AUTUMN 2025 PROGRAMME
SEPTEMBER
ABOAGORA: Venus
10.-12.9.2025
Sibelius Museum & other venues
ABOAGORA is an annual symposium that brings together the arts, humanities and sciences. The event consists of public keynote lectures and dialogues, as well as various performative sessions that combine artistic and scholarly approaches.
In 2025, Aboagora will focus in Venus, the Bringer of Peace. As a continuation of the previous year’s war theme, Mars, the main event at Sibelius Museum on 10th–12th September deals with peace, détente, conflict resolution, peaceful coexistence between peoples and different species, as well as inner peace and well-being. In addition to peace, Venus has been linked to beauty, love, and fertility, to name a few associations, as well as the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)! ABOAGORA program will consist of interdisciplinary dialogues, keynotes, presentations, and panels, artistic performances and sessions, as well as workshops, all presenting different scientific and artistic perspectives on peace.
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Cultural Memory and Social Change TeamUp Event
29 September at 13:00–16:00
University of Turku main building, lobby, 1st floor
In English
The multidisciplinary theme Cultural Memory and Social Change organizes a TeamUp event to gather people with common research interests. You will have an excellent opportunity to network over coffee and refreshments and to hear interesting presentations related to the multidisciplinary theme. The aim of the event is to promote and enable multidisciplinary encounters and project ideas. The event is in English. Everyone interested is welcome to join!
OCTOBER
2nd Second European Biblio/Poetry Therapy Conference
2.-4.10.2025
University of Jyväskylä
Welcome to the 2nd European Biblio/Poetry Therapy Conference!
We are excited to announce that the 2nd European Biblio/Poetry Therapy Conference will take place in October at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The programme will include interesting presentations and practical workshops on various topics in the field of biblio/poetry therapy. In the course of three days, the event will bring together researchers, experts, and biblio/poetry therapy professionals, practitioners and enthusiasts to discuss and share insights on the latest developments in the field.
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Symposium: The Return of Moral Didacticism? Authority, Ethos, and Instruction
16.-18.2025
Calonia & Arcanum
In English
This symposium aims to explore how changing attitudes toward authority and authorship influence didactic aims and elements in narrative. Today, a work of literature – its ethics of representation and tone of voice – is strongly likened to its author in reception and marketing. This development in the contemporary literary field exposes the author to moral and political debate within the public sphere, taking the form of ethos negotiation. What consequences does this have for literary didacticism? How do authors construct didactic and moral authority in their rhetoric? As contemporary ethical concerns are often tied with questions of identity, representation, and story ownership, the contemporary perception of moral didacticism is connected to the increased relevance afforded to authorial ethos in the literary field.
Te symposium is co-organized by the AUTOSTORY consortium and the research centre SELMA. The keynote speaker is Professor James Phelan (Ohio State University, USA).
NOVEMBER
Käsitetyöpaja: Mikä on “crip” suomeksi?
3.11.2025
Arcanum
In Finnish
More info TBA
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Symposium: Fasismin lumo suomalaisessa kulttuurissa
27.11.2025, 12.00-19.00
Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64b, Turku
Bilingual: in English & in Finnish
More info TBA
DECEMBER
Guest lecture: Ulrika Maude
4.12.2025
Arcanum
In English
More info TBA