Medievalism between East and West: Conference Schedule

Thursday 26 September 2019

9.00-10.00
Registration and Coffee

10.00-11.00, lecture hall Janus
Keynote speaker: Andrew B. Elliott
Historical Authority in Political Medievalism: Who Owns the Medieval Past?
Abstract

11.15-12.45, lecture hall Janus
Project presentation:
The Ancient Finnish Kings: a Computational Study of Pseudohistory, Medievalism and History Politics in Contemporary Finland and Russia

12.45-14.00
Lunch

14.00-15.00, lecture hall Janus
Keynote speaker: Sirpa Aalto
A Dark World? – The Role of Saga Literature in Finnish Pseudo-Histories in the Internet
Abstract

15.00-15.30
Coffee

15.30-17.30, seminar room Litzen
Session A, chair Heta Aali
1. Marja Vuorinen: Latter-Day Knights Templar: Anti-Islamism Meets Neo-Masculinity and Neo-Catholicism
2. Jere Kyyrö: Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in Crusader Kings II
3. Andrea Kocsis: Medievalism and Nationalism in the Interwar Hungary
4. Eva Ahl-Waris: The Use of History concerning Bishop Hemming of Turku.

Friday 27 September 2019

8.30-9.00
Coffee

9.00-10.00, lecture hall Janus
Keynote speaker: Sergey Zhuravlev
Middle Ages in Recent Russian Historical Policy
Abstract

10.15-12.15, seminar room Litzen
Session B, chair Harri Hihnala
1. Geoffrey Sage: The Forgotten Origins of Romanticism: an Arabic Substratum in Western Literature
2. David Rollo: The Corpse of the Immortal Arthur
3. Eugene Rostovtsev: The Middle Ages on the Map of Memory of the Russian Society

12.15-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.00, lecture hall Janus
Keynote speaker: Kati Parppei
Medieval Battles in Contemporary Contexts: Case Kulikovo (1380)
Abstract

14.00-14.30
Coffee

14.30-16.30, seminar room Litzen
Session C, chair Mila Oiva
1. Evan Wallace: For Whom and What Purpose: Political Agency of ‘Remix Culture’ in Medieval Russia and Contemporary Platforms of Media
2. Alexander Filyushkin: Why Did Mediaevalism Become Popular in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans?
3. Kendra Willson: The Missing Finnish Runestones