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« Retourner le monde contre lui-même » 
Perspectives critiques sur les poésies nordiques aux XXe et XXIe siècles

SYMPOSIUM ON CONTEMPORARY NORDIC POETRY

Caen and Paris, 6-8 March 2025

6 March

9h Opening of the colloquium, lecture room 160, Mli, Campus 1
Harri VEIVO, director of the ERLIS research team and head of the organising committee
Rea PELTOLA, director of the Department for Nordic Studies
Mickaël POPELARD, head of the Faculty of Modern Languages

9h10-11h Chair : Anna HELLE
Jesper OLSSON (Uppsala) : From Object to Environment, Again. Reading Post-Digital Swedish Poetry
Hilda FORSS (Helsinki) : Digital Technology and the Avant-Garde in Ralf Andtbacka’s Potsdamer Platz 
Hans Kristian S. RUSTAD (Oslo) : What poetry can teach us about poetry as event. To lend voice to Jacobsen, Vold, and Fosse

11h15-12h35 Chair : Harri VEIVO
Elisabeth FRIIS (Lund) : Reproductive poetry. Inger Christensen’s Alphabet and Ida Börjel’s MA
Jacob Ølgaard NYBOE (Reykjavík) : Digital Butterflies. Poetic Systems and Meta-Systems in a Computer Age

14h10-15h30 Chair : Caroline BERENGER
Tiia KÄHÄRÄ (Helsinki) : La tradition moderniste nordique et l’éthique animale dans la poésie d’Eeva-Liisa Manner
Anders LÖJDSTRÖM (Lille) : Réflexivité, forme et énonciation dans Tapetshavet de Gunnar D. Hansson

15h50-17h50 Chair : Christian Bank PEDERSEN
Sigurd TENNINGEN (Agder) : From compiled events to the event of compilation: The role of book in Jørn H. Sværen’s poetry
Ana STANICEVIC (Helsinki) : Portable Poetry. Alternative Distribution Channels of Poems in the North
Evelina STENBECK (Malmö) : A New Literature For A New Time?

18h30 Poetry Reading at the Faculty of Modern Languages, auditorium of the Tove Jansson Library
Helena ERIKSSON
Martin Glaz SERUP
Martin HÖGSTRÖM
Hosts : Emmanuel REYMOND and Harri VEIVO

7 March

Second day of the colloquium, lecture room 160, Mli, Campus 1

9h10-10h30 Chair : EVELINA STENBECK
Lea ALLOUCHE (Oslo and Caen) : The Researcher Poet: Race and Racism in Contemporary Scandinavian Poetry
Sabina IVENÄS (Gothenburg) : Towards Postmigration Subjectivity in Contemporary Nordic Poetry: Questions, Relevance, and Exploring New Voices 

10h45-12h05 Chair : Emmanuel REYMOND 
Juri JOENSUU (Jyväskylä) : Obscure Literature: Visual and Concrete Poetry in the Literary Margins of 1960’s and 1970’s Finland
Harri VEIVO (Caen) : Cumulative Modernism : Reflections on Long Careers in Nordic Poetry 

14h00-16h00 Chair : Harri VEIVO
Kristina MALMIO (Helsinki) : The legacy of committed poetry in the collections of poetry by Finland-Swedish Henrika Ringbom and Rosanna Fellman
Anna HELLE (Turku) : Avant-Garde Poet Väinö Kirstinä and Finnish Experimental Poetry of the Early 2000s
Emmanuel REYMOND (Strasbourg) et Pål H. AASEN (Strasbourg) : Invisible Third: a conversation on Casper André Lugg’s mariabiotopene

16h00-16h30 Closing remarks : Emmanuel REYMOND, Harri VEIVO and Caroline BERENGER

18h Poetry Reading at the Caen City Library (Bibliothèque Alexis-de-Tocqueville), 15 Quai François-Mitterrand, Caen
Mårten WESTÖ
Pauliina HAASJOKI
Gunnar WÆRNESS
Hosts : Emmanuel REYMOND, Harri VEIVO and Marie DUBOST

8 March

15h Poetry Reading at the Bibliothèque Nordique, 6 rue Valette, Paris
Mårten WESTÖ
Pauliina HAASJOKI
Gunnar WÆRNESS
Helena ERIKSSON
Martin HÖGSTRÖM
Hosts : Emmanuel REYMOND, Harri VEIVO and Anna SVENBRO