Workshop program

Friday 19th January

Open lectures

Brahe auditorium, Sibelius museum, Biskopsgatan 17/Piispankatu 17, Åbo

8.30 – 8.45 Registration

8.45 – 9.00 Welcome and opening

9.00 – 9.45 Prof. Karim Murji, University of West London: A theorist-activist: some lessons of Stuart Hall

9.45 – 10.30 Docent Nazar Akrami, Uppsala University: On the psychological approaches to prejudice and discrimination

 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45 Prof. Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School: Bodies Matter: Habituation at Odds With Faithful Belief

11.45 – 12.30 Prof. Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde: The Queer Map, Academia and Me

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch (Gadolinia, Porthansgatan 3/Porthaninkatu 3)

Workshop sessions

Arken building, Fabriksgatan 2/Tehtaankatu 2

13.30 – 14.00  Workshop Introduction (aud. Westermarck)

14.00 – 15.00 Parallel Workshops – discussion on individual papers focused on “which challenges in studies of minorities are at the core”

 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee

15.30 – 17.30 Parallel Workshops – discussion on Individual papers focused on “which challenges in studies of minorities are at the core?”

19.30 – Dinner at Tårget (Slottsgatan 3 A/Linnankatu 3 A)

Rooms for parallel workshops:

Group A: aud. Westermarck

Group B: aud. Bifrost

Group C: aud. Camera Obscura

Group D: aud. Nikander

 

Saturday 20th January

Arken building, Fabriksgatan 2/Tehtaankatu 2

09.00 – 09.30 Workshop introduction (aud. Westermarck)

09.30 – 11.30 Parallel Workshops – general theme and question for panel from the perspective “which central questions and themes surfaced from our Friday discussions?”

11.30 – 13.00 Panel discussion – around the above themes and questions (aud. Westermarck)

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30 Parallel Workshops – poster productions – from the above themes and questions

17.00 – 18.30 Poster presentations and cocktail