Programme

The programme of the workshop can be found below. There may still be slight changes in the schedule.
Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Voluntary get together meeting in the evening (6 pm -) for those who arrive on Wednesday. Place: Belge (2nd floor), Kluuvikatu 5

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Porthania, PIII (Yliopistonkatu 3)

11:00–12:30 Registration and simpler lunch

12:30–14:00 Keynote

  • Professor emer. Tapio Lappi-Seppälä (Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy)
  • Commentary: Professor Birgit Feldtmann (Aalborg University)

14:00–14:30 Coffee break

14:30–16:00 Doctoral student presentations

  • Joel Holmgren (Malmö universitet)
  • Lisa Claar (Umeå universitet)
  • Thomasine Francke Rydén (Umeå universitet) 

16:15–17:30 Discussion panel: Current Criminal Policy Challenges in the Nordic States

  • Finland: Head of Unit Jussi Matikkala (Ministry of Justice, Department for Criminal Policy and Criminal Law)
  • Denmark: Lecturer Lene Wacher Lentz (Aalborg University)
  • Norway: Professor Synnøve Uggelvik (University of Oslo)
  • Sweden: Senior Lecturer Tova Bennet (Lund University)
  • Iceland: Professor Ragnheiður Bragadóttir (University of Iceland)

19:00–21:00 Dinner (Restaurant Sunn, Aleksanterinkatu 26, 2nd floor)

Friday, 12 September 2025

Main Building, Studium 1 (F3020) (Fabianinkatu 33)

9:00–12:30 Doctoral student presentations (including coffee break ca 10:30)

  • Anna Nousiainen (Helsingfors universitet)
  • Erik Berglund (Örebro universitet)
  • Jana Gotthardt (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg)
  • Celia Carrasco Pérez (Burgos University, Spain)
  • Jani Hannonen (University of Turku)
  • Sofia Selkämaa (Helsingfors universitet)

12:30–13:30 Lunch

13:30–14:30 Doctoral student presentations

  • Martine Heyerdahl Mellbye (Universitetet i Bergen)
  • Sigrid Nikka (Lunds universitet)
  • Marie Kagrell (Stockholms universitet)

14:45–16:30 Presentation of current criminal law questions in the Nordic States

At the latest 17:00 Conclusion of the workshop and next year’s workshop