Info: City Centre Campus
MONDAY, 9 MARCH 2026
10:00–10:15 Welcome and opening words by Pirjo Markkola (director of HEX) Auditorium K103
10:15–11:15 Keynote 1: Benno Gammerl: Narrating queer experiences, Auditorium K103
11:15–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Parallel Sessions 1
1a. Women’s Magazines as a Space for Discussing Gendered Experiences, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Louise Settle)
Anna Niiranen: Male Politicians in Finnish Women’s Magazines in the 1970s
Heidi Kurvinen: Women’s Magazines as a Dialogic Space for Experiencing Feminism
Arja Turunen: The personal is Political: Debating Abortion Liberation in Women’s Magazines
1b. Experiencing Colonialism and Discipline, Room K108 (Chair: Lauri Uusitalo)
Emilie Luther Valentin: Experiencing Discipline between Church and State: Parish Priests and Punitive Pluralism in Early Modern Denmark
Ritu Khanduri: Impertinence and Nonsense: Cartoon Humor and Visual Frictions in Colonial India
Walter Gam Nkwi: Violent Encounters and Lived Realities: Everyday Experiences during the Anglophone War of Independence in Cameroon since 2017
1c. Reconfiguring Lived Experience , Room K109 (Chair: Tanja Vahtikari)
Mikkel Thelle: Not in my back garden. Experiences from the silent majority in Danish urban-rural areas
Eeva Nikkilä: Vulnerabilities in the margins of society: exploring how wartime shaped animals’ lives and experiences in Finland in the early 1940s
Ofer Idels: Toward an Experiential Turn: Renewing the Humanistic Promise of History
1d. Normativity, Frictions and Subjectivities in the Histories of Science and Experiences, Room K110 (Chair: Ranjana Saha)
Heli Rantala: How to Marginalize a Professor – Norms of the Finnish Science Community
Juha Haavisto: Fighting Friction – Intellectual Developments of Normative Forestry in the Nordics at the turn of the 20th Century
Ranjana Saha: Engendered Experiences, Norms and Frictions in Colonial Bengal
13:00–14:30 Lunch break at restaurant Juvenes, main building
14:30–16:00 Parallel sessions 2
2a. Theoretical and methodological approaches to queer visual history, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Olli Kleemola)
Joseph Jukes: Queer Possibility and Asexualities – speculating at the margins of photography.
Tuula Juvonen: Representing Independence – Early Feminist Activist in Photographic Images
Kaisa Tolvanen: Materiality in Photographs
2b. Wartime Marginalized Experiences, Room K108 (Ilari Taskinen)
Ann-Catrin Östman: Jägers in the shadow: marginalised experiences and public memorialization
Aytac Yurukcu: Wars, Empires, and Nationhood: Political and National Transformations
William Foster: A Tammela Correspondence and Nationalism during the Continuation War
2c. Memory and Experience, Room K109 (Chair: Antti Malinen)
Pia Koivunen: Cultural, collective and individual memories of living with a giant neighbour. Reimagining entangled histories with Russia
Sofia Silfvast: Remembering village celebrations in Orthodox Karelia – temporalities of experience and remembrance
Satu Sorvali: Readers’ Letters as Emotional Experience in the Late Nineteenth-Century Finnish Press
2d. Embodied Marginalization, Room K110 (Chair: Riikka Miettinen)
Bianca Frohne: Crip Aesthetics and Embodied Knowledge in Premodern Europe: Rethinking Disability Experience in Early and High Medieval Sources
Evelina Wilson: An honored and peaceful old age? Experiences of aging in social elite families in 19th-century Finland
Marja Rautaharju: Architect Maija Könkkölä and the marginality, visibility, and invisibility of disability within the discourses of the architectural profession (Finland, 1973–1982)
16:15–17:45 Parallel sessions 3
3a. The Experience of Non-persecution in Witchcraft Trials, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Päivi Räisänen-Schröder)
Raisa Toivo: And he was so glad to go away as a soldier! Experiences of witchcraft, witch-hunt and de-escalation in 16th century Finland
Marko Lamberg: How Shared Were the Experiences of Witch Trials?
Tiina Miettinen: Ancient Bear-Raising vs. Witchcraft in Tavastia Region
3b. Experience and Emotions in Literature, Room K108 (Chair: Johanna Annola)
Ramunė Bleizgienė: Reordering of Experience: The Decline of Women’s Communal World in Žemaitė’s Fiction
Jasmin Flinkman: Historical Atmosphere and Marginal Emotions in Finnish Contemporary Novel on the Lapland War
Yoel Castillo Botello: Figures of Passing: Frictions Between Representation and Experience in the Character of the Gitana from Cervantes’s La gitanilla (1613) to Soler’s Lola vende cá (2000)
3c. Lived Experience and Resistance, Room K109 (Chair: Sinikka Selin)
Lauri Uusitalo: Lived resistance of Indigenous peoples in colonial New Granada and Quito
Karissa Patton: Expert or Interloper? Colliding Reproductive Experiences and Expectations & Birth Control Centres in Alberta, Canada, 1969-1979
Shreya Kundu: Experiencing Precariat Childhood(s) in British India: Health and Technology at the Crossroads, 1870s-1940s
18.00-20.00 Get-together, Café Toivo (Tampere University main building, second floor, Kalevantie 4)
TUESDAY, 10 MARCH 2026
10:00–11:00 Keynote 2: Louise Nyholm Kallestrup: Margins of Experience – Witch Trials Between Godly Power and Everyday Life, Auditorium K103
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Parallel sessions 4
4a. Soviet Union and Post-socialist Experiences, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Pia Koivunen)
Marta Kurkowska-Budzan: Non-verbal sources and the rupture of experience: documenting embodied labor in post-socialist transformation
Tamar Demurishvili: Religion and Religiosity: Lived, Experienced, Remembered. Case of (Post-)Soviet Georgia, 1970s to the Present
Anna Laakkonen: Remembering Violence. The History of Finns in the Soviet Union in Punalippu Journal During the Glasnost Years
4b. Ruptures and Changes of the Welfare State, Room K108 (Chair: Sinikka Selin)
Pirjo Markkola: From Invisible to Visible Margins. Deaconess Institutes as Sites of Experience of Intellectual Disability in Finland in the early 20th Century
Riku Luostari: The 1980s Experience of the “Crisis of the Welfare State” as a Key to Interpreting the History of the Finnish Welfare State and the Political Conflicts of Our Time
Pirjo Ovaskainen: The beginning of the depression in Jyväskylä 1991–1993
4c. Experience, Martyrs & Resistance, Room K109 (Chair: Sami Suodenjoki)
Evie Nash: ‘Have Ye Not Ploughed Furrows on My Back Already?’ The Experience of Whipping in the Seventeenth Century Anglo-Atlantic World
Mia Edwards: Performing Identity: Physical Disability, Survival, and Resistance amongst Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South
Pierre Delpu: Antagonistic Experiences of Sacrifice: the polemic birth of “martyrdom for liberty” (Atlantic world, 1770-1848)
4d. Experience, Age and Disability, Room K110 (Kaisa Tolvanen)
Godelinde Gertrude Perk: Having the Time of Their Lives – Experiencing Advanced Age, Care, and Community in Medieval Sisterbooks
Virva Liski: Wounds of victory. Psychological disability, veteran experience, and community responses after civil war
Emmeline Burdett: Who are ‘we’? Modern Disability Activists and the Victims of the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme
13:00–14:30 Lunch break at restaurant Juvenes, main building
14:30–16:30 Parallel sessions 5
5a. Conflicts and Disruptive Emotions: Women’s anger and anxiety in early modern Europe, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Raisa Maria Toivo)
Päivi Räisänen-Schröder: Women Navigating Anger in Reformation Germany
Riikka Miettinen: Women’s Marginalized Religious Anxieties in Early Modern Sweden
Iris Fleßenkämper: The Angry Wife. Female Deviance in the Marital Household of 17th Century Germany
Jonas Stephan: The Angry Countess And Her Wicked Minister. Experiencing And Evaluating Female Rule in 17th Century Hohenlohe
5b. Childhood and Marginalized Experiences, Room K108 (Chair: Stephanie Olsen)
