Imagining Spaces/Places Helsingissä 24.-26.8.2011
Conference venue: University of Helsinki, Main building (Fabianinkatu 33).
Literature and art mediate our experiences of the spaces and places surrounding us as well as within us. In contemporary discussion we use, besides the old term ‘landscape’, other ‘scapes’ which reflect a new interest and new thinking with regard to spaces: we speak of cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and even memoryscapes, and their relationships to one another. The intertwining of what, of old, was called ‘macrocosm’ (nature and society) and ‘microcosm’ (body and mind) and the role various art forms and media play in articulating and negotiating these chiasmic encounters is the focal point of the Imagining Spaces / Places conference. How are the interfaces between ‘the place in you and you in the place’ depicted? How are these imagined and material landscapes gendered and sexualized?
The conference seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history, literature and gender studies and it is is organized by
Finnish Doctoral Programme in Art History,
Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary Studies and
Finnish Research School in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Programme
| Day 1 | Wednesday 24.8. |
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| 10.00–12.15 | Registration |
| 12.15–12.30 | Opening |
| 12.30–13.30 | Keynote 1 – Irit Rogoff: On Singularity and Knowledge |
| 13.30–14.00 | Coffee |
| 14.00–15.30 | Sessions |
| 15.30–16.00 | Refreshments |
| 16.00–17.30 | Sessions |
| 18.00-20.00 | Rector’s reception |
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| Day 2 | Thursday 25.8. |
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| 09.15−10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00−11.00 | Keynote 2 – Bart Keunen: Urban Imagery between enchantment and disenchantment. Diagnostics of Modernity in the Urban Novel |
| 11.00–12.30 | Sessions |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00–15.30 | Sessions |
| 15.30–16.00 | Coffee |
| 16.00–17.30 | Sessions |
| 19.00–22.00 | Conference dinner (Hima & Sali) |
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| Day 3 | Friday 26.8. |
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| 09.15–10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00–11.30 | Sessions |
| 11.30–13.00 | Lunch break |
| 13.00–14.00 | Keynote 3 – Claire Farago: Memory and Place from the Red Center of Australia to the Periphery of Paris: To See the Frame that Blinds Us |
| 14.00-14.15 | Closing words |
| 14.30-16.00 | Guided art historical tour on the City Centre Campus |
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Keynote speakers
Professor Claire Farago, Early Modern Art, Theory, and Criticism, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Professor Bart Keunen, Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Irit Rogoff, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Great Britain
Please find more information on the conference and the accepted abstracts in our blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/imagining-spaces-places/
The registration for the conference is now open and will close on 24 July, 2011. For registration and information on the registration fees, please go to https://blogs.helsinki.fi/imagining-spaces-places/registration/
Welcome!
Julkaistu 14.06.11