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GENERAL MEETING AND NETWORKING EVENT of FINTERDIS – The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society (Suomen Tieteidenvälinen Seura ry.) on Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Do you like to connect distinct ideas in your research? Have you struggled in your efforts to cross bridges between disciplinary fields?
Are you eager to overcome persistent boundaries between different learning communities?
Do you want to foster new forms of research and teaching collaboration?

We look forward to learning from your experiences at the

GENERAL MEETING AND NETWORKING EVENT of FINTERDIS – The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society (Suomen Tieteidenvälinen Seura ry.)

on Tuesday, May 7, 2019:

6:00-7:45pm: General Meeting at Svenska Social- och kommunalhögskolan (Snellmaninkatu 12, Helsinki)

8:00-10:00pm: Networking Event at Roster Bar Lounge (Pohjoisesplanadi 17, Helsinki)

The General Meeting will examine developments of FINTERDIS since the Society’s establishment in October 2018, elect a new Board of Directors, and determine the plan for activities for the academic year 2019-2020. FINTERDIS aims to support the interdisciplinary efforts of early-career scholars in particular, while also committed to promoting dialogue across fields and generations.

The Networking event is meant to promote informal engagement between participants from different fields and scholars at different career stages. Both events are open to all scholars regardless of university affiliation, career stage, or field(s) of specialty.

More detailed information about these interconnected events can be found in the attachment. More information about FINTERDIS is available on our website.

Please register by Friday,May 3 by sending us an email to info@finterdis.fi. Registration is expected so we can make sure we have enough space. In your email, please let us know whether you will be attending the General Meeting, the Networking Event, or both. In case you are interested in becoming a FINTERDIS Board member, please tell us a little about yourself and your interdisciplinary background. In case of any thoughts, questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us! Please feel free to redistribute this email!

Warm regards,

Kirsi Cheas, president

Anna-Leena Riitaoja, vice president

FINTERDIS – The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society

https://www.finterdis.fi

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Workshop 10 April 2019 at 13-16 in Main building, Aud XIII, Unioninkatu 34 (Kindly note that the venue has been changed ) HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS WHILE PREPARING DOCTORAL THESIS – your feelings in stressful situations

  • Introduction: understanding human being
  • Choose of a case study ­– some examples of stressful situations: exam, presentation, public speech, lack of time and press, ethical problems
  • Common feelings and reactions in stress and psychosomatics
  • How to deal with your own feelings and help others
  • Case study on reducing stress on organisational level: Transformation of human relationships and cooperation from competition to equality and solidarity developed by the Landless Land workers´ Movement in Brazil

Target group:

The course is targeted at doctoral candidates in humanities and social sciences.

Sign up for the event on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at the latest!
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/97082/lomake.html

The workshop is held by Pertti Simula, Anja Nygren and Markus Kröger.

Pertti Simula, MS, psychoanalyst, author of five books on human relations and cooperation, stress and psychosomatics

Experience in Finland, Sweden, Brazil and USA

Consultant and educator at the Landless Landworkers´ Movement in Brazil

Anja Nygren is  Professor of Development Studies and Director of ”Political, Societal and Regional Changes” – Doctoral Programme at the University of Helsinki. She has carried out long-term ethnographic field research under politically volatile and socially delicate conditions in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico.

Markus Kröger is Associate professor in Development Studies. He has done field research in challenging circumstances in South America and India.

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HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS WHILE PREPARING DOCTORAL THESIS – your feelings in stressful situations

Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences HYMY

 

Workshop 10 April 2019 at 13-16

in Metsätalo, room 24, Unioninkatu 40

 

HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS WHILE PREPARING DOCTORAL THESIS

– your feelings in stressful situations

 

  • Introduction: understanding human being
  • Choose of a case study ­– some examples of stressful situations: exam, presentation, public speech, lack of time and press, ethical problems
  • Common feelings and reactions in stress and psychosomatics
  • How to deal with your own feelings and help others
  • Case study on reducing stress on organisational level: Transformation of human relationships and cooperation from competition to equality and solidarity developed by the Landless Land workers´ Movement in Brazil

 

Target group:

The course is targeted at doctoral candidates in humanities and social sciences.

Sign up for the event on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at the latest!

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/97082/lomake.html

The workshop is held by Pertti Simula, Anja Nygren and Markus Kröger.

 

Pertti Simula, MS, psychoanalyst, author of five books on human relations and cooperation, stress and psychosomatics

Experience in Finland, Sweden, Brazil and USA

Consultant and educator at the Landless Landworkers´ Movement in Brazil

 

Anja Nygren is  Professor of Development Studies and Director of ”Political, Societal and Regional Changes” – Doctoral Programme at the University of Helsinki. She has carried out long-term ethnographic field research under politically volatile and socially delicate conditions in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico.

 

Markus Kröger is Associate professor in Development Studies. He has done field research in challenging circumstances in South America and India.

 

Services for Doctoral Education

HYMY Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

hymy-doc@helsinki.fi

HYMY-webpage

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Dear HYMY doctoral students,

This is a reminder of this spring’s Kollegium Talks events, the first of which takes place TODAY at 4 pm, at Think Corner Stage. This is a good chance to hear personal stories of researchers, all current fellows at the Helsinki Collegium, who have valuable things to tell about managing both research processes and research careers in humanities and social sciences. There will also be time for interaction with the audience, so bring your questions with you!

