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Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Main building, lecture room C9
N.B. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the programme has been slighly modified still on April 11th
THURSDAY (13.04.2023)
Welcome and opening words (10.00-10.15)
Session 1 (10.15-11.00): Cultural approaches to hope (chair Oana Cojocaru)
Ville Vuolanto (Tampere University): Hope as an emotion, virtue, and practice in the Roman World (commentator Ester Eidinow)
Coffee (11.00-11.20)
Session 1 continues (11.20- 12.10): (chair Sari Katajala-Peltomaa)
Sari Kivistö (Tampere University): Hope, nostalgia, and the use of emotions in early modern medicine (commentator Jenni Kuuliala)
Antti Lampinen (Finnish Institute of Athens): The Role of Hope and Futurity in the Later Imperial Historiography on Outgroups (commentator Oana Cojocaru)
Lunch (12.10 -13.50)
Session 2 (13.50 – 15.10): Communities and strategies (chair Sanna Joska)
Olympia Bobou (Aarhus University): Communal hopes for the future (commentator Antti Lampinen)
Jyrki Nissi (Tampere University): Latter-Day Lazaruses – Hoping to Avoid Death in the Late Middle Ages (commentator Sari Kivistö)
Oana Cojocaru (Tampere University): Family crisis and the construction of hope in Michael Psellos’s funeral oration for his daughter (commentator Barbara Crostini)
Refreshments (15.10-15.30)
Keynote presentation (15.30-16.25) (chair Ville Vuolanto)
Esther Eidinow (University of Bristol): From Superstition to Agency: Ancient and Modern Approaches to ‘Hope’ (commentator Olympia Bobou)
Break (16.25-16.40)
Session 3 (16.40-17.30): Commemoration (chair Sari Kivistö)
Kristin Harper (Missouri State University): regna celestia tango: Seeking Hope in Late Antique Funerary Verse Inscription (commentator Ville Vuolanto)
Sanna Joska (The National Archives of Finland): Any Room for Hope? Futurity and Hope in Commemorations of Children in Imperial Rome (commentator Saku Pihko)
Dinner (Sorella Restaurant 18.30)
FRIDAY (14.04.2023)
Keynote presentation (09.45-10.40) (chair Oana Cojocaru)
Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University): Infirmity, Hope, and Lived Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (commentator Elise Pihlajaniemi)
Coffee (10.40-10.55)
Session 4 (10.55 -11.45) Family and everyday life (chair Saku Pihko)
April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University): Hope and Affection in Family Strategy: Fostering, Adoption and Care-giving in Roman and Late Roman Egypt (commentator Kristin Harper)
Luisa Andriollo (University of Pisa): Voices at the threshold: emotional bonds, spiritual expectations, and worldly ambitions in some middle Byzantine epitaphs (commentator Sanna Joska)
Lunch 11.45-13.00
Session 5 (13.00-14.15): Narrativity and experience (chair Jenni Kuuliala)
Barbara Crostini (Uppsala University): Looking back for hope: patterns of salvation and positive performances in the synagogue at Dura Europos (3rd century) (commentator April Pudsey)
Elise Pihlajaniemi (University of Turku): “The Smallest Ant in Your Kingdom” – Approaching St. Bridget’s Concepts of Hope Through Contemplation and Bodily Practices (commentator Jyrki Nissi)
Saku Pihko (Tampere University): Heretical Hope: Striving for Salvation in Medieval Languedoc (commentator Luisa Andriollo)
Refreshments (14.15 – 14.35)
Final remarks & publication plans (14.35 – c. 15.30) (chair Ville Vuolanto)