This event brings together four international guests to Helsinki to engage in a knowledge exchange and dialogue with local scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders across the sectors of healthcare, humanitarianism, education, and climate action. Each of these guests has encountered systemic injustices within these fields and has responded by committing to democratizing, decolonizing, unionizing, and organizing these sectors. Drawing on their respective expertise as Development Economist (Francis Garikayi), medical doctor (Hassaan Zahid), psychologist (Chris Bagley), and environmental anthropologist (Pauline von Hellermann), they have worked to address these injustices.
The event showcases stories of unionizing cross-border healthcare workers, democratizing schools, decolonizing humanitarian practices, and organizing climate councils. These narratives will be brought into conversation with Finnish scholars and practitioners who have similarly worked on these critical issues. The goal is to exchange knowledge, learn from one another, and collaboratively explore what is possible, while simultaneously developing new insights and theoretical frameworks. This transdisciplinary event welcomes a diverse audience, including practitioners, artists, activists, policymakers, and academic scholars, who are engaged in the fields of healthcare, humanitarianism, education, and climate action.
The event is organised by Khalil Avi Betz-Heinemann in coordination with Tuukka Saari, Guido Caniglia and Meri Kulmala. Video performance by Mandira Halder.
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