Sosiologia

SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR 2021–2022 

Meeting time Tuesday at 4 p.m.   

The seminar is organized via Microsoft Teams until the Covid-19 situation is resolved. We wish to be able to return to onsite mode either at the beginning of the second period of the Fall term or at the beginning of the Spring term. When meeting online, links to the events will be distributed about one week before each session. Affiliations of the speakers are Tampere University if not mentioned otherwise. Updates and additions to the programme still possible. 

Fall 2021 

Tuesday 21 September (NB. Exceptional starting time 6 p.m. due to time zone difference!) 

• Jan Nederveen Pieterse (University of California Santa Barbara): “Covid-19 and Governance”  
• Comments by Pertti Alasuutari and Risto Heiskala 

Tuesday 5 October 

• Olli Herranen (University of Helsinki): “Socially Manufactured Climate-change Denialism as a Resistance to Social Change” 
• Jukka Syväterä (University of Helsinki): “The Authority of Science in the Politics of Parliamentary Policymaking: Evolving Practices of Enacting and Contesting Science” 

Tuesday 2 November 

• Mira Käkönen: “Volatile Rivers and the Politics of Infrastructure in Times of Climate Urgency” 

Tuesday 7 December 

• Marta Choroszewicz (University of Eastern Finland): “Structural Power Differentials in Building and Deploying of Decision-Making Tools in Public Sector”  
• Selina Gallo-Cruz (2021–2022 Fulbright Tampere University Scholar from the College of the Holy Cross): “Sustainability and Disenchantment: Ceremony and Circumstance in Climate Policy and Practice” 

  

Spring 2022 

Tuesday 8 February 

• Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Kelsey La Mere & Anna Salomaa: “What’s the Size of Climate Change? Finnish Public Authorities Preparing for Environmental Crises” 

Tuesday 8 March 

• Elina Helosvuori: “The Deficiency of Human Reproductive Biology in Fertility Treatment Practices” 

Tuesday 5 April 

• Ali Qadir: “Foucault's Tears: Emotions in Epistemic Governance” 
• Juha Suoranta & Marko Teräs: “Digitalization in Higher Education: Friend or Foe?” 

 

Sociology Research Seminar sessions in 2020–2021

The seminar is organized via Microsoft Teams until the Covid-19 situation is resolved. Links to the events will be distributed about one week before each session. The sessions are open to all.

3 November 2020:

• Olli Pyyhtinen: “Sociological Thirds: Reconsidering Relations and Intersubjectivity through Tertiality”
• Melisa Stevanovic: “Joint decision making in a dyad: A locus of sharing and claiming power”

 8 December 2020:

• Anna Rastas: “Museums as a site for research on racialized relations”
• Olga Ulybina: “Childcare De-institutionalization: Understanding Global Policy Diversity”

2 February 2021:

• Jari Aro: “European state nobility and fatal problems: Imaginaries of the Finnish political and administrative elite in the European Union”
• Risto Heiskala: “Holistic social science and pacification of existence”

16 February 2021 – A special session in honor of Erik Allardt (1925–2020); in Finnish and only to be organized as a live event:

• Matti Alestalo: “Erik Allardt ja politiikan sosiologia”
• Hannu Uusitalo: ”Erik Allardt ja hyvinvointisosiologia”
• Juho Saari: kommenttipuheenvuoro

9 March 2021:

• Eriikka Oinonen & Antti Saloniemi: “Everyday life in the time of Covid-19 pandemic”

13 April 2021:

• Hanna Kuusela: (title tba)

11 May 2021:

• Semi Purhonen, Riie Heikkilä, Ossi Sirkka & Sara Sivonen: ”The multiplicity of the understandings of culture and why it matters for cultural policy and politics”

 

Sociology Research Seminar sessions in 2019–2020

The sessions are open to all.

3 October 2019:

• Rakhmat Hidayat (State University of Jakarta): “From Local Food Wisdom to Local Food Movement in Kampong Cireundeu, Cimahi City, West Java”

• Pertti Alasuutari (Tampere University): ”Toward a theory of global social change”.

4 December 2019:

• Anna Salonen: ”Dominion, stewardship and reconciliation in the accounts of ordinary people eating animals”

• Juho Saari: ”The quality of life in Finnish prisons”

2 February 2020:

• Harri Melin: “The Squeezing Middle Class?”

5 March 2020:

• Riikka Homanen: ”Everyday Ethics of Reproductive Outsourcing: Making Good life in the Era of Biocapitalism”

• Salla Tuomivaara: “Different Others of Westermarck and Durkheim – Different Ideas of Humans”

(Sessions on 2 April and 7 May 2020 cancelled due to the Covid-19)

 

Sociology Research Seminar sessions in 2018–2019

The sessions are open to all.

29 November 2018:

• Piia Jallinoja: “Veganism and plant-based eating: analysis of interplay between discursive strategies and lifestyle political consumerism”

• Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen: “Climate Change and Insurance”

24 January 2019:

• Ali Qadir: “Co-creation of social movements: Radical alternatives or part of the system?”

14 February 2019:

• Riie Heikkilä & Taru Lindblom: “The anatomy of cultural participation and non-participation in Finland, 2007/2018”

• Taina Meriluoto: “Walking critically – Homeless' walking tours as political argumentation”

11 April 2019:

• Mianna Meskus: ”Making gametes in the laboratory? Ethical scaling of a new reproductive strategy”.