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 (Kanada) 

13:45–14:15 Feelgood Fiction and Winter as Hyper-Reality

Heidi Hansson, Umeå universitet

14:15–14:45 Boreal Winter as Escapist Fantasy in Latin American Literature

Elena Lindholm, Umeå universitet

Break

15:15–15:45 Winter Moods: Perspectives from Finnish Literature

Riikka Rossi, Helsingfors universitet (Finland)

15:45–16:15 Winter as Character in Le dernier Lapon [Forty days without shadow] (2012) by Olivier Truc

Malin Isaksson, Umeå universitet

16:15–16:45 Representations of Winter in Women's Stories of Immigration to Québec

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

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 (Frankrike)

Break

10:15–10:45 The Snow Child in Winter

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå universitet

10:45–11:15 Painting Winter (17th–19th Centuries): An Interpretation by a Geographer-Climatologist

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

11:15–11:45 Some Aspects of the Meanings of Snow in Visual Arts

Lennart Pettersson, Umeå universitet

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 (Schweiz)

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