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Re-thinking Power and the State in History | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Sessions
All sessions will take place on the 3rd floor of Pinni B Building, Main Campus, University of Tampere
Monday, October 12th, 13:00–15:00
1 (Inter)national Public Sector Finances
2 Personal Affairs, State of Affairs:
Legacy of Interregional Pre-modern
Power Relations
3 Postwar / Cold War States in Eastern
Europe
4 Methodological Approaches I:
Individual Experiences on Citizenship
Auditorium B3107
Auditorium B3111
Auditorium B3117
Auditorium B3118
Commentator/chair: Christopher Lloyd,
University of New England, Australia
Commentator/chair: Raisa Maria Toivo,
University of Tampere, Finland
Commentator/chair: Sari AutioSarasmo, University of Helsinki
Commentator/chair: Antti Häkkinen,
University of Helsinki
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
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
Re-thinking Power and the State in History | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Monday, October 12th, 15:30–17:30
5 From Fragmented Societies to
Modern Welfare States: Comparative
Public Sector Transition Paths
6 Modern State-Building and
Nationalism
7 Memory & Postwar Trauma
8 Methodological Approaches II
Auditorium B3107
Auditorium B3111
Auditorium B3117
Auditorium B3118
Commentator/chair: Katri Sieberg,
University of Tampere, Finland
Commentator/chair: Marjaana Niemi,
University of Tampere, Finland
Commentator/chair: Pirjo Markkola,
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Commentator/chair: Petri Karonen,
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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 (EURIAS Fellow,
SCAS/Co-funded by Marie SkłodowskaCurie Actions, under the 7th Framework
Programme): 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 Protestants
as public intellectuals: Studying culture,
applying educational ideas and cocrafting the state, 1890s-1940s
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
Korhonen, Juho (Brown University, US):
Appropriating Nations – PeripheryMetropole Relations and the Rise of
Nation-States
Kivimäki, Ville (University of Tampere,
Finland): Silence after Violence: On
Regulating Emotions and Forcing Silence
in a Postwar Context
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 | October 12–13, 2015 | University of Tampere, Finland
Tuesday, October 13th, 13:00–15:00
9 Islamic Nationalism
10 Early Modern State Formation
11 Historiography & Memory
Auditorium B3107
Auditorium B3111
Auditorium B3117
Commentator/chair: Ali Qadir, University of Tampere,
Finland
Commentator/chair: Nils Erik Villstrand, Åbo Akademi
University, Finland
Commentator/chair: Tanja Vahtikari, University of
Tampere, Finland
Kleidosty, Jeremy (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
Constitutionalism as State Religion: A Comparative
Analysis of American and Tunisian Political Culture
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
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
Koskinen, Ulla (University of Jyväskylä, Finland):
Aggressive Peasant Elites: Nordic Countries Compared,
c. 1570–1650
Syros, Vasileios (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): The
Myth of Islamic Absolutism
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