In increasingly diverse urban environments, these trends can strain community relations and disrupt the social and political fabric, calling into question what living together means. To explore this, we bring together scholars from urban studies, anthropology, cultural studies, neuroscience, philosophy, and peace and conflict research.
We are very excited to invite you to the following sessions:
Session 1: Coexistence, conflict, and urban socialities on May 14 at 12 o'clock EET
Speakers:
Dr. Tina Gudrun Jensen (Malmö University): “Visions and every-day practices of urban diversity and co-existence: cases from Denmark”
Prof. Mustafa Dikeç (the Paris School of Urban Planning): “Rage as a political emotion”
Session 2: Identities, emotions, and politics on May 28 at 12 o'clock EET
Speakers:
Prof. Mikko Sams (Aalto University): “Decoding human emotions from brain activity”
Dr. Tuija Saresma (University of Jyväskylä): "Hate speech and toxic communities: The affective, gendered, and racializing rhetoric on the internet”
Session 3: Being, relationality, and everyday life on June 11 at 12 o'clock EET
Speakers:
Prof. Susanna Lindberg (Leiden University): "Bernard Stiegler on contemporary technological communities”
Doctoral researcher Ihntaek Hwang (Tampere University): “Organistic and immunitary body politic: everyday travelling between the individual and the collective”
After each session, the keynote speakers will engage in dialogue with another to explore the perspectives that their disciplines open to the topics of community-making and societal and political change.
More details and descriptions of the individual sessions can be found here: https://societalsustainability.fi/webinar-series-engaging-with-complex-communities/
Kindly note that all sessions are held in Eastern European (Helsinki) time.
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Dr. Eeva Puumala eeva.puumala@tuni.fi +358503186758