna de Jujuy, Argentina, 1908-1970

9: Pol Colàs. Colonies and settlements for the defense of internal and external borders in Bolivia: the cases of Guanay, Villa Rodrigo, and El Tremedal (1840s)

10: Eric Léonard. The community divided: the resistible expansion of Xaagá estate, Oaxaca, Mexico, 18th-19th centuries

> Room Instituto Paleografia, 3rd Floor

S08.4. | Commons and economic inequality in rural Europe (1500-1800) 2

Organisers Giulio Ongaro, Matteo Di Tullio, Benedetta Maria Crivelli
Moderator Matteo Di Tullio

6: Erika Tomat. Commons, commodities and community in a small town along the Venetian borders

7: Maïka De Keyzer, Jan Peeters. Collective wealth in premodern peasant societies: the role of commons in complementing the total income of rural households in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Campine area (Southern Low Countries)

8: Niels Grüne. Common land use, social inequality and fiscal sustainability: the case of 18th-century South-West Germany

9: Henry French. The deepest pool? Inequality and large-scale upland common resources: Exmoor, England c. 1800

10: Niccolò Caramel. Economic changes and wealth inequality in an Early Modern Alpine Community: the case of Pieve Tesino (Italy)

11: Tommaso Somigli Russotto, Giulio Ongaro, Federico Scribante. Taxation, commons, and inclusiveness of the local public institutions in Central-Northern Italy (1500-1800)

> Room Sala 4, 3rd Floor

S08.5. | Agroecological landscapes and food systems in Europe in the long term 2

Organisers Guiomar Carranza Gallego, David Soto Fernández, Gloria I. Guzmán Casado
Moderator Manuel González de Molina

5: Sergio Salazar Galán, Guiomar Carranza-Gallego, Gloria Guzmán Casado, Manuel González de Molina. The role of water in the transformation of the agrarian landscape and its social metabolism: the case of the Vega (Granada, Spain), 1983-2016

6: Pablo López Gómez, Margarita Fernández Mier. An archaeological study of collective and semi-collective mountain socioecosystems in Cantabrian mountains

7: David Soto Fernández, David Fontán Bestilleiro, Lucía Santiago Sanmiguel, Roque Sanfíz Arias, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Carlos San Clemente Erazo, Nuria Salmerón. The role of local knowledge in building sustainable landscapes. The case of the Barbanza commons (Galicia, Spain) in the past decades

> Room TP1, 4th Floor

S08.6. | Working with visual archives 2

Organizers Patrick Wichert, Peter Veer, James Quinn
Moderator Karen Sayer
Discussants Peter Veer, James Quinn

5: Patrick Wichert. A photographic recalling of the Great Colchester/Essex Earthquake of 1884 using regional archives

6: Judith Stewart. “Here she come!”: living on the edge as seen through the camera lens

7: Peter Veer. Old family portraits, heritage farms and historic regional networks

8: Debra A. Reid. Minneapolis-Moline: putting agricultural industry film and filmmakers into rural and agricultural context

> Room Sala 7, 4th Floor

S08.7. | Agricultural practice, knowledge and the healthy farmers’ sense in the 20th and 21st centuries 2

Organisers Jessica Richter, Přemysl Mácha
Moderator Oliver Kühschelm

4: Přemysl Mácha. Common sense as farmer’s sense: family memory, oral history and farmer’s knowledge in contemporary Czechia

5: Jessica Richter. Knowing a peculiar kind of work: farming in early 20th-century Austria

6: Barbara Turk Niskač. Learning affect through children’s grazing practices in Southeastern Slovenia (1940–1980s)

> Room Anfiteatro I, 3rd Floor

S08.8. | Gendered taskscapes: women, agricultural work and the politics of (un-) visibility in the 19th and 20th centuries 1

Organisers Juri Auderset, Peter Moser
Discussants Grey Osterud

1: Karen V. Hansen. Landownership and Reproductive Labor: The Case of Homesteading Women

2: Peter Moser. Women in agriculture in the interwar period

3: Juri Auderset. Contested visions of work: farm women’s labor and the science of work in the interwar years

> Room TP2, 4th Floor

S08.9. | The making of naturalistic and technical-environmental knowledge: a long-term perspective across different chronologies, geographic areas, and disciplinary approaches 2

