The event will feature five presentations, followed by a Q&A. Tea and coffee will be available.
The event will feature five presentations, followed by a Q&A. Tea and coffee will be available.
Faculty of Social Sciences (U37). 29 APRIL 2026. 14h -17h.
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1. After Malaria
Malaria is often described as a technical problem solved through medicine and surveillance. Its history tells a different story. After Malaria is a transdisciplinary team doing the homework on malaria cessation. Beginning with case studies in Cyprus and Finland, we examine public health heritages of living after malaria. It is therefore not only about malaria, but about how societies change, how public health is maintained, and how art, labour and research can discover more connected and equitable futures. The initiative emerged from conversations within RESET and continues to grow through new associates, disciplines and methods.
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2. Art of Knowing through (un)learning: a transdisciplinary research study on time, dance and play with children and trees
Our KONE-funded project (2025-2028) develops artistic and scientific transdisciplinary research methodology by collaboratively (un)learning with researchers, dance artists, teachers, children and forests. To achieve transdisciplinarity we approach knowing by challenging existing binaries (e.g. science vs art; teacher vs learner; emotion vs cognition, body vs mind). We focus on embodied and experiential methods including movement, dance, imagination and play that we explore together in dance and nature workshops organized for adults and children in Southern Finland.
Other members of the research team are: Beth Ferholt, Tuija Kasa, Jenni Koistinen, Virva Talonen, Niina Lehtinen, Vi Alexakos, Eden Morris & Sofia Saukkonen.
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3. MoreChild: starting elsewhere
Sometimes it is necessary to look elsewhere than in childhoods themselves to get a sense of what is going on for children in the present moment. This idea, the idea of “pull focus”, guides the project “Figurations of the child and more-than-human politics of childhood for the post-Anthropocene: The fossil, the microbe, the weather” (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027). In this presentation, we draw from recent insights within environmental humanities, multispecies studies and feminist new materialisms, to push forth new kinds of theorizations and practices around childhood.
4. RESPRO: From a False Sense of Protein Safety to Protein Resilience: Building Bridges for Protein Sustainability
The current polarization between opponents of animal production and industry stakeholders has reached a deadlock where both sides remain firmly entrenched in their own perspectives. This dynamic does not serve the goals of sustainable development – nor the objectives of either group. What we need are bridge-builders: initiatives that can facilitate dialogue and seek common ground. The project From a False Sense of Protein Safety to Protein Resilience: Building Bridges for Protein Sustainability (ResPro) seeks alternative yet realistic compromises that enhance both environmental and animal welfare, while also addressing the overconsumption of animal-based products. ResPro applies the method of the Industrial Foresight Studio (IFS), a collaborative platform for science-based planning of next generation industrial and innovation policy among corporate actors, government officials, policymakers, researchers, and relevant stakeholders.
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5. Slow science
Slow Science is a multidisciplinary research group that explores the conditions and tempo of contemporary academic work. Bringing together different university staff, the group creates spaces to reflect on how knowledge is produced under conditions of acceleration, measurement, audit culture and academic capitalism. Through workshops, autoethnographic research and art-based methods, Slow Science experiments with practices of unhurried inquiry and collective reflection. The group invites people to pause, reflect on everyday academic life, and explore unhurried ways of doing research and teaching. The group emerged from conversations within the university community and seed funding from HSSH.
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