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PhD Summerfest on Thursday June 6th, 2019 from 6pm to late at the University Main Building

 

 

Dear PhD students,

The Chancellor of the University of Helsinki Kaarle Hämeri has the pleasure to invite you to PhD Summerfest on Thursday June 6th, 2019 from 6pm to late at the University Main Building. The event is intended as a relaxed congregation with good food and drinks, dance music and mingling along your fellow doctoral candidates in the best summer opening party ever, with special program designed by the doctoral candidates!

Save the date: more information and registration opening on the event website at 12 o’clock noon February 6th.

The registration is restricted to doctoral candidates and the number of participants is limited to 600, first come, first-served.

Best regards on behalf of the Chancellor,
University of Helsinki Events team

 

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Welcome to the first get-together of FINTERDIS – The FINNISH INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIETY! – Thursday, February 7, at 18 o’clock, THIRSTY SCHOLAR pub

Welcome to the first get-together of FINTERDIS – The FINNISH INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIETY!

When: Thursday, February 7, at 18 o’clock.
Where: THIRSTY SCHOLAR pub (Fabianinkatu 37, Helsinki).

Are you engaged in interdisciplinary research and struggling to find likeminded people and peer support for your ideas? Would you like to meet other fellow students and scholars who are facing similar challenges and exchange your experiences?
The event is meant to be an informal mix-and-mingle meeting for students and scholars of all backgrounds who are engaged in or interested in interdisciplinary research. You do not need to be a member of the Finnish Interdisciplinary Society to participate. However, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation by Monday, February 4, at info@finterdis.fi

FINTERDIS is an academic society founded on October 4, 2018, which supports interdisciplinary research and teaching in Finland as well as internationally. The principal goal of FINTERDIS is to support and connect students, scholars and institutions committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching in Finland as well as internationally. FINTERDIS aims to support especially students’ and young scholars’ (below Title of Docent level) aspirations to combine different fields and perspectives, while collaborating closely with more advanced scholars committed to interdisciplinarity.

Find more information about FINTERDIS: https://www.finterdis.fi/en/
Please feel free to distribute this message to your contacts!
Kind regards,
Ruta Kazlauskaite
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Registration open for International Evening, November 29, 2018

Rector Jari Niemelä invites the international scholars, staff and students to an informal get-together,
taking place at the Think Corner, City Center Campus, on Thursday, November 29, 2018 6pm-7.30pm.


Burst the autumn blues and join us for drinks and snacks and for charging your batteries before the winter!

Registration is open now via this link and ends on Monday, November 26, 2018, at 4pm.

For more information please contact Ms Tiina Kosunen, Head of Development, International Affairs.

WELCOME!

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PhD Kick-off November 5th, 2018 at City Hall

PhD Kick-off, Monday, November 5th, 2018 –the major orientation and networking event in the PhD year at the UH welcoming newly started Doctoral Candidates in both Helsinki and in the University. It is an excellent opportunity to find out about living, studying, and working in Helsinki and in the University. Welcoming program and information booths on immigration, finances, housing, healthcare, free time and all sorts. In addition, the participants will meet their fellow doctoral candidates, mingle and make friends, and get familiar with different societies that bring doctoral candidates together.  

The event is organized in collaboration with the City of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, and the Association of University of Helsinki PhD Students (HYVÄT)

Save the date and follow your email for further information coming up this fall.

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HYMY DAY 2018

The Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (HYMY) welcomes all doctoral students, academic and administrative staff working with doctoral education to the fourth annual HYMY DAY on 22.11.2018, 14:00 – 18:00, Minerva-tori. This year’s theme is authorship.

14.00-16.30 Who is the author? Authorship issues in HYMY

“The questions concerning authorship in research publications are the most common challenges of research ethics faced by doctoral students. The practices of co- publication in terms of who are named as the authors of a research publication and as other contributors vary depending on the discipline concerned. If the research is conducted in a group, it is not always clear in which order names should be listed in the list of authors or contributors or whose names should be included. In such cases, a dispute may arise over authorship which is difficult to resolve after the event.” 

In HYMY Day’s workshop the principles of how to agree on authorship in HYMY-disciplines are discussed and articulated.

16.30- 17.00 HYMY PRIZE

HYMY Prize is awarded to a person or a group of people that has worked meritoriously in promoting the objectives of doctoral education in HYMY. The winner of the HYMY prize is announced at the HYMY DAY. Who should get the prize this year? Tell us your opinion:

Contact: Kirsi.korpiaho@helsinki.fi

17.00 Drinks, fingerfood and conversation

Sign up for the event on Sunday November 11, 2018 at the latest!

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/92487/lomake.html?rinnakkaislomake=HYMY_day_2018

Services for Doctoral Education

HYMY Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

hymy-doc@helsinki.fi

HYMY-webpage

Post address:

Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

Porthania, 3rd floor

Yliopistonkatu 3, 00014 University of Helsinki