- Time: August 27 at 14.15 – 18.00
- Venue: Runeberg Hall, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 (2nd floor)
- Participation: The conference is open for all interested. Please register, as the number of places available is limited.
- Registration: No later than 20 August 2009 to daniel.moran(at)helsinki.fi
- Professor Birte Siim (Aalborg University)
- Professor Veit Bader (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Professor Peter Kivisto (Augustana College)
Challenging Power
August 27, 2009
International Seminar
Challenging Power: Equality, Culture and Minorities
The seminar is organized by the Academy of Finland funded project Challenging Power: Equality, Diversity and the Integration of Ethnic and National Minorities in Finland in cooperation with GENIE (The Paradoxes of Finnish Gender Power Order: Law, Politics and Multilevel Governance) and the Academy of Finland.
The aim of this interdisciplinary seminar is to discuss minorities’ possibilities for self–identification and political recognition in a comparative perspective. There is a need to clarify what minority integration – and the structures of power sharing it entails – means in the European context. Why is equal access to power not a reality? What are the visible and invisible dimensions of power that prevent certain people from full and equal participation? Why is it that significant fractions of some minority groups do not even seek to become active and participate? Read more >>
Keynote speakers:
Presentation of the speakers in pdf
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
14:15–14:30 Professor Peter A. Kraus (CEREN)
Welcoming words
14:30-14.45 Seminar opening by Thomas Wilhelmsson, Rector of the University of Helsinki
14:45–15:25 Professor Birte Siim (Aalborg University)
Migration, multiculturalism and gender - a
Nordic perspective
15:25–16:05 Professor Veit Bader (University of Amsterdam)
Strategic Dilemmas of Minorities. 'Consensus' Democracies, 'Contestational' Majoritarian Democracies, or what?
16:05–16:45 Professor Peter Kivisto (Augustana College, Rock Island, IL)
Citizenship and Immigrant Empowerment: Comparing Transnational Migrants in Western Europe and North America.
16:45–17:15 Coffee
17:15–18:00 Panel discussion
Power, Minorities and the Future of Multiculturalism
Chair: Associate Professor Peo Hansen, Linköping University Participants: Peter A. Kraus, Camilla Nordberg, Niko Pyrhönen, Reetta Toivanen and Östen Wahlbeck
18:00 Reception hosted by Henrik Hägglund, Rector of the swedish School of Social Science
(Venue: Outside the Small Hall, 4th floor)
On Friday August 28, 2009 there will be a Publication Workshop on the same theme. This event is for invited participants only.
For more information contact CEREN’s Research Administrator Heidi Aaltonen (heidi.aaltonen(at)helsinki.fi or +358 9 191 28470).