Here you can find the details for this year’s Academic Track.
The academic track is open to all Finncon attendees!
Venue: University of Tampere, Päätalo building (Kalevantie 4)
Sessions will be held in room D11. Keynote will be held in Juhlasali.
Friday 7th July
14.00–15.30 SESSION 1: IMAGINING FUTURES
Chair: Elise Kraatila
Hanna-Riikka Roine & Esko Suoranta: Imagine, Democracy! Preliminary Remarks on SF and the Times of Democracy
Faeze Rezaii: Transplanetary Visions of the Future and Blindness to the Inorganic
16.00–17.30 SESSION 2: SPECULATIVE PASTS
Chair: Esko Suoranta
Isla Parkkola: The Agency of the Kalevala and the Porosity of Time in Timo Parvela’s Children’s fantasy Trilogy Guardians of the Sampo (2007–2009)
Aasa Timonen: From the Age of Strife to Era Indomitus: Construction and Impact of Historical Fiction Timeline in Warhammer 40 000
Veera Mäkelä: Romance Regency of Regency Romance
Saturday 8th July
10.00–11.30 SESSION 3: TIME AND SPACE
Chair: Hanna-Riikka Roine
Sonja Mikkonen: Spatial Features as Indicators for Time
Essi Varis: Spatio-Temporal Imagination of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Kuu Aholainen: Space-Time-Continuum – The Apollo Program in the novel “Kuumatka” by Erkki Ahonen
13.00–14.00 KEYNOTE
Guest of Honor, Professor Marek Oziewicz: Fantasy, Ecocentric Temporalities, and Climate Literacy: a Brief Reflection with Riffs on Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to the Ground and Brian Selznick’s Big Tree
14.00–15.30 SESSION 4: GENDER AND GENRE
Chair: Tiina Kymäläinen
Sonja Bläuer: Reproductive Rights and Climate Change in Twenty-First Century Women’s Speculative Fiction
Luna Erica: Electricity is Power: Metaphors of the Matriarchy in Naomi Alderman’s The Power
Oskari Rantala: Comics within Comics in Alan Moore’s comics: Metatextuality and Medial Self-awareness
16.00–17.30 SESSION 5: STRANGE TEMPORALITIES
Chair: Essi Varis
Eero Suoranta: “Time Flies Past the Laborer”? Labor, Alienation, and Time in “The Fish of Lijiang” and “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight”
Yilun Fan: Stranger in a Strange Land: the Prehistory of Chinese Time Travel Narratives
Sunday 9th July
10.00–11.30 SESSION 6: DYSTOPIAN VISIONS
Chair: Veera Mäkelä
Essi Vatilo: Responsible Times in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Jani Ylönen: A Temporary Class, Recurring Discourses – Engineered Infertility and Discourses of Class in Contemporary Science Fiction
Anupam Kamal Sen: Omar El Akkad’s American War: the “Present” in the Dystopian Future
12.00–13.30 SESSION 7: RETHINKING CLASSICS
Chair: Sonja Mikkonen
Hollie Willis: Exploring Necro-Geography and Temporality in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Tristan Reid: Orwell’s Deathbed Novel: How terminal diagnosis impacted the dystopian mood of Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Hanne Juntunen: Rhythms of Transformation in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
14.00–15.30 SESSION 8: GROWTH AND CHANGE
Chair: Markus Laukkanen
Alice Langley: A Quest for (Im)Mortality: Holly Black’s Use of Changelings, Time, and Transformation
Anne Martin: Personal Lived Experience in Speculative Fiction Writing
Marjut Puhakka: Smart Zombies
Akateemisen ohjelman järjestää FinFar
Yhteys: academic@2023.finncon.org
