The “Deep Spaces” symposium to be held at Tampere University on Friday, 29 May

You are cordially invited to the keyword seminar organised by the research group Spatial Studies and Environmental Humanities (Plural Research Centre, ITC) at Tampere University on Friday, 29 May 2026.

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)