The fifth biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), Rural History 2021 in Uppsala, is taking place from June 20 to June 23 2022 (postponed from 2021). The conference will be jointly organized by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Uppsala University through the Division of Agrarian History and the Department of Economic History respectively.
At the conference, the European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA) is organising a double panel on the topic of “Beyond collecting: Exploring films as a means of communication for (rural) historians”. The double panel is taking place on Monday, June 20 from 11:30 to 13:30 and from 14:30 to 16:30.
The first panel (11:30-13:30) consists of the following papers:
Tracing familiar images. A video-essay analysis of home movies from rural Austria as family estates
Brigitte Semanek
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Films, Farmers and Machines. Propagating mechanization in Belgian agriculture through moving images: a video-essay analysis
Sven Lefèvre
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Cinematographic explorations of American agriculture. A video essay about Walter Schmid in America, 1935
Peter Moser
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The second panel (14:30-16:30) consists of the following papers:
The Video Essay as a Research Method – Thinking Through the Medium
Antje Felicitas Hoffmann
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The analytical genre, a corner in the widescreen of essay films?
Peter Veer
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The Affect of Place: re-imagining the rural
Judith Stewart
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Is the Award-Winning Series, Innovation Nation, also Innovative History?
Debra Reid
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