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Versification: Metrics in Practice. Abstracts for the 2016 NordMetrik Conference. 25th-27th May 2016.
Wednesday, May 25th
8.45–9.15 Registration and morning coffee
Finnish Literature Society, Hallituskatu 1, in the Great Hall (second floor)
9.15–9.30 Opening words
Frog (University of Helsinki)
Satu Grünthal (University of Helsinki)
9.30–10.30 Keynote speaker
Chair: Satu Grünthal
Tomas Riad (University of Stockholm, Swedish Academy)
Meter as Improvement
10.30–11.00 COFFEE
11.00–12.30 Session I A
Chair: Frog
Mikael Males (University of Oslo)
Metrical Innovation in Skaldic Poetry c. 900–1220
Jean-Louis Aroui (Paris-8 University / CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research))
The French Decasyllable from the 14th to the 16th Century: A Meter Family
Daniel Galbraith (Stanford University)
A Constraint-Based Account of Faroese Ballad Meter
11.00–12.30 Session I B
Chair: Eila Stepanova
Maria-Kristiina Lotman (University of Tartu)
Mihhail Lotman (University of Tartu / Tallinn University)
Meter and Semantics: Subjectivity in Estonian Verse
Haukur Þorgeirsson (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)
Two Types of Poetic Traditions
Eva Lilja (Göteborg University)
Embodied Rhythm
12.30–14.00 LUNCH (Restaurant Piano, Rauhankatu 15)
14.00–15.00 Keynote speaker
Chair: Frog
Jesper Svenbro (Swedish Academy)
Stanzas: Practicing Sappo’s and Alcaeus’ Stanzas
15.00–15.30 COFFEE
15.30–17.00 Session II A
Chair: Eeva-Liisa Bastman
Hanna Karhu (University of Helsinki)
Finnish Rhymed Couplet Meter (rekilaulumitta) in Folk Songs and in Written Poetry – The Case of Otto Manninen’s Poems and Archival Material
Anna Rubtsova (Tallinn University)
Iambic Tetrameter of Vladislav Khodasevich
Tuula Rautio (University of Helsinki)
The Last Rhyme
15.30–17.00 Session II B
Chair: Kati Kallio
Stephen Evans (Church musician, The Parish of Laitila, Turku Archdiocese, Finland)
New Light on Versification in Ancient Greek Epic, Hymn and Lyric
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir (University of Iceland)
Formulaic Language in Minimal Metrical Requirements: The Case of Postmedieval Icelandic þulur
Frog (University of Helsinki)
Metrical Entanglement: The Interface of Language and Meter through Tradition
Picnic on the Island Tervasaari
Meeting at 18:00 at the end of Liisankatu, at this end of the bridge. See map.
Thursday, May 26th
9.15–9.30 COFFEE
9.30–10.30 Keynote speaker
Chair: Mihhail Lotman
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
On the Functional Differentiation of Metrical Forms
10.30–11.00 COFFEE
11.00–12.30 Session III A
Chair: Mikael Males
Klaus Johan Myrvoll (University of Oslo)
Syllabic Quantity in Old Norse Metre
Jacqueline Ekgren (Ekgren Musikkinstitutt)
Accentual Verse and Century-Old Vocal Tradition Feature Dipodic Pattern: Pairs of Strong Stresses Govern Old English Poetry and Norwegian stev
Grünthal Satu (University of Helsinki)
Cvetanovic Dragana (University of Helsinki)
Huhtamäki Martina (University of Helsinki)
“Frá bygd til bý” by Swangah Dangah – A Contemporary Faroese Ballad
11.00–12.30 Session III B
Chair: Myfany Turpin
Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez (University of Vigo)
Galician Song Metrics in the Iberian Phonological Continuum
Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton University)
Textsetting as Strengthened Meter: Evidence from Georges Brassens
Nicolas Royer-Artuso (Laval University)
Ottoman ‘Aruz to Usul’ Textsetting Principles
12.30–14.00 LUNCH (Restaurant Piano, Rauhankatu 15)
14.00–15.30 Session IV A
Chair: Jarkko Niemi
Myfany Turpin (University of Sydney)
