10th Anniversary of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
HCAS celebrates its 10th Anniversary on Thursday 20 October
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/anniversary.htm
Free admission but registration is required for catering purposes. Please sign up by sending an email to:
maria.soukkio(at)helsinki.fi
PROGRAMME:
Thursday 20 October
What’s the Use? The Human Sciences in Contemporary Society
Venue: Unioninkadun juhlahuoneistot, Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki
09:30 Refreshments
10:00 Welcome words by Chancellor Ilkka Niiniluoto and Director Sami Pihlström
Discussion: ”What’s the Use of the Human Sciences?”
Chair: Sami Pihlström
Professor Paavo Hohti, CEO, Council of Finnish Foundations
Professor Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation
12:00 o’clock Lunch break
2:00 p.m. Teach in: "Putting Use into Action: Research done by Collegium Fellows"
5-minute short presentations by HCAS fellows
Chair: Anne Birgitta Pessi
William van Andringa: Religion and Integration: Learning from the Roman Empire Experiences
Kathryn Edwards: The Science of Spirits
Pentti Haddington: Conversation Analysis and Traffic Safety
Maijastina Kahlos: Outsiders and Human Rights - The Heritage of Late Antiquity Sari Kivistö: Johann Balthasar Schupp and a Seventeenth-century Satirical Utopia of Useful Knowledge
Nikolay Koposov: History and Democratic Citizenship
Rogier De Langhe: Understanding the Nature of Mankind's Most Valuable Economic Resource: Knowledge
Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela: Our Laws over Animal Life: Thinking the Global Dominion
Kirill Postoutenko: Social Asymmetries: What They Are, And How They Shape Our Lives.
Simon Rabinovich: Setting and Navigating the Boundaries of Religious Autonomy in the Modern State (tbc)
Peter Swirski: Two Cultures... and the Twain Shall Never Meet
Thomas Wallgren: Search for Truth as Search for Oneself: Socrates and Gandhi on the Unity of Philosophy and Politics
Sirpa Wrede: Professionalism as an Inequality Regime in Globalising Care
3:30 p.m. Coffee break
4:00 p.m. Concluding discussion