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Preliminary Conference Programme
Printable version of the programme (pdf)
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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| 8.00– | Registration desk opens |
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| 9.30–11.00 | OPENING SESSION Welcoming words by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, Local Organizer, University of Oulu FIRST PLENARY Introduction by Professor Anthony Johnson, University of Oulu The Latitudes of Twilight
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| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee break |
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| 11.30–13.00 |
WRITING THE NORTH Chair: Anne Pitkänen-Huhta Ozarska, Magdalena: Mary Wollstonecraft as Narrator of Scandinavian Letters and her Private Correspondence Wolfe, Stephen F.: Moving “Geographic Missionaries” into the Arctic: John Barrow’s Writings in the Quarterly Review, 1816-1820 Bjørhovde, Gerd: Women writers in/and/of the Canadian North: From Margaret Atwood’s “linoleum caves” to Aritha van Herk’s “northerns” |
FLEXIBLE READERS: MEDIATING AESTHETIC INTERACTION Convener/Chair: Kokkola, Lydia: Introduction to the project: Flexible Readers: Mediating Aesthetic Interaction Siltanen, Elina: Voices of Others: Redefining Communication in Contemporary American Experimental Poetry Ecksturm-Rudd, Antje: “Changing all the givens”: Interrogating generic meaning formation in Martin Amis’s Night Train |
MULTIMODALITY Chair: Pentti Haddington Koivistoinen, Hilkka, Leena Kuure & Elina Tapio: Multimodal Action and Networked Interaction in Language Learning and Work Laitinen, Mikko: From Helsinki to Oulu by bicycle: The uses of English in multilingual public texts in urban and rural Finland Alanen, Anukaisa: Language exposure via print interpreting |
| 13.00–14.30 | Lunch At Snellmania |
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| 14.30–16.00 |
IMAGINED LANDSCAPES Chair: Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Curry, Alice: ‘A man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s heaven for?’; The North as Geographical Blind Space in Julie Bertagna’s Exodus (2002) and Zenith (2007) Jylhä, Eva-Jo: Imagined Landscapes: the image of the small New England town in Alice Hoffman’s Massachusetts novels Haratyan, Farzaneh: Female Identity in Spatial Utopia |
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND NORMS: FOCUSING ON USES OF ENGLISH IN FINLAND Conveners: Mikko Laitinen, Sirpa Leppänen & Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne, Kari Nissinen & Samu Kytölä: Attitudes towards English in Finland: contrasting survey results with public discussion Leppänen, Sirpa, Leila Kääntä & Elina Westinen: ‘Monkey English’ by Finnish politicians: Jinkerson, Alicia, Mikko Laitinen & Saija Peuronen: “Tankerous English”: Searching for norms and normativity in public discus-sions on English used by present-day Finns |
BODIES IN SOCIAL PLACES Convener/Chair: Haddington, Pentti & Mirka Rauniomaa: "Hit the green button": Answering the phone while driving Niemelä, Maarit & Mirka Rauniomaa: Meaning in the making of coffee Kärkkäinen, Elise & Tiina Keisanen: Social Action Formats in Face-to-Face Interaction in English |
| 16.00–16.30 | Coffee break |
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| 16.30–17.00 | Literature Online |
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| 17.00–19.00 | Reception given by the University of Oulu At Julinia |
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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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| 8.30 – | INFORMATION DESK OPENS |
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| 9.00–10.30 | LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE VARIATION Chair: Matti Rissanen Opas-Hänninen, Lisa Lena, Ilkka Juuso, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. & Tapio Seppänen: LAP, LICHEN, and DASS – Experiences combining Data and Tools Haines, James: “Crawl back lo ul blo kuka”: Tok Pisin-English Code Switching |
DRAMATIC, FILM AND SOCIAL SPACE Chair: Keith Battarbee Skovmand, Michael: Exits and Entrances in Shakespeare’s Plays Wolfe, Jill F.T: “Old Favourites and New Candidates for Public Favour”: The Pantomime and Transgressive Theatrical Representation in Lerwick Shetland, 1878-1880. |
