Activities

Helsinki Seminar on Governance and Institutions

We, together with the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research, have launched the interdisciplinary seminar series Helsinki Seminar on Governance and Institutions. The aim is to present and discuss ongoing research on European, transnational and global governance by Finnish and international scholars.

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Book launches

Tero Erkkilä, “Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education”, Panel discussion: Ten Years of Shanghai Ranking – Challenges for European Higher Education, Helsinki, Finland, 25 September 2013.

Niilo Kauppi, “A Political Sociology of Transnational Europe”, ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, France, 4 September 2013.

Tero Erkkilä, “Government Transparency: Impacts and Unintended Consequences”, Seminar: Future of Freedom of Information? Government Transparency and its Unintended Consequences, Residence of the Ambassador of Finland, London, UK, 30 May 2013.

Conference activities

Jemima Repo, Discussant in panel “Governmentality, Governance, Russia”, Annual Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 24 October 2013.

Jemima Repo, Presentation: “Equality as Biopolitical Governmentality”, 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, 18–21 September 2013.

Jemima Repo, Participant in roundtable “Beyond Biopolitics?”, 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, 20 September 2013.

Jemima Repo, Organiser and chair of panel “Paradoxes of Liberal Politics”, 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, 19 September 2013.

Jemima Repo, Chair of panel “From Bio- to Thanatopolitics”, 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, 19 September 2013.

Tero Erkkilä, Presentation: “Redefining European Higher Education”, ECPR General Conference, Bourdeux, France, 4–7 September 2013.

Jemima Repo, Presentation: “Gender Equality and the Biopolitics of Reproduction”, ECPR General Conference, Bourdeux, France, 4–7 September 2013.

Niilo Kauppi, Discussant in panel “European Integration and Social Values”, ASA Annual Meeting, New York City, NY, 10 August 2013.

Jemima Repo, Presentation: “Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler’s Gender Genealogy”, International Symposium on Foucault, Helsinki, Finland, 28 June 2013.

Jemima Repo, Presentation: “Gender, Genealogy, Materiality”, Materialities and Materialisms in Contemporary Thought, Helsinki, Finland, 14–15 June 2013.

Niilo Kauppi, Discussant in workshop “Sociologie des élites”, Institut d’études politiques de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 30 May 2013.

Jemima Repo, Presentation: “The Biopolitical Origins of Gender Theory”, 5th Christina Conference on Gender Studies, Helsinki, Finland, 23–25 May 2013.

Tero Erkkilä & Ossi Piironen, “University Rankings and Transnational Governance of Higher Education: Constructing Autonomy as an Attribute of Success”, ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, 1–4 April 2012.

Niilo Kauppi, Discussant in colloquium “Bologne et au-delà”, Institut d’études politiques de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 2 March 2013.