Professor Bernd Belina is giving his talk on "Policing urban space - On the productivity of false abstractions" 7.6.2023
Bernd Belina is full professor of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He has published in both English and German on issues of policing, criminalization and space in geographical, Urban Studies and criminological contexts. Currently, he is visiting professor at the University of Helsinki.
The public examination of Ilppo Soininvaara’s (at right) doctoral dissertation 25.5 2022. Opponent Raine Mäntysalo (at left), Custos Sami Moisio (in the middle).
Creative economy in the aftermath of the pandemic, 29.3. 2022. A workshop to discuss the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the creative economy and cultural fields of cities. The workshop was jointly organized by the Spatial politics, policy and planning research group of the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, the University of King's College London and the Gran Sasso Institute of Social Sciences in Italy and is part of a joint project between the three universities.
Pia Bäcklund: How to conceptualize 'public administration' as an agent? Viewpoints for studies of citizen participation. Presentation in DECARBON-HOME research seminar series 24.1. 2022.
Johanna Tuomisaari ja Pia Bäcklund: Governing seismic risk of geothermal energy in an institutionally ambiguous setting. Seeking Solutions to Carbon Neutrality through Transdisciplinary Research across Social Sciences and Humanities. Maantieteen päivät 4.–5.11. 2021.
Giacomo Botta ja Pia Bäcklund: The Urban Imaginaries of the Helsinki Region MAL-Agreements. Maantieteen päivät 4-5.11. 2021.
Johanna Tuomisaari ja Pia Bäcklund: Seismisen riskin hallinnan haasteet eri toimijoiden näkökulmasta. SEISMIC-RISK hankkeen ohjausryhmä. 13.10. 2021
Pia Bäcklund ja Johanna Tuomisaari: Miten ja keiden toimesta seismistä riskiä pitäisi hallita? SEISMIC-RISK open seminar (speaker). 12.10. 2021
Working seminar with Ted Schatzki / University of Kentucky. Pia Bäcklund (organizer) 29.9. 2021
Keynote Ted Schatzki / University of Kentucky, Pia Bäcklund (organizer). 29.9. 2021
Johanna Tuomisaari ja Pia Bäcklund: Miten ja keiden toimesta seismistä riskiä pitäisi hallita? SEISMIC RISK project, meeting with cities. 28.9.2021
Scientific advisory board /DECARBON-HOME. Pia Bäcklund (chair). 1.9.2021
Helsinki Inequality research seminar. Pia Bäcklund (speaker). 16.6.2021
Junno, N., Bäcklund, P., Tuomisaari, J., Oinonen, K., Veikkolainen, T., Korja, A., and Working Group, S. R. (2021). How to deliver information on induced seismicity to the authorities and general public? , EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-2732.
Heikki Sirviö features in the Hanken School of Economics podcast series "Sustainability unwrapped": Political polarizations of sustainability, together with Hanna Lempinen and host Martin Fougère, published 30.11 2020.
Pia Bäcklund, "Alueita suunnitellaan uusien sopimusten avulla – muuttaako se käsitystämme demokratiasta?", article in Tutkijan ääni, published 12.11 2020.
Interview with Assistant Professor Noora Pyyry: "Maantieteilijä voi avata kriittistä keskustelua monitahoisista kysymyksistä", published 9.11 2020.
Tomas Hanell acts as a Guest editor for Social Indicators Research Special Issue on "Geographies of Well-being and Quality of Life", together with Teemu Makkonen and Daniel Rauhut from the University of Eastern Finland.
Professor Sami Moisio has been nominated as External Faculty Board Member to the Gran Sasso Science Institute: School of Advanced Studies (Italy). The institute is an international PhD school and a center for advanced studies in physics, mathematics, computer science and social sciences. For more information on the institute, see: https://www.gssi.it/
Tomas Hanell features in the popular science podcast series "Vetskap", podcast nr 18: "Sorgsen i stan?" on the theme urbanisation (58 minutes), produced by Hbl and Svenska litteratursällskapet, published 27.10 2020.
Tomas Hanell, interview in Vasabladet 28.9 2020.
Tomas Hanell, interview by YLE, 23.9 2020.
Pia Bäcklund, chair of the Smart City conference 28.9 2020.
Pia Bäcklund, interview in Helsingin uutiset, 8.9 2020.
Pia Bäcklund, interwiev in Yliopisto-lehti 2.9 2020.
Tomas Hanell, interview in Ilta-Sanomat 24.8 2020.
Regional Studies Association interview with Prof. Sami Moisio.
Pia Bäcklund, Professor, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki: Planning as an Investment and Politics of Regional Inequity.
Tomas Hanell, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki: Geographies of Quality of Life in the EU. A Quantitative Assessment of Territorial Inequality in Human Capabilities.
Organizers: The Department of Geosciences and Geography / Spatial Politics, Policy and Planning Research Team.
Daniel Galland, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Janus-faced spatial planning systems: A strategic relational account of the unorthodox planning of our times
Conference session in the 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting: Sustainable Geography – Geographies of Sustainability. Description of the session is available here.
Organizers: The Department of Geosciences and Geography / Spatial Politics, Policy and Planning Research Team. More information is available here.
Lecture 1: Toni Ahlqvist, University of Turku: Contradictions, economic imaginaries and spatial governance
Lecture 2: Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, University of Tampere: Experiential knowledge on forced migration: principles of policy relevance research
Seminar series with Kristian Olesen, Aalborg University. See programme here.
Scientific workshop on state territories/territoriality. See description here.
Kick-off workshop of the Academy of Finland funded project. See the programme here [in Finnish].
Intensive course and competition on sustainable urban development. More information here.
Lecture by Brendan Humphreys, Ph.D Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. More information here.
Seminar with Jim Throgmorton