Programme

Place: University of Helsinki, Main Building (street address: Fabianinkatu 33)

Wednesday, June 10

12.00–15.00 Registration (lobby, 3rd floor)

Lecture hall 13
15.00–15.15 Welcome Address: Prof. Pirjo Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki)
15.15–16.15. Keynote: Prof. Ansgar Nünning (Justus Liebig Universität Giessen), “Genre Theory Matters: Criteria for Defining Genres and a Typology of Historical Novels and other Narrative Genres”

16.15–18.15 Welcoming reception, hosted by the Vice Rector of the University of Helsinki Main Building, street address: Unioninkatu 34, 1st floor

Thursday, June 11

Lecture hall 13
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Prof. Brian McHale (Ohio State University), “Science Fiction, or, the Most Typical Genre in World Literature”

11.00–12.00 Lunch

12.00–14.00 Workshops

I Reconsidering Genre Theory and Bakhtin (lecture hall 8, 3rd floor)
Chair: Tintti Klapuri (University of Turku)

• Peter Hanenberg (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lissabon), “Strange Loops and a Cognitive Approach to Genre”
• Lakshmi Bandlamudi (City University of New York), “Timeless Philosophies and (Un)timely Interpretations: Bakhtin and Bhartrhari in the Internet Age”
• Leeore Schneinersohn, (Princeton University): “The Poetic Address and the Loophole Addressee”
• Liisa Steinby (University of Turku), “Bakhtin’s Concept of Subjectivity in his Theory of the Novel and Its Roots in the German Aesthetics and Theory of the Novel”

II Mitä merkitystä genrellä on lukijalle? (sali 16, 4. krs)
Puheenjohtaja: Urpo Kovala (Jyväskylän yliopisto)

• Leena Kirstinä (Jyväskylän yliopisto), “Draaman narratiivisuuden luennasta ja tulkinnasta – esimerkkinä Hagar Olssonin näytelmä S.O.S. (1928)”
• Irma Hirsjärvi (Jyväskylän yliopisto), “Kirjoittamisen ja lukemisen dialektinen suhde”
• Kaisa Ahvenjärvi (Jyväskylän yliopisto), “Saamelainen kirjallisuus ja lukija”
• Tuija Saresma (Jyväskylän yliopisto), “Haluava lukija ja genrerajat”

III Interpreting Science Fiction and Its Subgenres (lecture room 21, 5th floor)
Chair: Prof. Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki)

• Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki), “Presentation of session: Science Fiction and Genre”
• Jari Käkelä (University of Helsinki), “Asimov's Pulp Science Fiction: Convention vs. Invention”
• Mika Loponen (University of Helsinki), “The Rise of Post-Pulp: Jack Vance's Dying Earth Series”
• Päivi Väätänen (University of Helsinki), “‘We know more of what you're capable of than you do’: The Alien Point of View in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy”

IV Medieval Japanese Zuihitsu Genre. Thoughts Following the Brush (lecture room 17, 4th floor)
Chair: Miika Pölkki (University of Helsinki)

• Miika Pölkki (University of Helsinki): “Formless Form as a Critique of Genre”
• Miika Osamitsu (University of Helsinki): “Travel Poetry of Saigyô: Visiting the Buddhist Emptiness”
• Aleksi Järvelä (University of Helsinki): “Antigenre and Textual Strategies”
• Laeticia Söderman (University of Helsinki): “Religious Literature or Literate Religion: Two Ways of Reading Medieval Buddhist Jottings”

14.00–14.30 Coffee break (lobby, 3rd floor)

14.30–17.00 Workshops

I (second part) Reconsidering Genre Theory and Bakhtin (lecture hall 8, 3rd floor)
Chair: Liisa Steinby (University of Turku)

• Christian Pauls (Philipps-Universität Marburg): “‘Re-draft Be Buggered, Leave as Printed' – Double-Voicing the Poet-Persona in Peter Reading's STET”
• George Prokhorov, (Kolomna State University) “‘Journal of Writer’ by F.M. Dostoevsky in The Context of M.M. Bakhtin's  Theory of Novel”
• Jorge Vaz de Carvalho (University of Lisbon), “The Bildungsroman and the Portuguese Novel. Jorge de Sena's Signs of Fire”
• Edward Gieskes (University of South Carolina), “‘To Pass the Flowing Stream of Acheron’” – Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy and Generic Change

II (toinen osa) Mitä merkitystä genrellä on lukijalle? (sali 16, 4. krs)
Puheenjohtaja: Leena Kirstinä (Jyväskylän yliopisto)

• Jasmine Westerlund (Turun yliopisto), “Suomalaiset naistaiteilijaromaanit”
• Urpo Kovala (Jyväskylän yliopisto), “Eettisen lukemisen kahdet kasvot”
• Anne Riippa (Helsingin yliopisto/ l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Albert Camus'n teoksen La Chute Raamattu-luenta”

V Satire, Menippean Satire and Polemics / Satiiri, menippolainen satiiri ja polemiikki (lecture room 17, 4th floor)
Chair/Puheenjohtaja: Sari Kivistö (University of Helsinki/Helsingin yliopisto)

• Tiina Käkelä-Puumala (University of Helsinki), “Fake Value, Real Damage: Money and Satiric Subversion in William Gaddis’s J R and Thomas Pynchon’s  Against the Day”
• Anna Hollsten (Helsingin yliopisto), "Parodia ekoretorisena keinona: Eeva Kilven "Eeva nukkuu viimeistä yötään paratiisissa"
• Maria Laakso (Tampereen yliopisto), “Liikaviisas lyö rahoiksi: Pauli Kohelon Ohessa tilinumeroni satiirisen suomalaisen kansankuvauksen perinteessä”
• Jussi Willman (Helsingin yliopisto), "Satiiri ja karnevaali Rabelais’n ja Fischartin teoksissa"

VI The Novel in Generic Analysis (lecture room 21, 5th floor)
Chair: Outi Oja (University of Jyväskylä)

• Aino Mäkikalli (University of Turku), “Defining the Novel Genre: Currie, Bakhtin, Lukács and the Temporality of the Novel”
• Saija Isomaa (University of Helsinki), “Fowler’s Theory of Genres and Its Application in the Analysis of Finnish 19th Century Realistic Novels”
• Hanna Mäkelä (University of Helsinki), “Gospel or Elegy? Narrative Selves and Others in Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved”
• Robert Vogt (Justus Liebig Universität Giessen), “On the Wrong Track: Misinterpretation as a Textual Strategy”

VII Interpreting life-stories – narrative identities across genres (lecture room 11, 3rd floor)
Chair: Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku)

• Netta Nakari (University of Tampere), “Transformation of Passion: When Private Becomes Public in Annie Ernaux’s Passion simple”
• Teemu Manninen (University of Tampere), “Editing Genre. Interpretation and the Problem of Autobiography in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella”

19.00 Dinner at the Restaurant Savu (street address: Tervasaarenkannas 3)

Friday, June 12

Lecture hall 13
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Prof., Vera Nünning (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), “The Relevance of Generic Frames for the Interpretation of Novels"

11.00–12.00 Lunch

12.00–14.00 Workshops

VI (second part) The Novel in Generic Analysis (lecture hall 8, 3rd floor)
Chair: Saija Isomaa (University of Helsinki)

• Laura Lindstedt (University of Helsinki), “The Art of Rumination. Nathalie Sarraute’s You Don’t Love Yourself as a Mono-Dialogue”
• Maria Lival-Lindström (Åbo Akademi), “Identifying the Female Bildungsroman”
• Lieven Ameel (University of Helsinki), “Helsinki in Finnish Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century – Some Thoughts on Genre and the Imagined City”
• Tuomas Juntunen (University of Helsinki), “Waiting for Nothing Significant. The Idea of the Tragic in the Era of Global Capitalism in Juha Seppälä's Novel Yhtiökumppanit”

VII (second part) Interpreting life-stories – narrative identities across genres
(lecture room 21, 5th floor)
Chair: Lotta Kähkönen (University of Turku)

• Heikki Kujansivu (University of Tampere), “Writing lives – On the Modes of Life Writing in Edmund White and Their Relation to the Construction of Identity”

• Marja Rytkönen (University of Tampere): “Narrative Identities in Fiction and Non-Fiction. The Case of Liudmila Petrushevskaia”
• Mikko Carlson (University of Turku): “Narrating Homosexual Self: Ethical and Political Potential of the Autobiographical Novels by Christer Kihlman and Hervé Guibert”

VIII Layered Realism (lecture room 16, 4th floor)
Chairs: Sanna Nyqvist (University of Helsinki) and Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki)

• Angela Locatelli (Università degli studi di Bergamo), “‘I Give You My Word’: Tangible Images of Life in Literature”
• Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki), “Between Naturalism and Modernism: Knut Hamsun's The Hunger (1890)”

• Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki), “Fear and Scaffolding: Metafiction and Emotional Reflection in Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

IX Workshop on travel writing (lecture room 17, 4th floor)
Chairs: Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki) and Sanna Turoma (University of Helsinki)

• Tintti Klapuri (University of Turku), “Time and Genre in Anton Chekhov’s Documentary Travelogue Sakhalin Island”
• Kai Marcel Sicks (Justus Liebig Universität Giessen), “Cold Journeys. Generic Features and Interpretive Analysis of the Arctic Travel Report Around 1900”
• Elisa Antz (Justus Liebig Universität Giessen), “Road Stories”
• Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki), “Travel Writing as Referential Discourse”

14.00–14.30 Coffee break (lobby, 3rd floor)

14.30–15.30 Keynote: Prof. Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki), "Genre and Mimesis" (lecture room 13, 3rd floor)