Thursday, February 2
9:30- 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15 Welcome words
Director Leena Malkki, Centre for European Studies
Prof. emer. Thomas Wilhelmsson, former Rector and Chancellor of the University of Helsinki
10:15-11:15 Keynote Speech
Brigid Laffan: EU Collective Power: Tested by War in Europe
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Foreign and Security politics
Chair: Henri Vogt
Juhana Aunesluoma: From Cold War to Post-Cold War Hysteresis. Security and insecurity in the Baltic Sea Region from the 1990s to the Present
Juha Jokela: Current trends in EU research at FIIA
Katariina Mustasilta: European crisis management and conflict responses - lessons from Afghanistan
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Democracy, values and representation
Chair: Markus Ojala
Hanna Tuominen: Protecting and promoting EU values
Anna Elomäki: EU economic governance in member states: policies and practices from the perspective of gender and democracy
Johanna Kantola, Valentine Berthet, Anna Elomäki & Barbara Gaweda: EUGenDem: A study of European Parliament's political groups
Sam Wrigley: Legal Regulation of Online Targeted Political Advertising
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:30 Policy-making in Europe
Chair: Johanna Kantola
Laura Nordström: Power of Experts in EU. Networks of decision-making and expert knowledge in the European debt crisis in 2010?
Katri Eeva & Paula Silvén: Knowledge networks in European higher education policymaking
Päivi Leino-Sandberg: Making power visible: Institutional lawyers and EU Policy-Making
Johannes Lehtinen: Inclusion of citizens and civil society in EU politics in Finland
18:30-22:00 Dinner (by invitation)
Friday, February 3
09:00-09:30 Coffee
09:30-11:00 European studies now and then
Chair: Juhana Aunesluoma
Niilo Kauppi: On the origins of European Studies at the University of Helsinki
Hanna Ojanen: CFSP, what was that again? Thinking back of research on EU foreign policy in Finland in the late 1990s
Johanna Rainio-Niemi: National Histories, Entangled Histories. How to Write Histories Across Borders in Europe (2005-2022)
Kaius Tuori: The Twilight of Regional Studies? (or Why Should Europe be Studied in a Multidisciplinary Way)
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-13:00 Histories, narratives and traditions
Chair: Kaius Tuori
Timo Miettinen: Europe as a narrative
Marco Piasentier & Panu-Matti Pöykkö: Europe and the Crisis of Reason
Anssi Halmesvirta: Crisis in Postwar Historical Thought
Henri Aaltonen, Katharina Kunter & Jyrki Knuutila: Church and the national/ supranational view to European integration in the 1990’s
Olga Kantokoski: Modernity and the Liberalization of Punishment on Europe’s Periphery: the Longue Durée of Penal Evolution in the Western Balkans
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Identities and belonging
Chair: Hanna Tuominen
Pertti Ahonen: Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe, 1943-1948
Peter Stadius: Nordic pan-nationalism in European comparison: taxonomy and self-narrative
Emilia Palonen: Emotions, populism and polarisation: (trans)national contestations around Europe
Sami Koskelainen: Football, Europe, and how they go together: an overview of research
15:30-16:00 Closing words: Future of European Studies