Rural History 2025
Coimbra, Portugal
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Presentations by Lavinia Maddaluno, assistant professor of early modern history in the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and 2025-2026 research-fellow at the Paris IAS, at the seventh biennial conference of the European Organization for Rural History, to be held September 9-12 in Coimbra, Portugal.
Conferences in person and in English. Open to the public, registration required but fee applies: https://ruralhistory2025.org/registration/
Presentation
For more than a decade, the EURHO conference on rural history has been a major event bringing together researchers and students from Europe and other continents. The inaugural meeting in Brighton (2010) and conferences held in Bern (2013), Girona (2015), Leuven (2017), Paris (2019), Uppsala (2021/2022), and Cluj (2023) have strengthened scientific networks and fostered exciting projects and publications. The Rural History 2025 conference in Coimbra aims to continue this positive trend by sharing different perspectives on the rural and agricultural past.
Increasingly, data from the past has become an explanatory resource used by different sciences, both to explore new avenues of inter- and transdisciplinary research and to inform current agendas. How is the construction of history challenged by other disciplines, objects, methodologies, or sources? Rural and agricultural issues intersect with social, economic, political, institutional, environmental, scientific, and cultural dynamics that have become increasingly relevant in recent debates. What is the role of history in building the sustainable solutions we need today?
Program
Lavinia Maddaluno will speak at two conferences
- On September 10, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., in Amphitheater 1, in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, at the round table entitled Wetlands as colonized and decolonized spaces, as a discussant.
- On September 12, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in Room 4-3, she will speak on the topic “Spaces of rural economy: saltpetre, the soil and its fertility in early nineteenth-century Napoleonic Milan” as part of the session “Agrarian dynamics and state initiatives in Napoleonic Europe.”
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