NEWS
20.3. NEW BLOG POST
18.3.2020 INTERVIEW
‘Tuntuuko koronatilanne maailmanlopulta?’ By Nadja Mikkonen, YleUutiset.
17.2.2020 NEW ARTICLE
Guarding utopia: law, vulnerability and frustration at the UN Human Rights Committee. In Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale, Vol. 28, 1.
7.2.2020 COMMENTARY
‘Koronavirus ja saastaiset lepakonsyöjät’. AntroBlogi. (Most read text of AntroBlogi for February 2020).
3-4.2.2020 MEETING
Executive Committee of the EASA, Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Nanterres Université.
28.1.2020 VISITING LECTURE
‘Vapaudet, oikeudet & velvoitteet: oikeusajattelun klassikot’. In course ‘Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet’ (by Emilia Palonen), University of Helsinki
23.1.2020 TALK
‘Scholar & New Audiences’. Winter School 2020 of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
16.1.2020 CHAIR
‘Piiloöljy-ilta‘, Tieteiden yö, Sofia Bistro, Kiseleffin talo, Helsinki. With Allegra Lab Hki & Häiriköt päämaja.
15.1.2020 VISITING LECTURE
‘Enforcing Human Rights: United Nations.‘ In lecture course ‘Introduction to Human Rights law’ (by Ukri Soirila), University of Helsinki
20.12.2019 SEASON GREETINGS!
10.12.2019 NEWS
9.12.2019 NEW BLOG POST
26.11.2019 MODERATOR
‘Onko oikeusvaltio kriisissä?’ Tutkas-verkosto, Pikkuparlamentti, Eduskunta. Tallenne keskustelusta täällä.
22.11.2019 NEW BLOG POST
22.11.2019 PAPER (remotely)
‘Improving the World via accounting law? Reflections on Human Rights, Corporate Obligations, Law, and Politics’ In Roundtable on “Changing Climates of Politics and Law,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 22, 2019, Vancouver, BC.
13.11.2019 COLUMN
‘Stockmann – miten olisi antropologi’. AntroBlogi.
11.11 INTERVIEW
‘Käyn itseni kanssa ärtynyttä dialogia’. Vihreä lanka 4/2019.
9.11 CEREMONIAL SPEECH
Juhlapuhe Sosiaali- ja kulttuuriantropologian opiskelijajärjestö Manan 30-vuotisjuhlissa, Kaiku, Helsinki
8.11.2019 VISITING LECTURE
‘Tutkija ja uudet yleisöt‘. Asiantuntijuus-kurssi, Valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, Helsingin yliopisto
28-29.10.2019 EASA AGM & Executive Committee Meeting
‘Europe, knowledge politics and bureaucracy: anthropological perspectives’. Université Libre de Bruxelles.
26.10.2019 TALK
‘The future of European Anthropology & the EASA’. At ‘Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Sustaining Cities‘, Oslo. Paper available here.
11.10.2019 VIDEO
‘Loops and Holes: Negotiating human rights at the Centre’. German Anthropological Association 30.9. Videos of all plenaries available here.
30.9.2019 PAPER
‘Loops and holes: Negotiating human rights at the centre’. Plenary session at the German Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
11.9. NEW BLOG POST
9.9.2019 WORKSHOP
Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences. Presenter. London School of Economics.
5.9.2019 NEW ESSAY
Consultancy, Confidentiality and Scholarly Responsibility: Glimpses from the UN OHCHR. Humanity Journal.
19.8.2019 FORTHCOMING ARTICLE
‘Guarding Utopia: law, vulnerability and frustration at the UN Human Rights Committee’ accepted for publication in a special issue of Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale on ‘Bureaucratizing Utopia’
5.8.2019 NEWS
Article ‘Where’s the Well: DNA evidence, personal narratives and unpredictability in Finnish family re-unification’ picked as the Editor’s choice of Migration Studies – article available here as OA.
28.7.2019 TALK
‘Pelko tuntemattomasta: ajatuksia ruokapöydistä, silakkapihveistä ja ihmisen kokoisista askeleista kohti tuttua’, Meidän Festivaali, avajaiskonsertti, Pekka Halosen Akatemia, Järvenpää.
3.6.2019 PAPER
‘History of Human Rights: the Versailles perspective’, in ‘Versailles and Rights: a Centenary Appraisal’, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.
