Call for Papers
The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies organizes, in cooperation with the Departments of History at the Universities of Turku, Åbo Akademi and Jyväskylä, a Nordic Conference on the long eighteenth century. The Conference will take place in Turku on
2–4 October 2009
and has the overall theme
The Historical Significance of the Common
Eighteenth Century: The Swedish and Danish
Realms
The main focus of Conference will be on the eighteenth century up to the political changes in the Nordic countries in the early nineteenth century. The bicentennial of years 1808 and 1809, observed in both Sweden and Finland, constitutes a good starting point for comparisons between periods that preceded and followed the division of the Swedish realm.
On 2 October 2009, the Finnish Council of State will hold its bicentennial session in Turku to commemorate the first meeting of the government council of the autonomous Grand Duchy after the inclusion of Finland in the Russian Empire. The council later became the Senate of Finland and further on the Council of State of an independent republic. Its foundation formed the starting point for Finland as a political entity, something that the country had never been during the preceding Swedish period.
As the early nineteenth century not only created a new Sweden and a new Finland but also led to the division of the Danish realm, we would also like to invite speakers familiar with the eighteenth century in the Danish realm. The Conference will thus pay attention to the common inheritance of Sweden and Finland on the one hand and that of Denmark, Norway and Iceland on the other. Thanks to support from Letterstedtska Föreningen, the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation and NOS-HS, the Swedish-Finnish Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies and the University of Jyväskylä can host a few invited speakers from each of the Nordic countries.
The Conference carries on a tradition begun by Nordic conferences organized in Reykjavik in 2002 and in Gothenburg in 2007. It is open for all Nordic scholars who work on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and are members of one of the national societies for eighteenth-century studies. We hope to attract an interdisciplinary audience of historians, literary scholars, art historians, philosophers, theologians etc. Scandinavian languages and English can be used in presentations and discussions.
The Nordic network “Political Culture in the Nordic Countries, ca 1740– 1820: Arenas, Opinions, and Concepts” with approximately twenty members from four Nordic countries and with non-Scandinavian commentators will also hold its second workshop in connection with the Conference. The network is financed by NOS-HS. The sessions of the workshop are open also for the other participants of the Conference who wish to contribute to the debates.
The Finnish Society co-operates with the Swedish Society to edit a joint yearbook Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook of Eighteenth-Century Studies, starting from 2009. The editors of the Yearbook are Jonas Nordin
(Stockholm), Kristiina Savin (Lund), Pasi Ihalainen (Jyväskylä) och Henrika Tandefelt (Helsinki). We hope to be able to release the first volume of the Yearbook at the Conference and to publish a selection of papers given in the Conference in the next volume of the Yearbook in 2010. The Yearbook is open to all eighteenth-century scholars, both in and outside the Nordic countries.
The committee which prepares the conference consists of Professor Pasi Ihalainen University of Jyväskylä, Chair), Professor Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen (University of Turku), Dr Joachim Mickwitz (Åbo Akademi University) and Dr Henrika Tandefelt (Helsinki).
Registration for the Conference and possible abstract (200 words maximum) for an oral presentation of no more than 20 minutes should be sent to
Professor Pasi Ihalainen, Department of History and Ethnology, P.O Box 35 (H), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, or faxed to +358-14-2601251 by 30 April 2009 at the latest. Registration for meals should also be made in this connection. If you wish that the organizers will book a reasonably priced university guest room for you, this should be stated in the registration form. We shall contact everyone and confirm participation and bookings in May. All hotel bookings should be addressed by the participants themselves directly to the hotel no later than on 1 June 2009.
Scholars who have been invited to the workshop “Political Culture in the Nordic Countries, ca 1740–1820” should also register by filling in and sending the form by 30 April and by making their booking directly to the
hotel by 1 June. They must send their paper to pasi.t.ihalainen@jyu.fi on 24 August 2009 at the latest. The papers will be published before the
Conference on its website. The workshop members will not give an oral presentation at the Conference but only very briefly summarize their paper (5 minutes maximum) and respond to comments from invited commentators and other participants.