Organisers Simona Boscani Leoni, Giulia Beltrametti
Moderator Giulia Beltrametti

1: Nikita Peresin Meden. How local knowledge shaped the process of division of common land into private ownership: the Karst region in the second half of the 19th century

2: Giacomo Zanibelli, Alessandra Bulgarelli. Measuring and mapping natural resources: southern Italy (18th-20th centuries)

3: Alessandro Panetta, Anna Maria Stagno. When industry meets local knowledge on tinder: the Fomes fomentarius fungus collecting, processing and trading in the Ligurian Apennines (NW Italy) between the 19th and 20th century

4: Simona Boscani Leoni. Knowledge and techniques around the wood: the Alps from the Renaissance to the early 18th century

> Room Sala 3, 3rd Floor

S08.10. | Science to the rescue? Applied research and pastoral lands in Europe (1945 – nowadays)

Organiser Pierre Cornu

1: Pierre Cornu. Heterodox science and marginal areas, a winning alliance? Farming system research and extension in Southern Europe in a transnational and environmental perspective (1970’s – nowadays)

2: Derek Byerlee. Forages, FAO, and the foundations of the genetic resources movement

3: David Drevon, Lucile Garçon, Marie-Odile Nozières-Petit. Animal sciences, free-range pigs, and cured pork products as development tools for Corsica (1970’s-1990’s)

4: Charlène Bouvier. Which purpose for pastoral lands in French cattle-breeding intensification? The keys to improving and exploiting European pastoral zones imported by French agronomists (1940’s-1960’s)

[01] Lower Mondego river area and Salt Museum

[02] From seed to plate: the Europe’s northernmost rice-growing region

[03] Changing rural territories: long-term perspectives on heritage and innovation

[04] Building the city of Coimbra: the Roman marks through time

[05] Between the rural and the urban: itinerary of Coimbra’s House-Museums

[06] University of Coimbra: education, science and the city

> Room Sala 3.1, 3rd Floor

S09.1. | The countryside at war: peasant revolts and struggles in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe 1

Organiser & Moderator Antoni Furió
Discussant Pau Viciano

1: Antoni Furió. Peasants at war: the rural component in the anti-monarchical and anti-seignorial revolts in the kingdom of Valencia (14th-15th centuries)

2: Hipolito Oliva Herrer. Rural revolts during the war of the communities of Castile (1520-1521)

3: Mauro Hernandez. Who against whom? Actors in rural riots in Eighteenth-century Castile

> Room Sala 4.1, 4th Floor

S09.2. | Rural violences in Europe 2

Organisers Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Óscar Bascuñán Añover 
Moderator Óscar Bascuñán Añover
Discussant Miguel Cabo Villaverde

6: Edouard Lynch. From the Great War to the economic crisis: reinventing peasant violence in 1930s France

7: Oliver Kühschelm. Violence, state capacity, and a potato cellar

8: Tamara López Fernández. Deconstructing the “black legend”: the rural conflict in Lugo during Franco’s dictatorship

9: Virgiliu Leon Tarau. Stimulating violence in the rural environment: the outbreak of repression and deportations at the beginning of collectivization in Romania (1949-1950)

10: Óscar Bascuñán Añover. “Slain by her husband”: communal rejection of violence against women in rural Spain (1890-1936)

> Room Sala 2.4, 2nd Floor

S09.3. | Meet the project: Traditional knowledge for a sustainable future – the international “Water & Land” project

Organiser Chantal Bisschop, Laura Danckaert
Discussants Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, Sophie Elpers, Přemysl Mácha

> Room Sala 4.2, 4th Floor

S09.4. | Class differentiation processes in contemporary rural societies 1

Organisers Alba Díaz Geada, Alberto José Franco Barrera
Moderator Alberto José Franco Barrera

1: Vitor Ribeiro de Matos. Development of a bibliographic database for the study of class differentiation in the rural world

2: Rene Brauer, Mirek Dymitrow. Introducing (digital) yeomanry: a potential remedy for contemporary capitalisms’ burnout society

3: Beatrice Penati. Searching for class in the semi-capitalist village: Soviet-era debates about Tsarist Central Asia

> Room Sala 4.3, 4th Floor

S09.5. | Agrarian dynamics and state initiatives in napoleonic Europe 1 

Organisers Gérard Béaur, Laurent Brassart, Rosa Congost
Moderators Laurent Brassart
Discussants Nadine Vivier

1: Gérard Béaur, Anne Varet-Vitu. A spatial overview of the land and property market in the “Grand Empire” in 1810

2: Rosa Congost. On the vicissitudes of feudal rents in Napoleonic Europe. Some historiographical reflections

3: Frédéric Monachon. Building a New Agrarian State within the Napoleonic Order: The Vaud case during the Act of Mediation (1803–1814)

4: Franciszek Ignacy Fortuna. Between the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Prussia: Agrarian reforms on the borderland

> Room Sala 2.1, 2nd Floor

S09.6. | Gendered taskscapes: women, agricultural work and the politics of (un-) visibility in the 19th and 20th centuries 2 

Organisers Juri Auderset, Peter Moser
Discussant Zsuzsanna Varga

4: Tony Varley. Farm women in twentieth-century Ireland: a comparison of two classic studies

5: Eszter Varsa. “I wish I could provide daily support to the most unfortunate”: two peasant women’s autobiographies in early twentieth-century Hungary

6: Eszter Lengyel. Women in collective farms in Northwest Hungary

7: María José Mora Mayoral, María Dolores Haro Gil. Gender and cooperative membership dynamic: The evolution of women’s role in CASI (1945–2018)

> Room Anfiteatro 3.2, 3rd Floor

S09.7. | Meet the project: Wooden bridge – bridging geography and history of woodlands: analyzing mountain wooded landscapes through multiple sources and historical GIS

Organisers Giovanni Cristina, Nicola Gabellieri, Vittorio Tigrino
Discussants Giovanni Cristina, Giulia Beltrametti, Vincenzo Colaprice, Nicola Gabellieri, Federico Gestri

> Room Sala 2.3, 2nd Floor

S09.8. | Engineers and the rural environment in 20th century Europe 2 (Development and infrastructures) 

Organisers Iñaki Iriarte Goñi, Francesco D’Amaro, Judit Gil-Farrero
Moderator Judit Gil-Farrero

5: Nathan Brenu. Ponts et Chaussées engineers and water management in Cerdanya: at the heart of planning conflicts (19th-20th centuries)

6: Fernando López-Castellano, Laura Cabezas Vega. The agricultural engineer Ángel Zorrilla Dorronsoro and his development programme for the new francoist state (1938-1946)

7: Juan Pan Montojo. Agronomic engineers, the technological present and future of agriculture and the environment in Spain during the fordist era, 1951-1975

8: Francesco D’Amaro. Public works engineering and environmental protection: a slow approach in late-francoist Spain
and Italian republic

> Room Sala 2.2, 2nd Floor

S09.9. | Access to land, social practices, and institutional hybridizations in two hemispheres 2 

Organisers José-Miguel Lana Berasain, Marta Martín Gabaldón, Manoela Pedroza

5: Sarah Limão Papa. New world, immemorial possession: communal uses of nature in 18th century Portuguese America

6: Matteo Tacca, Caterina Piu. Ligurian kinships, commons and their environment: an ethnographic point of view (Aveto Valley, XIX-XX centuries)

7: Manoela Pedroza. Smart marriages: patrimonial and matrimonial strategies of smallholders in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 18th and 19th centuries)

8: Santiago Colmenares. The banana cows: cattle ranching and the banana commodity frontier in the early 20th century Caribbean

9: Manuel Rios. Property and the spatial distribution of grazing violations in 18th-century Lorraine

> Room Gonçalves da Silva, 4th Floor

S09.10. | Fishery policies, institutions and markets (1950-2020)

Organisers Jesús Giráldez Rivero, Pedro Varela-Vázquez, Álvaro Garrido
Discussant Yorgos Stratoudakis

1: Álvaro Garrido. Institutional change and national autarchy: science and maritime law shaping the Portuguese fishing policies (1945-1977)

2: María del Carmen Espido Bello, Jesús Giráldez Rivero, Pedro Varela Vázquez. Companies and globalization of Spanish fishing

3: Xoán Carmona Badía, Adrián Dios Vicente. The introduction of light tuna in Spain: companies and strategies

4: Carlos de Francisco. Enhancing fisheries to boost development in the Iberian dictatorships throughout the Golden Age

5: Francisco Henriques. Canned fish in the era of political economy.
The Portuguese sardine industry in comparative perspective (1932-1973)

