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Conference venue: The house of science and letters
address and Map: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
Wednesday, 24 September
09:00 Registration and morning coffee
09:50 Prof. Henrik Meinander: Welcome
10:00 Keynote: Prof. Jan Plamper, The History of Emotions and the World Wars: An Introduction
11:00 Joint Session:
Honour & Shame (Spijkerman, Neder, Karpinski)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Parallel Sessions:
War Trauma and Psychiatry (Grillini, Kivimäki, Björkqvist)
Fear & Coping (Sierakowska, Hytönen, Hautala-Hirvioja)
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Keynote: Prof. Juha Siltala, Conversion of Internal Stalemate into a Frontal War in Finland 1917–18
17:00 Pause
18:30 Departure to the Suomenlinna Fortress Island
19:00 Conference dinner
Thursday, 25 September
09:00 Morning coffee
09:30 Keynote: Prof. Jay Winter, Shell Shock and the Emotional History of the First World War
10:30 Parallel Sessions:
Grief & Nostalgia (Maynard, Keown, Leskelä-Kärki)
War Enthusiasm & Commemoration (Tames, Tepora, Sarkamo)
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Joint Session:
Revenge & Victimhood (Cohen, Heiskanen, Eckersley)
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Final Discussion