{"id":1287,"date":"2019-10-01T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/?page_id=1287"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:24:27","slug":"jarl-gallen-palkintoseminaari-5-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/?page_id=1287","title":{"rendered":"Jarl Gall\u00e9n -palkintoseminaari 5.11.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kuudes Jarl Gall\u00e9n -palkinto<\/strong><\/a> on my\u00f6nnetty professori Stephen Mitchell<\/strong>ille Harvardin yliopistosta. Jarl Gall\u00e9n -palkinto my\u00f6nnet\u00e4\u00e4n joka kolmas vuosi ansioituneelle pohjoismaisen keskiajan tutkijalle. Aiempia palkinnonsaajia ovat Sverre Bagge, Monika Hedlund, Anders Andr\u00e9n, Lars Boje Mortensen ja Lena Liepe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professori Mitchell on pohjoismaisen keskiajan kulttuurin ja\nel\u00e4m\u00e4n merkitt\u00e4v\u00e4 asiantuntija. H\u00e4n on julkaissut monipuolisesti muun muassa\nsaagoista, noituudesta, keskiaikaisesta kansanperinteest\u00e4 sek\u00e4 naiskokemuksesta\n1600-luvulla. Aiemmin professori Mitchelille on my\u00f6nnetty esimerkiksi Kungliga\nGustav Adolfs Akademienin Dag Str\u00f6mb\u00e4ck -palkinto sek\u00e4 Aarhusin yliopiston\nkunniatohtorin arvonimi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palkinnonjakotilaisuus pidet\u00e4\u00e4n Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran juhlasalissa Hallituskatu 1:ss\u00e4 klo 13:00 tiistaina 5.11.2019. Palkinnon jakaa Helsingin yliopiston kansleri Kaarle H\u00e4meri. Professori Mitchell pit\u00e4\u00e4 tilaisuudessa luennon otsikolla \u201cMagic and Memory in the Medieval North\u201d, jota seuraa nelj\u00e4n puhujan seminaari Mitchellin tutkimuksiin liittyvist\u00e4 teemoista. Tilaisuuteen on vapaa p\u00e4\u00e4sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohjelma\/Programme:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Jarl Gall\u00e9n Prize Seminar<\/strong>
5.11.2019, 13:00-17:00
The Great Hall of the Finnish Literature Society (Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13:00   
<\/td>		 Opening word<\/em><\/strong>s<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Dr. Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen (Secretary General, the Finnish Literature Society)
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<\/td> The Jarl Gall\u00e9n Prize ceremony<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Prof. Stephen Mitchell is introduced by prof. Peter Stadius (Chair, the Jarl Gall\u00e9n Prize Committee) and the prize is presented by prof. Kaarle H\u00e4meri (Chancellor of the University of Helsinki)
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13:20<\/td>Prize lecture<\/em><\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td> Prof. Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University): \u201cMagic and Memory in the Medieval North<\/strong>” <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Comment: Dr. Kirsi Kanerva (Chair, Glossa: the Society for Medieval Studies in Finland)
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<\/td>(Break)
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14:30<\/td> Paper session<\/em><\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td> Chair: prof. Anu Lahtinen (University of Helsinki)
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<\/td>1) Marko Lamberg (Tampere University): ”Traces of Medieval Magic in Early Modern Urban Culture: The Case of Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century”<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>2) Kati Kallio (Finnish Literature Society \/ University of Helsinki): ”Long Continuums of Vernacular Belief in Finnish 17th-century Charms” <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>3) Frog (University of Helsinki): ”Narrating Magic of the ’Other’ in the North: Memory, Tradition, Cultural Transposition and Meaning Construction” <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>4) Ilya Sverdlov (University of Helsinki): ”Word \u014d\u00feer fand, s\u014d\u00f0e gebunden<\/em>, or, (Old) Iceland(ic) is Your (Proust’s) Cup of Tea: Compound Noun Morphology in an Environment Where Everybody Remembers Everything”
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16:15<\/td> Reception<\/em><\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Abstracts:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marko Lamberg (Tampere University): \u201dTraces of Medieval Magic in Early Modern Urban Culture: The Case of Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swedish Reformation started in Stockholm, but neither\nthat fact nor the evolving of Stockholm into a capital of a realm during\nthe seventeenth century abolished the presence of magic in the everyday life of\nits inhabitants. Notices in court records show that early modern magical\npractices contained continuities from the Catholic era and that they were often\ncarried out by migrants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These patterns had long roots: as Stephen Mitchell has shown\nin his studies, older pagan traditions had mixed with Christian interpretations\non the Devil in late fifteenth-century Stockholm. The earliest known sorcerer\nconsulted by Stockholmers was a woman of Finnish origin living in the\ncountryside of Uppland. She may have been a professional healer. In\nseventeenth-century Stockholm, migrants and especially Finns, men and women,\ncould support themselves by acting as healers and sorcerers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accusations made during the great witch hunt in\nStockholm 1675-1676 show that medieval beliefs on magic were still very alive\nin the growing capital. Several testimonies contained also clearly agrarian\ntraits, which can be explained by the fact that many Stockholmers were migrants\nfrom the countryside. There were also several people of migrant background\namong the accused ones as well as among the accusers. It is possible that\nexercise of magic had been professionalised in Stockholm, a relatively big\ncity, and that its existence, like the whole early modern urban community\nitself, was dependent on the continuous influx of newcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kati Kallio (Finnish Literature Society \/ University of Helsinki): \u201cLong Continuums of Vernacular Belief in Finnish 17th-century Charms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oldest\ncorpus