TIAS & JMC Event: Extremes

We live in an age of extremes. Extreme climates, extreme politics, extreme opinions and extreme violence. But how can we make sense of these extremes? How can academics both cope with them and seek to explain them? 

Co-hosted by the John Morton Center for North American Studies and the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), this event seeks to examine the nature of extremism both locally and globally and to help attendees both understand extremism and how it might be dealt with. The day includes two keynote addresses and one panel. It concludes with the showing of an “extreme” film.

Programme

10:30–10:45 Opening Remarks, Prof. Benita Heiskanen, Prof. Martin Cloonan, and Dr. Niko Heikkilä

10:45–11:00 Dr. Jani Sinokki, "What Is Extremism?"

11:00–12:00 Prof. Joshua C. Wilson, "Playing with Fire: Managing Extremism in Building Modern American Conservatism"
Chair: Prof. Benita Heiskanen

12:00–12:15 Break

12:15–13:15 TIAS Panel: Dealing with Extremes
Panelists: Dr. Pekka Kolehmainen, Dr. Sasha Nenko, Dr. Timo Pankakoski, Dr. Raha Sarvestany Sabet
Chair: Prof. Martin Cloonan

13:15–14:15 Lunch break

14:15–15:15 Dr. Gwenaëlle Bauvois, “Tracing the Historical Roots of Extremist Narratives in Finland and Beyond”
Chair: Dr. Oscar Winberg

15:15–15:30 Break

15:30–17:30 Film, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006), followed by discussion
Chair: Doctoral Researcher Mila Seppälä

Please see full details of the programme at the JMC website.