JMC Events - 2014 | University of Turku

Transnational Security Crises

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"

Border Film and the U.S.-Canada Divide

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.

JMC Research Network Business Meeting

The U.S. Supreme Court: Where Law and Politics Intertwine

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.

Bridging North America: Connections and Divides

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”

Bridging North America: Inauguration of the John Morton Center for North American Studies

Meksikon hetki: Meksikon suhteista Latinalaiseen Amerikkaan, Karibian alueeseen ja Yhdysvaltoihin (in Finnish)

Roundtable: “What IS North American Studies”

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

JMC Research Network Business Meeting

JMC Research Network Launching Meeting