VOICE, MIGRATION, NARRATION
Interdiciplinary Research seminar with Mieke Bal 11.-12.3.2007
Location: Academy of Fine Arts, Kasarmikatu 36, 00130 Helsinki.
Seminar room: 262a, 2nd floor
Research seminar is intended for PhD students both at the universities and the
Academy of Arts.
It opens by Mieke Bal’s discussion on Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s work Talo (House) in the
presence of artist and continues with PhD students presentations and discussion on
Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday morning continues with the presentation of Mieke Bal’s documentary The
Mille et un jours and discussion on voice and how to implement voices without
overruling the voice of the other.
If you want to attend the seminar and / or represent your work (orally) please send an
application to Outi Hakola by February 19 description your work and interest to
participate this seminar by few sentences. If you want present your work send also an
abstract of maximum 300 words. Presentations are limited to 15 minutes to allow time
for discussion.
outi.j.hakola(at)helsinki.fi
Required pre reading (2 articles) and the acceptance for the seminar will be sent by
February 22.
Seminar will continue at the Ateneum sali, in the Ateneum Art Museum on 12.3.2008
at 13.30-18.00.
Hearing Voices, or How to Not Speak for the Other.
Mieke Bal’s screening and lecturing on intercultural filmmaking, open to public.
Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist and critic. She is currently Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor and is based at the Amsterdam School for
cultural Analysis (ASCA).
Her areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and
contemporary art, feminism and migratory culture. She is also a video-artist. Her
experimental documentaries on migration include The Mille et un jours, Colony and
the installation Nothing is Missing.
Homepage: www.miekebal.org
Seminar and visit are organized by the research project Representing and sensing
nature, landscape and gender (The Academy of Finland, directed by Kirsi
Saarikangas) in cooperation with the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Ateneum and
Finnish Women’s Studies Doctoral School.
More information:
kirsi.saarikangas(at)helsinki.fi
hanna.johansson(at)kuva.fi