\nFINNCON – ACADEMIC TRACK 2016<\/strong>
\nJuly 2\u20123, 2016, University of Tampere, Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Academic Track is organized by Dystopia-project<\/a> and FinFar<\/a><\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>University of Tampere, Main building (P\u00e4\u00e4talo), Kalevantie 4, lecture hall D11. Abstracts for the papers presented in the academic can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n SATURDAY, JULY 2<\/strong> SUNDAY, JULY 3<\/strong> Please note that changes may occur.<\/p>\n The Academic Track is made possible by Kone Foundation that funds the dystopia project. The academic program track is open to all Finncon attendees. FANTASTIC VISIONS FROM FAERIE TO DYSTOPIA FINNCON – ACADEMIC TRACK 2016 July 2\u20123, 2016, University of Tampere, Finland The Academic Track is organized by Dystopia-project and FinFar Location: University of … Continue reading
\nAll sessions, including keynote lecture, will be held in D11.<\/p>\n
\nMain building, D11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
\n \u00a010.30 – 12.00<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION I: ECODYSTOPIAS, HUMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a010.30 – 11.00<\/td>\n Juha Raipola: Eco-Dystopia \u2013 An Unresolvable Paradox?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a011.00 – 11.30<\/td>\n Jouni Teittinen: Maps, Ruins and the Geological Sublime: On the Inhuman
\nScales of Post-Apocalyptic Literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a011.30 – 12.00<\/td>\n Maria Laakso: Outlaws of the Nature: Representation of Humans in Richard
\nAdams\u2019 Watership Down and other Animal Dystopias<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a012.00 – 13.00<\/strong><\/td>\n LUNCH BREAK (self-financed)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 13.00 – 14.30<\/strong><\/td>\n KEYNOTE LECTURE: RAFFAELLA BACCOLINI: <\/strong>
\nDare to Disturb: Reading (Un)Happy Endings in Young Adults\u2019 Dystopia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a014.45 – 16.15<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION II: UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN IMPULSES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a014.45 – 15.15<\/td>\n Esko Suoranta: Unpredictable Spillage: Virtual Reality as Compromised
\nUtopia in Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Bleeding Edge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a015.15 – 15.45<\/td>\n Kaisa Kaukiainen: Young adult dystopias \u2013 resistance movements as salvation
\nreligions: Examples from popular YA trilogies The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a015.45 – 16.15<\/td>\n Sarianna Kankkunen: On The Fringes of a New Future: Borders and Frontiers
\nin Maarit Verronen\u2019s Novel Kirkkaan selke\u00e4\u00e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a016.30 – 18.00<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION III: EMOTIONS AND THE READER<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a016.30 – 17.00<\/td>\n Merja Polvinen: Temporal Experiments and Narrative Emotions in Ted
\nChiang\u2019s \u201cStory of Your Life\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a017.00 – 17.30<\/td>\n Saija Isomaa: Dissecting \u201cthe canary in a cage\u201d:Dystopian fiction as affective
\ncommunication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a017.30 – 18.00<\/td>\n Nicholas Wanberg: When the Nazis Conquer the Racists: Reading the
\nHierarchies of Harry Potter’s Dystopian Finale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nMain building, D11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
\n \u00a010.00 – 11.30<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION IV: FROM FAERIE TO…<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a010.00 – 10.30<\/td>\n Fodor Andr\u00e1s: The nature of heroism in Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland
\nseries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a010.30 – 11.00<\/td>\n Joan Passey: Afraid of the Dark: The Horror within Cornwall’s Subterranean
\nFairy Tales and Folklores<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a011.00 – 11.30<\/td>\n Hanna Samola: Werewolf Myths and Fairy Tale Motifs in a Dystopian
\nNovel The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a011.30 – 12.30<\/strong><\/td>\n LUNCH BREAK (self-financed)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 12.30 – 14.00<\/strong><\/td>\n THE WORLD HOBBIT PROJECT -PANEL<\/strong>
\nIrma Hirsj\u00e4rvi, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua,\u00a0Maria Ruotsalainen, Tanja V\u00e4lisalo:
\nThe Book, the Film, and Audience Responses \u2012 First Results of the Finnish
\nSub-Project of The World Hobbit Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a014.15 – 15.45<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION V: MONSTERS, HUMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a014.15 – 14.45<\/td>\n Kaisa Kortekallio: Ending the World of Humans. Jeff VanderMeer\u2019s
\nSouthern Reach and Timothy Morton\u2019s Dark Ecology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a014.45 – 15.15<\/td>\n Marjut Puhakka: Living the end times: the decline of the humanity and
\nthe rise of the zombies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a015.15 – 15.45<\/td>\n Sari Piittinen: Gothic Monstrosities in the Post-apocalyptic Digital
\nGame World of Fallout 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a016.00 – 17.30<\/strong><\/td>\n SESSION VI: CATASTROPHES AND ECODYSTOPIAS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a016.00 – 16.30<\/td>\n Essi Vatilo: Catastrophe as a Recipe for Social Change in Dan Simmons\u2019 The
\nFall of Hyperion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a016.30 – 17.00<\/td>\n Toni Lahtinen: The Ecologization of Myths in Johanna Sinisalo\u2019s
\nEcodystopias<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \u00a017.00 – 17.30<\/td>\n Mikko M\u00e4ntyniemi: Alone at the End of Time \u2013 The Role of the
\nActive Subject in the Creation of the Apocalyptic Narratives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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