Daniel Grey: ‘She Was An Excellent Mother To All Her Children’: Infanticide in England and Wales during the Second World War
Edina Gal: Experiencing Abandonment: Transylvanian Children under the Protection of the State Children’s Asylums 1903−1940
Essi Jouhki: Crossing the Boundary: Exploring Past Childhoods Through Remembered Imagination
Ruth Beecher: Experiences of ‘Recovery’ from child sexual abuse
5c. Emerging Approaches to Experiences, Room K109 (Chair: Virva Liski)
Anouk Orillion: Remembrance and Reparation: The Importance of Indigenous Self-Governance in Northern Quebec
Emilia Ruuhinen: Experiencing Loneliness in the Diaries of Ageing Author Helvi Hämäläinen
Oksana Volovodiuk: The Enthusiasm That the Mere Sight of the Polish Soldiers Aroused in You…” Polish Experiences of Encountering Patriotic Enthusiasm in Galicia During the Austro-Polish War of 1809
Jaakko Leinonen: The lived ideology of Finnish Labor Party (SDP) meetings in 1918 and 1919 – Negotiations about ideological meanings of ’government’ -institution
19:00–23:00 Conference dinner at Finlayson Palace (address: Kuninkaankatu 1)
WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH 2026
9:00–10:00 Keynote 3: Dolores Martin Moruno: Experiencing Humanitarianism Through Images, Auditorium K103
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:00 Parallel sessions 6
6a. Class Experiences in Literature, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Godelinde Gertrude Perk)
Jussi Lahtinen: Working-Class Literature and Ruptures in the Working-Class Experience
Konsta Kajander: Experiences of education in the late 19th and early 20th century correspondent letters of Finnish working-class press
Tinashe Mushakavanhu: African Writers and the Experiential Margins of Oxford
6b. Experiences and Frictions in Space, Room K108 (Chair: Silke Holmqvist)
Sini Väisänen: The Problematic Barracks – Finnish Experiences of Former Russian Garrison Areas, 1918-1930
Kristian Aarup: A complex transition between two cities: The curious case of moving to Bornholm in the late 19th century
John Bessai: Frictions of the Settler Order: Aporetic Experience, Art as Public Service, and Counterpolicy in Canada
6c. Marginalized Individuals, Room K109 (Chair: Kaisa Tolvanen)
Anastasiia Morozova: Marginalizing Emotional ‘Barbarians’: Emotions, Alienation, and Romanness of Italo-Romans and Goths in sixth-century Italy in the Variae
Noora Viljamaa: Exiled to Siberia: Tracing and Constructing the Silent Experiences of Marginalization in Igantius Nikolai Törnroos’ (1837‒1861?)
Jacob Preene: Transvestitism – What is that? Experience and Identity in the Nordic Transvestite Movement, 1966-2012
12:00–13:30 Lunch break at restaurant Juvenes, main building
13:30–15:00 Parallel sessions 7
7a. Experience, Art and Agency, Auditorium K103 (Chair: Jussi Lahtinen)
Leena Sharma: Founding without Belonging: Experiential Friction and Alienation in Making of India’s Skateboarding Scene
Dorota Wiśniewska: The Formative Power of Experience: French and Polish Noblewomen Reflecting on Political Agency in the Post-Revolutionary Era
7b. Embodied Suffering, Room K108 (Chair: Rob Boddice)
Oana-Maria Cojocaru: Embodied Suffering and Unruly Empathy: Experiencing Religious Madness in Byzantine Holy Fool Narratives
Maryse Simon: “Being a Witch”: A Forced Experience and a Claim
Anton Runesson: The suffering of others: perpetrators and by-standers in an 18 century investigation into torture
7c. Communities and Subjects in the Margins of Historiography, Room K109 (Chair: Mikko Kemppainen)
Hrafnkell Lárusson: Free citizens or marginalized subjects?
Bertha del Valle Díaz: “Men of Sentiments”: Feelings as Political Weapons Against Oppression in the Experience of Cuban Nationalists (1835-1959)
Sara Hidalgo García de Orellán: The emotions of the “socialization of suffering”. Why political pluralism survived ETA terrorism? Solidarity, emotional refuge and commitment
15:00–15:15 Coffee break
15:15–16:00 Final discussion