33e lettre d'information
Le 2 avril 2013,
Cher(e) collègue,
Dans cette 33e lettre, vous trouverez de nombreux appels à communication (ci-dessous et en pièce jointe) que nous ont fait parvenir des membres de la SDH
Tout d'abord trois appels à communications en vue du congrès ESSHC de Vienne en avril 2014 (Attention :les deadlines pour les propositions sont proches, souvent mi ou fin avril):
Signalons également trois appels à communications
Et enfin :
(cf.la pièce jointe).
Bien cordialement,
Fabrice Boudjaaba
Co secrétaire général de la SDH
*************************
Appels à communication dans le cadre de l'ESSHC
*****
Michela Barbot (ENS Cachan, Paris), Fabrice Boudjaaba (CRH-EHESS Paris), Andrea Caracausi
(University of Padua), Luca Mocarelli (Bicocca University, Milan)
Session Proposal for the European Social Science History Conference (Wien, 23-26 April 2014)
Networks:
“Labour” and “Economics”
Title
Work and Property in Europe (1500-1900): Toward a Connected History
General Aims of the Project
Over the last decades the history of property rights and the history of work have been deeply renewed.
Recent investigations have challenged the traditional idea that the rise of European capitalism was due
to a linear transition from ‘non-private’ to ‘private’ property and from ‘non-commodified’ to
‘commodified’ labour (Grossi 1992; Brass, Van der Linden 1997; Steinfeld 2001). Different
institutional forms coexisted indeed for many centuries, far beyond the Industrial Revolution.
Despite this new evidence, few studies have analysed the historical evolution of work and property
together. This absence is regrettable. Work and property were indeed both at the basis of the social
inclusion, citizenship rights and other fundamental institutional devices which are usually considered as
typical of the economic growth and political modernity. Therefore an analysis that jointly investigates
the evolution of the forms of property and work could significantly help to better clarify the historical
mechanisms of development and modernization.
Following this perspective several key questions remain still open. They can be summarized as follow:
how did ‘work’ and ‘property’ as historical institutions reciprocally interact, and, in turn, which were
the socioeconomic implications of this interaction? This macro-session aims to answer to these
questions, investigating the relationship between labour and property using a wide European
comparison and a long-term perspective, since the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
This wide perspective will allow us to evaluate the impact on ownership and work practices of some
outstanding legal changes, such as the movement of English enclosures, the 1804 French Civil Code, or
the Second Serfdom in the Eastern Europe.
Starting from the main research questions sketched above, we welcome papers articulated around three
major research lines, which reflect three different sub-sessions:
Sub-session 1. Communities, households, individuals
In this first research sub-session we encourage papers dealing with the analysis of the role of the
various historical property regimes (private, collective, dissociated, etc.) and labour relations (free and
unfree labour; reciprocal and wage labour) in the (supposed) process of ‘emancipation’ of individuals
from family or communities. More specifically, we would like to understand: (a) If, and how were the
forms of work and property based on the model of the domestic household and (b) how did the
relations between household systems, property regimes and labour organisations evolve across
centuries.
Sub-session 2. Appropriations, dispossession, capabilities
Until recently, the history of the industrial revolution has been seen as a process of dispossession
started in Europe since the agricultural enclosures. Following this interpretation, the closure of open
fields had two main effects: the spread of a culture of a ‘full owner’ and the transformation of a mass of
landless peasants excluded from their communities into an exploited and unskilled working class. In
our opinion, this too rigid interpretation could be questioned. We argue that the integration of wage
labour in a series of rules and contractual arrangements may have contributed to the development of a
set of individual or collective ‘capabilities’ (in line with the interpretation of Amartya Sen), which were
able to generate inclusion and improve labour skills rather than create division, separation or
exploitation. The two main questions here will be: (a) how did property rights and labour relations help,
or dampen, the process of acquisition of skills in the various times and context? (b) Was there a
relationship between the fragility/imperfection/uncertainty of property rights and the ‘precariousness’
in labour relations? How did the status of owners interact with the professional status?
Sub-session 3. Embeddedness, evaluation and commodification
A third line of research would test the (‘supposed’) progressive depersonalization and commodification
of economic relations in property and labour systems. The basic question can be expressed as follow:
the Polanyi’s hypothesis concerning the “disembeddedness” of the economy from society starting back
from the Industrial Revolution can be proved comparing and connecting the histories of property and
work? The authors are invited to reflect on these points: (1) when, how and why did the work turn into
a commodity? (2) Did the emergence of full private property have some effects on contractual
conditions and negotiations between employers and employees in labour relations, especially in term of
wages fixation and working times?
