Lieven Ameel
@lievenameel.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Finland.
City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters.
blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/
City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters.
blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/
Seen in the wild in Finland: @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social &
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Seen in the wild in Finland: @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social &
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
Thanks, JD and everyone at #railwayaesthetics for great company on an unforgettable journey!
September 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thanks, JD and everyone at #railwayaesthetics for great company on an unforgettable journey!
Crossing into Bulgaria, #RailwayAsthetics
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Crossing into Bulgaria, #RailwayAsthetics
Looking for a telephone operator
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Looking for a telephone operator
panel "Disconnected Branches" starting at the Royal Salon, Bucharest North station), at the Railway Aesthetics conference lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
panel "Disconnected Branches" starting at the Royal Salon, Bucharest North station), at the Railway Aesthetics conference lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605
In Vienna for the Railway Aesthetics conference, which takes place in and around trains, including several night-trains on the trajectory Vienna – Bucharest – Istanbul. Program includes a panel at the Royal Salon in Bucharest & visit to the Energy Museum in Istanbul lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In Vienna for the Railway Aesthetics conference, which takes place in and around trains, including several night-trains on the trajectory Vienna – Bucharest – Istanbul. Program includes a panel at the Royal Salon in Bucharest & visit to the Energy Museum in Istanbul lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605
In Tartu for the one-week Nordplus course "Eco-Critical Approaches to Narratives across Media: A Nordic Perspective". I presented on bird poetry and allegorical approaches to flooded cities, drawing a.o. on the work of Karoliina Lummaa and my earlier work on allegory lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2580
September 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In Tartu for the one-week Nordplus course "Eco-Critical Approaches to Narratives across Media: A Nordic Perspective". I presented on bird poetry and allegorical approaches to flooded cities, drawing a.o. on the work of Karoliina Lummaa and my earlier work on allegory lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2580
Great to welcome the latest addition to our Palgrave Literary Urban Studies series: "Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance", edited by Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela, based on a 2022 conference at UC Santa Barbara. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2560
August 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Great to welcome the latest addition to our Palgrave Literary Urban Studies series: "Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance", edited by Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela, based on a 2022 conference at UC Santa Barbara. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2560
Kökar. Thoroughly enjoying the eerie, quiet beauty of this Åland archipelago gem.
August 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Kökar. Thoroughly enjoying the eerie, quiet beauty of this Åland archipelago gem.
Back in Chemnitz to participate in “TALES OF TRANSFORMATION: WORKSHOP ON POSTSOCIALIST AND POSTCOLONIAL CITIES AS LABORATORIES OF CHANGE” (5 – 6 JUNE), at the Industrial Museum here. The event is part of the program of Chemnitz 2025 – European Capital of Culture. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2503
June 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Back in Chemnitz to participate in “TALES OF TRANSFORMATION: WORKSHOP ON POSTSOCIALIST AND POSTCOLONIAL CITIES AS LABORATORIES OF CHANGE” (5 – 6 JUNE), at the Industrial Museum here. The event is part of the program of Chemnitz 2025 – European Capital of Culture. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2503
Out now: my article "Narrative Approaches for Twenty-first Century Planning", in Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory. The book explores new directions in planning theory & interrogates planning’s orthodoxy the boundaries of contemporary theory
lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2472
lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2472
May 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Out now: my article "Narrative Approaches for Twenty-first Century Planning", in Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory. The book explores new directions in planning theory & interrogates planning’s orthodoxy the boundaries of contemporary theory
lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2472
lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2472
In Braunschweig for "Lifelines: Re-Imagining Infrastructures between Culture and Construction". Great range of research and art projects on infrastructures. My talk is on “Infrastructures of Loss – Infrastructures of Redemption” in near-future city literature lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2432
May 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In Braunschweig for "Lifelines: Re-Imagining Infrastructures between Culture and Construction". Great range of research and art projects on infrastructures. My talk is on “Infrastructures of Loss – Infrastructures of Redemption” in near-future city literature lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2432
Interesting intercontinental collaboration today- presenting a virtual keynote lecture at the graduated conference “Urban Culture in the Twenty-first Century”, co-organized by Karoli (Hungary), and Yonsei (South Korea). My talk focused on the genre of the city novel. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2411
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Interesting intercontinental collaboration today- presenting a virtual keynote lecture at the graduated conference “Urban Culture in the Twenty-first Century”, co-organized by Karoli (Hungary), and Yonsei (South Korea). My talk focused on the genre of the city novel. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2411
In my talk, I outlined earlier work that applied concepts from literary studies to urban planning & presented new research on literary practices that engage with urban civic communities, from classical tragedy and Medieval urban encomium to the recent boom in city poets in the Netherlands & Belgium.
