JMC Events - 2021
Seminar
Date: Friday-Saturday, October 8–9, 2021
Time: Friday 14:00–17:15, Saturday 10:00–12:30
Place: University of Turku, Main Building
Organized by our partners at the Department of English and the Fulbright Foundation, with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.
Each annual American Voices Seminar is a unique combination of presentations given by U.S. Fulbright grantees working in Finland. The seminar will provide students an opportunity to learn about various aspects of the society and culture of the United States through presentations drawing from the personal experience and scholarly expertise of the Fulbright grantees.
If you’re coming to the American Voices Seminar on 8-9 October, please sign up NOW! You can sign up for either one of these assessments/toteutukset, both refer to the same event:
https://opas.peppi.utu.fi/fi/opintojakso/NAMS0081/5915?period=2020-2022
https://opas.peppi.utu.fi/fi/opintojakso/NAMS1021/8579?period=2020-2022
The full program is available here: https://www.fulbright.fi/about-us/events/american-voices-seminar
Current Issues Seminar
"9/11: Twenty Years After"
Date: September 10, 2021
Time: 14:15-16:45
Webinar
Link to the event: https://utu.zoom.us/j/68569603744
In this webinar, organized by the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku, we will consider the ramifications of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on our thinking, worldviews, and ways to conduct research. How have the attacks been interpreted in research, teaching, and media discourses? How have experiences of security and insecurity been delineated in politics and popular culture? What ethical and moral questions have we been confronted with as a result of the strikes? The panelists will offer a phenomenon-based, transdisciplinary discussion that underscores the simultaneity of the historical, societal, and cultural consequences of the attacks and responses to them.
The webinar is free and open to the public.
There are two ways students may participate in the webinar: 1) You may collect lecture pass entries by writing a short (max. 1 paragraph) summary of the presentations. Please save it in your files to collect a signature from NAMS instructors once we return to face-to-face teaching. 2) You may register for JMCT0023-3001 9/11: Twenty Years After to receive 1 ECTS. For information, see https://opas.peppi.utu.fi/en/course/JMCT0023/28427.
Thursday May 6, 2021
17:30-18:30
Register for a Zoom link: https://konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=88&tap=10741
Students may collect lecture pass entries.
“A Deleuzian Approach to Studying the Moving Body"
With its increased appearance in the social sciences and humanities, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s thought is now used also in the study of physical culture. Notoriously difficult to penetrate, Deleuze’s conceptual system has been accessed in diverse ways to analyze the physically active body. In this talk, I aim to offer, based on my recent book, Deleuze and the Physically Active Body (Routledge, 2019), a summary of Deleuze’s concepts of the strata, assemblage, and the body to illuminate ways to think ‘differently’ about researching the physically active body.
Pirkko Markula is a professor of socio-cultural studies of physical activity at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include social analyses of dance, exercise, and sport in which she has employed several theoretical lenses ranging from critical, cultural studies research to Foucault and Deleuze. She is also a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She is the author of Deleuze and the Physically Active Body (Routledge, 2019), co-author, with Michael Silk, of Qualitative Research for Physical Culture (Routledge, 2011), and co-author with Richard Pringle, of Foucault, Sport and Exercise: Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self (Routledge, 2006).
Identities, Rights, Histories: An Indigenous Studies Seminar
March 29, 2021
3:00-7:00 PM
Online via Zoom
Click HERE to register!
3:00-3:45 PM LeAndra Nephin (Omaha/Ponca), Activist and Public Speaker
Indigenous in Britain: My Journey as a Native Woman Living in the Heartland of the British Empire
3:45-4:30 PM Tony Belcourt (Métis), Métis Rights Advocate
A Métis Hunt for Justice
4:30-5:15 PM Farina King (Diné), Assistant Professor, Northeastern State University
Facing Monsters of Colonialism and Disease in Diné History From the Long Walk to COVID-19
5:15-5:30 PM BREAK
5:30-6:15 PM Sarah Nickel (Tk'emlupsemc), Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Indigenous Women's Political Work in 1980s British Columbia
6:15-7:00 PM Christina Leza (Yoeme-Chicana), Associate Professor, Colorado College
Indigenous Rights and Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Students may write a report for 1 ECTS or collect lecture pass entries. Further instructions available on Peppi by clicking “Indigenous Speakers Seminar”: https://opas.peppi.utu.fi/en/course/JMCT0020/5914
Students, please register for the seminar on Nettiopsu: https://nettiopsu.utu.fi/course/registration/104234/new
