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PROGRAMMEPlease download the updated conference programme in PDF format here.Abstracts in alphabetical order can be downloaded here. ProgrammeLocation: Linna building (address: Kalevantie 5), ground floor: lecture halls K103 &#38; K109(Kalevantie street entrance: one floor down; Pinninkatu street entrance: lecture halls on the entrance floor to the left)WEDNESDAY 21 August15.15 Coffee and registration – Linna building: ground floor15.45 Welcome – Lecture hall K10316.00 Keynote I: David Lederer: Miracle Books as Sources of Early Modern Experiences of Disabilities – Lecture hall K103   Chair: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa17.00-19.00 Sessions I (2 sessions)1A Disabled lives I Chair: Hanna Lindberg – Lecture hall K103Corinne Ball: Fringe dwellers – Experiences of Disability at South Australia’s Destitute AsylumKirsi Tuohela: Mental Disability in the 1930s Finland, The Case of Aino Manner (1893-1956)Marcin Stasiak: “Look! He is a Cripple, But He Can Climb Trees!” Childhood in Life Stories of People with Polio-Related Impairments – Polish Case1B Revisiting concepts and conceptions  Chair: David Lederer – Lecture hall K109Adleen Crapo: Choosing Their Words Carefully: Lexicography to Explore Early Modern Experiences of DisabilityPatrick McDonagh: Romantic Ideology and the Conceptualization of IdiocySimon Jarrett: Myths of Marginality: Locating the Idiot in the Eighteenth CenturyMari Eyice: The Outer Periphery of Empathy – Disability and Emotional Practices in Early Modern Swedenca. 19.00-21.00 Evening get-together (Tampere University main building: café-lounge Toivo, address: Kalevantie 4, 2nd floor)THURSDAY 22 August9.00 Coffee and registration – Linna building: ground floor9.30 Keynote II: Donna Trembinski: Disability, Trauma and Conversion in the Lives of Early Franciscan Saints – Lecture hall K103 Chair: Riikka Miettinen10.30-12.30 Sessions II2A Religious practice and experiencesChair: Raisa Toivo – Lecture hall K103Annette Volfing: Linguistic Impairment and Mystical Status – The Revelations of Margaretha EbnerNinon Dubourg: Religiosity and Disability in the Papal Letters (13th and 14th Centuries)Michael Riordan: Blind Devotion: Sight-Loss and Religion in Early Modern BritainSari Katajala-Peltomaa: (Dis)abling Practices: Saints, Demons and Maniacs in the Late Middle Ages2B Representations     Chair: Daniel Blackie – Lecture hall K109Virginia Langum: “Tried to make you something you’re not”: Disability History and Historical FictionSara Scalenghe: Visual Representations of Disability in the Late Ottoman EmpireArndís Bergsdóttir: Mining for Dis/abled Lives in Museum Archives and Coming up with Unruly Matters of Absence12.30-13.45 Lunch (Restaurant Aleksis, address: Kalevantie 2)13.45-14.45 Session III: Doing disability history I  Chair: Pertti Haapala – Lecture hall K103Lotta Vikström: Disability and Partnership in Sweden from Past to PresentNele Reyniers &#38; Pieter Verstraete: Rethinking ‘Experience’ in the History of Children with Mental Disability15.00-17.00 Sessions IV    4A Military and veterans I   Chair: Tuomas Laine-Frigren – Lecture hall K103Geoffrey L. Hudson: Gender, Social Negotiation &#38; Disabled Ex-servicemen in England, 1600–1800Anthony Farrell: Disabled veterans of the First World War in Ireland and the Irish Free State 1914 to 1945Virva Liski: Mental Disability among Veterans of the Finnish Civil War in 1918–19394B Disability and legal cultures Chair: Raisa Toivo – Lecture hall K109Ashley Elrod: Debating Incompetence: Law and the Lived Experience of Disability in Early Modern GermanyLola Digard: Alleviate and Compensate: The Office des Paiseurs in the County of Flanders in the late Middle AgesHanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdottir: Disability, Punishments and Poverty in Iceland (1500–1800)Jenni Kuuliala &#38; Riikka Miettinen: Searching for Experiences in Late Medieval and Early Modern Legal Documents17.00 Coffee17.15-18.45 Sessions V    5A Military and veterans II Chair: Ville Kivimäki – Lecture hall K103Catherine Beck: Unserviceable, Being Insane: Mental Disability and Difference in the Eighteenth-Century British NavyTuomas Laine-Frigren: Adjusting Emotions. Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Finnish Brain-injured Soldiers in the 1940s-1950sTom Probert: ‘[A]n adventure into mental illness’: Psychiatry and Stigma during Britain’s postwar period of decolonisation5B Disabled lives II      Chair: Hanna Lindberg – Lecture hall K109Stan Booth: Richard Steele: A Life Well LivedChris Mounsey: Documenting the Life of Thomas Gills, Blind Man of St EdmundsburySólveig Ólafsdóttir: The Shelter from the Storm20.00- Conference dinner for speakers (Restaurant Tampella, address: Kelloportinkatu 1) FRIDAY 23 August9.30-11.30 Sessions VI    6A Disabilities in the Middle Ages I Chair: Jenni Kuuliala – Lecture hall K103Oana Maria Cojocaru: Disabled Children and their (In)visible Experiences in ByzantiumHeidi Russenberger: Disability, Bodies, and Identities in Fourteenth Century Canonisation InquestsCatriona McKenzie &#38; Eileen M. Murphy: Considering Care: Flexion Deformities in the Gaelic Medieval Population of Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, IrelandElin Ahlin-Sundman: The Perfect Body: A Case Study of Clerical Masculinities and Male Bodies in Late Medieval Iceland6B The disabled and the state in the 20th century Chair: Pirjo Markkola – Lecture hall K109Anna Derksen: The Nordic Disability Movements and Experiences of Charity and Welfare in the Mid-20th CenturyRabia Belt: Disabling Democracy in America: Disability, Citizenship, Suffrage and the Law, 1819–1920Radu-Harald Dinu: Disability under Communism in Eastern Europe. What we know and what we don’t know11.30-12.30 Keynote III: David Turner: Disability and Political Activism in the British Industrial Revolution – Lecture hall K103   Chair: Pertti Haapala12.30-13.45 Lunch (Restaurant Aleksis, address: Kalevantie 2)13.45-15.15 Sessions VII  7A Disabilities in the Middle Ages II     Chair: Donna Trembinski – Lecture hall K103Haraldur Þór Hammer Haraldsson: Lived Lives of the Different Bodied DeadChristopher Crocker: Disability and Dreams in the Medieval Icelandic SagasEva Thórdís Ebenezersdóttir: Differently Human or Simply Supernatural 7B Human rights     Chair: Ville Kivimäki – Lecture hall K109Klaudia Muca: Between Two Wars. Experience of Disability in 1918–1939 in PolandMaija Koivisto: Eugenic, Deaf Women, Marriage Law, Sterilization and Abortions in Finland 1929–1969Hanna Lindberg: Being a Minority within a Minority. The Case of the Finland-Swedish Deaf in the mid-20th Century15.15-16.15 Session VIII: Doing disability history II      Chair: David Turner – Lecture hall K103Shawn M. Phillips: A Comparison of Home and Institutional Care in the US (1850–1950): Osteobiography as a Method to Recover the Dependent and Disabled ExperienceCora Šalkovskis: Speaking of without speaking for: Anonymity, Ethics, the Dead, and the Psychiatric Historian ca. 16.15- Closing &#38; coffee Conference website: https://events.uta.fi/disabilityexperience2019/