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Program 7.11.2025
Adress: Arken, Åbo Akademi, Fabriksgatan 2, Åbo
Du hittar karta över Arkens rum här.
Du kan bekanta dig med arbetsgrupper och föredrag här.
Kl. 9.00–10.30
Arbetsgrupper:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Feministinen opettajuus ja ympäristökriisit, Simone Weil (M 134)
Henkinen väkivalta – sitkeä ja vaikeasti tunnistettavissa oleva ongelma, Goethe (L 104)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeys äitiyden kulttuurisena kokemuksena // Persistence as a Cultural Experience of Mothering, Nikander (D 101)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Kl. 11.00–12.30, Armfelt (A102)
Keynote: Desire Lines towards Death
Prof. Eliza Steinbock (chair in Transgender Studies, Art, and Cultural Activism, Maastricht University)
In Isaac Julien’s militant mourning film, Looking for Langston (1989), frame after frame evokes the thin veil that exists between life and death. Mist, smoke trails, gauzy lighting, and cast shadows all direct our attention to the spirits lingering amongst the living. Responding to the contemporary crisis of white racism, British imperialism, and AIDS deaths, Looking for Langston conjoins the timespace of 1920s Harlem, New York and 1980s Brixton, London. Physical and psychic orientation in time and space is repeatedly confounded by shifts up and down in camera movement. In this talk I consider the persistent thematic of queer and trans artists responding to a moment of political urgency by creating desire lines towards the past and raising the dead. This aesthetic orientation articulates the past historically not to recognize it “the way it really was,” but inWalter Benjamin’s words, “to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger” (1968, 255). I speculate that a shared horizon of “historical justice” underpins formal devices such as reenactment and dream sequences that seek to rework the directionality of our political present.
Commentators:
Kuura Irni: Transecology of Care
Kuura Irni is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. Irni’s current research interests combine trans and queer feminisms, ecofeminisms, critical feminist animal studies, decolonial and intersectional feminisms and feminist technosciencestudies.
Vilja Jaaksi: The hard work of staying soft
Vilja Jaaksi is a doctoral researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Turku. Their work examines nonbinary identity and trans communities on social media, and is concerned with the ambivalence and messiness of belonging.
Kl. 12.30-13.30
Lunch, på egen bekostad, en restaurang finns i Arken (2,95€ studenter, personal och forskare vid ÅA 7,70 €, andra 9,50€)
Kl. 13.30–15.00
Arbetsgrupper:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Kielen, sukupuolen ja seksuaalisuuden risteämiä // Intersektioner mellan språk, kön och sexualitet // Intersections of language, gender, and sexuality, Goethe (L 104)
Material Care: Rakennusperinnön hoidon status ja sukupuoli, Simone Weil (M 134)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia // Men and masculinities, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Urheilussa sitkeänä pysyvät ilmiöt muuttuvassa yhteiskunnassa // Gender order and gendered practices in sports, Nikander (D 101)
Kl. 15.30–17.00, Armfelt (A102)
Paneldiskussion:
Crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies
This English-language panel discussion will explore the necessity, significance, and potential of crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies. Hanna Väätäinen, Touko Vaahtera, and Isa Hukka, who have conducted research at the intersections of crip theory and Gender Studies, will discuss the topic under the guidance of Taru Leppänen. The panel will consider the meanings and dimensions of the term ”crip” in relation to different linguistic and cultural contexts. In addition, we will consider the methodological possibilities of disability studies from the perspective of our own research. Finally, we will discuss the factors that support or hinder the emergence of crip perspectives in academic knowledge production and more broadly in society.
Academy researcher, PhD Touko Vaahtera, University of Eastern Finland
PhD, artist Hanna Väätäinen
Crip artist, facilitator and B.Soc.Sc. Isa Hukka
Ohjelma 7.11.2025
Osoite: Arken, Åbo Akademi, Tehtaankatu 2, Turku
Arkenin huonekartta löytyy tästä. Huoneet, joiden numero alkaa ykkösellä, sijaitsevat ensimmäisessä kerroksessa, ja huoneet, joiden numero alkaa kakkosella, ovat toisessa kerroksessa.
Työryhmiin ja esitelmiin voit tutustua täällä.
Klo 9.00–10.30
Työryhmät:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Feministinen opettajuus ja ympäristökriisit, Simone Weil (M 134)
Henkinen väkivalta – sitkeä ja vaikeasti tunnistettavissa oleva ongelma, Goethe (L 104)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeys äitiyden kulttuurisena kokemuksena // Persistence as a Cultural Experience of Mothering, Nikander (D 101)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Kl. 11.00–12.30, Armfelt (A102)
Keynote: Desire Lines towards Death
Prof. Eliza Steinbock (chair in Transgender Studies, Art, and Cultural Activism, Maastricht University)
In Isaac Julien’s militant mourning film, Looking for Langston (1989), frame after frame evokes the thin veil that exists between life and death. Mist, smoke trails, gauzy lighting, and cast shadows all direct our attention to the spirits lingering amongst the living. Responding to the contemporary crisis of white racism, British imperialism, and AIDS deaths, Looking for Langston conjoins the timespace of 1920s Harlem, New York and 1980s Brixton, London. Physical and psychic orientation in time and space is repeatedly confounded by shifts up and down in camera movement. In this talk I consider the persistent thematic of queer and trans artists responding to a moment of political urgency by creating desire lines towards the past and raising the dead. This aesthetic orientation articulates the past historically not to recognize it “the way it really was,” but inWalter Benjamin’s words, “to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger” (1968, 255). I speculate that a shared horizon of “historical justice” underpins formal devices such as reenactment and dream sequences that seek to rework the directionality of our political present.
Commentators:
Kuura Irni: Transecology of Care
Kuura Irni is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. Irni’s current research interests combine trans and queer feminisms, ecofeminisms, critical feminist animal studies, decolonial and intersectional feminisms and feminist technosciencestudies.
Vilja Jaaksi: The hard work of staying soft
Vilja Jaaksi is a doctoral researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Turku. Their work examines nonbinary identity and trans communities on social media, and is concerned with the ambivalence and messiness of belonging.
Klo 12.30-13.30
Lounas, omakustanteinen. Arkenissa sijaitsee ravintola. Hinnat: opiskelijat 2,95 €, Åbo Akademin henkilökunta ja tutkijat 7,70 €, muut 9,50 €.
Klo 13.30–15.00
Työryhmät:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Kielen, sukupuolen ja seksuaalisuuden risteämiä // Intersektioner mellan språk, kön och sexualitet // Intersections of language, gender, and sexuality, Goethe (L 104)
Material Care: Rakennusperinnön hoidon status ja sukupuoli, Simone Weil (M 134)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia // Men and masculinities, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Urheilussa sitkeänä pysyvät ilmiöt muuttuvassa yhteiskunnassa // Gender order and gendered practices in sports, Nikander (D 101)
Klo 15.30–17.00, Armfelt (A102)
Paneelikeskustelu:
Crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies
This English-language panel discussion will explore the necessity, significance, and potential of crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies. Hanna Väätäinen, Touko Vaahtera, and Isa Hukka, who have conducted research at the intersections of crip theory and Gender Studies, will discuss the topic under the guidance of Taru Leppänen. The panel will consider the meanings and dimensions of the term ”crip” in relation to different linguistic and cultural contexts. In addition, we will consider the methodological possibilities of disability studies from the perspective of our own research. Finally, we will discuss the factors that support or hinder the emergence of crip perspectives in academic knowledge production and more broadly in society.
Academy researcher, PhD Touko Vaahtera, University of Eastern Finland
PhD, artist Hanna Väätäinen
Crip artist, facilitator and B.Soc.Sc. Isa Hukka
Programme 7.11.2025
Venua: Arken, Åbo Akademi University, Tehtaankatu 2, Turku
You can find a map of the rooms in Arken here. Rooms with a room number beginning with 1 are located on the first floor, and rooms with a number beginning with 2 are on the second floor.
