Videos now available from the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons!!!
We have earlier written about the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons held in Oldenburg, Germany on June 6-8, 2018. We also promised that once available we would share some of the speeches that the organizers managed to record on a video. This was our first such experiment, and as you will see, recording […]
New: European Rural History Film Database Association
The aim of the European Rural History Film Database Association (ERHFDBA) is to make the films produced on rural Europe visible and provide rural historians with the necessary information to identify and contextualise these films by providing not only information about the location of the original film (and a digitised version of it, if there […]
Rural history in the North Sea area. An overview of recent research (Middle Ages – beginning twentieth century)
Brepols Publishers recently published a new book, entitled Rural history in the North Sea area. An overview of recent research (Middle Ages – beginning twentieth century), edited by Erik Thoen and Leen Van Molle. This volume describes the outlines of the ‘state of the art’ in the field of rural history for countries such as […]
New series publication: Rural economy and society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000
Brepols editors has recently published a series of 4 edited volumes, entitled: Rural economy and society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000. In these volumes, an international team of more than 60 well-known researchers aims to explain how rural societies around the North Sea coped with the enormous social changes between the sixth and the twenty-first centuries. […]
Riksbanken Research Grant awarded to IASC-Members for interdisciplinary research project on coding commons regulations
The Riksbanken Jubileumfond has recently granted a research grant of 4,626,000 SEK (c. 578,000 USD / 478,000 EUR) to the Research Project ‘Modelling institutional dynamics in historical commons’ (MIDI). This international and interdisciplinary research project is set-up by and involves IASC-members Giangiacomo Bravo (Project PI), Tine De Moor, and Amineh Ghorbani. The project builds upon […]