Postcolonial and intermedial research: An exchange of ideas
Symposium at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Scandinavian department and ICG (Instituut voor Cultuur en Geschiedenis)
When: Friday, 18th of February 2011
Where: Doelenzaal, University library Amsterdam, Singel 425
Speakers from Linnaeus university, Sweden (LNU), from Tromsø university, Norway (UiT) and from University of Amsterdam
Programme
09.30 coffee
10.00-10.30 Welcome, info on UvA, ICG , LNU
– Astrid Surmatz (UvA), Short introduction, practical remarks
– Henk van der Liet (UvA), Introduction and presentation “Scandinavian Literary Studies outside Scandinavia. Some stray thoughts”
– Paul Koopman (UvA, ICG), “The Institute for Culture and History”
– Irene Zwiep (UvA, ICG), “Cultural heritage as a research priority area”
– Daniel Bergman (LNU), “Introducing LNU – Linnaeus university, Sweden”
10.30-11.00 section Literary didactics
– Lia van Gemert (UvA): “Literary didactics and popularisation”,
– Åsa Nilsson-Skåve (LNU): “Literature and school teaching”
– Helene Ehriander (LNU): “Introducing CHILLL and a research project on Astrid Lindgren as publisher”
11.00-11.10 coffee and discussions
11.10-12.00 section Postcolonialism/Cultural Studies
– Johan Schimanski/Ulrike Spring (UvA/UiT): “Habsburg Colonialism and the Remedialization of Franz Joseph Land”
– Astrid Surmatz (UvA), “Postcolonial picture-books”
– Piia Posti (LNU) “Australian Literature and Post-colonial Theory”
– Peter Forsgren (LNU) “Reading Swedish Literature Post-colonially”
– Mireille Rosello (UvA) “Queer Europe and Multilingual Europe as New Possibilities for Postcolonial Studies”
12.00-12.10 coffee and discussions
12.10-13.00 section Intermediality
– Magnus Eriksson (LNU): “Teaching Creative Writing”
– Jørgen Bruhn (LNU): “Intermediality in Research and Teaching”
– Charles de Forceville (UvA): “Multimodal discourse in stories and argumentation”
– Tarja Laine (UvA): “Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies”
13.00-13.30 Smalltalk, Meet & Greet
Amongst others, Olga Fischer (UvA, Prof. Germanic and English Linguistics, Iconicity network) joins in
13.30 End of symposium
Short Biographies All Speakers
BERGMAN Daniel Bergman, LNU, Director of studies at the Departments of Comparative literature and Swedish language, Linnaeus University, Sweden.
BRUHN Jørgen Bruhn, LNU, associate professor in Comparative literature, has written monographs on Marcel Proust (with Bo Degn Rasmussen) and M.M. Bakhtin and articles on theory of the novel, medieval literature and culture, on Cervantes and Cassirer, and on intermediality. Recently he published a book-length study called Lovely Violence. The Critical Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010). Currently Bruhn is writing on intermedial theory and adaptation studies and the American TV-series “The Wire”. Member of the research committee (handledarkollegiet).
ERIKSSON Magnus Eriksson, LNU, lecturer in Creative Writing and Arts & Cultural Journalism reviews literature and music for Svenska dagbladet (one of the daily Stockholm papers) and different magazines. He has also published scholarly essays on e.g. Gabriel Garcìa Márquez’ magical realism, the semantics of the music video, gender patterns in the history of Swedish literature, generic analyses of the prose poem, feminist tendencies in contemporary country music, the analysis of ekphrastic poetry, and the Swedish writers Artur Lundkvist, Lars Jakobson, and Björn Ranelid.
EHRIANDER Helene Ehriander, LNU, assistant professor in Comparative literature, defended her thesis on Humanism and the View on History in Kai Söderhjelm’s Historical Novels for Children and Young People, in Comparative Literature at the University of Lund in October 2003. She is currently writing a book on Astrid Lindgren as an editor at the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren and completing a study on Astrid Lindgren as a Swedish icon. Member of Childhood group, coordinator of teaching on Children´s Literature, Astrid Lindgren and Fantasy.
FORCEVILLE Charles Forceville, UvA, Associate professor at Dept. of Media and Culture, director Research MA, lectured earlier at Vrije Universiteit. Published Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising (Routledge 1996), since then interests broadended to multimodal metaphor in various media and genres. Considers structures and rhetoric of multimodal discourse his core business and attempts to be a cogni¬tion scholar in the humanities. Advisory board member Metaphor and Symbol, Journal of Pragmatics, Atlan¬tis, and Public Journal of Semiotics, co-edited Multimodal Metaphor (Mouton de Gruyter 2009). Favoured models: Lakoff & Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Sperber & Wilson’s Relevance Theory. Research and teaching include documentary film, animation, comics, cartoons, and advertising. Taught “Narrative across media” at AUC. See course on Pictorial and Multimodal Meta¬phor http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/semiotics/cyber/cyber.html. Invited to Växjö earlier.
FORSGREN Peter Forsgren, LNU, is Associate professor in Swedish and Comparative Literature. Research on 20th century Swedish prose, narratology, genre, gender and modernity. Published works on Peder Sjögren, Elin Wägner, Sigfrid Siwertz and Ludvig Nordström. Ongoing research project: “From colonial oppression to social utopia. The construction of Norrland and of modern Sweden in the historical novels of Olof Högberg and Ludvig Nordström”. Is a member of the postcolonial forum at LNU, and a member of the research committee (handledarkollegiet).
