Forthcoming Events:
12 April 2012, 4 pm. - Professor Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow): Researching Live Music in the UK: Some findings. IIPC Debate 31. Place: Seminar room Hovi, Musicology, Kaivokatu 12, Turku.
26 April 2012, 4 pm. - Professor Amy Herzog (New York City University): The Pornographic Arcades Project: Adaptation, Automation, and the Evolution of Times Square (1965-1975). IIPC Debate 32. Place: Pharmacity 1, Itäinen pitkäkatu 4, Turku.
Past Events:
20 March 2012, 12 pm. - Dr Benita Heiskanen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku): Between Urban Margins and Centers: The Spatial Practice of Boxing. IIPC Debate 30. Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
17-18 February 2012. - Opening seminar of the PhD Programme for Popular Culture Studies.
7 January 2012, 12 pm. - Public disputation: Lauri Keskinen's PhD thesis on sports history. Opponent: Arto Nevala (University of Eastern Finland). Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
7 December 2011, 2-4 pm. - Professor Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds): Britpop and the Sound of Englishness. IIPC Debate 29. Place: Hovi seminar room, Dept. of Musicology, Kaivokatu 12, Turku..
30 November 2011, 4-6 pm. - Book Launch Seminar / IIPC Debate 28, Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor
John Richardson (Professor of Musicology, University of Turku): An Eye for Music: Popular Music and The Audiovisual Surreal
Susanna Paasonen (Professor of Media Studies, University of Turku):
Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
Further details, click here.
15 November 2011, 4-6 pm. - Jukka Haarma (Finnish Broadcasting Company): Rockin ikuiset arvot? Mistä rockin arvot tulevat ja mihin ne ovat menossa?. IIPC Debate 27. Place: Janus Auditorium. Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
1 November 2011, 4-6 pm. - Professor Peter Clark (University of Helsinki): Issues of Cultural Diffusion in Europe in the long 18th century.
IIPC Debate 26. Place: Janus Auditorium. Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku. Organized together with TUCEMEMS, Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
21 October 2011 - Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker visit the University of Turku
Programme:
12-2 pm Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam): From After-Images to Inter-Images: Madness as the Last Frontier. IIPC Debate 25. Place: Janus Auditorium. Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
4-4.45 pm Michelle Williams Gamaker: Reciprocal Propositions - the artist as corporeal and theoretical mediator. Place: Auditorium, PharmaCity, Itäinen pitkäkatu 4, Turku.
5 pm. Film Screening: Mère Folle (2011). Place: Auditorium, PharmaCity, Itäinen pitkäkatu 4, Turku.
18 October 2011, 4-6 pm. - Dr Katalin Miklossy (University of Helsinki): Competing for popularity: Song Contests and Interactive Television in State Socialism. Place: Micro Auditorium, Kiinamyllynkatu 13, Turku.
25 August 2011, 4-6 pm. - Professor Bruce Johnson (University of Turku/Macquarie University): Popular Music, Film and National Identity
. IIPC Debate 22. Place: Janus Auditorium. Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
28 May 2011 at 12 am. - Public disputation: Outi Hakola's PhD thesis Rhetoric of Death and Generic Addressing of Viewers in American
Living Dead Films. Opponent: Professor Kendall R. Phillips (Syracuse University). Place: Tauno Nurmela Auditorium, University of Turku, Main Building.
27 May 2011, 12-2 pm. - Professor Kendall R. Phillips (College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University): Desolate Frontiers:
John Carpenter and the American Horror Film. IIPC Debate 21. Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
12 May 2011, 12.30-2 pm. - Professor Stan Hawkins (University of Oslo): Spoof and Hyperembodiment in Pop Videos. IIPC Debate 20. Place: Janus Auditorium,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
11-12 May 2011. - International Symposium on Audiovisual Performance and Embodiment. Organized together with the Department of Musicology, University of Turku.
10 May 2011, 12-2 pm. - Dr Eva Kingsepp (University of Stockholm): Mythical memory and cryptohistory: the
blending of facts and fantasy in representations of Nazi Germany and WWII. IIPC Debate 19. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
15 April 2011. - RAPPIO!-seminaari (seminar day in Finnish), organized together with the Department of Digital
Culture, University of Turku.
11 April 2011, 4-6 pm. - Vandercon and IIPC proudly present: Hugo Award winner Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winner Jeff
VanderMeer visit Turku. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer present a visual presentation of exciting new
projects that blur genres and media, including The Steampunk Bible and
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Amazing visuals from
artists from all over the world. Followed by discussion, interview
session, and Q&A--on fiction, popular culture, literature, movies, and
art. Place: Janus Auditorium,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
8 April 2011, 10-12 am. - Round Table on Current Research on Popular Culture. The Departments of Cultural History, Media Studies and Musicology,
together with the International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC), organise a round table discussion on on-going research on popular culture
at Litzen seminar room (Kaivokatu 12). The round table is participated by our guests, professors Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow),
Bruce Johnson (University of Turku/ Macquarie University) and Bjørn Sørenssen (Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology).
We invite all PhD students and post docs to give short presentations on their current research. Please send your title to
hansalmi(at)utu.fi before 5 April. The length of the presentations is due to the amount of papers; the guidelines will be sent to all participants two days before the gathering. Welcome!
7 April 2011, 2-4 pm. - Professor Bjørn Sørenssen (Norwegian Univ. of
Science & Technology): The Skating Kings: The Rise and Fall of
Norwegian Speedskating as a National Pastime. IIPC Debate 18. Place: Hovi Seminar Room, Dept. of Musicology,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
25 March 2011, 12-2 pm. - "The Biggest Cult-Band of All-Time": The
Smiths Reconsidered. Presentations by Kari Kallioniemi and Antti
Nylén (in Finnish). IIPC Debate 17. Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
15 March 2011, 4-6 pm. - Docent Anu-Hanna Anttila (University of Turku): Joutenolo ja ei minkään tekeminen ajankäyttöaineistoissa. IIPC Debate 16. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku. Read the abstract (in Finnish).
1 March 2011, 4-6 pm. - Seminar on Peter Gabriel and Kraftwerk (in Finnish). IIPC Debate 15. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
The seminar is followed (at 6 pm) by the launching of four recent books on popular culture:
Peter Gabriel: From Genesis to Growing Up. Ed. by Michael Drewett, Sarah Hill & Kimi
Kärki. Ashgate, Aldershot 2010.
Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop. Ed. by Sean Albiez & David Pattie. Continuum, New York 2010.
Why Pamper Life's Complexities? Essays on The Smiths. Ed. by Sean Campbell & Colin Coulter. Manchester University
Press, Manchester 2010.
14 February 2011, 2-4 pm. - Erkka Railo (University of Turku): Naisten politiikkaa? - naistenlehtien
neuvottelu
yhteiskunnallisesta vallasta. IIPC Debate 14. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
3 February 2011, 1-3 pm. - Professor William Uricchio (University of Utrecht/MIT): From identity complex to
complex identity: reflections on television's shifting medial character. IIPC Debate 13. Place: Micro Auditorium, Kiinamyllynkatu 13, Turku.
25 January 2011, 10-12 am. - Imagining Europe in Graphic Novels: Valerian and Corto Maltese. Presentations by Marko Lehti (University of Tampere) & Kimi Kärki (University of Turku). IIPC Debate
12. The seminar is organized together with Euro Visions seminar series.
Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
17 January 2011, 2-4 pm. - Dr Taru Leppänen (University of Turku): Sukupuoli,
seksuaalisuus ja lastenmusiikki (Gender, Sexuality and Children's Music). IIPC Debate 11. Place: Janus Auditorium,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
7 December 2010, 4-6 pm.. - Docent Anu Koivunen (University of Stockholm): Kehystettyjä kokemuksia, kuviteltuja
kansalaisuuksia: tunteen politiikat suomalaisessa tv-teatterissa (Structures of Feeling, Imagined
Citizenships: Politics of Affect in Finnish Television Theatre), IIPC Debate 10. Place: Janus Auditorium,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
24-26 November 2010. - Music, Law and Business. The
IASPM-Norden 2010 Conference, Helsinki/Espoo, 24–26
November 2010. The conference is organized by the Nordic Branch of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music with the Bogfires Research Project (’Best Practices of Globalization in Finnish Rock Exports’, Academy of
Finland/Aalto University), Doctoral Programme of Music (Sibelius Academy) and International Institute of Popular
Culture (IIPC), in co-operation with the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology, IPR University Center, Music Export
Finland and
Statistics Finland.
2 November 2010, 4-6 pm.. - Professor Joel Kuortti (University of
Turku): Bollywood, 'Post-colonial Cricket', and a Critique of Colonial
Administration: Lagaan. IIPC Debate 9. Place: Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
5 October 2010, 4-6 pm. - Dr Mari Pajala (University of
Turku): Television Heritage and the Politics of
Memory: Uses of the Past in the Contemporary
Finnish Television Culture , IIPC Debate 8. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
14 September 2010, 4-6 pm. - Professor Machiko Kusahara (Waseda
University): Japanese Device Art: Connecting Art, Design, Technology,
and Media Culture, IIPC Debate 7. Place: Janus Auditorium,
Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
7 September 2010, 4-6 pm. - Docent Anu Korhonen (University of
Helsinki): Huumori, sukupuoli, populaarikulttuuri: kaskut ja kaskukirjat
varhaismodernissa Englannissa (in Finnish), IIPC Debate 6. Place:
Janus Auditorium, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor, Turku.
