Worlds, Meanings and Markets of Fiction

An International Congress at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, 6-8 November, 2014

Key speakers:

Richard Walsh (University of York, UK), Howard Sklar (University of Helsinki), MarinaGrishakova (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Hanna Meretoja (University of Tampere and University of Turku)

Contact information: Samuli Hägg (samuli.hagg@uef.fi) and Markku Lehtimäki (markku.lehtimaki@uef.fi).

More information and the program.

Literary Culture in Contemporary Market Capitalism

Literary Culture in Contemporary Market Capitalism

 An International Congress at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus

11-12 May, 2012

Key speaker: Fredric Jameson, Duke University, US

Detailed information on the program (including two lectures by Professor Jameson) on our conferences site.

On Thursday the 10th of May, Professor Jameson will give another talk in Helsinki.

Our conference in November: The Art World in a New Historical Situation

The Art World in a New Historical Situation

 From the Protection of the Expansive Welfare State towards a Market-Based Cultural Policy, or from the Relatively Autonomous Sphere of Art towards an Instrumental Conception of Art

University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus,

3-5 November, 2011

Main speakers: Victoria Alexander (Great Britain), Ales Erjavec (Slovenia), Egge Kulbok (Estonia), Antoine Hennion (France), Alain Quemin (France) and Vera Zolberg (the United States).

Please see the preliminary program on our conference site.

The ESA Conference in September

We are pleased to announce that we will have a poster at the ESA conference in Geneva:

“Market-based Turn in Contemporary Finnish Art World.” (Häyrynen, Lampela, Logrén, Sevänen.) 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Geneva, Switzerland, 7th-10th September, 2011.

Some starting points:

 

Individual presentations at the ESA conference include:

• Erkki Sevänen: “The Contemporary Sphere of Art from the Standpoint of System-Theoretical Sociology”
• Anne Logrén: “Configurations of Public Art and Place”

The project has started

The project has started and will last until the end of 2014.

The opening seminar “Contemporary Art as a Source for Alternative and Critical Consciousness” was held in Joensuu in December 2010. Those of you who read Finnish can find the program here.