After eight years of innovative research, distinguished guests and field-defining
conferences and publications the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) concluded the centre´s work in Trajectories & Intersections seminar. 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. Thank you all for joining the event!
Programme and Photos
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 (online presentation)
14.00 Coffee and cake
14.30 Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, Rob Boddice, University of Helsinki (online)
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
