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XV. International Conference of Historical Geographers Page: SPEAKERS PROGRAM LIST 1 Opening session Room: 1 Date/Time: 06/08/2012 13:00 – 13:45 Chair: Pavel Chromý, Charles University in Prague, Czechia Participants: Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Science) representative Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Institute of History) representative Czech Geographic Society representative Plenary session Room: 1 Date/Time: 06/08/2012 14:00 – 15:30 Chair: Leoš Jeleček, Charles University in Prague, Czechia Eva Semotanová Prague, the city and the space. From confined to the open Ivan Bičík Historical land use in research of landscape changes in Czechia Pavel Chromý Changing regions, changing identities: Czechia during 20 th century

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Opening session

Room: 1

Date/Time: 06/08/2012 13:00 – 13:45

Chair: Pavel Chromý, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Participants: Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Science) representative Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Institute of History) representative Czech Geographic Society representative

Plenary session

Room: 1

Date/Time: 06/08/2012 14:00 – 15:30

Chair: Leoš Jeleček, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Eva Semotanová Prague, the city and the space. From confined to the open Ivan Bičík Historical land use in research of landscape changes in Czechia Pavel Chromý Changing regions, changing identities: Czechia during 20th century

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1.1 Historical Geography: Past, Present and Future

Room: 1 VG

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Robin Butlin, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Heike Jöns Academic travel and the development of modern research cultures in the University of Cambridge, 1885−1955

Róbert Győri Colonizing the science − the Stalinization of Hungarian geography 1945−1960 Miguel Aguilar-Robledo Valente Vázquez-Solís

Historical geography in Mexico from the mid-20th century to 2010

Robin Butlin Reflections on the origins and early development of a specialist research group: the Historical Geography Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society, c. 1960−2000

1.2 Historical Geographies and Communication

Room: 2

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizer: Benjamin Oldcorn, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Chair: Nicola Thomas, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Jenny Lee Visual communication in the making of Cable & Wireless’ corporate identity Zef Segal “The extensions of man” – the state and the postal system: German medium sized states

1815–1866 Ken Weisbrode The geography of the diplomatic cable Gordon M. Winder Telecommunications and imagined geographies: earthquake reporting in the Los

Angeles Times, 1917–1939 Benjamin Oldcorn Cable and Wireless, the British government and the Second World War

1.3 Borders and Nation Building

Room: 3

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Kent McNeil, York University, Canada

Markéta Marková Borders in the medieval Central Europe Thierry Issartel Political theology and notions of border and frontier in early modern Europe Angela Ashworth Voices from the periphery: The Newfoundland novel as nation builder Kent McNeil The importance of historical boundaries for present-day indigenous rights: A Canadian

case study

1.4 Urban Change

Room: 4

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Eva Chodějovská, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

Aki Yamamura The changing landscape of port towns from medieval to early modern times in Japan Emilia Sarno The French decade and the transformation of urban space in the Italian South Hiroshi Yamane Local influential merchant as main actor in the making of modern Japanese port,

Tsuruga Jiří Poslt Emergence of the city: Zlín 1900−1938

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1.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Medieval Sources

Room: 6

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia

Ursula Bieber The Russian chronicles as a medieval ‘database’ for climate information Martin Bauch Redating Kuwae – Medieval sources on a massive volcanic eruption in the 15th century Yoshio Tagami Climate variation during medieval climate anomaly in Japan – Reconstruction from

historical documents

1.7 Nature, Society and Environmental Change: Cold Environments

Room: 7

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Alessandro Antonello, Australian National University, Australia

Dinah Molloy William Scoresby Jr.: The benchmark for validating historical Arctic whaling data for use in modern climate research

Sarah Louise Millar The frozen deep: Measurement and representation in the Polar seas, 1810–1850 Jean Martin Soldiers from the North: The odd geography of Canadian military deployment Alessandro Antonello Competing geographies of the Southern ocean, 1968−1980

2.1 Geographical Photography

Room: 1

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizer: Felix Driver, University of London, United Kingdom

Chair: Felix Driver, University of London, United Kingdom

Joan M. Schwartz Seeing far and wide: panoramas, stereoviews, and the illusion of geographical knowledge

James Ryan Evidence, emotion and empire: lantern slide shows and the Congo Reform Association in the early twentieth century

Felix Driver Between national projection and documentary style: photography in the Geographical Magazine, 1935–1959

2.2 Historical Geography of the Ligurian Apennines

Room: 2

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizer: Charles Watkins, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Chair: Charles Watkins, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Diego Moreno Field studies in Liguria (NW Italy). From theoretical historical geography to the historical approach to geographical problems (1990–2012)

Roberta Cevasco A geographical heritage: The landscapes of Quercus Cerris in the Northern Apennines (NW Italy)

Pietro Piana Ross Balzaretti Charles Watkins

Topographical art and landscape history in early nineteenth century Liguria: Elizabeth Fanshawe (1779–1856)

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2.3 Formation of Nations and State Political Boundaries

Room: 3

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Gideon Biger, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Aleš Nováček Duality of Europe: Historical-geographical analysis of the development and its delimitation

Jan Kalenda Theories of European state-formation: The search for a new synthesis Vedran Duančić Constructing Yugoslav cultural space, 1918−1941 Gideon Biger An historical geography model of the relation between nations and international

boundaries

2.4 Transformation of Urban Space

Room: 4

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Setsu Tachibana, Kobe Yamate University, Japan

Takashi Amijima Continuous reinvention of the modern industrial agglomeration: The case of the pharmaceutical industrial district in Osaka, Japan, 1868–1914

Tiina Peil City on water: Harnessing a river in Tallinn, Estonia Phillip G. Mackintosh The farmlike city? The Globe, historiography and Toronto, 1860−1900 Setsu Tachibana Creating modern homes and gardens in Japan: Yaezo Hashimoto’s horticultural

challenges, enterprises and dreams in Japanese Kansai-area urban modernity

2.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Documentary Evidence

Room: 6

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Dennis Wheeler, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

Ghazi al Dyab Steffen Vogt Rüdiger Glaser Johannes Schönbein

A damascene 15th century diary as source for climate reconstructions

Astrid E. J. Ogilvie Climate data from official letters from Iceland c. AD 1700–1894 Rudolf Brázdil Ladislava Řezníčková Tomáš Černušák

Weather patterns of the Olomouc region (Czech Republic) in A.D. 1693–1783 based on records from diaries of the Premonstratensian order

2.7 Spaces of Mobility and Migration

Room: 7

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Samuel M. Otterstrom, Brigham Young University, USA

Kim Ross The locational history of Lunatic Asylums in mid-nineteenth century Scotland, as viewed through Reports from the Scottish Lunacy Commissioners, 1857–1872

Marc St-Hilaire Spatial patterns of urban social networks: Familial residential propinquity in Quebec City, 1871–1911

Georgios Kritikos Athens as a space of migration: Mental maps created by immigrants from the ex-Soviet Union countries

Samuel M. Otterstrom Analyzing the multigenerational migration of Europeans to the United States during the 19th century

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3.1 Natural Hazards in History

Room: 1

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Alan Baker, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Inese Stūre Cross section of culture by storm: The case of two biggest storms in Latvia Andrés Vélez-Posada The volcanic landscape of Pozzuoli: Natural philosophy and geographical tradition

in renaissance culture Philip Brown The great Tochio flood of 1926: Limits to modernization in flood amelioration in Japan Alan Baker Hail as hazard: Changing attitudes to protecting crops against hail damage in France

1815−1914

3.2 Historical Land Use: Cadastral Mapping

Room: 2

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Hrvoje Petrić, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Alexey Frolov The general survey of the 18th and 19th centuries as a source of Russian historical geography: The micro-regional aspect

Andrzej Affek Land use dynamics in the marginal hilly landscape over the last 230 years (a case study of former Polish – Ukrainian ethnic borderland)

Lucie Kupková Ivan Bičík

170 years of landscape changes in Czechia in the land registry

Hrvoje Petrić 19th century land registry of today's Republic of Croatia, a source of environmental history

3.3 Cultural Boundaries and Identities

Room: 3

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Richard L. Nostrand, University of Oklahoma, USA

Sergei Rasskasov The spatial and temporal structure of the New England regional image Lawrence Estaville Myths and maps: The nineteenth-century Cajuns Stephan Fuchs The value of place names as ethnic indicators Richard L. Nostrand America’s changing geography

3.4 Changing Cities and Their Surroundings

Room: 4

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Thomas S. Carhart, University of Freiburg, Germany

Peiyao Zhang David W. Wong Hui Lin

Spatial and temporal changes of medical services in republican Beijing: between East and West

Václav Matoušek Development of summer villas and resorts of Prague during 19th and first decades of 20th century

Adam Senetra Agnieszka Szczepańska

Changes in Poland’s suburban zones – the example of the capital city of the region of Warmia and Mazury

Thomas S. Carhart Real-estate nationalization during the period of the German Democratic Republic and post reunion restitution in selected pre-1949 urban historical districts in Thuringia and Saxony

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3.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Early Instrumental Records I

Room: 6

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Petr Dobrovolný, Masaryk University, Czechia

Maria J. Alcoforado J. M. Vaquero R. M. Trigo J. P. Taborda

Early Portuguese meteorological records (18th century)

Rajmund Przybylak Aleksandra Pospieszyńska Maciej Nowakowski

Air temperature in Żagań from 1781 to 1792

Monika Bělínová Rudolf Brázdil Hubert Valášek Jarmila Burianová Jaroslav Rožnovský

The role of scientific and economic societies in meteorological observations of the first half of the 19th century in the Czech Lands

3.7 History of Cartography

Room: 7

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Michael Jones, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Hirotsugu Fujita Interpretations on the production process of the Grand map of Sakai dated 1689 in the Edo period

Haim Goren Bruno Schelhaas

Petermann’s Physical Map of Palestine. Cartographic representation of sacred landscape

Irina Konovalova Political geography of the 10th century: Representation of world empires in Arab geography

Michael Jones Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and cartography: The Prague connection

4.1 Historical Geographies of Science

Room: 1

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Felix Driver, University of London, United Kingdom

Organizer: Simon Naylor, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Nuala Johnson Drawing on nature: Botanical illustrators and the circulation of plant knowledge Charles Withers Differently ruling the world: Historical geographies of the Prime meridian Polina Nikolaou The Professionalization of archaeology in Cyprus, 1860–1900 Simon Naylor Atmospheric empires: Expeditionary meteorology in the early nineteenth century

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4.2 Historical Land Use: Regional Changes

Room: 2

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: José de Mascarenhas, University of Évora, Portugal

Oliver Bender A GIS methodology for historic landscape change analysis in Central Europe Kristofer Jupiter Regulated and unregulated strip-field systems in Central Sweden before the agrarian

revolution. Description and classification of arable parcels using concentric circles in GIS

Teresa Batista José Manuel de Mascarenhas Paula Mendes

Relations between Évora old cadastral networks and actual landscape structure

4.3 Religious Landscapes, Sacred Structures and Regional Identities

Room: 3

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Tomáš Havlíček, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Emir Galilee Ruth Kark

Burial patterns: a comparison between Negev Bedouin and Mongolian sedentarizing nomads

Weththige Fernando Spatial and temporal patterns in the Christian community in Sri Lanka with special reference to the Puttlam district

Mojmír Benža Dagmar Kusendová Juraj Majo Milena Sokolová

Historical-geographical preconditions for territorial organization formation of the Lutheran church in Slovakia in 1919

Tomáš Havlíček Martina Hupková

Secularization and church property: the case of Czechia

4.4 History of Geography: Reconstruction of Landscapes’ Images

Room: 4

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Gaëlle Hallair Visualization of the Carpathian mountains in the notebook of Emmanuel de Martonne (1911)

Eun Jung Kim Reconstruction of primitive landscape of Ulleung island in 1882 based on the inspection diary by Mr. Kyu Won Rii

Mika Abe The characteristics of landscape representation and the way of thinking about landscapes from analysing the work of Hiroshige Utagawa

Michael Heffernan The scale of two cities: The dispute about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London in the 1720s

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4.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Early Instrumental Records II – Climate

Reconstructions I

Room: 6

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Maria Joao Alcoforado, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Aleksandra Pospieszyńska Rajmund Przybylak

The climate of Toruń (Poland) based on documentary evidence and instrumental data

Øyvind Nordli The history of the Oslo temperature series starting in 1837 Takehiko Mikami Masumi Zaiki Junpei Hirano

Climatic changes in Japan since the 18th century

4.7 History of Cartography: Early Maps

Room: 7

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Akihiro Kinda, National Institutes of the Humanities, Japan

Jan D. Bláha Manifestations of culture in early maps Mirčeta Vemić Suzana Lović

Old Serbia (Kosovo, Metohija and adjacent areas) on the European maps from 1513 to 1918

Keith D. Lilley Catherine Porter Christopher Lloyd

Unravelling historical geographies of medieval and modern cartography: The uses of GIS in quantifying and comparing changes in European maps and map-making, 1350−1600

Akihiro Kinda Disasters on antique maps in Japan: Earthquake, landslide and flood

5.1 Hydrological Hazards and Social Adaptations

Room: 1

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizer: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University, USA

Chair: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University, USA

Andreas Dix Torrents and torrent control in the european Alps, 18th – 20th centuries Michael Neundlinger Robust control and hydrological hazards – A common history of Danube floods and

the city of Vienna, 1744–1875 Craig E. Colten Water hazards in the American South: Nationalizing a southern agenda Greg Bankoff The “English lowlands” and the North sea basin system: A history of shared risk

5.2 Historical Land Use: Manors and Landscape Changes

Room: 2

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Dace Fogele, University of Latvia, Latvia

John Chapman Winners and losers: Who gained from land auctions at parliamentary enclosures in England?

Junichi Kanzaka Manorialization and demographic pressure in thirteenth-century England Barbara Bożętka Manor ensembles in Poland after 1944. Complexity of changes of the rural landscape Dace Fogele Oļģerts Nikodemus

Manor centres in the North Vidzeme (Latvia) rural landscape − Past and present

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5.3 Churches Territorial Organizations and Identities

Room: 3

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Niall Cunningham, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Daniel Reeves Tomáš Havlíček

The historical roots of religion in Central European national identities

Jake Hodder Towards a Black Christian internationalism: African Americans and India in the life and work of William Stuart Nelson (1895−1977)

W. George Lovell The archive that never was: State terror and historical memory in Guatemala Niall Cunningham “Frightfully hard to explain…”: Deprivation, religious geography and political deaths

during the Northern Ireland troubles

5.4 Historical Landscape: Landscape as a Heritage

Room: 4

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Veerle van Eetvelde, Ghent University, Belgium

Ana Maria Wegmann Historical geography: appreciation of a historical landscape. Pirque District, Santiago de Chile

Markéta Šantrůčková Creation and development of the landscape parks in the Czech Republic and its historical geographical study

Mhairi Paterson Matters of style and substance: British regional landscapes and the place of the dry-stone wall

Lisa Van De Velde Marc Antrop Veerle Van Eetvelde

Assessing the actuality of historical maps in rural landscapes, case studies of settlements in Belgium

5.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Climate Reconstructions II

Room: 6

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Takehiko Mikami, Teikyo University, Japan

Mariano Barriendos Oscar Collados

Quantification and calibration of cultural proxies for rainfall reconstruction in Iberian peninsula context

Oliver Wetter Christian Pfister

Beginning of agricultural workings as proxies for mean spring-summer temperatures (!) and fine weather conditions (?). Creation of long multi proxy “agro-phenological” series starting from 1444 AD – 2012 AD

Chantal Camenisch Seasonal reconstruction of temperatures and precipitation based on documentary evidence in the Burgundian Low Countries during the 15th century

5.7 Historical Cartography: Historical Atlases and Old Maps of Europe

Room: 7

Date/Time: 07/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Martin Seger, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Bo Nissen Knudsen DigDag – A digital atlas of the Danish historical-administrative geography Ute Wardenga Dirk Hänsgen

The Digital Atlas of Geopolitical Imaginaries in Eastern Central Europe – An interdisciplinary work in progress

Jiří Woitsch Ethnographical Atlas of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia – A research overview Martin Seger A Habsburg-monarchy-atlas by the census 1910

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6.1 Re-evaluating Migration Models in the Light of Broad Scale Transatlantic Record Linkage

Room: 1

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizer: Walter Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University, USA

Chair: Timothy G. Anderson, Ohio University, USA

Jochen Krebber New perspectives on chain migration: Transatlantic social mobility and the spatial distribution of German migrants in 19th century North America

Walter Kamphoefner Chain migration, locational factors, and transatlantic social mobility of German immigrants: A nationwide perspective

Gunnar Thorvaldsen Transatlantic tracing of Norwegian emigrants and returnee emigrants in the censuses 1866 to 1910

6.2 Changing Rural Landscapes in Russia

Room: 2

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Olga Trapeznikova, The Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Elizaveta M. Tyumentseva Formation history of the contemporary landscape structure of steppe islands in Southern Siberia

Anastasia Glebova Kirill Chistyakov

The historical geography of the landscapes of South Siberia

Olga Trapeznikova What determines changes of agricultural landscapes, nature or man?

6.3 Geography and Religion: Investigating the Historical Geographies of a Connection I: Geography

in the Service of Religion

Room: 3

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizers: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada Luise Fischer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chair: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada

Teodora Shek Brnardić Geography in the service of faith: Jesuit geographical textbooks in early modern Central Europe

Elena Yu. Kazakova-Apkarimova

The Russian geographical tradition in the early twentieth century

Sabine von Löwis Religions and religiosity in Ukraine today – Evidence for the connection of historic regions and religion

6.4 Dissonant Heritage

Room: 4

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Grete Swensen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Norway

James Davis Mattew Shumway

God forsaken places: Location and characteristics of Japanese internment camps

Karen M. Morin Spatial violence: An historical geography of USP Lewisburg from modern to late modern prison

Dian Novia Indrianti Using historical geography to identify Westerling’s traces for potential dark tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Grete Swensen From monuments of justice to sites of adventure

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6.5 Historical Landscape: Analysis and Evaluation

Room: 5

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Elizabeth Brabec, University of Massachusetts, USA

Zita Izakovičová Representative, rare and unique landscape types of the Slovakia José Manuel de Mascarenhas Filipe Themudo Barata Sofia Capelo

Estimating the heritage value of cultural landscapes: A comparative study

Milena Moyzeová Importance of research to the historic landscape structures in Slovakia Elizabeth Brabec Kristina Molnarova

Analyzing cultural landscapes: A multiple methods approach

6.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Climate Reconstrucions III

Room: 6

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Astrid Ogilvie, University of Colorado, USA

Petr Dobrovolný Rudolf Brázdil Oldřich Kotyza Hubert Valášek

The 500-year precipitation fluctuations in the Czech Lands derived from documentary evidence and instrumental measurements

Elizabeth A. C. Rushton “Under the shade we flourish”: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of reconstructing a climate history for 19th century Belize

V. Millán Fernando S. Rodrigo

The climate of Sahel during the 16th−18th centuries from documentary sources

6.7 Colonial Heritage

Room: 7

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Miyo Aramata, Keisen University, Japan

Thomas Kolnberger The “tyranny of the line“: City planning in colonial Phnom Penh, 1860s – 1940s Stephen A. Royle Setting ‘other nations the example of occupying places to which Great Britain has no

title’: Port Hamilton, Korea as an imperial outpost, 1885–87 Miyo Aramata Colonial heritage and tourism: Restructuring memories of French rule in Casablanca Duncan Taylor Circulating tropical nature

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7.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Storms and Strong Winds

Room: 6

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Rajmund Przybylak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Adriaan M.J. de Kraker Historic storms, storm patterns and clustering of storminess, 1390–1725 Kateřina Chromá Rudolf Brázdil Petr Dobrovolný Zbyněk Černoch

Tornadoes in the Czech Lands based on documentary evidence: AD 1119–2010

Alexander Jorge Berland Extreme weather and society in colonial Antigua and Barbuda

7.8 Poster Session

Room: 8

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Michal Semian, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Eva Novotná Jan Kalvoda

Antonín Strnad (1746–1799) – The first professor of physical geography at Charles University in Prague

Jiří Martínek Wilhelm Friedrich – Founder of Czech historical geography (?) Fernando Salazar-Holguín Alberto Gómez-Gutiérrez

GEOÁTICO: Virtual platform for information on scientific travels

Petr Žabička Petr Přidal Milan Konečný Eva Novotná

TEMAP − Technology for Discovering of Map Collections

Eva Chodějovská Image of the 18th-century landscape of Central Europe. The 1st Military Survey of Bohemia and its on-line accessible scientific edition

Tereza Blažková Historical maps as a source for landscape anthropology on example of industrial landscape

Gábor Máté „Footprints of society”. Research of land use dynamism through defining dirt-road networks from the Middle Ages up to nowadays − A Hungarian example

Jan Dostalík Green ideas in Czechoslovak land use planning: Exploring theories of spatial planning with focus on 40s and 60s

Robert C. Stoiculescu Mariana Radu Alina E. Huzui Ileana G. Patru-Stupariu

A history of territorial policy reflected in the spatial pattern of land cover change covering 150 years in southern Romania

Jan Daniel Jindřich Frajer Pavel Klapka Petra Sádovská Michaela Hrudová

How the village became the town. Spatio-temporal transformations of the population social structure of the suburb of the fortress town of Olomouc (Czech Republic)

Rastislav Stojsavljevic Branislav Djurdjev Bojan Djercan

Construction of the medieval town of Smederevo: 1428–1430

Shogo Hasegawa On ‘meisho’ (noted places) in Kyoto represented in guidebooks in Meiji Kyoto Geoffrey L. Buckley Ali Whitmer J. Morgan Grove

Parks, trees, and environmental justice: Field notes from Washington, DC, USA

Aleš Vyskočil Nationalism and landscape

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Miloslav Šerý Petr Šimáček

Borders as a part of regional identity of population living within territory with interrupted and uninterrupted tradition

