The 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) continues the tradition of the EURHO conferences, held before in Bern (2013), Girona (2015), Leuven (2017), Paris (2019), Uppsala (2021/22) and Cluj (2023).

The EURHO Rural History Conferences have provided a welcoming atmosphere to present the results of already consolidated projects or to test exploratory ideas. The study of rural and agrarian past has involved researchers and students from different disciplines. Historical perspectives have usually been shared with anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, economists, geographers, linguists, sociologists and, recently, biologists, geneticists and chemists. Following the trends of previous conferences, Rural History 2025 in Coimbra would like to receive proposals for sessions and papers that cross analytical perspectives, interdisciplinary methodologies and new scientific objects. The current challenges facing science and society call for new contributions from scholars working on different perspectives of our rural and agrarian past. The Organising Committee encourages the submission of proposals that promote in-depth and pluralistic analyses, dealing with any chronology or territory.

Sessions will be led by a chair or by a chair and a discussant, and will have at least three papers. Each session organisers can decide the maximum number of papers in their panels, although the organising committee recommend no more than 5 proposals for each session, as it will take up two hours. If necessary, the possibility of double sessions could be considered, at the request of those interested, if the space availability allows it.

You can submit your session proposals until 30 September 2024. A session proposal must include: title, name and affiliation of the organiser and co-organisers (up to three researchers), and an abstract (300-500 words) introducing the topic, its scope and approach. Also, the information of at least three papers should be included to ensure the viability of the panel. For each of them, the name and affiliation of the authors and a short abstract (150-200 words) is necessary. After the call for session deadline, if your panel is accepted, it will be open for proposals during the call for papers, as in previous editions of the conference. Participants may not propose more than two paper presentations at the conference sessions.

We also are open to proposals for meet-the-author sessions and the new meet-the-project sessions, to present recently published books or newly approved research projects. In this case, commentators or discussants should be included, besides the author.

Go to submission system at the Conference Website: https://ruralhistory2025.org/call-for-sessions-submission/

Call for Sessions at the Conference Website: https://ruralhistory2025.org/call-for-sessions/