AUTUMN 2024 PROGRAMME
OCTOBER
Guest lecture by SELMA postdoc Sara Villamarín-Freire
“Narrating the Father’s Body: Storytelling, Paternal Asomia and the Father-Child Bond”
16 October, 16-17
ARC 355
Read more about the lecture and about Sara
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.
**
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
**
Hanna Kuusela: Syytös
25 November, 17-19
Turun kaupunginkirjaston tieto-osasto (2krs)
In Finnish
Hanna Kuusela keskustelee Syytös – Muuan akateeminen komitragedia -teoksestaan.
**
Guest lecture by Selma Catovic-Hughes
“Somatography of Memory Sediments: Tracing the city of elusive fragments and invisible boundaries”
26 November, 14-15
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.
**
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
More info TBA