Opiskelija tutustuu meneillään olevaan ajankohtaiseen tieteen- ja teknologiantutkimukseen sekä siitä käytävään keskusteluun. Opiskelijalla on välineet keskustella aloitteellisesti tiedon, tieteen ja teknologian kysymyksistä sekä arvioida tutkimuskysymyksiä ja tutkimuksellisia näkökulmia.

Seminar programme

12.10.2018 Critical Perspectives on the neoliberal academy: gender, subjectivity, affects, and knowledge production, coordinated by Rebecca Lund, Linna K110

10.00-11.30 Visiting professor Louise Morley, University of Sussex: Entangling Gender and Neoliberalism in the Global Academy

Oili-Helena Ylijoki: Happy in academia - building elite subjectivity in the neoliberal university.
Kristiina Brunila, University of Helsinki: Affective subjectification and academia CANCELLED
Rebecca Lund: Explicating the ruling relations of neoliberalism and nordic feminism in Feminist knowledge production  

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30.11.2018 Health, expertise and knowledge production, Coordinated by Pia Vuolanto, Linna 5014

Visiting professor Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Umeå University: Using bibliometric methods to map research fields – on the example of Complementary and alternative medicine

Mikael Lindfelt, Åbo Akademi & Anna Soveri, University of Turku: Vaccine attitudes in Finnish health care workers CANCELLED

Mikko Virtanen: Vaccine rationalities - The Case of HPV in Finland

Pia Vuolanto, Johanna Nurmi, Hanna Westerberg & Jutta Pulkki: The challenges of complementary and alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy for healthcare professionals

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20-21.2.2019 Contested futures of biomedical care, Coordinated by Mianna Meskus, L5014

WEDNESDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2019, 2-4 pm: RESEARCH SEMINAR PART 1

14.15-14.45 Elina Helosvuori: “Lingering technological entanglements”: Childlessness after IVF

14.45-15.15 Karoliina Snell: “Well, I knew this already”: Contemplating personal genetic risk information

15.15-15.45 Kaisa Kivipuro: Doing (in)fertility: Reproductive abledness in wombless women’s accounts of family formation

THURSDAY, 21 February 2019, 10 am-4pm: RESEARCH SEMINAR PART 2

10.15-10.45 Mikko Jauho: Mundane technologies of good life: Testing and self-care in everyday cholesterol control

10.45-11.15 Tiina Vaittinen: “The Future is Adult Incontinence!” Examining the Material Un/Sustainabilities of Care through the Case of the Adult Incontinence Pad

11.15-11.45 Vera Raivola: Contested futures of blood donation

13.00-13.30 Marianne Mäkelin: Gene drives in the wild: Governing human health and governing environment

13.30-14.00 Maiju Tanninen: Contested technology: Behaviour-based insurance in critical data studies

14.00-14.10 coffee & buns

14.10-14.40 Venla Oikkonen: Negotiated ontologies and contested futures in vaccine injury: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the case of Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy

14.40-15.10 Heta Tarkkala: Cancer care as cancer research in the development of individualized cancer treatments

15.10-15.40 Minna Ruckenstein: Searching medicinal agencies

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10.5.2019 Diversity in Science, Coordinated by Kristina Rolin

Venue: 5014

The workshop examines the diversity of people, theoretical perspectives, skills and tasks in the production of scientific knowledge. The presentations explore epistemic benefits and challenges stemming from greater diversity in scientific communities and research teams. 

10.15-11.00 Kristina Rolin: Diversity and situated knowledge

11.00-11.45 Rebecca Lund: What is intersectionality?

11.45-13.15 Lunch break

13.15-14.00 Inkeri Koskinen: Diversity and epistemic injustice in science: The case of Indigenous Studies

14.00-14.30 Coffee break

14.30-15.15 Elina Mäkinen: Opportunities for knowledge anchoring in translational science

15.15-16.00 Samuli Reijula and Jaakko Kuorikoski: Modelling collaborative division of labor

The workshop is organized by the Academy of Finland research project “Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science: An Epistemic Assessment.” For more information, contact kristina.rolin@tuni.fi. 

Ensisijaisesti syventävien opintojen vaiheen opiskelijoille. Suoritukseen vaaditaan osallistuminen neljään seminaariin, mukaan lukien seminaaripapereiden lukeminen, sekä lopuksi essee tai oppimispäiväkirja. Tarkemmat tiedot suoritustavasta löytyvät seminaarin moodlessa.