9.00–9.15 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE by Anu Korhonen, leader of the project “Northern Nightmares ca. 1400–2020”
9.15–10.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Professor Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona): Renaissance Dream Cultures: Oneiric Vocabulary and Paradigms
10.15–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.45 SESSION 1 – Foundations and Future Prospects: Recent and Revised Methodologies and Their Practical Applications In the Study of Dreams
Svenska Arensburg Castelli (University of Chile) & Isis Castañeda Capriroli (Universidad Mayor): Dreams as a social research tool: Bringing the psychoanalytic dream interpretation method up to date
Mauricio Carreño Hernández (University of Santiago), Isis Castañeda Capriroli (Universidad Mayor) & Pablo Reyes Pérez (University of Chile): Dreams and experiences of violence in young Chileans
Stephanie Hobbis (Wageningen University) & Astrid Jamar (The Open University): Dreaming of Peace: Dreamlife as A Gate to Pluriverse and Affective Enquiry of Peace Interventions
Maja Gutman (UCLA – University of California, Los Angeles): Understanding Dreams as Data: Mapping, Measuring and Modeling dream reports
12.45–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.30 SESSION 2 – Before and After Freud: Interpreting Dreams In the 19th and 20th Centuries
Paula Muhr (Humboldt University, Berlin): The Diagnostic Importance of Dreams: Charcot’s Salpêtrière and the Predictive Role of Nightmares in the Onset of Hysterical Attacks
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (National University of Ireland, Galway): Beauty from beyond the ego. Aesthetical aspects in Ludwig Klages’ dream theory
Naomi Wynter-Vincent (University of Sussex): Constructing the Necessary Dream: The Dream Theory of Wilfred Bion
15.30–16.00 Coffee
16.00–17.00 SESSION 3 – Slumbering Witches and Divine Communions In Early Modern Europe
Elizabeth Hunter (University of London): The Occult Powers of Dreamers – Dreams and the Early Modern Witchcraft Debate
Göran Malmstedt (University of Gothenburg): Between dreams and reality
19.00 Conference dinner
9.00–10.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Professor Catharina Raudvere (University of Copenhagen): Transformed, Rejected and Restored: Cultural Imaginaries and Religious Beliefs about the Scandinavian Nightmare Hag
10.00–10.30 Coffee
10.30–12.00 SESSION 4 – Dreaming Societies: Meanings and Functions Of Dreams In Past and Present Societies
1. Past societies:
2. Present societies:
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.30 SESSION 5 – Wartime Dreamers: Loss, Trauma, and Recovery In the Context Of the World Wars
Alice Sage (University of London): What do little girls want? Dream Daddies and traces of desire around 1920
David van Oeveren (Utrecht University): Dreaming of home. Dreams, nightmares, and trauma of British Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (National University of Ireland, Galway): Paula Ludwig’s Animal Dreams
14.30–15.00 Coffee
15.00–16.30 SESSION 6 – Uncanny and Unexpected: Nightmares and Encounters With the Otherworldly In Dreams
Michele Tita (University of Tartu): Encounters with Dead People in Dreams: an Overview of Personal Experience Narratives
Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhöj (University of Turku): Dreams as Supernatural Communication
Louise S. Milne (Edinburgh Napier University): Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions
16.30–17.00 Final remarks and future prospects
The program of the conference and information on the sessions can be downloaded here.