Event Description
Online workshop at the University of Stockholm on the body in early modernity, organized by Karin Sennefelt and Anton Runesson.
Wednesday 16 June
Sasha Handley (University of Manchester) – Lusty sack possets and nuptial affections: bodies and environments in seventeenth-century England. Chair: Karin Sennefelt
Sarah Fox (University of Manchester) – Experiencing the Birthing Body in Eighteenth-century England
Holly Fletcher (University of Sussex) – The Material Body in Marriage: Co-Producing Bodyweight and Shape in Early Modern Germany
Maja Bondestam (Uppsala University) – Experiencing Age and the Maturing Body in Early Modern Sweden
Benedikt Brunner (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz) – Dying bodies and the corpse. The deathbed as a place for the negotiation and experience of difference in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Europe
Isabel Casteels (Leuven University) – Battles over Bodies: Executions and audiences during the Dutch Revolt
Vera Lind (Northern Illinois University) – The Corpse is Alive! The 18th-Century Invention of the Liminal Space Between the Living and Dead Body
Thursday 17 June
Maren Lorenz (Ruhr Universität, Bochum) – Body history revisited. Some thoughts about conceptual and theoretical challenges
Vera Faβhauer (Goethe University of Frankfurt) – Acquisition, Verification and Application of Body Knowledge in the Johann Christian Senckenberg’s Medical Diary
Anton Runesson (Stockholm University) – Awakening the conscience in early modern Sweden
Isabelle Schuerch (Universität Bern) – Moving two bodies Together. Late Medieval Reflections on Human and Equine Co-movements
Mari Eyice (Stockholm University) – Experiences of disability in early modern Sweden
Raisa Toivo (Tampere University) – Prayer and the body in religious experience in early modern Finland
Emese Bálint (Columbia University) – Miraculous Bodies of Anabaptist Martyrs
Thomas C. Devaney (University of Rochester) – “A noise that seems as if it would shake the world apart”: The emotional and bodily experience of sound in early modern pilgrimage in Spain
Friday 18 June
Kateryna Pasichnyk (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) – “To reassure us he announced that he took a sick one ‘on his hands'”: Social norms and medical practice in the Don region of the eighteenth-century Russian empire
Viktoria von Hoffmann (F.R.S.-FNRS) – Touch, Mixtures, and the Complexional Body in Italian Renaissance Medicine
Phil Withington (University of Sheffield) – Intoxicants, addiction and the humoral body
Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina) – Triangle Trading on the Pungency of Race: African Bodies and the European Nose
Sebestian Kroupa (King’s College London) – Markers of Difference? Indigenous Tattooing in the Early Colonial Philippines
Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam) – “Be careful of the Tastes and You will Grow Old” Taste, Health and Identity in the Dutch Golden Age
Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) – Experiencing Dermal Marking in the Early Modern World
Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00 –21:00 CEST