Experiences
of Time in Literature
7-8
May 2013
Helsinki,
Finland
Organizers:
The
Finnish Literary Research Society, The Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary
Studies, The Academy of Finland research project “Literature
and Time: Time, Modernity, and Human Agency in Literature,” The Emil Aaltonen
research project “The Experience of History and the Ethics of Storytelling in
Contemporary Arts”
Conference
venues:
Main
Building, University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 33
House
of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6
Tuesday
7th May
9:00–10:00
Registration (Main Building, Hall 5)
10:00–12:30
Keynote lectures
Colin
Davis: The Time of Trauma: Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Holocaust
Literature
Martin
Middeke: Temporal Difference in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First
Century
Novels
12:30–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–15:30
Workshops (House of Sciences and Letters)
Session
1: Memory, Narrative and the Time of Trauma in Contemporary Literature
(House
of Science and Letters, Hall 405; Chair Riikka Rossi)
Avril Tynan: Untimely revenants:
(Re)covered time in the works of Jorge Semprun
Hanna
Meretoja: Narrative Hermeneutics, the Trauma of the Second World War and
Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes
Aliette Ventejoux: The Time
of Trauma: Experiencing Time in Post-9/11 literature
Session 2: Utopia, dystopia ja tulevaisuuden kuvittelu (Utopia, dystopia, imagining the future)
(House
of Science and Letters, Hall 404; Chair Merja Sagulin)
Silvia
Hosseini: “I’ve seen the future, baby: it is murder” – Apokalyptiset tulevaisuusvisiot Leonard Cohenin The Future –albumilla
Hanna Samola: Ajan kuvaamisen funktioita Pirkko
Lindbergin satiirisessa romaanissa Berenikes
hår
Tommi
Nieminen: Miten aikaa luodaan?
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–18.00
Workshops (House of Science and Letters)
Session
1: Panel Discussion: Melancholy in Literature –W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (House of Sciences and Letters, Hall 401;
Chair Andrew Gibson)
Session
2: Time and 19th century literature
(House
of Science and Letters, Hall 404; Chair Iisa af Ursin)
Kim Simonsen: The Pastoral and National Identity
Suzanne Fraysse: Frederick
Douglass or the making of an intelligible past
Tintti Klapuri: Conceptions of Time in Anton Chekhov’s
Sakhalin Island
Session 3: Aika suomalaisessa modernismissa (Time in Finnish poetry of
modernism)
(House
of Science and Letters, Hall 405; Chair Toni Lahtinen)
Juri Joensuu: 1960-luvun
kokeellinen runous kirjallisuushistorian ja annualisaation ”ongelmana”
Katja
Seutu: Rakkaus ja aika Mirkka Rekolan 1970-luvun kokoelmissa
Mikko
Turunen: Ajan kokeminen ja käsitteellistäminen Lassi Nummen lyriikassa
19:00 Conference
dinner at Restaurant Kappeli (Eteläesplanadi 1, Helsinki)
Wednesday
8th May
10:00–12:00
Workshops
Session
1: Philosophies of time, experiences of time
(House
of Science and Letters, Hall 405 Chair Aino Mäkikalli)
Raine Koskimaa: Time as remembered, read, and
experienced in a virtual text
Iisa af Ursin: Outside of time?
Psychology of dreams in Julio Cortázar´s short
stories
Daniel Poitras: Toward a new
narrative and a new society. Michel de Certeau
and the experience of history
(1967-1974).
Markku Nivalainen: Dialectics of
Modernism: Variations on a theme from
Kant to Adorno
Session 2: Menneisyyden
kertomisen kysymyksiä (Issues of narrating the past)
(Tieteiden talo, sali 401; Chair
Antti Ahmala)
Heta
Marttinen: Toisteiset elämät: iteratiivinen kerronta ja omaelämäkerrallisuus
Minna
Leppäaho-Kotimäki: Elämän aika ja elämäkerrallisuuden problematiikka Claude
Simonin Raitiotiessä
Kaisa Ahvenjärvi:
Kulttuurinen muisti saamelaisrunoilija Hege Sirin kokoelmassa Et
øyeblikk noen tusen år (2009)
Taneli
Viitala: Kriittinen katsaus narratiivisten Heidegger-tulkintojen nostattamaan kritiikkiin
Session
3: Time in Poetry (House of Science and Letters, Hall 404; Chair Hanna Samola)
Miha Zor: The
structure and the role of time in Lancelot-grail cycle
Hannu Poutiainen: Metamorphologic.
The narrative logic of instantaneous substitution
Christine Resche: Representations of time in Verdi's libretti
12:00–13:30
Lunch break
13:30–14:30
Keynote lecture (Main Building, Hall 5)
Andrew Gibson: A Mysterious Survival: On Contemporary
Misanthropy
14:30–15:30
Coffee break
15:00–16:30
Keynote lectures
Kuisma Korhonen: Materialities of Memory
Liisa Steinby: Time and
Sense-Making in the Modern Novel
16:30
Cocktail at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies
(Muoto-opin arkisto, Main Building)
Registration
The
conference fee is 80 €. Please note that the fee does not include Tuesday
night’s conference dinner (See menu below). An additional 37–42 € needs to be
paid for the dinner with the conference fee. If you choose the summer
menu, please mention us your main course (salmon or chicken).
Please pay
the conference fee and the dinner fee to the Finnish Literary Society as an
international bank transfer by April 25th :
SWIFT: FI45
8000 1471 0018 50
BIC:
DABAFIHH
The Name of
the Bank: Danske Bank
The Address
of the Bank: Kaivokatu 6, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Feel free to email us at should you have any questions concerning the conference.
We look forward to seeing you in Helsinki!
Conference dinner,
Tuesday 7.5.2013
Restaurant
Kappeli
http://www.kappeli.fi/index.php?id=23
Vegetarian
menu (37 €)
Kappeli’s
vegetable salad
salad, sweet pepper, artichoke, endive, green beans,
croutons and honey sauce
***
Kappeli’s
generous vegetable casserole
with tomato sauce sweet pepper, carrots, beluga lentils, zucchini, grilled
aubergine,
tomato sauce Pistou sauce and Pecorino cheese
***
Strawberry
sorbet with strawberry salad
Summer menu (42 €)
Kappeli’s
vegetable salad
salad, sweet pepper, artichoke, endive, green beans,
croutons and honey sauce
***
Smoked
salmon
creamy false morel sauce, potatoes with dill,
butter and onion, baked tomato and zucchini
or
Corn chicken
breast fillet with goat cheese and Pistou vegetables
***
Strawberry sorbet with strawberry salad
Note to the
speakers
All sessions
consist of three 20 minute presentations followed by 10 minutes for
discussion after each paper. All lecture halls have a computer with
Internet access and PowerPoint.
Travel
Conference
delegates are expected to organize their own travel and stay in Helsinki.
Air Travel
Helsinki-Vantaa
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Bus
connection to Helsinki city center / to Airport
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Sea voyage
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Stockholm
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- from
Tallinn or Stockholm
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Traveling by
train in Finland or from Russia
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Accommodation
in Helsinki
Conference delegates
are expected to book and pay for their own accommodation. We strongly encourage
all delegates to book their accommodation in Helsinki well in advance.
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