GEMERT Lia van Gemert, UvA, (1958) is professor in Historical Dutch literature and director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age at UvA. She researches into the dynamics of literary life and the exchange between literature and society in the period of 1500-1850. One of her main research areas is Dutch literary prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. She works with an international team on an edition of a bilingual editon of medieval and early modern women authors: Women’s Writing in the Low Countries 1200-1875 (with Amsterdam University Press). She is member of the following research affiliations: Board of Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw, Board of Stichting Nederlandse literaire klassieken, Advisory board of NIAS, editor of Amsterdamse Gouden Eeuw series, of Amazone series and of Delta series.
KOOPMAN Paul Koopman, UvA, drs., coordinator and administrator ICG, the Institute for culture and history at the UvA, see homepage, and he has coordinated and edited several research volumes and conferences at the ICG, also administrator and coordinator in the PhD programme at the ICG.
LAINE Tarja Laine, UvA is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Media Studies department of the University of Amsterdam. She studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Turku, Finland and received her PhD in Film Studies at the UvA. She is the author of Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (2007) and her essays on emotions and sensations in cinema have been published in journals such as Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Media, Culture & Society, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Studies of European Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies, PostScript, and Film and Philosophy. Her new book Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies is forthcoming from Continuum in 2011.
LIET Henk van der Liet, UvA, is professor, Head of the Language Department and Chair of Scandinavian Studies at the UvA. Henk van der Liet’s research focus is on Scandinavian literature of the 19th and 20th century, with a special emphasis on Danish literature. His thesis, Kontrapunkter. En studie i Poul Vads skønlitterære forfatterskab (Odense UP), was published in 1997. He is the only non-Scandinavian contributor to the standard reference work on modern Danish literary history Danske digtere i det 20. århundrede I-III (Gad Publishers, 2000-2002). At present he is working on a biographical study of the works of the 19th century Danish author-artist Holger Drachmann and is doing preparatory work for the publication of (part of) this author’s correspondence under the supervision of the Danish Society for Language and Literature (DSL).
NILSSON SKÅVE Åsa Nilsson Skåve, LNU, assistant professor in Comparative literature, wrote her thesis on the Swedish author Stina Aronson and her narrative art. Current research is focused on literary didactics and she is part of a project with a number of researchers, called “Language support programmes and educational success. Multilingual students’ development of language and knowledge”. Member of Childhood research. Coordinates teaching at LNU and teaches in both Kalmar and Växjö especially on the teacher programme.
POSTI Piia Posti, LNU, assistant professor in Comparative literature, is a specialist in Australian literature, and postcolonial and postmodern theory. PhD at Stockholm University in 2005 and worked earlier at the English dept. of Stockholm university. Her interests include visuality in anglophone literature and post-colonial questions, including Swedish travel accounts of Australia. She is part of several research networks at Linnaeus university, also on a network on Places in Literature. Coordinates teaching at LNU as well within the programme for language, culture and communication.
SCHIMANSKI Johan Schimanski (Dr. Art.), University of Tromsø, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. He is co-leader of two ongoing Research Council of Norway projects at the University of Tromsø (“Border Aesthetics” and “Arktiske diskurser”), and has published on Welsh literature, national identity and literature, postcolonialism, science fiction and (with Ulrike Spring) Arctic discourses. In
2007 he and Stephen Wolfe published the article collection Border Poetics De-limited, and he has co-edited “border” issues of Nordlit, The Journal of Northern Studies and the Journal of Borderlands Studies. In 2010 he was co-editor of the article collection Arctic Discourses.
ROSELLO Mireille Rosello, UvA, professor of Comparative literature. Research interests: Comparative and interdisciplinary cultural studies of contemporary objects, visual or textual narratives (20th and 21st-century literatures, popular culture, cinema, television and new media); specific focus on two areas of inquiry: gender studies (queer theories and performativity) and diasporic, (post)colonial and Francophone studies (especially Europe, the Maghreb, the Caribbean). She is currently working on two book projects: “What’s queer about Europe” (with Sudeep Dasgupta) and “Multilingualism in Europe” (with Laci Maracz).
SPRING Ulrike Spring, UiT, researcher and curator, Dr. phil. in history (University of Vienna), wrote her thesis on 19th-century language movements in Norway and Ireland, has published on nationalism, Arctic discourses, tourism and cultural heritage, and has taught Scandinavian history, museology, archival studies and cultural heritage at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Tromsø and the University College of Finnmark. Her curatorial work at Wien Museum (Vienna) includes exhibitions on W. A. Mozart, H. C. Andersen and tavern culture. As part of the Arctic Discourses-project, University of Tromsø, she is currently writing a book together with Johan Schimanski on the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition (1872-1874).
SURMATZ Astrid Surmatz, UvA, tenured Ass. professor in Scandinavian Literature and Swedish, until the end of 2012 also visiting professor at Linnaeus University. PhD on translations and cultural transfer of Astrid Lindgren´s “Pippi Longstocking”. Research on Linnaeus and descriptions of Lapland 1650-2000. Member of the ICG, the Teaching commission for Scandinavian studies and of the Dutch research group in youth literature. At Linnaeus University, she leads a research group, CHILLL. Member of research projects in Tromsø and Umeå on travel descriptions and subarctic literature and of the International Research Society for Children´s Literature IRSCL. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, London. In Sweden and Belgium, she co-supervizes PhD students. Research: postcolonialism, children´s literature, intermediality and travel literature.
ZWIEP Irene Zwiep, UvA, full professor in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies, Director of the ICG (Institute for culture and history) and Programme Director of Jewish studies. Her specialisms include the history of Jewish linguistic thought, 15th-century Spanish-Jewish sources, and the history of Jewish scholarship in (early-)modern times. Over the years, she has published extensively on her subjects, including edited volumes, books and peer-reviewed articles as well as contributions to international conferences within her field. She is especially concerned with heritage research which she coordinates at the UvA at the moment. Contact information I.E.Zwiep@uva.nl
More info: Astrid Surmatz, a.m.surmatz@uva.nl
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