Academic program

The academic program track is open to all Finncon attendees.

FANTASTIC VISIONS FROM FAERIE TO DYSTOPIA
FINNCON – ACADEMIC TRACK 2016
July 2‒3, 2016, University of Tampere, Finland

The Academic Track is organized by Dystopia-project and FinFar

Location: University of Tampere, Main building (Päätalo), Kalevantie 4, lecture hall D11.
All sessions, including keynote lecture, will be held in D11.

Abstracts for the papers presented in the academic can be found here.

SATURDAY, JULY 2
Main building, D11

10.30 – 12.00	SESSION I: ECODYSTOPIAS, HUMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN
10.30 – 11.00	Juha Raipola: Eco-Dystopia – An Unresolvable Paradox?
11.00 – 11.30	Jouni Teittinen: Maps, Ruins and the Geological Sublime: On the Inhuman Scales of Post-Apocalyptic Literature
11.30 – 12.00	Maria Laakso: Outlaws of the Nature: Representation of Humans in Richard Adams’ Watership Down and other Animal Dystopias
12.00 – 13.00	LUNCH BREAK (self-financed)
13.00 – 14.30	KEYNOTE LECTURE: RAFFAELLA BACCOLINI: Dare to Disturb: Reading (Un)Happy Endings in Young Adults’ Dystopia
14.45 – 16.15	SESSION II: UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN IMPULSES
14.45 – 15.15	Esko Suoranta: Unpredictable Spillage: Virtual Reality as Compromised Utopia in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
15.15 – 15.45	Kaisa Kaukiainen: Young adult dystopias – resistance movements as salvation religions: Examples from popular YA trilogies The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent
15.45 – 16.15	Sarianna Kankkunen: On The Fringes of a New Future: Borders and Frontiers in Maarit Verronen’s Novel Kirkkaan selkeää
16.30 – 18.00	SESSION III: EMOTIONS AND THE READER
16.30 – 17.00	Merja Polvinen: Temporal Experiments and Narrative Emotions in Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”
17.00 – 17.30	Saija Isomaa: Dissecting “the canary in a cage”:Dystopian fiction as affective communication
17.30 – 18.00	Nicholas Wanberg: When the Nazis Conquer the Racists: Reading the Hierarchies of Harry Potter’s Dystopian Finale

SUNDAY, JULY 3
Main building, D11

10.00 – 11.30	SESSION IV: FROM FAERIE TO…
10.00 – 10.30	Fodor András: The nature of heroism in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland series
10.30 – 11.00	Joan Passey: Afraid of the Dark: The Horror within Cornwall’s Subterranean Fairy Tales and Folklores
11.00 – 11.30	Hanna Samola: Werewolf Myths and Fairy Tale Motifs in a Dystopian Novel The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
11.30 – 12.30	LUNCH BREAK (self-financed)
12.30 – 14.00	THE WORLD HOBBIT PROJECT -PANEL Irma Hirsjärvi, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua, Maria Ruotsalainen, Tanja Välisalo: The Book, the Film, and Audience Responses ‒ First Results of the Finnish Sub-Project of The World Hobbit Project
14.15 – 15.45	SESSION V: MONSTERS, HUMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN
14.15 – 14.45	Kaisa Kortekallio: Ending the World of Humans. Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach and Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology
14.45 – 15.15	Marjut Puhakka: Living the end times: the decline of the humanity and the rise of the zombies
15.15 – 15.45	Sari Piittinen: Gothic Monstrosities in the Post-apocalyptic Digital Game World of Fallout 3
16.00 – 17.30	SESSION VI: CATASTROPHES AND ECODYSTOPIAS
16.00 – 16.30	Essi Vatilo: Catastrophe as a Recipe for Social Change in Dan Simmons’ The Fall of Hyperion
16.30 – 17.00	Toni Lahtinen: The Ecologization of Myths in Johanna Sinisalo’s Ecodystopias
17.00 – 17.30	Mikko Mäntyniemi: Alone at the End of Time – The Role of the Active Subject in the Creation of the Apocalyptic Narratives

Please note that changes may occur.

The Academic Track is made possible by Kone Foundation that funds the dystopia project.