[Kaupunkitutkimus] 3rd ALUS symposium – “Urban Space in Postmodern Literature”, University of Helsinki, Friday 19.5.2017

[Lieven Ameel]

Welcome to the third symposium of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (former HLCN), with as theme “Urban Space in Postmodern Literature”

The symposium will be held at the University of Helsinki, Friday 19 May 2017. Time and place: 10h-15h; place: Metsätalo, Sali 9.


“Urban Space in Postmodern Literature” offers a meeting where researchers can present ongoing work related to city literature, as well as a theory reading. Anyone interested in urban literary studies is most welcome to join the symposium. Please do sign up if you intend to participate (by mail to lieven.ameel at uta.fi) before 18.5.2017.


For more information on the association see http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hlc-n/

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Programme:


10.15-11.45: welcome, presentations
Lieven Ameel (comparative literature, University of Tampere): “The Fold in Postmodern City Literature: Unravelling Ontological Uncertainties”

Hannu Poutiainen (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tampere): “Contretemps on Witchery Street: Jacques Yonnet's Supernatural Paris”

Jason Finch (English literature, Åbo Akademi): “Dissident Cities: Planning and Orality as Responses to Change in Post-Imperial Liverpool and Bradford, 1930-90”



11.45-12.45: Discussion and theory reading – concepts in literary urban studies



The discussion and theory reading will centre on the concept of (new) materialities in the context of modern urban theory and the study of literature (see below).



12.45-13.45: lunch break



14.00-15.00: literary urban studies editorial meeting


For more information on the seminar or the association: contact lieven.ameel at uta.fi<mailto:lieven.ameel at uta.fi>



Theory reading texts:

"Interrogating the Founding Gestures of the New Materialism"

http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/4461/5707

”Object Lessons: The New Materialism in U.S. Literature and Culture”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/199885
”Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics by Christopher Breu (review)”

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/594600



with best regards,


on behalf of the Association for Literary Urban Studies,


Lieven Ameel


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Dr., docent Lieven Ameel
University Lecturer
School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies (LTL)
University of Tampere
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/urbannarratives/
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