> Room Sala 4.4, 4th Floor

S09.11. | Meet the author: The experience of work in early modern England
Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Taylor Aucoin, Hannah Robb

Organizer Jane Whittle
Discussants Jonas Lindström, Charmian Mansell, Andrea Caracausi, Maïka de Keyzer, Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Taylor Aucoin,  Hannah Robb

> Room Anfiteatro 3.2, 3rd Floor

S10.1. | Comparing agrarian reforms throughout the 20th century: conflicts and oppositions 2

Organisers Sergio Riesco Roche, Carlos Manuel Faísca, Dimitris Angelis-Dimakis
Moderator Sergio Riesco Roche
Discussant Dimitris Angelis-Dimakis

6: Dimitris Angelis Dimakis. The Greek land reform of 1923 and its impact on the Greek rural space during the interwar period

7: George Gassias. Rural space and transformations. From Ottoman Sancak-i Tirhala to Greek Thessaly 1881-1940

8: Lucian George. The shadow of land reforms and their failures: the land question in 1930s East-Central Europe

9: António Themudo Barata. The troubled path of Portuguese agriculture at the end of the 20th century, under the sign of two reforms (1975 and 1992)

10: Leonardo Aboim Pires. Talkin’ bout a revolution within a revolution: transnational ideas and local approaches to the Portuguese agrarian reform (1975-1977)

11: James Simpson, Juan Carmona. From agrarian reform to land reform: Spain in a European perspective

> Room Sala 4.1, 4th Floor

S10.2. | Landscape and legend: oral traditions as sources for rural history

Organisers David Hopkin, William Pooley, Timothy Tangherlini

1: Julian Goodare. Scottish peasants in the magical landscape

2: Bina Sengar. Asaraat-Dargah-Dham: genres of healing in the rural landscapes of Deccan and Vindhyanchal

3: Timothy R Tangherlini. The demise of the Danish witch: small holders and the rise of the dairy cooperatives, 1870-1910

4: David Hopkin. Remembering feudalism in nineteenth-century France: shepherdess saints and sinister seigneurs

5: Robert Piotrowski. Giants, huns, and kings: geofolklore and erratic boulders in the Baltic Southern Lowlands

> Room Sala 2.3, 2nd Floor

S10.3. | Engineers and the rural environment in 20th century Europe 3 (Forested landscapes: transformation-conservation)

Organisers Iñaki Iriarte Goñi, Francesco D’Amaro, Judit Gil-Farrero
Moderator Francesco D’Amaro

9: Miguel Carmo, Frederico Ágoas, Inês Gomes, José Miguel Ferreira. Science against fire: the rise of agronomic sciences and the opposition to fire use in Portugal during the 19th century

10: Judit Gil-Farrero. Foresters and land ownership in protected areas: the case of the Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici National Park

11: Iñaki Iriarte Goñi. Spanish Foresters and changes in forests understanding and management,
1960 1995

12: Max Bautista-Perpinyà. From genetic improvement to biodiversity conservation: seed orchards and environmental challenges in Spain in the dismantling of the Forest Engineering Regime (1966-1999)

> Room Sala 2.1, 2nd Floor

S10.4. | Framing the countryside: the role of moving images in shaping rural perceptions and identities 1

Organisers Sven Lefèvre, Brigitte Semanek, Edouard Lynch
Moderator Yves Segers

1: Oliver Douglas. Revisiting “Speed the Plough”: narrative turns in farming and film

2: Walpurga Friedl. From economic struggles to organic solutions: analyzing the representation of rural spaces in 1970s ORF documentaries

3: Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh. Moving images, unmoved nation: capturing rural Irish life on film but not capturing rural Irish people’s imagination

4: Edouard Lynch. The television series Les Cousins, a distorted mirror of rural France during the 1960”s agricultural revolution

> Room Sala 2.2, 2nd Floor

S10.5. | Access to land, social practices, and institutional hybridizations in two hemispheres 3

Organisers José-Miguel Lana Berasain, Marta Martín Gabaldón, Manoela Pedroza

10: Iain Riddell. Not the poor man’s country: the unexplored intersection of women and the heritable long-lease farm in 19th Century Grampian

