Events

Forthcoming

Welcome to the 5th annual seminar of the Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE), on theme FOOD. The seminar is open for all.

Aika/Time: 29.11.2024 klo 10.00-15.30
Paikka/Venue: Turun yliopisto, Publicum, Sali/room Pub5 & Zoom

Aikataulu / schedule:

10.00 Seminaarin avaus / Opening of the seminar: Salla Tuomivaara

10.15 Keynote 1: Kadri Aavik: The role of institutions in transitioning to a plant-based food system: The case of the European Union school milk scheme

11.15 tauko/break

11.30 Freja Högback: State implementation of norms for (hyper)masculinity and meat eating through military service and prison

12.00 Tiina Salmia: Consumable Bodies – Eating, Sex, Gender and Species in Iiu Susiraja’s Meat Model 1 and 2 Self-Portraits

12.30 lounas

13.30 Marianna Lammi: Fish are fliends, too! How contemporary children’s literature turns absent referents into present ones

14.00 Keynote 2: Annika Lonkila: Eläintuotannon paradigmat kestävyysmurroksen esteenä?

15.00-15.30 Helinä Ääri: Munia ja suukkoja suostumuksetta/suostumuksella Anni Polvan viihderomanssissa Kumman teistä otan (1959)

If you come to Publicum, no registration is needed. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please email Helinä Ääri (hekaki[ät]utu.fi). A warm welcome to all!

After the annual seminar, we will have a little Christmas celebration at our own expense at the restaurant Delhi Darbar (Hämeenkatu 8) from 6 p.m. Registration to the party to Helinä by the 26.11. A warm welcome to all current and future people interested in TYKE-activities!

The restaurant hopes to know most of the orders in advance. If possible, please tell us what you would like to eat in your registration message. The menu can be found at https://www.delhidarbar.fi/fi/menu

The abstracts:

Annika Lonkila:
Eläintuotannon paradigmat kestävyysmurroksen esteenä?

Suomalainen eläintuotanto on monin tavoin kestämätöntä. Haasteet liittyvät tuotannon ilmastovaikutuksiin, luonnon monimuotoisuuden vähenemiseen, eläinten hyvinvointiin, eläintautien leviämiseen, vesistöjen saastumiseen, huoltovarmuuteen, maatilojen kannattavuuskriisiin ja viljelijöiden jaksamiseen. Ulkoisiin tuotantopanoksiin perustuva tuotantologiikka on mahdollistanut eläintuotteiden kulutuksen räjähdysmäisen kasvun, mikä taas on aiheuttanut ihmisille monia terveysongelmia. Vaikka eläintuotannon ongelmat on tunnistettu keskeisten toimijoiden keskuudessa jo pitkään, järjestelmää ei ole saatu siirrettyä kestävälle polulle. Esitetyt ratkaisut ovat usein pinnallisia eivätkä muuta eläintuotannon rakenteita, valtasuhteita tai niitä tukevia arvoja ja ajattelutapoja – siis suomalaisen eläintuotannon paradigmoja. Paradigmoille on leimallista niiden itsestään selvyytenä otettu luonne ja asema ”politiikan ulkopuolella” tai jopa luonnonlakina.

Tutkimushankkeessamme olemme sukeltaneet ruoka- ja maatalouspolitiikan historiaan ymmärtääksemme suomalaisen eläintuotantoa ohjaavia paradigmoja. Politiikkadokumenteista, tutkimuskirjallisuudesta ja keskeisten ruokajärjestelmän toimijoiden ja asiantuntijoiden haastatteluista koostuva aineisto ulottuu 1950-luvusta nykyaikaan. Esitämme, että suomalaista eläintuotantoa ja eläintuotteiden kulutusta ohjaa neljä paradigmaa: tehokkuuden, yksilöllisyyden, poikkeuksellisuuden ja eläinten syömisen paradigmat. Nämä paradigmat ovat luonteeltaan hitaita ja vastustuskykyisiä muutoksille, ja ne pyrkivät säilyttämään järjestelmän nykytilan. Paradigmojen tunnistaminen ja näkyväksi tekeminen on ensimmäinen askel niiden muuttamiseksi: eläintuotantoa ja esimerkiksi sen jatkuvaa kasvua eivät ohjaa luonnonlait vaan aineellis-diskursiiviset sommitelmat, joita on mahdollista muuttaa.

