The programme for the workshop is now published and registration has opened for speakers and participants.
Drinking in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World, 29-30 Oct
Room 4113, Pinni B building (Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampere university City Centre Campus)
Thu 29 Oct
11.15 opening words
11.30 keynote by Mark Hailwood (Bristol University): Finding Modernity in the Early Modern Alehouse
12.30 lunch (Restaurant Minerva, in the same building)
13.30 1st session
- Jan Blonski (Polish Academy of Sciences): Drinking Together: Taverns and the Rituals of Village Sociability in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Allan Colver (online, Northumbria University): The alchemy of music and alcohol in the alehouses and at the festivals and fairs of England 1500–1820
- Kaisa Kyläkoski (University of Helsinki): The Social Mechanics of the Brorsskål: Male Comradeship and Identity in Late 18th-Century Finland
15.00 coffee (outside the seminar room)
15.30 2nd session
- Callum Smith (Aberystwyth University): Exploring the Eighteenth-Century ‘Six-Bottle Man’: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Alcoholism and Decline in Visual Culture
- Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Tampere University): Drinking Practices and Moral Excess in the Roman Reception of Alexander the Great
- (possible 3rd paper)
17.00 end
18.30 conference dinner (prebooking only), Restaurant Myllärit (Åkerlundinkatu 4, near the university)
Fri 30 Oct
10.15 3rd session
- Pia Mustonen (Tampere University): “When Setian wine glows in your golden bowl”: Drinking in Juvenal’s Satires
- Matthew Cooper (University of Cambridge): Medieval English wine taverns and the architecture of drinking
- Jenni Lares (Tampere University): Early modern tavern as an experienced space
11.45 lunch (Restaurant Minerva, in the same building)
12.30 discussion on further cooperation & publication
14.00 (at latest) end of workshop
The workshop is organized by Dr. Jenni Lares, a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, as part of her project “Sociability and Work in Early Modern Finnish Taverns,” funded by the Jalmari Finne Foundation, and in cooperation with Trivium – Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies.