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Events/Language Studies calendaren-usThu, 11 Sep 2025 12:34:05 +0200/en/events/the-season-of-winter-in-literature-and-visual-art_12139136/The Season of Winter in Literature and Visual ArtWelcome to a symposium on the theme of winter.Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:15:00 +0200<h2>22 September</h2>13.15–13.45 Thinking about the Seasonality of Winter: Some Methodological Proposals and Definitions from Researchers in the Humanities and Cultural StudiesDaniel Chartier, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) 13.45–14.15 Feelgood Fiction and Winter as Hyper-RealityHeidi Hansson, Umeå University14.15–14.45 Boreal Winter as Escapist Fantasy in Latin American LiteratureElena Lindholm, Umeå UniversityBreak15.15–15.45 Winter Moods: Perspectives from Finnish LiteratureRiikka Rossi, University of Helsinki (Finland)15.45–16.15 Winter as Character in Le dernier Lapon [Forty days without shadow] (2012) by Olivier TrucMalin Isaksson, Umeå University16.15–16.45 Representations of Winter in Women's Stories of Immigration to QuébecEang-Nay Theam, Collège de Maisonneuve, Québec (Canada) <h2>23 September</h2>09.15–09.45 To be Subject to the Winter in Labrador: Two Missionary Accounts from the 19th and early 20th Century in ComparisonJan Borm, Université de Versailles—Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France)Break10.15–10.45 The Snow Child in WinterMaria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå University10.45–11.15 Painting Winter (17th–19th Centuries): An Interpretation by a Geographer-ClimatologistAlexis Metzger, École de la nature et du paysage (France)11.15–11.45 Some Aspects of the Meanings of Snow in Visual ArtsLennart Pettersson, Umeå University11.45–12.15 Winterity and Verticality: Crossroads. From the Conquered and Sublime Peaks to the New Sensibilities of a Winter Mountain EnvironmentClaude Hauser, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)<h2>Abstract</h2><a href="/link/0dc2e3485e9b43a88c857554e8b1d798.aspx">Program och abstracts</a>HumF.232Symposium/en/events/the-season-of-winter-in-literature-and-visual-art_12139136/2025-09-22T13:15:00+02:002025-09-23T12:15:00+02:00/en/events/asla-2026_12106073/ASLA 2026Welcome to the next national symposium for ASLA, the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200The theme for ASLA 2026 is The Role of Language in Challenging Times: Minority, Majority and Educational spectives. The programme and important dates is found on our conference website:<a href="/link/de534fa2d1d44cba8f1d131a6698d26f.aspx">ASLA 2026</a>TBAConference/en/events/asla-2026_12106073/2026-05-07T00:00:00+02:002026-05-08T00:00:00+02:00