Kadri Aavik:
The role if institutions in transitioning to a plant-based food system:
The case of the European Union school milk scheme

In this talk, I examine—from vegan and critical animal studies perspectives—the role of institutions in transitioning to a plant-based food system as a more ethical and sustainable way of relating to non-human life and the planet. Specifically, I consider the European Union (EU) school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme as a case of institutional speciesism and resistance to moving beyond animal-based food systems. This scheme, which according to the European Commission is designed to promote sustainability and children’s health goals, allocates an annual budget of over €90 million to providing cow’s milk in the member states’ educational institutions and is linked to the EU’s major subsidies to animal-based agriculture. The scheme and the EU’s rhetoric around it ignores established evidence of the negative impact of animal-based food on the environment and human health, not to mention on non-human animals. As such, it undermines the EU’s pledge to the green transition and its legally binding commitment to the Paris Agreement.

I consider how the EU’s provision of cow’s milk in the member states education systems constitutes a case of institutional speciesism and greenwashing. I explore how it normalises the consumption of cow’s milk among schoolchildren, as part of the hidden curriculum and the practical everyday implications of this in kindergartens—especially for practicing veganism—, based on the experiences of vegan parents of preschool children in Estonia.

For veganism to spread, its institutional acceptance and support are of key importance, as institutions can enable or hinder moving towards more ethical and sustainable human-animal relations and food systems. I argue that the EU’s milk provision in the education system, while presented as universally beneficial, relying on the taken-for-granted idea of cow’s milk as a “natural” and “healthy” drink for children, is a major manifestation of institutional speciesism and advances the capitalist interests of animal farmers first and foremost. As such, it represents an institutional failure on several fronts, working against the goals of animal wellbeing, human health and climate sustainability.

Freja Högback: State implementation of norms for (hyper)masculinity and meat eating through military service and prison

In this presentation, I will talk about what some of the vegan men I interviewed for my doctoral dissertation on veganism in Finland shared with me in relation to military service and prisons in Finland. bell hooks, who has extensively written on issues of gender, race and class, writes that the men who oppose the state monopoly of violence, exercised by the police and military, probably go through great difficulties in life because of this (hooks 2004, 74). Some men that I interviewed indeed faced consequences in various forms, one of which was prison.

The military plays a considerable role in norm-making work and is an area where hegemonic masculinity is formed (Vinnari 2010, 64; Connell 1995, 100). This often happens together with a maintenance of meat norms (Holmberg 2024, 19; Kildal and Syse 2017, 74), where meat is imagined to be a masculine food (Adams 1990). An idea also exist about men in war needing meat on the front (Shprintzen 2016, 228–229). Being a male vegan can thus challenge dominant images of masculinity in the military and in prison in Finland, and can have consequences for the vegans themselves. In the presentation I examine how meat eating is institutionally created as masculine via compulsory military service in Finland through the stories of interviewees.

Adams, Carol J. 1990. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York
Connell, R. W. 1996. Maskuliniteter. Diadalos. Göteborg.
Holmberg, Arita. 2023. Bodies that challenge the military social order: unpacking institutional resistance against veganism in the military. Critical Military Studies, 1-21.
hooks, bell. 2004. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. Washington Square Press.
Kildal, Charlotte Lilleby, och Karen Lykke Syse. 2017. Meat and Masculinity in the Norwegian Armed Forces. Appetite. Vol. 112. 69-77.
Shprintzen, Adam D. 2016. “Are Vegetarians Good Fighters?”: World War I and the Rise of Meatless Patriotism. In Critical Perspectives on Veganism, edited by Jodey Castricano, and Rasmus R. Simonsen, Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Vinnari, Markus. 2010. Past, present and future of eating meat in Finland. Uniprint. Turku.

Tiina Salmia: Consumable Bodies – Eating, Sex, Gender and Species in Iiu Susiraja’s Meat Model 1 and 2 Self-Portraits