11: José-Miguel Lana Berasain. Bylaws from two shores: contexts, players and rules in the ‘ordenanzas’ of Los Llanos (Venezuela) and La Montaña (Spain)

12: Camilla de Freitas Macedo. The construction of a memory for the property in the Commonwealth of Aralar-Enirio (Gizpuzkoa, Spain)

13: Íñigo Ena Sanjuán. Grassland rules: transformation of pastoral practices in the Aragonese Pyrenees (19th-20th centuries)

14: Marc August Muntanya Masana. Confronting tradition with authority: social reaction to the early land enclosures in 17th century Catalonia

> Room Sala 4.4, 4th Floor

S10.6. | Peasant women in socialist Europe: diverse realities and experiences 1

Organisers Zsuzsana Varga, Zarko Lazarevic, Janja Sedlacek
Moderator Zarko Lazarevic
Discussant Peter Moser

1: Ewelina Szpak, Zsuzsanna Varga. Healthcare and rural modernization: a comparative study of rural women in Poland and Hungary during the socialism

2: Jelena Tešija. Peasant women, co-operative activists and reproductive labour: the case of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1950s

3: Janja Sedlaček. Stratification and inequalities among peasant women in socialist Slovenia

4: Nigel Swain. The representation of women in the journal Magyar Mezőgadaság 1959 to 1989

> Room Anfiteatro 4.1, 4th Floor

S10.7. | Revisiting labour on large rural properties in 19th and 20th centuries Brazil and Latin America: sociability, rights, and democracy

Organisers Gillian McGillivray, Marcus Dezemone, Leonardo Soares dos Santos
Moderator Leonardo Soares dos Santos

1: Marina Monteiro Machado. This land has an owner! Disputes and property rights in the sesmarias of Santo Antônio de Guarulhos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 19th century)

2: Kassia Rossi. From rural to a tourist destination: land grants and the territorial transformation process in Florianópolis, Brazil (1900-1980)

3: Leonardo Soares dos Santos. Forms of sociability and leisure practices in Rio de Janeiro’s sugar zone: football teams in Campos dos Goytacazes (1917-1990)

4: Marcus Dezemone. From slavery to land access: sociability in the construction of rights in the province and state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1871-1987)

5: Gillian McGillivray. From paternalism to precarity: land and labour policies under a French enterprise in Brazil, 1907-1969

> Room Sala 4.3, 4th Floor

S10.8. | Wetlands as colonized and decolonized spaces 2

Organisers Harro Maat, Joana Sousa
Moderator Joana Sousa
Discussant Fernando Mouta

5: Lin Yi-Tang. Designing ideal wetlands for rice: Rokupr rice research station and the West Africa Rice Development Association

6: Aaron Wilford. Navigating the end of slavery in Yorùbá wetlands

7: Joana Sousa, Benício Có, Djone Camala. The ongoing end of rice in Biombo: colonial forced labour, sea-level rise and rural exodus

8: Nicholaas Pinas. Farming on a gradient from wet to dry; Maroon rice cultivation in Suriname

9: Lamin Manneh. Freedom among the mangroves: liberated African villages in Colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism 1816-1869

> Room Sala 2.4, 2nd Floor

S10.9. | The history of environmental resource management in Europe: sustainable practices through time

Organisers & Moderators Matteo Di Tullio, Anna Maria Stagno

1: Pedro Mota Tavares. From law to landscape: environmental resource management and sustainability in 19th-century Southern Europe

2: Adele Repetto, Laura Gago-Chorén, Anna Maria Stagno. Social networks and transoceanic emigration: the role of 19th century emigration in the changes in property and environmental resources management

3: Ylenia Paciotti. The memory of the landscape: recostructing the past through fieldwork and documents in Sierra Nevada

4: Manuel González de Molina, Gloria Guzmán Casado, David Soto Fernández. Agrarian metabolism: a flow-fund model to analyse agroecosystem services in historical perspective. A case study from Spanish agriculture

5: Jesper Larsson. Indigenous resources management in Northern Europe: transition to large scale reindeer herding in northern Fennoscandia

5: Alicja Krzemińska, Anna Zaręba, Kamil Pawłowski, Mariusz Adynkiewicz-Piragas. Heritage, history, and ecology of rural churchyard cemeteries on the polish-czech border: their role in maintaining ecological corridors, sustainable spatial planning, and documenting historical landscape transformations

