Modus vivendi: living and believing in the European past

Time: 15 August 2024

Venue: Lecture hall Aava

12:15                                  Opening words – Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Professor, Cultural History)

Keynote: Inscribing the Town on Women’s Bodies: Public Health and Public Order in Eighteenth-century Aberdeen – Deborah Simonton (Associate Professor emerita, University of Southern Denmark)

13:30                                  Coffee break

14:00                                 Panel discussion: Centuries of spiritual and bodily health – chaired by Anu Korhonen

(Senior Lecturer, University of Helsinki)

15:15                                  Short presentations: New approaches to cultural history

16:30                                  Closing of the seminar – Hannu Salmi (Professor, Cultural History)

19:00                                  Dinner at the Restaurant Koulu

The seminar will be streamed for registered participants

Registration for the seminar and / or dinner by July 28, 2024. Places are limited and will be filled in the order of registration

Further information: Marika Räsänen (marika.rasanen@utu.fi) & Reima Välimäki (reima.valimaki@utu.fi)

The seminar is organized by the Department of Cultural History, Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the School of History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Turku