19-20 August 2010.. - The Jazz
Chameleon: The 9th Nordic Jazz Conference, organised by The Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive with
the support of IIPC.
4 May 2010, 4-6 pm. - IIPC Debate. Professor Saara Taalas
(Turku School of Economics): Fandom in the field of organisation
studies.
Place: Sirkkala lecture hall, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor.
6 April 2010, 4-6 pm. - IIPC Debate. Docent Sven-Erik Klinkmann (Åbo Akademi University):
Runeberg, Cooper and Ford: the panorama in
popular discourse.
Place: Sirkkala lecture hall, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor.
2 March 2010 4-6 pm. - IIPC Debate. Professor John Richardson
(University of Helsinki): Back to the Garden?
Performing the
Disaffected
Acoustic Imaginary in the Digital Age. Place: Litzen seminar room
(E117,
Sirkkala main building, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor).
9 February 2010 4-6 pm.. - IIPC Debate. Dr Kate Maxwell (University
of Glasgow): Popular Culture in History: A
Look at the Middle Ages.
Place:
Litzen seminar room (E117, Sirkkala main building, Kaivokatu 12, 1st
floor).
12 January 2010 4-6 pm.. - IIPC Debate. Professor Bruce Johnson
(University
of Turku): What does 'Popular' mean? Place: Litzen seminar room
(E117,
Sirkkala main building, Kaivokatu 12, 1st floor).
27-31 July 2009. - Popular
Culture Association/American Culture
Association International Meeting in Turku (organized together with
IIPC)
29 May 2009 10-12 pm.. - Guest lecture by Dr Nedim Hassan
(Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool): Momentary
Musical
Performing and the
Articulation of Identity: ethnographic observations from a supported
living scheme. Aikala room, Kaivokatu 12 (Turku).
12 May 2009 12-17 pm.. - Conference on intermediality "Tekijät
medioiden välissä"
(in Finnish). See the complete
programme
9-12 March 2009 2pm-4pm. - Lecture course
The Spanish Civil War in Cinema by
Dr David Archibald, Department of Theatre Film and Television Studies,
University of Glasgow, lecture hall DenAud (Dentalia, 2nd floor,
Lemminkäisenkatu 2, Turku).
29 November 2008 12 am. - Public disputation: Erkki Huhtamo's PhD
thesis The Coming of the Roll Medium: The Origins and Development of
the Moving Panorama until the 1860s at the Tauno Nurmela hall.
Opponent: John Fullerton (University of Stockholm).
18-20 September 2008. - Imaginary Japan: Japanese Fantasy in
Contemporary Popular Culture at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Organized by the Finnish Society for Film Studies together with IIPC and
several other institutions. Please find the CFP at http://sets.wo$
4 April 2008 5 pm. - Krautrock Abend. Cosmic Music and Counter
Culture
from West Germany, 1968-1975. Download the poster
with full programme.
Scene:
Sotku/Sirkkalan kasarmi, Kaivokatu 12 (Turku).
22 February 2008 12 am.. - Seminar "Hosts in Media Culture: Past
and Present" (in Finnish). The complete programme:
JUONTAJUUS EILEN - TÄNÄÄN
Markus-setä, Frank Pappa, Dame Edna, Conan O'Brien, Marco Bjurström, Taru
Valkeapää, Jaana Pelkonen... Juontajilla on ollut tärkeä asema 1900- ja
2000-luvun mediakulttuurissa, elokuvassa, radiossa, televisiossa,
estradilla. Mihin juontajia tarvitaan? Ovatko juontajat "yhteiskunnallisia
vaikuttajia"? Mitä juontaminen kertoo kulttuuristamme ja sen muutoksista?
Näitä - ja monia muita - kysymyksiä pohditaan perjantaina 22. helmikuuta
2008 järjestettävässä iltapäiväseminaarissa. Tapahtuman järjestää
International Institute for Popular Culture, IIPC (http://iipc.utu.fi).
Tervetuloa!
Pe 22.2.2008 klo 12-16
Paikka: Calonia luentosali 2, Turun yliopisto.
12.15-12.30 Avaussanat: Hannu Salmi
12.30-13.00 Paavo Oinonen: Markus Rautio - ajanvietteen ja kasvatuksen
topeliaaninen paketti
13.00-13.30 Veijo Hietala:
Dame Ednasta Marco Bjurströmiin: juontaja roolihahmona ja
persoonallisuutena
13.30-14.00 Heimo Holopainen:
Juontajien asema ja juontajuus vuosikymmenten saatossa: kokemuksia
radiosta ja televisiosta
14.00-14.30 Kahvitauko
14.30-15.00 Pauliina Tuomi:
2000-luvun monimerkityksinen juontajakulttuuri - interaktiivisen
viihteen
luoma uudenlainen juontajatyyppi.
