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19:00 welcoming reception (for presenters only)
Guild Hall of St. Anthony’s Guild (Lutsu 3)
10:00 registration table opened (nametags, program)
Lobby
of the Main
Building,
University of Tartu (Ülikooli 18)
11:00-11:15
opening of the conference
Prof. Valter Lang
(head of CECT,
University of Tartu)
Things
in culture,
culture in things: An introduction SEE
LECTURE
Ülikooli
18-139
11:15-12:30
Plenary
lecture
Prof. Stephen H. Riggins
(Memorial
University of Newfoundland)
The natural order
is decay: The home as an ephemeral art project SEE LECTURE
Moderator:
Tiit
Remm (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli
18-139
12:30-13:30
lunch
(registered participants only)
Restaurant
Entri
(Rüütli 9)
13:30-15:00
Session I: 1
Home: The dynamics of materialities and meanings in migratory and
transitional contexts
Moderator:
Ester
Võsu (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 18-139
Susanne Nylund Skog
(Institute of
language and folklife in Uppsala)
Travelling
furniture: How experiences and memories of living in Diaspora are
materialised in a Jewish woman’s life-narrative.
Anu Kannike (Tallinn
University)
Estonian
home in
transition: Comparison of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s
Maris Suits
(Estonian Academy of
Arts)
Searching
for the
meaning. Approaches for the common construction materials of the Soviet
period
Session I: 2
Technologies
Moderator:
Carlo
A. Cubero (Tallinn University)
Ülikooli 18-140
Mari Lõhmus, Martin Malve
(University of Tartu)
The
body as
evidence. Materialised violence from the 12th–13th century exemplified
by a case study of a mass grave from Southern Estonia
Maaris Raudsepp, Andu Rämmer
(Tallinn University, University of Tartu)
The
social
childhood of new ambivalent objects
15:00-15:30 coffee break
University of Tartu Art Museum (Main Building, I floor)
15:30-17:30
Session II: 1
Landscape: Changing meanings of rural and urban landscapes
Moderator:
Helen
Sooväli-Sepping (Tallinn
University)
Ülikooli 18-140
Hannes Palang, Anu Printsmann,
Piret
Pungas, Helen Sooväli-Sepping (Tallinn University)
Marked
with stuff
Irina Sadovina
(University College
London/University of Tartu)
Power,
memory and
urban space: Negotiating the meaning of public objects in Yoshkar-Ola
Johanna Laitamäki
(Bournemouth
University)
Changes
in space:
Interpreting the Helsinki University Observatory
Session II: 2
Things designed by man
Moderator:
Krista
Kodres (Estonian Academy of
Arts)
Ülikooli 18-139
Marketta Luutonen
(Finnish Crafts
Organization/Aalto University)
Handmade
culture
Visa Immonen
(University of
Helsinki)
Design
for
individuality: Contemporary consumer products and interpassivity in
material culture
Virve Peteri (Aalto
University)
Flexible
minds and
flexible chairs: Constructing future users and offices during a design
process
19:00 conference dinner (registered participants only)
Café Werner (Ülikooli 11, II floor)
9:00-10:15
Plenary
lecture (video conference)
Dr. Joanna Sofaer (University
of
Southampton)
Pots and stories SEE LECTURE
Moderator:
Valter
Lang (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli
18-139
10:15-10:45 coffee break
University of Tartu Art Museum (Main Building, I floor)
10:45-12:45
Session III: 1
Waste knot: Semio-scapes of inclusion and exclusion
Moderator:
Patrick
Laviolette (Tallinn
University)
Ülikooli 18-139
Brigitte Glaser
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Waste
and alterity
in ‘speculative fiction’: An assessment of the de- and re-evaluation of
material objects in selected dystopian novels
Tarmo Pikner
(Tallinn University)
Interactive
visualisation, waste and affects
Kati Lindström
(University of Tartu)
Slip-pers-pective:
Everyday objects as the markers of spatial hierarchy
Remo Gramigna
(University of Tartu)
On
toilets,
boundaries, dirt and other disgusting 'things': A semiotic approach
Session III: 2
Construction of identity through material objects
Moderator:
Ergo-Hart
Västrik (University of
Tartu)
Ülikooli 18-140
Matthias Müller (University
of
Greifswald)
Middle
class
identities in the eighteenth century: How did things shape the thirteen
British colonies?
