University of Helsinki
2014
Autumn
8.9. Planning meeting
18.9. Extra session for discussing funding applications
29.9. Johan Strang: Introduction: The Nordic model of transnational cooperation?
6.10. Ilkka Kärrylä: National interest as a limit to democracy? Conceptual struggles over ‘economic democracy’ in Finland and Sweden: A research plan – Exceptionally 14-16, Soc&Kom, room 211!
20.-21.10. Seminar: “Democracy and Nationalism in the Welfare State”
27.10. Merle Wessel: “No Man is Born a Butcher” – Male Castration and Heteronormativity in the Nordic Welfare State; 1930- 1955
3.11. Pauli Kettunen: War, Social Policy and the Nation as a Historical Agent – Finland as a Nordic exception
17.11. Matti la Mela: Patenting the Nordic periphery: the transnational formation of the Finnish patent system in the late 19th century
24.11. Heidi Haggrén CANCELLED
8.12. Jan Westö CANCELLED
Spring
Tuesday 11.2. 2014, 13-16, Siltavuorenpenger 3 A, 1st floor, SH 166
Afternoon seminar: The History of Categorizations and Classifications
There will be six short presentations followed by a general discussion: Klaus Petersen (University of Southern Denmark) will present NICE Welfare, a newly established interdisciplinary research project that seeks to examine connections between welfare concepts, narratives and indicators; Mary Hilson (UCL, UK) will reflect transnational, international and national in the history of co-operative movement; Miika Tervonen (University of Helsinki) will discuss on ethnic classifications, Kaat Louckx (Ghent University, Belgium) talks on the classification of population in Belgian statistics in the 19th century, Matti La Mela (EUI, Italy) will reflect categorizations and classifications in the history of the concept of property and Alan Granadino (EUI, Italy) will reflect on political parties as an analytical category and a political actor.
3.3. Mirja Österberg: NORDEN SOM ARENA OCH STRATEGI. K.-A. Fagerholms och finländska socialdemokraters samhällspolitiska visioner 1930-1950
10.3. Kaat Louckx: The concept of ‘habitual residence’ in population state-istics (Belgium, 1846-1947). Please, note the time: 14-16!
13.3. Book launch: Johannes Kananen, ‘The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras: From Emancipation to Discipline’ (Ashgate)
17.3. Alan Granadino: CONFLICTING INFLUENCES IN A COLD WAR CONTEXT. The assimilation of Western European Socialist support by the Portuguese Socialist party in 1973-1975
31.3. Johannes Kananen: Promoting ‘folkhälsa’ (public health) in Nordic welfare states: historical and contemporary meanings of a key concept (PROFOLK)
7.4. Ainur Elmgren: Cheetah Hats and Flower Hats – Openness and Transparency in Populist Criticism of Foreign Aid
14.4. Jani Marjanen: Nordic Conceptual History: An Outline
28.4. Johan Strang: A lost opportunity? Nordic cooperation in the era of Europeanisation 1986-2006
5.5. Merle Wessel: Female Actors in Nordic Eugenic Movements 1890- 1939 – The Conflict of Female Support and Victimization in Negative Eugenics
13.5. Afternoon seminar: The last intellectuals, 14-17 in Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), Sali 10 (B311)
19.5. Heidi Haggrén: Cooperation for better salaries and conditions of work. Nurses associations and Nordic cooperation
27.5. Miika Tervonen: Nordic Passport Union and its discontents: Unintended consequences of free movement. Please, note the time: Tuesday 10-12!
2.6. Johanna Rainio-Niemi
2013
Autumn
23.9. Start of the seminar: presentation of the Academy of Finland project Nationalism and Democracy in the Welfare State