We welcome both micro-historical studies on single cities or communities and macro-approaches on
entire regions and States. From a micro perspective, our aim is to compare urban and rural contexts, in
order to understand when and how the so-called ‘modern’ concepts of property and work appeared first.
From a macro perspective, we would explore the property and labour ‘divergences’ within Europe, in
order to better highlight the role played by these two institutions in the supposed ‘Great Divergence’
between continental Europe and Great Britain, as well as between Eastern and Western Europe.
Authors should indicate in which sub-session the paper refers.
Abstracts (100-500 words) and one-half page CV have to be sent by 25 April 2013 to:
[email protected]
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CFP for a panel at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
Learning and training patterns of skilled labour force in preindustrial European labour market (14th-
18th centuries)
Organiser: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto, GRHIS - University of Rouen (France)
This panel aims to study education and training patterns of boys and girls in preindustrial Europe,
taking into account different kinds of apprenticeship and training as well as different social actors.
In preindustrial Europe people were aware of the importance of skills in order to fnd stable and
durable jobs and in order to contrast precariousness and instability or lack of work. Parents and institutions
were motivated to give children learning opportunities to contribute to the familial economy and to ensure
their future. In addition, the formation of a skilled labour force was an important issue for the the prosperity
of European cities and countries. Acquisition of skills and abilities therefore was (just as nowadays)
considered a crucial “social and human capital”.
Clearly several studies have been concerned with the formation of skilled labour force. Many of them
concentrate on the formal apprenticeship, regularly accomplished by young people into guilds. But the latter
were not the only institutions charged with the training of young people.
This panel aims to highlight the role of the actors of the learning process - such as economic and
governmental institutions, but also charitable shelters and workhouses, social networks, kins and family
members etc...At the same time it aims to focus on conditions of engagement of “apprentices”
(instability/fexibility of their position, salary/unpaid work, obtained skills/performed tasks, everyday life etc..),
their interconnections with social and economic local context and with labor force demand and supply.
We invite authors working on history of the family/social and economic history of preindustrial
societies to submit papers on the topic. They should question the traditional (and technical) notion of
apprenticeship and show new research possibilities about learning and training patterns of young people in
preindustrial Europe. In addition, we invite scholars to prepare their contributions taking into account at least
one of the following factors:
- gender differences
- learning patterns in urban/rural contexts
- geographic mobility
- religious identity
- citizenship (or other political/juridical achievements)
Papers from Middle Age to Early Modern Age and from all Europe, countryside or city, are welcome.
Please send a short abstract (500 words max) and a brief Cv by 30 April 2013 to :
[email protected] or to : [email protected]
We will inform you about the result of the panel selection after the 15th May 2014.
For further information about the European Social Science History Conference please visit :
http://esshc.socialhistory.org/
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
GRHIS - Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire,
University of Rouen (France)
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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC),
Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
Call for papers: Female Heads of Household and Sources for Finding
Them ( 16th -21st c.)
Organizers: Claudia Contente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/EHESS)
[email protected]
María Cristina Cacopardo (Universidad Nacional de Luján)
[email protected]
Historical studies have traditionally tended to omit the role assumed by women in the
workplace and to minimize their degree of autonomy in different spheres. Nevertheless,
this tendency has been reversed in recent years, as the importance of women has become
increasingly evident in the world of wage earners and as the heads of diverse economic
undertakings.
This general tendency clearly reflects the evolution of society´s own perception of the role
of women as well as the transformations that have taken place in family structures, such as
the increased number of domestic groups with female heads. It should be pointed out,
however, that detailed studies of different regions have revealed that this phenomenon has
existed for centuries; bringing these cases to light though depends on the possibilities that
the relevant sources offer.
Even if in recent decades households headed by women have increased due to females´
greater longevity, this session will certainly be enriched by the contribution of studies that
focus on domestic groups headed by young women and adults with a variety of family
structures that belong to different social groups during distinct historical periods.
We trust that these studies will contribute to the discussion currently underway about the
greater vulnerability or on the contrary, the social and economic viability of these
households, as well as the presentation of qualitative and quantitative methodologies that
would allow us to discover them more easily.
