Program

Tuesday 11.6.2013

Registration (Historica, first floor) 10.00–

Lunch 11.00 (Musica, Building M)

12.00–13.15 Lectures (H320)

12.00–12.15 Opening: Jari Eilola

12.15–13.15 Laura Stark: Self, body and narrative. Reflections on folkloristic research into Finnish magic and narrative

13.15–14.00 Coffee

14.00–16.45 Workshops (H320, H105)

                     

H320 Session 1

14.00–14.30 Sofia Kotilainen: Popular Religion in Name-Giving: The Effects of Improved Literacy Skills on the Change of People’s Use of Rituals at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries

14.30–15.00 Sonja Hukantaival: Domestic Magic through the Lenses of Archaeology and Folklore

H105 Session 2

14.00–14.30 Riikka Miettinen: Religious Crises and Unorthodox Views among Swedish and Finnish Suicides during the 17^th Century

14.30–15.00 Miia Kuha & Emmi Lahti: In contact with the sacred. Methodological approaches to popular religion and magic in Finland 1550-1800

15.00–15.15 Coffee

H320 Session 3

15.15–15.45  Teuvo Laitila: Paraskeva as the ‘God’ of Flax

15.45–16.15  Francesco Piraino &, Laura Zambelli: Mamma Schiavona and Santa Rosalia: Between Identity and Spirituality

16.15–16.45 Reet Hiiemäe: Food as way to protect the body and the self

H105 Session 4

15.15–15.45  Sari Katajala-Peltomaa: Men are mad and women possessed? Demons and gendered categories in fourteenth century canonization processes

15.45–16.15  Meri Heinonen: Demon in the convent. The attacks of evil spirits in the Töss sister-book

16.15–16.45  Raisa Maria Toivo: Where is the Devil? Religious vocabulary and the rarity of diabolism in Finnish 17^th century witchcraft and magic trials

19.00– Evening gathering for keynote speakers and presenters

                     

Wednesday 12.6.2013

9.00–11.00 Lectures (H320)

9.00–10.00  Caterina Bruschi: A Game of Hide-and-seek: Agency and Manipulation in Medieval Inquisitorial Records

10.00–11.00 Jacqueline Van Gent: Emotions in witchcraft, magic and popular culture

                               

11.00–12.00 Lunch

12.00–15.30 Workshops (H320)

H320 Session 5

12.00–12.30  Charlotte-Rose Millar: The Emotional Imperatives behind the Witches’ Pact

12.30–13.00  Ilona Tuomi: Charms on Paper, Charms in Practice. Aspects of Magic in Early Medieval Ireland

13.00–13.30  Liv Helene Willumsen: Folkloristic Notions and Demonological Ideas in the Finnmark Witchcraft Trials, Northern Norway

13.30–14.00 Coffee

H320 Session 6

14.00–14.30 Matouš Vencálek: (Re)Constructing the Ritual in Contemporary Paganism

14.30–15.00 Essi Mäkelä: Pimp My Spells – Discordian Liquefied Rituals Revealed

15.00–15.30 Outi Pohjanheimo: Enrichment of Magical Thinking among Trainers of Spiritual-Based Healing Practices

15.30–16.00 Closing (H320)

Keynote speakers:

Caterina Bruschi, University of Birmingham

Laura Stark, University of Jyväskylä

Jacqueline Van Gent, University of Western Australia


Further information on keynote speakers

Caterina Bruschi is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham - UK. She has studied Classic Philology and Literature at the University of Bologna, where she also did her PhD in Romance Philology and Medieval Culture. Her main professional interest lies in the theoretical approach to source criticism and in the study of medieval religiosity. She loves applying the two aspects to the movements and events occurred in her native Italian region, Emilia Romagna, during the late Middle Ages. She has published the critical edition of the 1235 anti-heretical treatise of a Piacentine layman, Salvo Burci (Liber Suprastella) and contributed to the critical edition of a volume of heresy trials from XIII century Languedoc with Peter Biller and Shelagh Sneddon (Brill, 2011). Her monograph on Wandering heretics (The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc, Cambridge 2009) combines all her interests, and has now appeared in paperback.

Laura Stark is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä. She received her MA in linguistic anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and her PhD in folklore studies at the University of Helsinki. Her main professional interests lie in 19th-century rural Finland, particularly in terms of gender, folk belief, magic rituals, and the social and cultural transformations caused by late 19th-century modernization. Drawing upon the abundant archived texts housed in the Finnish Literature Society Folklore Archives as well as letters written to 19th-century newspapers, she has published four books on these topics: Magic, Body and Social Order (1998), Peasants, Pilgrims and Sacred Promises (2002), The Magical Self (2006), and The Limits of Patriarchy (2011).

Jacqueline Van Gent is Professor in Gender Studies and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia. She has studied anthropology and history at Humboldt University Berlin and received her PhD from the University of Western Australia. Her research interests are in gender, religion and emotions. She has used eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials to discuss early modern ideas of embodiment and magic (Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden, Brill 2009). Her recent work on gender includes studies of masculinity in the context of Protestant missions (with Susan Broomhall, Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others, Ashgate 2011) and explores indigenous responses to Moravian missions. Her current project on early modern emotions, colonialism and gender has led her to think more about material objects as seats of meaning, beliefs and affective relationships.