Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus

The 9th International Conference of Baltic Literary Scholars
28 – 29 October 2011
6 Roosikrantsi str, Tallinn, Estonia 

The 9th Conference of Baltic Literary Scholars will concentrate on the issue of memory transformations: how different kinds of memories, including collective, individual, cultural and historical memories, function and appear in contemporary culture, and how different kinds of memories interact and appear together in literature and art.

How contemporary literature uses memory and reminiscences, how literature preserves or contorts historical truth, and how the representation, interpretations and reception of historical and mythic motifs which exist in our cultural memory have changed, as well as how reality and fantasy have mixed in memory and literature? The representation of different historical periods will be under discussion, from the old mythical times which exist in our cultural memory to the nearest past. Between these periods exist different colonial discourses, as well as the Soviet discourse which connects the Baltic States and other East European countries, and these discourses appear again and again in contemporary culture and literature.

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Friday, October 28 / Reede, 28. oktoober

10.00 – 10.30 Opening / konverentsi avamine
Anneli Mihkelev (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre)

Olaf Mertelsmann (University of Tartu)
Introduction: History and Memory in the Baltics 

10.30 – 12.00 How and Why We Remember?
Chair / juhatab: Marjaana Svala 
10.30 – 11.00 Mari Sarv (Estonian Literary Museum)
There's a Grain of Truth in Every Story
11.00 – 11.30 Benedikts Kalnačs (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia),
Transformations of Colonial Narratives in Postcolonial Baltic Literatures
11.30 – 12.00 Marek Kaźmierczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
The Past in Transition: The Reception of the Holocaust in the Contemporary Literature

12.00 – 12.30  Coffee break / Kohvipaus

12.30 – 14.30 Memory and Theatre
Chair / juhatab: Benedikts Kalnačs
12.30 – 13.00 Eleonora Jedlińska (University of Lodz)
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990): The Artist, his Theatre and Memory of the Holocaust
13.00 – 13.30 Anneli Saro (University of Tartu)
Processing of Soviet memories in Baltic theatre and drama
13.30 – 14.00 Zane Radzobe (University of Latvia)
Theatre as a memory machine: exploring and re-inventing cultural and social memories in performances by Alvis Hermanis
14.00 – 14.30 Piret Kruuspere (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, Estonia)
Dreams and Memories: Three Plays by Madis Kõiv

14.30 – 16.00 Lunch break / Lõuna

16.00 – 17.30 Memory and Soviet Time
Chair / juhatab: Maija Burima
16.00 – 16.30 Aare Pilv (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre)
Rudolf Sirge: A Case of Rewriting History
16.30 – 17.00 Dalia Satkauskytė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
Return of (Non)Soviet Hero: the Case of Vladas' Šimkus' Poetry
17.00 – 17.30 Anneli Kõvamees (Tallinn University)
Insight Into Estonian Prison Camp Literature

Saturday, October 29 / Laupäev, 29. oktoober

10.00 – 12.00 Existentialism, Memory and War
Chair / juhatab: Eleonora Jedlińska
10.00 – 10.30 Epp Annus (Estonian Literary Museum)
Transformations of Existentialism in Estonian literary discourse
10.30 – 11.00 Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Voluntary Memory: a Post-Soviet Autobiographical Narratives
11.00 – 11.30 Elina Liikanen (University of Helsinki)
Representations of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath in third-generation novel
11.30 – 12.00 Renata Sõukand and Raivo Kalle (Estonian Literary Museum)
Folk Medicine in Modern Herbals: Out of Context Generalizations

12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break / Kohvipaus

12.30 – 14.30 Narratives of Historical Past, Amnesia and Traumas
Chair / juhatab: Grazyna Gajewska 
12.30 – 13.00 Marjaana Svala (University of Helsinki)
Amnesia, Historical Past and Ethics in Torgny Lindgren’s Pölsan
13.00 – 13.30 Tomas Kavaliauskas (University of Kaunas)
To Eat Surstrioming or not to Eat It? – the Dillema for Emancipation in the Travelogue My Scandinavia 
 13.30 – 14.00 Leena Mäkelä-Marttinen (Kymenlaakso University)
Varieties of Masculine Subjectivity in the Finnish Modern Literature. Eero Tarasti's Z-model comparing to M. M. Bakhtin's Theory of Novel
14.00 – 14.30 Berit Kaschan (Tallinn University)
Jurga Ivanauskaite's The Witch and the Rain as a trauma narrative

14.30 – 15.30 Lunch break / Lõuna

15.30 – 17.30 Contemporary Plays With Memory
Chair / juhatab: Anneli Saro
15.30 – 16.00 Artur Kamczycki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
Yizkor, the Jewish way of Memory. The Case of Christian Boltansky's Art
16.00 – 16.30 Maija Burima (Latvian University Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art; Daugavpils University)
Representation of Latvia and Latvians in Contemporary Latvian Literature
16.30 – 17.00 Anneli Mihkelev (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre; Tallinn University)
Grotesque and Memory in Contemporary Estonian Culture
17.00 – 17.30 Grazyna Gajewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
Postmemory in the popular culture on the example of the comic novel Achtung Zelig! and The Second War by Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz & Krystian Rosenberg

18.30 Reception and closing of the conference at The Museum of the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre / Vastuvõtt ja konverentsi lõpetamine Nõmmel UTKK muuseumosakonnas. 

Conference is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia