Thursday’s program, September 30th
10.00-12.15 Registration and lunch (Janus, Upseerikerho, Kaivokatu 12)
12.30-13.00 Opening of the conference (Pharmacity Auditorium, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4)
• Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku.
• Auvo Kostiainen, Professor of General History, University of Turku
13.00-13.45 Plenary I (Pharmacity Auditorium, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4)
• Thomas Faist, Professor of Transnational Relations and Development Sociology, Bielefeld University. “Cultural Diversity and Social Inequalities”.
13.45-14.00 Coffee break (Upseerikerho, Kaivokatu 12)
14.00-15.00 Nordic multiculturalism; focus on Finland and Denmark (Pharmacity Auditorium, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4)
• Pasi Saukkonen, Senior Researcher, Ceren. “Multiculturalism and Nationalism: Finland in the Nordic Context”.
• Garbi Schmidt, Senior Researcher, Danish National Center for Social Research (SFI). “Social Cohesion, mythscapes and heterogeneous spaces: Examples from Nørrebro?”
15.00-15.30 Coffee break (Upseerikerho, Kaivokatu 12)
15.30-16.30 Workshops (I, II. III, IV) room E221, room E325, Virkkunen, Jantere (Kaivokatu 12)
16.30-16.45 Coffee break ( Kaivokatu 12)
16.45-18.00 Workshops continue (I, II, III, IV) room E221, room E325, Virkkunen, Jantere (Kaivokatu 12)
19.30- Dinner at Upseerikerho (Kaivokatu 12)
Friday’s program, October 1st
09.15-10.00 Plenary II (Pharmacity Auditorium, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4)
• Ewa Morawska, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex. “Multiculturalism from Below: Reflections of an Immigrant Ethnographer”.
10.00-11.00 Nordic multiculturalism; focus on Sweden and Norway
• Leena Huss, Professor, Hugo Valentin Center, University of Uppsala. “The language issue and Swedish multiculturalism”
• Fakhra Salimi, Director of MiRA Resource Center for Black, Immigrant and Refugee Women. “From sameness to diversity: the Norwegian experience of multiculturalism”
11.00-12.30 Lunch (Upseerikerho, Kaivokatu 12)
12.30-13.30 Workshops (V, VI. VII, VIII) Juva, Litzen, Virkkunen, Jantere (Kaivokatu 12)
13.30-13.45 Coffee break (Kaivokatu 12)
13.45-15.00 Workshops continue (V, VI, VII, VIII) Juva, Litzen, Virkkunen, Jantere (Kaivokatu 12)
15.00-15.30 Closing of the conference (Pharmacity Auditorium, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4)
• Peter Kivisto, Professor of Social Thought and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College, Fidipro Professor at the University of Turku