Artist Iiu Susiraja poses in her underwear with her mouth open seductively while holding packages of meat wrapped in plastic in two self-portrait photographs titled Meat model 1 and 2 (2020). Susiraja’s photographs point out the gendered politics of eating meat, ridicule hierarchical dichotomies of Western culture (such as women and non-human animals as objects compared to a male subject) and parodies consumer culture. According to posthuman ecofeminist Stacy Alaimo human corporeality is intertwined in the more-than-human world and its interactions with other bodies constantly shape it. Alaimo calls this intertwining trans-corporeality. In this presentation, I claim that Susiraja’s photographs indicate such a bodily connection with the material world that can be conceptualized as trans-corporeal, and by doing so challenge to examine questions of anthropocentrism and multispecies entanglements. Dead animal meat and living human flesh are equated with the composition, exposure, and colors of Meat Model 1 and 2 photographs, referring to objectified, consumable bodies. In this presentation, in a reading inspired by posthuman feminism and new materialism, of Susiraja’s Meat Model photographs, I will analyze eating as a gendered bodily process in which social practices are intertwined, and which opens crucial perspectives to human–animal relations. By examining the photographs, I will discuss the asymmetrical power-relations of eating, sex, gender and species.

Marianna Lammi: Fish are fliends, too! How contemporary children’s literature turns absent referents into present ones

Sausages, turkey, ham, cheese, milk, cakes, pancakes, wild boar, pizza, and hot dogs. These are some of the most relished foods depicted in children’s literature. Whilst devoured, animal-derived foods in children’s literature are what ecofeminist Carol J. Adams has famously called absent referents. The nonhuman animals, their lives, deaths and the processes of handling their body parts and byproducts are commonly not referred to. Even in the small sample of books that discuss the food’s origin, the individual animal whose body is converted to consumption is decisively removed from her flesh.

In this presentation, I discuss an issue Adams has paid less attention to: how meat and other animal products can turn into present referents. I examine this question in the context of contemporary children’s literature, mainly picturebooks.

The simplest way is to replace animal-derived foods with plant-based options. The introduction of vegetarian (most often vegan) foods has become widespread in Finnish children’s literature around the 2020s. Plant-based foods are a weak referent of the usually absent nonhuman animal. Nevertheless, they indicate that eating other animals or their bodily products is not a necessity, while at the same time, they normalize vegetarian foods.

A stronger referent can be found in ethical discussions about food, its environmental impact and its origin. Such books typically contain information about industrial animal exploitation and take place around the dinner table.

The strongest present referent is a decisively artistic device. Nonhuman animals may be present in various ways, such as talking individuals who claim their right to life or even rise from the dead, exclaiming their inherent value. In Puluboin tähtimietteellinen kirja [Pidgeonboy’s astrological book], for instance, dead fish join a demonstration against eating animals as food.

Helinä Ääri: Munia ja suukkoja suostumuksetta/suostumuksella Anni Polvan viihderomanssissa Kumman teistä otan (1959)

Viihderomanssi on tyypillisesti antroposentrinen genre: kertomukset kuvaavat ihmisiä rakastumassa toisiinsa. Niissä on silti aina tavalla tai toisella mukana myös muunlajisia eläimiä ja monilajisia suhteita, joita halusin tutkia Anni Polvan viihderomanssissa Kumman teistä otan (1959). Anni Polva on hyvin suosittu kirjailija, joka kirjoitti elämänsä aikana 59 lastenkirjaa, neljä muistelmaa, yhden lapsuutta käsittelevän romaanin aikuisille ja 39 viihderomanssia. Hänen kirjojaan on myyty noin kolme miljoonaa nidettä.

Kun aloin lukea Kumman teistä otan -romaania, oletin, että maininnat muunlajisista eläimistä olisivat pitkälti mainintoja eläinperäisistä ruoista, ja näin olikin. Yllätyin silti siitä, miten paljon kananmunia kertomuksessa on, ja hämmennyin siitä, että kananmunat mainitaan enimmäkseen osana kuvauksia väkisin suutelemisesta. Tämä esitelmä syntyi noista yllätyksistä. Esitelmässäni ihmettelen, miksi Polvan kirjassa on niin paljon ei-suostumuksellisia suudelmia kananmunamainintojen ympärillä. Onko ihmisten romanssikulttuurien ja ruokakulttuurien välillä yhteyksiä? Miten kirjallisuudentutkijan tulisi suhtautua näihin kysymyksiin?

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Past events

Save the date: 27.9.2024 Turku’s Young Animal Researchers’ Day with the theme “Method”

Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE) organizes 27.9. a day for young researchers. The theme of the day is “Method”. The day starts with Nora Schuurman’s lecture “Narrative perspectives on the study of interspecies relations”. The lecture is held in Finnish.

After the lecture, there will be a text workshop aimed at PhD researchers and master students, where participants can bring their own animal research-related texts to be discussed together in Finnish, Swedish or English.

Register for the event and send your paper by September 17. to Freja at fhogback@abo.fi or Heidi at hmmikk@utu.fi . We will add the paper to Moodle so that everybody can, according to language ability, read each other’s papers before the seminar day. You can also send questions about the event to Freja or Heidi.

The event is free and coffee and a small vegan snack are offered to seminar participants.

Warmly welcome!

Kind regards, on behalf of TYKE, Freja Högback and Heidi Mikkola

Past TYKE Coffees

Autumn is here and with it the “TYKE coffees” continue. The coffees are relaxed opportunities to meet and get to know other people working with animal related research in Turku. At each meeting, an introduction will be held by one of the researchers working with animal issues, and there will also be room for informal conversation about other matters of interest to the participants. You can ask more about the coffees from Jenna (jenna.aarnio[at]utu.fi).

Autumn coffee schedule:

12.9. Jari Kärkkäinen at 3:00 p.m. Nurmi & Sulonen’s shop-café (Yliopistonkatu 14)

12.10. Reeta Kangas at 3 p.m. Cafe Art, cabinet (Läntinen Rantakatu 5)

8.11. Otto Latva at 1 p.m. Cafe Art (Läntinen Rantakatu 5)

8.12. Freja Högback at 3 pm Book Cafe (Vanha Suurtori 3)

Annual seminar of the Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE): ”Crossing (human-made) borders and boundaries”

Welcome to the 4th annual seminar of the Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE), on theme ”Crossing (human-made) borders and boundaries”! The seminar is organised by Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE) and open for all.

Milloin / when: 14.11.2023, 9.15-16.00

Missä / where: room 268 (Black box) in Arcanum, University of Turku, and in Zoom

Mitä / what: The one-day multidisciplinary research seminar explores culturally defined borders and boundaries, whether geographical or taxonomic, which non-human animals have crossed in the past and continue to cross and challenge today. The seminar is bilingual, in English and Finnish.

Monitieteisessä seminaarissa tarkastellaan erilaisia rajoja, niin maantieteellisiä kuin taksonomisiakin, joita muunlajiset eläimet ovat ylittäneet ja ylittävät. Seminaari on kaksikielinen, suomeksi ja englanniksi.

Aikataulu / schedule:

9.15 alkusanat / opening words

9.20-10.20 keynote: Pauliina Rautio, “Monilajisen oikeudenmukaisuuden äärellä – leivänpaahdin, multaa, lihaa, tuulivoimaa, lasia ja sulkia”

10.20-10.45 tauko / break

10.45-11.15 Reeta Kangas: From the Streets of Moscow to Earth’s Orbit: A Critical Examination of a Children’s Book’s Retelling of the Journey of Two Dogs from Stray to Hero

11.15-11.45 Laura Saarenmaa: Tonneittain sikoja Kiinaan

11.45-13.00 lounastauko / lunch break

13.00-13.30 Freja Högback: Ideological discipline in high school canteens from 1990 to 2020 – if you choose to be vegan, you can go without food

13.30-14.00 Salla Tuomivaara: Usko ihmisen ja muiden eläinten ratkaisevaan samuuteen – Kantin eläinkäsityksen kritiikki Edvard Westermarckin ja Theodor W. Adornon ajattelussa

14.00-14.30 Aino Jämsä & Heli Rantala: Fauna et Flora Fennica -hanke Suomen lajistontutkimuksen rajoilla

14.30-15.00 kahvitauko / coffee break

15.00-16.00 keynote: Linda Tallberg, “Transcending boundaries through the new field of Animal Organization Studies”

Arcanumiin tulevien ei tarvitse ilmoittautua seminaariin ennakolta. Zoom-linkin saat sähköpostitse Helinä Ääreltä (hekaki[ät]utu.fi).

If you come to Arcanum, no registration is needed. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please email Helinä Ääri (hekaki[ät]utu.fi).

The keynote speakers are Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Fellow Pauliina Rautio (University of Oulu) and Assistant Professor Linda Tallberg (Hanken School of Economics).

About the keynote speakers:

Pauliina Rautio: https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/pauliina-rautio
Linda Tallberg: https://www.hanken.fi/en/person/linda-tallberg

Welcome to the annual TYKE seminar! Tervetuloa seminaariin!

Past events

2023

• Animals in the Age of Unsustainability 11.5. 12-15.
  
