Agrarian Studies Group

The Agrarian Studies Group is a network of students and researchers with an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to research into the rural society and economy that has existed since 2014. Each semester a new topic studied and discussed in four sessions at the Department of Economic and Social History. The topics dealt with so far included among others: Economic Anthropology; Tragedy of the Commons; Famines; Agriculture and Economic Development; Is there a natural limit to inequality?; Green Revolution(s); Reading Chayanov: The Theory of Peasant Economy.

In addition to the discussion sessions, the Agrarian Studies Group Lecture takes place at irregular intervals. International researchers from the broad field of Agrarian Studies will be inbited to Vienna for a public lecture (as well as a workshop). So far, the economic anthropologist Chris Hann (2017) and the economic historian Cormac Ó Gràda (2019) have been won over.   


Contact:
agrarian.studies.wiso@univie.ac.at (Michael Adelsberger)

Announcements are sent out exclusively via the department’s mailing list. There is no separate newsletter.

Further information:
https://agrarianstudies.univie.ac.at