7.10. Johan Strang: Facing asymmetry. Nordic perspectives on transnational intellectual history – NOTE THE TIME: 14-16!
14.10. Kaat Louckx: Household and State-istics: The Household in the Belgian Population Censuses, 1846-1930
4.11. Jani Marjanen: Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism and Europe, Unioninkatu 37, seminar room 1
18.11. Heidi Haggrén: Interest, knowledge and social loyalties. Nursing research and the collective interest organization of nurses, Finland 1950s and 1960s, Soc&Kom, seminar room 209
2.12. Ainur Elmgren, Pauli Kettunen, Jussi Kurunmäki, and Jani Marjanen: The Political Rhetoric of ‘Isms’: Ideology and Rhetoric in European Comparison
9.12. Saara Pellander
Spring
28.1. Pauli Kettunen: Conflicts and compromises in the Nordic pattern of social regulation
4.2. Christian Kroll och Helena Blomberg: Svensk välfärd i ett nordiskt perspektiv
11.2. Ainur Elmgren: Uses of History in Post-Soviet Communist Parties in Finland, Germany, and France
18.2. No seminar
25.2. No seminar
4.3. Urban Markström – cancelled!
11.3. No seminar
14.3. Lecture “The Idea of Democracy in Western Europe 1945-1973” held by Dr. Martin Conway, Balliol College, University of Oxford. Organised under the auspices the EINO-NordWel Seminar and the Network for European Studies. Time: 12-14, venue: Economicum (Arkadiankatu 7), Lecture hall.
18.3. Afternoon seminar by Academy of Finland project “Asymmetries in the European Intellectual Space. Centre-periphery Tensions in Finnish, Scandinavian and Hungarian Intellectual Life, 19th and 20th Centuries
25.3. Jani Marjanen
8.4. ‘Power Shifts’ project presents its book project ‘Hyvinvointivaltio ja demokratia’ [Welfare state and democracy]
15.4. Heidi Haggrén
29.4. Saara Pellander
2012
Autumn term
10.9. Planning meeting
24.9. Nicholas Prindiville: Discourses in the development and implementation of the Ingrian Finnish return 1990-1995
15.10. Anna Alanko and Sami Outinen: The parallels of unemployment security- and mental health policies in the 1990’s Finland
22.10. Miika Tervonen: On the threshold of folkhemmet: Citizens and aliens in the Nordic countries, 1880 – 1954
19.11. Margrét Einarsdottir: ‘We are like the Poles’: On the labour market rights of Icelandic teenage workers
26.11. Heidi Haggrén: Care and fight. The first Finnish nurses’ strike in 1968
3.12. Guest lecture: Paula Hamilton (University of Technoloy, Sydney) “The changing role of memory and history in public life”
10.12 Mirja Österberg (12-14) and Saara Pellander (14-16) – NOTE the time!!!
17.12. Chris Lloyd on post-Colonialism in Finland and Australia – plus Christmas party 4 pm.
Spring term
9.1. Planning meeting
6.2.”The Historian in Society”, Seminar on the new book by Jorma Kalela, Making History: The Historian and Uses of the Past (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), House of Sciences and Letters (‘Tieteiden talo’), Kirkkokatu 6, Seminar room 404
20.2. Inge Mønster-Kjær on Danish poorhouses as a sociopolitical intention and practice, Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, room 224
27.-28.2. Seminar Changing meanings of (un)employment, Metsätalo/Forest House, Unioninkatu 40, room 10
5.3. Jussi Vauhkonen: Business and politics. Making of the employer interest in the case of earnings-related pension scheme of 1961, Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, room 224
12.3. Anna Alanko: From psychiatry to primary health care. Observations of the planning of Finnish mental health care, 1977– 2009
19.3. Heidi Haggrén: Care and fight. Nurses and the strike of 1968, NOTE THE TIME: 14-16
26.3. Johanna Leinonen ja Saara Pellander: Mechanics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Marriage Migration in Finnish Immigration Discourses.
2.4. Gabriel G. Rocha Belloni: Queering the line: Towards a phenomenological interpretation of queer parenthood
16.4. Pauliina Latvala: ELITE OR NATION? Positioning Power in the Veteran Members of Parliament’s Oral History Interviews
23.4. Sinikka Selin: What should you be when you grow up? Young people’s work related hopes and expectations in Helsinki 1950–1970
7.5. Matti La Mela: Tradition of allemansrätten and the changing meanings of berry-picking. PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE: 14-16!
14.5. Tapio Bergholm: Scarcity of Labour and Industrial Relations in Finland 1969-1977. PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE: 10.00-11.30!
21.5. Inge Mønster-Kjær: English and German influences on Danish poorhouses
28.5. Nicholas Prindiville: The Ingrian Finns and the Aliens Act. Ethnicity in Citizenship Policy Reform 1991-1996
2011
Spring term
31.1. Johannes Kananen: The politics of Finnish social security reform, Room 219, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
7.2. Saara Pellander: The dangerous “other”? Gender and security in Finnish migration policy, Room 219, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
14.2. Antonios Roumpakis, Ville-Pekka Sorsa, Jussi Vauhkonen and Matti Hannikainen: On Pensions, Room 224, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
21.2. Mirja Österberg: Democratic Norden and Scandinavian Practices as an Example to follow, Room 219, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
14.3. NOTE! TIME CHANGED: SESSION STARTS AT 14.15 Helena Blomberg presents the first volume in the series NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research: Blomberg & Kildal (eds.), Workfare and welfare state legitimacy,Room 219, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
21.3. Mika Helander: Globalization strategies of the Finnish trade unions, Room 219, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
Autumn term
29.8. Planning meeting, seminar room of political history, Snellmaninkatu 14A, 1st floor
19.9. Sami Outinen: Structural Unemployment, Activation and Flexibilization. The Development of Finnish Employment Policy, Unemployment Security and Labour Market after the late 1970s. Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 219.
26.9. Anna Alanko: Outside mental health promotion. Serious mental illness in Finnish mental health policy. Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 219.
3.10. Jussi Vauhkonen: Draft on the development of collective employer identity. Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 219.
17.10. Heidi Haggrén: Project presentation. Tensions between social loyalties and collective interest organization. Nurses’ associations in post-WWII Finland. Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 219.
28.10. Book launch: Suszycki, Andrzej Marcin (ed.) Welfare Citizenship and Welfare Nationalism, Metsätalo/Forest House, Unioninkatu 40, lecture room 10
14.11. Johannes Kananen: Openness of Nordic Welfare State Restructuring: The Renegotiation of the Post-war Collectivist Social Order, Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 211.
28.11. Helena Blomberg & Christian Kroll, Soc&Kom, Snellmaninkatu 12, lecture room 211.
12.12. Mirja Österberg + afterwards a Christmas party. Note, we will exceptionally start 14.15!
2010
Spring term
18.1. Planning meeting
15.2. Sami Outinen: The Left, Social Justice and Neoliberalism in Finland 1977–1998. A Research Plan.
26.2. Sovitaan(ko). Onnistuuko työmarkkinoiden ja sosiaalisen turvan järjestäminen ilman osapuolia?
8.3. Carl Marklund: Communication as Control: Infra-Politics, Social Diplomacy, and Social Engineering
15.3. ‘Model Marketing’ seminar
22.3. Anna Alanko: Awkwardness of asylums. Psychiatric hospital discharge as an attempt to citizen in-volvement and autonomy in Finland and Sweden.
29.3. Mirja Österberg: Trans-Nordic networks and identity construction in the Nordic Labour movement: A Finnish biographical perspective on SAMAK in the 1930s
19.4. Presentation of the project ‘Power Shifts in Agenda Setting’ (Helena Blomberg-Kroll, Christian Kroll, Anu Kantola, Juri Mykkänen, Juho Vesa, Johannes Kananen)
10.5. Jaana Laine: Forest Workers’ Path from the Woods to the Negotiation Table: The First Collective Labour Agreement in 1963
17.5. Susanna Fellman: Government, interest groups and competition policy; the case of a small corporatist economy
31.5. Sakari Saaritsa: The pittance of solidarity: The size and structure of informal income smoothing among worker households in Helsinki, 1928
7.6. The Historical Construction of Unemployment
Autumn term
16.9. (Thursday) at 14 Planning meeting for the autumn term. Meet our Visiting Fellows! Room 234, Snellmaninkatu 12 (Swedish School of Social Science)
19.10. (Tuesday) at 17.15 Johan Strang, Helena Blomberg-Kroll and Pauli Kettunen appear in the UH Studia Generalia (in Swedish), Porthania III, see Studia Generalia programme
1.11. at 14.00 Paolo Borioni: Lutheranism and Universalism, Faculty of Social Sciences meeting room, Unioninkatu 37
8.11. Antonios Roumpakis: Power as an analytical tool: Explaining change in welfare state institutions, Faculty of Social Sciences meeting room, Unioninkatu 37
15.11. at 10.15 Nikolas Glover: Linking ‘World Society’ with ‘welfare state modernity’: A suggestion, Faculty of Social Sciences meeting room, Unioninkatu 37
3.12. (Friday) at 10.15 introduction to the TUHAT research information system (in Finnish), Social Science Library, Unioninkatu 35
(NB! Time and place changed!) 13.12. at 14.15 Sami Outinen: The Left, Concept of Social and Neoliberalism. A Theoretical Framework, Seminar Room, Snellmaninkatu 14 A, 1st floor
2009
Autumn term
31.8. Planning meeting
14.9. Åsmund Arup Seip: Recruitment of high-skill labour from Third Countries; regulations, strategies and realities
2.11. Changes in the collective agreement system, a half-day seminar, SAK/Helsinki
16.11. Johannes Kananen
23.11. Migration and Labour Market, seminar
30.11. The Making of Common Interest, seminar
Spring term
9.1. 15-17 Susanna Fellman: Growth and Investment: Finnish capitalism, 1850s-2005s
23.-24.1. The Limits of the Nordic Welfare Universalism, seminar in the Hotel Korpilampi
- Anna Alanko: Mental health service users as healthcare, employment ans pension policy challenges
- Helena Blomberg & Christian Kroll: Universal welfare services and the municipal level
- Heidi Haggrén: Tensions between social loyalties and collective interest organization. Nurses’ associations in postwar Finland
- Mary Hilson: Consumers and Citizens. Nordic contacts in the development of the co-operative movement c.1890-1939
- Pauli Kettunen: Introduction from the research plan “The limits of Nordic welfare universalism – Labour market interests, locality and gender in post-World-War-II”
- Pauli Kettunen: The Tension between the Social and the Economic in the Making and Challenging of the Nordic Welfare State
- Jaana Laine: Hard Work in the Woods. The Life of Forest Workers in the Hands of State Control and Collective Bargaining
- Christopher Lloyd: Convergences and Divergences in Social Democratic Welfare Capitalism: A Comparative Historical-Structural Systems Research Program
- Carl Marklund: Planning for Happiness. Promise and Peril
- Sami Outinen: The Challenge of Neoliberalism to the Left-wing Ideologies in Finland 1977–1998
- Johanna Rainio-Niemi: Universalism and the State: Modern European Welfare States in Comparative Historical and Transnational Perspective, the Cases of Finland and Austria
- Jussi Vauhkonen: Business and Politics. An Employer Perspective on Pensions
- Mirja Österberg: Norden as a model and argument –Karl-August Fagerholm as a social politician and a transmitter of Nordic influences
9.2. Saara Pellander: On the borders of the welfare state: Russian women and Finnish immigration practices after 1990
25.2. Johannes Kananen: Bridging dualities in social research
9.3. Carl Marklund: The Social laboratory
6.4. Sudarat Rojphongkasem: The Development of Discourses on “Welfare”: Rhetorical Comparison of Finland and Thailand During and after the 1990s Economic Crises
20.4. Christopher Lloyd: Beyond the Spectres of Globalisation. Towards a Future Global Commonwealth?
4.5. Mary Hilson: Nordic contacts in the development of the co-operative movement, c.1890-1939
28.5. Johanna Rainio-Niemi: On Borders of the State and Civil Society: the State’s Committees in Finland in a European Perspective
1.6. Norbert Götz: Population & Resources: Demographic Discourse and Micro–Macro Agency from Malthus to the ‘Death of the West’
2008
8.10. 16-18 Pauli Kettunen: The National Welfare State as a Cross-National Historical Construction
14.11. 10-12 Carl Marklund: Converting “Soft” Social Capital Into “Hard” Political Currency
21.11 10-12 Johanna Rainio-Niemi: The theoretical Framework of “Small State Cultures of Consensus:State Traditions and Consensus-Seeking in the Neo-Corporatist and Neutrality Policies in Post-1945 Austria and Finland”
12.12. 10-12 Sudarat Rojphongkasem: The Development of Discourse on Well-being
29.1. P. Kettunen (teksti ohessa)
– 4.2. Helena ja Christian
– 11.2. Ainur Elmgren
– 18.2. jäi vielä vapaaksi
– 25.2. samoin
– 4.3. Urban Markström (vieraileva professori Soc&komissa, Helena tietää)
– 11.3. jäi vapaaksi
– 18.3. Marja Jalavan projektin iltapäiväseminaari
– 25.3. Jani Marjanen
– 8.4. Power Shifts -projektin (Helena, Johannes, Christian ym) esiintyminen
– 15.4. Johanna Rainio-Niemi