Our inaugural symposium, September 18th, 2024

Mark your calendars! The project’s inaugural symposium will be held at the University of Turku in September 18th, 2024. Place: Publicum, Pub 209, Assistentinkatu 7.
The program includes a keynote address by Anna Nordenstam, Professor of Comparative Literature (University of Gothenburg) and presentations by researchers from three Turku-based projects: @comicsdiversity, Becoming a Reading Nation? Children’s Books and Educational Literature in Finland, 1790-1850, and Tippelill- Swedish Children’s Literature Research and Critique in Finland.
The symposium is open to the public. Please, register to the symposium by 11 September 2024 through this link: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/EP/439CEF65E77A339A.

Welcome!

Program:

10.15-10.30 Ralf Kauranen: Opening words
10.30-11.45 KEYNOTE Anna Nordenstam: ”How to Cure a Feminist”: Comics, Archives and Historiographies

11.45-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.30 Heidi Hakkarainen: Conveying Knowledge, Evoking Emotions: Illustrations in Early Nineteenth-Century Books for Children and Young People
13.30-14.00 Leena Romu: Making Them Visible: Writing the History of Female Comics Artists in Finland
14.00-14.30 Tuuli Hypén: What Does a Bear Look Like? The Illustrator’s Role in Education

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-15.30 Maria Lassén-Seger: “Inga bilder är bättre än fula och otympliga, emedan barnens skönhetssinne icke får kränkas”: Image and Child in Swedish Children’s Literature Reviews in Finland
15.30-16.00 Reeta Kangas: Of Foxes and Crows: Transcultural Influences and Adaptations in 19th Century Finnish Fables
16.00-16.30 Anna Vuorinne: Information, Humour, Activism and Advertising in Rainbow Colours: Exploring the Beginnings of Finnish Queer Comics in LGBTIQA+ Organisations’ Magazines

16.30-16.35 Thank you!