Updated on 23.1.2023
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Thursday 2 February 2023
Edu 2, Educarium Building, Assistentinkatu 5, 20500 Turku
10.00-10.15 Introduction
10.15-11.00 Simona Mitroiu: Generations of Memory in Women’s Narratives: Literary (re)workings of Transnational Disruptions, Intersections, and Transformations
(Keynote lectures can be viewed also online: https://utu.zoom.us/j/61400736892)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Ulla Savolainen: Memorability through Postmemory: Multimedia and Multi-Scalar Memory of Soviet Repression of Ingrian Finns in Lea Pakkanen’s Work
12.00-12.30 Anna Helle: Remembering the Women of the Ingrian-Finnish Konkka Family in Musta passi by Anita Konkka
12.30-13.00 Natalia Mihailova & Arja Rosenholm: Remembering between Revival and Solidification. Observations of an Essay Collection of “Memory of Migration – Migration of Memory” in the Finnish-Russian Journal LiteraruS
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 Tora Lane: Tensions between Languages in the Bilingual Poetry of Katia Kapovich
14.30-15.00 Jenniliisa Salminen: Finding your Language, Finding your Genre
15.00-15.30 Renner-Fahey, Ona: The Visual Unfolding of a Diasporic Identity: Anya Ulinich’s Sasha Goldberg
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.30 Marina Sivak: The Essence of Memory in Maria Stepanova’s Novel In Memory of Memory (2017)
16.30-17.00 Fatemeh Shayan: Maria Stepanova’s Post-Memory of the Twentieth Century Russian History
17.00-17.30 Viola Parente-Čapková & Riitta Jytilä: Sofi Oksanen – Contested Memories in Bloodlands Fiction
18.00 Reception (Luoma-tila, Arcanum Building)
Friday 3 February 2023
Edu 2, Educarium Building, Assistentinkatu 5, 20500 Turku
9.30-10.15 Eva Hausbacher: Close Distances: Narratives of the Soviet Past in Russian-German Womenʼs Writings
(Keynote lectures can be viewed also online: https://utu.zoom.us/j/61400736892)
10.15-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.00 Marja Sorvari: Memories and Texts on the Move: Katharina Martin-Virolainen’s Im letztem Atemzug (2019) and Anna Soudakova’s Mitä männyt näkevät (2020)
11.00-11.30 Withold Bonner: Another Museum of Abandoned Secrets: Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein
11.30-12.00 Sabine Egger: Ukrainian Women Writers in Exile as “Masters of Dialogue” in the German Literary and Media Landscape
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Kristen Welsh: Decay, Distortion, Reintegration: Geocorporeality and the Female Body in Contemporary Russian-American Fiction
13.30-14.00 Inna Sukhenko: Chernobyl Experience, Migration and Radiation Literacy Synchronized
14.00-14.30 Asiya Bulatova: Irina Odoevtseva’s Memories of Hunger in Post-Revolutionary Russia and Occupied France
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-15.30 Maria Yelenevskaya and Ekaterina Protassova: Life Stories of the Russian-Women abroad: Similarities and Differences
16.15- 17.15 Panel Discussion with Authors: Polina Kopylova, Zinaida Lindén, Anna Soudakova
18.30 Conference Dinner
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Registration
There is no conference fee, but participants cover the expenses for travels, accommodation and conference dinner. Conference dinner is optional.
Light lunch and refreshments will be served in the breaks at no cost.
Please fill in the registration form by 21 January 2023: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/27D44630CF3312ED
The Venue
University of Turku, Lower Campus, Educarium Building (Assistentinkatu 5, 20500 Turku)
Educarium Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCRno-hwYEY
The abstracts and the bios will be available in January.
Contact
Viola Parente-Čapková (viocap@utu.fi)
Ennaliina Leiwo (ennaliina.e.leiwo@utu.fi)
Organised by the research project Texts on the Move: Reception of Women’s Writing in Finland and Russia 1840–2020 (University of Turku, Tampere University, Emil Aaltonen Foundation)
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