Wednesday 10.6.2015
18.00 – 22.00 Registration
/ Dinner, Nikolainkulma, Asemakatu 6
20.00 – 20.45 Opening presentation
Nordic Nobles and Heraldry – a Dimension of
Aristocracy?
Wilhelm Brummer,
Mannerheim Museum, Finland
Thursday 11.6.2015
10.00 – 10.05
Welcome address, Susanna Niiranen, Agora
auditorium 2, B105
10.05 – 11.00 Keynote
1, Agora auditorium 2, B105
The Medieval Aristocracy
of Southern Europe Reconsidered: Characteristics and New Perspectives
Laure Verdon, Aix-Marseille Université, France
11.00 – 12.30 Lunch, Agora Piato
12.30 – 13.30 Keynote 2, Agora
auditorium 2, B105
Enlightened Reactionary: Henri de Boulainvilliers and the
Eighteenth-Century French
Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina, USA
13.30 – 14.00 Coffee
break, Agora lobby
14.00 – 15.30
Sessions 1-4
Session 1: Networks: Kinship, Families, Friendship, Communities
Agora C222, Chair Mikko Hiljanen
1.1. Marko Hakanen & Ulla Koskinen: Councilors of the
Swedish Realm 1520–1680: a Database Study on Networks and Agency
1.2. Topi Artukka: Nobility, social networks and gender
in early nineteenth-century Turku
1.3. Karen De Coene: A noble marriage serves a noble
network. Joseph de Ferraris ‘s letters at the time of the War of the Bavarian
Succession (July 1778 – 21 May 1779)
Session 2: Change, Transition,
and Transformation
Agora C231, Chair Emmi Lahti
2.1. Jan Županič: The Policy of Ennoblement in the Austrian
Empire
2.2. Jiří Brňovják: Ennoblement Between Personal and State
Interest: The Ennoblement as an Especial Way of Social Rise Using the Example
of the (Early) Modern Czech Lands
2.3. Václav
Horčička: Czech Aristocracy in the Turbulent First Half of the 20th Century
Session 3: Social Categories
Agora C232, Chair Miia Kuha
3.1. Claire Buchet: Women of the Condé house, builders of
the fortune of the princes of Condé (1550-1694)
3.2. Rose-Marie Peake: The Elite Woman’s World – Privileged
Women and Charity Work in seventeenth-century Paris
3.3. Ville Sarkamo: Officers and Nobility. Nobility and
Change in Military and the Swedish Officer Corps in 17th and 18th Century
Session 4: Economy, Material
Culture, and Consumption
Agora C233, Chair Riina Turunen
4.1. Susanna Niiranen:
Dynasticism in Material Culture: Catherine Jagiellon (1526-1583)
4.2. Tuula Rantala: Nobility and morning gift in late
medieval Sweden and Finland
4.3. Elena Korchmina: What Was Luxury for Russian
Provincial Noblewomen in the 19th Centuries?
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
break, Agora lobby
16.00 – 17.30
Sessions 5-8
Session 5: Unfixed Categories:
Negotiating Noble Gender, Status, and Social Environments
Agora C231, Chair Riina Turunen
5.1. Eleonora Lanza: Retracing Social Environment in the
Late Seventeenth Century. The Journeys of the Duke Anton Ulrich of
Brunswick-Lüneburg to Venice
5.2. Niina Lehmusjärvi: Noble Women as Leaders in Iron
Industry in Early Modern Sweden
Session 6: Ideology
Agora C232, Chair Ville Sarkamo
6.1. Tiago João Queimada e Silva: The Past in Service to
Lineage: The War Against Islam in Medieval Portuguese Aristocratic Genealogical
Records
6.2. Eva Trein Nielsen: The Components of the Reputation of
a Danish Nobleman in the 17th and 18th Century
6.3. Saara Hilpinen: Reputation of an Aristocrat
Session 7: Service
Agora C233, Chair Petri Karonen
7.1. Teemu Korpijärvi: The Vein of Power – Henry of
Livonia’s River Daugava
7.2. Piotr Chmiel: The Most Serene Diplomacy. A role of Aristocracy
for Ethos and Practice of the Early Modern Venetian Diplomatic Service
Session 8: Nobility and their
Country Homes in the Late Modern Era. Multiculturalism in Eastern Central
Europe
Agora C222, Chair Janne Haikari
8.1. Anca-Raluca Majaru: The Nobility in Borderland Area
and Their Country Houses: Case Study of Banat
8.2. Beáta Bordás: Architects Involved in the Construction
of Hungarian Country Houses in Transylvania. The Age of Historicism
8.3. Alina Chiciudean: Evaluating the Economic Potential of
Former Nobiliary Estates – Historical Assessment and Current Trends and
Challenges
8.4. Florentina Matache: French
