Cfp: "Genre and Interpretation," Finnish Literary Society and Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki, June 10–12, 2009.

Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference include Brian McHale (Ohio State University) and Ansgar Nünning (Justus-Liebig-Universität). Panels include:

• Interpreting Life-Stories: Narrative Identities across Genres
• Layered Realism
• The Novel in Generic Analysis
• Reconsidering Bakhtin's Ideas on Genre
• Satire, Menippean Satire and Polemics
• Travel Writing

Please send your abstract (300 – 500 words) for a 20-minute paper to Tintti Klapuri, tintti.klapuri@utu.fi, and to Saija Isomaa, saija.isomaa@helsinki.fi, no later than January 16th, 2009.

Further information (partly in English) is available here: http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/skts/CFP.pdf.