Call for Papers
Experiences of Time in Literature
7 - 8 May 2013, Helsinki, Finland
The conference explores different ways in which literature deals with the experience of time. How has the experience of time changed in literary history and how do different genres give expression to experiencing time? How have the three dimensions of time – the past, present and future – been manifested, examined and imagined in literature? A literary work expresses different forms of experiencing time through its characters, narrative strategies and its entire logic of construction. Time is also a central concept in history, philosophy, psychology, physics and other sciences, and the question of experiencing time can be productively theorized and conceptualized in terms that cross disciplinary boundaries. We invite papers on topics that may include but should not be limited to:
● Different ways of experiencing time in literature
● Experiencing, representing and imagining the past, present and future
● Memory, trauma, testimony
● Melancholy and nostalgia
● Periods and demarcations: histories of literature
● Time and temporality in poetry and poetics
● Narrated time, narration time, time in narrative studies
● Theories and concepts of time - multidisciplinary views
● Temporal paradoxes
Our keynote speakers are:
Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg)
Kuisma Korhonen (University of Oulu)
Liisa Steinby (University of Turku)
The keynote lectures will be in English. The languages of the parallel sessions are English, Finnish and Swedish.
Please send a proposal (max 300 words) for a 20 minute paper and a short biographical note to Hanna Lahdenperä (flrs.conference@gmail.com) by 28 February 2013.
The conference fee is 80 e (the fee includes coffee/tea and pastries during the coffee breaks). The conference dinner will cost approximately 40 e.
Conference delegates are expected to organize their own travel and stay in Helsinki.
The conference is the annual research symposium of the Finnish Literary Research Society.
The conference is organized by:
The Finnish Literary Research Society (http://pro.tsv.fi/skts/inenglish.html)
The Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary Studies (http://www.helsinki.fi/kituko/in_english/index.html)
The Academy of Finland research project “Literature and Time: Time, Modernity, and Human Agency in Literature” (http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/yleinenkirjallisuus/en/research/literatureandtime.html)
The Emil Aaltonen research project “The Experience of History and the Ethics of Storytelling in Contemporary Arts” (http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/yleinenkirjallisuus/en/research/experienceofhistory.html)