The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual Art

22 September

13.15–13.45 Thinking about the Seasonality of Winter: Some Methodological Proposals and Definitions from Researchers in the Humanities and Cultural Studies

Daniel Chartier, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) 

13.45–14.15 Feelgood Fiction and Winter as Hyper-Reality

Heidi Hansson, Umeå University

14.15–14.45 Boreal Winter as Escapist Fantasy in Latin American Literature

Elena Lindholm, Umeå University

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15.15–15.45 Winter Moods: Perspectives from Finnish Literature

Riikka Rossi, University of Helsinki (Finland)

15.45–16.15 Winter as Character in Le dernier Lapon [Forty days without shadow] (2012) by Olivier Truc

Malin Isaksson, Umeå University

16.15–16.45 Representations of Winter in Women's Stories of Immigration to Québec

Eang-Nay Theam, Collège de Maisonneuve, Québec (Canada) 

23 September

09.15–09.45 To be Subject to the Winter in Labrador: Two Missionary Accounts from the 19th and early 20th Century in Comparison

Jan Borm, Université de Versailles—Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France)

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10.15–10.45 The Snow Child in Winter

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå University

10.45–11.15 Painting Winter (17th–19th Centuries): An Interpretation by a Geographer-Climatologist

Alexis Metzger, École de la nature et du paysage (France)

11.15–11.45 Some Aspects of the Meanings of Snow in Visual Arts

Lennart Pettersson, Umeå University

11.45–12.15 Winterity and Verticality: Crossroads. From the Conquered and Sublime Peaks to the New Sensibilities of a Winter Mountain Environment

Claude Hauser, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

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