A more precise programme will be published later. You find the working groups and paper abstracts here.
9.00–10.30
Working groups:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Feministinen opettajuus ja ympäristökriisit, Simone Weil (M 134)
Henkinen väkivalta – sitkeä ja vaikeasti tunnistettavissa oleva ongelma, Goethe (L 104)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeys äitiyden kulttuurisena kokemuksena // Persistence as a Cultural Experience of Mothering, Nikander (D 101)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Kl. 11.00–12.30, Armfelt (A102)
Keynote: Desire Lines towards Death
Prof. Eliza Steinbock (chair in Transgender Studies, Art, and Cultural Activism, Maastricht University)
In Isaac Julien’s militant mourning film, Looking for Langston (1989), frame after frame evokes the thin veil that exists between life and death. Mist, smoke trails, gauzy lighting, and cast shadows all direct our attention to the spirits lingering amongst the living. Responding to the contemporary crisis of white racism, British imperialism, and AIDS deaths, Looking for Langston conjoins the timespace of 1920s Harlem, New York and 1980s Brixton, London. Physical and psychic orientation in time and space is repeatedly confounded by shifts up and down in camera movement. In this talk I consider the persistent thematic of queer and trans artists responding to a moment of political urgency by creating desire lines towards the past and raising the dead. This aesthetic orientation articulates the past historically not to recognize it “the way it really was,” but inWalter Benjamin’s words, “to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger” (1968, 255). I speculate that a shared horizon of “historical justice” underpins formal devices such as reenactment and dream sequences that seek to rework the directionality of our political present.
Commentators:
Kuura Irni: Transecology of Care
Kuura Irni is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. Irni’s current research interests combine trans and queer feminisms, ecofeminisms, critical feminist animal studies, decolonial and intersectional feminisms and feminist technosciencestudies.
Vilja Jaaksi: The hard work of staying soft
Vilja Jaaksi is a doctoral researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Turku. Their work examines nonbinary identity and trans communities on social media, and is concerned with the ambivalence and messiness of belonging.
12.30–13.30
Lunch at own expense, a restaurant is located in Arken (2,95€ for students, staff and researchers at ÅAU 7,70 €, others 9,50€)
13.30–15.00
Working groups:
Crip persistence, dammit!, Valhall (D 206)
Feminismi, talous ja ekologia, Saussure (M 128)
Kielen, sukupuolen ja seksuaalisuuden risteämiä // Intersektioner mellan språk, kön och sexualitet // Intersections of language, gender, and sexuality, Goethe (L 104)
Material Care: Rakennusperinnön hoidon status ja sukupuoli, Simone Weil (M 134)
Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia // Men and masculinities, Camera Obscura (E 201)
Sitkeä stigmatisointi ja feministisen vastarinnan mahdollisuudet, Radiatorn (E 101)
Trans- ja queer-näkyvyyden ja näkymättömyyden politiikka // The politics of trans and queer visibility, Voltaire (M 127)
Urheilussa sitkeänä pysyvät ilmiöt muuttuvassa yhteiskunnassa // Gender order and gendered practices in sports, Nikander (D 101)
15.30–17.00, Armfelt (A102)
Panel discussion:
Crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies
This English-language panel discussion will explore the necessity, significance, and potential of crip perspectives in the field of Gender Studies. Hanna Väätäinen, Touko Vaahtera, and Isa Hukka, who have conducted research at the intersections of crip theory and Gender Studies, will discuss the topic under the guidance of Taru Leppänen. The panel will consider the meanings and dimensions of the term ”crip” in relation to different linguistic and cultural contexts. In addition, we will consider the methodological possibilities of disability studies from the perspective of our own research. Finally, we will discuss the factors that support or hinder the emergence of crip perspectives in academic knowledge production and more broadly in society.
Academy researcher, PhD Touko Vaahtera, University of Eastern Finland
PhD, artist Hanna Väätäinen
Crip artist, facilitator and B.Soc.Sc. Isa Hukka