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August 26, Tartu

09.00-09.15Opening of the conference
09.15-10.15Staffan Helmfrid (Swe)
The ’Permanent Conference’ and the Study of the Rural Landscape. A Retrospect.
Chair Theo Spek
10.15-11.15Kenneth Olwig (Nor)
Rural Landscapes: Past Processes and Future Strategies - Lessons of the Past
Chair Tiina Peil
11.15-11.30Coffee break
11.30-12.30Marc Antrop (Bel)
Why landscapes of the past are important for the future
Chair Michael Jones
12.30-14.00Lunch
Manors and estates -
Ulf Jansson
Places and borders -
Mats Widgren
Past landscapes -
Anders Lundberg
14.00-14.20Tadhg O’Keeffe (Irl)
Habitat and habitus: a critical landscape geography of medieval manorialism
Kristof van Assche (Hol)
Eternal interpretation, eternal borders
Hansjörg Küster (Ger)
Past landscape use as an ecological factor in the actual environment
14.20-14.40Tomas Germundsson (Swe)
The landscape of Vittskövle estate - at the crossroads of feudalism and modernity
Madeleine Bonow (Swe)
Social and spatial boundaries experienced through biographies in historic Västergötland, Sweden
Niina Vuorela (Fin)
Landscape dynamics guiding woodland management and conservation: example from an oak woodland site in SW Finland
14.40-15.00Elyze A.C. Smeets (UK)
Landed estates in the Netherlands and England 1750-1950
Maria Bergström (Swe)
The border and the bordered - a natural explanation
Tiiu Koff, Jaan-Mati Punning (Est)
History of land use recorded in bog and lake sediments
15.00-15.20Nele Nutt, Age Merila and Juhan Maiste (Est)
The inventory of manor ensembles in Tartu County
Tiina Peil (Est)
Expressions of Home in Estonia in the 1920s and 1990s
Robert W. Dixon-Gough (UK)
The influence of historical land use and land management actions upon coastal changes
15.20-15.40Ann Marksoo (Est)
Rural centres in Estonia: transformations through the 20th century
Elisabeth G Berg (Swe)
Gender-aspects on Swedish Historical Maps
Elle Puurmann, Urve Ratas, Reimo Rivis (Est)
Diversity of Estonian coastal landscapes: past and future
15.40-16.00Coffee break
Historical geography -
Staffan Helmfrid
Landscapes and places -
Kenneth Olwig
Nature conservation landscapes -
Kalev Sepp
16.00-16.20Michael Jones (Nor)
Tycho Brahe, Cartography and Landscape in 16th Century Scandinavia
Terje Potter (Est)
The possibility to introduce place-related tradition
Anngret Simms (Irl)
A blot in the landscape: the issue of one-off houses in rural Ireland
16.20-16.40Ulf Jansson (Swe)
The Institutional Geography of Swedish Commons, 1000 to 1900
Katarina Saltzman (Swe)
The Dialectics of Landscapes
Age Merila, Evelin Eiert and Kalev Sepp (Est)
Landscape values and landscape management in protected areas
16.40-17.00Dietrich Denecke (Ger)
German historic-geographical research on the southern and eastern Baltic regions, 1870-1970: A general review and evaluation for future studies.
Edmunds Bunkse (USA)
Wisdom of the earth: The poet Imants Ziedonis and contemporary Latvian perceptions of rural landscapes and efforts to preserve them
Ewa Skowronek, Renata Krukowska, Andrzej Swieca (Pol)
The past and future of rural landscape in mid-east Poland, as exemplified by chosen villages
17.00-17.20Dirk Wascher (Hol)
Landscape Character Assessment: Lessons from the Dutch approach
Gunhild Setten (Nor)
Landscape and place: the same but different?
Yuri Mazurov (Rus)
Protected Areas and Conservation Strategy in Russia
17.20-17.40Clas Tollin (Swe)
How the Swedish countryside was put on the map
Theano S. Terkenli (Gre)
New landscape spatialities: the changing scales of function and symbolism
Monika Prede, Tõnu Oja (Est)
Landscape consumption and regional images: the Otepää case
17.40-18.00discussion timediscussion timediscussion time


