[We have the following call for papers.]
Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History
Lisbon 2016
Over the last 500 years, the inter-relations between civilisations and cultures across the globe have had multiple effects on agriculture, property, natural resources and rural societies. They brought about the circulation of people, plants, animals and diseases; transfers of techniques, knowledge, institutions and legal norms; changes in diet habits, land uses and landscapes; extensive appropriation and expropriation of property rights; and changes in produce and factor markets (land, capital, labour) at a global scale.
Research on these topics has been attracting scholars with a variety of backgrounds, from environmental to cultural history, from social to legal history, from economic history to the history of science, among others.
The concern to open up and globalise the research in rural history, both historically and historiographically, draws the guideline for this international conference. It is intended to be a forum where to present new findings and new perspectives on any aspect of those global dynamics, and where to discuss the major theoretical, methodological and historiographical challenges now facing rural history.
Paper proposals should be submitted directly to the panels’ convenors until 15 April 2015. The list of the approved panels is posted on the Conference website.
This conference is a joint initiative of Rural RePort (the Portuguese-speaking Network of Rural History) and SEHA (the Spanish Society of Agricultural History), and it is hosted by ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.
