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SUMMARY:Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an ‘Age of Globalization’:  The Euro-American World\, 1815-1914
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this two day international conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas\, whether based on either free or unfree labour\, between 1815 and 1914. In this period\, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended national boundaries\, profoundly affecting rural societies by transforming patterns of demand for agricultural commodities. In response to these global processes\, ‘progressive’ landowners\, serfowners and slaveholders throughout the Euro-American world endeavoured to rationalize their management of land and labour while embracing scientific farming techniques and technological innovations. The resulting drives for ‘improvement’ and better market integration typically exacerbated the fundamental economic\, political and social inequalities that prevailed in most agrarian regions. In all those regions\, the proprietors’ efforts were often resisted by the diverse range of unfree and free labourers who produced agricultural commodities for sale on the world market\, including slaves\, serfs\, sharecroppers\, tenants and peasant proprietors. Focusing on the above issues\, this conference features scholars of rural Europe and the Americas who will discuss the possibilities for comparative and transnational research within and between the different agrarian regions of the Euro-American world. \nThe keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University)\, author of the award-winning Empire of Cotton: A New Global History of Capitalism (2014). This lecture will be held in the Mechanics Institute\, Middle Street\, Galway at 8pm on Friday 2 June\, and is open to the public. \nTo register or for further information contact Joe Regan and Cathal Smith at agrarianworldconference@gmail.com \nProgramme \nDAY 1\, Friday 2 June \n10.00-10.35   Registration \n10.35-11.00    Opening Remarks \n11.00-12.30    Panel 1: Views of and from ‘Below’: Peasants\, Farmers and Slaves \nChair: Nicholas Canny \nWhat is a Peasant Movement For? The Struggle for Rural Representation in Eastern Europe before 1914 \nDaniel Brett (Open University) \nAgrarian Resistance to Modernization and Nation-Building in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: East Tennessee Unionist Farmers vs. Northern Terra di Lavoro’s ‘Legitimist’ Peasants in 1861 \nEnrico Dal Lago (National University of Ireland\, Galway) \n“The General Strike” \nJames Oakes (City University of New York) \n12.30-1.30 Lunch \n1.30-3.00 Panel 2: Agriculture\, Radicalism and Politics \nChair: Caitriona Clear \n‘Progress’ and ‘Civilisation’: The Idea of Land and the Tensions of Modernity in the Transatlantic Discourse of the Irish Land League\, 1879-86 \nAndrew Phemister (University of Edinburgh) \nMichael Davitt’s Second Tour of the Scottish Highlands and Land Reform in Scotland and Ireland \nBrian Casey (Independent Scholar) \nManoeuvring Between Nation and Empire: Agrarian Protest and Political Mobilisation in Finland\, 1880-1917 \nSami Suodenjoki (University of Helsinki) \n3.00-3.30 Coffee Break \n3.30-5.00 Panel 3: Farmers Confronting Modernization \nChair: Aidan Kane \nSmall Farmers Facing the Challenge of Expanding Slave-Based Sugar Plantations: Campinas- \nBrazil\, Nineteenth-Century \nLaura Fraccaro (University of Campinas) \nNegotiating Need and Reform in a Transatlantic World: Nineteenth-Century Farmers and \nAgricultural Scientists in Maine and Westphalia \nJustus Hillebrand (University of Maine) \nRural Labourers and the ‘Ranch War’ in County Cork: From Canada to Castlelyons \nJohn O’Donovan (University College Cork) \n6.00 Conference Dinner \n8.00 Keynote Lecture\, Mechanics Institute\, Middle Street\, Galway \nThe Transformation of the Global Countryside: The Nineteenth Century \nSven Beckert (Harvard University) \nDAY 2\, Saturday 3 June \n10.00-11.30 Panel 4: Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Reform in Regional and National Perspective \nChair: Enrico Dal Lago \nThe Agrarian Thought of William Sharman Crawford \nPeter Gray (Queen’s University\, Belfast) \nAgricultural Education in Hungary: A Response to the Challenges of the ‘Age of Globalization’ \nZsuzanna Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University\, Budapest) \nKnowledge Production and Institution Building: The Agrarian Response to the First Wave of Globalisation \nPeter Moser (Archives of Rural History\, Bern) \n11.30-11.45 Coffee Break \n11.45-1.00 Panel 5: Debates on Landownership and Use in a Globalizing World \nChair: Conor McNamara \nRural Co-operation and a Transnational Solution to the Problem of Rural Life\, 1889-1932 \nPatrick Doyle (University of Manchester) \nLand Privatization and Export-Led Modernization in Chiapas\, Mexico: Reform\, Resistance and Revolution\, 1876-1911 \nSarah Washbrook (University College London) \n1.00-2.00 Lunch \n2.00-3.15 Panel 6: The Euro-American Agrarian World and Beyond: Global Connections \nChair: Kevin O’Sullivan \nFrom European Roots to Australian Wine: A Study of Foreign Influences on the British Wine Industry in Australia \nChelsea Davis (The George Washington University) \nInventing Colonial Agronomy: The Buitenzorg Laboratories and the Transition from the Western Plantation Model to the Eastern Model of Scientific Cash Crop Improvement\, 1880s-1914 \nFlorian Wagner (University of Erfurt) \n3.15-3.30 Coffee Break \n3.30-4.00 Closing Remarks \nThe conference organisers would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Moore Institute\, the Discipline of History\, and the Research Office\, all at NUI Galway\, as well as the British Agricultural History Society. \nFor queries please contact Dr. Joe Regan and Dr. Cathal Smith at \nagrarianworldconference@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/agrarian-reform-resistance-age-globalization-euro-american-world-1815-1914/
LOCATION:Seminar Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Cathal%20Smith":MAILTO:agrarianworldconference@gmail.com
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