Programme timetable
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Monday 25 August
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| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Registration, University Main Lobby |
12:00 - 13:00
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Conference Opening
Professor Marja Tuominen, Cultural History, University of Lapland, Finland
Keynote 1: On Silence in the Postwar
Ville Kivimäki, Research Fellow, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
(Lecture hall LS11/Castrén)
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| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Coffee/tea |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Session 3. Memories and experiences (Lecture hall LS5)
Anniina Koivurova: Naomi Jackson, a Quacker and an artist in Post War Lapland
Peter Leese: Displaced person: the Memory films of Jonas Mekas
Tiina Suopajärvi ja Tiina Harjumaa: Recollecting moving forward: Post-war evacuations from Petsamo and settlement in Varejoki as lived experience
Helena Ruotsala: Post-war memories in the cross-border region of Tornio River Valley
Session 2. Visions and realizations in Post-war Architecture (Lecture hall LS6)
Anu Soikkeli: Reconstructing the legacy of reconstruction period type houses
Tanja Vahtikari: Historians and bureaucrats in the service of urban community: discursive reconstruction of Helsinki through the past after the Second World War
Patrycja Stal: Wroclaw/Breslau: a city which mistook its fiction for a fable. Reconstruction as a disaster
Dagmar Zadrazivola: Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: A Silent Witness of Postwar Memory Changes
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| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Visit to Arktikum (advance registration) |
19:00 - 20:00
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Welcome Reception, Alaruokasentalo (Valtakatu 8)
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Tuesday 26 August
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| 08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration, University Main Lobby
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09:00 – 10:00
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Keynote 2: After War: Conflicts over Memory and Meaning in Cultural Demobilisation and Reconstruction
Timothy Ashplant, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of Life-Writing Research, King's College, London, UK
(Lecture hall LS11/Castrén)
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| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee/tea |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Session 3. Memories and experiences (Lecture hall LS5)
Pekka Räihä: Petsamo: distant and yet present. Grandchild´s experiences
Liz Suda: Reconstructing haunted places: Postmemory and ancestral homelands
Session 2. Visions and realizations in Post-war Architecture (Lecture hall LS6)
Veera Kinnunen: Building Lapland anew: Experimental regional planning and housing study in Lapland during 1950's
Frances Robertson: Power in the landscpae: Regenerating the Scottish Highlands after WWII
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| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch break (at own cost) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Session 1. Silences, hopes and challenges after wars and catastrophe (Lecture hall LS5)
Henni Alava: Exploring silences and hopes in post-war Northern Uganda
Ermina Martini: Re-envisioning Haiti aftere the earthquake: challenges and opportunities
Solveig Gade: Learning to live with Specters: On Rabih Mroue's performance How Nancy Wished Everything was an April Fool's Joke
Session 4. Images and possibilities (Lecture hall LS6)
Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja: The artist's gaze turns to the landscape and wilderness
Mervi Autti: The Great Nature described by two artists in popular magazines in the post-war period
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14:00 - 14:30
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Coffee/tea
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14:30 - 15:30
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Session 1. Silences, hopes and challenges after wars and catastrophes (Lecture hall LS5)
Jaana Erkkilä: Voluntary work as a way to peace building
Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Unto Vuojala: What doesn't kill you makes you strong
Session 5. Nation building - commemoration and forgetting (Lecture hall LS6)
Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz: Rebuilding normalcy, silencing women’s experiences in the discourses of post II World War reconstruction in Poland (1944-1948)
Kaisa Vehkalahti: Reconstructing gender and emotions. Encounters between child welfare professionals and teen-age girls in Post-War Finland
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18.00 -
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Conference Dinner, Lähteentien Pirtti, Lähteentie 1 (separate fee, advance registration and payment)
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Wednesday 27 August
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| 08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration, University Main Lobby |
09:00 – 10:00
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Keynote 3: Reconstructed Cultural Strategies. Influences of the World War Two and the Reconstruction Period on Sámi Culture in Finland
Professor Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Professor of Sámi culture, Giellagas Institute for Sámi studies, University of Oulu, Finland
(Lecture hall LS11/Castrén)
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| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee/tea |
| 10.30 - 12:00 |
Session 4. Images and possibilities (Lecture hall LS5)
Nina Sääskilahti: Memory/future and the post-war literary landscapes in Reino Rinne’s writings in 1940s - 1960s
Armin Stocker and Ziga Kresevic: Prison Island: Place of Remembrance or Place of Parley?
Session 5. Nation building - commemoration and forgetting (Lecture hall LS6)
Eliza Kraatari: Cottage Industry Policies in Post-War Finland ‒ Craft Trade and Trauma Work
Marjaana Jauhola: The midwife, the wild eye: critical memory work and feminist oppositional gaze on the gendered reconstruction visions of Finnish nation and citizenship
Tiina Kinnunen and Marianne Junila: Shifting Images of the Winter War – an Introduction of a Research
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| 12.00 – 13:00 |
Lunch break (at own cost) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Conference closing (Lecture hall LS11/Castrén)
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Break
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| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Optional tour to Norvajärvi Cemetery for German Soldiers (advance registration) |