Passages from Ancient to Medieval and Early Modern Societies IX
VIOLENCE, WAR, AND SUFFERING
Tampere University, 13.–15.8 2025
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WEDNESDAY (13.8.2025)
Session 1 (13.15-15.30, room B1097) (chair: Saku Pihko)
Welcome: Trivium chair Ville Vuolanto
Opening words: Tapio Visakorpi, Vice President in Research (Tampere University)
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 2 (16.00-17.30, room B1097): War, identity, ethnicity (chair: Jenni Lares)
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)
Reception at Tampere University, Café Toivo (Main building, 2nd floor) at 18.00
THURSDAY (14.8.2025)
Session 3a (9.00-10.30, room B1096): Violence towards non-combatants (chair: Sini Kangas)
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
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
Session 3b (9.00-10.30, room B1097): Emotions and violence (chair: Ville Hakanen)
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
Susanna Niiranen (Tampere University): Killing St Olaf – Weapons of Martyrdom
Coffee (10.30-11.00)
Session 4 (11.00-12.15, room B1097) (chair: Sari Kivistö)
Keynote presentation: Marian Füssel (University of Göttingen): Feelings in a World on Fire: Doing Emotions during the Seven Years War
Lunch in Food & Co Minerva (Pinni B 2nd floor, 12.15-13.30)
Session 5a (13.30-15.00, room B1096) Violence in the domestic space (chair: Samuli Simelius)
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
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
Session 5b (13.30-15.00, room B1097) Responses to War and Violence (chair: Jussi Rantala)
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 (chair: Marja-Leena Hänninen)
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 (chair: Tuomo Nuorluoto)
Juha Isotalo (University of Turku): False Generalizations of Violent Warfare in Herodotus and Thucydides
Maria Julku (University of Oulu): Violence as a Communal Experience During Johannes Messenius’ Imprisonment
Conference dinner 19.00 (Finlayson Palace, Kuninkaankatu 1, for those registered)
FRIDAY (15.8.2025)
Session 7 (9.00-10.15, room B1097) (chair: Jaakkojuhani Peltonen)
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 B1097): The Suffering Male Body in Western Art and Culture (chair: Katariina Mustakallio)
Elina Pyy (University of Helsinki): Seneca on Screen: Revenge, Power and the Aesthetics of Violence in 21st Century 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) (chair: Ville Vuolanto)
Download the program as a pdf file: passages-from-ancient-to-medieval-and-early-modern-societies-ix_-program_12.8.25