August 27, Tartu

09.00-09.15Opening remarks
09.15-10.15Teresa Andresen (Por)
Historical ecology problems in a Mediterranean context
Chair Jelier Vervloet
10.15-11.15Paul Claval (Fra)
Language of the landscape
Chair Jussi Jauhiainen
11.15-11.30Coffee break
11.30-12.30speakers corner', that is a plenary session in which everybody can tell within five minutes about their research project (for instance PhD-students), about a new initiative or anything else. Chair Anngret Simms
12.30-14.00Lunch
Historical landscapes -
Theano S. Terkenli
Culture and ecology -
Jaan-Mati Punning
14.00-14.20Hans-Rudolf Egli (Sui)
Landscape Analysis and Evaluation - Theory and empirical Study at Bernese Seeland (Switzerland)
Anders Lundberg (Nor)
Modes of explanation and the interpretation of culture in nature
14.20-14.40John Chapman (UK)
Enclosure Landscapes in the Uplands of England and Wales
Peter-Michael Steinsiek, Bernd Herrmann, Antje Jakupi (Ger)
Changing Landscapes and Biodiversity in 18th Century Prussia
14.40-15.00Ewa Skowronek, Renata Krukowska, Andrzej Swieca (Pol)
Historical transformations of landscape in mid-east Poland as exemplified by the Roztocze region
Joep Dirkx (Hol)
Measuring landscape quality; tools for evaluating landscape conservation policy
15.00-15.20Pieter-Jan Lachaert (Bel)
The “dries”-villages in the 'Land van Aalst': state of the art and future possibilities of research on Belgian green villages
Chris de Bont (Hol)
You can’t judge a book by the cover; meaning and truthfulness in the Dutch historical geographic GIS ‘Histland’
15.20-15.40Veerle Van Eetvelde and Marc Antrop (Bel)
The Significance of Landscape Relics in Relation to Settlements' Patterns and Territories in Flanders
Marie Stenseke (Swe)
The human factor in biodiversity: Swedish farmers’ perspectives on their seminatural grasslands.
15.40-16.00Ana Fonseca and Teresa Pinto-Correia (Por)
The history of the Montado in the region of Alentejo between the 15th and the 18th centuries
Franz Höchtl (Ger)
Are free development of nature and conservation of cultivated landscapes incompatible extremes? The characteristics and significance of wilderness and further development of the traditional landscape in Val Grande-National Park (Piemonte, Italy)
16.00-16.20Coffee break
Future landscapes -
Teresa Pinto Correia
Reading and interpreting landscapes - Theo Spek
16.20-16.40Rosario Oliveira and Teresa Pinto-Correia (Por)
An interdisciplinary approach for integrating landscape management in the CAP. Application to the municipality of Mértola, Southern Alentejo
Mats Widgren (Swe)
Ways towards a structured reading of landscapes
16.40-17.00Ralf Kirchner-Heßler (Ger)
Future land use strategies in Hohenlohe
Eileen O’Rourke (Irl)
Interpreting the Burren Landscape: Changing human relationships with the land & the landscape
17.00-17.20Jacob van der Vaart (Hol)
Consequences of non-agricultural re-use of redundant farm buildings; towards a new rural landscape
Kristen Melcher (Aut)
Oral knowledge, language and landscape
17.20-17.40Mimi Urbanc (Slo)
Future of the Slovenian rural landscapes
Venke Åsheim Olsen (Nor)
The museum as an agent in the cultural landscape discourse
17.40-18.00discussiondiscussion


August 28 - Excursion day, the conference moves from Tartu to Otepää
9.00Excursions depart
20.00Meeting of the National Representatives

August 29, Otepää

Locals and their landscapes -
Hannes Palang
Better management for future landscapes -
Marc Antrop
09.00-09.10Opening remarks
09.10-09.30Katriina Soini (Fin)
Rural landscape perceived by the locals
Terje Skjeggedal, Tor Arnesen, Guri Markhus, Per Gustav Thingstad (Nor)
Landscape change and management strategies in rural landscapes
09.30-09.50Helen Sooväli, Egle Kaur, Hannes Palang, Irmine Vermandere (Est, Bel)
Attractive landscapes: arena for conflicts
Mette Bech Sörensen (Den)
The future role of agriculture in the rural landscapes - exemplified by local case studies in Estonia and Latvia
09.50-10.10Per Grau Möller (Den)
The role of the modern farmer in developing the historical landscape into a future sustainable landscape.
Gunilla Almered Olsson (Nor)
The interrelationship between environment, land use and biodiversity in mid-Scandinavian mountains - what are the options for future sustainability?
10.10-10.30Anna Peterson (Swe)
Historical authenticity of trees and shrubs in the conservation of the rural landscape
Jelier Vervloet (Hol)
Planning for the future; towards a sustainable design and land use of an ancient flooded defense line
10.30-10.50Helen Alumäe, Hannes Palang (Est)
The role of cultural heritage in the thematical plan of valuable landscapes in the Setumaa region
Gary Fry, Bärbel Tress, Gunther Tress (Nor, Hol)
Matching research results with policy expectations in European landscape studies
10.50-11.10Coffee break
Identities -
Edmunds Bunkshe
Property rights and the landscape - Gunhild Setten
11.10-11.30Maunu Häyrynen (Fin)
The Representation of the Countryside in Finnish National Landscape Imagery
Karl Martin Born (Ger)
The dynamics of property rights in post-communist East Germany
11.30-11.50Valentin Yatsukhno (Blr)
Ethnocultural factor in the rural landscapes management and the making regional identity in Belarus
Sigrid Hedin (Swe)
Land Restitution in Estonia - land ownership and land use in the former Swedish settlement areas
11.50-12.10Mart Külvik, Helen Sooväli, Hannes Palang, Helen Alumäe (Est)
Stamps as iconographic signals of landscape identity for Estonia
Ann Grubbström (Swe)
Land Purchases and the Survival of Swedish ethnicity - Estonian Swedes in Pasklep and Sutlep municipalities 1839-1933
12.10-12.30Taavi Pae, Egle Kaur (Est)
Religious places – transforming meanings
Peeter Maandi (Swe)
Radical Land Reforms and Inertial Landscapes. Geographical articulation of societal change in two Estonian case study areas
12.30-13.15lunch
13.15-15.30walk in Otepää
15.30-15.50coffee break
Landcsapes in change -
Hans-Rudolf Egli
GIS and integrated methods -
Tõnu Oja
15.50-16.10Jürgen Lafrenz (Ger)
A cycle theory of the evaluation of traditional physiognomy of villages since the beginning of the industrial era
Kim Philip Schumacher, Oliver Bender, Hans-Jürgen Böhmer, Doreen Jens (Ger)
Using GIS to reconstruct 200 years of landscape change in south Germany
16.10-16.30Johannes Renes (Hol)
In search of falling water; history and future of an early-modern industrial landscape
Yury Vedenin, Sergey Pchelkin (Rus)
Limits and Possibilities for the Restoration of Historic Memorial Landscapes: Analytical Modeling with the Use of Computer Technologies
16.30-16.50Mart Reimann (Est)
Forest recreation trends in Estonia: What Estonian people do in forests and what does forest mean for them.
Pavel V. Zhoomar (Blr)
Historical GIS and their use for restoration ecology
16.50-17.10Kristiina Hellström (Est)
Agricultural and post-agricultural landscapes of the Estonian island Hiiumaa
Marina Kouleshova, Sergey Pchelkin (Rus)
Protection and Maintaining of the On-going Evolution of the Living Relic Landscapes: Identification, Representation and Management of the Landscape Values by Using the Computer Technologies.
17.10-17.30Mara Urtane (Lat)
Features of past in current rural landscape
Anders Wästfelt (Swe)
Boundless landscape in relational space
17.30-17.50discussion timediscussion time
20.00
Conference dinner


August 30, Otepää - workshop day

09.00-09.10Opening remarks
09.10-10.50
Parallel workshops on future research agenda
A. Property rights and landscape B. Locals and their landscapes
C. Better management of future landscapes D. Landscape assessment
E. The Pan-European Landscape Map
10.50-11.10Coffee break
11.10-12.30
Workshops on future research agenda continue
12.30-13.00
Closing of the conference
13.00-14.30lunch




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