Please send a short abstract before April 25th 2013 to: [email protected] or
[email protected]
For further information about the European Social Science History Conference please visit:
http://esshc.socialhistory.org
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Autres Appels
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International Workshop
Paupers in the Midst of Others. Orphans and Abandoned Children in Europe
(18th - 20th centuries)
3rd - 4th October 2013
''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History, Romanian Academy
Bucharest, Romania
In a world dominated by poverty, orphans and abandoned children hold a place apart given
the alternatives open to them and the attitudes towards them. Over the centuries, the State, the
Church, and individuals have created and financed special institutions, also providing their personal
support on special occasions (religious holidays and feasts, public events etc.), in a more or less
regular manner. But what were the norms these children and those around them had to respect in
order to achieve a certain “official'” ideal? Can we trace any change over the course of time when it
comes to the welfare system intended for these disadvantaged children or acts of philanthropy?
What kind of social policy did the State follow and did it differ from one country or region to the
next? These are just a few of the questions that might arise from a discussion about the institutional
issue. On another hand, we should also keep in mind that besides the rôle the authorities (whether
ecclesiastical or civil) played, a complex social network was created around the child, with its own
importance in shaping his or her future life. The world of the orphan or abandoned child is also a
world where illegitimacy and family (or to be more precise the absence of family) created the
premises for attitudes constructed, whether publicly or not, around words like shame, sin, and
delinquency.
This two-day workshop will focus on orphans and abandoned children as two distinct social
categories, and we encourage scholars from not only Western but also Central and South-Eastern
Europe to participate. The main topics of discussion will be:
1) Institutions and social policies relating to orphans and abandoned children. This
topic will include State and Church initiatives, as well as individual initiatives. We
intend to look at the way in which these differed from one to another and at the
prevalent trends in child development. Medical assistance, issues of infant mortality
within these social categories, and the training given to these children will be among
the subjects to be tackled.
2) Children and family. This topic will cover three different issues relating to both
orphans and abandoned children: firstly, the importance of their relationship with
their single parent or whatever distant relatives they might have; and secondly,
adoption as the path to a new and legitimate family. In addition, where this did not
occur, another issue arises: the baptism of all those left to the mercy of Christians or
institutions without any proof of identification.
3) Seeking respectability or choosing delinquency. This discussion topic will look at the
presence and importance of work in the lives of such children as they found a place
for themselves in society. From a different viewpoint, delinquency was also a course
in life that some people believed was foreordained for these children. And thus their
activity alongside other lawbreakers needs to be highlighted.
We also welcome any other topic related to the subject of our workshop, so please feel free to
propose. Paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, a Curriculum Vitae
and the contact details of the presenter (affiliation, e-mail adress). Please send them to Nicoleta
Roman, ''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania:
[email protected] no later that 25th of May. The working language of this workshop will
be English, but papers in French will also be welcome as long as they will have an equivalent in
English (PowerPoint presentation / a printed form). The organizer will provide accommodation for
three nights, while travel expenses need to be covered by the participants.
Organizer
Nicoleta ROMAN
''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History – Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Romania
Advisory Board
Vincent GOURDON, Centre Roland Mousnier – Paris Sorbonne University
Isabelle ROBIN-ROMERO, Centre Roland Mousnier – Paris Sorbonne University
Silvia SOVIČ, Institute of Historical Research – University of London
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, ''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History – Romanian Academy
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION NETWORK
GDRI-CRICEC
CRISES AND CHANGE IN THE EUROPEAN
COUNTRYSIDE
Call for papers
WORKSHOP
FAMILY CRISES AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN RURAL EUROPE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, 18TH-19TH CENTURIES
Crises familiales et changement social en Europe rurale, perspectives comparatives, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
Crisis familiares y cambio social en la Europa rural, en perspectiva comparada, siglos XVIII-XIX
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Facultad de Humanidades de Albacete, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población
Albacete / Casas-Ibañez, Spain
Saturday 22 June 2013
ORGANIZERS:
Francisco GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, Facultad de Humanidades de Albacete, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población, [email protected]
Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX, EHESS/CNRS-UMR8558, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, [email protected]
SECRETARIAT:
Claudia CONTENTE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, [email protected]
Carmen HERNÁNDEZ López, Facultad de Humanidades de Cuenca, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población, [email protected]
Organized by the Social History of Population Seminar (Humanities Faculty of Albacete) within the framework of the International Scientific Coordination Network of the CNRS “Crisis and Change in the European Countryside” (CRICEC) we convene researchers to participate in the Family Crisis and Social Change in Rural Europe in Comparative Perspective (18th-19th c.) workshop, which will take place in Casas-Ibañez/Albacete, Spain, on 22 June, 2013.
This workshop will address topics such as models and practices that were adopted during periods of family crisis, such as death, illness, separation, widowhood, orphanage, abandonment, legal minority, guardianship, celibacy, ageing, extended emigration, misery, poverty etc., whether they be in the context of the family itself or in an institutional one.
We will study not only reactions to crises but eventual conflicts that may derive from situations such as the inheritance and transmission of property, the questioning of paternal authority, domestic violence and the breakup of families. We are particularly interested in observing the mechanisms of adaptation and of mobilization of kinship members – consanguineous, spiritual, or fictitious – during those moments, and the strategies that were deployed. Changes that can be detected between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also need to be considered. Attention will also be paid to the intervention of the Church and State in these matters, and to their distinct modalities of agency, to the legislation and practices that existed and their evolution over time.
We shall discuss whether laws expressed social changes – especially in rural areas – and thus codified practices that were already established in the society or whether they were enforcing new rules that the majority of the population and of the families did not wish this in order to change existing practices. In that respect, we certainly should not overlook the rich literature from this period (legal, pedagogical, philosophical, moral and doctrinal) as a reflection of models and representations.
Our objective is to reach a comparative analysis for different countries and regions of rural Europe, taking into account the different social groups that existed, in order to detect similar or different models of behavior and social change process facing situations of family crises.
Paper proposals for this workshop must contain the name, address and institutional affiliations of the authors, the title of the paper and a summary that does not exceed 300 words.
The deadline to send the proposals is 15 April 2013.
Accepted papers must be submitted by 1st June, 2013.
Addresses for sending proposals:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Call for papers
> Quetelet seminar 2013 – Demography revisited. The past 50 years, the coming 50 years.
> November 12-15, 2013, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
>
>
> To mark the fiftieth anniversary of demography at UCL, the 2013 Quetelet Seminar will focus on changes in the field of demography over the past 50 years and in the coming 50 years. The Seminar will be an opportunity for critical assessment of the tools, themes and paradigms of our discipline by revisiting the recent past, but also to imagine the future realistically and perhaps even utopically.
>
> Presentations will focus on transformations, past or future, within the discipline and to the challenges of demography, on any the following topics:
> Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 May 2013
> Organisation : Centre de recherche en démographie et société, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (www.uclouvain.be/demo).
> Information : [email protected]
>
>
> Bruno Schoumaker
> On behalf of the Committee Chaire Quetelet 2013
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Merci de faire circuler
>
>
> Appel à communications
> Chaire Quetelet 2013 - La démographie revisitée. Des 50 dernières aux 50 prochaines années.
> 12 au 15 novembre 2013, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
>
>
> À l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la démographie à l’UCL, la Chaire Quételet 2013 portera sur l’évolution de la démographie au cours des 50 dernières années et des 50 années à venir. Cette Chaire sera l’occasion de faire un bilan critique sur les outils, thématiques, et paradigmes de notre discipline en revisitant le passé récent, mais aussi de penser ou imaginer le futur, de façon raisonnable ou pourquoi pas, utopique.
>
> Les communications porteront sur les transformations (passées ou à venir) de la discipline et des enjeux démographiques et toucheront aux thèmes suivants :
> Date limite de réception des propositions (résumés) : 30 mai 2013.
> Organisation : Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique (www.uclouvain.be/demo).
> Plus d'informations : [email protected]
>
>
> Pour le Comité Chaire Quetelet 2013,
> Bruno Schoumaker
>
>
> >
Isabelle Theys
> Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés
> Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les sociétés contemporaines
> Université catholique de Louvain
> 1, PLace Montesquieu bte L2.08.03
> B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
> Tél. ++32 (0)10 47 29 51
> Fax ++ 32 (0)10 47 29 52
> e-mail : [email protected]
> http://www.uclouvain.be/demo
Le 2 avril 2013,
Cher(e) collègue,
Dans cette 33e lettre, vous trouverez de nombreux appels à communication (ci-dessous et en pièce jointe) que nous ont fait parvenir des membres de la SDH
Tout d'abord trois appels à communications en vue du congrès ESSHC de Vienne en avril 2014 (Attention :les deadlines pour les propositions sont proches, souvent mi ou fin avril):
- Work and Property in Europe (1500-1900): Toward a Connected History- International Workshop -
- Female Heads of Household and Sources for Finding Them ( 16th -21st c.)
- Learning and training patterns of skilled labour force in preindustrial European labour market (14th-18th centuries).
Signalons également trois appels à communications
- Paupers in the Midst of Others. Orphans and Abandoned Children in Europe
- "Family crises and social change in rural societies" du GDRI CRICEC et de l'université d'Albacete pour une journée fin juin 2013 (deadline 15 avril)
- Chaire Quetelet 2013 - La démographie revisitée. Des 50 dernières aux 50 prochaines années.
Et enfin :
- Un école d'été à Cluj voir le lien :
(cf.la pièce jointe).
Bien cordialement,
Fabrice Boudjaaba
Co secrétaire général de la SDH
*************************
Appels à communication dans le cadre de l'ESSHC
*****
Michela Barbot (ENS Cachan, Paris), Fabrice Boudjaaba (CRH-EHESS Paris), Andrea Caracausi
(University of Padua), Luca Mocarelli (Bicocca University, Milan)
Session Proposal for the European Social Science History Conference (Wien, 23-26 April 2014)
Networks:
“Labour” and “Economics”
Title
Work and Property in Europe (1500-1900): Toward a Connected History
General Aims of the Project
Over the last decades the history of property rights and the history of work have been deeply renewed.
Recent investigations have challenged the traditional idea that the rise of European capitalism was due
to a linear transition from ‘non-private’ to ‘private’ property and from ‘non-commodified’ to
‘commodified’ labour (Grossi 1992; Brass, Van der Linden 1997; Steinfeld 2001). Different
institutional forms coexisted indeed for many centuries, far beyond the Industrial Revolution.
Despite this new evidence, few studies have analysed the historical evolution of work and property
together. This absence is regrettable. Work and property were indeed both at the basis of the social
inclusion, citizenship rights and other fundamental institutional devices which are usually considered as
typical of the economic growth and political modernity. Therefore an analysis that jointly investigates
the evolution of the forms of property and work could significantly help to better clarify the historical
mechanisms of development and modernization.
Following this perspective several key questions remain still open. They can be summarized as follow:
how did ‘work’ and ‘property’ as historical institutions reciprocally interact, and, in turn, which were
the socioeconomic implications of this interaction? This macro-session aims to answer to these
questions, investigating the relationship between labour and property using a wide European
comparison and a long-term perspective, since the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
This wide perspective will allow us to evaluate the impact on ownership and work practices of some
outstanding legal changes, such as the movement of English enclosures, the 1804 French Civil Code, or
the Second Serfdom in the Eastern Europe.
Starting from the main research questions sketched above, we welcome papers articulated around three
major research lines, which reflect three different sub-sessions:
Sub-session 1. Communities, households, individuals
In this first research sub-session we encourage papers dealing with the analysis of the role of the
various historical property regimes (private, collective, dissociated, etc.) and labour relations (free and
unfree labour; reciprocal and wage labour) in the (supposed) process of ‘emancipation’ of individuals
from family or communities. More specifically, we would like to understand: (a) If, and how were the
forms of work and property based on the model of the domestic household and (b) how did the
relations between household systems, property regimes and labour organisations evolve across
centuries.
Sub-session 2. Appropriations, dispossession, capabilities
Until recently, the history of the industrial revolution has been seen as a process of dispossession
started in Europe since the agricultural enclosures. Following this interpretation, the closure of open
fields had two main effects: the spread of a culture of a ‘full owner’ and the transformation of a mass of
landless peasants excluded from their communities into an exploited and unskilled working class. In
our opinion, this too rigid interpretation could be questioned. We argue that the integration of wage
labour in a series of rules and contractual arrangements may have contributed to the development of a
set of individual or collective ‘capabilities’ (in line with the interpretation of Amartya Sen), which were
able to generate inclusion and improve labour skills rather than create division, separation or
exploitation. The two main questions here will be: (a) how did property rights and labour relations help,
or dampen, the process of acquisition of skills in the various times and context? (b) Was there a
relationship between the fragility/imperfection/uncertainty of property rights and the ‘precariousness’
in labour relations? How did the status of owners interact with the professional status?
Sub-session 3. Embeddedness, evaluation and commodification
A third line of research would test the (‘supposed’) progressive depersonalization and commodification
of economic relations in property and labour systems. The basic question can be expressed as follow:
the Polanyi’s hypothesis concerning the “disembeddedness” of the economy from society starting back
from the Industrial Revolution can be proved comparing and connecting the histories of property and
work? The authors are invited to reflect on these points: (1) when, how and why did the work turn into
a commodity? (2) Did the emergence of full private property have some effects on contractual
conditions and negotiations between employers and employees in labour relations, especially in term of
wages fixation and working times?
We welcome both micro-historical studies on single cities or communities and macro-approaches on
entire regions and States. From a micro perspective, our aim is to compare urban and rural contexts, in
order to understand when and how the so-called ‘modern’ concepts of property and work appeared first.
