Conference at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, 25–27 August 2014
Conference organizer: Feeniks – Art and culture in the mental and material reconstruction process following the Lapland War
This conference is directed at researchers, students and
others whose interests include the processes of reconstruction – mental
as well as material – that take place following wars and other
collective disasters. The conference is dealing with the memory,
remembering and recollecting; forgetting, remaining silent and being
silenced; or other topics relating to material and mental reconstruction
on the individual or communal levels.
The keynote speakers at the conference will be
- Ville Kivimäki, Research Fellow, PhD, University of Helsinki
- Timothy Ashplant, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College, London, UK
- Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Professor of Sámi culture, Giellagas Institute for Sámi studies, University of Oulu, Finland
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