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Re-thinking Power and the State in History | Finland in Comparison IV | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Sessions: Preliminary Schedule
Monday, October 12th, 13:00–15:00
(Inter)national Public Sector Finances
Personal Affairs, State of Affairs:
Legacy of Interregional Pre-modern
Power Relations
Postwar / Cold War States in Eastern
Europe
Methodological Approaches I:
Individual Experiences on Citizenship
Carson, Indigo (York University,
Canada): International Finance, the
Arms Trade, and Geopolitics in 1914
Serbia: The State and Transnational
Vectors of Nationalist Irredenta
Lahtinen, Anu (University of Turku,
Finland): Larval state. Noble families
and state as family affairs. Medieval to
early modern
Alanen, Onerva (University of Tampere,
Finland): Neutrality as state tradition –
connecting Cold War foreign policy to
the past in the 1960s.
Kallio, Maria (University of Turku,
Finland): Intersectional Power: Church
and state before the state
Bedini, Belina (Aleksandër Moisiu
University, Albania): The frequent (mis)
use of the history from the state: The
case of Albania yesterday and today
Annola, Johanna (University of
Tampere, Finland): Rural Workers to
Middle-Class Citizens: Individual
Experiences of Education and Mutual
Aid as a Means for Social Mobility in
Early 20th-Century Finland
Harjula, Minna (University of Tampere,
Finland): Welfare state building in
health as local phenomenon: Finland
1920-1980
Nevalainen, Pasi (University of
Jyväskylä, Finland): The rise and
transformation of the Finnish stateowned enterprises
Rom-Jensen, Byron (Aarhus University,
Denmark): The Mean Humane State:
Scandinavian Policy in New Deal
America
Artukka, Topi (University of Turku,
Finland): What a state we are in! Power
and High Society in early 19th century
Finland
Miettinen, Tiina (University of Tampere,
Finland): Trade and power struggle in
Västerbotten. The Fordell Family: Three
generations in power
Caterina, Giuseppe (University of
Udine/Trieste, Italy): Language
nationalism in ex-Yugoslavia after 1991dissolution
Kostin, Ivan (New York University, US):
From Paris to Volga: Towards a
Transnational History of post-WWI
“Commune-states”
Frigren, Pirita (University of Jyväskylä,
Finland) & Goings, Aaron (St. Martin’s
University, US): Työläinen to Laborer:
Labor, Immigration, and the Life of an
‘Anonymous’ Finnish-American Worker
Matikainen, Olli (University of Jyväskylä,
Finland): State and Media: Journalist
Erkki Laatikainen (1946–2013) and
Finnish State-Loyalism
Nihtinen, Atina (Åbo Akademi
University, Finland): Samuel and
Henrietta Barnett and the Finnish
Connection
Re-thinking Power and the State in History | Finland in Comparison IV | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Monday, October 12th, 15:30–17:30
From Fragmented Societies to Modern
Welfare States: Comparative Public
Sector Transition Paths
Modern State-Building and
Nationalism
Memory & Postwar Trauma
Methodological Approaches II
Hannikainen, Matti (University of
Tampere, Finland) & Heikkinen, Sakari
(University of Helsinki, Finland) &
Peltola, Jarmo (University of Tampere,
Finland): The Growth of Public Finances
in Finland before the Welfare State
1850–1960
Cheng, Sinkwan (Wesleyan University,
US): Three Kinds of States in Early
Twentieth-Century China, and Three
Chinese Translations and
Transformations of the Western
Concept “Citizen”
Sarkamo, Ville (University of Jyväskylä,
Finland): Building a Warrior Nation. War
Memorial Movement in Finland 1918–
1939
Buchardt, Mette (Aalborg University,
Denmark): Nordic Cultural
Protestantism as public intellectuals:
Studying culture, applying educational
ideas and co-crafting the state, 1890s1940s
Lloyd, Christopher (University of New
England, Australia): Backwardness
Revisited: The Significance of
Developmental Welfare States to CatchUp and Modernization in the Long-Run
Eloranta, Jari (Appalachian State
University, US) & Ojala, Jari (University
of Jyväskylä, Finland): Smooth Sailing
Towards the Welfare State? Nordic
Institutional and Economic Development
Paths in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Kmak-Pamirska, Aleksandra (Deutsches
Historisches Institut, Poland): State
without State – the role of power of
national thinking and national identity
in Poland in the 19th century
McClure, Alastair (University of
Cambridge, UK): Re-writing wrongs:
protecting the state through the
courtroom in colonial India, 1858-1914
Malinen, Antti (University of Jyväskylä,
Finland): Bearing the Burdens of War?
Role of Family Environment in the
Reintegration of Finnish Soldiers in
1944–1948
Kivimäki, Ville (University of Tampere,
Finland): Silence after Violence: On
Regulating Emotions and Forcing Silence
in a Postwar Context
Korhonen, Juho (Brown University, US):
Appropriating Nations – PeripheryMetropole Relations and the Rise of
Nation-States
Rainio-Niemi, Johanna (University of
Helsinki): Historicizing the State in the
Study of (Finland’s) History: Examples
and Methodological Remarks
Re-thinking Power and the State in History | Finland in Comparison IV | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Tuesday, October 13th, 13:00–15:00
Islamic Nationalism
Early Modern State Formation
Historiography & Memory
Kleidosty, Jeremy (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
Constitutionalism as State Religion: A Comparative
Analysis of American and Tunisian Political Culture
Cortés, Ismael (Universitat Jaume I, Spain): Faith and
Racial State. Notes on Romani History during the
Spanish Nation-Formation (XV-XVIII Century)
Jaksa, Urban (University of York, UK): Writing
Geography and Communicating Memory: Geopolitical
Representations of Eastern Europe
Nesic, Aleksandra (Florida State University, US): From
Tanzimat Era to Arab Spring Revolutions: Diverging
Paths of Tunisia and Libya’s State-Building and
Contentious Politics
Ijäs, Miia (University of Tampere, Finland) & Uusitalo,
Lauri (University of Tampere, Finland): Early modern
state formation in the margins?
Lin, Hang (University of Hamburg, Germany):
Exhibiting the Chinese Nation in History: Historical
Memories, Official Narratives, and National Identities
in Ethnic Museums in Modern China
Syros, Vasileios (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): The
Myth of Islamic Absolutism
Koskinen, Ulla (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
Aggressive Peasant Elites: Nordic Countries Compared,
c. 1570–1650
Sager, Jason (Conestoga College, Canada): Writing the
Invention of the French State: The Historic and Mythic
Origins of Early Modern France.
de Oliveira, Leonardo (Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Reviewing the history of the
Latin American state from a dialogical perspective
Wells, Chloe (University of Eastern Finland): The role
of the Finnish state in shaping the history and memory
of Vyborg