  Final seminar of the research project “Culture of Unsustainability. Animal Industries and the Exploitation of Animals in Finland since the Late Nineteenth Century”, organized in co-operation with Turku Human-Animal Studies Network (TYKE). Venue: Edu2, Educarium, University of Turku + Zoom (please email hekaki[at]utu.fi to get the Zoom link). All welcome!12.15-13.30 Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Industrialised Animal Exploitation
  Brief presentations of the main results of the research teamTaina Syrjämaa: Opening Words
  Taina Syrjämaa: Animal Exploitation and Human Progress
  Otto Latva: The Human Relationship with Fur Animals and Farmed Fish in Finland during the 19th and 20th Centuries
  Marja Jalava: Producing Swine as Standardized Tools of the Trade in Interwar Finland (via Zoom)
  Taija Kaarlenkaski: Finnish High Milk Consumption and the Technologization of Dairy Husbandry (via Zoom)
  Eeva Nikkilä: The Analysis of Historical Piggeries Leads to Improved Understanding of the Potential Experiences of Pigs (via Zoom)
  Janne Mäkiranta: Animal Insurance and Hazards of Farm Animals
  Helinä Ääri: Interspecies Care in Finnish Egg Farming Guidebooks
  Juha Haavisto: Destroying the Forest by Feeding the Herd? The Relation Between Domesticated Animals and Forestry in the Writings of A. K. Cajander in 1910s
  Tuomas Räsänen: Non-Animality of Fish and the Politics of Unsustainable Baltic Fisheries13.30-14.00 Break14.00-15.00 Key note lecture: prof. emerita Harriet Ritvo (MIT): Compensating for Loss: Extinction, Survival, and Resurrection

2022

Animals in times of crisis

Tuesday 25.10.2022 at 9.15–15.45

The venue is lecture hall X in Natura, University of Turku, and it’s also possible to attend via Zoom. Working language in the seminar is English.

The keynote speakers are Associate professor Erica von Essen from Stockholm University and Professor Sanna Karkulehto from University of Jyväskylä.

Programme:

9.15             Opening words: Nora Schuurman

9.20            Keynote Erica von Essen: Wildlife in the time of biosecurity crises: the case of the ‘war on boars’ in Europe

In this talk, Erica von Essen draws on a biopolitical framework to consider the sorts of societal responses that have been mobilized for wild boar across European countries. A ‘native invader’, an animal non grata, and a vector for multiple pathogens and threat to industrial food production, the wild boar now finds itself in a war. von Essen shows what this generalized emergency modality following infectious wildlife disease prevention means for human-wildlife relations. Within this, she uses the concept of veterinarization to describe the rationale and practices that increasingly infuse wildlife management to protect biosecurity.

10.20         Coffee break

10.50         Presentations

Jenna Aarnio: The moral implications of how hunting organizations depict nonhuman animals

Juha Haavisto: Crisis in Finnish concept of nature: the intellectual reasoning of protecting predatory animals

11.50           Lunch break

12.50          Presentations

Sanna Qvick: Sound world of Lapland presented in the film Aïlo – Une odyssée en Laponie: How story-based document creates relation to nature with sound

Marianna Lammi: Parrots, ponies, pork and puddings – Eating other animals in times of crisis

13.50          Coffee break

14.20          Keynote Sanna Karkulehto: Precarious Times and Animal Lives that Matter

The world is going through precarious times caused by destructive human action. In the wake of environmental crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation as well as global pandemics and even war, one of the critical points of examination is the entanglement of human and nonhuman animal lives. By far most nonhuman vertebrate animals live under direct human care and domination, whilst the rapidly diminishing populations of wild animals cannot escape the overwhelming human influence. In natural sciences the focus has been on populations, species, and ecosystems and their ability to adapt, tolerate, or escape these situations. At the same time, we are seriously lacking behind in understanding the wider implications of anthropocentrism on animals from the perspective of the humanities. We need to recognize the more-than-human character of our societies and the importance of studying more-than-human relations from this perspective to develop a new understanding of interspecies sustainability. To foster strong sustainability in society, it is necessary to include animals in research in the humanities and to understand the ways in which animal lives matter when developing methodologies of more-than-human humanities.

