The seminar titled “Deep Spaces” will take place at 9:30-16:30 on the city centre campus at Pinni B 1028-29. You can find the seminar programme below.
All interested staff and students are welcome!
If you would like to join the seminar, please contact Sarah Vincent at sarah.vincent@tuni.fi or Johannes Riquet at johannes.riquet@tuni.fi.
Deep Spaces symposium programme:
Panel 1 – 9:30-10:30
Tetyana Kasima: Porosity and Micro-Urban Experiences in Jhumpa Lhiri and Clarice Lispector
Mariam Tharwat: Depth without Ground: The Operation of Virtual Spaces
Panel 2 – 11:00-12:00
Markku Salmela: Down the Rabbit Hole of Industrial Modernity: Subversive Undergrounds in Children’s Literature and Picture Books
Johannes Riquet: Allegories of Invisible Labour: Literary Geographies of the Underground in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Panel 3 – 13:00-14:30
Essi Vatilo: Corpses, Mines and Unearthed Climate Guilt in Sean McMullen’s The Precedent
Anna-Tina Jedele: Pondering Deep Space in Contemporary Fiction: Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea and Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
Sarah Vincent: “Between a Hellish Morass and Unlimited Space”: Depth in Jacquetta Hawkes’ A Land
Workshop – 15:00-16:30
Reading and discussion of a chapter from Jacquetta Hawkes’ A Land (1951)