Voice, Migration, Narration Seminar 11.-12.3.2008
Interdisciplinary Research seminar with Mieke Bal in Helsinki 11.-12.3.2008. Seminar is intended for PhD students both at the universities and the Academy of Fine Arts.
Tuesday 11.3.2008
Academy of Fine Arts, Kasarmikatu 36, 00130 Helsinki.
(Seminar room: 262a, 2nd floor)
10.00 – 12.00 Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s work Where is Where?
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.15 Student presentations: Leevi Haapala and Sirkka Knuuttila
14.15 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 16.00 Student presentations: Eve Kiiler and Annu Wilenius
Wednesday 12.3.2008
Academy of Fine Arts, Kasarmikatu 36 00130 Helsinki
(seminar room 262a, 2nd floor)
9.00 – 11.30 Mieke Bal: The Mille et un jours document and discussion on voice.
14.00-18.00
Ateneum Art Museum, Ateneum Sali
Hearing Voices, or How to Not Speak for the Other.
Mieke Bal’s screening and lecturing on intercultural filmmaking, open to public.
Registeration for the seminar
If you want to attend the seminar and / or represent your work (orally) please send an application to Outi Hakola (by email: outi.j.hakola(at)helsinki.fi) by February 19. Describe your work and interest to participate this seminar by few sentences. If you want present your work send also an abstract of maximum 300 words. Presentations are limited to 15 minutes to allow time for discussion. Required pre reading (2 articles) and the acceptance for the seminar will be sent by February 22.
Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist and critic. She is currently Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor and is based at the Amsterdam School for cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and contemporary art, feminism and migratory culture. She is also a video-artist. Her experimental documentaries on migration include The Mille et un jours, Colony and the installation Nothing is Missing.
Organizer
Seminar and visit are organized by the research project Representing and sensing nature, landscape and gender (The Academy of Finland, directed by Kirsi Saarikangas) in cooperation with the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Ateneum and Finnish Women’s Studies Doctoral School.
More information:
kirsi.saarikangas(at)helsinki.fi
hanna.johansson(at)kuva.fi
Julkaistu 12.02.08