15.00-15.30 Anu Lahtinen:
"Dorka dadaisti?" Juontaja Conan O'Brien ja amerikkalainen talk
show
15.30-16.00 Loppukeskustelu
10 November 2007 12 am. - Public disputation: Pasi Väliaho's PhD
thesis The Moving Image: Gesture and Logos circa 1900 at the PUB 3
hall (Publicum, Assistentinkatu 7). Opponent: Tom Conley (Harvard
University).
9 November 2007 1 pm.. - Panel discussion
"Cinematic Modernity and Beyond: Perspectives on Jacques Rancière" with
Tom Conley (Harvard University), Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm),
Tarmo Malmberg (University of Vaasa) and Jukka Sihvonen (University of
Turku). Location: Arje Scheinin hall (Dentalia, 2nd floor,
Lemminkäisenkatu 2, Turku).
19 September 2007 2 pm. - Improvisation: between Panic and
Boredom.
A musical lecture by Professor Bjørn Alterhaug (Department of Music,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Location: Arje Scheinin
hall (Dentalia, 2nd floor, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, Turku). To get more
information, click here.
5 May 2007 12 am. - Public disputation: Jussi Parikka's PhD thesis
Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Worms and
Viruses at the Tauno Nurmela hall. Opponent: Charlie Gere (University
of
Lancaster).
4 May 2007, 1 pm. - Seminar on the Eurovision song contest (in
Finnish and English) under the title
JA VOITTAJA ON... EUROVIISUT KILPAILEMISEN KULTTUURINA
Heimojen harmoniaa, palkintojen polyfoniaa vai kilpailemisen kakofoniaa?
Vuonna 1956 alkunsa saanut Eurovision laulukilpailu on viime vuosina
laajentunut niin maantieteellisesti kuin kulttuurisesti. Osallistujia on
entistä enemmän, eivätkä perinteiset euroviisumaat valloita median
huomiota saati kisan kärkitiloja entiseen malliin. Musiikin ohella
Eurovision laulukilpailuissa käydäänkin monenlaisia kamppailuja
kansallisuudesta, identiteeteistä ja kulttuuri-ideologioista.
Kansainvälinen populaarikulttuurin tutkimuskeskus IIPC järjestää
viisufinaalin alla perjantaina 4.5.2007 klo 13-16.30 Turun yliopiston
Educarium I:ssa (Assistentinkatu 5) avoimen seminaarin, jossa haetaan
laulukilpailun
todellisia voittajia - ja myös häviäjiä. Miksi Eurovisio päihitti
maanosamme muut laulukilpailut? Miten kilpailukulttuuri, musiikki ja
media oikein löysivät toisensa? Minkälaista musiikkia ja mitä maita
kilpailun säännöt ovat suosineet? Ovatko euroviisut nostalgian
voitto?
Ohjelma
13.00 prof. Hannu Salmi (Kansainvälinen populaarikulttuurin
tutkimuskeskus): avaussanat
13.10 FT Mari Pajala (Turun yliopisto): Luganosta Helsinkiin. Miten
Eurovision laulukilpailu on selviytynyt yli 50 vuoden ikään?
13.40 FT Tarja Rautiainen (Tampereen yliopisto): Musiikki, kilpailu
ja myöhäiskapitalismin henki
14.10 prof. Vesa Kurkela (Sibelius-Akatemia): Lauluntekijät vai
artistit? Euroviisut ja suomalaisen musiikkikustannuksen
yrityskulttuurin muutokset
14.40 Kahvitauko
15.00 Euroaudiovisio
15.30 Dr Irving Wolther (Hanover University of Music and Drama):
'Clash of Cultures' - The Eurovision Song Contest as a Means of
National-cultural Representation
16.00 FT Rauno Lahtinen (Turun yliopisto): Every Song is a Cry for
Votes. Kilpaillaanko Euroviisuissa laululla, show'lla vai
politiikalla?
A report in German available at the
Eurovision Song Contest website of NDRtv.
3 May 2007 10 am. - Guest lecture by Charlie Gere (University of
Lancaster):
"Neodarwinism, Digital Culture and the Absconded God". Location:
Arje Scheinin hall (Dentalia, 2nd floor, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, Turku)
9-11 November 2006 - The conference History of Stardom Reconsidered. Full programme and
abstracts can be found at starnet.utu.fi.