From a macro perspective, we would explore the property and labour ‘divergences’ within Europe, in
order to better highlight the role played by these two institutions in the supposed ‘Great Divergence’
between continental Europe and Great Britain, as well as between Eastern and Western Europe.
Authors should indicate in which sub-session the paper refers.
Abstracts (100-500 words) and one-half page CV have to be sent by 25 April 2013 to:
[email protected]
*************************************
CFP for a panel at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
Learning and training patterns of skilled labour force in preindustrial European labour market (14th-
18th centuries)
Organiser: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto, GRHIS - University of Rouen (France)
This panel aims to study education and training patterns of boys and girls in preindustrial Europe,
taking into account different kinds of apprenticeship and training as well as different social actors.
In preindustrial Europe people were aware of the importance of skills in order to fnd stable and
durable jobs and in order to contrast precariousness and instability or lack of work. Parents and institutions
were motivated to give children learning opportunities to contribute to the familial economy and to ensure
their future. In addition, the formation of a skilled labour force was an important issue for the the prosperity
of European cities and countries. Acquisition of skills and abilities therefore was (just as nowadays)
considered a crucial “social and human capital”.
Clearly several studies have been concerned with the formation of skilled labour force. Many of them
concentrate on the formal apprenticeship, regularly accomplished by young people into guilds. But the latter
were not the only institutions charged with the training of young people.
This panel aims to highlight the role of the actors of the learning process - such as economic and
governmental institutions, but also charitable shelters and workhouses, social networks, kins and family
members etc...At the same time it aims to focus on conditions of engagement of “apprentices”
(instability/fexibility of their position, salary/unpaid work, obtained skills/performed tasks, everyday life etc..),
their interconnections with social and economic local context and with labor force demand and supply.
We invite authors working on history of the family/social and economic history of preindustrial
societies to submit papers on the topic. They should question the traditional (and technical) notion of
apprenticeship and show new research possibilities about learning and training patterns of young people in
preindustrial Europe. In addition, we invite scholars to prepare their contributions taking into account at least
one of the following factors:
- gender differences
- learning patterns in urban/rural contexts
- geographic mobility
- religious identity
- citizenship (or other political/juridical achievements)
Papers from Middle Age to Early Modern Age and from all Europe, countryside or city, are welcome.
Please send a short abstract (500 words max) and a brief Cv by 30 April 2013 to :
[email protected] or to : [email protected]
We will inform you about the result of the panel selection after the 15th May 2014.
For further information about the European Social Science History Conference please visit :
http://esshc.socialhistory.org/
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
GRHIS - Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire,
University of Rouen (France)
******************
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC),
Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
Call for papers: Female Heads of Household and Sources for Finding
Them ( 16th -21st c.)
Organizers: Claudia Contente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/EHESS)
[email protected]
María Cristina Cacopardo (Universidad Nacional de Luján)
[email protected]
Historical studies have traditionally tended to omit the role assumed by women in the
workplace and to minimize their degree of autonomy in different spheres. Nevertheless,
this tendency has been reversed in recent years, as the importance of women has become
increasingly evident in the world of wage earners and as the heads of diverse economic
undertakings.
This general tendency clearly reflects the evolution of society´s own perception of the role
of women as well as the transformations that have taken place in family structures, such as
the increased number of domestic groups with female heads. It should be pointed out,
however, that detailed studies of different regions have revealed that this phenomenon has
existed for centuries; bringing these cases to light though depends on the possibilities that
the relevant sources offer.
Even if in recent decades households headed by women have increased due to females´
greater longevity, this session will certainly be enriched by the contribution of studies that
focus on domestic groups headed by young women and adults with a variety of family
structures that belong to different social groups during distinct historical periods.
We trust that these studies will contribute to the discussion currently underway about the
greater vulnerability or on the contrary, the social and economic viability of these
households, as well as the presentation of qualitative and quantitative methodologies that
would allow us to discover them more easily.
Please send a short abstract before April 25th 2013 to: [email protected] or
[email protected]
For further information about the European Social Science History Conference please visit:
http://esshc.socialhistory.org
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Autres Appels
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International Workshop
Paupers in the Midst of Others. Orphans and Abandoned Children in Europe
(18th - 20th centuries)
3rd - 4th October 2013
''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History, Romanian Academy
Bucharest, Romania
In a world dominated by poverty, orphans and abandoned children hold a place apart given
the alternatives open to them and the attitudes towards them. Over the centuries, the State, the
Church, and individuals have created and financed special institutions, also providing their personal
support on special occasions (religious holidays and feasts, public events etc.), in a more or less
regular manner. But what were the norms these children and those around them had to respect in
order to achieve a certain “official'” ideal? Can we trace any change over the course of time when it
comes to the welfare system intended for these disadvantaged children or acts of philanthropy?