> Room Sala 4.2, 4th Floor

S10.10. | Historical perspectives on accounting as a social practice in organisational management: pathways to accountability and sustainability 2

Organisers Liliana Pimentel, Leonor Fernandes Ferreira, Andreia Fernandes
Moderator Liliana Pimentel

5: Andreia Fernandes, Liliana Pimentel, Leonor Fernandes Ferreira. Accounting history in Portugal: a bibliometric look at accountability and sustainability

6: Inês Milheiras, Dulce Freire, Liliana Pimentel. Agricultural accounting in Portugal: historical trends and social impact

7: Ángel Ballarín Garnica. Imperial accounting: a historical tool of power and governance

8: Pau Viciano. Public accounting and social responsibility: auditing of municipal finances in the rural communities of the Kingdom of Valencia (15th-16th centuries)

> Room Gonçalves da Silva, 4th Floor

S10.11. | Meet the author: The political economy of food:

the moral and market economies of bread
Jonas Albrecht 

Milk in Spain and the history of diet change
Fernando Collantes

Organiser Fernando Collantes
Moderator Noelia Parajuá
Discussants Jonas Albrecht, Amélia Branco, Fernando Collantes, Laurent Herment, Noelia Parajuá

> Room Anfiteatro 3.2, 3rd Floor

S11.1. | Imagining space: across community and visual representations of land (1500-1900)

Organisers Martina Motta, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Moderator Manuel Bastias Saavedra

1: Martina Motta. Nature management, conflicts, and tax collection: the Alpine territories representation in the Ancient Regime

2: Sean Silvia. (Re)building community across ruinscapes: inhabited versus extracted temporality and the epistemic conflict over the nineteenth-century delphic landscape

3: Svit Komel. Parts in the common: nineteenth-century land property reforms and practical juridical knowledge in the Habsburg monarchy

4: Giulio Taccetti. Contested Woods: comparing territorial representations in a Ligurian district at the end of the 19th Century

> Room Sala 3.1, 3rd Floor

S11.2. | The countryside at war: peasant revolts and struggles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 2

Organiser & Moderator Antoni Furió
Discussant Pau Viciano

 4: Antoni Mas-Forners. Peasant identity and rural revolts in medieval and early modern Majorca

5: Regina Schäfer. The free peasants of the Rheingau and the Peasants’ War 1525

6: Rosa Lluch-Bramon. Peasants vs. lords: freedom & feudalism (The Catalan Remença Wars, 1462-1486)

> Room Sala 4.2, 4th Floor

S11.3. | Class differentiation processes in contemporary rural societies 2 

Organisers Alba Díaz Geada, Alberto José Franco Barrera
Moderator Alberto José Franco Barrera

 4: Noelia Parajuá, David Soto Fernández, Enric Tello. Towards a crisis of reproduction? Exploring family farming and food expenditure in Spain (1980-2021)

5: Şehriban Dağlı, Ozan Uştuk. Negotiating Heritage: Olive Cultivation in a Transforming Rural Landscape DOWNLOAD HERE

6: María Anjhara Gómez Rodríguez. Popular construction of the wolf´s figure in rural Galicia in the 19th and 20th centuries: community, conflict and class differentiation

> Room Sala 4.3, 4th Floor

S11.4. | Agrarian dynamics and state initiatives in Napoleonic Europe 2

Organisers Gérard Béaur, Laurent Brassart, Rosa Congost
Moderator Rosa Congost
Discussant Luciano Maffi

5: Guillaume Favrod. The impact of the French presence in French-speaking Switzerland on the rural economy and agrarian policy between 1797 and 1813.

6: Laurent Brassart. The acclimatization of American cotton in the Napoleonic Empire’s Mediterranean Territories: the reasons for the failure of a major agricultural state project?

