On last
Tuesday, the 26th of August, the common activities of the CoE officially resumed
with two meetings and a gathering of the whole CoE in the evening.
The first
meeting at the Collegium focused on preparations related with organizing The 5th Nordic Conference in
Philosophy of Religion in Helsinki on 8–11 June 2015. Timo Koistinen, who is also a member of our Team 3, bears the main
responsibility for organizing the conference. He is assisted in this by Dan Eklund and Hanna Ronikonmäki.
Timo Koistinen and Simo Knuuttila
In
conjuction with the Nordic conference, the CoE also organizes a special symposium on
the 11th of June with the title “Recognition and Religion”. As the
title indicates, the themes of this one-day event are closely related with the
CoE’s central research topics. The group dealing with the organization includes
Sami Pihlström, Hanne Appelqvist, and myself.
After
the first meeting, it was time for all three CoE teams to have their parallel discussion
sessions. We continued at the Collegium, and in addition to our team members, enjoyed
the pleasure of Simo Knuuttila’s
presence in the session.
Risto Saarinen and Sami Pihlström
Risto Saarinen also arrived at our
team meeting, straight from Budapest, where he had attended The 18th Academic Consultation of
the Societas Oecumenica. Saarinen brought news from the event according to
which our team member Minna Hietamäki
had been elected as the secretary of The European Society for Ecumenical
Research. In addition, the 19th Academic Consultation of the Society
would be held in Helsinki in late August 2016.
Aku Visala and Elina Hellqvist
After
the meetings, members from all three teams got together in an informal and
friendly atmosphere at a local beer house.
Outi Lehtipuu and Raimo Hakola
[Picture from previous gathering]
