The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual Art

22 September

12.00–13.00 Lunch

13.15–13.45 Winter as Metaphor and Hyper-Reality

Heidi Hansson, Umeå University

13.45–14.15 Winter as Character in Le dernier Lapon [Forty days without shadow] (2012) by Olivier Truc

Malin Isaksson, Umeå University

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

Elena Lindholm, Umeå University

Break

15.15–15.45 Painting Winter (17th–19th Centuries): An Interpretation by a Geographer-Climatologist

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

15.45–16.15 Some Aspects of the Meanings of Snow in Visual Arts

Lennart Pettersson, 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)

09.45–10.15 The Snow Child in Winter

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå University

Break

10.45–11.15 Winter Moods: Perspectives from Finnish Literature (Zoom)

Riikka Rossi, University of Helsinki (Finland)

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

Lennart Pettersson, Umeå University

11.15–11.45 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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