III AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL THEORY Time in Culture: Mediation and Representation Tartu, Estonia October 28 30, 2010 Programme Wednesday, October 27 19.00 Welcoming reception (for presenters only) Guild Hall of St. Anthony s Guild (Lutsu 3) Thursday, October 28 10.30-11.00 Opening of the conference University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall (Ülikooli 18) 11.00-12.30 Plenary lecture Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University) The Genealogical Imagination: A Case-Study in the Sociology of Time University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall (Ülikooli 18) 12.30-14.00 Lunch (registered participants only) Restoran Entri (Rüütli 9) 14.00-16.00 Session I: 1 Moderator: Anne Kull (University of Tartu) Elżbieta Hałas (University of Warsaw) Semiotics of History. Implications of George H. Mead s Theory of Time Peeter Torop (University of Tartu) Micro- and Macro-time in Text Dynamics Katalin Kroó (University ELTE, Budapest) Text Dynamics in Terms of Time: Object- and Meta-levels 1
Lauri Jäntti (University of Eastern Finland) Futurist Existence Session I: 2 Moderator: Ülo Valk (University of Tartu) Marek Tamm (Tallinn University) Towards a Poetics of Historical Time Friedrich von Petersdorff (Germany) Levels of Time within Historiography Ester Võsu, Emanuele Bardone (University of Tartu, University of Pavia) Temporality of Affordances: The Smoke Sauna as a Current Taskscape in Southeast Estonia Halliki Harro-Loit, Anu Pallas (University of Tartu) Revealing Mnemonic Hills and Dales in the Estonian Dailies: Methodological Challenges 16.00-16.30 Coffee break 16.30-18.00 Plenary lecture Carmen Leccardi (University of Milan-Bicocca) The Acceleration of Time and Its Consequences University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall (Ülikooli 18) 20.00 Reception (registered participants only) - White Hall of History Museum (Lossi 25) Friday, October 29 10.00-12.00 Session II: 1 Moderator: Pille Runnel (University of Tartu) Panel: Texts, Technologies and Temporalities: Mediating Time in Modernity Emily Keightley (Loughborough University) Introduction to Panel Anna Reading (London South Bank University) New Time? Reconceptualising Time in the Digital Age 2
Michael Pickering (Loughborough University) Sonic Horizons: Recorded Music and Temporal Experience David Deacon (Loughborough University) Credit Crunches and Great Crashes : the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Journalists Search for Historical Precedence Session II: 2 Moderator: Halliki Harro-Loit (University of Tartu) Merja Ellefson (Stockholm University) The Flying Arc and the End of Times Newspaper Coverage of the Korpela Movement in Spring 1935 Maarja Lõhmus, Hannu Nieminen, Ragne Kõuts, Agnes Aljas (University of Tartu, University of Helsinki) Journalistic time : Time in Estonian, Finnish and Russian Journalism (1905 2010) Andres Kõnno (University of Tartu) The Study of Topics as a Tool for Understanding Longitudinal Change in the Mass Mediated Understanding of Reality. The Study of Estonian, Finnish and Russian Media in the Course of 20th Century Staffan Ericson, Amanda Lagerkvist (Södertörn University, Uppsala University) The Times of Television 12.00-13.00 Lunch (registered participants only) - Restoran Entri (Rüütli 9) 13.00-15.00 Session III: 1 Moderator: Madis Arukask (University of Tartu) Kirsi-Maria Hytönen (University of Jyväskylä) Time and Interpretation in the Oral History Study Marshall Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Superior) National Protention: Practice, Preservation and the Forthcoming Juri M. Plusnin (Novosibirsk State University) Time Estimations in the Crisis Years. Russia, 1991-2010 Valeria Jakobson, Anu Pallas, Triin Vihalemm (University of Tartu) Crossroads and Gaps of Mnemohistories in Different Ethnic Communities Media in Estonia 3
Session III: 2 Moderator: Katre Pärn (University of Tartu) Inge Melchior (VU University Amsterdam) The Fit between Public and Personal Memories in Estonia Outi Fingerroos (University of Jyväskylä) Abstract and Concrete Utopias Tiiu Kreegipuu (University of Tartu) Constructing Calendar Time: Introduction and Development of Soviet Holiday Cycle in Estonia in Years 1945-1985 Katrin Kello (University of Tartu) Mediating Past in History Lessons Facing Dilemmas of Construction and Deconstruction? 15.00-15.30 Coffee break Session IV:1 15.30-17.30 Moderator: Ergo-Hart Västrik (University of Tartu) Irina Novikova (University of Latvia) Racing Historical Time in Soviet Cinema Marek Miil (University of Tartu) Temporality of Propaganda. The Case of Liberating Tallinn in Soviet Estonian Propaganda Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu) Safe Moments of Recognition: Sessions of Soviet Film Music in Present-Day Estonia Kirsti Jõesalu, Raili Nugin (University of Tartu, Tallinn University) Touched by the Unknown or Experiencing the Known? Soviet Pasts in Cultural Texts of the 1970s Cohort Session IV:2 15.30-18.00 Moderator: Carlo A. Cubero (Tallinn University) Patrick Laviolette (Tallinn University) Fast Forwarding the Flâneur Maarja Kaaristo (University of Tartu) Temporality and Tourist Experience: the Flux of Journey 4
Serena Volpi (Brunel University) Anthropological Distance and Time in Zora Neale Hurston s Mules and Men Iisa af Ursin (University of Turku) How is it Possible to Think a Quarter of an Hour in One and a Half Minutes? The Problem of Time in Julio Cortázar s Short Stories Caroline Levisse (University of Paris VIII) Chaotic Temporalities in Today s Images: Homeless Myths and Unlimited Possible Narratives 19.00 Film session at the Estonian National Museum (Kuperjanovi 9) - Disco and Atomic War (Disko ja tuumasõda, Jaak Kilmi 2009, 80 ). A story about growing up in the Soviet Union. Saturday, October 30 10.00-12.00 Round table Moderator: Aili Aarelaid-Tart Assisting moderator: Halliki Harro-Loit Participants: organizers of the conference, CECT research group leaders, plenary speakers, members of the Expert Council of CECT 12.00-12.30 Coffee break 12.30-13.30 Final discussion (moderators of the sessions) 13.30-13.45 Closing of the conference 5
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