HEX Afternoon Seminar: History of Experience – Trajectories and intersections

The Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX)
will conclude after eight years of innovative research, distinguished guests and field-defining
conferences and publications. Understanding experiences as complex cultural, social, embodied and historical phenomena, HEX has established the history of experience as a flourishing field of international historical research. Its work will now carry on in the form of a new research centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The seminar will take place at Tampere University´s Main Building auditorium A1 and will
be followed by refreshments.

We would kindly ask you to register for the seminar by 14 November.

Programme

12.15 Music

12.30 Opening, Dean Liisa Häikiö, Tampere University

12.45 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) 2018–2025, Pirjo Markkola, Tampere University

13.00 Where has Experience taken us

Lived Religion, Tessa Whitehouse and Godelinde Perk, Tampere University
Lived Nation, Tanja Vahtikari and Sami Suodenjoki, Tampere University
Lived Welfare State, Johanna Annola, Tampere University and Katariina Parhi, University of Oulu

13.45 Art History and the History of Experiences: Possibilities and Limitations, Karen McCluskey, University of Notre Dame, Sydney

14.00 Coffee and cake

14.30 Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, Rob Boddice, University of Helsinki

14.45 HEX in Society, Antti Malinen, Tampere University

15.00 The Limits of Experience? Exploring the History of Experience through Creative Non-
fiction and Fiction, Stephanie Olsen and Johanna Annola, Tampere University

15.15 New Beginnings: Some Future Prospects for the History of Experience, Ville
Kivimäki, Finnish Literature Society

15.30 Reflections, Pertti Haapala, Tampere University

Refreshments