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Stories of Hope and Fear: Mapping Emotions and Affects in Life, Arts, and Literature
Venue: Palmse Manor (Estonia)
August 24-25, 2016
Institute of Cultural Research and Arts (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Department of Finnish Studies (University of Helsinki, Finland)
School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies (University of Tampere, Finland)
Organizing committee: Dr. Hedi-Liis Toome (coordinator), Prof. Marina Grishakova (Tartu), Prof. Mari
Hatavara (Tampere), Prof. Pirjo Lyytikäinen (Helsinki), Dr. Raili Marling, Prof. Anneli Saro, Kairi Jets, Siim
Sorokin (Tartu)
Keynote speakers:
Lisa Blackman, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Anu Koivunen, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Stockholm
Matthew Ratcliffe, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Vienna
This symposium responds to the current upsurge in interest in narrative and emotion and the role of
literature and arts as “emotional repositories” of culture and as human "equipment for living” in an everchanging world (Kenneth Burke). Places are limited, please send your expression of interest to Dr. HediLiis Toome [email protected]
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8.45-9.00 Margit Sutrop (Dean of the UT Faculty of the Humanities, Professor of Practical Philosophy).
Opening words.
9-9.15 Greetings (Prof. Mari Hatavara and Pirjo Lyytikäinen).
9.15-9.30 Prof. Marina Grishakova. Introduction: Towards an Integrated Study of Narrative and Emotion
9.30-10.00 Dr Joel Krueger (University of Exeter). Cognitive extension, emotions, and the aesthetic niche
10.00-10.30 Dr Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva). The rationality of emotions
11.00-12.00 Keynote 1 Prof. Matthew Ratcliffe. Psychosis, Anxiety, and Alienation: Interpreting FirstPerson Narratives
12.15-12.45 Dr Raili Marling (University of Tartu). Negative feelings and feminist stories in the age of
neoliberal biopolitics
12.45-13.15 Dr Carsten Stage (University of Aarhus). Cancer and social media - assemblages of affect,
biological citizenship and valuation
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14.30-15.00 Dr Julian Hanich (University of Groningen). Anger in the Cinema: Toward a Phenomenology
of a Non-Aesthetic Emotion
15.00-15.30 Dr Beate Schappach (University of Bern). The Dramaturgy of Dusk and Dawn. The Liminal
Space as a Sphere of Affection
15.45-16.15 Prof. Anneli Saro& Dr. Hedi-Liis Toome (University of Tartu). The Role of Emotions in the
Reception of Drama, Opera, and Dance
16.15-16.45 Dr Kristyn Gorton (University of York). Emotional Engagements with the Television Screen
17.15-18.15 Keynote 2 Prof. Anu Koivunen. Vulnerability, shame and pride: affective legacies in new
narratives about Sweden Finns
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9.00-9.30 Prof. Pirjo Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki). Studying Emotion Effects in Literature
9.30-10.00 Dr Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki). Disgust and Compassion: Complexity of Emotions and
Antinomies of Realism
10.30-11.00 Prof. Sibylle Baumbach (University of Innsbruck). Fear and Fascination: Conflicting Emotions
and Narrative Absorption in English Literature
11.00-11.30 Dr Katja Mellmann (University of Göttingen). 'Suspense' as an umbrella term. An emotionpsychological perspective
11.45-12.45 Keynote 3. Prof. Lisa Blackman. Transmedial storytelling, affects and haunted data
14.00-14.30 Dr Jarkko Toikkanen & Dr Hanna Rautajoki (University of Tampere). Intermedial Experience
and Affectivity
14.30-15.00 Dr Anna Hollsten (University of Helsinki). Stories of Grief and Consolation: An Emotional
Impact of Elegiac Poetry
15.00-15.30 Dr Elise Nykänen (University of Helsinki). Existing to Hate. Literary Existentialism and
Negative Emotions in Lassi Nummi’s Hatred.
16.00-17.00 PhD session
Laura Piippo (University of Jyväskylä). Excessive affects in contemporary experimental prose literature.
Kairi Jets (University of Tartu). Narrative techniques of representation of fear and anxiety in
contemporary fiction of Japan and the West
Siim Sorokin (University of Tartu). The Lives of Characters: Affective World-Building in the Internet
Reception of Breaking Bad
17.30-18.30 Closing discussion. Chair: Prof. Mari Hatavara.