PROGRAMME
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Abstracts in alphabetical order can be downloaded here.
Programme
Location: Linna building (address: Kalevantie 5), ground floor: lecture halls K103 & K109
(Kalevantie street entrance: one floor down; Pinninkatu street entrance: lecture halls on the entrance floor to the left)
WEDNESDAY 21 August
15.15 Coffee and registration – Linna building: ground floor | |
15.45 Welcome – Lecture hall K103 | |
16.00 Keynote I: David Lederer: Miracle Books as Sources of Early Modern Experiences of Disabilities – Lecture hall K103 Chair: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa | |
17.00-19.00 Sessions I (2 sessions) | |
1A Disabled lives I Chair: Hanna Lindberg – Lecture hall K103
Corinne Ball: Fringe dwellers – Experiences of Disability at South Australia’s Destitute Asylum Kirsi Tuohela: Mental Disability in the 1930s Finland, The Case of Aino Manner (1893-1956) Marcin Stasiak: “Look! He is a Cripple, But He Can Climb Trees!” Childhood in Life Stories of People with Polio-Related Impairments – Polish Case |
1B Revisiting concepts and conceptions Chair: David Lederer – Lecture hall K109
Adleen Crapo: Choosing Their Words Carefully: Lexicography to Explore Early Modern Experiences of Disability Patrick McDonagh: Romantic Ideology and the Conceptualization of Idiocy Simon Jarrett: Myths of Marginality: Locating the Idiot in the Eighteenth Century Mari Eyice: The Outer Periphery of Empathy – Disability and Emotional Practices in Early Modern Sweden |
ca. 19.00-21.00 Evening get-together (Tampere University main building: café-lounge Toivo, address: Kalevantie 4, 2nd floor) |
THURSDAY 22 August
9.00 Coffee and registration – Linna building: ground floor | |
9.30 Keynote II: Donna Trembinski: Disability, Trauma and Conversion in the Lives of Early Franciscan Saints – Lecture hall K103 Chair: Riikka Miettinen | |
10.30-12.30 Sessions II | |
2A Religious practice and experiences
Chair: Raisa Toivo – Lecture hall K103 Annette Volfing: Linguistic Impairment and Mystical Status – The Revelations of Margaretha Ebner Ninon Dubourg: Religiosity and Disability in the Papal Letters (13th and 14th Centuries) Michael Riordan: Blind Devotion: Sight-Loss and Religion in Early Modern Britain Sari Katajala-Peltomaa: (Dis)abling Practices: Saints, Demons and Maniacs in the Late Middle Ages |
2B Representations Chair: Daniel Blackie – Lecture hall K109
Virginia Langum: “Tried to make you something you’re not”: Disability History and Historical Fiction Sara Scalenghe: Visual Representations of Disability in the Late Ottoman Empire Arndís Bergsdóttir: Mining for Dis/abled Lives in Museum Archives and Coming up with Unruly Matters of Absence |
12.30-13.45 Lunch (Restaurant Aleksis, address: Kalevantie 2) | |
13.45-14.45 Session III: Doing disability history I Chair: Pertti Haapala – Lecture hall K103
Lotta Vikström: Disability and Partnership in Sweden from Past to Present Nele Reyniers & Pieter Verstraete: Rethinking ‘Experience’ in the History of Children with Mental Disability |
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15.00-17.00 Sessions IV | |
4A Military and veterans I Chair: Tuomas Laine-Frigren – Lecture hall K103
Geoffrey L. Hudson: Gender, Social Negotiation & Disabled Ex-servicemen in England, 1600–1800 Anthony Farrell: Disabled veterans of the First World War in Ireland and the Irish Free State 1914 to 1945 Virva Liski: Mental Disability among Veterans of the Finnish Civil War in 1918–1939 |
4B Disability and legal cultures Chair: Raisa Toivo – Lecture hall K109
Ashley Elrod: Debating Incompetence: Law and the Lived Experience of Disability in Early Modern Germany Lola Digard: Alleviate and Compensate: The Office des Paiseurs in the County of Flanders in the late Middle Ages Hanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdottir: Disability, Punishments and Poverty in Iceland (1500–1800) Jenni Kuuliala & Riikka Miettinen: Searching for Experiences in Late Medieval and Early Modern Legal Documents |
17.00 Coffee | |
17.15-18.45 Sessions V | |
5A Military and veterans II Chair: Ville Kivimäki – Lecture hall K103
Catherine Beck: Unserviceable, Being Insane: Mental Disability and Difference in the Eighteenth-Century British Navy Tuomas Laine-Frigren: Adjusting Emotions. Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Finnish Brain-injured Soldiers in the 1940s-1950s Tom Probert: ‘[A]n adventure into mental illness’: Psychiatry and Stigma during Britain’s postwar period of decolonisation |
5B Disabled lives II Chair: Hanna Lindberg – Lecture hall K109
Stan Booth: Richard Steele: A Life Well Lived Chris Mounsey: Documenting the Life of Thomas Gills, Blind Man of St Edmundsbury Sólveig Ólafsdóttir: The Shelter from the Storm |
20.00- Conference dinner for speakers (Restaurant Tampella, address: Kelloportinkatu 1) |
FRIDAY 23 August
9.30-11.30 Sessions VI | |
6A Disabilities in the Middle Ages I Chair: Jenni Kuuliala – Lecture hall K103
Oana Maria Cojocaru: Disabled Children and their (In)visible Experiences in Byzantium Heidi Russenberger: Disability, Bodies, and Identities in Fourteenth Century Canonisation Inquests Catriona McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy: Considering Care: Flexion Deformities in the Gaelic Medieval Population of Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland Elin Ahlin-Sundman: The Perfect Body: A Case Study of Clerical Masculinities and Male Bodies in Late Medieval Iceland |
6B The disabled and the state in the 20th century Chair: Pirjo Markkola – Lecture hall K109
Anna Derksen: The Nordic Disability Movements and Experiences of Charity and Welfare in the Mid-20th Century Rabia Belt: Disabling Democracy in America: Disability, Citizenship, Suffrage and the Law, 1819–1920 Radu-Harald Dinu: Disability under Communism in Eastern Europe. What we know and what we don’t know |
11.30-12.30 Keynote III: David Turner: Disability and Political Activism in the British Industrial Revolution – Lecture hall K103 Chair: Pertti Haapala | |
12.30-13.45 Lunch (Restaurant Aleksis, address: Kalevantie 2) | |
13.45-15.15 Sessions VII | |
7A Disabilities in the Middle Ages II Chair: Donna Trembinski – Lecture hall K103
Haraldur Þór Hammer Haraldsson: Lived Lives of the Different Bodied Dead Christopher Crocker: Disability and Dreams in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas Eva Thórdís Ebenezersdóttir: Differently Human or Simply Supernatural
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7B Human rights Chair: Ville Kivimäki – Lecture hall K109
Klaudia Muca: Between Two Wars. Experience of Disability in 1918–1939 in Poland Maija Koivisto: Eugenic, Deaf Women, Marriage Law, Sterilization and Abortions in Finland 1929–1969 Hanna Lindberg: Being a Minority within a Minority. The Case of the Finland-Swedish Deaf in the mid-20th Century |
15.15-16.15 Session VIII: Doing disability history II Chair: David Turner – Lecture hall K103
Shawn M. Phillips: A Comparison of Home and Institutional Care in the US (1850–1950): Osteobiography as a Method to Recover the Dependent and Disabled Experience Cora Šalkovskis: Speaking of without speaking for: Anonymity, Ethics, the Dead, and the Psychiatric Historian
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ca. 16.15- Closing & coffee |
Conference website: https://events.uta.fi/disabilityexperience2019/