Time: November 8, 11:00 am–5:30 pm
Venue: HCAS Common Room, Fabianinkatu 24A (3rd floor)
Program
11:00 am
Welcome by Hanne Appelqvist
11:15 am
Plenary address by Prof James Mittelman, HCAS Honorary Fellow: Research Freedom: Pressures and Resistance
Prof Mittelman introduced by HCAS alumnus Prof Heikki Patomäki
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon session
Moderator: Kaisa Kaakinen (HCAS)
2:00 pm
Tim Stuart-Buttle: Modern political philosophy and the challenge of Hobbes
3:00 pm
Jitka Štollová: Impact in Early Modern England
4:00 pm
Coffee
4:30 pm
Andrew Graan: Projects, Anti-Projects; Projectification, Deprojectification
5:30 pm
Reception
Speaker Bios
Jim Mittelman is Distinguished Research Professor and University Professor Emeritus at American University. Previously, he was Professor and Dean at Queens College of the City University of New York, Professor and Dean of International Studies at the University of Denver, Director of the Social Science Foundation, and the Pok Rafeah Chair at the National University of Malaysia. Mittelman has been on the faculty at Cornell and Columbia universities and was named a Member at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He also held teaching and research appointments in Japan, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. The recipient of the International Studies Association's 2010 Distinguished Scholar award in International Political Economy, he is an Honorary Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Mittelman’s books include The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton University Press), Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity (Stanford University Press), and Implausible Dream: The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education (Princeton University Press). He served on the American Civil Liberties Union Academic Freedom Committee and delivered the Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture, a series dedicated to academic freedom, in South Africa.
Tim Stuart-Buttle is a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. He completed his D.Phil. in Intellectual History at the University of Oxford in 2013, before securing multiyear postdoctoral positions on two collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects in Cambridge (2014–17) and York (2018–21). His research focuses on early modern political, moral and religious thought – broadly, from Hobbes to Hegel – and on twentieth-century interpretations of its most significant aspects. He has published articles in journals including Political Theory, History of European Ideas, and History of Political Thought, along with a monograph, From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume (Oxford UP, 2019).
Andrew Graan is a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. A cultural and linguistic anthropologist, he earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2010. His research examines project making, the politics of publics spheres, international intervention, and the political his-tory of North Macedonia. He has taught anthropology at the University of Helsinki, the University of Virginia, Wake Forest University, the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. He has published his research in Cultural Anthropology, Signs & Society, The Journal of Cultural Economy, The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Slavic Review, and HAU, among other places.
Jitka Štollová is a literary scholar specializing in the intersection of literature and history, with a focus on the concept of tyranny, book history, and early modern drama and its reception. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Prior to joining the Collegium, she held a Title A Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford. In her Collegium project, she explores the influence of canonical playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Chekhov, on the works of Václav Havel—playwright, dissident, prisoner of conscience, and former Czech president.