JMC Events - 2014
Current Issues Seminar
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Time: 14:00–17:00
Place: University of Turku, Calonia Building, Lecture Hall 3 (Caloniankuja 3)
Speakers
Dr. Thomas Schmidinger, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria,
"The So-called ‘Islamic State,’ Its Foreign Fighters, and the New Middle East"
Dr. Kirstine Sinclair, Assistant Professor, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, Department of History, University of Southern Denmark,
"Whose Caliphate? The Ideology and Geo-Politics of the Islamic State"
Dr. Raphi Rechitsky, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia,
"Fleeing the War in Ukraine: International Humanitarian Politics and Responses to the Refugee Crisis"
Dr. Mika Aaltola, Director of the Global Security Research Programme, Finnish Institute of International Affairs,
"The U.S. Geostrategy and the Trilemma of Three Maps"
Current Issues Lecture
Dr. Markus Heide, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Time: 14:15–15:45
Place: University of Turku, Minerva Building, Seminar Room 223 (Kaivokatu 12)
The lecture is co-organized with the International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC), University of Turku.
Date: October 21, 2014
Place: University of Turku, Publicum Building, Meeting Room 149
Current Issues Lecture
Dr. Mark C. Miller, Fulbright Bicentennial Professor in American Studies, University of Helsinki; Professor, Department of Political Science, Clark University, USA
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: 16:15–17:45
Place: University of Turku, Publicum Building, Lecture Hall 4 (Assistentinkatu 7)
The lecture is co-organized with the Department of Political Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku.
Conference
Date: August 28–30, 2014
Place: Calonia Building, University of Turku
The John Morton Center for North American Studies proudly presents its inaugural conference, “Bridging North America: Connections and Divides,” on August 28-30, 2014. The conference sessions will explore topics such as “Transnational Geopolitical Landscapes,” “Re-Thinking North American Boundaries,” “Native American/First Nations Appropriations,” “Euro-American Cultural Negotiations,” “Immigrant Imaginaries,” “Cultural Frontiers Revisited,” and “New North American Literary Borders.”
Speakers
Christine Bold (Professor of English, University of Guelph, Canada)
“‘Aboriginally Yours’: Vaudeville Performers, Transnational Circuits, Research Challenges”
Josiah Heyman (Professor of Anthropology, Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues, University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
“Relationship through Inequality and Difference: The U.S.-Mexico Border Case”
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez (Arizona State University)
“The Southwest North American Region: An Incipient Ecological and Economic Heuristic”
Edward A. Avila (Eastern New Mexico University)
“What ‘We’ Do Abroad: Humanitarian Interventionism and Neoliberal Governmentality in Chicana/o Literature and Film”
Inaugural Event
Date: April 29, 2014
Place: University of Turku, Calonia Building, Vänrikinkatu 2
Ambassador Anne Lammila, Embassy of Finland, Mexico City
Date: April 22, 2014
Time: 14:15–16:00
Place: University of Turku, Contemporary History, Paasivirta Hall, Arwidssoninkatu 1, Building 11
The seminar is co-organized with the Department of Contemporary History and will be held in Finnish.
Date: March 25, 2014
Time: 17:15–18:45
Place: University of Turku, Publicum Building, Lecture Hall 5
Panelists
Rani-Henrik Andersson, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki
Nadia Nava Contreras, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki
Janne Korkka, University Lecturer, Department of English, University of Turku
Moderator
Benita Heiskanen, Director, John Morton Center for North American Studies
Q & A by the Audience
Date: March 25, 2014
Place: University of Turku, Publicum Building, Lecture Hall 5
Date: February 25, 2014
Place: University of Turku, Publicum Building, Room 269