For further information on the academic programme, kindly contact Professor Pasi Ihalainen at pasi.t.ihalainen@jyu.fi. For information on Turku and questions concerning accommodation and meals, kindly contact
kirsi-maaria.vainio-korhonen@utu.fi or jmickwit@abo.fi. Further information will be sent to the participants in September. See also the website of the Finnish Society at www.helsinki.fi/historia/1700.
Det gemensamma 1700-talets historiska betydelse:
De svenska och danska rikena
Åbo, den 2–4 oktober 2009
The Historical Significance of the Common
Eighteenth Century: The Swedish and Danish Realms
Turku, 2–4 October 2009
Preliminärt program / Preliminary programme
Fredag 2 oktober 2009 / Friday 2 October 2009 9.00 Anmälningar / Registration
9.30 Konferensens öppnande / The opening of the conference
9.45–11.45 Föredrag av inbjudna föreläsare och diskussion / Two keynote lectures in Swedish
Matti Klinge (Helsinki) (på svenska)
Marie-Christine Skuncke (Uppsala) (på svenska) 11.45–12.45 Lunch
12.45–14.45 Samtidiga sessioner / Parallel sessions
1. Det gemensamma 1700-talets historiska betydelse: Det svenska riket (arrangör Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen)
2. Nordic Political Cultures: The Crisis and Renewal of the Monarchy in late 18th and early 19th-Century Scandinavia (convenor Michael Bregnsbo)
15.15–16.00 Möjlighet att delta i en tvåspråkig (statlig) festgudstjänst i Åbo domkyrka eller i ett utställningsbesök / Possibility to participate in a bilingual ecumenical (state) service in the Turku Cathedral or to visit an exhibition 16.15–16.45 Kaffe / Coffee
16.45–18.45 Parallel sessions
3. Democratic Thought in the late Eighteenth-Century Nordic and Dutch Political Cultures (convenors Pasi Ihalainen & Wyger Velema)
4. Nordic Political Cultures: Strategies for Political Participation among the Excluded in late 18th and early 19th-Century Scandinavia (convenor Karin Sennefelt)
19.00 Konferensreception / Conference reception
The official release of Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Lördag 3 oktober 2009 / Saturday 3 October 2009 9.00–11.00 Samtidiga sessioner / Parallel sessions
5. Nordisk kultur under det långa 1700-talet (arrangör Henrika Tandefelt)
6. Nordic Political Cultures: The Secularization and Modernization of the Language of Politics in late 18th and early 19th-Century Scandinavia (convenor Pasi
Ihalainen)
11.00–11.30 Kaffe / Coffee
11.30–12.30 Keynote lecture and discussion Petri Karonen (Jyväskylä) (in English) 12.30–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Samtidiga sessioner / Parallel sessions
7. Relationer och kontakter mellan de nordiska länderna under det långa 1700-talet (arrangör Joachim Mickwitz)
8. Nordic Political Cultures: Enlightenment, Publishing and the Rise of New Sociability (convenor to be announced)
16.00–17.00 Höstmöte, Finska sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier / Autumn general assembly, Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
19.00 Konferensmiddag / Conference dinner
Söndag 4 oktober 2009 / Sunday 4 October 2009 9.00–11.00 Samtidiga sessioner / Parallel sessions 9. Fria föredrag / Free presentations
10. Nordic Political Cultures: Commercial Interests and Political Decision-Making in 18th-Century Scandinavia (convenor Patrik Winton)
11.30–12.30 Keynote lecture, discussion and the end of the conference Michael Bregnsbo (Odense) (in English)
12.30–14.00 Lunch med diskussion över framtida nordiskt samarbete i 1700-talsforskning / Lunch with discussion on future Nordic cooperation in eighteenth-century studies