Influence Reflected in the Architecture of the Country Houses in Romania in the
19th Century. Case Study of Architect Paul Gottereau
19.00 – 22.00
Conference Dinner Cruise on Lake Päijänne
Friday 12.6.2015
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote 3: Agora
auditorium 2, B105
European Aristocracies in the long 19th Century: Property, Power, and
Parliaments
Tatjana Tönsmeyer,
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
11.15 – 12.45
Sessions 9-12
Session 9: From Power to
Nothing. The Suspension of Political Career in Nobleman’s Life
Agora C231, Chair Pirita Frigren
9.1. Anne Närhi: The Political Ambitions of a Man About
Town. Dandyism and Political Reform in 1820’s England
9.2. Mari Tiihonen: Nobleman and
Citizen. Alexandre de Lameth’s Political Career as an Example of the Revolutionary
Aristocrats in the French Revolution
Session 10: Networks: Kinship, Families,
Friendship, Communities
Agora C232, Chair Anu Lahtinen
10.1. Franz Adlgasser: Noble Family Networks in Politics:
The Austrian Parliament, 1861–1918
10.2. Konstantinos Raptis: Gender, age and family hierarchy
in Central European Aristocracy during the late 19th and early twentieth
centuries
Session 11: Social Categories
Agora C233, Chair Susanna Niiranen
11.1. Tiina Miettinen: A Great Empire Needs the Great
Nobility. The Development of Noble Genealogy in 17th century Sweden
11.2. Maria Anesti: Noblewomen and religious expression in
eighteenth-century France. Louise Marie de France: from the palace of
Versailles to the Carmel of Saint Denis.
11.3. Riikka-Maria Pöllä: Madame de Sévigné & Ninon de
Lenclos: Possibility to Take Control of Their Own Sexuality?
Session 12: Noble Women and Material Culture in Eighteen- and
Nineteenth Century Finland and Sweden
Agora C234, Chair Janne Haikari
12.1. Ulla Ijäs: Sociability and Consumption of Recently
Ennobled
12.2. Johanna Ilmakunnas: Material Culture and Work of
leisure. Noble Women and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch, Agora Piato
14.00 – 15.30
Sessions 13-16
Session 13: Ideology
Agora C231, Chair Antti Räihä
13.1. Vítězslav Prchal: Count Franz Karl Wratislav von
Mitrovitz as Imperial Ambassador to Russia (1728–1733)
13.2. Valéria Hrtánková: Slovak Aristocratic Representation
13.3. Jiří Kubeš: Bohemian and Moravian Nobility in the
Diplomatic Service of the Austrian Habsburgs (1640-1740)
Session 14: Economy, Material
Culture, and Consumption
Agora C232, Chair Pirita Frigren
14.1. Juha-Matti Granqvist & Sofia Gustafsson: A Noble
Business?
14.2. Hana Sedláčková: Administration of the Large Estate of
Nasavrky under Franz Josef Prince von Auersperg (1856-1938)
14.3. Miloš Horejš: The Influences of Aristocracy upon the
Development of Motoring in Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. From Entertainment to
Business Plan
Session 15: Representation
of Art, Music, and Literature
Agora C233, Chair Hanna Pirinen
15.1. Zsuzsa Sidó: Private
Investment, Public Benefit: Count István Károlyi and the Painter Antal Ligeti
15.2. Eszter Éva Hörcher: Old and New Lines of the Hungarian
Aristocracy in the 20th century
15.3. Deniss Hanovs: Challenging Noble Supremacy on Stage?
Opera Seria in 18th Century Debates on Images of Aristocracy in Europe
Session 16: The Nobility and
Revolution in Sources of a Personal Nature
Agora C234, Chair Alex Snellman
16.1. Zbynék Vydra: Russian Aristocracy Between Two
Revolutions (February 1917 – October 1917)
16.2. Dita Jelínkovà: The Noble Reflection of the Social
Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1918–1938
16.3. Zdeněk Hazdra: The Onset of Nazism as a Revolutionary
Change for the Loyal Czech Nobility
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee
break, Agora lobby
15.45 – 16.30 Panel
discussion
Agora
auditorium Beeta, B121.1
Professor Laure Verdon, Aix-Marseille
Université
Professor Jay M. Smith,
University of North Carolina
Professor Tatjana
Tönsmeyer, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Commentator and Chair Docent Anu Lahtinen, University of Helsinki