The objective of the conference is to establish an interdisciplinary arena for dialogue and knowledge exchange about the significance of art in school. The target groups for the conference are practitioners within the field of education as well as research and education staff within universities and university colleges.

Keynote speakers: Tia DeNora and Pat Thomson.
Conference web page:
https://www.oslomet.no/om/arrangement/art-in-education
Call for papers:
https://www.oslomet.no/om/arrangement/art-in-education/call-for-papers-art-in-education

The abstract deadline is February 18th. 

Organised by: OsloMet and Kulturtanken – Arts for Young Audiences Norway

Hi all,

This is a call for paper proposals for SEESHOP 2019 open day at the University of Helsinki, July 13.

As is the raison d’être of SEESHOP, we’ll be looking for proposals that capture a range of studies of expertise. SEESHOPs originate from the research tradition of Studies on Expertise and Experience, and have been organized since 2007. The workshop covers a range of topics, including the nature of tacit knowledge, the use of interactional expertise and the importance of retaining a role for specialist expertise. Topics include work related to expertise & law/medicine/environment; trust/distrust of experts and science; interactional and contributory expertise; imitation game methodology and studies of different expert cultures/practices.

Plenaries include,

Harry Collins: Why is face-to-face communication vital in the age of the internet and video, or, Why are we here?

If you are interested in attending, we will need an abstract (up to 250 words) to consider for inclusion in the program. To be considered, we will need your submission by February 28th.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS OPEN 7th of January–15th of February

Gender Studies Conference 2019 on Violence 24.-26.10. in Helsinki

What is violence? How is violence normalized in some contexts? How do gender, sexuality, race, and class, among other axes of power, intersect making some bodies more prone to experiencing violence? How to subvert and challenge different forms of violence, and what are the respectful and nuanced forms of solidarity and activism that take the specificity of people’s experiences into consideration?

We warmly invite scholars from a variety of locations in the Global North and South to participate in the discussions on violence! This conference in Helsinki will approach multiple aspects of violence across the wide multidisciplinary field of gender, sexuality, queer, trans, disability, postcolonial, and critical race studies.

The conference is organized and hosted by the Gender Studies Discipline of The University of Helsinki together with the Association for Gender Studies in Finland (SUNS).

We open workshop submissions from the 7th of January until the 15th of February. We invite you to submit proposals for workshops in English, Finnish or Swedish. In addition to traditional workshop contributions we also welcome other forms of creative collaborations/presentations/performances.

For more information, see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference/call-for-workshops

Submit an abstract of your workshop (max 2000 characters with spaces), title, keywords, short bio (max 1000 characters with spaces), a chair/chairs, a discussant, and a list of themes for potential papers. Fill in the submission form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/94401/lomake.html

To contact the conference team, please email us at genderstudies2019[at]helsinki.fi

 Please circulate widely to your networks and all persons interested!

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Anna Heinonen

Doctoral student (M.Soc.Sc.)

Helsinki University

Department of Cultures

SKY Doctoral Programme

anna.m.heinonen@helsinki.fi

Doctoral training must provide skills for working in different roles inside and outside academia. Academic work demands competition over funding, active publishing in academic forums and understanding of the broader impact of academic research. Solving the great challenges of our time also calls for multidisciplinary and evidence-based knowledge more than ever. New skills, approaches and methods of interdisciplinary and intersectoral work are needed for producing this kind of knowledge.

This survey maps the views of doctoral candidates on how doctoral training at the University of Helsinki is responding to the needs of academic and other working life. The answers will be used for developing doctoral training at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with the doctoral programmes, doctoral schools and Demos Helsinki. The form does not collect e-mail addresses or other personal information.

 You can access the survey in English via the following link:

https://goo.gl/forms/bXW9WNSbPiH01aCh1

The survey is open until Sunday 10 February 2019.

Your insights and experiences are highly appreciated and essential for the future development of doctoral education at the University of Helsinki. Thank you for your time and answers!