15.20          Discussion

15.30          Closing of the seminar

About the keynote speakers:

Erica von Essen: https://www.slu.se/en/ew-cv/erica-von-essen/

Sanna Karkulehto: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/mutku/henkilokunta/laitoksen-henkilokunta/karkulehto-sanna

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4.-6.4.2022 The Annual Conference of the Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies in Turku

2021

Tuesday 16 November: Research seminar, with Professor Jopi Nyman, University of Eastern Finland, as keynote speaker. More information in Finnish

29.9.2021 Seminar day for early stage scholars (online).

2.-3.6.2021 Online conference: Multispecies Knowledges and the Industrialization of Animal Exploitation, organised by the project UnSus (Culture of Unsustainability. Animal Industries and the Exploitation of Animals in Finland since the Late Nineteenth Century). Public keynote lectures:

• Prof. Nik Taylor (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand): “Animal Rescuers: Challenging Institutionalised Animal Violence and Abuse through Everyday Practice”
• Prof. Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): “Bloodlines and Bloodlies: Inventing Equine Breeds”

Webinar Interspecies Boundary Crossings on Thursday 22.4.2021 at 13.00.

18.2. Discussion event for scholars interested in human-animal studies via Zoom. Aimed especially at doctoral candidates and master’s students.

2020

The Annual Conference of The Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies. Keynote Speakers wed 2.12. Salla Tuomivaara: ”Ihmisen erottaminen muista eläimistä – eronteon historia ja merkitys yhteiskuntatieteissä”, wed 9.12. Nora Schuurman: “Exploring interspecies care in stories of nonhuman subjectivity”. Collaboration between The Finnish Society for Human Animal Studies and Turku Human-Animal Studies Network.

10.11. Public webinar. Guest lectures: David Redmalm (Mälardalen University): “With pets and pests beyond binaries. Notes on celebrity chihuahuas, presidential pets, and powerful pangolins”. Karin Dirke (Stockholm University): “Listening to wolves. Searching for animal agency in historical sources”.

6.10. Seminar day, where the research papers of doctoral candidates and masters’s students were discussed (online).

6.5. 10.30­–12.00: Associate professor Karen Lykke Syse (University of Oslo): “From farm slaughter to industrial slaughter in Norway 1870-2015. Environmental impacts and cultural change”. A keynote lecture of Culture of Unsustainability -project. The lecture was open to public.

20.2. 11.15-12.30 Prof. Julie-Marie Strange (Durham University, UK): “Pet Cemetery: Love, Memory and Grieving for the Animal Dead, 1880-1970”. Public keynote lecture at Histories of Death -symposium.

21.1. Lunch seminar: Andreas Backa: “Self-sufficiency and human-animal relations. Intercorporeal practices”

18.1. Public examination of doctoral dissertation: FM Heta Lähdesmäki: ”Susien paikat. Ihminen ja susi 1900-luvun Suomessa”. Cultural History, adjunct professor Jukka Nyyssönen as opponent.

2019

3.12. Lunch seminar: Taina Syrjämaa and Tuomas Räsänen, presentation of a research project ”Culture of Unsustainability. Animal Industries and the Exploitation of Animals in Finland since the Late Nineteenth Century”.

30.10. Lunch seminar, where Helinä Ääri gave a presentation on Finding broiler chicken in literature (“Broilerien etsiminen kaunokirjallisuudesta”).

1.10. Lunch seminar, where Minna Opas gave a presentation on anthropological perspectives on interspecific relations in Amazonia (“Antropologisia näkökulmia lajien välisiin suhteisiin Amazoniassa”).

22.5. Lunch seminar, where Elli Lehikoinen gave a presentation on human species in Finnish literature (“Ihmisen laji kotimaisessa nykykirjallisuudessa: materiasta, nisäkkyydestä, sukupuolesta ja politiikasta”).

5.3. A visit to animal studies course at Åbo Akademi.

2.3. Public examination of doctoral dissertation: Otto Latva, “The Giant Squid: Imagining and Encountering the Unknown from the 1760s to the 1890s”, Cultural History, as opponent prof. Sandra Swart

1.3. Guest lecture: Professor Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, Etelä-Afrikka

18.–21.2. A visit from Elisabeth Luggauer from University of Würzburg (teacher at a course “Ethnographers and Nonhuman Actors. Introduction to Multispecies Ethnography Course”)

30.1. Lunch seminar: Otto Latva and Heta Lähdesmäki gave a presentation on critical non-fiction book about animals for the youth (“Kriittinen eläintietokirja nuorille. Haasteita ja visioita”).

2018

Lunch seminars during the autumn semester

31.5. Seminar day on animal studies and establishment of the network.