Maarja Kaaristo
(University of
Tartu)
The
materiality of
tourism: Expressing identity, making souvenirs
Sabina Fazli (Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen)
Narrative,
memory
and things: The souvenir in Wilkie Collins’s After Dark (1856)
12:45-14:00
lunch
(registered participants only)
Restaurant
Entri
(Rüütli 9)
14:00-15:15
Plenary
lecture
Dr. Elizabeth Crooke
(University of
Ulster)
„Bullet
holes
bring reality“: The significance of things in the context of the
Northern Ireland conflict
SEE LECTURE
Moderator:
Kristin
Kuutma (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli
18-139
15:15-15:45
coffee
break
University
of
Tartu Art Museum (Main Building, I floor)
15:45-17:45
Session IV: 1
Museum and heritage: Things to be remembered
Moderator:
Elizabeth
Crooke (University of
Ulster)
Ülikooli 18-140
Claudia Theune-Vogt
(University of
Vienna)
Things
from the
victims and things from the perpetrators of the Nazi-concentration camp
Irina Paert (Tallinn
University)
Orthodox
icons in
religious and secular cultures (case-studies from the 20th and the 21st
century Estonia)
Session IV: 2
Special objects telling special stories: Question of materialities and
contexts
Moderator:
Ester
Oras (University of Cambridge)
Ülikooli 18-139
Marge Konsa
(University of Tartu)
The
meaning of
grave goods
Timo Muhonen
(University of Turku)
Hard
matter:
Stones in Finnish-Karelian folk belief
Carlo A. Cubero
(Tallinn University)
On
koras &
djembes: Multiple associations of transnational musical instruments
Svetlana Pogodina
(University of
Latvia)
The
doll as a
fetish in the traditional (folk) culture of Latgalia: A cross-border
phenomenon
20:00
film session
“Lotmani
maailm”
(“Lotman’s world”; dir. Agne Nelk; 56 min)
Introduction by film’s scriptwriter Rein Pakk
Zaal (Raekoja square 10, III floor)
10:00-11:15
Plenary
lecture
Prof. Dr. Ruth-E. Mohrmann
(Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Research into the
history of material culture SEE LECTURE
Moderator:
Ene
Kõresaar (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli
18-139
11:15-11:45
coffee
break
University
of
Tartu Art Museum (Main Building, I floor)
11:45-13:45
Session V: 1
Media and materiality
Moderator:
Halliki
Harro-Loit (University of
Tartu)
Ülikooli 18-139
Roosmarii Kurvits
(University of
Tartu)
The
visual form of
newspaper as a guide for information consumption
Indrek Ibrus
(Tallinn University)
A
multidisciplinary approach to media innovation: Studying cultural
change in the network era
Ene Kõresaar
(University of Tartu)
Things
in a
culture of remembrance: Oral history and journalistic discourses on
‘material life’ in the era of ‘mature socialism’
Rowan R. MacKay
(University of
Edinburgh)
Beware
of dreams
come true: Valuing the intangible
Session V: 2 Textile
Moderator:
Kärt
Summatavet (University of
Tartu)
Ülikooli 18-140
Kirsti Salo-Mattila
(University of
Helsinki)
An
embroidered
royal gift as a political symbol and embodiment of design ideas in 1885
Carine Kool (University
of Rennes
2)
Embroidered
artworks: Objects, messengers of status and subversion, from cliché to
singular writing
Ieva Pigozne
(Latvian Academy of
Culture)
Meaning
and power
of pieces of clothing and footwear according to ethnological and
Latvian folklore data
Maria Cristache
(Central European
University)
Vintage
fashion:
Authenticity, individualisation and passion
13:45-14:45
lunch
(registered participants only)
Restaurant
Entri
(Rüütli 9)
14:45-17:00
conclusions by session moderators, closing of the conference
Ülikooli
18-139
