Passages from Ancient to Medieval and Early Modern Societies IX
VIOLENCE, WAR, AND SUFFERING
Tampere University, 13–15.8 2025
(This programme is still preliminary, updated February 14th 2025)
WEDNESDAY (13.8.2025)
Session 1 (13.00-15.30, room B1100) Welcome & opening words & Keynote presentation: Justine Firnhaber-Baker (University of St. Andrews): Suffering the Unimaginable: Affective Responses to Warfare in an Age of Plague
Coffee (15.30-16.00)
Session 2a (16.00-17.30, room B1096): War, identity, ethnicity
Jussi Rantala (Tampere University): Conquest and Identity: War, Violence, and Italian Peoples in Livy’s Ab urbe condita
Iida Laurén (University of Helsinki): Violence amongst Jews in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Claire Fauchon-Claudon (ENS de Lyon): Suffering in Flesh and Soul in Syriac Documentation: Violence, War and Ethnicity between the Roman and Persian Empires (1st century AD – 7th century AD)
Session 2b (16.00-17.30, room B1097): Women under the threat of violence
Vasiliki Kousoulini (University of Patras) and Georgia Dimopoulou (University of Patras): Trust and Disgust after the Fall of Troy: A Study of Violence in Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan Women
Marja-Leena Hänninen (University of Helsinki): The family of Germanicus at the front lines of the Roman empire: women, children and lineage as tools of crisis management
Joanna Vadenbring (independent): ‘There is so much illness and death here’. Women, children and suffering during the Scanian War 1676-79
Reception at Tampere University 18.00
THURSDAY (14.8.2025)
Session 3a (9.00-10.30, room B1096): Violence towards non-combatants
Milan Vukašinović (Uppsala University): Between Collective and Individual Affects: Subject-Making in Eustathios’ Narrative of the Capture of Thessaloniki
Juho Wilskman (independent): Treatment of Non-Combatants in the Aegean Region at the Turn of the 13th and 14th Centuries
Taneli Puputti (University of Jyväskylä): Use of violence and suffering in the humanistic historiography – The Siege of Brescia in 1438
Session 3b (9.00-10.30, room B1097): Emotions and violence
Rosie Wyles (University of Durham): Euripides’ Phoenician Women: the emotions of a family at war
Tuomo Nuorluoto (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae): Grief, anger, and pity: Violent death and its emotional consequences in Latin funerary inscriptions
Maria Julku (University of Oulu): Violence as a Communal Experience During Johannes Messenius’ Imprisonment
Coffee (10.30-11.00)
Session 4 (11.00-12.15, room B1100) Keynote presentation: Marian Füssel (University of Göttingen): Feelings in a World on Fire: Doing Emotions during the Seven Years War
Lunch (12.15-13.30)
Session 5a (13.30-15.00, room B1096) Violence in the domestic space
Alessandro Vatri (Durham University): Ripped earrings and gendered double-standards in classical Greece
Sofia Vierula (University of Helsinki): Sic Formosa Fuit – Domestic Violence and Women’s Suffering in Roman Poetry
Anna-Liisa Rafael (University of Helsinki): Balancing Cruelty and Care: Medieval Portrayals of Jewish Mothers and their Child Sacrifices in Times of War
Session 5b (13.30-15.00, room B1097) Responses to War and Violence
Sini Kangas (Tampere University): The View of the Aggressors in Twelfth-century Sources of the Crusades: Authorial Responses
Irit Kleiman (Boston University): On Painted Eggs, and other Metonymies of Survival
Mari Välimäki (University of Turku): Experiences of War in the 17th Century Academic Community in Turku, Sweden
Coffee (15.00-15.30)
Session 6a (15.30-17.00, room B1096) Structures of violence and suffering
Katariina Mustakallio (Tampere University): Grain Shortage and Hunger: Roman Measures Against Food Shortages in the Roman Port Area
Samuli Simelius (University of Helsinki): Inequality and Violence: Roman Urban Case Studies
Jenni Lares (Tampere University): Drunken violence and emotions in early modern Finland
Session 6b (15.30-17.00, room B1097) Experiences and politics of violence
Anthony Mulligan (Macquarie University): Sullam nemo non oderit – How Emotions Fuelled Sulla’s Thirst for Revenge
Jamie Vesterinen (University of Helsinki): Violent actions as a source of bad dreams and nightmares in ancient literature
Susanna Niiranen (Tampere University): Killing St Olaf – Weapons of Martyrdom
City walk (not yet confirmed)
Conference dinner
FRIDAY (15.8.2025)
Session 7 (9.00-10.15, room B1100)
Keynote presentation: Edith Hall (Durham University): Women under Siege: the Trauma of the Chorus of Aeschylus’ “Seven against Thebes”
Coffee (10.15-10.45)
Session 8 (10.45-12.45, room B1100): The Suffering Male Body in Western Art and Culture
Elina Pyy (University of Helsinki): Seneca on screen: Graeco-Roman tragedy and the aesthetics of violence in contemporary cinema
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Tampere University): Masculinity and the Experience of Pain in Roman Literature: The Case of Regulus and Its Reception
Henna Ala-Lehtimäki (Turun yliopisto): “How to Jest on Great Men’s Little Weaknesses” – Ridiculing the Trojan War in 19th Century English Comedy
Ville Hakanen (University of Helsinki ): The Suffering of Laocoon and the Image of a Finnish Hero
Concluding Remarks and Discussion (12.45 – 13.15)
Programme as a pdf -file:
Passages from Ancient to Medieval and Early Modern Societies IX_ program_16.3.25