Collaboration on Love & Justice

On Friday 22 April 2016, our CoE collaborated with the CoPassion project and the Social Ethics Forum in organizing a one-day seminar on the themes of love and justice, which are also highly relevant research topics from a recognition-theoretical perspective.

Anna Salonen, Anne-Birgitta Pessi and Risto Saarinen

participated in a panel discussion

Heikki Haara, Joona Salminen, Tii Syrjänen, Anna Seppänen, and Taina Kalliokoski

- the organizers of the event

Anna-Liisa Tolonen and Marjaana Toiviainen engaged in group work

 

Love in action

After the opening panel discussion, we heard various presentations by Jaana Hallamaa, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Henrietta Grönlund, myself, Risto Saarinen, Pauli Kettunen, and Ville Päivänsalo.

Henrietta Grönlund

Between the presentations, the participants worked in groups, discussing themes related to the overall topics of the event and the talks of the individual speakers.

Jaana Hallamaa

Pauli Kettunen

Ville Päivänsalo

On the whole, the day was both interesting and inspiring in various ways. It was also nice to see that so many of our CoE members contributed to the event in the roles of organizers, speakers, and participants.

Recognition Retreat II

Our Centre of Excellence held its second Recognition Retreat at Hvittorp in Kirkkonummi during 7-8 April 2016. The official programme started with lunch on Thursday and concluded with another one on Friday.

A group photo of the participants

The programme included four sessions, three of which took place on Thursday and one on Friday morning. During the first session, Jari Kaukua's and Hanne Appelqvist's successful project applications were duly recognized. After this, the CoE members reported on some interesting conference activities that they had participated in during the last year or so.

Hvittorp's course facilities

In the second session, Risto Saarinen presented information on the Academy of Finland procedures and practicalities of the second half of the CoE during 2017-2019. There was also an opportunity to discuss various related issues and raise questions that came to mind.

The third and final session of Thursday began with Antti Ruotsala's presentation of his studies of Mongol and other Asian cultures. After the talk, we heard musical presentations by Panu-Matti Pöykkö on the guitar, and by Aku Visala on the piano.

Our evening musicians Panu-Matti Pöykkö & Ismo Dunderberg

After the final session of the first day, we proceeded to enjoy some evening snack together with free conversation and more music.

The Friday morning session then consisted in some group work towards the application required for the latter part of the CoE period. In the early Friday afternoon, after lunch and the official conclusion, the board held its meeting while some other CoE members participated in a guided tour of the Villa Hvittorp.

Reflections on Recognition 26-28 May 2016

Reflections on Recognition is an international conference organized by the Centre of Excellence Reason and Religious Recognition at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 May 2016. The conference focuses on systematic and historical studies of the concepts and phenomena of recognition, and its themes are based on an international scholarly volume edited by Maijastina Kahlos, Heikki J. Koskinen and Ritva Palmén.

The programme of the event can be found under THIS LINK.

Among many others, the authors of these three

recognition volumes will be attending the Reflections conference

Right before the conference, 24-25 May, there is a workshop with the title Social Pathologies and Mutual Recognition, organized at the University of Jyväskylä. More information and the programme of the event can be found under THIS LINK.