The registration for the seminar is now closed, but also non-registered listeners are welcome to follow the lectures and presentations. You can see the updated program on the "Program" site. All presenters will have 20 minutes for their presentations, after which there is an additional 10 minutes for discussion. We start the program with keynote lectures on both days. Welcome to the seminar and to Jyväskylä!

Registration for the XI Gustav Vasa seminar is now open! Register for the seminar by sending email to hela-harjoittelija@campus.jyu.fi by Tuesday, June 4th. The seminar is free and coffee will be served to all participants.

The Call for Papers for the XI Gustav Vasa seminar is now closed. Thank you for the interesting abstracts! We will inform you about the acceptance of the proposals during February.

The call for papers for Gustav Vasa seminar 2013 is now open! The deadline for registration is January 31st, 2013. See the Call for papers section for details!

The Eleventh annual Gustav Vasa seminar focuses on the themes of popular religion, witchcraft and magic. We will invite papers to discuss these themes in multidisciplinary perspectives. The seminar will be held 11.-12.6.2013 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Gustav Vasa seminar is annually arranged by Department of History and Ethnology in University of Jyväskylä. The seminar represents historical topics of varying fields. The themes of past seminars are presented at the Gustav Vasa seminar homepage.

Gustav Vasa ruled Sweden 1523-1560. Because of the many social and political reforms carried out by the king the era is known as the beginning of the early modern period. Our department has paid a lot of attention to the early modern period. The focus of our studies is represented in the work of the research group Early Modern Morals.