Programme
Panels and abstracts in pdf-form here.
Wednesday 23 November
10:00 Bus Transport, Conference hotels – University of Lapland
10:00 – 11:15 Registration and Welcome coffee
11:15 – 11:30 Conference Opening, Castrén Hall
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote 1: Facebook, trans-parental love, and the structure that took to the streets
Scott Wilson, Kingston University, UK, Castrén Hall
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13.30 – 15:00 Paper session 1
Panel 1.1 Politics, Potentiality, Action, LS 12
Panel 1.2 Indigenous Politics: the Sámi, LS 13
Panel 1.3 Culture: Why do we Keep Getting it Wrong? LS 18
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Keynote 2: Spanbergianism
Mårtin Spångberg, University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm, Sweden, Castrén Hall
16:45 Bus Transport, University of Lapland – Conference hotels
19.00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception at the Rovaniemi City Hall (Hosted by the City of Rovaniemi)
Sauna and Cinema, Women’s turn:
8:00 – 19:00 A Walk-in Sauna and film screenings at the University Campus Sauna for women.
Thursday 24 November
09:00 Bus Transport, Conference hotels – University of Lapland
09:30 – 11:00 Paper session 2
Panel 2.1 Subalternity and Representation, LS 12
Panel 2.2 Tradition, Contamination, Contact, LS 13
Panel 2.3 Rhetorical Politics: Story-telling and Oral Cultures, LS 18
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote 3: Anticapitalism and Culture
Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London, UK, Castrén Hall
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Paper session 3
Panel 3.1 Politics, Arts and Ethics: Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide, LS 12
Panel 3.2 Aesthetic Mediations: Representation and Identity, LS 13
Panel 3.3 The Dark Side: Wicked Cultures and Social Imaginary, LS 18
15:00 – 15:15 A short coffee break
15:15 – 16:45 Paper session 4
Panel 4.1 The Politics of Hope and Empathy, LS 12
Panel 4.2 War on the Home Front: Politics and Generation, LS 13
Panel 4.3 Gun Cultures, Embodied Practices, LS 18
17:00 Bus Transport, University of Lapland – Conference hotels
18:30 – 20:00 Film Screening Assemblages by Angela Melitopoulous and Maurizio Lazzarato
at Hilpeä Krouvi Restaurant
20:00 – Conference Dinner and Party at Hilpeä Krouvi Restaurant
Sauna and Cinema, Men’s turn:
8:00 – 19:00 A Walk-in Sauna and film screenings at the University Campus Sauna for men
Friday 25 November
09:30 Bus Transport, Conference hotels– University of Lapland
10:00 – 11:30 Paper session 5
Panel 5.1 Politics and Arts: Spatial Struggles, Cultural Codes, LS 12
Panel 5.2 The Politics of Satire and Humour, LS 13
11:30 – 12.30 Lunch
12:30 – 14:00 Paper session 6
Panel 6.1 Art and Green Politics, LS 12
Panel 6.2 Social Construction and the Media, LS 13
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote 4: Against Explanation: Thinking Politically After the Aesthetic Turn
Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Castrén Hall
15:00 – 15:15 Conference closing
15:30 Bus Transport, University of Lapland – Conference hotels
Sauna and Cinema, gender-free (men and women):
8:00 – 19:00 A Walk-in Sauna and film screenings at the University Campus Sauna for men and women.