Thursday, September 12th 2013
Welcome (13.45-14.15)
Introduction: Theoretical considerations on guilds
14.15-14.45: Rudolf Holbach (University of Oldenburg) Medieval guilds in the light of economic and socio-scientific theories
Session 1: Migration and Exchange
14.45-15.15: Elisabeth Thoß (University of Vienna) Journeymen´s migration from/to Cracow and Wroclaw from the 16th to the 19th century
15.15-15.45: discussion
15.45-16.15: break
16.15-16.45: Knut Schulz (FU Berlin) Migration and technical exchange. The case of gunmasters (Büchsenmeister)
16.45-17.15: Reinhold Reith (University of Salzburg): Labour markets in premodern crafts in Central Europe. A historiographical perspective
17.15-17.45: discussion
19.00: dinner
Friday, September 13th 2013
Session 2: Guilds and Women
09.00-09.30: Maija Ojala (University of Tampere): Sex matters? Artisan widows’ and craft trade culture in the North
09.30-10.00: Muriel Gonzalez (University of Barcelona): Legal regulations in early modern Cologne. Agencies of female artisans
10.00-10.30: discussion
10.30-11.00: break
11.00-11.30: Francois Rivière (EHESS Paris): Women craft organisations in Rouen (14th-15th century): What role could women play in economic regulation?
11.30-12.00: Sabine von Heusinger (University of Cologne): Medieval families as economic communities
12.00- 12.30: discussion
12.30-14.00: lunch break
Session 3: regional studies of guilds
14.00-14.30: Arie van Steensel (University of Utrecht) How and why to write a comparative history of medieval occupational guilds?
14.30-15.00: Tineke VanGassen (University of Ghent): The craft guilds of masons and carpenters in late medieval Ghent
15.00-15.30: Marion Bernard (Institut national du patrimoine, Paris): The service of the prince and social ambition: The counter example of the armourers and the sword cutlers of Paris at the end of the Middle Ages
15.30-16.00: discussion
16.00-16.30: break
16.30-17.00: Eleonora Canepari (University of Oxford): Working for someone else. Apprentices and labourers in the early modern Roman guilds (16th to early 19th century)
17.00-17.30: Eva Jullien (University of Luxembourg): The craftsmen of the town of Luxembourg in the Late Middle Ages.
17.30-18.00: Danica Brenner (University of Trier): Painter’s guilds in the German-speaking regions during the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Times
18.00-18.30: discussion
19.00 Uhr: dinner
Saturday, September 14th 2013
Session 4: guilds, identity and social strategies
09.00-09.30: Jasmine Killburn-Toppin (Royal College of Art, London): Crafting artisanal identities: rebuilding projects and guild communities in early modern London
09.30-10.00: Ricardo Cordoba (University of Cordoba): Guild Authorities in late medieval Spain
10.00-10.30: discussion
10.30-11.00: break
11.00-11.30: Jennifer Bishop (University of Cambridge): The Goldsmiths’ Company and the regulation of social relationships in mid-16th century London
11.30- 12.00: Katalin Prajda (Central European University of Budapest): The social network of goldsmiths in early renaissance Florence
12.00-12.30: Nicoletta Rolla (University of Milan): The St. Anne’s company in 18th-century Turin
12.30-13.00: discussion
13.00-13.15: conclusion
14.30: optional activity: guided tour in the „Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg”