Tuesday 27 August
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Billiard Hall (Itäinen Rantakatu 4-6)
15.30-16.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
16:00-16.15 OPENING STATEMENTS
Hanna Meretoja, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku
16.15-17.45 FORGIVENESS, UNDERSTANDING, VENTRILOQUISM
Forgiveness as a Violence Promoter in Approaches to Restorative Justice
Nena Močnik, Postdoctoral Researcher, Comparative Literature, TIAS, University of Turku
Recognition and Violence in Literature: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Phillips’s Crossing the River
Vincent van Bever Donker, Associate Lecturer of English, University of Northampton
Words of Suffering: Research, Understanding and Ventriloquism
Molly Andrews, Prof. of Political Psychology, University of East London
18.30 DINNER BY THE RIVER
Pinella (Vanha Suurtori 2)
Wednesday 28 August
Hovi, Artium V105 (Kaivokatu 12)
9.30-11.00 THEORIZING VIOLENCE
Reading Violence, Violent Reading
Colin Davis, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
Violence and Palimpsestic Hermeneutics
Max Silverman, Professor of French, University of Leeds
The Hermeneutics of Darkness: Interpreting Perpetrators on their Crimes
Brian Schiff, Professor of Psychology, and Director of the George and Irina Schaffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00 VIOLENCE AND THE SUFFERING BODY
Do We Really Care? On the Violence Suffered by the Perpetrators in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2007)
Helena Duffy, TIAS Collegium Researcher, University of Turku, and Teaching Fellow of French and Comparative Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
Linguistic and Bodily Violence in Sarah Kofman’s Heterobiographical Writing
Victoria Fareld, Associate Professor of Intellectual History, Stockholm
Disgrace: Coming to the Terms with the Meaning/s of Sexual Violation
Louise du Toit, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stellenbosch
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 READING AND INTERPRETING VIOLENCE
Violence in Twenty-First-Century Historical Fiction
Cassandra Falke, Professor of English Literature, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
Violence Particular, Violence Universal, Violence Absent, Violence Present: King Lear
Robert Appelbaum, Professor Emeritus in English Literature, Uppsala University
Interpreting Violence in Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? Oder Theater?: A Material/ Embodied Hermeneutics?
Marta Cenedese, Postdoctoral Researcher of Literature, University of Turku
15.30-16.00 COFFEE
16.00-17.00 INTERPRETING VIOLENCE: NARRATIVE, ETHICS, AND HERMENEUTICS (ROUNDTABLE)
Hanna Meretoja (chair), Molly Andrews, Colin Davis, Cassandra Falke, Brian Schiff
18.45 DINNER CRUISE IN THE ARCHIPELAGO
Ukko-Pekka, Loistokari
18.45 Meeting at the pier for the archipelago trip on S/S Ukkopekka (Address: Linnankatu 38, at the bridge Martinsilta, in front of the restaurant Vaakahuone)
Thursday 29 August
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Billiard Hall
9.30-11.00 Narrativizing and Stylizing Violence
Variants and Consequences of Violence in Iris Murdoch’s The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Jakob Lothe, Professor of English, University of Oslo
Style and the Violence of Passivity in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is
Amanda Dennis, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
Murders and Interpretations: On the (Im)possibility of Tasteful Representation of Violence
Tero Vanhanen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki
11.00-11.15 COFFEE
11.15-12.45 OUR VIOLENT CENTURY
Terrorism Against Asylum-Seekers in Finland: What Happened in the Fall of 2015?
Heikki Kovalainen, Novelist and Philosopher, Tampere
Witnessing Kashmir: Narratives of Horrorism in a Necropolitical Postcoloniality
Amrita Ghosh, Postdoctoral Researcher in Postcolonial Studies, Linneaus University
Violent Silence: Censorship, Counter-Narrative and Cover-Ups
Avril Tynan, Postdoctoral Researcher in Literature, University of Turku
12.45-13.45 LUNCH AND DISCUSSION OF FUTURE PLANS