MIND, EMOTION, AND MYTHIC THINKING
A symposium for scholars of cultural studies in 9th of May 2018, Helsinki, Finland
Unioninkatu 38 A 205 (Topelia), Helsinki
9.15 Registration
KEYNOTE
9.30 Prof. John McKinnell (University of Durham)
‘Breaking the bonds of kinship’: Legal and Emotional Attitudes to Incest in Old Norse Literature
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION AND ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE
10.45 Viliina Silvonen (University of Helsinki)
Emotion in Laments: Bodily Expressions of Emotions and the Otherworld
11.15 Marjo Suominen (University of Helsinki)
Analysing Music Making in Handel´s Opera Giulio Cesare via Its Musical Literary Contents
11.45 Baburam Saikia (University of Tartu)
Mythic Orientation in Artistic Work: A Fieldnote from the Sattras of Majuli Island
12.15 Lunch (at your own expense)
EMOTION AND RATIONALITY
13.30 Oona Simolin (University of Helsinki)
Fact and Fiction. Contradicting Rationality and Emotion on UNESCO World Heritage Site
14.00 Digne Ūdre (Latvian Academy of Culture)
Latvian Signs: When Mythology Encounters Ornament
14.30 Roosa Haimila (University of Helsinki)
Science, Death and the Supernatural. Supernatural Thinking in the Scientific Worldviews of Finns
15.00 Coffee
SUNG POETRY AND VERNACULAR HEALING
15.20 Siria Kohonen (University of Helsinki)
Mythic Wrath-disease and Psychological Essentialism
15.50 Karolina Kouvola (University of Helsinki)
“May God protect me from witches’ shots”: Protection Against Witches’ Shots in Swedish-Finnish Charms
16.20 Tuukka Karlsson (University of Helsinki)
Mythology as a Symbolic Matrix and Voices of Runo-singers: Outlines for a Methodology
17.00–19.30 Reception
No participation fee