The schedule for the Seminar on Multiculturalism for Fall 2011 is now available. It will be updated as more detailed information becomes available!
13.9.
Introduction
20.9.
No meeting – please think about your paper topic!
27.9.
1. Aleksi Huhta: “Representation of ‘Blacks’ and the Construction of Finnish-American ‘Whiteness’, 1925-1955”
4.10.
1. Monika Liepinytė: “Multicultural communication features: Public attitudes towards foreigners. The case of Lithuania”
2. Aistė Seredžiūtė: “The free movement of workers in European Union: Impact to the EU labor market”
3. Nathan Adair: “Fear and Loathing in the American Southwest: Racism, Securitization and Discourse”
11.10.
1. Tomasz Plonski: “Migrations in Poland (years 1918-1959) and their implications on the social and ethnic structure of the country”
18.10.
1. Jouko Luhtala: “The films of Terrence Malick and multiculturalism”
2. Naoil El Hafidi: “Islam in Europe Clichés, belief and realities. The French case”
25.10.
No meeting – exam week.
1.11.
1. Julia Born: “Migration in Eastern and Western Germany, 1950-2000”
2. Ria Permana Sari: “Ethnic Minority Insecurity (Human, Gender and Environment) in Indonesia”
8.11.
Guest lecture by Research Director Elli Heikkilä, Institute of Migration: “Immigrants in the Finnish labour market”
15.11.
1. Aleksi Huhta: “Representation of ‘Blacks’ and the Construction of Finnish-American ‘Whiteness’, 1925-1955” (research paper)
22.11.
1. Aleksandra Kosiada: “Foreign migration of Poles in the years 2004-2010. Portrait of a Polish immigrant”
2. Tuulia Lönnberg: “Postpartum information for Immigrants in Finland” (research paper)
29.11.
No meeting.
6.12.
No meeting – Finnish Independence Day.
13.12.
1. Nathan Adair (research paper)
2. Tomasz Plonski (research paper)