Presentations
This page provides an overview of presentations associated with the Daily Bread Project. The list includes future and past activities.
20-15 April 2027 | Lyon
Urban Responses to Food Crises, Disaster and Risk in the Low Countries, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, 1200-1800 ESSHC
Marco Ferrari | ‘A city under pressure: Governance, famine and popular unrest in Genoa in the early modern period’
Marieke Nolten | ‘Beyond the struggle for bread. Understanding the construction of food protests in the Dutch Republic’
Işın Taylan Çakmak | ‘Food Scarcity, Women, and Urban Unrest in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul’
16-20 November 2026 | Venice
Deliberative Practices and Forms of Insurrection in the Republic of Venice and the Mediterranean between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Seminar
Marco Ferrari | ‘“Menate le mani addosso a queste canaglie.” Gestire le proteste popolari nella Genova dell’Età Moderna’ / ‘“Give these rascals a beating.” Dealing with popular protests in early modern Genoa.’’
12-13 November 2026 | Leuven
Political Expectations and Popular Control in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries Workshop
Marco Ferrari | ‘“The People Are Murmuring”? Food Crisis in Genoa in 1590’
Marieke Nolten | ‘A Re-Interpretation of a Female Protest in Delft (1616)’
2-5 September 2026 | Barcelona
European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference
Ayşen Tanyeri Abur | ‘A Staple Food in the Making: Early Modern Food Policies and Comparative Urban Wheat Consumption’
Maartje van Gelder | ‘Bread, Protest, and Space: Women and the Urban Politics of Provisioning in Venice’
10-12 June 2026 | Tours
International Conference on food and drink Studies
Marco Ferrari | ‘“Il popolo mormora“? Food crisis in Genoa in 1590’
21-22 May 2026 | Venice
Maartje van Gelder | Workshop Common Places. A Vernacular History of Venice
19 March 2026 | Vienna
Archival Impulse Conference
Maartje van Gelder | ‘Archival Silence and Imperial Desire: French and Austrian Looting of the Venetian Archives’
11 February 2026 | Akersloot
Historische Vereniging Oud Akersloot
Marieke Nolten | ‘Oproer en Doodslag op Boekel’
27 January 2026 | Oxford
Oxford Early Modern Global History Seminar
Maartje van Gelder | ‘Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics’
19 November 2025 | Akersloot
Historische Vereniging Oud Akersloot
Marieke Nolten | ‘Oproer en Doodslag op Boekel’