The program and schedule for the ‘Glocal Metamodernisms’ Conference is now available.
Program and Schedule (EEST timezone UTC+03:00)
Venue: The old festival hall S212, The Seminarium building (second floor), The Seminaarinmäki Campus of the University of Jyväskylä
Thursday 27th April 2023
9:30am –10:00am
Registration
10:00am – 10:15am
Opening Remarks: Mika Hallila
10:15am – 11:00am
Keynote I
Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo): “Postcard from Bielefeld. Epistemic Dispossession and the Hermeneutics of Suspense”
Chair: Mika Hallila
11:15am – 12:15pm
Session 1: Digital Spaces and Technologies
Chair: Heta Marttinen
Markus Laukkanen (Tampere University): “Metamodernism: The Cultural Logic of the Age of the Internet”
Gia Milinovich (Central Saint Martins): “Metamodern Space”
12:15pm – 1:15pm
Lunch, Restaurant Tilia, free of charge for presenters and invitees
1:15pm – 2:00pm
Keynote II
Kristina Malmio (University of Helsinki): “After, Meta, or Planetary? Multistrand Narration in Finland-Swedish Contemporary Novels and the Competing Frames of Interpretation”
Chair: Mika Hallila
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Session 2: Poetics of the Metamodern Novel
Chair: Kasimir Sandbacka
Samuli Björninen (Tampere University):“Postmodernism after Postmodernism or Metamodernism without Postmodernism: Katja Raunio’s Sinun päiväs koittaa (2020) and the Challenge of Periodizing the Contemporary Finnish Novel”
Simon Radchenko (University of Turin): “The Rebellion of Things in the Metamodern Writing of Vladimir Sorokin”
Eila Rantonen (University of Turku): “Poetics of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Novels and Metamodernism”
3:45pm – 4:15pm
Afternoon coffee and tea for presenters and invitees, S212 hall lounge
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Session 3: Literary Genres and Metamodernism
Chair: Sanna Karkulehto
Paula Romero Polo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Autofiction as a (Glocal) Metamodern Genre: Sabina Urraca’s Las niñas prodigioand the Use of Digital epitexts”
Elise Kraatila (Tampere University): “Metamodernist Ethos in 21st-century Speculative Fiction”
Riikka Pirinen (Tampere University): “Echoes of Modernism: Literary Epiphany and Metamodernism in Contemporary Short Story
6:15pm
Art exhibition opening and cocktail dinner for presenters and invitees at the Jyväskylä University Library Lähde
Friday 28th April 2023
10:00am – 10:45am
Keynote III
Antony Rowland (Manchester Metropolitan University): “Clowning Poetics”
Chair: Mika Hallila
11:00am – 12:30pm
Session 4: Expressions of Metamodernism in Finnish Poetry Chair: Juri Joensuu
Anna Helle (University of Turku): “Environmental Emotions and Metamodernism in Contemporary Finnish Poetry”
Liisa Savolainen (University of Jyväskylä): “The Human Paradox in the Anthropocene: Reimagining the Metamodern Human and Non-human in Pauliina Haasjoki’s Anthologies Promessaand Nausikaa”
Miikka Laihinen (University of Turku) “’On this languedge’ –a Balancing Act of Expression, or, Sensibility to Threat?”
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch, Restaurant Tilia, free of charge for presenters and invitees
1:30pm – 2:15pm
Keynote IV
Robin van den Akker: “Glocal Metamodernisms: Notes on the Cultural Logic of Global Capitalism”
Chair: Mika Hallila
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Session 5: Metamodern Theory and Methodologies
Chair: Salli Anttonen
Kasimir Sandbacka (University of Oulu): From Performatism to Zeteticism –the Theoretical Context of Metamodernism
Brent Cooper (independent researcher): “Operationalizing Metamodernism: A Generative Model”
Usha Wilbers and Dennis Kersten (Radboud University): “Glocal Metamodernisms: A Case for Reception Studies”
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Afternoon coffee and tea for presenters and invitees, S212 hall lounge
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Session 6: Metamodern Pop Culture
Chair: Anna Helle
Greg Dember (independent researcher): “’What is Wrong with Everybody?’ —The Alienated Creative Hero in Metamodern Intersectional Television”
Salli Anttonen (University of Eastern Finland): “Authenticity, Retro and Metamodernism: Qualitative Case Study of Finnish Indie Pop Duo Maustetytöt”
Graham Young (La Trobe University): “The Failure of Third Way Politics: Metamodernism and Political Advertising”
6:00pm – 6:15pm
Closing Remarks: Kasimir Sandbacka and Antony Rowland