Programme

Parallel Sessions

Parallel Sessions
24 April, 11:00-12:30
Art as (Trans)Cultural Capital (Pub2)
Oliver HolmeDanish Social Art and Transcultural Exchange
Elham Etemadi (online)Tehran Auction: The Commodification of Art and the Shift in Cultural Values
Elina MikkiläFrom Bankers to (Lebens)Künstler: Rethinking Capital in the Art(sy) Communities of London and Berlin
Social Documentary (Pub126)
Inessa KouteinikovaRestoring Individual Dignity through Photography
Diletta HaberlVisual Arts, Social Class, and the Via degli Abruzzi
Amelie Ochs (online)Where We Stand: Narratives of Social Documentary Photography and Visual Regimes of Class
Mirela Shella & Edlira Gugu (online)Autofiction: Forms and Features in Albanian Literature
Aristocracy and the Other (Edu155)
Malena Rotter (online)“The Most Extraordinary Dwarf that Ever was Seen”. Questioning Social Advancement and Agency at the 18th-Century Court
Hannah SemsarhaClashing Classes? The Joint Depiction of Artists and Commissioner in Renaissance Art
Mengfei Pan (online)Warrior Class and Production of Art in the Early Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
Parallel Sessions
24 April, 14:00-15:30
Yhteiskuntaluokka kirjallisuudessa (Pub2)
Joel SuontamaYhteiskuntaluokka Harry Salmenniemen novelleissa
Suvi SeppäläTaideteos yhteiskunnallisen aseman kuvauksen välineenä Donna Tarttin teoksessa Tikli (The Goldfinch)
Eila RantonenLakkojen kuvauksia kirjallisuudessa
Engagement (Pub126)
Željka Miklošević and Patricia PočanićDigital Narratives – Reshaping or Reinforcing the Social System of the Art Museum?
Seda PesenTrusting One’s Own Gaze. How an Excluded Class Came to Voice
Hee Sook Lee-NiiniojaCitizens’ Subjective Understanding and Visitors’ Objective Perceptions of the Finnish (In)Tangible Hierarchical Social Classes: Helsinki 24h on the Hernesaari Art Wall
Sami SiegelbaumUnderclass Performance in New York circa 1980: David Hammons, Tehching Hsieh, and Pope.L
Postcolonial Responses and Repercussions (Edu155)
Fiona Roberts (online)Weaving Time
Ranjana Saha‘Ideal’ Mothers and ‘Best’ Babies: ‘Scientific’ Mothering and Child Healthcare Advice in Colonial India
Kalinca Costa Söderlund (online)Modernismo Versus the Academy in Brazil: A Case on Cultural Iconoclasticism as Political Emancipation of Minorities and Discriminated Social Classes
Parallel Sessions
24 April, 15:45-17:15
Art for Social Critique and Change (Pub2)
Arya PriyadarshiniDrawing the Unseen: Trauma and the Invisibility of Class in Zeina Abirached’s Graphic Narratives on the Lebanese Civil War
Paula Friedericke Hartmann (online)The Art of Remembering: Graphic Novels as Mirrors of Past and Present Trauma and Identity
Josh Schwartz (online)“Social Fantasy:” American Illustration and Social Class, 1880-1920
Driss Faddouli (online) Narrativizing Social Class in Morocco: An Investigation of the Visual Aesthetics of Social and Emotional Precarity in Online Cartoons
Work and Labour (Pub126)
Sarah HortonSifting for Pips and Stalks
Somayeh Rashvand (online)Precarious Smiles: The Invisible Labour of Diasporic Craftswomen in Contemporary Art Production
Nicola Foster ‘Work’ and ‘Labour’ as ‘Art’ and ‘Maintenance’: The Work of Ukeles
Shaping the City (Edu155)
Selma Ćatović Hughes (online)Threads of Memory: Visual Narratives as (Re)Construction of Tangible and Elusive Collective Memory
Carolina Pecker Madeo (online)Visual Narratives in Struggles for Justice and Good Living
Ana Iwataki (online)Transpacific Artists in Los Angeles: Learning from 1984, Looking to 2028

Overview schedule

Thursday April 24 (University of Turku + hybrid)

8:30-9:00 Coffee (Publicum 1st floor lobby)

9:00-9:15 Introduction (Pub2)

9:15-10:45 Keynote 1 (Pub2)

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions x 3 (Pub2 / Pub126 / Edu155)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15 :30 Parallel sessions x 3 (Pub2 / Pub126 / Edu155)

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-17:15 Parallel sessions x 3 (Pub2 / Pub126 / Edu155)

18:00 Dinner

Friday April 25 (Life on a Leaf, Hirvensalo)

9:30-10:30 Site tour

10:30-12:00 Keynote 2

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Film screening

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-16:30 Keynote 3