Final date for registration 25th August.
Registration fee 350,- NOK includes Conference and Lunch.
Dinners, museum and cable car are not included. For these activities there will be an additional cost.
Institutions
- Department of History and Religious Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, , UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Organizers
- Prof. II Dr. Rita Voltmer, UiT / University of Trier
- Prof. Dr. Liv Helene Willumsen, UiT
Chairs and Discussants
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer
(Germany, University of the Saarland, Professor in Early Modern History)
- Prof. Dr. Stuart Clark
(Wales, Swansea University, College of Arts and Humanities, Professor emeritus)
Speakers
- Dr. Peter Elmer
(England, University of Exeter, History, Senior Research Fellow)
- Prof. Dr. Marion Gibson
(England, University of Exeter, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures)
- Dr. Julian Goodare
(Scotland, University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics, and Archeology, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Reader)
- Dr. Eilola Jari
(Finland, University of Jycväskylä, Departement of History and Ethnology, Research Fellow)
- Prof. Dr. Louise Kallestrup
(Denmark, South Danish University, Assistant Professor for Early Modern Cultural History)
- Dr. Georg Modestin
(Switzerland, University of Fribourg, Medieval Institute, Research Fellow)
- Dr. Alison Rowlands
(England, University of Essex, Senior lecturer in European History)
- Dr. Walter Rummel
(Germany, Director of the State Archive Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz)
- Prof. Dr. James Sharpe
(England, University of York, Professor in Early Modern History)
- Dr. Maryse Simon
(France, University of Strasbourg, Research Fellow)
- Dr. Raisa Toivo
(Finland, University of Tampere, School of Social Sciene and Humanities, History, the Center of Excellence in History, Re-thinking Finland 1400-2000, Research Fellow)
Program
Thursday, 11 September 2014
13:00 Small Lunch, Coming together
14:00 Opening, Adress of Welcome
(Liv Helene Willumsen / Fredrik Fagertun)
Chair: Liv Helene Willumsen
- 14:30 Rita Voltmer, The impact of demonology on the European Witch Hunts – Some Reflections
- 15:30 George Modestin, The Metamorphoses of the Anti-Witchraft Treatise Errores Gazariorum (15th Century)
16:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 Walter Rummel, I confess that I have been ignorant. How the Formicarius and the Malleus Maleficarum changed the Universe of a Cleric and his Environment at the End of the 15th Century
- 18:00 Maryse Simon,Nicolas Remy and the Lorraine Witch Hunt: The Influence of a Demonologist Who Boasted About Sentencing 800 Witches to Death
20:00 Dinner at the Fram Centre
Friday, 12 September 2014
Chair: Wolfgang Behringer
- 10:00 Louise Kallestrup, Bad Boys and Wicked Women. Narratives of the Witch in Early Modern Denmark
11:00 Coffee break
- 11:30 Liv Helene Willumsen, The Finnmark Witchcraft Trials: Ideas about Witches' Gatherings
12:30 Small Lunch
Chair: Stuart Clark
- 14:00 Raisa Maria Toivo, What did a Witch-hunter in Finland Know About Demonology? The case of Nils Psilander in Ahvenanmaa in Finnish and European Contexts
- 15:00 Jari Eilola, Interpretating Children's Blåkulla Stories(1675)
16:00 Coffee break
- 16:30 Alison Rowlands, When will the burning start here? Demonological Texts, judicial Procedure, and the Spread of Ideas About Witchcraft in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
- 17:30 Marion Gibson, French Demonology in an English Village: the St. Osyth Experiment of 1582
18:30 Transfer to the Polar Museum
19:00 Guided Tour in the Polar Museum
20:00 Dinner at the Fjellheisen restaurant (via Cable Car)
Saturday, 13 September 2014
Chair: Rita Voltmer
- 9:00 Julian Goodare, Scottish Demonology and Witches' Flight
- 10:00 James Sharpe, Towards a 'Popular Demonic': Demonology and English Witch Trial Pamphlets
11:00 Coffee break
- 11:30 Peter Elmer, The Devill is the Name of a Body Politick: Thinking with (Political) Demons in Early Modern Europe
12:30 Round Table (Discussant: Wolfgang Behringer)
13:30 Small lunch
Final date for registration 25th August.
Registration fee 350,- NOK includes Conference and Lunch.
Dinners, museum and cable car are not included. For these activities there will be an additional cost.