Mimi Urbanc Jerneja Fridl Marko Juvan

Space of Slovenian literary culture. The period 1780–1940

Taiko Suzuki An overview of the ‘colors in landscapes’ studies: Its progress in Japan and the importance of geographical perspective

Michał Sobala Environmental conditionings of distribution of cultural landscape’s elements in Western Beskid (Polish Carpathians)

Sophie J. Visser Selective information from historical geographers: The case of the Dutch area of Piksen

Nicholas Orsillo Nature and cultural landscape protection from a historical perspective – The case of the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape

Jindřich Frajer Renata Pavelková Chmelová Jan Geletič

Defunct ponds in Moravia and Silesia

Linnéa Rowlatt The role of climate changes in the Protestant Reformation Ildiko Csernus-Molnár Andrea Kiss

Weather-related information in annual reports of county physicians in late 18th century Hungary

M. F. Nunes Maria J. Alcoforado J. Santos

A new project on historical climatology in Portugal

Andrea Kiss Floods in the medieval Carpathian basin Pavel Raška Vilém Zábranský

Documentary evidence for historical geomorphic risks in the Czech Republic

8.1 Mobile Natures: Mobile Ideas

Room: 1

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Organizers: Laura Cameron, Queen’s University, Canada Kirsten Greer, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Chair: Simon Naylor, Exeter University, United Kingdom

Laura Cameron Kirsten Greer

Water, fish & fowl: The translocal ecologies mobile workship

Jamie Linton Julie Trottier

Rivers of expertise: The migration of American hydrological knowledge to Palestine, 1922–1948

Sinead Earley Forest knowledge (re)rooted: The Sopron school of forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada (1956–1961)

David Lambert Encountering the nature of Carribean slavery: Beasts, brutes and monsters

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8.2 Historical Land Use: The Impact of Land Reforms

Room: 2

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Göran Hoppe, Uppsala University, Sweden

David Harvey Paul Brassley Matt Lobley Michael Winter

Farmers feeding the nation: Processes of technical change and agricultural innovation in south west England(1937–1985)

Anders Wästfelt Land tenure in Sweden, the intersection between Nordic user rights and property rights inherited from Roman law

Peeter Maandi The spatial integration of conflicting historical legacies. On the inclusive aspect of Estonia’s post-Soviet land reform

Göran Hoppe Post-Soviet landed property development in Estonia: Market effects or return to heritage?

8.3 Geography and Religion: Investigating the Historical Geographies of a Connection II:

Confessional Divides and Conflictual Geographies

Room: 3

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Organizers: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada Luise Fischer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chair: Luise Fischer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

John C. Lehr Yossi Katz

Worlds in collision: Time, space and the roles of women in Hutterite society

Bogumil Szady Religious and confessional borderlands in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century

Roland Cerny-Werner Borders in terms of a battleground of identity. The Catholic church and the Vatican in a struggle for circumscription in the former eastern territories of the German Reich and the GDR

8.4 Urban and Industrial Heritage

Room: 4

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Masaaki Okada, Kinki University, Japan

Christian Montès The skyline at stake: Planning regulation and civic ideal in American state capitals Shaphan Cox Who decides on heritage? The politics of re-imagining Victoria Quay, Fremantle,

Western Australia Kazuhiro Uesugi Landscape of “red-bricks”: Commemorations of naval port cities in Japan Masaaki Okada Technoscape – Industrial landscape as social and aesthetic heritage

8.5 History of Geography

Room: 5

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Denis Linehan, University College Cork, Ireland

Kent Mathewson Élisée Reclus and Friedrich Ratzel in and on Latin America: Contrasting accounts, conflicting visions

Olga Lavrenova Nicholas Roerich’s Manchurian Expedition (1934–1935) Stephen Bell Invisible research: Henry Bruman’s work on Brazilian colonization Denis J. Linehan Becoming tropical: Producing geographies of encounter in 20th century Ireland

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8.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Droughts and Floods I

Room: 6

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Gerardo Benito, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Spain

Oscar Collados Mariano Barriendos

Comparative study on social answers in front of natural disasters: Barcelona metropolitan area (NE Spain) during severe drought events of 1812–1824 and 1998–2009

Ladislava Řezníčková Rudolf Brázdil Hubert Valášek Marek Havlíček Petr Dobrovolný Eva Soukalová Tomáš Řehánek Hana Skokanová

Floods of the river Morava (Czech Republic) in the 1691–2010 period

Lars Andreas Roald Historical floods in Norway – Causes and consequences

9.1 Getting Historical Geography Across

Room: 1

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Organizer: Ute Wardenga, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Chair: Ute Wardenga, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Klaus-Dieter Kleefeld KULADIG – Cultural Landscape Digital – A web-based information system Haik Thomas Porada Regional geography goes serial – Current trends in providing regional geography

to the general public in Germany Georg Waldemer From region to function? Current developments in Central European open-air museums Winfried Schenk Historical geography in Germany: Between basic research and practical orientation

9.2 Changes in landscape exploatation

Room: 2

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Fridolin Krausmann, Alpin Adria Universität, Austria

José Antonio Ávalos-Lozano Miguel Aguilar-Robledo Pedro Medellín-Milán Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ortíz

Industrial metabolism and landscape (trans)formation in the mining district of Catorce, northern San Luis Potosí, New Spain/Mexico, 1772–1827

Minna Tanskanen The future of the underproductive mire fields in Finland Jan Kabrda Beer? Wine! Changing area and spatial distribution of hop-gardens and vineyards

in the Czech Republic 1960–2010 Fridolin Krausmann Geoff Cunfer

Agroecosystems on the American frontier: A socio-metabolic perspective

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9.3 Geography and Religion: Investigating the Historical Geographies of a Connection III: Religion,

Environment and Historical Regions

Room: 3

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Organizers: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada Luise Fischer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chair: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada

Mélanie Lozat Geography and religion in the work of the geographer Strabo Brian Catlos Geography, religion and culture in the medieval Mediterranean Stefania Gargioni Religious wars and geographical boundaries: The case of South France (1562–1596) Núria Silleras-Fernández Pathways of patronage: Eiximenis’s moralizing as a peninsular phenomenon

9.4 Spaces of Conflict

Room: 4

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Zdeněk Kučera, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Jonnathan Stivel Pérez Santamaría

Local territorial and regional settings, through population dynamics and settlement in the municipality of “El Cocuy”, as a result of violence in the twentieth century

Janez Pirnat Visible and invisible forest landscape accessibility of Kočevsko, Slovenia Santa Beneža Ineta Grīne Ivars Strautnieks

The impact of a former bombing range on settlement structure in Zvārde parish (Latvia)

Zdeněk Kučera The historical geography of persistence, destruction and creation: The role of settlement desertion in landscape transformations in Czechia’s resettled borderland

9.5 Historical Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Room: 5

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Chair: Armela-Linda Rahovan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Philip Whalen The geography of gastronomic tourism in modern Burgundy Florina Cozea Armela-Linda Rahovan Adina-Maria Puşcaşu Leonard Bruckner

The historical city evolution: Between keeping the historical identity and adapting to the XXIth century society demands. Case study Cluj Napoca city

Dana Fialová Jiří Vágner et al.

Regional identity of second home tourists in peripheral areas with different historical development

Armela-Linda Rahovan Florina Cozea Adina-Maria Puşcaşu Leonard Bruckner

The 18th–19th century hotels from Transylvania:Resources of today’s cultural tourism

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9.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Droughts and Floods II

Room: 6

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Gaston R. Demarée, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium

Gerardo Benito Blanca Botero Maria J. Machado

Historical flood records of the Tagus river: Stationarity and flood hazard analysis

Andrea Kiss Causes and consequences of major 18th-century Danube floods at Pest-Buda (present Budapest area)

Libor Elleder Historical floods in Prague – A comparison of reconstruction approaches

9.7 CHGIS and the Study of Chinese Historical Geography

Room: 7

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 15:15 – 16:45

Organizer: Yangfang Hou, Fudan University, China

Chair: Jianxiong Ge, Fudan University, China

Participant: Tao Sun, Fudan University, China

10.1 Local Communities in Transition: Case of the Borderland between Sweden/Finland and Russia

from the 17th

to the Early 20th

Century

Room: 1

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizer: Maria Lähteenmäki, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Chair: Maria Lähteenmäki, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Katri Issakainen Social segregation of space in Swedish town in the 17th century Maria Proskuriakova Social space of Russian garrison employees from the 1710s to the 1730s Riikka Myllys Resistance of Finnish peasants in the Eastern borderland in the 1830s Maria Lähteenmäki Places of tourism in the borderland between Finland and the Soviet Union in the 1920s

and 1930s

10.2 Historical Land Use: Environmental Changes’ Impacts

Room: 2

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: José Augusto Pádua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Viktor Kishljaruk The environmental impact on social and economic transformations of ancient society in the Lower Dniester region

Xiaohong Zhang The study of relationship between environmental change and mission beyond the Great Wall in Northern China

Kaoru Matsuyama Land use history of the site of Fukushima nuclear power plant: From a military airfield to the nuclear power station

José Augusto Pádua The logic of deforestation in Brazil: An historical perspective

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10.3 Geography and Religion: Investigating the Historical Geographies of a Connection IV:

Geographical Knowledge and Religious Belief

Room: 3

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizers: Dean Bond, University of Toronto, Canada Luise Fischer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chair: Theodora Shek Brnardić, Croatian Institute of History, Croatia

Halla Kim The religious-cosmological implications of two pre-modern maps from Korea: Gangnido and Daedong Yŏjido

Luise Fischer German Enlightenment geography and religious belief Dean Bond Enlightened geography and theological reason: Placing religion in the lives and work

of A. F. Büsching and J. D. Michaelis

10.4 Medieval Geographies

Room: 4

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Leszek Kozlowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland

Olga Chuvorkina Historical geography of Medieval Europe: Growth and development of the regional schools of Romanesque sculpture in France

Tomáš Klimek Changing medieval road net and impact on the landscape Leszek Kozłowski Re-reading Bavarian Geographer. A question of identification and localization

of „Polish” tribes in Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii

10.5 History of Geography

Room: 5

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Chair: Ma Jian, Southwest University, China

Jian Ma Lin Sun

Penetrating into the closed region: Research on the Upper Yangtze Expedition of 1861

Amrita Malhi Law and politics in the ‘benighted lands’: Frontiers of colonialism on the Malay Peninsula

Beverley Duguid A Jamaican odyssey: Nancy Prince’s travels to Jamaica in 1840 Marti Klein Temporary mobility, travel narratives, and the “pull” of the sea

10.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Climate and Society I

Room: 6

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Georgina Endfield, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Gaston R. Demarée Astrid E.J. Ogilvie

Impacts of climate, sea ice and phenological changes in Labrador/Nunatsiavut: evidence from Moravian missionary records

Kathleen Pribyl Weather and its influence on the grain production in late medieval England, c. 1250–1430

Lajos Rácz The climatic effects of the last cold period of the Little Ice Age in Hungary in the first half of the 19th century

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10.7 Using GIS in Rewriting the Territorial History of Europe

Room: 7

Date/Time: 09/08/2012 17:00 – 18:30

Organizer: Andreas Kunz, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Chair: Andreas Dix, University of Bamberg, Germany

Participants: Malte Helfer, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg David Bodenhamer, University of Indiana/Purdue University, USA Bo Nissen Knudsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ian Gregory, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom Paul Ell, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom

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11.1 Urban Networks

Room: 1

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Henk Schmal, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gil Carlos Silveira Porto Ralfo Edmundo da Silva Matos

Beyond chapada diamantina: Notes on a network of cities of Bahia – Brazil – between 1872 and 1950

Tatyana Shestova The centres of urbanization on the map of global history Richard Dennis More haste, less speed: On the nature of mobility in nineteenth and early twentieth-

century London Henk Schmal City development and transport: The operation of a private tramway within the political

context of Amsterdam

11.2 Miscellanea I

Room: 2

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Bertie Mandelblatt, University of Toronto, Canada

Brice Gruet San Gennaro an Naples: how can a saint protect from (natural) disasters? Tamara Lukić Branislav Đurđev Bojan Đerčan Vanja Dragićević Rastislav Stojsavljević

The size and age of households in the second half of the 19th century

Hiroka Watarai Daily life of a timber rafting family in early modern Japan Bertie Mandelblatt Slave subsistence and famine on French Caribbean plantations, 1660−1700

11.3 Polarization of Space

Room: 3

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Silvie Kučerová, Charles University in Prague, Czechia

Monica Mureşan Demographic crisis in Central and South-Eastern European countries. Case study: Post-communist Romania

Eugene Stevelberg The geometry of geography: The universality of spatial perception and territorial organization

Vít Jančák Pavel Chromý Tomáš Havlíček Miroslav Marada

Societal driving forces behind the process of the polarization of space: The inner peripheries of Czechia and Austria in the industrial and post-industrial eras

Silvie Kučerová Michal Šimáně

Birth and death of Czech elementary schools during the 20th century in border region – The common features of two stages of evolutional continuum

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11.4 Regional Settlement Development

Room: 4

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Yossi, Ben-Artzi, University of Haifa, Israel

Sergey Tkachev The agricultural colonization of the South Ussuri region (Russia) and Hokkaido (Japan) from the late 19th to early 20th centuries

Yossi Ben-Artzi An island of hope – Jewish rural settlement in Cyprus, 1882–1935 Zaozao Zeng Xiuqi Fang Yu Ye

The process of land cultivation based on settlement names in Jilin Province, China in the past 300 years

María Sanjuana Reyna-Zavala Valente Vázquez-Solís Miguel Aguilar-Robledo

Territorial changes in the Guadalcázar municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1613–2010

11.5 Miscellanea II

Room: 5

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Que Weimin, Peking University, China

Turgut Yigit An analysis of the geographical locations of Hittite period rock monuments in Anatolia with regards to Hittite political and cultural history

Yamachika Kumiko A study of hill fortresses and grid plans in ancient Japan: The case of Dazaifu Michael Roche Seeing scenic New Zealand: W.W. Smith and the scenery preservation commission

1904−1906 Que Weimin On philosophical system of geographical imagination

11.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Climate and Society II

Room: 6

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University, Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Adriaan de Kraker, VU-University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Piotr Oliński Monks and climate in Prussia in the 15th and 16th centuries Aryan van Engelen Examples how the course of the weather influences the history of the Low Countries Frank Oberholzner Hailstorms in the early modern times – A long neglected topic in environment

and climate history

11.7 Nature, Society and Environmental Change: Sea

Room: 7

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 9:00 – 10:30

Chair: Mairi Stewart, University of the Highlands and Islands, United Kingdom

Yaron Jørgen Balslev The pollution and purification of Tel Aviv sea shore, 1909–1982 Robert Summerby-Murray The post-industrial marsh: Re-interpreting environmental change in the Bay

of Fundy, Canada Mairi Stewart Nature and society as competing or complementary engines of environmental

change: The case of the Forth estuary, Scotland Hae Un Rii The importance of Ulleung island for the people in Cholla province in terms

of cultural diffusion

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12.1 Extending ‘America’: Critical Historical Geographies of Empire and Development

Room: 1

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizer: Scott Kirsch

Chair: Matthew Farish

Scott Kirsch Summer Capital: The Burnham Plans and the American landscape vision of empire in the Philippines

Mona Domosh In the space of revolution: American capitalist experiments in Russia Matthew Farish ‘So nature-defying in concept’: Technicians and the transformation of the Cold War

Arctic

12.2 Health and Epidemic Diseases

Room: 2

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Joanna Barnard, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Jody F. Decker Opportunistic infectious diseases and inexpedient evidence; Cases from historical epidemics in the western interior of Canada

Hiroshi Kawaguchi Three phases of the smallpox mortality in Japan in the 19th century Joanna Barnard The challenge of Beriberi: Examining public healthcare in colonial Burma Masato Mori Nationhood and biopolitics in the post war Japan

12.3 Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Room: 3

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Gregory J. Ashworth, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Mehmet Somuncu Ashfaq Ahmad Khan

Raising awareness for protection of cultural heritage in historic towns and cities of Turkey: A model of Safranbolu historical city

Randy William Widdis Aboriginal heritage tourism and “the tourist gaze”: The case of Wanuskewin Heritage Park

Roy Jones Joseph Christensen

Local history and world heritage: Economic and social change in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Gregory J. Ashworth What do you do with a World Heritage Site that nobody wants? Paramaribo, Suriname

12.4 Changing Regions / Rural Communities

Room: 4

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Branislav Djurdjev, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Natalia Tormosova Evolution of north Russian volost. Case study of Kargopol district Dorin Lozovanu Ionel Muntele

Crono-spatial evolution of ethnic communities in the Southern Bessarabia during the last two centuries

