Wednesday, October 22

Session 1 Session 2 Deviant Deaths Images of Afterlife in Different Spiritual Traditions Date: Wednesday, October 22 Date: Wednesday, October 22 Time: 11.15–12.45 Time: 11.15–12.45 Place: Minerva E121 (1st floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Sonja Hukantaival Chair: Tiina Mahlamäki Riikka Miettinen: Ideas of the Afterworlds of Bilal Afsin: How do people differ on basic human Suicides in Early Modern Sweden and Finland values according to their belief in afterlife and self-transcendence feeling? Milton Núñez: Remedies against revenance – Christoph Jedan: The Consolation of an Afterlife old examples from the Island of Hailuoto (Karlö), North Ostrobothnia

Ulla Moilanen: “Bad Death” in Archaeology Iuliia Buyskykh: Death for freedom: spontaneous memorialization of the perished in Ukrainian Winter Revolution

Session 3 Session 4 On the Path from This World to the Coping with Death and Bereavement in the Otherworld Modern World Date: Wednesday, October 22 Date: Wednesday, October 22 Time: 14.00–15.30 Time: 14.00–15.30 Place: Minerva E221 (2nd floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Katja Ritari Chair: Kaarina Koski Marja Ahola: Evidence of ancestral cult in Albertina Nugteren: Being Woven into the Great Stone Age Finland Earth Texture: An Afterlife for the Body in the Green Death Movement Miriam Mayburd: Peril of the mountains. Death Suvi Laiho, Marja Kaunonen & Anna Liisa Aho: and undeath in the medieval Icelandic Paranormal phenomena after the death of a child wilderness Timothy Benedict: The Path to the Afterlife in Kathryn Edwards: Talking to the Ancestors: Early Medieval Japan ‘Ancestralisation’ as the next step in modern after-death rituals?

Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Cultural Images of Afterlife Medieval Images of Good and Bad Death Afterlife Date: Wednesday, October 22 Date: Wednesday, October 22 Date: Wednesday, October 22 Time: 16.00–17.30 Time: 16.00–17.30 Time: 16.00–17.30 Place: Minerva E121 (1st floor) Place: Minerva E221 (2nd floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Chair: Reima Välimäki Chair: Susanne Ådahl Minna Opas: The Question of Victoria Whitworth: Building Ilona Pajari: Good death for the Individuality in Amazonian Jerusalem in Viking-Age glorious future of the nation Indigenous Christian Northumbria: A Re-evaluation Understandings of Afterlife of the ‘Hogback’ Grave-stones

Evy Johanne Håland: Death and Katja Ritari: Images of Afterlife Heidi Kosonen: Mad, Bad and Ideas about the Afterlife in the in Early Medieval Irish Vision Sad – The Others and the ‘Bad Greek Context Literature Death’ of Suicide JoAnn D’Alisera: Dying Katja Fält: Afterlife Visualised Betwixt and Between: Afterlife – Ecclesiastic Images of the Exiles in the Sierra Leonean Last Judgment in Medieval Diaspora Finland Thursday, October 23

Session 8 Session 9 The Dangerous Dead Interaction and Agency in Afterlife, I Date: Thursday, October 23 Date: Thursday, October 23 Time: 11.00–12.30 Time: 11.00–12.30 Place: Minerva E121 (1st floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Kirsi Kanerva Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Maria Liston: The Dangerous Dead in Ancient Markku Siltala: Post Death Contact Experiences Athens and their Effects on Perceptions about Life and Death Tommy Kuusela: Protection against the living Annika Jonsson & Lars Aronsson: Situated dead in Old Norse tradition agency in the afterlife – continuing bonds, space and interaction Kirsi Kanerva: Having no Power to Return? Niall Gunter: Twitter and the afterlife — tweeting Suicide and Posthumous Restlessness in after you’ve gone Medieval Iceland

Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Afterlife of Dead Bodies in Death and Ancestors Western Afterlife Beliefs: Early Modern Europe Change and Continuity Date: Thursday, October 23 Date: Thursday, October 23 Date: Thursday, October 23 Time: 14.00–15.30 Time: 14.00–15.30 Time: 14.00–15.30 Place: Minerva E121 (1st floor) Place: Minerva E221 (2nd floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Kaarina Koski Chair: Susanne Ådahl Chair: Ilona Pajari Anuradha Gobin: The Afterlife Marja-Liisa Honkasalo: Helen Frisby: The persistence of the Criminal Body: Afterlife and Personhood in of Purgatory? English folk Preservation, Representation Togonese West-Africa funeral customs, c.1840-1920 and the Transformation of Civic Life in the Dutch Republic Tiina Väre et al.: Fame after Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi: Good Anders Gustavsson: Belief death – The unusual story of a and Bad Death as Agencies for Narratives earlier and today on Finnish mummy and difficulties Social Control among the Igbo Afterlife in Sweden and involving its study Norway

Emmi Lahti: Cemeteries as a Eva Spies: Dealing with the Lucy Bregman: The Eclipse of part of magic rituals in 18th dead in Madagascar: Religious “Natural Immortality” in century Finland diversity and two modes of American Christian Imagery imagining community

Session 13 Session 14 Afterlife of Dead Bodies and Body Parts Interaction and Agency in Afterlife, II Date: Thursday, October 23 Date: Thursday, October 23 Time: 16.00–17.30 Time: 16.00–17.30 Place: Minerva E221 (2nd floor) Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Chair: Susanne Ådahl Chair: Pasi Enges Maija Tammi: A Cut: Liminality in Hrefna S. Bjartmarsdóttir: People’s belief in photographs deceased relatives as their guardian spirits (fylgjur) Glenn Harcourt & Lisa Temple-Cox: Dead on Eila Stepanova: Narrating the Journey to the Arrival: The Afterlife of Stillborn Monsters Otherworld by Karelian Lamenter (video presentation) Anna Jensen: How to deal with the undead? Kaarina Koski: Agency and Interaction: encounters with the dead loved ones in Finland Friday, October 24

Session 15 Session 16 19th and Early 20th-Century Images of Representations of Death, Spirits and Afterlife Afterlife in Art Date: Friday, October 24 Date: Friday, October 24 Time: 11.00–13.00 Time: 11.00–13.00 Place: Minerva E121 (1st floor) Place: Minerva E123 (1st floor) Chair: Anu Salmela Chair: Kirsi Kanerva Mikko Kemppainen: Working class author Susanne Ylönen: Monsters and existential fears in Hilda Tihlä and the visions of human spirit in picture books for children the beginning of the 20th century

Ringa Takanen: Near-Death Experience and Antti Vesikko: New primitivistic transmigration Journey to After-Life: An Analysis of Venny of the Soul – Michelangelo Frammartino’s film Soldan-Brofeldt’s Altarpieces: “Jesus Raising ‘Le Quattro Volte’ the Daughter of Jairus” and “Angel Taking a Human Soul to God” Antti Harmainen: Notes from the afterlife: The Paivi Miettunen: Figurative Sculpture and death of Elias Erkko and manifold concepts of Expression of Grief – Melancholy, Mercy and religion in the late 19th century Finland Transcendence Suvi Karila: Darkness and Silence: Unbelief in Afterlife in the Poetry of Voltairine de Cleyre

Session 17 Session 18 Studying the interaction with Otherworldly Ethics of Death: Immortality and the Art of Spaces and Agents Dying Date: Friday, October 24 Date: Friday, October 24 Time: 11.00–13.00 Time: 11.00–13.00 Place: Minerva E325 (3rd floor) Place: Minerva E323 (3rd floor) Chair: Kaarina Koski Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Misty L. Bastian: Dead Time: Temporal Leena Vuolteenaho: Immortality and Ethics in Regimes of Working Class North American Religion and TV Paranormal Researchers Asta Raami: Evaluating The Reliability and Mira Menzfeld: “This makes my dying bearable”: Accuracy of Personal Experience when Moral evaluations of dying by terminally ill Encountering Dead People people Andreas Henriksson, Gerd Lindgren & Andrea Brady: Geographies of the Afterlife: death Magdalena Raivio: Emotions and spirits online and (historical) space – How inexplicable feelings are made spiritually significant on an internet forum Mikko Kallionsivu: Last temptations – Art of dying in the Late Medieval morality play Everyman