Multi-Modal Parallelism in Central Australian Song-Poetry
Janika Oras (Estonian Literary Museum)
Play with Structures in Seto Oral Singing Tradition: The Broken Line as a Model of Rhythmic Variation
Mari Sarv (Estonian Literary Museum)
The Relationship of Metre and Performance in Case of Folksongs
14.00–15.30 Session IV B
Chair: Sakari Katajamäki
Tobia Zanon (University of Padua)
Versification, Translation and Lyrical Traditions
Alice Martin (Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö)
The Snark becomes Krauki. Translating Lewis Carroll’s Metre into Finnish
Sergei Bolotov (Russian State University for the Humanities)
Natalia Štakelberg’s law for Czech verse (especially iambic) and Kalevalamitta: some metric-comparative considerations
15.30–16.00 COFFEE
16.00–17.00 Session V A
Chair: Satu Grünthal
Eeva-Liisa Bastman (University of Helsinki)
Functions of Rhyme, Assonance and Alliteration in 18th Century Hymn Poetry
Marina Akimova (M. L. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Some Observations on the Use of Verb Forms in the Poetry of Mikhail Kuzmin
16.00–17.00 Session V B
Chair: Luca Zuliani
Panu Heimonen (University of Helsinki)
Versification and Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony Op. 43
Marjo Suominen (University of Helsinki)
Versification in Handel’s Opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Surfaces of Performativity and Intertextuality
17:30 Evening reception at the Finnish Literature Society (Hallituskatu 1, Great Hall, 2nd floor)
Friday, May 27th
9.15–9.30 COFFEE
9.30–10.30 Keynote
Chair: Karina Lukin
Jarkko Niemi (University of Tampere)
Traditions of Versification among the Indigenous Ethnic Groups in the Northern Uralic Linguistic Area: Preliminary Results of a Comparative Structural Analysis of the Musical Styles
10.30–11.00 COFFEE
11.00–12.30 Session VI A
Eila Stepanova (University of Helsinki)
“Kallehen kandajazen kandamaista kaimatah”: The Variability and Flexibility of “Poetic Strings” in Karelian Laments
Elena Jugay (Vologda Institute of Business / Russian State University for the Humanities)
The Phonetic Organization of Russian Folk Lamentations
Maria V. Stanyukovich (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Science)
Galina B. Sytchenko (M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatoire)
Poetic Language and Music of the hudhud ni nosi, a Yattuka Funeral Chant, the Philippines
11.00–12.30 Session VI B
Chair: Mari Sarv
Taive Särg (Estonian Folklore Archives, Tartu)
Recreating the Metre: Verses of More than Eight Syllables in Estonian regilaul
Varun de Castro-Arrazola (Leiden University / Meertens Institute)
Final Strictness and the Detection of Deviants in Pseudo-Verse Lines
Vera Polilova (Moscow State University, Institute of World Culture)
Genesis of Russian taktovik: The Actual State of the Problem
12.30–14.00 LUNCH (Restaurant Piano, Rauhankatu 15)
14.00–15.00 Keynote speaker
Chair: Lotte Tarkka
Kati Kallio (Finnish Literature Society (SKS))
Performance, Music and Meter in Finnic Oral Poetry
15.00–15.30 COFFEE
15.30–16.30 Session VII A
Chair: Marjo Suominen
Luca Zuliani (University of Padova)
Music and Text in Contemporary Italy
Eszter Éva Hörcher (Holocaust Memorial Center, Hungary)
On the Way Words and Melodies Meet: Concerning the Musical and Linguistic System of Relationships in 20th-Century Hungarian Poetry
15.30–16.30 Session VII B
Chair: Satu Grünthal
Erika Laamanen (University of Helsinki)
The Metrical Evolution of Lauri Viita’s Poetry
Hans Nollet (KU Leuven)
A Case Study: The Diachrony of the Dactylic Hexameter in Justus Lipsius’s Poetry
16.30–16.45 COFFEE
16.45–17.00 Closing discussion