Location: Room 4113, Pinni B building (Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampere university City Centre Campus)
Thu 29 Oct
11.15 opening words
11.30 keynote by Mark Hailwood (Bristol University): Finding Modernity in the Early Modern Alehouse
12.30 lunch (Restaurant Minerva, in the same building)
13.30 1st session
- Jan Blonski (Polish Academy of Sciences): Drinking Together: Taverns and the Rituals of Village Sociability in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Allan Colver (online, Northumbria University): The alchemy of music and alcohol in the alehouses and at the festivals and fairs of England 1500–1820
- Kaisa Kyläkoski (University of Helsinki): The Social Mechanics of the Brorsskål: Male Comradeship and Identity in Late 18th-Century Finland
15.00 coffee (outside the seminar room)
15.30 2nd session
- Callum Smith (Aberystwyth University): Exploring the Eighteenth-Century ‘Six-Bottle Man’: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Alcoholism and Decline in Visual Culture
- Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Tampere University): Drinking Practices and Moral Excess in the Roman Reception of Alexander the Great
- (possible 3rd paper)
17.00 end
18.30 conference dinner (prebooking only), Restaurant Myllärit (Åkerlundinkatu 4, near the university)
Menu (includes one glass of wine, more drinks can be bought at the restaurant):
Parsnip and potato soup with beetroot crisps
Seasonal fish with lobster sauce and potato purée
Baked stuffed apple with vanilla mousse
Coffee or tea
Fri 30 Oct
10.15 3rd session
- Pia Mustonen (Tampere University): “When Setian wine glows in your golden bowl”: Drinking in Juvenal’s Satires
- Matthew Cooper (University of Cambridge): Medieval English wine taverns and the architecture of drinking
- Jenni Lares (Tampere University): Early modern tavern as an experienced space
11.45 lunch (Restaurant Minerva, in the same building)
12.30 discussion on further cooperation & publication
14.00 (at latest) end of workshop