Friday 10th September
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration and Refreshments |
| 10:00-10:15 | Opening of the conference (Auditorium, 5th Floor) |
| Tomi Mäkelä, Marjaana Virtanen and Taina Riikonen | |
| 10:15-11:30 | Keynote address (Auditorium, 5th Floor) |
| Della Pollock: Performance Epistemologies | |
| 11:30-12:45 | Lunch (Registration continues) |
| 12:45-15:00 | Parallel Sessions 1, 2 & 3 |
| Paper Session 1 (Auditorium, 5th Floor) | |
| 12.45-13.15 Niels Windfeld Lund: Experimental Art Analysis: the case of World Opera | |
| 13.15-13.45 Ana Dinger: Curatorship as conservation: the role of the curator in the preservation of the ’identity’ of performance-based artworks | |
| 13.45-14.15 Hanna Kaikko: "Making it audible to the culture": Documenting and releasing freely improvised music in the Finnish underground scene | |
| Paper Session 2 (Wegelius Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 12.45-13.30 Ari Poutiainen: Silence Hidden by the Music: Tools of Teaching, Studying, and Performing Instrumental Group Improvisation | |
| 13.30-14.00 Jason Younts: Anything Dexter Gordon can do, Johny Griffin can do better and Vice-Versa: An Analysis of Communication in Performance | |
| 14.00-14.30 Ville Iivari: The relation between clave patterns and violin improvisation in Santeria's religious feasts | |
| Mixed Session 3 of Papers and Performances (Ackté Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 12.45-13.15 Gaia V. Varon: Symphonic Music on screen: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony | |
| 13.15-14.00 Elina Saloranta: Tango Lesson | |
| 14.00-14.30 Tiffany Kuo: The Listening Experience of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments |
| 15:30-18:00 | Parallel Sessions 4, 5 & 6 |
| Mixed Session 4 of Papers and Performances (Auditorium) | |
| 15.30-16.00 Sheila Guymer: Pinning the Butterfly? Elucidating authority through analyzing interpretive choice | |
| 16.00-16.30 Avior Byron: Poetics perceptions of the performance of Huberman | |
| 16.30-17.00 Mark McFarland: Stravinsky’s ”Etude pour Pianola:” A Case Study in Compositional Authority | |
| 17.00-17.30 Stefan Knapik: String-Song’, the Singer, and Self: Notions of Embodied and Metaphysical Subjectivity in Early Twentieth-Century Violinists’ Discussions of Tone | |
| Mixed Session 5 of Papers and Performances (Wegelius Hall) | |
| 15.30-16.00 Olivia Lucas: Living Music: Voice and Immediacy (audio) | |
| 16.00-16.30 Anna Maria Monteverdi: Racconti del Mandala: concert’action for voice and datasuite: an example of interactive | |
| 16.30-17.00 Päivi Järviö: Music moves in me – The singing body as interior movement | |
| Paper Session 6 (Large meeting room, 3rd Floor) | |
| 15.30-16.00 Ronald E. Shields: From Archive to Stage, From Authors to Audiences: Opera as Embodied Authorities | |
| 16.00-16.30 Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen: Creating the Role of Lucia In Finnish: Emmy Achté’s Debut in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Première of the Finnish Opera Company | |
| 16.30-17.00 Gregory Camp: Whose Monteverdi? Authority in Early Opera Performance | |
| 18:00 | Transportation to the Reception (Helsinki Town Hall) |
| 18:30 | Reception |
Saturday 11th September
| 9:00-9:30 | Late Registration |
| 9:30-11:45 | Parallel Sessions 7, 8 & 9 |
| Paper Session 7 (Auditorium, 5th Floor) | |
| 10.00-10.30 Marjaana Virtanen: From Sketches to First Performances: The Influence of First Performers on a Musical Work | |
| 10.30-11.00 Lina Navickaite-Martinelli: Creative Lying and Other Ways to Signify: On Music Performance as a Creative Process | |
| 11.00-11.45 Falk Hübner: Shifting Identities – The musician-performer and the composer-director | |
| Mixed Session 8 of Papers and Performances (Wegelius Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 9.30-10.00 Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam: Aino Ackté’s Lyrical Salome | |
| 10.00-10.30 Uri Golomb: Sermons in music or sacred opera? The reception and performance of love duets in Bach’s sacred cantatas | |
| 10.30- 11.15 Elisabeth Belgrano: A lost queen, a desperate woman, a mad female singer: researching the voice of Monteverdi’s Ottavia through vocal sounds, sighs and observations on Nothingness | |
| 11.15-11.45 Marjo Suominen: Signs and messages of love in Performing Handel’s Opera Giuolio Cesare | |
| Performance Session 9 (Acktè Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 9.30-10.15 Mika Elo: Tangents | |
| 10.15-11.00 Hanna Järvinen & Anne Makkonen: Speaking, Moving, Dance: Incorporated language in practice and research | |
| 11.00-11.45 Catherine Lee: reeds: play within shared authority | |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:15 | Keynote address (Auditorium, 5th Floor) |
| Nicholas Cook: Representing Performance | |
| 14:15-14:45 | Refreshments |
| 14:45-17:15 | Parallel Sessions 10, 11 & 12 |
| Mixed Session 10 of Papers and Performances (Auditorium, 5th Floor) | |
| 14.45-15.30 Teresa Vila Verde: Music as Performance: a place of fight and flight | |
| 15.30-16.15 Caroline Wilkins: An expansion of the admissible | |
| 16.15-16.45 Taina Riikonen: On a Slippery Ground – Ethnographer, Authority and Performative Participan Observation | |
| 16.45-17.30 Yrjö Heinonen: Crossing the Implicit Barrier – A Case Study of Arja Koriseva’s Live Performances | |
| Mixed Session 11 of Papers and Performances (Wegelius Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 14.45-15.30 Juho Laitinen: Electric cello as a means of practical experimentation | |
| 15.30-16.15 Jean Penny: Concurrent Realities: Performative Readings for Flutes with Digital Technologies | |
| 16.15-16.45 Pilvi Porkola: Exercises Learning to Fly II | |
| 16.45-17.17 Guerino Mazzola: Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz | |
| Mixed Session 12 of Papers and Performances (Ackté Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 14.45-15.30 Heidi Korhonen-Björkman: The Two-Voiced Performer in Betsy Jolas’s Piano Piece Mon ami (1974) | |
| 15.60-16.00 Johanna Tiensuu: Different Pianists with Different Bodies. Does body matter? (Constructing Material Interconnections Concerning Piano-playing with Concepts: Corporeality/Body, Difference and Gender/Sex) | |
| 16.00-16.30 Laura Wahlfors: Preparing Schumann’s Kreisleriana – Barthes’s Schumannian body and the pianist as an embodied subject-in-process | |
| 16.30-17.15 James Bungert: Embodied Transformations in Piano Music | |
| 17:15-17:45 | Refreshments |
| 17:45-19:00 | Panel Discussion: Performance Studies Today and Tomorrow. (Auditorium, 5th Floor) |
| Participants: Annette Arlander, Martin Clayton, Nicholas Cook, Della Pollock, Allen S. Weiss, chair Tomi Mäkelä. | |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner, Restaurant Nokka. |
Sunday 12th September
| 10:00-12:30 | Parallel Sessions 13, 14 & 15 |
| Mixed Session 13 of Papers and Performances (Auditorium, 5th Floor) | |
| 10.00-10.45 Pauliina Hulkko: Bodies Speak – Words Move | |
| 10.45-11.30 Assi Karttunen: The painting on a skin | |
| 11.30-12.15 Maria da Rocha Conçalves: Bringing vivid memory to expression through narrative construction | |
| 12.15-12.45 Alexandra Vinzenz: The ritual act – initiation for tranformation? Hermann Nitsch and Joseph Beuys | |
| Mixed Session 14 of Papers and Performances (Wegelius Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 10.00-10.30 Thomas Gardner: The rehabilitation of schizophonia: social interaction, sound and media in the Automatic Writing Circle | |
| 10.30-11.00 Eila Goldhahn & Soili Hämäläinen & Leena Rouhiainen: Collective Choreography Experimenting with a multi-modal approach | |
| 11.00-11.45 Kristin Carlson & Gregory Corness & Jonathan Aitken: Plan, Action, Collaboration: Creating a Hybrid Performance from the Ground Up | |
| 11.45-12.15 Elina Seye: Negotiating Tradition in Sabar Performances | |
| Mixed Session 15 of Papers and Performances (Ackté Hall, 4th Floor) | |
| 10.00-10.45 Anneli Arho & Tuomas Mali & Jukka Rautasalo: A Pianist, a Cellist, a Composer. A trialogue in and about music-making | |
| 10.45-11.30 Eeva Anttila: Dialogical Encounters | |
| 11.30-12.00 Christian Matjias: The Rejection of “Memory-as-Authority” in Dance Reconstruction | |
| 12.00-12.30 Petri Tervo: Kinesis, authority and the crisis of the civilized body | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45-15:00 | Keynote address (Auditorium, 5th Floor) |
| Allen S. Weiss: On the Demonic in Music | |
| 15:00 | Closing of the Conference |