Helsinki City Centre
Hosted by:
Organizers: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada) and Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Assistant Organizers: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA) and
Virve Miettinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Opening Speech: Hannuk K. Riikonen, Vice Dean
Hannu K. Riikonen, Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
Jyrki Kalliokoski, Head of Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Riikka Rossi, Organizer, Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN® and Organizer, University of Alberta
Opening Speech: Jyrki Kalliokoski, Head of Department
Special Guest Speaker: Päivi Lappalainen (University of Turku, Finland): “Seduced Girls and Prostitutes: The Character of the Fallen Woman in Naturalist Fiction”
Honoured Guest Speaker: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada): “La dimension épique des femmes dans Germinal de Zola”
Anna Gural-Migdal with Special Guest Speakers, Morten Nøjgaard and Päivi Lappalainen
Julia Przybos (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA): “Male Physiology as a Weapon: The Case of La Rabouilleuse and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes”
Brynja Svane (Uppsala University, Sweden): “The Representation of Women who Destroy their Lives: A Comparison Between French Emma Bovary and Danish Marie Grubbe”
Auður Aðlsteinsdόttir (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Representations of Female Poets in Iceland in the Nineteenth Century”
From left: Elizabeth Emery and Auður Aðlsteinsdόttir
Marjolein van Tooren (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): “Portraits of Women in Zola’s Short Stories”
Agnieszka Tworek (Middlebury College, USA): “Death Masks of Thérèse Raquin”
Agnieszka Tworek
Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA): “‘Aux mères heureuses’: Zola’s Compassion for Working Mothers”
Kirsi Tuohela (University of Turku, Finland): “Female Self and Women’s Self-destructiveness in Autobiographical Fiction of Victoria Benedictsson and Amalie Skram”
Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Nora’s sisters. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and the Female Figures in Scandinavian Naturalism”
From left: Éléonore Reverzy, Domenica de Falco, Riikka Rossi, and Pirjo Lyytikäinen
Göran Blix (Princeton University, USA): “The Question of Female Heroism: the Goncourts’ Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Women”
Welcome Cocktail Party
A farmers’wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel. Even though Juha is a “silent film with music,” its style does not imitate that of the silent era of the early 20th century. Instead, it could be described as a modern film implemented in an unusual way. Its visual narrative is contemporary and insightful.
Danielle Bishop (University of Plymouth, UK): “Au Bonheur des Dames: A Novel of Construction, Constructors and the Constructed”
Éléonore Reverzy (Université Marc Bloch- Strasbourg II, France) “La fabrique d’un personnage: Nana de Zola”
Guri Ellen Barstad (University of Tromsø, Norway): “Espaces et construction de soi dans Monsieur Vénus de Rachilde”
Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA): “The Character of Clorinde in Zola’s Son Excellence Eugène Rougon: Toward a New Dynamic in the Rougon-Macquart Series”
From left: Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Jeremy Worth, and Marjolein van Tooren
Special Guest Speaker: Morten Nøjgaard (University of Odense, Denmark): “Splendor corporis, splendor veritatis? Le corps féminin comme démonstration ou subversion de la vérité”
Honoured Guest Speaker: Carolyn-Snipes Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA): “‘L’héroïne simple’ in Emile Zola’s La Joie de vivre”
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Honoured Guest
From left: Morten Nøjgaard, Guri Ellen Barstad, Melanie Hawthorne, and Julia Przybos
Domenica de Falco (University of Naples-Federico II, Italy): “Une poétique du vêtement féminin chez les frères Goncourt”
Jeremy Worth (University of Windsor, Canada): “Chains of Repetition: Zola’s Female Figures in their Symbolic Environments”
Susan Harrow (University of Bristol, UK): “Of Velocity and Vacancy: Female Character as Culture Critic in the Rougon Macquart”
Lisa Ng (University of Calgary, Canada): “A Woman in Absentia in Les Rougon-Macquart”
From left: Susan Harrow, Elizabeth Emery, Danielle Bishop, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, and Lisa Ng
Melanie Hawthorne (Texas A & M University, USA): “Rachilde and the ‘Mère Marâtre’”
Minna Maijala (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Medicalized Writing. Minna Canth (1844-1897) and her Female Protagonists as Nervous Women”
Minna Maijala
Pirjo Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki, Finland): “A Decadent Woman in the World of Narcissistic Reflection”
Riikka Rossi
Naturalist Dinner, Restaurant Kappeli
Academy of Finland
AIZEN®
Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Anna Gural-Migdal, Organizer, President of the AIZEN® and Editor of Excavatio©, University of Alberta
Riikka Rossi, Organizer, Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Virve Miettinen, Assistant Organizer, Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Ulla-Maija Kulonen, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
Hannu K. Riikonen, Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
Jyrki Kalliokoski, Head of Department of Finnish Language and Literature, University of Helsinki
Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Director of the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies
Hotel Arthur, Helsinki
Restaurant Kappeli, Helsinki
Restaurant Aino, Helsinki
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Secretary-Treasurer of the AIZEN® and Associate Editor of Excavatio©
Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Associate Editor of Excavatio©
Romain Chareyron, Editorial Assistant of Excavatio©
Ana Anubis of Ingénieuse Productions, Layout Editor of Excavatio©
Philip Hoyt, AIZEN Web Site©
Anna Gural-Migdal and Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Honoured Guests