Centre for European Studies

Mikä kansainvälinen järjestys on ja onko säännöillä väliä, jos niitä rikotaan? Onko kansainvälisten järjestöjen toiminnalla ollut vaikutusta Venäjän toimintaan ja tilanteeseen? Onko käsillä uudenlainen kriisi vai business as usual?

Kiinnostavaa pohdintaa menossa Tiedekulmassa. Menossa on Eurooppa-tutkimuksen keskuksen ja Tiedekulman järjestämän Eurooppa murroksessa -sarjan keskustelu. Mukaan pääsee myös striimin välityksellä ja kaikki keskustelut jälkeenpäin tutustuttavissa videona ja podcastina: https://www2.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulma/ohjelma/pinnalla

Mitä Ukrainassa meneillään oleva sota on paljastanut eurooppalaisuudesta - sisäisistä rajoista, identiteeteistä, historiasuhteesta ja suhteesta pakolaisuuteen. Asiasta keskustellaan parhaillaan Tiedekulmassa, lavalla Johanna Vuorelma, Miika Tervonen ja Timo Miettinen. Insertin muodossa äänessä myös Laura Sumari. Keskustelua vetää Anu Partanen.

Keskustelua voi seurata myös striimin välityksellä, linkki löytyy täältä: https://www2.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulma/ohjelma/pinnalla.

Tiedekulmassa tänään aiheena sota 2000-luvun Euroopassa. Keskustelu on jälkeenpäin katsottavissa Tiedekulman YouTube-kanavalla.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Centre for European Studies has the pleasure to invite you to a book launch and panel discussion on the occasion of the publication of

TAKIS PAPPAS: POPULISM AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Friday 10 May, at 9.00-10.00 am
at Tiedekulma Stage, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4

In his book Takis Pappas explores and analyses populism as an emerging historical phenomenon of late democratic modernity that opposes political liberalism. Populism seeks to institute a novel form of modern democratic politics that is antagonistic towards established political liberalism. Pappas develops a theory of populism that is grounded on a comparative and historical analysis of populism in liberal democracies, and provides keys to understand what populism is and what is not populism.

PROGRAMME

Takis Pappas, presenting his book Populism and liberal democracy. A comparative and Theoretical Analysis (OUP).

Followed by comments and panel discussion with:
Alexander Stubb, Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Laura Sibinescu, University of Helsinki
S. M. Amadae, University of Helsinki
Moderated by Juhana Aunesluoma, University of Helsinki

For more information: Juhana Aunesluoma [email protected], 02941 28808

Juhana Aunesluoma, D.Phil
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Director, Centre for European Studies
University of Helsinki


+358 2941 28808
+358 50 415 6592

TODAY EUI event on fully funded Ph.D. programmes in Porthania!

The European University Institute (EUI) is an international centre for doctorate, post-doctorate studies and research, situated in the hills near Florence, Italy. EUI offers fully funded four-year Ph.D. programmes in the social sciences. Up to 150 scholarships in Economics, History and Civilization, Law and Political and Social Sciences are available for September 2019 entry, covering tuition fees and providing a monthly grant.

On 7 November 2018 Juho Härkönen, Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the EUI will visit the University of Helsinki to speak about Ph.D. opportunities at the EUI. You are warmly welcome.

Where: Porthania, P673 (6th floor), Yliopistonkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki.

When: 16.00-17.00

FB-event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/333306357226988/

Registration: https://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/DoctoralProgramme/DoctoralProgrammePresentations?utm_source=Helsinki&utm_medium=presentation&utm_campaign=PhD2019

Doctoral Programme Presentations Prospective PhD and LLM applicants are invited to information sessions on the EUI's graduate programmes.

The Council of Finnish Academies, together with the Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, cordially invites you to a seminar:

EUROPE ON TEST: NARRATIVES OF UNION AND DISUNION – THE NORDIC PERSPECTIVE

November 14, 2018 Helsinki, The House of The Estates, 9 am – 4 pm.

“Europe on Test: Narratives of Union and Disunion” – a series of seminars hosted by selected Academies of Sciences and Humanities in various European cities and coordinated by ALLEA – will address these and other aspects of relevance for the future of Europe as a community. Renowned scholars will debate and illuminate the significance of such narratives from a variety of different angles and within their national contexts.

The Nordic perspective on Europe will be explored at the conference organized by The Council of Finnish Academies at The House of the Estates Helsinki on November 14, 2018. The focus of this conference will be on the role of the Nordic societies in the European and global context. The speakers will debate about the essence of the Nordic welfare state and about the legacies of history on the ideas and ideologies in the Nordic countries. Then the focus will move to the present times and Nordic societies struggling with issues of migration and multiculturalism giving room for populism and extremist political movements with the aim/under the banner of defending the traditional Nordic values.

The full program and further information can be found at http://www.academies.fi/europeontest/

Please register you attendance at http://www.academies.fi/europeontest/ by October 31st 2018.

With best wishes, on the behalf of the organizers,

Juhana Aunesluoma
Centre for European Studies
University of Helsinki

EUROPE ON TEST: NARRATIVES OF UNION AND DISUNION – THE NORDIC PERSPECTIVE November 14, 2018 Helsinki, The House of The Estates Registration open until October 31st 2018.Europe on Test: Union or Disuninon conference is hosted by the Council of Finnish Academies. It belongs to a conference series managed by ALLEA and is organized in collaboration with all Finnish science ac...

TRUMP’S AMERICA AND THE WORLD: THE PERILS OF A US DISENGAGEMENT FROM GLOBAL POLITICS

On Friday, 28 September, 2018 at 14:15-15:45 At the Auditorium 116, University of Helsinki Unioninkatu 35, Helsinki

The keynote of this event addresses the two most important questions concerning the United States’ role in the
world. The first part of the talk examines how fast America is declining. The underlying assessment is that for many
decades into the future, the U.S. will be the only state in a position to sustain a globally engaged grand strategy.
The second part of the talk then analyses the current grand strategic debate over whether America should “stay
engaged” or should now “come home.” The analysis by Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth in the recently
published book “America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century” shows that Washington would
be wise to sustain the core elements of the so-called “deep engagement” grand strategy, since pulling back from the
world would have a variety of negative consequences for America and for its global partners. The conclusion of the
talk will then discuss the implications of Trump’s foreign policy stance for Europe.

Speaker:
Stephen G. Brooks, Professor, Dartmouth College

Comments:Ville Sinkkonen, Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Chair:
Johanna Vuorelma, University Lecturer, Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki

This lecture is part of the CUSPP Research Series. Coffee will be served from 13:45 onwards. We kindly ask you to
confirm your participation in the seminar at the very latest on Wednesday 26 September by email to marie-louise.
[email protected].

Open Panel Debate: The winners of the workplace after the digital revolution

As a part of the Europaeum Summer School “The Future of Work” the Europaeum along with the Centre for European Studies invites you to the Open Panel Debate on the questions of equalities and inequalities formed in the future workplace.

The summer school examines the question of future work from different aspects, for example from the possibility of total automatisation to the need for new public policies and changes in the social security. One of the key questions of the future work is about the labour market. Technology has until recently eaten from low-skilled and repetitive work, but it is also taking over high-skilled professions. It is predictable, that a large part of jobs in the current labour market are soon replaced by machines. Due to the rapid digitalisation, we need to ask the question of who will work, and how?

A short introduction to the Finnish trade and labour market history will be provided by Dr Juhana Aunesluoma, Director of the Centre for European Studies. Dr Aunesluoma is a researcher in political history, and his research interests are in the Finnish business and economic history, as well as in the history of Finnish foreign trade and economic integration.

Panelists’ expertise vary from trade and labour institutions to investigative journalism.

Lotta Savinko is the Head of Working Life Issues of Akava (trade union confederation of affiliates for highly educated people). She is part of Akava’s equality working group. She is also a board member at Eurocadres.

Juha Antila is a Development Manager at SAK (The Central Organisation of Trade Unions in Finland, a labour confederation) representing 900,000 employees in Finland. His main responsibilities are developing working communities, work well-being and work productivity.

Jari Konttinen is an Expert of Industrial Policy at Palta (Association of Employers in Service Industries, an industry and labour market confederation). He develops Palta’s work on themes like industry, employment, education and innovations.

Minea Koskinen is an independent author and journalist. She has worked as a journalist in Voima-magazine and as a future researcher at Demos Helsinki -think tank, where she was part of a team which conducted the award-winning Work 2040 -report.

We welcome you to join us to an interesting panel debate at the Porthania PIII on Tuesday 28th of August at 16!