24.5.2019 ORGANIZER
‘Concepts, paradigms and slogans – From human rights to human dignity and sustainability.‘ EASA LAWNET-seminar with The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie), Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)
21.5.2019 VIDEO
Comment on papers by Julie Billaud, and Marie-Benedicte Dembour & Susanne Melde (at 1:16-1:35), in ‘Petitions & Petitioning‘, University of Helsinki
15.5.2019 PODCAST
‘Keskusteluja elämästä ja antropologiasta‘, AlterNATIIVI, AntroBlogi (hosted by Anna Haverinen)
9.5.2019 PANELIST
‘Law and ethnography: a Methodological debate’, with Marie-Benedicte Dembour and Jane Cowan. Helsinki Socio-Legal Studies Initiative
3.5.2019 DISCUSSANT
‘Petitions and Petitioning: Voice, Politics, Practices, Codes, Technologies’. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
9.4.2019 BLOG POST
8.3.2019 PAPER
”Movement in the Right Direction’: An Ethnography of a Human Rights Report’, Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
29.3.2019 NEW BLOG POST
11.3.2019 COLUMN
Helsinki Dance Company ja vallankäyttö mediassa. Antroblogi.
8.3.2019 TALK
Tutkimustiedon uudenlaiset viestintä- ja vaikutusmahdollisuudet. Ethnos Ry Kevätseminaari.
5.3.2019 TALK
‘Movement in the right direction: an ethnography of a human rights report’, Anthropology Department Seminar Series, Sussex University
5.3.2019 VISITING LECTURE
‘Human Rights: Local, Global – and everything in between: the case study of Finland’. Course: Human Rights (By Julie Billaud), Sussex University
Nov 2018-Feb 2019 UN CONSULTANCY
‘Researching ‘Diversity’ at the UN’, commissioned consultancy by the UN OHCHR for an ethnographic study of the organization’s culture, with Julie Billaud & Agathe Mora (link to Sussex University Newsletter)
11-12.2.2019 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Convening meeting of the new Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2019-2020), University of Lisbon
11.2.2019 OPINION
‘Mistä rahoitus populaarille tiedejulkaisemiselle?’ With Taina Tuori, Mikko Poutanen, Ninnu Koskenalho, Suvi Jaakkola & Lotta Haikkola, Helsingin Sanomat, Mielipide
7-8.2.2019 DISCUSSANT
‘Law and Language: Engaging the Field’, University of Jyväskylä
1.2.2019 NEWS
Member of the new Editorial Board of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropologica Review (2019-2020)
1.2.2019 VISITING LECTURE
‘Oikeudet, vapaudet & velvoitteet’. Course: ‘Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet’ (‘Rights, Liberties & Duties‘ in Course: Principles of Political Thought (by Emilia Palonen)), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
28.1.2019 PANEL
Paneelikeskustelu ihmisoikeuksien tulevaisuudesta. KIOS 20 vuotta -juhlatilaisuus
23-25.1.2019 MODERATION
‘Academic Writing and Publishing’, Winter School of the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies
17.1.2019 NEWS
Elected into the Executive Committee of the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2019-2021)
11.1.2019 INTERVIEW
MTV3 News Broadcast at 10 pm (LIVE) on Panel on Climate change, Lava-Klubi, Night of Science (at 0:15:30)
11.1.2019 CHAIR
‘Sanoista tekoihin ilmastonmuutoksessa. Kuinka radikaaleja tekoja tarvitaan?’ Panel on Climate Change at Lava-Klubi Tieteiden yö 2019. (Night of Science)
11.1.2019 TALK
‘Tiedeviestinnän mahdollisuudet’. Katsomukset.fi 1 vuotta -tilaisuus, Thirsty Scholar, Tieteiden yö 2019 (Night of Science)
15.12.2018 NEW PAPERBAG
‘Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights‘, Eds, Pamela Slotte & Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Cambridge University Press, 2015/2018
5 & 13.12.2018 PAPER & ESSAY
‘Movement in the Right Direction: Reflections on 70 years of world improvement’. At ‘The UDHR at 70: Historical and Juridical Perspectives‘, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies & Geneva Academy of International and Humanitarian Law. Edited version published at The Global
28.11.2018 NEW ARTICLE
´Methodologically blonde at the UN in a tactical quest for inclusion.´ Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale, 26(4), 2018, 456-470
17.11.2018 PAPER (via skype)
“Peer review 2.0 at Allegralaboratory.net: Reflections on creativity, knowledge and novel publication formats”, Invited paper at panel by Somatosphere at the American Anthropological Association, San Jose
14.11.2018 ESSAY
15.8.2018 PAPER
“Dependent emancipation: the mechanisms and paradoxes of travelling human rights policies: the case of ‘LGTBI’ in 5 moments”, Bi-Annual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm
