Past events 2024
Past events in 2024
See upcoming events here.
FEBRUARY
Monday, 12 February at 3–4 pm, Cultural Memory and Social Change Reading Group
Link to Zoom meeting: https://utu.zoom.us/j/67239210135
Etkind, A. (2004). Hard and Soft in Cultural Memory: Political Mourning in Russia and Germany. Grey Room, 16(16), 36–59.
Link to the text in Volter database:
https://utuvolter.fi/permalink/358FIN_UTUR/1rsgc7g/cdi_jstor_primary_20442652
Chair
Liisa Merivuori, Doctoral Researcher, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, University of Turku
MARCH
Monday, 11 March at 3-4 pm, Cultural Memory and Social Change Webinar
Link to the Zoom meeting: https://utu.zoom.us/j/69757727546
After the music museum: popular music, heritage-making, and institutional memory
Anna Peltomäki, Doctoral Researcher, Digital Culture, Landscape and Cultural Heritage, University of Turku
Glaciers as Affective Modes of Cultural Memory in Icelandic Literature and Culture
Per Mendoza, Doctoral Researcher, Literature Studies and Creative Writing, University of Turku
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Friday, 8 March at 1-4 pm, SELMA Symposium: Humanistinen terveyden ja sairauden tutkimus: lähestymistapoja, menetelmiä, käsitteitä
In Finnish.
Symposiumissa esitellään kolme uutta hanketta, joissa terveyttä ja sairautta lähestytään humanistisesta näkökulmasta. Hanke-esittelyjen jälkeen keskustellaan hankkeiden keskeisistä käsitteitä ja menetelmistä. Tarkoitus on pohtia englanninkielisen medical humanities / narrative medicine -sanaston kääntämistä suomeksi sekä näihin tutkimusaloihin liittyvää metodologiaa.
Ohjelma ja ilmoittautuminen: https://sites.utu.fi/selma/symposium-humanistinen-terveyden-ja-sairauden-tutkimus/
APRIL
Tuesday, 2 April at 1-4 pm, SELMA Symposium: Narrative Imaginaries of the Middle East
Publicum, PUB2 & Zoom
In this symposium, Middle Eastern, more specifically Palestinian, Irani and Iraqi, literatures and narrative imaginaries are explored from several intersecting perspectives: those of an essayist/actor/activist, a scholar, and a translator. The aim is to make space for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, and offer the audience new perspectives into thinking about literature as art, scholarship and site for social change.
Programme, abstracts and registration: https://sites.utu.fi/selma/symposium-narrative-imaginaries-of-the-middle-east/
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Monday, 8 April at 3–4 pm,Cultural Memory and Social Change Reading Group
Link to Zoom meeting: https://utu.zoom.us/j/66638013679
Rothberg, M. (2019). The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
Chapter 1: The Transmission Belt of Domination. Theorizing the Implicated Subject, 31–57.
Link to the text in Volter database:
https://utuvolter.fi/permalink/358FIN_UTUR/1rsgc7g/cdi_openaire_primary_doi_1ab03b17202f25738405fe034fb54ff1
Chair
Guido Bartolini, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
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Wednesday 24 April, at 4-6 pm, Guest lectures by SELMA Visiting Scholars: Guido Bartolini and Amir Moosavi
MAY
Monday, 13 May at 3-4 pm, Cultural Memory and Social Change Webinar
Link to the Zoom meeting: https://utu.zoom.us/j/64039498429
Fascism in Italian Culture: Notes from Cultural Memory Studies
Guido Bartolini, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
JUNE
SAGALUND ELÄÄ / SAGALUND LEVER / LIVING SAGALUND
29.6.2024
Tarinoiden lehto -hanke järjestää kaksi työpajaa sekä keskustelutilaisuuden Sagalund elää -tapahtumassa Sagalundin museossa Kemiössä.
Työpajat:
Sinisen salongin runoilija – tutkija ja taiteilija aineistojen äärellä
Tutkija Karoliina Sjö ja taidemaalari Erika Adamsson lähestyvät Villa Sagalundin entisen asukkaan ja juhlavuotta viettävän Adèle Wemanin sata vuotta sitten tuottamaa materiaalia. Sjö lukee mm. Wemanin runoja, päiväkirjoja ja muuta kirjallista aineistoa ja Adamsson tulkitsee niitä luonnostellen maalauksen keinoin. Tapahtuma avaa tutkijan ja taiteilijan yhteistyötä, historiallisen tiedon tuottamista ja maalauksen ideointiprosessia kohti valmista taideteosta. Tilaisuuteen voi pistäytyä kuuntelemaan ja katselemaan klo 11-12 välillä Adelen sinisessä salongissa huvilalla.
Valokuvat tutkimuksen ja taiteen lähteenä
Tutkija Katja Weiland-Särmälä esittelee valokuvien käyttöä osana tutkimusta ja Erikan taiteellista prosessia. Työpaja on käynnissä klo 12-13.
Paneelikeskustelu:
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Katja Weiland-Särmälä, Erika Adamsson ja Jarmo Kujala esittelevät Tarinoiden lehto -hanketta ja keskustelevat Adèle Wemanin merkityksestä Vretan koululla klo 13 ja 15.
AUGUST
ABOAGORA: The Planets
28-30.8.2024, Sibelius Museum & Other Locations
In 2024 ABOAGORA kicks off a new thematic series, The Planets. The theme is based on the orchestral suite of the same name by the composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934), composed between 1914 and 1917. The composition’s seven movements famously all represent a planet in our solar system, bringing forth various ideas, myths and dreams connected to the celestial bodies and the astrological characters associated with them.
The first movement of the Planets suite is Mars, the Bringer of War, and ABOAGORA 28-30.8.2024 takes on the theme of war from a broad cultural and scientific perspective. The presentations, panels and workshops explore human rights, war trauma, post-war recovery, war memorials and ethical issues in the study of war, armed conflicts and nature and dystopias and alternative futures. On the final day of the event we are also reminded of peace: all wars eventually have to end. The program also engages with the planet Mars, exploring astronomical features, musical frequencies and literary imaginations.
SELMA is a part of a panel discussion included in the Mars, Bringer of War movement:
29 AUGUST 2024, 15:15–16:15
Sibelius Museum, Piispankatu 17, Turku
The artist Love Antell, researcher Silja Laine and professor Anne Heimo discuss the themes of civil war monuments and memorials, the inspiration behind Antell’s new artwork ”Friday evenings at six o’clock”.
After the session there’s an opportunity to visit the virtual monument ”Friday evenings at six o’clock” together as a group. For viewing the monument you need a smart telephone and headphones.
OCTOBER
Guest lecture by SELMA postdoc Sara Villamarin Freire
“Narrating the Father’s Body: Storytelling, Paternal Asomia and the Father-Child Bond”
16 October, 16-17
ARC 355
NOVEMBER
Insecurity and Uncertainty in Literature and Other Arts | Symposium
8 November
Publicum, room 209
In our modern times, insecurity and uncertainty are prevalent in various aspects of life. The central context for the examination is created by a situation that can be called, like Astra Taylor’s book (2023), The Age of Insecurity. Prolonged political and military tensions in Europe and around the world have led to global instability and insecurity, which is also felt in Finland. The rise of authoritarianism threatens democracy, while the challenges posed by climate change create uncertain prospects for the future. Many minority groups are forced to live in fear of violence. The lingering effects of the pandemic, especially on the emotions and experiences of young people, are evident. These feelings of insecurity and uncertainty extend to literature, arts, as well as the experience of reading literature and art.
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WORLD-MAKING REMEMBRANCES: NORDIC QUEER HISTORIES AND MEMORIES
Celebrating Rainbow History Month at University of Turku
15 November, 10-16 (10-13 in English, 14-16 in Finnish)
Arcanum A269 & A355
10.00-11.30 A269
Keynote by Ingrid Ryberg (Associate Professor in Film Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg): Queer publicity in the shadow of the Swedish sin: The reception of ‘homophile’ film characters in the 1950s
11.45-13.00 A269
SHORT PAPERS
Varpu Alasuutari: The History of Nordic Queer Loneliness
Anu Koivunen: Tracing Queer History in Public Service Broadcasting Archives
Riikka Taavetti: Sweden-Ferries in Finnish Queer Memories and Histories
13-14 Lunch break
14-16 A355
PANEELIKESKUSTELU: Elämäkerrat sateenkaarihistoriana
Keskustelijoina kirjailijat
Hannu Harju (Kajava – pelätty, parjattu, palvottu 2023),
Jonimatti Joutsijärvi (Mirkka Rekola: Elämä joka ei koskaan tule kokonaan esiin 2023, Mirkka Rekola II: Elämä koko ajan käy ilmi salasta, 2024)
Rita Paqvalen (Queera minnen. Essäer om tystnad, längtan och motstånd 2021)
Puheenjohtajana Anu Koivunen
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Hanna Kuusela: Syytös
25 November, 17-19
Turun kaupunginkirjaston tieto-osasto (2krs)
In Finnish
Hanna Kuusela keskustelee Syytös – Muuan akateeminen komitragedia -teoksestaan yhdessä SELMA-keskuksen johtajien Hanna Meretojan ja Maarit Leskelä-Kärjen kanssa.
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Guest lecture by Selma Catovic-Hughes
“Somatography of Memory Sediments: Tracing the city of elusive fragments and invisible boundaries”
26 November
Arcanum ARC229 (Loisto)
DECEMBER
Gendering Parenthood: Perspectives from Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Research | Symposium
3 December 14.00–16.00
Arcanum, room A270
This seminar presents recent and ongoing interdisciplinary research on how motherhood, fatherhood, childhood and family relations figure in representations and lived experiences, in contemporary as well as historical times and across (trans)national contexts. The program offers four research presentations by scholars active at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, (TIAS) and University of Turku (UTU), as well as a joint discussion of familial phenomena, research approaches, and theorizations in critical research on parenthood. All welcome!
The seminar is co-arranged by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Department of Cultural History, Department of European and World History, Degree Programme in Literary Studies and SELMA Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, and is moderated by Kaisa Ilmonen, TIAS Collegium Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature.
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Suru / Grief | Käsitetyöpaja / Workshop
11 December, 16-18
Arcanum, ARC229
This workshop explores the concept of grief from intersecting interdisciplinary perspectives, bringing together perspectives from life writing studies, narrative studies, queer studies, affect studies, and health humanities. It considers grief as a diverse affective and relational experience that has both a public and a private dimension and a complex temporality.
16.00 Opening words by Hanna Meretoja
16.05-17.05 Papers
Astrid Joutseno/Swan: Tracing the Grief of the Dying in Life Writing
Avril Tynan: The Garden as a Space for Grieving in Art and Literature
Varpu Alasuutari: Queer Grief: A Public and Private Feeling
17.05-18 Discussion