ASPECTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN LITHUANIA AND FINLAND IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
History Colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oulu and the Faculty of History of the University of Vilnius, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Embassy to Finland, the Finnish Embassy to Lithuania, Nordost-Institut an der Universität Hamburg, and Donelaitis Society
Coordinators: Kari Alenius & Saulius Kaubrys
Date: Friday 8th November 2024 (09.00–17.15)
Venue: Helsinki, Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, room 104
PROGRAMME
09.00–09.15 Opening session (Chair: Kari Alenius)
Opening address by the Lithuanian ambassador to Finland, H. E. Edvilas Raudonikis
09.15–10.45 Session I (Chair: Kirsten Bönker, Nordost-Institut an der Universität Hamburg)
09.15–09.45 Saulius Kaubrys & Sofija Saulė Kaubrytė: What hurts Lithuania 1918-1939: diseases, sick people and their expectations
09.45–10.15 Roosa Tyni: Coping with Poverty and the Poor Relief System – A Case Study from the City of Oulu in the Early Twentieth Century
10.15–10.45 Riikka Isoaho-Nousiainen: Everyday life of bourgeois women in Oulu in the mid-19th century
10.45–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–12.30 Session II (Chair: Anke Hilbrenner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
11.00–11.30 Lina Hall: Students’ newspapers as a window into the everyday life of the interwar Lithuanian school
11.30–12.00 Nita Mäenpää: Children and animals interacting in everyday life: a relationship with nature seen through 19th–20th century elementary school books
12.00–12.30 Ritva Kylli: Food on the move – Railroad dining in Finland during the early 20th century
12.30–13.15 Lunch break
13.15–14.45 Session III (Chair: Inga Zakšauskienė)
13.15–13.45 Dalia Bukelevičiūtė: The eternal question – to pay or not to pay taxes? The case of Lithuania in 1919-1940
13.45–14.15 Andrius Grodis: Agricultural cooperation and transformation of farmers’ everyday life in the First Republic of Lithuania
14.15–14.45 Kari Alenius: Public debate on fair working hours in Finland, 1917–1939
14.45–15.00 Coffee break
15.00–17.00 Session IV (Chair: Kari Alenius)
15.00–15.30 Vilma Bukaitė: Winter War: (not actual) news from Finland and interpretations in the Lithuanian press
15.30–16.00 Kęstutis Kilinskas: Image of the Winter war in Lithuanian press: terrain, weather and strategies of survival
16.00–16.30 Outi Kähäri: Soviet Citizens in Finnish Families – A Memory of Daily Insecurity in Postwar Era
16.30–17.00 Inga Zakšauskienė: The political assessment of Lithuania’s development in the first broadcasts of Voice of America
17.00–17.15 Closing session (Chair: Kari Alenius)
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