Events
Forthcoming
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/researc
Linda Tallberg: https://www.hanken.fi/en/perso
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.