Diasporic Literary Archives will be on the agenda at this event in Helsinki. Programme:

 

Morning session venue (before lunch):

Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki Accessible entrance is via the front door on the Mariankatu side of the SKS building.

Afternoon session (after lunch) venue:

National Library of Finland Unioninkatu 36, Helsinki Accessible entrance is via the inner courtyard at Yliopistokatu 1. The inner courtyard also has disabled parking.

Schedule:

9.00 – 9.15 Opening words

9.15 – 9.30 “Making of the national narrative – how about the minority voices” Eija Stark, Finnish Literature Society

9.30 – 10.00 “The challenges of diasporic literary archives” David C. Sutton, University of Reading

10.00 – 10.15 Discussion

10.15 – 10.45 “Archival Babel? Immigrant archive as an attempted multilingual harmonious chorus”, Daniel Necas, Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota

10.45 – 11.00 Discussion

11.00 – 11.15 “Whose History is Migrant History? A Key Question for Heritage Preservation” Migration Institute of Finland, Samira Saramo

11.15 – 13.00 Lunch and short walk to National Library of Finland

13.00 – 13.30 “Multilingual Materials at National Library of Finland” Tuula Pääkkönen, National Library of Finland

13.30 – 14.30 Workshop 1

14.30 – 14.45 Coffee (complimentary)

14.45 – 16.00 Workshop 2

16.00 – 17.00 Panel Discussion

  • Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (University of Helsinki) Samira Saramo (Migration Institute of Finland
  • Daniel Necas (Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota) Johanna Lilja (National Library of Finland)
  • Joanna Chopp (Finnish American Heritage Center)
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  • The workshop is organized by two projects funded by the Kone foundation “The connections between Finnish poetry and the rekilaulu singing culture: forms, meanings and trans-nationalism” and “T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America”, and ARNE (archive research network).

 

The event is funded by Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH).