Month: August 2019

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Research Funding News

RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL DATABASE TRAINING

Want to quickly learn how to find new funding sources? Research Professional expert Saara Santanen (UK) will be visiting both Kumpula (10-12, venue: Pietari Kalmin katu 5, Kumpula, Exactum, C222 ) and Meilahti (14-16, venue: Haartmaninkatu 8, Biomedicum, kok. 8-9 ) campuses on August 20th to guide you through the various search options in the database. Bring your own laptop to get the most out of the lecture! Other campuses are welcome to attend.

MORE INFORMATION:

Registration and full programme for Kumpula via Lyyti

Registration and full programme for Meilahti via Lyyti

 

SAVE THE DATE!  ACADEMY OF FINLAND – ASK & APPLY SEPTEMBER 2019 CALL TOUR

The Academy of Finland will be visiting the University of Helsinki in August/September to discuss the upcoming September 2019 Call.  Programme details for each campus can be found via the respective Lyyti links below. 

  • Meilahti – 27.8.2019 from 15-17; Venue – Haartman institute, luentosali 2, Haartmaninkatu 3
  • City Centre – 28.8.2019 from 13-16; Venue – Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo, Sali 1
  • Viikki – 28.8.2019 from 13-16; Venue – Viikinkaari 11, Infokeskus Korona, sali 236 (sali 1)
  • Kumpula – 2.9.2019 from 13-15; Venue – A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, Chemicum, Sali A129

MORE INFORMATION:

Registration for Meilahti via Lyyti

Registration for City Centre via Lyyti

Registration for Viikki via Lyyti

Registration for Kumpula via Lyyti

 

 

 

REMINDERS:

ACADEMY OF FINLAND – SEPTEMBER 2019 CALL

The AoF September call texts have been published and are available in Finnish, Swedish and English.  The call is open between 3.-25.9.2019.

MORE INFORMATION:

Academy of Finland webpages

 

SLUSH & SKOLAR – RESEARCH PITCHING COMPETITION

Slush & Skolar are looking for courageous young postdoc researchers from all fields of research and from all over the world. The 8 finalists will get a unique pitching bootcamp and pitch their research on Slush stage on the 22nd of November. The winner receives a €100K Skolar Award to advance her/his research. The competition and award are jointly funded by research foundations. The finalists and winner are selected by an academic jury. The call for applications opens 14th August and closes 18th September.

MORE INFORMATION:

Skolar webpage and Slush webpage

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Call for Papers Baltic Connections: a Conference in Social Science History March 26-27, 2020 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

The Baltic Connections 2020 will take place at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, from March 26 to 27, and is hosted by the Department of History and Ethnology. As with the inaugural conference last year in Helsinki, we aim to bring together scholars working on comparative, economic, social, global, and other types of history and related social sciences to address various “East-West” historical processes and events as well as comparative and transnational analysis, including at the Baltic region, Europe, and the world. Potential topics include but are not limited to trade, migration, comparative development, international political economy and the diffusion and transplantation of institutions, ideas and cultural influences. Moreover, we want to promote interdisciplinary encounters and discussions, with the goal of bringing together scholars working in Western, Nordic, Central and East European, Baltic, and Russian universities. We are open to proposals that incorporate new digital technologies and ideas for roundtables.

The second Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History will be given by Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford). Further outstanding keynotes will be delivered by Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) and Sakari Saaritsa (University of Helsinki).

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2019. In addition to individual paper submissions, proposals for whole three to four paper panels are appreciated. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by December 15. Proposals can be submitted to: balticsocsciencehist@gmail.com.

We announce a limited number of travel grants up to 200 euros for participants coming from abroad. Please indicate in your submission if you want to apply.

The organizing institutions are University of Jyvaskyla, University of Helsinki, and the Finnish Economic History Association. The organizing group consists of Jari Ojala (University of Jyvaskyla), Merja Uotila (University of Jyvaskyla), MiiKka Voutilainen (University of Jyvaskyla), Riina Turunen (University of Jyvaskyla), Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki), Sakari Saaritsa (University of Helsinki), Olli Turunen (University of Helsinki). More information can be obtained from Jari Ojala: jari.ojala@jyu.fi.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections

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International Research Symposium: CITIES OF INCLUSION – SPACES OF JUSTICE

Welcome to the International Research Symposium: CITIES OF INCLUSION – SPACES OF JUSTICE, co–organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, “Fragile Cities in the Global South” –Research Project, funded by the Academy of Finland, and “Political, Societal and Regional Change” –Doctoral Programme.

Date and venue: 19-20 September, 2019, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

The main keynote speakers are:

1.   Prof. DIANE DAVIS (Harvard University, USA):City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the global South

Venue:Think Corner Stage (Tiedekulma), Yliopistonkatu 4
Date: Thu, 19 Sept. 2019 at 9.15-10.30

2.   Prof. SASKIA SASSEN (Columbia University, USA): Predatory Formations Dressed in Wall Street Suits and Algorithmic Math
Venue:Porthania Lecture Hall II (Yliopistonkatu 3)
Date: Thu, 19. Sept, 2019 at 16-17.45

3.   Prof. ERIK SWYNGEDOUW (University of Manchester, UK): Life and Death in the Urbicene: The de-politicized fantasy of Anthropocenic urbanization
Venue:Think Corner Stage (Tiedekulma), Yliopistonkatu 4
Date: Fri, 20 Sept, 2019 at 9.30-10.30

For a full programme of the Symposium see: 

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/citiesofinclusion2019/

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HYMY travel grant autumn 2019

The Autumn application round for HYMY Travel Grant will open tomorrow 15th August 2019 and close on 28th August 2019. Please see PhD Guide for instruction and link to Aava application system.
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Seminar: The Relevance of Social Sciences

What does impact mean in the context of social sciences? What makes social sciences relevant beyond academia – at the moment, and in the future?

Seminar: The Relevance of Social Sciences

Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 1-4 pm, University of Helsinki Language Centre, lecture hall 115 (Fabianinkatu 26)

Welcome to a seminar organized by the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences, with presentations from members of its international Scientific Advisory Board and faculty. Representing a broad field of social sciences and its approaches, the speakers will address the question of relevance in social sciences.

What could be done to make the social sciences more relevant? What kind of international collaboration and benchmarking are beneficial to this goal? How could research and teaching be organized to enhance the relevance of social sciences? Should social sciences organize around problem/phenomena, instead of theories or methods? What is happening to traditional ways of understanding disciplines and disciplinarity in social sciences?

Program

Chair: Vice dean Juhana Aunesluoma

1 – 2.30 pm: Disciplines and paradigms

Social psychology: a discipline in the midst of an(other) identity crisis. Laurent Licata, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

The inequality paradigm and the future of social science. Mike Savage, London School of Economics and Political Science.

The future of the social sciences: a personal view. Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford.

Discussant Nelli Hankonen, University of Helsinki

Break

2.45 – 4 pm: Interdisciplinarity and institutions

Interdisciplinarity and impact in social science – creating the new American public university at ASU. Karen Mossberger, Arizona State University.

The relevance of social science: experiences across the fault lines of policy and engineering. Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University.

[Title TBC] Annelise Riles, Northwestern University

Discussant Risto Kunelius, University of Helsinki

All are welcome! Priority will be given to members of the Faculty of Social Sciences. No registration is required.