What kind of social policy did the State follow and did it differ from one country or region to the
next? These are just a few of the questions that might arise from a discussion about the institutional
issue. On another hand, we should also keep in mind that besides the rôle the authorities (whether
ecclesiastical or civil) played, a complex social network was created around the child, with its own
importance in shaping his or her future life. The world of the orphan or abandoned child is also a
world where illegitimacy and family (or to be more precise the absence of family) created the
premises for attitudes constructed, whether publicly or not, around words like shame, sin, and
delinquency.
This two-day workshop will focus on orphans and abandoned children as two distinct social
categories, and we encourage scholars from not only Western but also Central and South-Eastern
Europe to participate. The main topics of discussion will be:
1) Institutions and social policies relating to orphans and abandoned children. This
topic will include State and Church initiatives, as well as individual initiatives. We
intend to look at the way in which these differed from one to another and at the
prevalent trends in child development. Medical assistance, issues of infant mortality
within these social categories, and the training given to these children will be among
the subjects to be tackled.
2) Children and family. This topic will cover three different issues relating to both
orphans and abandoned children: firstly, the importance of their relationship with
their single parent or whatever distant relatives they might have; and secondly,
adoption as the path to a new and legitimate family. In addition, where this did not
occur, another issue arises: the baptism of all those left to the mercy of Christians or
institutions without any proof of identification.
3) Seeking respectability or choosing delinquency. This discussion topic will look at the
presence and importance of work in the lives of such children as they found a place
for themselves in society. From a different viewpoint, delinquency was also a course
in life that some people believed was foreordained for these children. And thus their
activity alongside other lawbreakers needs to be highlighted.
We also welcome any other topic related to the subject of our workshop, so please feel free to
propose. Paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, a Curriculum Vitae
and the contact details of the presenter (affiliation, e-mail adress). Please send them to Nicoleta
Roman, ''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania:
[email protected] no later that 25th of May. The working language of this workshop will
be English, but papers in French will also be welcome as long as they will have an equivalent in
English (PowerPoint presentation / a printed form). The organizer will provide accommodation for
three nights, while travel expenses need to be covered by the participants.
Organizer
Nicoleta ROMAN
''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History – Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Romania
Advisory Board
Vincent GOURDON, Centre Roland Mousnier – Paris Sorbonne University
Isabelle ROBIN-ROMERO, Centre Roland Mousnier – Paris Sorbonne University
Silvia SOVIČ, Institute of Historical Research – University of London
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, ''Nicolae Iorga'' Institute of History – Romanian Academy
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION NETWORK
GDRI-CRICEC
CRISES AND CHANGE IN THE EUROPEAN
COUNTRYSIDE
Call for papers
WORKSHOP
FAMILY CRISES AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN RURAL EUROPE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, 18TH-19TH CENTURIES
Crises familiales et changement social en Europe rurale, perspectives comparatives, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
Crisis familiares y cambio social en la Europa rural, en perspectiva comparada, siglos XVIII-XIX
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Facultad de Humanidades de Albacete, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población
Albacete / Casas-Ibañez, Spain
Saturday 22 June 2013
ORGANIZERS:
Francisco GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, Facultad de Humanidades de Albacete, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población, [email protected]
Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX, EHESS/CNRS-UMR8558, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, [email protected]
SECRETARIAT:
Claudia CONTENTE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, [email protected]
Carmen HERNÁNDEZ López, Facultad de Humanidades de Cuenca, Seminario de Historia Social de la Población, [email protected]
Organized by the Social History of Population Seminar (Humanities Faculty of Albacete) within the framework of the International Scientific Coordination Network of the CNRS “Crisis and Change in the European Countryside” (CRICEC) we convene researchers to participate in the Family Crisis and Social Change in Rural Europe in Comparative Perspective (18th-19th c.) workshop, which will take place in Casas-Ibañez/Albacete, Spain, on 22 June, 2013.
This workshop will address topics such as models and practices that were adopted during periods of family crisis, such as death, illness, separation, widowhood, orphanage, abandonment, legal minority, guardianship, celibacy, ageing, extended emigration, misery, poverty etc., whether they be in the context of the family itself or in an institutional one.
