Academic Year 2020-2021 (for internal use)
Article seminars, Spring 2021
Speakers Series lectures, Spring 2021 (cancelled)
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Updated on 5 March 2021
Article seminars, Spring 2021
(on Wednesdays at 12.15 via Zoom, unless otherwise decided )
Moved to 20.01. Chapter Four: Armenians and Kurds: Kirvelik and Interruption of Community
Meyda Yeğenoğlu
10.02. The Elite Framing of Post-Truth: Ontological Security and the Liberal Western self
Johanna Vuorelma (& Paul-Erik Korvela)
10.03. Framing Goffman
Risto Heiskala
14.04 TBA
Pia Vuolanto
12.05. TBA
Mahmut Mutman
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Article seminars, Autumn 2020 (via Zoom)
Exceptionally on Thursday, 17.09. Research plan for the Academy of Finland
Pia Vuolanto
30.09. Secrecy of the Armenian Genocide and Opening up the Mourning Process
Meyda Yeğenoğlu
14.10. Conceptualizing Irony in International Politics
Johanna Vuorelma
28.10. Self Care: The Case of Islam
Mahmut Mutman
11.11. Semiotic Sociology: Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Role of Theory and the Next Steps
Risto Heiskala
18.11. Last Anniversary and Alumni Reunion
Cancelled on 3 November 2020
For Director’s opening speech and panelists talks as well as alumni addresses Academic Freedom in the IASR, see Academic Freedom in the IASR
25.11. Ali and the Long Journey to Australia. Storycrafting refugee children’s lives
Mervi Kaukko
9.12. The Birth of a New Discipline – The Case of Social Work
Jorma Sipilä
Zoom meeting & End-of-Year Dinner at Restaurant Tiiliholvi at 18:00
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Last Anniversary & Alumni Event
Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR)
Cancelled on 3 November 2020
For Director’s opening speech and panelists texts on Academic Freedom in the IASR, see Academic Freedom in the IASR
Programme (cancelled)
12:30-13:00 Opening and Annual Report
Professor Risto Heiskala, Director, Institute for Advanced Social Research
13:00-14:30 “On Academic Freedom”, Panel of the Fellows of Fall 2020 and Directors of the other Finnish advanced study centers
Chair: Permanent Fellow Pirjo Nikander
The panelists:
- Mahmut Mutman, Senior Research Fellow, Joint Scholars at Risk (SAR) Programme with Kone Foundation
- Mervi Kaukko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Jorma Sipilä, Permanent Fellow
- Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Senior Research Fellow, Joint Scholars at Risk (SAR) Programme with Kone Foundation
- Pia Vuolanto, Senior Research Fellow, Kone Foundation
- Johanna Vuorelma, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Martin Cloonan, Director, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and Chair of SAR Finland
- Tuomas Forsberg, Director, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 “Outline of the Plan of the New Research Collegium for Tampere University” followed by a Q&A, Vice-President of Research Juha Teperi
Chair: Permanent Fellow Pertti Alasuutari
16:15-19:30 Alumni get-together in the IASR premises (Atalpa 208, 2nd floor): food, drinks, celebration and plenty of informal discussion …
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Kick-off Event
Time: 2-3 September 2020
Place: Tampere University, Atalpa and Hotel Ilves, Presidential Suite
Programme
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
11:30-13:30 Session 1: Welcome & 3 intros to research
(15 minutes talk + 15 min discussion each)
Chair: Risto Heiskal
Venue: Atalpa 208
11:30-12:00 Welcome, info & the ways of the institute
Risto Heiskala & Marjukka Virkajärvi
12:00-12:30 Mahmut Mutman
12:30-13:00 Mervi Kaukko
13:00-13:30 Pertti Alasuutari
13:45-15:15 Late lunch at Ristorante Piemonte, Suvantokatu 9, –> Hotel Ilves
Hotel Ilves
15:30-18:00 Session 2: Five more intros to research
Chair: Pertti Alasuutari
Venue: Presidential Suite
15:30-16:00 Risto Heiskala
16:00-16:30 Pia Vuolanto
16:30-17:00 Jorma Sipilä
17:00-17:30 Meyda Yeğenoğlu
17:30-18:00 Johanna Vuorelma
18:00-20:15 Free time & a possibility to visit the guest sauna with a small pool in the basement (or just to have an aperitif somewhere)
20:30-? Dinner at Restaurant 2h+k, Aleksanterinkatu 33 (to be selected from the menu)
Thursday, 3 September 2020
6:00-10:00 Breakfast at Hotel Ilves, also for those not staying at the hotel
10:00-12:00 Session 3: Planning for the Anniversary (announced to be organized in 23 September but may have to be postponed by two months to late November depending on the Covid-19 situation) and Article Seminars and other possible activities
Chair: Risto
Venue: Presidential Suite
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Academic Year 2019-2020 (for internal use)
Article seminars, Spring 2020
Speakers Series lectures, Spring 2020
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Updated 25 May 2020
Article seminars, Spring 2020 (subject to change due to the coronavirus situation)
Time: On Wednesdays at 12.15–14.00, in English, starting on 15 Jan 2020
Place: Atalpa seminar room 208, 2nd fl.
