Food and Agricultural History Network

The Food and Agricultural History Network is a network for (especially young) researchers in this field, who present and discuss their own work as well as that from other scholars and new books. It is established a few years ago by Amber Striekwold (UU) and Anna Teijeiro (VU)

Food and Agricultural History Network website

Steps have been made by Anna Teijeiro and Amber Striekwold in creating a website for the Food and Agricultural History Network. The goal of this website is visibility and to have a base for our network. One of its goals is to have a space where people (journalists, academics et cetera) can find who are working on Food and Agricultural History in the Netherlands.

So you can expect us to email you with the request to send us a short bio if you want to be on the website. We also plan to put our events and meetings on this website, this will make it easier to share with others. Hopefully, in the future, we can also put news of members in our network (new publications, in the media et cetera) on the website.

We will keep you posted on developments.

Website launch

May 26 in the afternoon the website of the Food and Agricultural History Network will be officially launched.

Website voedselgeschiedenis.nl

Parallel to the FAHN website, Amber Striekwolda and Jon Verriet will revitalize the website www.voedselgeschiedenis.nl. This website is currently still in development but will contain information about Dutch Food and Agricultural History in the form of short blogs.

We hope that we can make use of the knowledge in this network to fill the website with interesting stories about Dutch Food and Agricultural History! The website is meant to inform students, journalists and other people who might be interested in Dutch Food and Agricultural History.

Network meeting / Book discussion Piet van Cruyningen – Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000: Managing Water, Reclaiming the Land (2025). Utrecht, Drift, May 26, 15.30-17.00

Piet van Cruyningen is a Senior Researcher in the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University & Research. In Farming the North Sea Coast 900-2000, he explores the ever-changing history of farming and water management; a history in which farmers had to deal with both the natural environment and institutional rules and customs. More information about the book can be found in the attachment. Additionally, parts of the book can be found online at Farming the North Sea Coast – Google Books. If you have time, please feel encouraged to have a look in preparation for the discussion.

The eighth Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will occur on June 5th and 6th. The subject is Food and the City.

We are delighted to announce that the keynote lecture at this year’s symposium will be delivered by Professor Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The title of the keynote is: “Outsource Nation: Cheap Nature and the Sinking of Amsterdam’s Food Landscape.”

For more information, registration and the program :
https://www.allardpierson.nl/en/calendar/amsterdam-symposium-on-the-history-of-food

Excursion! Farm visit – visit the Open Lucht Museum in Arnhem, June 25

 The visit has two purposes: to exchange knowledge (they want to learn from us, and we might want to learn from them as well!) and have a fun day with fellow food and agricultural historians!

Conferences / symposia



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