Dr. Anette Schlimm
Junior Researcher in Residence, CAS LMU
Acting Together. Political and Economic Spaces of Collective Action
in Modern Rural Europe, ca. 1850—2000
23 and 24 February 2017
Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich
Thursday, 23 February 2017
14:00 – 14:30
Welcome Coffee
14:30 – 15:00
Welcome Address and Introduction
Moritz Baumstark, CASLMU and Anette Schlimm, LMU Munich
15:00– 16:30
Panel I. The Commons: Conflicts and Collectivity
Chair: Jan Neubauer (LMU Munich)
Nadine Vivier (Université Le Mans)
Common Property in 19th Century France: Local Resistances to
Governmental Decisions
Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading)
Preservation, Class and Community: A Case Study of the 'Battle of
Bucklebury Common', 1925-1947
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30
Panel II. Producing Collectivity
Chair: Manuela Rienks (Institute for Contemporary History, MunichBerlin)
Uta Bretschneider (Hennebergisches Museum Kloster Veßra)
Agricultural Cooperatives. Collective Work in Rural Areas of the
GDR, 1952–1989
Leen van Molle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
“Un pays si tranquille”. Spaces and Faces of Rural Protest in
Belgium, 1911-1971
19:00
Conference Dinner
Friday, 24 February 2017
09:00 – 10:30
Panel III. Knowledge of (Rural) Collectivities
Chair: Jürgen Finger (LMU Munich)
Dietlind Hüchtker (Leibniz Institute of the History and Culture of
Eastern Europe)
Rural Youth in Empirical Social Research. The Example of the Polish
People's Republic
Anette Schlimm (LMU Munich)
The Economy of Rural Municipalities. Political and Administrative
Knowledge since the Second Half of the 19th Century
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Panel IV. Collective Action and Its Activists
Chair: Daniela Gasteiger (LMU Munich)
Irina Marin (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Explosive Grievances: Rumour Mills, Communication Channels and
Collective Action during the 1907 Peasant Uprising in Romania
Peter Moser (Archives of Rural History, Bern)
The Female Individual in Rural Collective Actions (20th Century)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00
Panel V. Collectivity and Rurality
Chair: Matthias Kuhnert (Munich)
Julia van Lessen (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Community as a Dimension of Good Rural Life
Manuel Trummer (Universität Regensburg)
Visions of Bavaria. The Current Visual Governance of the Rural
Space by the Bayerisches Fernsehen (BR)
15:00 – 15:30
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Venue:
Center for Advanced Studies
Seestraße 13
80802 München