15 January 2020 (Week 3)
Planning Session of the IASR Spring Seminar in Frascati, Rome, 20-22 April 2020
22 January 2020 (Week 4)
Heikki Heikkilä: Beyond Critical Coupling: Politics of Privacy in the Era of Surveillance
29 January 2020 (Week 5)
(Ilkka Pietilä &) Hanna Ojala: The loss of work motivation among older male employees: Critical perspectives to policies aimed at extending working life in Finland
5 February 2020 (Week 6)
Andrew Newby: “Unspeakable Distress, Horror and Wretchedness”: Finland’s Great Famine, 1856-68. (Book proposal)
12 February 2020 (Week 7)
Film Session at 14:15: “A Separation”, an Iranian film
19 February 2020 (Week 8)
Heikki Heikkilä & Meyda Yegenoglu: Text on life story research
26 February 2020 (Week 9)
Saara Pellander: Text on post-colonialism
4 March 2020 (Week 10)
Mahmut Mutman & Risto Heiskala: Text on attacks on the human sciences
11 March 2020 (Week 11)
Laura Ahva: Book Chapter: 2. Journalism Approaches Addressing Depolarisation
18 March 2020 (Week 12) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Meyda Yegenoglu: Affective Encounters: Memory, Trauma and the Unspeakable
25 March 2020 (Week 13) Film session postponed to a later date
Film Session: Documentaries suggested by Mahmut Mutman
Forgetting Vietnam
1 April 2020 (Week 14) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Risto Heiskala: Pacification of Existence: Marcuse and Beyond
8 April 2020 (Week 15) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Saara Pellander: A gendered reading of responses to the refugee reception crisis
15 April 2020 (Week 16) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Risto Heiskala: A draft chapter of a handbook article on “Semiotics of sociology and political science” jointly authored with our former fellow Peeter Selg from Tallinn University
ESA RN 15 Midterm Conference 2020 and IASR Sping Seminar, Frascati, Italy, postponed due to the coronavirus situation
22 April 2020 (Week 17) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Corona Café Discussion: “Corona and/in my research”
IASR Spring Seminar in Finland postponed
29 April 2020 (Week 18) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Mahmut Mutman: Sovereignities of Jihadism
6 May 2020 (Week 19) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Mervi Kaukko: Learning to survive amidst two crises:
Can the Coronavirus pandemic help us change our practices
to prepare for the impending eco-crisis? (H. Heikkinen, M. Kaukko, S. Kemmis, and T. Kiilakoski)
13 May 2020 (Week 20) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Heikki Heikkilä: Banal Surveillance: A Control, Care, Empowerment Framework for
Studying Infrastructures and Technologies of Power (Lehmuskallio et al.)
IASR Alumni Reunion at Tampere University postponed
20 May 2020 (Week 21) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Meyda Mutman: Archive, Wittness and Arsaluys
27 May 2020 (Week 22) via Zoom due to the coronavirus situation
Johanna Vuorelma: Press freedom or state security? Trust and consensus-building in the Finnish information leak case
(A. Koivunen & J. Vuorelma)
End of the term without major celebrations (postponed to autumn)
Speakers Series lectures, Spring 2020 (subject to change due to the coronavirus situation)
Time: Every second Tuesday at 16.15–17.45, in English, starting on 21 Jan 2020
Exception: Prof. Patrik Aspers’s lecture will be held on Thursday, 6 February 2020 (Week 6) at 17:15-18.45
Place: Pinni B lecture hall B1096, 1st fl.
