Thursday 8 June
9.15–10.30 Keynote I
Thomas Dixon, Queen Mary College, University of London
What is the history of anger a history of?
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10.30–11.00 Coffee
11.00–13.15 Panel session I: Rhetoric, Historical Semantics, and Emotions
Chair: Thomas Devaney
Sandra Schnädelbach, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Feeling the law: Debates on Rechtsgefühl in German legal thought around 1900
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Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki
The concept of national sentiment: On nation building and emotional language in 19th-century Finland
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Riikka Rossi, University of Helsinki
Disgust, guilt, redemption: Ugly war and cathartic potential in naturalist fiction
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13.15–14.30 Lunch
14.30–16.45 Panel session II: Emotions and the History of the Senses
Chair: Ville Kivimäki
Josephine Hoegarts, University of Helsinki
Voice and speech as instruments of ‘emotional practice’ in 19th-century Europe
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Rob Boddice, Freie Universität, Berlin
Neurohistory and the history of emotions: A rapprochement
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Philippa Lewis, University of Bristol
Just Plain Rude? Shyness in Nineteenth-Century French Advice Literature
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18.30 Evening Reception at HCAS, Common Room, 3rd floor
Friday 9 June
9.15–10.30 Keynote II
Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
The politics of humiliation: Shame and shaming in modern history
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10.30–11.00 Coffee
11.00–13.15 Panel session III: Performing Religious Emotions
Chair: Josephine Hoegarts
Thomas Devaney, University of Rochester
Pilgrimage and emotion in early-modern Spain
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Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, University of Leiden
Remorse and supplication in Paradise Lost
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Raisa Toivo, University of Tampere
Answer my prayer: Performing expectation in early modern Finland
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13.15–14.30 Lunch
14.30–16.45 Panel session IV, Collective Emotions in War
Chair: Jani Marjanen
Stephanie Olsen, McGill University
Uncertain hopes, disrupted patriotism
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Ville Kivimäki, University of Tampere
Infectious emotions: Panic, trust, and ‘national cohesion’ in Finland, summer 1944
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Tuomas Tepora, University of Helsinki
War trance: Collective attachment and the Winter War, 1939–40
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16.45–17.15 Coffee and concluding discussion