7: Lavinia Maddaluno. Spaces of rural economy: saltpetre, the soil and its fertility in early nineteenth-century Napoleonic Milan

8: Martino Lorenzo Fagnani. Engineers and agriculturists in the Napoleonic era: some cases from the Po Valley

> Room Sala 2.1, 2nd Floor

S11.5. | Framing the countryside: the role of moving images in shaping rural perceptions and identities 2

Organisers Sven Lefèvre, Brigitte Semanek, Edouard Lynch
Moderator Yves Segers

5: Brigitte Semanek. Rural mobility experiences in home movies from the 1960s to the 1980s

6: Sven Lefevre. Farmers’ land in farmers’ hands: the Belgian Farmers’ League’s role in defining agriculture and the rural landscape in the contested post-productivist countryside in Flanders (1960-1990)

7: Peter Veer. The Eilandspolder quests in two films

8: Virgílio Borges Pereira, João Queirós, José Madureira Pinto, Sílvia Correia. On “The Compass: a research film” and its contrasts: the recomposition of rurality in contemporary Portugal through documentary films

> Room Sala 4.1, 4th Floor

S11.6. | The rural built environment: histories between architecture and agriculture 2

Organisers Pedro Namorado Borges, Samuel T. Brandt, Attila Gábor Hunyadi
Moderator Attila Gábor Hunyadi

6: Klara Pako. Seventeenth century noble residences built on a compact ground plan in rural Transylvania

7: Leona Matotek, Jasenka Kranjčević, Luka Valožić. Adapting the rural built environment: repurposing corncribs as cultural heritage in Croatia

8: Samuel T. Brandt. A nation’s improver: Alberto Gallinal and the creation of Uruguay’s Movement for the eradication of unhealthy rural housing

9: Pol Vanneste. What farm buildings can teach us about agricultural history… Reconstruction of farms in western Flanders (Belgium) after World War I

10: Pedro Namorado Borges. Modernizing the rural habitat: the view and action of the service for rural well-being in Portugal (1958-1977)

> Room Gonçalves da Silva, 4th Floor

S11.7. | Meet the author: Interpreting science at museums and historic site
Debra A. Reid, Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, David D. Vail

Organisers Debra A. Reid, Karen-Beth Scholdthof
ModeratorKaren Sayer
Discussants Dolly Jørgensen, Inger Olausson, Brian Q. Cannon

> Room Sala 4.4, 4th Floor

S11.8. | Peasant women in socialist Europe: diverse realities and experiences 2

Organisers Zsuzsana Varga, Zarko Lazarevic, Janja Sedlacek
Moderator Zarko Lazarevic
Discussant Nigel Swain

5: Alexandra Bodnar. The role and representation of Soviet Kolkhoz women: a comparison of propaganda and reality

6: Polona Sitar. The new socialist peasant woman: emancipation, gender division of labour, and agricultural mechanization

7: Marta Rendla. Agricultural and household extension service in the Slovenian part of socialist Yugoslavia

> Room Sala 2.3, 2nd Floor

S11.9. | The archaeology of sharing practices: changes in practices, tools and the social dimension

Organisers Anna Maria Stagno, Vittorio Tigrino, Margarita Fernández Mier

1: Chiara Molinari, Bruna Ilde Menozzi. Historical land-use dynamics in the eastern Ligurian Apennines, north-western Italy: a multidisciplinary approach

2: Matteo Tacca, Nathan Brenu. The use of jurisdictional sources for the study of commons: perspectives and limitations of research between the Ligurian Apennines and the French Pyrenees (XVIII-XX c.)

3: Anna Maria Stagno. From the archaeology of sharing practices to the archaeology of continuities in Commons

4: Pablo López Gómez. Cueiru ye Cueiru! A contested meeting place

> Room Sala 2.2, 2nd Floor

S11.10. | Celebrating the end of the harvest

Organisers Richard W. Hoyle, Clare Griffiths
Moderator & Discussant Paul Warde

1: Clare Griffiths. Harvests for the nation: imagery and celebrations of the harvest in Britain in war and peace, 1939-1950

2: Richard W. Hoyle. Celebrating the end of harvest in mid-nineteenth century southern England

3: Dániel Luka. Collective harvest in stalinist Hungary: from planning to food shortage, 1948-1953

> Room Sala 2.4, 2nd Floor

S11.11. | Water management in the Alps (Late Antiquity-Early Modern)

Organisers Roberto Leggero, Eugenio Tamburrino, Mirella Montanari

1: Mirella Montanari. Water management between lordship and collective rule. The case of Valsesia between the 13th and 14th centuries

2: Roberto Leggero. Reflections and comparisons on medieval irrigation systems in Ticino and Valais (Switzerland)

3: Eugenio Tamburrino. Water management in the Alpine and Foothill regions of Veneto: historical perspectives and interdisciplinary insights