Branislav Djurdjev Ljubica Ivanovic Tanja Armenski Rastislav Stojsavljevic

Seasonality of marriages in the Sajkaska region

Timothy G. Anderson Organized Habsburg colonization in the Romanian Banat, 1718–1787: The planned rectilinear villages of the “Donauschwaben”

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12.5 Historical Landscape: Landscape as a Basis for Identity

Room: 5

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Alessandra Izabel de Carvalho, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil

Suzuki Chihei From protection to utilization: The efficiency of cultural landscape protection system in the context of regional policy

Anaïs Lamesa Aude Aylin de Tapia

Cappadocia from Byzantines to Ottomans: Landscape as a basis for identity

En Ko Landscape and imperial power: The modern cherry blossom park in colonial Manchuria (1906–1945)

Alessandra Izabel de Carvalho

Araucaria Forest: Deforestation and cultural identification in the state of Paraná – Southern Brazil

12.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: Climate and Society III

Room: 6

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Georgina Endfield Local weather and cultural identity: The cultural climatology of Gordon Manley Dennis Wheeler Catharine Ward Matthew Ayre

Whaling logbooks and Arctic weather 1750–1850: The ARCdoc project

Steffen Vogt Rüdiger Glaser Dirk Riemann Johannes Schönbein Ghazi al Dyab Olaf Matuschek

“Wenn anders das Schicksal unser Ende beschlossen”

12.7 Nature, Society and Environmental Change: Water Management

Room: 7

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 10:45 – 12:15

Chair: Tiina Peil, Tallinn University, Estonia

Constantin Canavas Qanāt, kārīz (kāhrez), kănérjĭng: Revisiting the historical geography of a survival technology

Jie-sheng An The Great Canal and construction of the system of cultural landscapes at Jiang-nan region in ancient China

Huang Wenchuan Landscape change, local perspectives and cultural governance – A case study of Dongshan River in Taiwan

Madeleine Bonow Tiina Peil

Historical aquaculture in Sweden and Estonia in the 17th to 19th centuries

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13.1 Historical Geographies of Enthusiasm

Room: 1

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State University, USA

Iain Robertson Carl Griffin

Moral ecologies and social protest

Petr Jehlička Matthew Kurtz

Everyday resistance in the Czech landscape: The woodcraft culture from the Hapsburg empire to the communist regime

Nicola Thomas Doreen Jakob

Modernity, crafts and guilded practices: locating the historical geographies of 20th century craft organisations

Dydia DeLyser Paul Greenstein

Tatra prevails: Two continents, two wars, and two people’s quest — A rare car’s restoration geography

13.2 Symbolic Spaces

Room: 2

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Maoz Azaryahu, University of Haifa, Israel

Ionel Boamfă Raluca-Ioana Horia-Şerban Gabriel Camară Iosif Camară

Features of the pastoral activities in the European Romanic space as reflected by antroponomy

Matthias Winkler Symbolic topographies of an urban revolution: The cases of Prague and Pest-Buda 1848

Jaroslav David Street names – Between ideology and cultural heritage Maoz Azaryahu Arnon Golan

Renaming the colonial past in post-independence Israel

13.3 Thirty Years War and After

Room: 3

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Clas Tollin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Olof Karsvall The island of Öland during the 1600's – A favourable but exposed location in the Baltic Sea

Tomáš Janata Research on historical engravings of battlefields using methods of digital cartography Clas Tollin The Thirty Years War impact on Sweden’s agrarian landscape. An example from

central Uppland Satoshi Murayama Josef Grulich

“Industriousness” in South Bohemia after the Thirty Years’ War. A geographical approach to “orphan books”

13.4 Circulation of Goods

Room: 4

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Eric Pawson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Jun Tsuchiya Jewelry industries in Bangladesh Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi Change of periodic markets in rural Bangladesh, 1986–2011 Robyn Metcalfe Nineteenth century food flow, Visualized Eric Pawson Creating taste at a distance: The ‘home’ market and New Zealand food and fibre

exports before 1930

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13.5 Historical Geography: Archives, Museums

Room: 5

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Thomas Carter, University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

James Fenner British small craft: The cultural geographies of a science museum display Anne Kelly Knowles Paul B. Jaskot

Auschwitz historical GIS: Visualizing the archive

James Wallis ‘Oh! What a lovely exhibition!’ Exploring the Imperial War Museum’s First World War 50th anniversary displays, 1964–1968

Thomas Carter Museums and Englishness: The Museum of British History 1996–1999

13.6 Historical Climatology and Climate History: International Society

Room: 6

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Organizers: Rudolf Brázdil, Masaryk University Czechia Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Germany

Chair: Aryan van Engelen, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Netherlands

Sabău Alina Oana Climate changes impacting upon Romanian territory during the last century Franz Mauelshagen The scope of historical climatology Rudolf Brázdil Franz Mauelshagen

Establishing of the International Society for Historical Climatology and Climate History

13.7 Nature, Society and Environmental Change: Water- and Windmills

Room: 7

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 13:30 – 15:00

Chair: Dariusz Brykala, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Dariusz Brykala Marina Tsvetkova Alexander Tsvetkov

Watermills as main element of small rivers development – Examples from Poland and Russia

Dariusz Brykala Zbigniew Podgorski Lukasz Sarnowski

Wind and water power utilization during the last 200 years in the area of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region (Poland)

Zbigniew Podgorski Andrzej Zielski Dariusz Brykala

Vertical-wheeled watermills in Turznice (Poland) in the light of dendrochronological studies

14.1 Final Plenary Session and Business Meeting

Room: 1

Date/Time: 10/08/2012 15:30

Chair: Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia, Canada