The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Helsinki 20–21 March 2020
Friday 20 March 2020
Venue: Art Museum Villa Gyllenberg, Kuusisaarenpolku 11, Helsinki
9.30–10.00 Registration & coffee 10.00–10.05 Opening words
10.05–11.00 Keynote: Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, London), Devotional Pleasure: Art and Spiritual Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century Paris
11.00–11.15 Coffee Break
11.15–13.15 Session I: Discussions and Theories concerning Beauty I
Aino Lahdenranta (University of Jyväskylä), Hume and Smith on Sympathy and Pleasure: the Case of Tragedy.
Vesa Oittinen (University of Helsinki), On Winckelmann’s Aesthetics
Yvonne Noble (University of Kent), Anne Finch and the Longleat Tapestry: Intervention by the
Marginalized into Aesthetic Discourse
Panu Heimonen (University of Helsinki), Features of Polite Conversation in Mozart’s Piano Concertos
13.15–14.15 Lunch buffet in Villa Gyllenberg
14.15–16.15 Session II: Academic Art and the Challengers of Classicism Megumi Ohsumi (Osaka University), Masculine Identity in Chinoiserie
Rainer Knapas (University of Helsinki), ”Raison, mémoire, imagination” – encyklopedi, biografi och trädgårdskonst. Monrepos omkring år 1800
Vera Sundin (Stockholm University), The Potential of Pastoral: Tankebyggarorden and the Elasticity of the Idyllic Code
Marjo Suominen (University of Helsinki), In Between (Baroque and Galant) Styles, Aesthetics of Rhymes: Studying and Connoisseuring Rhyming in Italian, English and German in Handel ́s Opera Giulio Cesare
16.15–16.45 Coffee break 2
16.45–17.45 Keynote: Merit Laine (Uppsala University), Other Antiquities of the Eighteenth Century.
17.45–18.15 Break
18.15–19.00 Music: Sailors and Frogs – Gesture and Music in the Eighteenth Century
Minna Nyberg (soprano) and Anna Kuvaja (fortepiano) 19.00–20.30 Drinks & buffet in Villa Gyllenberg
Saturday 21 March 2020
Venue: House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
10.00–12.00 Parallel Session III: Craftsmanship, Consumption and the Market
Mikael Ahlund (Museum Gustavianum), Amatörkonst och konstnärliga amatörer. Bilder, bildning och umgängesvanor i 1700-talets Sverige
Ulla Ijäs (University of Turku), Wealthy Bachelors as Consumers in the Late Eighteenth-Century Vyborg
Sara Ekström (Stockholm University), Imagination, Aesthetics and Emotions as Technologies of Government during the Gustavian Era.
Lotta Nylund (University of Helsinki), Picturing the People for the Elite. Alexander Lauréus and the Market for Genre Pictures.
10.00–12.00 Parallel Session IV:
Kauneutta koskeva keskustelu ja teoretisointi II / Diskussioner och teorier om det sköna, samt estetiken som en del av sällskaplighet II
Staffan Bengtsson ( Uppsala University), Herder’s Development of Baumgarten’s Aesthetics: a ’Science of Sensuous Perception’ and an ’Art of Thinking Beautifully’
Christopher Landstedt (University of Stockholm), Divertissementet Aesculapii tempel: 1700-talets sällskaps- och nöjesliv förenat i ett konstnärligt arrangemang
Visa Helenius (University of Turku), Alexander Baumgartenin Aesthetica – estetiikan uudelleen teoretisointia
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Liisa Kunnas-Pusa (University of Helsinki), ”Mon goût pour les Arts ne m’a point donné celui de la propriété”. Muinaisesineiden estetiikkaa 1700-luvulla.
Aleksi Haukka (University of Helsinki), Kauneus ja nautinto Feijoon esseissä.
12.00–13.30 Lunch break
13.30–15.30 Parallel Session V: Ståndspersoners materiella och estetiska kultur
Carolina Brown Ahlund (Uppsala University), Det moderna vardagslivets födelse. Porträtt, mode och komfort i 1700-talets svenska herrgårdskultur
Anna-Maria Åström (Åbo Akademi University), Herrgårdsinteriörer – nya stilarter når periferin Märtha Norrback (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland), Hushållsboken som nyttoföremål och estetiskt vittnesbörd – illustrerat av ”Stensböle hushållsbok”
Juha-Matti Granqvist (University of Helsinki), Kultaisia nuuskarasioita rantavedessä – ylellisyystavara ja hylkypelastus ja 1700-luvun Itämerellä
Anni Shepherd (University of Turku), Treasure from the Deep: A Shipwreck Textile as an Example of Elite Material Culture and Consumption in the 18th Century
13.30–15.30 Parallel Session VI: Urbanism and the City as a Spatial Experience
Markku Kekäläinen (University of Helsinki), Urban Experience in James Boswell’s Journals and Letters
Asko Nivala (University of Turku), Cityscapes and Landscapes in British and German Romanticism (1790–1840)
Panu Savolainen (Aalto University), Aesthetics of Nocturnal Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe
Mikael Andersson (Åbo Akademi University), Piazza di Sant’Ignazio and the Urban Space of Lightness
Susanna Lahtinen (University of Turku), Lights and Shadows of the Night – Sublime Darkness as a Contemporary Experience
15.30–16.00 Coffee break and the annual meeting of The Finnish Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies
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16.00–17.45 Session VII: The Longue durée of Art Styles
Ville Lukkarinen (University of Helsinki), The longue durée of Architectural Styles in Eighteenth -Century Finland
Madalena Costa Lima (University of Lisbon), On the Cultural Underlies for the Coexistence of Multiple Architectural Styles in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Olga Sipola (Jyväskylä University), Icons of the Eighteenth Century from Ladoga Region in Provincial Baroque Art Context
Morteza Lak (Islamic Azad University of Tehran), Print Culture and Paratextual Aesthtics of John Bell’s Illustrated Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays
17.45–18.00 Closing remarks
The Conference is organized by The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies with support from The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, Letterstedtska föreningen and Niilo Helander Foundation