Turku X methodological conference
Cultural History Department
School of History
Sirkkala Building
FIN-20014 UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
FINLAND, EUROPE

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Human Faces of Power

X Conference in Methodologies and Theories in History
University of Turku, 10th-12th of September 2009

 

SESSIONS PROGRAMME

 

Thursday 10 September 2009

12.30 - 14.00

 

Cinematic Practices of Power

Organisers and discussants: Heta Mulari & Hannu Salmi
Discussants: Lavinia Stan/ Gabriela Ghindea, University of Cluj-Napoca (CLIOHRES.net)
Place: Pub4 lecture hall

12.30-13.00 Heta Mulari: Practices of Sexual Power in Swedish Youth Film"Hip hip hora!" (2003) 
13.00-13.30 Bolivia Erazo: The origin of the dispute between El Comercio newspaper and Empresa Cines de Quito cinema company in 1929 Quito
13.30-14.00 Petteri Halin: Remembering the past, celebrating the present


(Coffee 14.00 - 14.30)

14.30-15.00 Rami Mähkä: Imaginary history from below: It happened here (1964)
15.00-15.30 Andrey Shcherbenok: The Absent Face of Power: Missing Stalin in Post-Stalinist Soviet Cinema
15.30-16.00 Kimmo Ahonen: Alien Faces of Power: I Married a Monster from
Outer Space (1958)

 

Power in the Medieval World

Organiser: Anu Lahtinen & "Baltic Sea and Europe": Encounterings before the year 1809
Discussant: Prof. Jeroen Deploige, Dept. of Medieval History, University of Gent, Belgium (CLIOHRES.net)
Place: room 269

12.30-13.00 Mari Isoaho: The power relations of the lands of Rus' in 1015-1078 in the Primary Chronicle
13.00-13.30 Kirsi Kanerva: Outbursts of Insanity vs. Nobly Restrained Rage. Expressing Emotions in Thirteenth Century Iceland.
13.30-14.00 Claudia Rother (CLIOHRES.net):  Fables, Myths and the Power of Truth - or: What is "history" in the Middle Ages? 

 

14.30 - 17.00

Power, Science and Historical Knowledge

Organisers:Taina Syrjämaa and Leila Koivunen
Discussants: Lavinia Stan/ Gabriela Ghindea, University of Cluj-Napoca (CLIOHRES.net)
Place: room 471

14.30-15.00 Elise Garritzen: Footnotes and power in historical research
15.00-15.30 Ville Laamanen: The Power of Historical Knowledge Shaping Interpretations
on National Socialism
15.30-16.00 Bruce Johnson: Sounds of Power

 

Gendered Networks and Forums of Power

Organiser: Anu Lahtinen & project "Conflict in Community"
Discussant: Lecturer, PhD. Ann-Catrin Östman, Åbo Akademi University
Place: room 269

14.30-15.00 Tiina Miettinen: Kinless servant or daughter of the house? Unmarried women
in 17th century sources
15.00-15.30 Ulla Ijäs: Merchant Households and Gender Division of Labour at 18th and 19th century Vyborg
15.30-16.00 Päivi Salmesvuori: Power and Authority in the Case of Finnish Trance Preacher Helena Konttinen (1871-1961)
16.00-16.30 Laura Stark: The limits of patriarchy: Women's hidden networks in rural Finland 1860-1940

 

 

Friday 11 September 2009

9.30 - 11.30, 14.45 - 17.15

 

Rural Poor in Finnish society through the ages

Organiser: Tapani Paavonen
Discussants: Prof. Jonny Hjelm, University of Umeå, Sweden and prof. Timo Toivonen, Turku School of Economics
Place: room 126

9.30- 10.00 Jan Kunnas: Tensions originating from different time perspectives                    
10.00- 10.30 Jaana Laine: Shifting power in the forest work
10.30-11.00 Asta Kietäväinen: Striving towards independence - Agency and Identity in the Life Stories of Settlement Farmers

 

From Uniform to Unity

Organisers: Nicholas Hill & Brendan Humphreys
Discussant: phil.lic. Jussi Jalonen, University of Tampere
Place: room 471

9.30-10.00 Nicholas Hill: The Nation in Uniform: The Selection Process for Finnish Officers 1918-1928
10.00-10.30 Brendan Humphreys: The Second Fatal Shore, Gallipoli in the Australian Experience
10.30-11.00 Pierre-Francois Peirano: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the construction of American political identity
11.00-11.30 Jyrki Outinen: The power and the glory: The Finnish soldiers in the Russo - Turkish war 1877-1878

 

Power of the Media

Organiser: Erkka Railo
Discussant: prof. Peter Dahlgren, University of Lund
Place: Pub4 lecture hall

9.30-10.00 Akseli Salmi: Theatre as a medium of power in Prussia 1815-1848
10.00- 10.30 Rauno Lahtinen: Urban planning and the power of the media
10.30- 11.00 Ville Pitkänen: Political journalism and the Internet
11.00- 11.30 Leena Rossi: Peer Reviewer’s Power in Publishing


(Lunch, Keynote Lecture)

14.45- 15.15 Erkka Railo: Personal life stories as legitimation of power
15.15- 15.45 Mari K. Niemi: Political leadership in Finnish media publicity
15.45-16.15 Anu Kantola: Performing power: Public authority styles in the post-war Finland

 

Caring Power

Organisers and discussants: Kaisa Vehkalahti & Pirjo Markkola
Place: room 269

9.30- 10.10 Pirjo Markkola & Kaisa Vehkalahti: Introduction to the Concept of Caring Power
10.10-10.50 Heini Hakosalo: Baby power: Christmas seal homes (1936-73) and the production of expert knowledge
10.50-11.30 Susanna Hoikkala: Changing disciplinary practices in children's residential care - Isolation as an example


(Lunch, Keynote Lecture)

14.45-15.25 Saara Tuomaala: Care or control? Leisure time of rural young people in Finland 1917-1940
15.25-16.05 Mirja Satka: Modern child protection

 

14.45 - 17.15

Alternative views on influence in politics

Organiser: Louis Clerc
Discussant: Jonathan L’Hommedieu, University of Turku
Place: room 471

14.45-15.15 Louis Clerc: The Finnish lobbying in Paris. A case study of foreign policy decision-making, 1900-1940
15.15-15.45 Hanne Koivisto: Studying the identity of left intellectuals - How to reach identity reflections with contemporary sources of changing power relations
15.45-16.15 Tiina Lintunen: The winner takes it all. The civil war rights and liberties of the defeated after the Finnish civil war
16.15-16.45 Pauli Heikkilä: Rudolf Holsti the Anarchist. Evolution of international relations to promote mutual interests

 

24.09.2009 09:54 Elina Heikkonen