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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">here an (extended) call for papers, deadline June 20<sup>th</sup>. I hope (sic) you find this interesting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ville Vuolanto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ps. I also hope you could send this to people you think would be interested on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers for a workshop (April 13-14, 2023) and a volume:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Constructing and performing hope in the premodern world
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Throughout history, people have gone on with their lives despite many kinds of trials and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">tribulations. In this, hope has been a main driving force to manage uncertainty, mitigate despair, and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">to give meaning to living. There are historically changing sets of practices anchored in social and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">cultural values, through which individuals deal with the ultimate question of existence and anxiety:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">how is one to live a meaningful life in the face of inevitable death?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To this end, people have constructed different strategies for hope and futurity in their everyday life. These can
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">be categorized as strategies for securing one’s life – hope to recover from an illness or overcome
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">poverty or old age; strategies for reproduction – which have at their core the hope of continuity
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">through children; strategies for the preservation of memory and reputation, transmission of values
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and family traditions; and strategies for transcendental hope and continuity. As is easy to recognise,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">most of these strategies are, ultimately, social and communal. Therefore, hope is a central factor in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">everyday life through which both individuals and communities think about future and negotiate
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">their personal and communal crisis. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Indeed, in historical research, hope refers not so much to a psychological state maintaining
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">meaningfulness in life, but it points to a goal-oriented disposition and strategical agency. Hope,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">therefore, offers a fresh perspective on human experiences and action, as it has only too seldom
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">been discussed in historical research. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the described methodological background, we aim at organizing a workshop concentrating on
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the ways in which the future of individuals, their families and communities were negotiated in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">ancient, Byzantine and Western medieval Europe, with special focus on the practices and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">practicalities of everyday life. Analyzing how premodern societies found ways of managing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">anxieties about the future amidst cultural change is of essential relevance for understanding the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">functions and motivations of individuals and communities.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We especially welcome papers which explore experience-related and performative aspects of hope
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and futurity: How did the practices of hope manifest in everyday life and what shapes did they take?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What kind of agency and strategies would have given people a sense of hope? What kind of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">strategies to maintain hope and plan for the future were adopted in everyday life? How did changing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">discourses and social circumstances affect decision-making aimed at maintaining hope, and how did
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">this manifest in the longue durée? Comparing the continuities and changes in the ways in which
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">individuals pursued their future-oriented goals is at the very heart of our project. Themes we seek to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">discuss in the workshop include the following (but are not limited to these):
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• practices to ascertain the continuity of the family in social capital, wealth and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">progeny (e.g., marriage, divorce, childlessness, adoption)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• permanence of the individual/communal memory and name (e.g., material
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">donations, gifts and promises, benefactions and vows, as well as death and wills)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• religious hope and futurity through personal piety, religious rituals and lifestyle
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• emotions and experiences related to hope and futurity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• legal, ideological and conceptual aspects (while keeping in mind the relationship
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">with lived experience) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We aim at publishing an edited volume (with a leading publisher) based on the papers presented in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the workshop in April 13-14, 2023, Tampere, Finland. Therefore, those whose papers are accepted
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">to the workshop are asked to send their early drafts of what will become their contributions to the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">edited volume beforehand (in mid-March 2023), so that we can circulate them to all the workshop
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">participants. This way we will be able to give discussion a good start, to concentrate on discussing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the central ideas of the papers in the workshop, and to move swiftly to the final phases to write the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">volume with 9000 word chapters (inc. bibliography, notes).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Keynote speakers: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ville Vuolanto (Tampere University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is a place for ca. twelve to fifteen participants for the workshop and the volume.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Deadline</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> for the abstracts (with 300 to 500 words, with description of the theme, methodology,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">main questions, and sources) is <b>JUNE 20, 2022</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please, let us hear about you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Oana Cojocaru & Ville Vuolanto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:oana.cojocaru@tuni.fi">oana.cojocaru@tuni.fi</a> /
<a href="mailto:ville.vuolanto@tuni.fi">ville.vuolanto@tuni.fi</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Tampere Institute for Advanced Study<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Department of History, Tampere University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Trivium</span></em><span lang="EN-US"> - Tampere
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Centre for</span></em> Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For further references on the study of hope you may want to check some of the following:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bobou, O. 2018. ‘Hope and the Sub-Adult’, in Kazantzidis & Spatharas 2018, 329–350.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Caston R.R. and Kaster R.A. (eds.) 2016. Hope, Joy, & Affection in the Classical World. Oxford University Press.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Chaniotis, A. 2018. ‘Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence, from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority’,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">in Kazantzidis & Spatharas 2018, 351–364. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Feldman, D.B. 2013. </span><span lang="EN-US">‘The Meaning of Hope and Vice Versa: Goal Directed Thinking and the Construction of a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Meaningful Life’, in J.A. Hicks and C. Routledge (eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Emerging Themes, and Controversies. Springer, 141–150.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kazantzidis, G. and Spatharas, D. 2018. Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art. De Gruyter.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nelis, D. 2016. 'Emotion in Vergil's Georgics: Farming and the Politics of Hope', in Caston and Kaster 2016, 45–74.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rosenwein, B. 2006. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Cornell University Press.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Scheer, M. 2012. ‘Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have A History?)’, History and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Theory 51, 193–220. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tataranni, F. 2013. ‘Hope and Leadership in Ancient Rome’, Teoria. Rivista di filosofia 32:2, 65–75.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Vlassopoulos, C. 2018. ‘Hope and Slavery’, in Kazantzidis & Spatharas 2018, 235–258.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Vuolanto V. 2015. Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ashgate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wisman, A. and Heflick, N.A. 2015. 'Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">esteem in Personal Hope', Cognition and Emotion 30:5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Ville Vuolanto, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Senior Lecturer in History and Latin Language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI">Latin textual cultures and Latin language</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI">, coordinating lecturer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Faculty of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Tampere University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="https://www.tuni.fi/en/ville-vuolanto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">https://www.tuni.fi/en/ville-vuolanto</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:FI">v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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