Petitions and petitioning: Voice, politics, practices, codes, technologies
Jane and Aatos Erkko Professorship Academic Conference
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
2–3 May 2019
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24 A, Common Room / 3rd floor
University of Helsinki 00014
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Programme:
Thursday, 2nd May
9:15 Arrival
9:30 Welcome, introductions
9:45–11:00 Keynote: Keith Brown, Arizona State University
“Shaming power: On petitions, manifestos and the politics of intimacy”
Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Panel 1
Chair: Matthew Hull, University of Michigan
Evthymios Papataxiarchis, University of the Aegean
“Petitions and print culture in the making of the Ottoman-Hellenic trans-state public”
Golfo Alexopoulos, University of South Florida
“Petitioning in the Soviet Union”
Lunch for speakers and registered participants at HCAS Common Room
14:00–15:30 Panel 2
Chair: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, University of Brighton
Parvathi Menon, University of Helsinki
“Protection through petitioning: The case of the Iraqi mandate”
Jane Cowan, University of Sussex and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
“The League of Nations minorities petition procedure as a site of struggle between competing justice projects”
Coffee break
16:00–17:30 Panel 3
Chair: Jane Cowan, University of Sussex and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Leyla Neyzi, Sabanci University
“The Academics for Peace petition: An auto-ethnographic account”
Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University Berlin
“In between victimisation, marginalisation and hope: Academics For Peace and their encounters in exile”
Friday, 3rd May
9:30–11:00 Panel 4
Chair: Leyla Neyzi, Sabanci University
Julie Billaud, University of Sussex
“Strategizing for relevance: NGOs’ submissions to the Universal Periodic Review”
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, University of Brighton and Susanne Melde, former PhD student, University of Sussex
“From petition to friendly settlement: Who wins?”
Miia Halme Tuomisaari, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
“Comment on Billaud, Dembour and Melde”
Coffee break
11:30–13:00 Panel 5
Chair : Evthymios Papataxiarchis
Dmytro Khutkyy, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
“Electronic petitions in the Eastern European and the Baltic States:
What effects for policy making?”
Andrew Graan, University of Helsinki
““Say Macedonia!”: Affective politics and the life/afterlife of mass petitions”
Lunch for speakers and registered participants at HCAS Common Room
14:00–15:30 Panel 6
Chair : Andrew Graan, University of Helsinki
Agathe Mora, London School of Economics
“From earth to paper: Property claims and the materiality of loss in post-war Kosovo”
Matthew Hull, University of Michigan
“Complaint and satisfaction: Customer service and police procedure in India”
Coffee break
16:00–17:00 Final wrap-up session