Conference Programme
DAY 1: DECEMBER 9TH
ZOOM LINK TO MORNING SESSIONS (9:30-13:50):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84320290747?pwd=UWtTaEFaRGdoWDlWUTRDSGozZ09SUT09
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9:00 - 9:30
Welcome
9:30 - 10:45
INAUGURAL LECTURE: James Simpson (UC3M) "Land Reform in Interwar Europe"
10:45 - 11:00
Refreshments
11:00 - 12:20
SESSION 1 - LAND INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Luz Marina Arias (CIDE - Mexico) and Diana Flores-Peregrina (UCLA) "Colonial Haciendas and Rural Development in 20th-century Mexico"
Pablo Martinelli (UC3M) and Dario Pellegrino (Bank of Italy) "Land Inequality and Long-Run Growth: Evidence from Italy"​
12:20 - 12:30
Refreshments
12:30 - 13:50
SESSION 2 - GRAIN MARKETS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL ERA
Stef Espeel (State Archives Namur/Université Libre de Bruxelles) "Driven by crises. The market for grain in late medieval Flanders"
Alexandra L. Cermeño (Lund University) and Carlos Santiago-Caballero (UC3M) "Closing the price gap on wheat markets in early modern Spain"
13:50 - 15:00
Lunch
ZOOM LINK TO AFTERNOON SESSIONS (15:00-18:50)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87032052741?pwd=WG9FSzJ1SVFxcTdlRjhaVnJxYmQwUT09
15:00 - 16:20
SESSION 3 - AGRICULTURAL CHANGE
Erik Hallberg, Lars Nyström, Lotta Leijonhufvud and Lennart Palm (University of Gothenburg) "Sweden's agricultural revolution reassessed. A reconstruction of arable land and food production in 1810 and 1870"
Ana Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza/Insituto Agroalimentario de Aragón), Ignacio Cazcarro (Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y el Desarrollo/Universidad de Zaragoza/Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón) and Miguel MartÃn-Retortillo (Universidad de Alcalá) "Overcoming aridity? The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production since the mid-20th century"
16:20 - 16:45
Refreshments
16:45 - 18:05
SESSION 4 - VITICULTURE
Laura Maravall (University of Alcalá), Sergi Basco (University of Barcelona) and Jordi Domenech (UC3M) "Extractive Agriculture and Permanent Settlement: The Effects of Colonial Viticulture in French Algeria"
Juan Carmona and James Simpson (UC3M) "Landlords and sharecroppers in wine producing regions: Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800-1940"
21:30
Conference dinner (in Madrid downtown)
DAY 2:
DECEMBER 10TH
ZOOM LINK TO MORNING SESSIONS (10:00-13:50)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84320290747?pwd=UWtTaEFaRGdoWDlWUTRDSGozZ09SUT09
10:00 - 12:00
SESSION 5 - ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
Sofia Teives Enriques (University of Porto), Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Xanthi Tsoukli (University of Bamberg) and Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark) "Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability: Danish Butter Factories in the Face of Coal Shortages"
Björn Brey (University of Nottingham/Aix-Marseille School of Economics/Université Libre de Bruxelles) "The long-run gains from the early adoption of electricity"
Christian Ducoign (Lund University), Frans de Vries (University of Aberdeen), Eoin MacLaughlin (University of Cork) and José Peres CajÃas (University of Barcelona) "The long shadow of mercury: Bolivian Genuine Savings, 1850-2020"
12:00 - 12:30
Refreshments
12:30 - 13:50
SESSION 6 - LANDOWNERSHIP AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Helena Carvalho (Bank of Portugal) "Land Inequality, Agricultural Productivity and the Portuguese Agrarian reform (1974-1976)"
Eva Fernández (UC3M) "The economic effects of beliefs: religion and wealth in rural America"
13:50 - 15:30
Lunch
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ZOOM LINK TO AFTERNOON SESSION (15:30-17:45)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87032052741?pwd=WG9FSzJ1SVFxcTdlRjhaVnJxYmQwUT09
15:30 - 17:30
SESSION 7 - GLOBALIZATION AND AGRARIAN SPECIALIZATION
Peter Solar (CEREC, Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles/University of Oxford) and Brian A'Hearn (University of Oxford) "The Sicilian Lemon Industry"
Emiliano Travieso (UC3M) "Innovation in Uruguayan livestock farming, 1880-1913: soils, scale, or elites?"
Ramon Ramon-Muñoz (University of Barcelona) and Alba Roldán (University of Alicante) "Consumption and export growth in the first globalization: the case of the international olive oil market"
17:45
Farewell
