{"id":35,"date":"2021-12-16T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/vengstro\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:51:57","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/vengstro\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events (a selection)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;One small step for a Fund, one giant leap for mankind? On the remarkable expansion of the IMF mandate&#8221;, ESIL Annual Conference (IGO interest group), M\u00e1laga, 3-5 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeering through the Crystal ball &#8211; exploring the futures literacy of Public international law&#8221;, the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2025, Liverpool 15-17 April 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/law\/slsa-2025\/\">https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/law\/slsa-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Annual Minority Seminar: Many Gazes of Law &#8211; Plurality and Legal Ordering, \u00c5bo Akademi University, 11 April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Twenty-First-Century Crises and the Social Turn of International Financial Institutions&#8221;, International Studies Association annual conference 2024, San Franscisco, 4-6 April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission&#8221;, University of A Coru\u00f1a, The Presence of International Organizations in the Evolution of the International Law of the Sea: Thirty Years Since the Entry Into Force of UNCLOS, 24 February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;From Broadened Mandate to Broadened Responsibilities? Thoughts on Financial Institutions \u2018Social Turn\u2019&#8221;, Teikyo University, Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations, 4-5 November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social Justice Innovation in Africa&#8221;, Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation (University of Turku), 27 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social Justice Innovation. A Cross-Disciplinary and Multilayered Agenda&#8221;, Law and Development Research Network Conference, National Law University, Delhi, 19-21 August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social protection and social innovation &#8211; framing the project&#8221;, Achieving social justice through social innovation and entrepreneurship, Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation (FAPI) Worskhop, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, 10-11 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Climate Change, Territoriality, and Societal Challenges&#8221; (with Michel Rouleau-Dick), Living with the Sea, \u00c5bo Akademi University, 6 April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The Nordic Time Machine&#8221;, (with Michel Rouleau-Dick), Understanding environmental change: Creating integrated knowledge of the seas of Norden and Arctic, \u00c5bo Akademi University, 2 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;EU Interaction with Institutions in the Baltic Sea Region&#8221;, University of Hamburg, Workshop on Compliance with Soft Law: Assessing and Explaining Compliance with Legally Non-Binding Global and Regional Governance Instruments, 22-23 April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Institutional Competition for Social Protection&#8221;, American Society of International Law &#8211; Interest Group for International Organizations, Work in Progress Workshop, 19 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social Protection &#8211; a Cure for the Covid Crisis?&#8221;, Workshop on Approaches to Vulnerability in Times of Crisis, 19 February 2021, \u00c5bo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The EU\u00b4s Engagement with Institutions in the BSA&#8221;, The EU and the Baltic Sea Area, 22 January 2021, \u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social Spending in the Mandate of the IMF&#8221;, at Human Rights in the Mandate and Work of International Organizations Workshop, 25.11.2020, \u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Institutional Competition for Social Protection&#8221;, at AHRI Conference, 4-5 September 2020, University of Pretoria, South-Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Vulnerability: Enhanced Protection or Inflation of Rights?&#8221;, at Human Rights Overreach, Workshop, 1-2 July 2020, Erlangen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Social Protection Policies: Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights?&#8221;, at Advanced Course on Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Theory and Practice, 11 November 2019, \u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku.<\/p>\n<p>Lecture on Academic publishing, at Afridoors 3, Towards a More Robust Protection of Human Rights in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-11 October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The emerging social protection interest in the IMF: Time to revisit &#8221;conventional truths&#8221;?&#8221;, at Law and Development Research Network 4th annual conference, &#8221;The Plurality of Law and Development&#8221;, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, on 25 &#8211; 27 September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>15TH ETMU Conference: Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance in Diverse Societies, 15-16th November 2018, \u00c3\u2026bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Unpacking Economic and Social Rights, 9-10 November 2018, University of Goettingen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network: INTERFACES, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 19-21 September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) PhD Course 2018 Resilience and Equality: Questions for the North and the South, 11-15 June 2018, \u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Washington, DC, April 16-22, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Oikeustieteen p\u00e4iv\u00e4t (Turku, Finland), 31.8-1.9, 2017, &#8221;The IMF as a rescuer in economic crises: Are macroeconomics and socioeconomic rights inevitably on a crash course?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BaltReg Conference (Korpo, Finland), 23-25.8, 2017,&#8221;Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the Baltic Sea Regulatory Framework&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>13th Nordic Environmental Social Science conference (NESS) (Tampere, Finland), 6-8.6, 2017, &#8221;The International Regulatory Framework of the Baltic Sea Region: Characteristics and Complexities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>AHRI Conference: The Promotion and Enforcement of Human Rights by International and Regional Organizations (Leuven, Belgium), 27-28.4, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>AHRI Human Rights Research Conference, 50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects, Utrecht, 2-3 September 2016, paper: Rights Cannot Protect Us from Austerity &#8211; and Perhaps That\u00b4s for the Better.<\/p>\n<p>FRAME workshop: When the Going Gets Tough: Human Rights in Times of Economic Hardship, paper: &#8221;The Political Economy of Austerity and Human Rights Law&#8221;, 19-20.11.2015, \u00c5bo Akademi University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;One small step for a Fund, one giant leap for mankind? 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