Conference Schedule
- Wednesday, May 21
- 11:00 Registration opens
- 12:00 Keynote: Gregory Clark
- 13:00 Break
- 13:30 Parallel Sessions
- Material Culture in Maritime History
- Everyday Life in Rural Finland
- Peace, War, and Preparedness
- Faith and Historical Change
- Climate, Weather, Economy and Livelihood: Complex Set of Dependencies in the History of the Baltic Sea Rim (Tech Track)
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Parallel Sessions
- Industrial Transformations and Economic Impacts (Tech Track)
- States, Alcohol, and Stimulants
- Heath and Wellness in Modern Finland
- Commodities and Conflict
- Gender and Opportunity
- 17:00 Break
- 17:15-18:15 Plenary Session
- 18:30-20:30 Opening Reception
- Thursday, May 22
- 08:30 Registration opens
- 09:00 Keynote: Astrid Kander
- 10:00 Break
- 10:30 Parallel Sessions
- Transport Technologies Shaping Spaces in Estonia and Finland (Tech Track)
- Uncovering the Uncovered: New Data on Early Modern Trade and Smuggling
- Commerce in the Early-Modern Baltic (SEHR Fast Track)
- Hardship in Finnish History
- Histories of Adversity and Scarcity
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch at Unicafe Metsätalo
- 13:30 Parallel Sessions
- Technological and Societal Interactions (Tech Track)
- Social Transformations in the Soviet Union
- Connecting Communities
- Structures of Finance and Trade
- State and Society in Modern Finland
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Parallel Sessions
- Institutions and Economic Development
- Labor, Work, and Industry
- Historical and Global Perspectives on Standardization and Innovation (Tech Track)
- European Environmental Histories
- Economics and Order in Imperial Russia
- Friday, May 23
- 08:30 Registration opens
- 09:00 Keynote: Mirva Peltoniemi
- 10:00 Break
- 10:30 Parallel Sessions
- Baltic Crosscurrents (SEHR Fast Track)
- Legacies of the Russian Empire
- Borders and Mobility in the Cold War Baltic
- 12:30 Conference Ends
All times are in Helsinki (EEST, Eastern European Summer Time, +3) time.
Keynotes
Gregory Clark, University of Southern Denmark
Astrid Kander, Lund University
Mirva Peltoniemi, Tampere University
Conference Manager
Olli Turunen, University of Helsinki
Program Chairs
Jeremy Land, University of Helsinki
Eric Oakley, East Carolina University
Conference Secretary:
Elisa Leonoff, University of Helsinki
Organizers & Scientific Committee
Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki
Hanna Kuusi, University of Helsinki
Matti La Mela, Uppsala University
Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Sakari Saaritsa, University of Helsinki
Riina Turunen, University of Jyväskylä
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Heli Valtonen, University of Jyväskylä
Contact email:
balticsocsciencehist@gmail.com
Sponsors:
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences
The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
The Finnish Economic History Association
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