Events
The Finnish Anthropological Society organizes lectures, public events, seminars and meetings that promote anthropological research and anthropological approaches to contemporary questions. The events aim to address different audiences both within and outside the academic world. Events are organized in collaboration with the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department of the University of Helsinki, as well as research units and departments of different universities throughout Finland.
Upcoming Events:
Annual Convention 2010
Helsinki 11-12th May, 2010
Ideas of Value: Inquiries in Anthropology
Call for sessions and papers • Kutsu osallistujille
Deadlines: proposals for sessions 31st Jan 2010, individual papers 7th Feb 2010
Recent Events:
Westermarck Memorial Lecture by Marilyn Strathern
Professor Marilyn Strathern gives the Westermarck Memorial Lecture on December 9, 2009. Read more.
Guest lecture by Helene Brembeck
Helene Brembeck, Professor in Ethnology at the University of Gothenburg (Göteborg) gives a guest lecture Toys Matter: McDonald’s Toys and Nordic Childhoods organized by the Finnish Anthropological Society and the Department of Sociology of the University of Helsinki on September 23, 2009, 16-18 o’clock, Kirkkokatu 6 (Helsinki), lecture hall 505 (read more)
Moral symmetry and material agency: negotiations on agent-object relations
A two-day workshop jointly organized by the Finnish Association of Consumer Research and The Finnish Anthropological Society in September 24-25, 2009 in Helsinki. Abstracts due: May 31. Read more.
The Annual Convention of Finnish Anthropologists
Continuity Through Change: Anthropological perspectives in the contemporary world
Arranged by the Department of Social Research, University of Tampere, together with The Finnish Anthropological Society
7th -8th of May, 2009, University of Tampere
• Annual Convention 2009: Call for papers•Program•Workshops•Information
Annual meeting
The annual meeting of the Finnish Anthropological Society is held on February 11th at Tieteiden talo, room 505 (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki). Professor Ulla Vuorela (University of Tampere), BSSc Jenny Stenbäck (University of Helsinki) and the President of the Society Minna Ruckenstein will address the state and prospects of anthropology in Finland. The event is held in Finnish.
Tieteiden yö 8.1.2009
The Finnish Anthropological Society at Laterna Magica (Rauhankatu 7, Helsinki). Jari Kupiainen will present video material from his long-term fieldwork in the Solomon Islands
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Centenary 28.11.2008
The Finnish Anthropological Society together with the French Cultural Centre in Finland are organizing a celebration to honour the centenary of Claude Lévi-Strauss at the French Cultural Centre’s premises in Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki. The program consists of short presentations and documentary films.
Maurice Godelier in Helsinki 11.-13.11.2008
The distinguished anthropologist Maurice Godelier will arrive as a guest of the Finnish Anthropological Society and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki in November and will be giving a public lecture at Tieteiden talo in room 505 on Thursday 13.11. at 4 p.m.
Finnish Anthropology Symposium – Antropologipäivät – May 15 – 17 2008
The Finnish Anthropological Society together with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki organized an anthropology symposium in Helsinki in May. The idea was to continue the discussion started at the annual general meeting about the structural changes now taking place in Finnish universities and the place of anthropology in the academic world, meanwhile taking a more concrete look at contemporary Finnish anthropology. The symposium consisted of 22 short presentations in nine thematic sessions, with topics ranging from such classic themes as kinship, ritual, and myth, to other more recent explorations in anthropology: from studies of childhood in modern Western societies through transnationalism and diaspora to aspects of doing fieldwork in today’s world. Despite very modest promotion the lecture halls were crowded throughout the three-day event and a good number of researchers and students from outside of Helsinki also gathered to take part in the presentations and discussions.
Annual General Meeting 2008
The Society’s AGM was held on 26.3.2008 in Tieteiden talo (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki). Professor Jukka Siikala gave a talk on the future of anthropology which was followed by discussion. In addition to this the Society presented its recent and planned upcoming activities to its members and the meeting voted to agree with proposed changes in the Society’s constitution.
Anthropological Film Nights
The Society began presenting monthly anthropological film screenings in January 2008 and the screenings continue in the fall with six nights in Kuppala (Snellmaninkatu 14, Helsinki). As in the spring term the screenings are organized together with the student organization Mana and the fall program connects with Mirja Metsola’s course on visual anthropology in the anthropology department at the University of Helsinki. All screenings begin at 6 p.m. and are free of charge.