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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 15d

📢 The CfP is out for the next annual @hexhistory.bsky.social conference. Deadline 30 November + conference in March 2026. Highly recommend this conference, brilliant people, ideas, conversations & saunas, being involved with HEX has been transformative for me 🥰.
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Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities

Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference March 9-11, 2026 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Univers...

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · 14d

8th annual HEX Conference 9-11 March 2026 - Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures - CfP is now released. Deadline for proposals 30 November 2025. More information and full CfP here:

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Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities

Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference March 9-11, 2026 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Univers...

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 23d

New open access article, based on my keynote at the HES conference in Sheffield : Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hexhistory.bsky.social

Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War

This article probes the potential of emotional and experiential histories of education. London children’s school essays on their experiences in the First World War, their stories, their dreams and ...

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · 28d

New on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

Researching and writing Indigenous people’s historical experiences: a reflection on limits and possibilities | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · 28d

And from earlier this summer, Tessa Whitehouse on digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/....

Digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

@hexhistory.bsky.social Tuomas Tepora’s new OA publication on the symbols of Red Finland (1918) as emotional figures is out now open access! He examines how the Red revolutionaries justified, narrativised and symbolised Red Finland during the Finnish Civil War.

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e-Reader | Taylor & Francis Group eBooks, Reference Works and Collections

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check out this wonderful report of my keynote on school children’s dreams by 15-year-old Leo Clarkson. Such a privilege to get your perspective! eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Reflections on Dr. Olsen’s Keynote by Leo Clarkson | HEX | Tampere Universities

On May 15, 2025, HEX Senior Researcher Stephanie Olsen gave a keynote address entitled “Schoolchildren’s Dreams: Complicating questions of power and resistance in school settings and in archives” as p...

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · May 18

Thanks so much to @joakimlandahl.bsky.social and Johanna Ringarp and team for a wonderful and stimulating conference. I had so much fun! And thanks @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social for the photo, and for organizing the Meet the Eds panel. See you all again soon, I hope!
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Johannes Westberg @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social · May 15

Keynote 2 at the Nordic conference! @stephanieolsen.bsky.social !

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland & HEX järjestävät Vaikuttava vai uhattu tutkimus? Ihmistieteet nyky-yhteiskunnassa -seminaarin 19.5. Tampereen yliopistolla Cafe Toivossa. Tapahtuma on kaksikielinen (ruotsi & suomi).

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FI Seminaari: Vaikuttava vai uhattu tutkimus? Ihmistieteet nyky-yhteiskunnassa - SLS

Vaikuttava vai uhattu tutkimus? Ihmistieteet nyky-yhteiskunnassa Riippumaton tutkimus, kuten me sen tunnemme, on yksi yhteiskunnan kulmakivistä. Yliopistoja ja tutkimusta kohtaan esitetään kuitenkin v...

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Apr 2

Publication on the group experiences in the Finnish Civil War (1918), published in a comparative volume: "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" @hexhistory.bsky.social Tuomas Tepora´s chapter will be OA once it's been processed in a couple of weeks.

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Enemy images, group experiences, and propaganda in the Finnish Civil W

The Finnish Civil War of 1918 was deeply influenced by embodied rhetoric and propaganda, reflecting pre-war societal divisions between socialist aspirations and

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thanks to all our HEX community followers here also! Unfortunately I could give you only a glimpse from our great programme. Even I can't be in many places at the same time 😆

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

Wrapped things up @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference! Thank you all speakers for beatiful and exciting three days! Hope to see you next year!

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

Last but not least (parallel) session @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference: Experiencing War and Nationality II. Papers by Pierre-Marie Delpu, Virva Liski & Mikko Rapo

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

Wonderful Morning session @hexhistory.bsky.social Conferece. Gender, Sexuality, and in Modern Irish History by Susan Byrne, Deidre Foley & Morgan Wait.

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

The last day @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference. Keynote by Professor Karen McCluskey (Notre Dame, Australia). Opening words by HEX Researcher Godelinde Perk.

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 11

@hexhistory.bsky.social dinner after day two. Restaurant Koski. One day to go!

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 11

The last (parallel) session today: Memory, Identity, and Experience. Victoria Jonkute, Ulla Savolainen & John Bessai (online all the way from Canada)

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 11

@hexhistory.bsky.social Mathilde Monge, Anne Dunan-Page, Jaap Garaerts & Karina Benazech Wendling in HEX Conference panel: Histories of Experience in Premodern Cities - Mapping Lived Religion.

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 11

@hexhistory.bsky.social Conference day 2. Keynote by professor Stefan Berger. Opening words by former HEX director (2018-2022) Pertti Haapala.

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10

First day down! Now some wine, food and good company! Thanks everyone! To be continued!

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10

More news from @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference. Very inspiring session Experiences of Relief, Comfort, and Consolation in the 18/19th Century by Rob Boddice, Marie van Haaster & Angela Platt.

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10

Fruma Zachs, Devin Vartija & Filoppo Barsi giving talk in @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference "Experiencing War and National Identity" panel

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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10

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