[ecrea] Conference on Media, Belonging and Social Theory

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Symposium:
Mediating Belonging – Re-thinking Social Theory Today
26–27 March 2015


The symposium “Mediating Belonging, Re-thinking Social Theory Today”
aims at developing new theoretical frameworks and tools that capture
contemporary aspects of various modes of belonging and invites
scholars from different fields of social sciences (sociology,
philosophy, anthropology, media studies, political science, cultural
studies, gender studies, etc.) to debate the relevancy of these new
epistemologies for understanding the current architecture of sociality.

Registration for this event is required but free of charge. Please
register online. The deadline to register is 20 March 2015.

http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/belonging/index.html

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies/University of Helsinki,
Finland, Fabianinkatu 24 A, Seminar Room 136, Ground Floor.

Organizers: Johanna Sumiala, Katariina Mäkinen and Sorin Gog


PROGRAM:

Thursday 26 March 2015

10:00 Opening of the Conference
Director HCAS Sami Pihlström&  Adjunct Professor Johanna Sumiala

10:30 I Key Note Professor Nick Couldry, LSE, Refiguring the Social:
Remembering Norbert Elias
Chair: Adjunct Professor Katja Valaskivi, University of Tampere
11:30 Comments + Discussion
Professor Risto Kunelius, University of Tampere

13:30 Session I Mediations of Belonging
Chair: Adjunct Professor Johanna Sumiala, HCAS
Speakers:
Professor Caroline Bassett, HCAS/University of Sussex, Qualified
Belonging: Expertise as ‘New’ Mediator
Adjunct Professor Anu Kantola, University of Helsinki, Go Go
Capitalism: Power and Belonging in Fast Capitalism
Professor Alexa Robertson, Stockholm University, Televisual Spaces of
Belonging

16:00 II Key Note Professor Montserrat Guibernau Queen Mary/University
of London, The Necessary Ambiguity of Symbols
Chair: Assistant Professor Sorin Gog, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
17:00 Comments + Discussion
Research Fellow Kaisa Ketokivi, University of Helsinki/New York University
17:30 Wrapping up the first day

Friday 27 March 2015

10:00 Session II Economies of Belonging
Chair: Professor Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, University of Tampere
Speakers:
Professor Olli Pyyhtinen University of Tampere, Whom Does Rubbish
Belong to? On Waste, Scavenging and Ownership
Research Director/CNRS Fellow Jenny Andersson, SciencePO/Paris,
Between Foresight and Foreclosure. The Social Power of Prediction
Assistant Professor Sorin Gog, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca,
The Politics of Non-Belonging: Roma at the margins of European Union

13:30 III Key Note Professor Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku,
Volatile, vital networks: affect, connectivity and technology
Chair: Research Fellow Nora Hämäläinen, HCAS
14:30 Comments and Discussion
Dr Stephanie Alice Baker, City University London
15:00 Closing of the Conference
Johanna Sumiala, HCAS

19:00 Open Night at Korjaamo Culture Factory (Töölönkatu 51, Helsinki)
Kaisa Ketokivi, University of Helsinki/New York University

PhD Johanna Sumiala
Assistant Professor (Docent)
Kone Foundation Senior Fellow
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O. Box 4
FIN-00014
University of Helsinki
mobile: + 358 50 311 2522
email: johanna.sumiala[at]helsinki.fi
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/jsumiala/


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