Common Activities Resume after Summer

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 5^th 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 11^th 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 18^th 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 19^th 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]