Workshop: Conceptions of Rural Welfare – the “Social Question” and Land Reforms in Finland and Sweden, Jyväskylä, 27 May 2010

NordWel workshop

Conceptions of Rural Welfare – the “Social Question” and Land Reforms in Finland and Sweden

University of Jyväskylä
27 May 2010

Programme

Venue: Seminaarinkatu 15, Historica H105

12.00 Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä): Welcome

12.15 Nils Edling (Stockholm University): The age of small-scale farming in Sweden and the rural-urban division in social policy pre-1939

13.15 Sami Suodenjoki (University of Tampere): From rumouring to balloting – Landless people’s repertoire of contention in rural Finland around 1900

14.15 Coffee break

14.45 Ann-Catrin Östman (Åbo Akademi University) & Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä), Gendering land reforms – the early 20th century land question from the perspective of masculinity

15.45 Janne Haikari (University of Jyväskylä), To build for the future and to forget the past. People’s hunger for land and settlement policy in Finland from 1945 to the 1960’s

16.45 Closing remarks

The workshop is organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel. For more information, please contact pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi

The workshop is open to all interested.

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NordWel workshop

Conceptions of Rural Welfare – the “Social Question” and Land Reforms in Finland and Sweden

University of Jyväskylä

27 May 2010

Programme

Venue: Seminaarinkatu 15, Historica H105

12.00 Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä): Welcome

12.15 Nils Edling (Stockholm University): The age of small-scale farming in Sweden and the rural-urban division in social policy pre-1939

13.15 Sami Suodenjoki (University of Tampere): From rumouring to balloting – Landless people’s repertoire of contention in rural Finland around 1900

14.15 Coffee break

14.45 Ann-Catrin Östman (Åbo Akademi University) & Pirjo Markkola (University of Jyväskylä), Gendering land reforms – the early 20th century land question from the perspective of masculinity

15.45 Janne Haikari (University of Jyväskylä), To build for the future and to forget the past. People’s hunger for land and settlement policy in Finland from 1945 to the 1960’s

16.45 Closing remarks

The workshop is organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel.
For more information, please contact
pirjo.markkola@jyu.fi

The workshop is open to all interested.