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
In my talk, I outlined earlier work that applied concepts from literary studies to urban planning & presented new research on literary practices that engage with urban civic communities, from classical tragedy and Medieval urban encomium to the recent boom in city poets in the Netherlands & Belgium.
Honored to act as keynote speaker at the Urban Studies Days, Helsinki. The days are one of my favorite yearly conferences, where sociologists, geographers, planners, historians, architects, literary scholars congregate around urban questions. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2372
May 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Honored to act as keynote speaker at the Urban Studies Days, Helsinki. The days are one of my favorite yearly conferences, where sociologists, geographers, planners, historians, architects, literary scholars congregate around urban questions. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2372
Thoroughly enjoying David G. Lummus' book "The City of Poetry". (re-)readings of Massoto, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio, and their civic role in 14th century Italian cities, which shows how "in order to carry out the poet’s officium, the author needed to emerge from the text and enter the city."
May 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Thoroughly enjoying David G. Lummus' book "The City of Poetry". (re-)readings of Massoto, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio, and their civic role in 14th century Italian cities, which shows how "in order to carry out the poet’s officium, the author needed to emerge from the text and enter the city."
The latest issue of Modernism/Modernity features my review of Florian Fuchs’s @fuchsflrn.bsky.social book Civic Storytelling. The book is wonderfully insightful and has been an inspiration for me for coming to grips with how literature can be thought of as practice. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2310
April 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The latest issue of Modernism/Modernity features my review of Florian Fuchs’s @fuchsflrn.bsky.social book Civic Storytelling. The book is wonderfully insightful and has been an inspiration for me for coming to grips with how literature can be thought of as practice. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2310
Today’s reading. Marguerite Yourcenar describes finding the notes in which her father kept meticulous track of her mother’s fever and pulse. She died the evening of the 18th, 10 days after the author’s birth.
March 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today’s reading. Marguerite Yourcenar describes finding the notes in which her father kept meticulous track of her mother’s fever and pulse. She died the evening of the 18th, 10 days after the author’s birth.
Molotov-Ribbentrop. Never thought I would witness it in real time, no punches pulled
February 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Molotov-Ribbentrop. Never thought I would witness it in real time, no punches pulled
Last class for my Intro to Western Lit course today. Literature's aporia. Is it possible to find hope in Beckett? "il faut continuer, je ne peux pas continuer, il faut continuer, je vais donc continuer, il faut dire des mots, tant qu’il y en a, il faut les dire" - as long as there are any words
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Last class for my Intro to Western Lit course today. Literature's aporia. Is it possible to find hope in Beckett? "il faut continuer, je ne peux pas continuer, il faut continuer, je vais donc continuer, il faut dire des mots, tant qu’il y en a, il faut les dire" - as long as there are any words
Today teaching modernism for my introduction to Western literature class. Palimpsests, Woolf, moments of being, Golden Bough, The Waste Land (and its reverberations in Lerner's 10:04). How elitist, how a-political was modernism? One focal point: vortex or maelstrom in the experience of modernity.
February 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today teaching modernism for my introduction to Western literature class. Palimpsests, Woolf, moments of being, Golden Bough, The Waste Land (and its reverberations in Lerner's 10:04). How elitist, how a-political was modernism? One focal point: vortex or maelstrom in the experience of modernity.
Today teaching romantics & the (aesthetic) legacy of romanticism. Authenticity, nature, industrialization, Tintern Abbey, hero genius. + I ask my students whether the following images show a) British goth band members, b) Brooklynite spoken word-poets, c) influential literature profs & romanticists
February 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Today teaching romantics & the (aesthetic) legacy of romanticism. Authenticity, nature, industrialization, Tintern Abbey, hero genius. + I ask my students whether the following images show a) British goth band members, b) Brooklynite spoken word-poets, c) influential literature profs & romanticists
Today: Crusoe & the robinsonade's resonance for our 21st c climate emergency, "a collective failure of our temporal and spatial sense, a confusion about where and when we are, that makes Crusoes of us all” (Boxall 2013). + importance of creating a written archive, keeping a diary, against the odds.
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today: Crusoe & the robinsonade's resonance for our 21st c climate emergency, "a collective failure of our temporal and spatial sense, a confusion about where and when we are, that makes Crusoes of us all” (Boxall 2013). + importance of creating a written archive, keeping a diary, against the odds.
Taught the "Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns" & asked my students to re-enact the quarrel for the 2020s. What is the role and value of classical literature for the present? Why even have normative positions re literature's role? Dan Edelstein's "The enlightenment: a genealogy" provided a good intro.
January 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Taught the "Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns" & asked my students to re-enact the quarrel for the 2020s. What is the role and value of classical literature for the present? Why even have normative positions re literature's role? Dan Edelstein's "The enlightenment: a genealogy" provided a good intro.