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PROGRAM

11 June 2010
Provisionary Program
10.00 Welcome speeches
Introduction. Helen Gardikas-Katsiadaki, Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/ Academy of Athens
Key Lecture by Professor K. Papagheorghiou, Agronomic University of
Athens : Usage and misusage of cooperatives. The example of Greece
Coffee-break
Session I Ideological patterns of agricultural cooperatives

12.00- 12. 20 From the 1900’s agricultural “experimentation” to the State’s intervention at the 30’s. The Greek cooperatives before the creation of Agricultural Bank of Greece. Ass. Proffesor Vassilis Patronis, Department of Economic Studies, University of Patras
12.20-12.40 Structures of partnership in traditional economic activity. Dr. Antonis Antoniou, National Archives, Department of Karditsa.
12.40-13. 00 The Seeds of the Nation: Rural Cooperatives and the formation of an agrarian ideology in Estonia at the turn of the 20th century Johan Eellend Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary History/ Södertörn University College, Sweeden
Discussion

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch break
Section II. Agricultural cooperatives as factors of national and regional economy

15.00-15.20 The agricultural cooperatives in Spain from the dictatorship to European integration (1946-1986), Cándido Román-Cervantes, University of La Laguna, Spain

15.20-15.40 The rural cooperative movement in interwar Poland (1918-1939): Between integration and diversity, Dr. Torsten Lorenz, Berlin, Germany

15.40-16.00 Economy and Society in South Peloponese: the paradigm of organizing the rural cooperation in Messenia (1916-1955), Dr. I. Karakatsanis- Dr. C. Bregianni, Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/ Academy of Athens
Discussion
Coffee break
Session III. Institutional approach in a comparative perspective

17.00 – 17.20 Principal factors leading to foundation of cooperatives in Europe Professor D. G. Mavrogiannis

17.20-17.40 Greek and Italian co-operative movement : a brief comparison
Michael Fefes, Lecturer, University of Peloponnese
Discussion


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Session IV. Cooperatives’ ethnographic parameters
10. 00 – 10.20 Agricultural modernization and social transformation in a Greek rural town: the role of the Agricultural Credit Cooperative of Erythres (1915-2010) [Attica, Greece], Dr. Machi Oikonomou, Centre for the Study of Greek Ethnography/ Academy of Athens

10. 20- 10.40 Agricultural cooperatives as expressed in folk culture. The case of Agiassos carnival “satira”, Regina Zervou, Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/ Academy of Athnes
Discussion
Session V. Agricultural cooperatives and historical conjuncture

11.00 – 11.20 The role of Greek agricultural co-operatives during the second World War (1941-1944), Olympia Klimis – Kaminaris, Lecturer, Panteion University/Department of Public Administration

11.20-11.40 Farm labourers’ cooperatives in the Portuguese Agrarian Reform: State Policies and Local Strategies in Southern Portugal, Margarida Fernandes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ Department of Anthropology

11.40 -12.00 Refugees, Rural Co-operatives and the views of the Agriculturalists (1914-1940), Dr. Elsa Kontogiorghi, Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/ Academy of Athens- Dr. D. Panagiotopoulos, Agricultural University of Athens
Discussion
Coffee break
Closing Session
I. Sources for the study of agricultural cooperatives in Greece

12.50 -13.10 Archival series on agricultural cooperatives at the Historical Archives of the Agricultural Bank of Greece, Evridiki Panou, Historical Archives of the Agricultural Bank of Greece

13. 10- 13. 30 The Archives of the Greek Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, Th. Gotsinas, Greek Union of Agricultural Cooperatives
II. Final remarks
General typology of agricultural cooperatives and research’s perspectives, C. Bregianni
Discussion