Rural Cooperatives in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Specks Hof, Reichsstr. 4–6, 04109 Leipzig/online

Program

21 October 2021

13.00
Registration

13.30
Frank Hadler (Leipzig), Welcome
13.45–14.30
Torsten Lorenz (Hamburg)/Uwe Müller (Leipzig), Introduction

14.30–15.00
Break for room ventilation/Coffee break

Chair: Aurelia Ohlendorf (Leipzig)

15.00–15.30
Jan Slaviček/Eduard Kubů (Prague), Cooperatives’ Roles and Functions in the Bohemian Lands in the Second Half of the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century

15.30–16.00
Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger (Frankfurt-Oder) German Cooperatives in the 19th century. Schulze-Delitzsch and Raiffeisen in economic, political and legal competition

16.00–16.15
Comments: Torsten Lorenz (Hamburg)/Uwe Müller (Leipzig)

16.15–16.45 Discussion

16.45–17.15
Break for room ventilation/Coffee break

Chair: Frank Hadler (Leipzig)

17.15–17.45
Bartłomiej Błesznowski/Alexandra Bilewicz (Warsaw)/Torsten Lorenz (Hamburg), A Forgotten Path of Popular Modernization. Rural Cooperativism in Poland 1870-1939

17.45–18.15
Zsombor Bódy (Budapest), Antiliberal Discourses, Adaptation to Market Economy and State Power. Hungarian Cooperative Movement from the End of the 19th Century until World War Two

18.15-18.30
Comment: Corinne Geering (Leipzig)

18.30-19.00
Discussion

20.00
Dinner (for workshop participants)

22 October 2021

Chair: Uwe Müller (Leipzig) and Torsten Lorenz (Hamburg)

9.00-9.30
Cornel Micu (Bucharest), Cooperatives as instruments of state policies in interwar Romania (Via Zoom)

9.30-10.00
Catherine Bregianni (Athens), From the Great Depression to Dictatorship. Changing Institutions of Social Economy in Greek Agriculture (1929-1940) (Via Zoom)

10.00-10.15
Comments: Dietmar Müller (Leipzig), Augusta Dimou (Bukarest) (Via Zoom)

10.15-10.45
Discussion

10.45-11.15
Break for room ventilation/Coffee break

11.15-11.45
Viesturs Paul Karnups (Riga), Cooperatives in Latvia 1918-1940. An Overview

11.45-12.15
Žarko Lazarević (Ljubljana), Cooperatives in Yugoslavia: regional differences

12.15-12.30
Comment: Stephan Merl (Bielefeld), Jan Zofka (Leipzig)

12.30-13.00
Discussion

13.00–14.30
Lunch break

14.30-15.30
Final Discussion, Conclusions, Plans for further work on the project

15.30 End of the workshop