Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies November 15–16, 2019
Program
Friday
9.15 – 9.30
Opening of the Workshop
9.30 – 10.30
Hennig Howlid Wærp: Knut Hamsun´s critique of consumerism – Segelfoss Town (1915)
Markku Lehtimäki: Fictional Minds in Natural Environments: Textual Designs and Changing Ecologies in Contemporary Finnish Fiction
10.30 – 10.45
Coffee
10.45 – 12.15
Pia Maria Ahlbäck: From technopastoral to climate idyll? The opportunities of disaster in Annika Luther’s novel De hemlösas stad
Judith Meurer-Bongardt: ”Jag känner allt liv i den här skogen.” From threat to home: The changing forest in Astrid Lindgren’s Ronja Röverdotter. An environmental psychological reading (Cancelled)
Toni Lahtinen: From Magical to Political Wilderness. Environmental Change in the Imagined Arctic
Thorunn Gullaksen Endreson: Dark ecology in Erlend O. Nødtvedt’s Vestlandet: Celebrating climate change
12.15 – 13.15
Lunch
13.15 – 14.45
Leena Romu: Dystopian Comics as Cautionary Tales about the Future of the Arctic – Stylistic and Rhetorical Aspects of Graphic Storytelling
Francesco Zavatti: Imagining the environmental consequences of the Oresund bridge in drawings and comics (1970-1990)
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen & Helen Mäntymäki: What if? Ecological destruction and affect in Fortitude
14.45 – 15.00
Coffee
15.00 – 16.00
Jack Dyce: “The future’s anything but bright” Contemplating the consequences of ecological change in Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer (2013) and The Mine (2016)
Katarina Leppänen: No future? Climate fiction, dystopic thinking, and our unwillingness to change
17.00-19.00
Free entrance to the Moomin Museum
19.00
Dinner: Restaurant Tuhto, Tampere Hall | On map
Saturday
9.30 – 11.00
Reeta Holopainen: Vanishing pastorals and unwelcome
urban areas
Changing environments in Eila Kivikk’aho’s poetry
Per Esben Myren-Svelstad: Stories of Loss: Poetic Form and Human-Nature Relations in Contemporary Norwegian Long Poems
Kaisa Kortekallio: Amplifying more-than-human experience with Antti Salminen’s Lomonosovin moottori and MIR
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee
11.15 – 12.45
Christian Hummelsund Voie: “Low Lies the Land, and Desolate”: From “Holy Marsh” to «Drain the Swamp» in the Art and Literature of the Lista Peninsula
Vesa Kyllönen: The experience of ”selkonen” and changing environments
Daniel Chartier: The Inuit concepts of “Sila” and “Nuna” in an ecological Greenlandic literary perspective
12.45 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Harri Salovaara: Ecological Immunity, Parenthood, and Change in Emma Puikkonen’s Cli-fi Novel Lupaus
Christopher Oscarson: Reimagining the Anthropocene North
15.30 – 16.00
Closing words
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