Time: 8th–9th December 2011

Venue: The Finnish Literature Society, Great Hall
(Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki, 2nd floor)

Programme

Thursday 8th December 2011

13:00–14:30 Session I
chair: Linda Kaljundi

Historical Novels and Nationbuilding: Fredrika Runeberg and Zacharias Topelius
Mari Hatavara, University of Tampere

Politics, History and Myth in Lydia Koidula’s Novella Juudit or the Last Maroons of Jamaica
Piret Peiker, Tallinn University (TLU)

14:30–15:00 Coffee break

15:00–17:30 Session II
chair: Ilona Pikkanen

Freemen in History and Literature: Estonian 19th century historical fiction
Eneken Laanes, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (UTLC)

Romance as a Form of a National Narrative: Fredrika Runeberg’s Fru Catharina Boije and her daughter and Hella Wuolijoki's Laki ja järjestys as examples
Heidi Grönstrand, University of Turku

From Tragedy to Triumph: Estonian Viking Novels and the Transformations of National History in the 1930s
Linda Kaljundi, Tallinn University / UTLC

19:00 Conference Dinner, tba

Friday 9th December 2011

10–12 Session III
chair: Mari Hatavara

On the Borders: Historical Fiction and Historiography in the Finnish Nationbuilding
Ilona Pikkanen, University of Tampere and the Sibelius Academy

Jaan Kross, Balthasar Russow, and the Poetics of Cultural Memory
Tiina-Ann Kirss, Tallinn University

From Local to Global Histories: The case of Aino Kallas and Kristiina Carlson
Kukku Melkas, University of Turku

12–14 Lunch break
recommendable places: Piano (Rauhankatu 15), Qulma (Mariankatu 13), Espresso Edge (Liisankatu 29), Café Engel (Aleksanterinkatu 26)

14:00–15:30 Session IV
chair: Eneken Laanes

Soviet Literature as Trauma Literature? The case of Rudolf Sirge
Aare Pilv, UTLC

The Displacement of Memory in the Historical Novels of Karl Ristikivi
Jaan Undusk, UTLC

15:30–16 Coffee break

16–17 Panel Discussion
chair: Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen, The Finnish Literature Society

The seminar open to public. Welcome!

The seminar is organized by Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of Estonian Academy of Science, the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Academy Project The Finnish Opera Company (1873–1879) from a Microhistorical Perspective: Performance Practices, Multiple Narrations, and Polyphony of Voices.

Further information: Linda Kaljundi, linda.kaljundi@helsinki.fi and Ilona Pikkanen, mobile +358 40 7618614, ilona.pikkanen@siba.fi