March 27 2026, 9.00-16.30
University of Turku, Arcanum Arc270 & Zoom (link will be posted in the event & can be found on SELMA website)
How is time represented in works that purport to, or are generally assumed to, capture real events? How do diverse conceptualizations of memory (from St. Augustine to Walter Benjamin, from Sigmund Freud to recent developments in cognitive science) shape and/or shed light on the representation of time and memory? How does fiction represent traumatic memories or illness? In this symposium organised by former SELMA visiting scholar, Dr. Sara Villamarin-Freire, literary scholars from different universities explore topic related to these and even broader questions.
Full programme and abstracts:
https://sites.utu.fi/selma/27-3-symposium-time-memory-and-representation/
If you are planning to participate on-site, please sign up so that we can plan the amount of coffee accordingly:
https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/84C82B0DE9A2E9EF
Schedule:
8:45 – 9:00 Arrival
9:00 – 10:15 Panel 1 – Acts of remembrance
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30 Panel 2 – Time and temporality: Entanglements of past and future (I)
11:30 – 12:30 Panel 3 – Time and temporality: Entanglements of past and future (II)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Panel 4 – Cultural memory in public discourse
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:30 Roundtable: Intersections of Time, Memory and Life Writing
You may also like the following events from SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory:
Also check out other
Arts events in Turku,
Literary Art events in Turku.
