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Lectures on the history of violence, war, and suffering

Dear colleagues,

This week, we have an international conference

VIOLENCE, WAR, AND SUFFERING
Passages from Ancient to Medieval and Early Modern Societies IX
Tampere University, 13.-15. August 2025

We warmly welcome all interested to attend the international keynote lectures of the conference, which are open to the public:

WEDNESDAY (13.8.2025) 13.00-15.30, room B1097
(After the welcome and opening words):
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (University of St. Andrews):
Suffering the Unimaginable: Affective Responses to Warfare in an Age of Plague

THURSDAY (14.8.2025) 11.00-12.15, room B1097
Marian Füssel (University of Göttingen):
Feelings in a World on Fire: Doing Emotions during the Seven Years War

FRIDAY (15.8.2025) 9.00-10.15, room B1097
Edith Hall (Durham University):
Women under Siege: the Trauma of the Chorus of Aeschylus’ “Seven against Thebes”

Welcome!

The conference is organized by Trivium – Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies, Tampere University, in collaboration with the research project Portrayals of pain and models of manliness: the suffering male body in Western art and culture (funded by Kone Foundation).

Conference pages: https://events.tuni.fi/passages2025/

Tapahtuma-ajat

Alkaa:
13.8.2025 13:00
Loppuu:
15.8.2025 10:15
Tapahtumapaikka:
PinniB 1097
Osoite:
Kanslerinrinne 1
Postitoimipaikka:
Tampere

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