Programme, Thursday November 12.

8.30. Registration

9.00. Welcome and Introduction: Sound, Text and Audio Literature

Sara Tanderup Linkis and Julia Pennert. Room LUX C126.

9.30. Keynote: The Era of Close Listening

Matthew Rubery. Room LUX C126.

Chair: Sara Tanderup Linkis

10.30. Coffee break

11.00. Paper sessions 1a, 1b and 1c.

Session 1a. Intermediality, Songs and Poetry
Room: LUX A127
Chair: Julia Pennlert

Dobrawa Lisak: The entanglement of voice, poetry, and music in the CD “A reading of ashes. Jerzy Ficowski reads his poems.
Gunilla Hermansson: Song lyrics and literary history – the case of “Vårvindar friska.”
Krzysztof Majer: Songs from under the Floorboards: the Musicalizations of Mark Anthony Jarman.

Session 1b. Rhythm, Reading, and Reading by Listening
Room: LUX A233
Chair: Sara Kärrholm

Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo: Media Theoretical Perspectives on Reading and Listening in Post Digital Era: Towards Methodological Synesthesia
Sven Anders Johansson and Helen Asklund: Reading/listening. Preliminary conclusions from an ongoing research project
Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen: Reading in Rhythm: Audiobooks, Everyday Life, and the Aesthetics of Digital Immersion.

Session 1c. Publishing, Platforms and the (Audio)book Market I
Room: LUX C214
Chair: Sara Tanderup Linkis

Linda Thiele and Julia Zimmerman. Addressing different target groups through diversifying materialities – a new trend within the German-speaking audiobook market.
Jerry Määttä. Platform Power and Algorithmic Visibility: Publisher Affiliation in Swedish Audiobook Streaming Charts.
Laura Piippo. Experimental Audio Literature and Its Platforms in the Finnish Context.

12.30. Lunch

13.30. Paper sessions 2a, 2b and 2c.

Session 2a. Audiobooks and Education
Room: LUX A127
Chair Julia Pennlert

Sara Kärrholm. Audiobooks as a Tool for Students’ Learning. Reflections on How Recording of Audiobooks can Help Students’ Understanding of the Swedish Book Market.
Karin Lundin. Robot Voices and Smacking Narrators: Students’ Perceptions of Human and Synthetic Academic Audiobook Narration.
Annie Sjöö. Reading Between Sound and Text: Audiobooks in the Classroom.

Session 2b. Audio Narratives and Audio Culture
Room: LUX A233
Chair: Anna Hultman

Astrid Henning-Mohr and Heidrun Führer. Staging Animal Voices - A Performative Soundscape in Bibi Dumon Tak’s “The Earthworm and the Anaconda1”
Emilia Angel. Sound as Narrative Orientation: Podcasts as Audio Literature
Dominika Narecka. Listening to Curiosity, Curating Wonder - the Return of the Wunderkammer in Digital Audio Culture

Session 2c. Publishing, Platforms and the (Audio)book Market II
Room: LUX C214
Chair: Sara Tanderup Linkis

Minna Castrén. The Audio Turn: Reconfiguring Literary Production and Authorship in the Finnish Context
Anne Mölsä. Publisher’s Profession, Audiobooks, and Boundary Work
Thomas Alm. Listening to the quotidian life of publishers

15.00. Coffee break

15.30. Paper sessions 3a, 3b and 3c.

Session 3a. Sound and Audio in Children’s Culture
Room: LUX A233
Chair: Sara Kärrholm

Ann Steiner. Audiobooks as Pathways to Literature? Evidence from Upper Primary School Students
Jana Rüegg. Swing it, Snow White! Inter-and transmediality in Gösta Knutsson’s Pelle Svanslös (1939-1951)
Anke Vogel. The Book as Audio Interface: Digital Audio Pen Systems and the Transformation of Children’s Books in the German-Speaking Book Market

Session 3b. Poetry Performance and Voice
Room: LUX A127
Chair: Julia Pennlert

Lotta Westerlund. Rhythm and body in children’s songs by Jujja and Tomas Wieslander
Agata Hadley. The Sound is the Other – Tony Harrison’s Poetic Voice on Page and Screen

Session 3c. Narration, Identity and Voices
Room: LUX C214
Chair: Sara Tanderup Linkis

Lisa Källström. Giving Voice to Sámi Experience: Sound and Absence in the Sami Novel The Home of the Drowned
Dikko Yusuf. Unscrambling Africa: Audiobook narration and the reconfiguration of national and ethnic identity
Roger Edholm. A Voice Novel? – Narrating Characters between Text and Audio

18.30. Conference dinner (Lynneum, LUX-building)