NordWel Colloquium: “(Multi)culturalist turns – debates and practices in Scandinavia”, Turku 24.10.2011

“(Multi)culturalist turns – debates and practices in Scandinavia”

15.15-16.30
Mette Buchardt, Univ. of Jyväskylä/Univ. of Copenhagen:
“The emergence of  ‘the Muslim pupil’. Danish state schooling and ‘the migrants’ since the 1970s”

16.45-18.00
Mats Wickström, Åbo Akademi University:
“Ethnic activism and the multiculturalist turn: the different paths of Sweden and Denmark in a comparative perspective”.

Organisers: Mats Wickström and Ann-Catrin Östman, The NCoE The Nordic
Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NordWel)
and Nordic History, Åbo Akademi University.

The workshop is open to all interested; please contact aostman@abo.fi
(workshop texts are sent in beforehand)