Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

HCAS celebrates its 10th Anniversary on Thursday 20 October

Free admission but registration is required for catering purposes. Please sign up by sending an email to:

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PROGRAMME

Thursday 20 October

What’s the Use? The Human Sciences in Contemporary Society
Venue: Unioninkadun juhlahuoneistot, Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki

09:30 Refreshments
10:00 Welcome words by Chancellor Ilkka Niiniluoto and Director Sami Pihlström

Discussion: ”What’s the Use of the Human Sciences?”
Chair: Sami Pihlström

• Professor Paavo Hohti, CEO, Council of Finnish Foundations
• Professor Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation  

12:00 o’clock  Lunch break

2:00 p.m. Teach in: "Putting Use into Action: Research done by Collegium Fellows"

5-minute short presentations by HCAS fellows
Chair: Anne Birgitta Pessi

• Kathryn Edwards: The Science of Spirits
• Pentti Haddington: Conversation Analysis and Traffic Safety
• Maijastina Kahlos: Outsiders and Human Rights - The Heritage of Late Antiquity
• Sari Kivistö: Johann Balthasar Schupp and a Seventeenth-century Satirical Utopia of Useful Knowledge
• Nikolay Koposov: History and Democratic Citizenship
• Rogier De Langhe: Understanding the Nature of Mankind's Most Valuable Economic Resource: Knowledge
• Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela: Our Laws over Animal Life: Thinking the Global Dominion
• Andrew Newby 'An Urgent Claim for Sympathy" - War, famine and international relations: lessons from the nineteenth century
• Kirill Postoutenko:  Social Asymmetries: What They Are, And How They Shape Our Lives.
• Simon Rabinovich: Setting and Navigating the Boundaries of Religious Autonomy in the Modern State (tbc)
• Peter Swirski: Two Cultures... and the Twain Shall Never Meet
• Thomas Wallgren: Search for Truth as Search for Oneself: Socrates and Gandhi on the Unity of Philosophy and Politics
• Sirpa Wrede: Professionalism as an Inequality Regime in Globalising Care

3:30 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. Concluding discussion