[H-verkko] CFP: Finnish Historical Research Days 2015

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Finnish Historical Research Days 2015
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Historical Research Days Conference 2015

Call for Papers

The third national Finnish Historical Research Days conference will take place
in Joensuu, 22–24 October 2015. The main organisers are the Finnish Historical
Society, the Departments of History and Church History at the University of
Eastern Finland and the Finnish Doctoral Programme of History.

The programme consists of keynote lectures, workshop sessions and individual
paper presentations. The languages of the conference are Finnish, Swedish and
English.

Keynote speakers

Prof. (Emeritus) Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham, UK): “Religious
America, Secular Europe”: Are they really so different? If so, since when and
why?

Prof. Jacalyn Duffin (Queen’s University, Canada): Medical Miracles: Doctors,
Saints and Healing in the Modern World.    

The organising committee invites proposals for workshop sessions and paper
presentations. The 90 minute- workshop sessions consist of three presentations
and a discussion. Session proposals should include a main title, a short
description of the topic, the e-mail address and name of the chair of the
session, as well as the individual participants’ names and titles of their
presentations. In addition, individual paper presentation proposals are welcome
and should include a title and short description of the topic.

Keynote speakers have agreed to be commentators for workshop sessions in English
that address topics related to religion and medicine. If you would like to have
Profs. McLeod or Duffin act as a commentator in your session, please indicate
this. If there are many such requests, then the keynote speakers will select the
sessions in which they will participate.

The proposals for workshop sessions and individual paper presentations should be
sent via e-mail to hitup at gmail.com by 30 December 2014 at the latest. The
abstracts should be in pdf, doc or docx formatted files.

Registration will open on 1 March 2015 through the webpagewww.histseura.fi.
Until 15 May 2015 the participation fee will be 50 Euros (post-graduate students
25 Euros), after which it will increase to 60 Euros (post-graduate students 30
Euros). The participation fee includes conference material, lunches (Friday and
Saturday) and coffee (Thursday and Friday).

Contact information

MA Julia Burman (shs at histseura.fi) or

Professor Kimmo Katajala (kimmo.katajala at uef.fi)

The organising committee: Prof. Kimmo Katajala, Dr. Pieter Dhondt, Dr. Ilkka
Huhta, Dr. Kati Parppei, Licentiate Riikka Myllys, Prof. Tiina Kinnunen, MA
Julia Burman

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Agricola <agricola at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 31.12.2014