University of Helsinki
“All Well in the Welfare State? Mental wellbeing and the politics of happiness”
Helsinki, 24–25 October 2011 (Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki)
The aim of the workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and health
professionals and together to discuss the various economical and non-economical factors
connected to “(mental) wellbeing”, “life quality”, “happiness”, “stress”,
“self-actualization”, “self-help”, “therapeutic society” and related issues. Our aim is
to discuss, what is new about the recent articulation of wellbeing and happiness, if
anything at all, and why does it emerge now?
They keynote speeches will be given by Professor Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social
Policy and Social Work, University of York), Dr. Katarina Piuva Department of Social
Work, University of Stockholm) and Professor Pekka Sulkunen (Department of Social
studies [Sociology], University of Helsinki; Senior Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium
for Advanced Studies).
If you are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please send an abstract to
Carl Marklund (carl.marklund(at)helsinki.fi), no later than 1st August, 2011.