We will study not only reactions to crises but eventual conflicts that may derive from situations such as the inheritance and transmission of property, the questioning of paternal authority, domestic violence and the breakup of families. We are particularly interested in observing the mechanisms of adaptation and of mobilization of kinship members – consanguineous, spiritual, or fictitious – during those moments, and the strategies that were deployed. Changes that can be detected between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also need to be considered. Attention will also be paid to the intervention of the Church and State in these matters, and to their distinct modalities of agency, to the legislation and practices that existed and their evolution over time.
We shall discuss whether laws expressed social changes – especially in rural areas – and thus codified practices that were already established in the society or whether they were enforcing new rules that the majority of the population and of the families did not wish this in order to change existing practices. In that respect, we certainly should not overlook the rich literature from this period (legal, pedagogical, philosophical, moral and doctrinal) as a reflection of models and representations.
Our objective is to reach a comparative analysis for different countries and regions of rural Europe, taking into account the different social groups that existed, in order to detect similar or different models of behavior and social change process facing situations of family crises.
Paper proposals for this workshop must contain the name, address and institutional affiliations of the authors, the title of the paper and a summary that does not exceed 300 words.
The deadline to send the proposals is 15 April 2013.
Accepted papers must be submitted by 1st June, 2013.
Addresses for sending proposals:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Call for papers
> Quetelet seminar 2013 – Demography revisited. The past 50 years, the coming 50 years.
> November 12-15, 2013, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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> To mark the fiftieth anniversary of demography at UCL, the 2013 Quetelet Seminar will focus on changes in the field of demography over the past 50 years and in the coming 50 years. The Seminar will be an opportunity for critical assessment of the tools, themes and paradigms of our discipline by revisiting the recent past, but also to imagine the future realistically and perhaps even utopically.
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> Presentations will focus on transformations, past or future, within the discipline and to the challenges of demography, on any the following topics:
- Theories and paradigms (usefulness, relevance, lack/excess…)
- Demographic science in the social and health sciences (e.g. isolation/integration, strengths/weaknesses…)
- Information systems (censuses, surveys, registers...)
- Tools and methods (quantitative, qualitative, mixed)
- Population policies (e.g. usefulness, effectiveness)
- The teaching of demography (what, how, for whom?)
- The long-term evolution of demographic phenomena (errors, uncertainties, reversals...)
- Utopias and illusions in demography.
> Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 May 2013
> Organisation : Centre de recherche en démographie et société, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (www.uclouvain.be/demo).
> Information : [email protected]
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> Bruno Schoumaker
> On behalf of the Committee Chaire Quetelet 2013
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> Merci de faire circuler
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> Appel à communications
> Chaire Quetelet 2013 - La démographie revisitée. Des 50 dernières aux 50 prochaines années.
> 12 au 15 novembre 2013, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
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> À l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la démographie à l’UCL, la Chaire Quételet 2013 portera sur l’évolution de la démographie au cours des 50 dernières années et des 50 années à venir. Cette Chaire sera l’occasion de faire un bilan critique sur les outils, thématiques, et paradigmes de notre discipline en revisitant le passé récent, mais aussi de penser ou imaginer le futur, de façon raisonnable ou pourquoi pas, utopique.
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> Les communications porteront sur les transformations (passées ou à venir) de la discipline et des enjeux démographiques et toucheront aux thèmes suivants :
- Les théories et les paradigmes (utilité, pertinence, manque/trop-plein… ?)
- La science démographique dans les sciences sociales et de santé (isolement/intégration, forces/faiblesses… ?)
- Les systèmes d’information (recensements, enquêtes, registres…)
- Les méthodes et outils (quantitatifs, qualitatifs, et mixtes)
- Les politiques démographiques (utilité, efficacité… ?)
- L’enseignement de la démographie (quoi, comment, pour qui ?)
- L’évolution de long terme des phénomènes démographiques (erreurs, incertitudes, retournements…)
- Les utopies et les illusions démographiques.
> Date limite de réception des propositions (résumés) : 30 mai 2013.
> Organisation : Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique (www.uclouvain.be/demo).
> Plus d'informations : [email protected]
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> Pour le Comité Chaire Quetelet 2013,
> Bruno Schoumaker
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Isabelle Theys
> Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés
> Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les sociétés contemporaines
> Université catholique de Louvain
> 1, PLace Montesquieu bte L2.08.03
> B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
> Tél. ++32 (0)10 47 29 51
> Fax ++ 32 (0)10 47 29 52
> e-mail : [email protected]
> http://www.uclouvain.be/demo
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