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.