SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LEGAL COURT RECORDS
University of Turku, 12 February, 2010
Venue
The symposium will be held in the Educarium building, located in the northern part of the University of Turku campus (T47 on the virtual campus map at http://www.utu.fi/kartta/kampuskartta.htm; street address Assistentinkatu 5).
Registration
All participants are requested to send the information below to english[at]utu.fi by Monday, 1 February, 2010. There is no registration fee.
- Name
- Affiliation
- Postal address
- E-mail address
- Lunch at Restaurant Macciavelli (yes/no)
- Dinner at Restaurant Teini (yes/no)
For those staying at the University guesthouse Villa Hortus, please indicate your approximate time of arrival in Turku.
Programme
10:00 – 12:00
Registration (Educarium, 1st floor lobby area)
11:00 – 12:00
Lunch, self-sponsored (Restaurant Macciavelli deli, ground floor)
12:00 – 12:10
Opening of the Symposium (Edu 2 Auditorium, 1st floor)
Risto Hiltunen, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Marjo Kaartinen, Director of TUCEMEMS
12:10 – 13:00
Keynote address (Edu 2 Auditorium, 1st floor)
Bernard Rosenthal (State University of New York, Binghamton)
"Stories that Salem documents tell"
13:10 – 14:50
Session I: Witches, Heretics, Databases
(Edu 2 Auditorium, 1st floor)
chair: Matti Peikola, Dept of English, University of Turku
Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
"Annotating historical court records ... is it possible?"
Margo Burns (St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, US)
"17th century documents, 21st century tools"
Matti Rissanen (University of Helsinki)
"'I am as clear as your Worships': Attitudes of the accused in the Salem examination records"
Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (University of Helsinki)
"'You tax me for a Wizard, you may as well tax me for a Buzard': The defendants' voices in the Salem examination records"
Pekka Tolonen (University of Turku)
"The early thirteenth century inquisition in Languedoc: Problems and possibilities of the sources"
14:50 – 15:30
Coffee/tea (3rd floor lobby area)
15:30 – 17:10
Session II: Court Records of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(Edu 2 Auditorium, 1st floor)
chair: Pekka Tolonen, Dept of Comparative Religion, University of Turku
Kirsi L. Salonen (University of Tampere)
"The medieval sources of the Sacra Romana Rota in the Vatican Secret Archives"
Mika Kallioinen (University of Turku)
"Medieval trade and institutions in the Northern Baltic – Town councils as commercial courts"
Satu Lidman (University of Joensuu)
"Under pressures for efficiency: The late 16th century court records of the Munich city council"
Riikka Miettinen (University of Tampere)
"Suicides in early modern Swedish court records"
Mari Välimäki (University of Tampere)
"Early modern Swedish university consistory protocols and the six contexts by Dominick LaCapra"
17:10 – 17:30
Refreshments (3rd floor lobby area)
17:30 – 18:30
Final discussion: methodological issues arising from the presentations
(Edu 2 Auditorium, 1st floor) chair: Matti Peikola
19:30 –
Dinner, self-sponsored (Restaurant Teini, Uudenmaankatu 1)
http://www.ravintolateini.fi/teini_etusivu