ROMANCE TO FANTASY / LITERATURE AND POLITICS Chair: Bent Sørensen Imai, Mitsunori: Visiting the Other World in Middle English Romance And its Reflection in a Present-Day American Novel Grötsch, Sandra: Fantastic beasts, their origins and habitats in the Harry Potter-series by J.K. Rowling Merivirta, Raita: Midnight’s Children, Indira Gandhi and Indian Politics |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee break |
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| 11.00–12.30 | LINGUSTICS / Chair: Elise Kärkkäinen Yu, Changrong: Expression of Emotion and its Analysis in English Conversation Hunyadi, Laszlo: The Cognitive Basis for the Prosody-syntax Interface Watanabe, Shinichiro: A Cross-linguistic Study of Diphthongs and Diphthongization |
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS IN POETRY AND SONG Chair: Anthony Johnson Chair: Anthony Johnson Porter, Gerald: “When the wind’s in the north . . .” The Cross-gendered Song Narrative in Northern Ireland Białas, Zbigniew: English (Echoes) in the North: On Vocal and Linguistic Organization of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Thomas Sørensen, Bent: Hanging on a Star - Notes on Nick Drake’s lyrics as Expressions of Nostalgia and Existential Depression |
REAL PLACE IN LITERATURE Convener/Chair: Jason Finch Finch, Jason: Where Does Literature Meet Place? Borch, Adam: ‘This Sacred Floor’: Perspectives on Alexander Pope’s Grotto in Relation to Verses on a Grotto by the River Thames at Twickenham, Composed of Marbles, Spars, and Minerals Finch, Eva: Ishiguro’s Unconsoling Place |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.00–15.30 | THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION TECHNOLOGIES Convener/Chair: Hunyadi, Laszlo: Theoretical foundations for a spontaneous, multimodal HCI communication model Papay, Kinga: The prosodic phrase structure of spontaneous speech – modelling and application in automatic speech recognition Fazekas, Attila: Face analysis and the simultaneous processing of audio and video channels in human-computer interaction |
FILM AND THE NORTH Chair: Gerd Bjørhovde Matheson, Sue: The Silly North: atavism and appetite in The Gold Rush (1925) and The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) Varga, Darrel: Lessons in Time: Canadian Drama and Documentary in the North Craig, Terrence L.: “The Global Warming of Canadian Literature” |
LITERATURE, ETHICS AND CHANGING MODES OF REPRESENTATION Chair: Michael Skovmand Rainsford, Dominic: Quantification, Commensurability, and the Ethics of Literature Dougherty, Stephen: Remediation and the Politics of Information in Geoff Ryman’s Air Sklar, Howard: “I Never Knew About These Things Before”: The Representation of Intellectual Disability in Flowers for Algernon
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| 15.30–16.00 | Coffee break |
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| 16.00–17.30 | SECOND PLENARY Introduction by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, University of Oulu Language Variation
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| 18.30–20.30 | Reception given by the City of Oulu At Oulu City Hall |
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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Friday, June 11th, 2010
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| 8.30 – | INFORMATION DESK OPENS |
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| 9.00–10.30 | STUDIES IN IRISH PROSE Chair: John Braidwood Tiusanen, Jukka: Swift the Irish Satirist and the Consolations of the Ideal Elias. Camelia: My Breath in Brackets: Beckett and Epistemologies of Creative Writing Gray, William: “Less like marching, more like meditation”: Zen Buddhism, Haiku and the theme of tolerance in the work of Chris Arthur |
LANGUAGE LEARNING Chair: Leena Kuure Niskanen, Karen: Language Learning Experiences in a Multicultural Setting Meriläinen, Lea: “English can Finland well”: L1-induced error patterns in Finnish students’ written English as indicators of a change in their language proficiency during 1990-2005 |
(POPULAR LITERATURES) SESSION CANCELLED (Kirk, Jens: “Contained within these borders”: Narrative Strategies of Containment in Examples of Jane Austen Fan Fiction) (Soikkonen, Leila: The Problematics of Studying Pulp Fiction) (Mäntymäki, Tiina: “We don’t leave our people behind” Nation and the Trauma of Meeting the Other in Stargate SG-1) |
| 10.30–11.30 | COFFEE & POSTERS Posters to be presented at NAES-FINSSE 2010:
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| 11.30–13.00 | IRISH POETRY IN THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY Chair: Gerald Porter Braidwood, John: Belonging from afar: the image of North in the poetry of Michael Hartnett Karhio, Anne: ´How to read sorrow rightly?' Hugo Simberg and Contemporary Irish poetry Wiland, Signe Mari: Norwegian Students Reading Seamus Heaney’s ”Mid-Term Break” |
Chair: James Haines Suoniemi, Paula: Morphosyntactic Variation in the Progressive: a Glimpse into World Englishes Hynninen, Niina: Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca Interaction Battarbee, Keith: English Among the Other Languages of the North: Language Policies in Cultural Perspective in Circum-Arctic North America
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THE GROTESQUE AND THE UNNATURAL Conveners: Markku Salmela & Jarkko Toikkanen Uotinen, Timo: ’Gainst Nature Still: Reading the Murder of Duncan Toikkanen, Jarkko: The Unnaturalness of Nature: Robert Frost’s “The Fear” Salmela, Markku: The Grotesque Landscape and the Naturalistic Method: Frank Norris’s Death Valley and Jack London’s Klondike |
| 13.00–14.30 | Lunch |
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| 14.30–16.00 | ‘North revisited: A Celebration of the Poetry of Séamus Heaney’ Music & Poems |
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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
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| 8.30 – | INFORMATION DESK OPENS |
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| 9.00–10.30 | LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION Convener/Chair: Roger Sell Sell, Roger D.: Literary-Communicational Theory Lindgrén, Inna: “The White Man’s Burden” and Kipling’s Dream of a Global Community Kokkola, Lydia: “A quick look at incest”: Communicating across the adult-child boundary |
18TH AND 19TH CENTURY STUDIES: Chair: Jukka Tiusanen Hildebrand, Kristina: De-anglifying Bertram: from forger to foreigner Braidwood, Eva: The Orphean lyre: Wordsworth’s vanishing women Alarauhio, Juha-Pekka: In Search of a Dialogical Position to Matthew Arnold |
EARLY ENGLISH STUDIES Chair: William A. Kretzschmar Haumann, Dagmar: Word Order Variation in NP in Old English: Adnominal Adjectives Revisited Salmi, Hanna: ‘Hule, artu wod?’ Interactive features in early Middle English dialogue Klitgård, Ebbe: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Danish: A Translation Critique |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee break |
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| 11.00–12.30 | NARRATIVE STUDIES Chair: Roger Sell Petterson, Bo: Exploring the Relation between Extended Metaphor and Narrative in Literature Johnson, Anthony, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen & Ilkka Juuso: The Time Machine: An investigation into the temporal representation and the Scottish Historical Novel |
WOMEN, PLACE AND IDENTITY Chair: Camelia Elias Korkalainen, Katrin: Educating the Stranger: Responses to the Thought of John Dewey and His Contemporaries in Anzia Yezierska’s Immigrant Writings Dubova, Galina: Rebecca West – the Writer out of the Canon. Martikainen, Anna: The Journey Motif in Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News |
LANGUAGE LEARNING Chair: Shinichiro Watanabe Skaffari, Janne & Pekka Lintunen: Does Good Grammar Make a Good Student? Hekanaho, Minna & Leena Kuure: Virtual, Physical, Mobile: A Nexus Analysis of a Student Project |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.00–16.00 | CLOSING SESSION Closing remarks Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, University of Oulu Anthony Johnson, University of Oulu THIRD PLENARY Introduction by Professor Bo Pettersson, University of Helsinki
Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication, with examples from literature
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| 16.00–17.00 | General meeting of NAES |
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| 19.00–00.00 | CONFERENCE BANQUET |
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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
10.00–16.00 Post conference excursion to Kierikki Stone Age Centre
The conference banquet and the post conference excursion are at extra cost. Please see Social Programme for more information.
