[H-verkko] Turku, Family History & Gender History, Medieval to Modern

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Family History & Gender History, Medieval to Modern

Turku
20.10.2015 klo 10:30 – 21.10.2015 klo 20:50
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Symposium

Family History & Gender History, Medieval to Modern

University of Turku, Finland 20 - 21 October 2015

The symposium is organized by a project that aims to publish a new book on the
family history of Finland, focusing to the continuities and changes over the
centuries, from medieval to modern. The main aim of the symposium is to create
new connections between researchers that focus on family history and gender
history, and to allow free time for discussion.

The symposium is free of charge and all scholars interested in the topic are
warmly welcome. For coffee arrangements, please send an e-mail to Anu Lahtinen
(anulah at utu.fi).

The invited speakers are prof. Henry French, University of Exeter, prof. Amy
Harris, Brigham Young University, and Research Fellow, PhD Katie Barclay,
University of Adelaide.

Contact person:                      

Anu Lahtinen, Adj.Prof., University Lecturer, Universities of Turku & Helsinki

anulah at utu.fi, @anulah (twitter & ello)

For more information about the project members & the project itself, please
check http://perheenjaljilla.blogspot.fi and
http://perheenjaljilla.blogspot.fi/p/blog-page_11.html

 Programme

(Minor amendments possible)

 

Tue 20 October 2015

Lecture Hall "Hovi", Artium Building, Kaivokatu 12, entrance level

 

10.30 Opening address
10.30-11.30 Katie Barclay

Intimate Relationships amongst Early Modern Lower Scots: a History of Collective
Feeling?


11.30-12.30 Lunch
12.30-14.30 Workshop: Finnish project members present their research in English,
approx. 10 min / person, disussion

14.30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-16.00 Henry French

In hopes of becoming a man’ : Younger Sons’ Experiences of Family, Gender
and the Life-Course among the English Gentry, 1650-1800

 

19.00  Evening program

 

 

Wed 21 October 2015

Arcanum, Arcanum Lecture Hall 2

 

10.00-11.00 Prof. Amy Harris, Brigham Young University: Kinship-consciousness,
genealogical consciousness (preliminary title)

11.00-12.00 Lunch

12.00-14.00 Workshop: Finnish project members present their research in English,
approx. 10 min. / person, discussion

14.00 Coffee

 

19.00 Evening program

 

About speakers

 

Professor Henry French, University of Exeter, has published on the identity and
composition of the ‘middle sort of people’ in provincial England 1620-1750,
among them a monograph study, published by Oxford University Press in July 2007.
 In association with Prof. R.W. Hoyle, of the University of Reading, he has
also studied land ownership in Essex and Lancashire, concentrating particularly
on the decline of the small farmer, 1500-1800. French & Hoyle have published
several articles on this theme, and also a monograph on the land market in the
Essex village of Earls Colne, 1500-1750, with Manchester U.P. in March 2007.
Professor French's newest area of research interest is in long-term processes of
change in notions of masculinity among the landed elite in England, between the
later seventeenth and early twentieth centuries.

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/french/

 

Professor Amy Harris, Brigham Young University, uses both her historical and
genealogical training to study family relationships of the past, particularly
in early modern Britain.  Her first book, Siblinghood and Social Relations in
Georgian England (University of Manchester Press, 2012), examines the impact
sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society.
Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts,
prescriptive literature, and portraiture, it argues that although parents' wills
often recommended their children "share and share alike," siblings had to
constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities.

 Her most recent work, Family Life in England and America,
1690-1820 (co-edited with Rachel Cope and Jane Hinckley) will be published by
Pickering and Chatto in 2015. This four-volume collection of original sources
 (manuscript and print) brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic
and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its
kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and
America during a time of significant change. 

https://history.byu.edu/Pages/Faculty/Harris.aspx

 

Research Fellow Katie Barclay is currently working in the ARC Centre of
Excellence for the History of Emotions. From June 2014-17, she holds a
Discovery Early Career Research Award. She is a graduate in Economic and
Social History at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her
undergraduate degree, Masters and PhD. Before joining the University of
Adelaide, she held a Research Fellowship in the Institute of Irish Studies,
Queen’s University, Belfast. Between 2008 and 2010, she worked as a Research
Fellow at the University of Warwick on a project, run jointly with Queen’s,
‘Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925’.  In 2007-8, Dr Barclay was the Economic
History Society Anniversary Fellow, held through the Institute of Historical
Research, London.

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/katie.barclay

 

Tiedustelut: Anu Lahtinen (anulah at utu.fi), puhelin 0400 906 353
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