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Narrativising Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters: 2025 BOMOCULT Conference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2-3 October 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

University of Eastern Finland, Agora Building<\/strong>, Joensuu campus, Yliopistokatu 4, 80100 Joensuu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2 October 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Room AT100, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.00-10.15  Conference Opening<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Jopi Nyman (School of Humanities, UEF), James W. Scott (Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.15-12.00  Plenary session<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Chair: James W. Scott (Karelian Institute, UEF), Jopi Nyman (School of Humanities, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi (South Asian University, India): Interrogating \u2018Planetary Boundaries\u2019 of the Anthropocene: Borderlands, Justice, and Re-Ordering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Elisabeth Bekers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium): Unexplored Literary Territory: Brussels Through the Eyes of Outsiders<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00-13.00   Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.00-15.00 Panel 1a<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG100, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Timo Kallinen (School of Theology, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ari R\u00e4is\u00e4nen (School of Humanities, UEF): Embodied Mobilities and Transcultural Memory in Atticus Lish\u2019s Preparation for the Next Life<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eila Rantonen (Literature Studies, University of Turku): Memories of Industrial Work in Sweden-Finnish Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga Davydova-Minguet, Olga Filippova, Tetiana Nahirniak (Karelian Institute, UEF): \u201cImmigrating into History”: Immigrant Encounters with Finnish WWII Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alena Fedotova (ExpREES, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): True Crime as a Death Penalty\u2019s Cross-Narrative in Modern Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 1b<\/a>: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective, MARS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG104, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Joni Virkkunen (Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiina Sotkasiira (Department of Social Sciences, UEF): The Securitisation of Transnational Influences of Media in the Russian-Speaking Diaspora<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aija Lulle (Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, UEF): Caring for Democracy in Geopolitical Uncertainty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minna Piipponen (Karelian Institute, UEF): International Migration and Policy Responses in Kazakhstan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saara Koikkalainen (Karelian Institute, UEF): Europeans in Cairo \u2013 a Research Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.00-15.15   Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Room AG101, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.15-17.15  Panel 2a<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Tiina Sotkasiira (Department of Social Sciences, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teele J\u00e4nes (Department of Social Sciences, UEF): Protectors of State and Protectors of People. A Practitioner’s View into the Baltic Asylum Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ville R. Hartonen (School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, UEF): The Threshold: What is Most Important in Life for Asylum Seekers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marco Ghisetti (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Visiting Researcher, Arctic Centre): The American Frontier Marches Northward: Greenland\u2019s Annexation in U.S. Geopolitical Thought and Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 2b<\/a>: Borders and Border Crossings in Art and Activism I<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG102, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Pauliina Lukinmaa (School of Humanities, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inga Kontkanen (School of Humanities, UEF): Translocal Poetics: Galina Rymbu and the School of Experimental Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vassa Yakymets (School of Humanities, UEF): Queering the Vyshyvanka for Ukrainian Unity: Queer Activism during the Russo-Ukrainian War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniil Zhaivoronok (Tampere University): Cyberfeminism as a Negotiation Space between Russia and the West, and between Politics and Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erja Vottonen, Marja Sorvari (School of Humanities, UEF): Images of Russia and Russianness in Translation: The Reception of Oksana Vasyakina\u2019s Finnish Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17.15-17.30   Technical break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17.30-19.00  Panel 3a<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG101, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Simo Mikkonen (School of Humanities, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilaria Sicari (Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice; Leiden University College): Topography of Cultural Cold War: Transnational Nodes, Routes and Networks of Tamizdat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sofia Schulgin (School of Humanities, UEF): \u201cReaders from Kuokkala to Cairo” The Transnational Impact of the Magazine \u017durnal Sodru\u017eestva<\/em> (1933\u20131938)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juho Suokas, Erja Vottonen, Elina Kainulainen, Helka Riionheimo, Esa Penttil\u00e4 (School of Humanities, ReTra research group, UEF): Multilingualism in English-Dominated Scientific Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 3b<\/a>: Borders and Border Crossings in Art and Activism II<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG102, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Marja Sorvari (School of Humanities, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauliina Lukinmaa (School of Humanities, UEF): Assemblages of Art and Identity in Transit: The Novye Khudozhniki and Their Reception in Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sini Siitonen (School of Humanities, UEF): The Finnish Reception of Maxim Gorky\u2019s Literary Works, 1900-1939<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kati Launis, Marja Sorvari (School of Humanities, UEF): Cultural Border-Crossings: Texts and Women on the Move in the Literary Field of Finland, Russia, and the Soviet Union<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19.00-20.30 BOMOCULT Networking Event, Agora Caf\u00e9 (pre-registration necessary) <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 3 October 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

10.00-11.30  Panel 4a<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG100, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: James W. Scott (Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasi Tuunainen (Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, UEF): The 1922 Soviet-Finnish Border Peace Agreement and its Impact on Finnish Defense Preparations and Operations at the beginning of the Winter War (1939-1940)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

James W. Scott (Karelian Institute, UEF): Wicked Cities, Guilty Cities. Narrating the Urban \u201cOther\u201d as Socio-Political Bordering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mair\u00e9ad Lordan (Karelian Institute, UEF): Shifting Identities in Northern Ireland and the Narrativisation of the Irish Border<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 4b<\/a>: Mobilities and Migrations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG109, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Sanna Mustasaari (School of Law, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuomo Alhoj\u00e4rvi (School of Humanities, UEF): Postdystopian Care: Climate Mobilities, Anticipatory Geomedia and Ecosocial Infrastructuring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna-Leena Toivanen (School of Humanities, UEF): Narrativising Postcolonial Aviation: Aeromobile Chronotopes in Francophone African Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodwell Makombe (Department of English, North-West University, South-Africa; Humboldt  Fellow, University of Bonn): Migrant Masculinities in NoViolet Bulawayo\u2019s We Need New Names<\/em> and Tendai Huchu\u2019s The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.30-12.30   Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.30-14.00  Panel 5a<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG101, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Jopi Nyman (School of Humanities, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga Cielemecka, Jussi Laine (Karelian Institute, UEF): Narrating Insecurity: Border Fences as Symbolic Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anupam Kamal Sen (School of Humanities, UEF): Encountering Living Borders in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Dune<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priyanka Muhury (School of Humanities, UEF): Border Crossings and Borderscapes: Reframing Diasporic Belonging in Lahiri\u2019s The Namesake<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel 5b<\/a> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG109, Agora Building<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Joni Virkkunen (Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virpi Kaisto (Karelian Institute, UEF): How to Explore Border Narratives through Visual Analysis: The Case of the Finnish\u2013Russian Border<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anni-Maria Peltola (School of Theology, UEF): Bible References in Patriarch Kirill\u2019s Statements During the Russo-Ukrainian War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chao Jiang (Karelian Institute, UEF): Surplus Value, Synergetic Space, and Spatial Organization in Cross-border Cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.00-14.30   Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.30-16.00  Panel 6<\/a>: Transnational Death in Discussions and Practices<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Room AG109, Agora Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, UEF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teemu Oivo (Karelian Institute, UEF): Finnish-Russian Transnationals and Dividing Ideoscapes of Death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pirjo P\u00f6ll\u00e4nen, Olga Davydova-Minguet (Karelian Institute, UEF): Discussing Religiosity and Non-Religiosity in Russian Speakers\u2019 Deaths in Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ismo Bj\u00f6rn, Pirjo P\u00f6ll\u00e4nen (Karelian Institute, UEF): The Gendered Everyday Care of (Transnational) Cemeteries in Rural Border Region North Karelia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16.00-16.15   Closing Words<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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