Schedule (subject to change, see abstracts here)
Updated 16 April 2020
21 January 2020 (Week 4)
A Post-socialist Perspective on Emerging Audit Culture: Changing Practices and Subjectivities of School Teachers in a Russian Region
Associate Professor Nelli Piattoeva; NSR, Tampere University
NB! Thursday, 6 February 2020 (Week 6) at 17:15-18:45
Organizations and the Fashioning of Grown and Decided institutions
Professor Patrik Aspers, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
18 February 2020 (Week 8)
Journalism Movements and the Challenge of Polarisation
Dr Laura Ahva, IASR, Tampere University
3 March 2020 (Week 10)
Narratives in Foreign Policy Analysis
Dr Johanna Vuorelma, IASR, Tampere University
17 March 2020 (Week 12) CANCELLED
Brexit and Beyond? Some challenges of conjunctural analysis
Professor John Clarke, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow and Professor Emeritus, The Open University, UK
31 March 2020 (Week 14) CANCELLED
Imagi(ni)ng Democracy: European Youth Becoming Citizens by Visual Participation
Professor Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki
14 April 2020 (Week 16)
No lecture
28 April 2020 (Week 18) CANCELLED
Is Retirement a Crisis for Men?
Dr Hanna Ojala, IASR, Tampere University
12 May 2020 (Week 20) CANCELLED
Family, Migration and the State: Racialized Hierarchies of Controlling and Representing Cross-border Intimacies
Dr Saara Pellander, IASR, Tampere University
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Autumn 2019
Schedule (subject to change), updated 18 November 2019
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Tuesday/Wednesday |
IASR Lectures |
Article seminars (internal)
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Based on a draft of an article or a book chapter |
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| 36 | Wed-Thu, 4-5 Sept. Kick-off seminar Wuolle Mansion, Hauho |
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| 37 | Wed, 11 Sept | Saara Pellander: Intimate geographies of bordering: How borders affect citizens and their social networks |
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| 38 | Tue, 17 Sept | Prof. Rainer Winter: Mediatization and the Transformation of the Self |
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| 38 | Wed, 18 Sept | Visiting lecturer Prof. Jane Wilkinson: Leading for social justice and diversity through a practice architecture lens |
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| 39 |
Wed, 25 Sept | Heikki Heikkilä: Do we want to tolerate audience metrics? Ethics and validity in newsrooms’ knowledge of the users |
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| 40 | Tue, 1 Oct | Meyda Yegenoglu: Entanglement of Humanitarianism with Colonialism and Orientalism | |
| 40 | Wed, 2 Oct | Introductions to research: Mervi Kaukko Visiting Fulbright Lois Presser |
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| 41 | Wed, 9 Oct |
Leo Custódio: Research Plan: “Intersectional public spheres” and anti-racism media activist tactics: The cases of Finland and Brazil compared |
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| 42 | Tue, 15 Oct | Leonardo Custódio: What does ‘decolonization’ mean to you? A farewell (bomb) letter |
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| 42 | Wed, 16 Oct | Laura Ahva (& Mikko Hautakangas): Book proposal: “Journalism against Polarisation” |
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| 43 | Tue, 22 Oct NB! 14:15-15:45 |
Prof. Louise Morley: Women Leaders in Finnish Universities: Navigating Neoliberalism, Narrating Neuroliberalism, and Nurturing New Imaginaries |
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| 43 | Wed, 23 Oct NB! 15:00-18:00 |
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Film session: Franz Fanon: Concerning Violence (2014) |
| 44 | Tue, 29 Oct NB! Pinni B1100 |
Mahmut Mutman: Three Remarks on Populism: Sovereignty, Class, Figure |
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| 44 | Wed, 30 Oct |
Saara Pellander (& Johanna Leinonen): Book proposal: The intimate and the state: Racialized geographies of transnational family relations |
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| 45 | Wed, 6 Nov
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Risto Heiskala (& Peeter Selg): Power, Regulation and Social Order in the Intersection of Political and Social Theory |
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| 46 | Tue, 12 Nov NB! Pinni B1100 |
Mervi Kaukko: What do refugee background students want us to know about their school lives? ‘Zooming in’ on the practice architectures of a multicultural school in Australia |
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| 46 | Wed, 13 Nov | Meyda Yegenoglu: Remembering Armenian genocide |
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| 47 | Wed, 20 Nov |
Gerald MacLean & Donna Landry: Exploring with Evliya Ҫelebi, the Ottoman Traveller: Inter- and Multi-disciplinary Research and His Travel Writing |
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| 48 | Tue, 26 Nov NB! Pinni B1100 |
Nelli Piattoeva: A post-socialist perspective on emerging audit culture: changing practices and subjectivities of school teachers in a Russian region |
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| 48 | Wed, 27 Nov |
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Mervi Kaukko: Love as a pedagogical practice |
| 49 | Wed-Thu, 4-5 Dec Symposium on Populism |
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| 50 |
Tue, 10 Dec
Pre-Christmas Dinner
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Andrew Newby: “Poor and primitive, but honest and truthful” – Overseas Famine Aid to Finland, 1856-68 |
ESA RN 15 Midterm Conference and Winter Seminar, Frascati, Italy, April 2020
IASR Lecture Series and Article Seminars & other events for the academic year
Kick-off Seminar, Wuolle Mansion, Hauho, 4-5 September 2019
Academic Year 2018-2019
Winter Seminar, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-8 February 2018
IASR Lecture Series and Article Seminar Schedule & other events for the academic year (programme for internal use)
Kick-off Seminar, Wuolle Mansion, Hauho, 6-7 September 2018
Academic Year 2017-2018
15th Anniversary & Alumni Reunion, 18 April 2018
Winter Seminar (Firenze), 4-9 February 2018
IASR Lecture Series and Article Seminars & other events for the academic year (programme for internal use)
Kick-off Seminar, Wuolle Mansion, Hauho, 6-7 September 2017
Academic Year 2016-2017
14th Anniversary & Alumni Reunion, 19 April 2017, Panel in Pinni B1096, buffet dinner in Atalpa 208
Winter Seminar, Antwerp, Belgium, 5-10 February 2017
Professor Heiskala’s 60th Birthday Seminar and Birthday Banquet, 11 November 2016
IASR Lecture Series and Article Seminars for the academic year (programme for internal use)
Kick-off Seminar, 7-9 September 2016
Academic Year 2015-2016
Alumni Reunion, Atalpa. lecture hall 140, 1st floor, Tuesday, 20 April 2016
Winter Seminar, ST. Petersburg, Russia, 31 Jan-5 February 2016
Studia Generalia: IASR Lecture Series / kollegiumluentosarja: 15 September 2015-10 May 2016
Article seminars: 16 September 2015-6 May 2016
IASR Lecture and Article Seminars for the academic year (programme for internal use)
Kick-off seminar, Wuolle Mansion, Hauho, 1-2 September 2015
Academic Year 2014-2015
Alumni Reunion, Atalpa, lecture hall 140, 1st floor, 21 April 2015
Winter Seminar, Athens, Greece, 1-6.2.2015
Studia Generalia: IASR lecture series/kollegiumluentosarja,16 September 2014-26 May 2015
Article seminars: 17 September 2014-27 May 2015
IASR Programme for the academic year (IASR lectures and article seminars, for internal use)
Kick-off seminar, Wuolle Mansion, Hauho, 3-4 September 2014
Academic year 2013-2014
Alumni Reunion, 14 May 2014, Atalpa, lecture hall 140, 1st floor
Winter Seminar, Strasbourg, France
The IASR’s 10-year Anniversary Banquet, 16 October 2013
Studia Generalia: IASR lecture series / kollegiumluentosarja, 17 September 2013-27 May 2014
Article seminars: 18 September 2013-28 May 2014
IASR Programme for the academic year (IASR lectures and article seminars, for internal use)
Academic year 2012-2013
Studia Generalia: YTI-luennot/IASR lecture series under the theme Societal Change, 18 September 2012-21 May 2013
Article seminars: 12 September 2012-15 May 2013 (internal event, Atalpa 143)
IASR Programme for the academic year (IASR lectures and article seminars, for internal use)
Academic year 2011-2012
Studia Generalia: YTI-luennot/IASR lecture series under the general theme Societal Change, 10 January-15 May 2012, Pinni B, lecture room B1096
Article seminars: 17 January-8 May 2011 (every second Tuesday, internal event)
Studia Generalia: YTI-luennot/IASR lecture series under the general theme Societal Change, 20 September-13 December 2011, Main Building, lecture hall A1 (except for 4 October, lecture hall A4)
Article seminars: 13 September-22 November 2011 (every second Tuesday, internal event)
Academic year 2010-2011
Research Collegium alumni event on Wed 11.5.2011 at 15.00-19.00 (Pinni B 3076)
Article seminars 18.1.-10.5.2011 (every second Tuesday, internal event)
Open UTACAS lecture on Tue 26.10.2010 at 16-18 (Pinni B 1096): Alan Warde (University of Manchester): “The Challenge of Making Consumption Sustainable”
Article seminars 14.9.-7.12.2010 (every second Tuesday, internal event)
Academic year 2009-2010
Application period for the year 1.8.2010-31.7.2011 (ends 5.2.2010)
Open UTACAS lecture on 11.3.2010 at 16-18 (Pinni B 1096): Beverley Skeggs: The Making of Person-Value through Intimacy and Affect
Open UTACAS lecture on Wed 28.4.2010 at 16-18 (Pinni B 3076): Michael Halewood: “A Culture of Thought”. A.N.Whitehead’s challenge to modernity
UTACAS alumni event on Thu 29.4.2010 at 13.30-17 (Pinni B 3076)
Article seminars 20.1.-12.5.2010 (every second Wednesday, internal event)