of Finnish oral poems in so-called Kalevala meter consists of almost 70\ncharms in 17th<\/sup>-century court records. They represent the whole area\nof contemporary Finland, with some examples from contemporary Sweden and\nEstonia. Most of the charms are composed in traditional oral Kalevala meter,\nbut there are also texts in prose and rhythmic prose. The defendants were not\nwilling to perform, and they had various reasons to give as short, Christian or\ndistorted versions as possible. The length of these texts varies from some\nverses to 51 lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These texts\nfit into the long and versatile continuums of vernacular belief. Pre-Christian\nelements, medieval and early modern ecclesiastical formulas, vernacular\nChristianity, and 16th century Lutheran prayers are mixed into varying\ncombinations. While the majority of these charms relate to healing, they also\nexemplify various cases of harmful magic and one instance of worshiping Ukko,\nthe Pagan high god. Put together with the 18th\u201320th-century folklore\ncollections, these texts make the longest documented continuum of Finnic\nvernacular poetry and mythology.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frog (University of Helsinki): \u201dNarrating Magic of the \u2019Other\u2019 in the North: Memory, Tradition, Cultural Transposition and Meaning Construction.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narrating ’magic’ in the medieval North is often concerned\nwith narrating otherness from the perspective of Christians. Such otherness is\ncompounded where religious and potentially supernatural otherness is compounded\nby ethnic otherness. This paper takes up the much-discussed account of\nLaplanders performing a schamanic ritual in the twelfth-century Historia\nNorwegiae and considers the possibility that it may reflect contemporary legend\ntraditions as a social construction and circulation of knowledge of the\n’other’. This narrative is contrasted with later Scandinavian, Finnish and\nKarelian legend traditions of Laplander shamanism.  The medieval story is\nshown to correspond in content and structure to a story in the early\ntwelfth-century Russian Primary Chronicle, where it is told about \u010cud’s. When\nthe narrative pattern is recognized, it is shown to be behind a story of\nsorcery in \u00d3l\u00e1fs saga Tryggvasonar in Iceland. The case is discussed in terms\nof socially circulating understandings of magic of the ’other’ that both\noperate as social memory and shape social memory of the past although they may\nbe constituted of traditional elements that get projected on different cultures\nin a variety of contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilya V. Sverdlov (HCAS, University of Helsinki): \u201c<\/strong>Word \u014d\u00feer fand, s\u014d\u00f0e gebunden<\/strong><\/em>, or, (Old) Iceland(ic) is your (Proust\u2019s) cup of tea: compound noun morphology in an environment where everybody remembers everything.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The famous\n\u201cmadelaine\u201d episode from Marcel Proust\u2019s \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu <\/em>(Book\n1, Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de chez Swann<\/em>, at the very end of Combray <\/em>part,\nsection 1; Pl\u00e9iade<\/em> 4 vols edition, vol. 1, pp. 43\u201347) deals with a\ntrigger: the narrator carries the entire contents of his life\u2019s memory in\nhimself, yet the contents are somehow inaccessible, as if forgotten, and only\nappear out of his cup of tea upon <\/em>him tasting it. The old familiar smell\ntriggers, to use a programming language term, a retrieval procedure that\naccesses the contents that are assumedly present \u2013 yet whose very existence,\nbefore the triggering, is questionable (indeed questioned by the narrator\nhimself, e.g. on p. 43): are they there or not, so long as they are\nnon-observable for an outside viewer before triggering occurs? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this\npaper, we discuss a few cases of the so-called truncation <\/em>of multi-stem\ncompound nouns in Old Norse and Modern Icelandic: certain compound nouns,\nespecially place names, may appear complete yet in fact have \u201cmissing parts\u201d\nwhich, though invisible like Combray <\/em>narrator\u2019s memories, are\nnevertheless there and in need of retrieval from the native speaker\u2019s memory\nfor correct understanding of spatial references, or for translation into a\nforeign language. We also discuss what are the linguistic\/cultural triggers for\nretrieval of these parts, and how can we be sure that there are indeed parts missing\n<\/em>(as opposed to simply absent, non-existing), contrasting this case,\nsomewhat peculiar to Icelandic grammar (or mind?), with the more usual cases in\nother languages where parts of utterances are only half-missing in specific\nconstructions like coordinated ellipsis and depend much less on pure memory\n(or, to use the Old English expression from line 871 of B\u0113owulf, <\/em>\u2018the\nbonds of truth\u2019), for their retrieval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seminaarin j\u00e4rjest\u00e4\u00e4 Helsingin yliopiston Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS) ja Glossa ry. Thure Gall\u00e9ns Stiftelsen rahoituksella. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lis\u00e4tietoja Gall\u00e9n-palkinnosta englanniksi: CENS: the Jarl Gall\u00e9n Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tapahtuma Facebookissa.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yhteyshenkil\u00f6: Anita Geritz (koordinaattori), anita.m.geritz(at)helsinki.fi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kuudes Jarl Gall\u00e9n -palkinto on my\u00f6nnetty professori Stephen Mitchellille Harvardin yliopistosta. Jarl Gall\u00e9n -palkinto my\u00f6nnet\u00e4\u00e4n joka kolmas vuosi ansioituneelle pohjoismaisen keskiajan tutkijalle. Aiempia palkinnonsaajia ovat Sverre Bagge, Monika Hedlund, Anders Andr\u00e9n, Lars Boje Mortensen ja Lena Liepe. Professori Mitchell on pohjoismaisen keskiajan kulttuurin ja el\u00e4m\u00e4n merkitt\u00e4v\u00e4 asiantuntija. H\u00e4n on julkaissut monipuolisesti muun muassa saagoista, noituudesta, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1287\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glossa.fi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}