TIAS Lecture Series
The Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) invites you to its lecture series. All lectures are open to the public.
Come hear experts from various fields talk about their research!
When: 18.00–19.30 (Mondays 12 January – 16 February)
Where: Studio, Main Library, Linnankatu 2
12 January
Kaisa Kortekallio: ”Kirjoittava ihminen osana ekosysteemiä"
Sivistys nostaa ihmisen luonnon yläpuolelle. Näin on väitetty. Mutta voivatko lukeminen ja kirjoittaminen myös juurruttaa ihmisen ekosysteemiin? Miten ekosysteemissä kirjoitetaan?
19 January
Marie Pier Larose: “Exploring the dandelion and orchid hypothesis in child development”
How can we understand the heterogeneity of child development? This public lecture will address how biological markers complement observational studies on child development. It will also provide examples illustrating how the impact of the family, childcare and school environment varies according to children's characteristics and influences their future. Taking a life course approach, this lecture is an opportunity to discuss what makes us similar, but also different from one another.
26 January
Kwok Ng "Connections between physical activity and digital gaming"
In this public lecture, Docent Kwok Ng will talk about how Finnish adolescents report their physical activity and digital gaming behaviours, as well as describe the connections between these two. The Turku Institute of Advanced Studies Collegium Fellow, Kwok Ng will use the latest national representative data of Finnish adolescents to shed light on individual behaviours and the connections between these behaviours of physical activity and digital gaming.
9 February
Peter Szigeti: "The Political Philosophy of Wolves: Or, the Difficulties of Creating a Sustainable System of Private Law."
Environmental protection has become a "hyper-political object" -- immense amounts of effort and debate have gone into trying to protect the environment, with very little to show for positive results. While acknowledging the importance of protecting the nature, we are also pursuing lifestyles that distance us as much as possible from nature (except carefully controlled natures). In this lecture, I will aim to interrogate our ethical stances regarding human life and the material preconditions of human life, using wolves as a mirror for our societies. Wolves live in ways that are closely analogous to human societies: territoriality, family, adoption, conflict are all concepts that can easily be applied to wolves. Wolves are both venerated and reviled in human civilization, and political philosophy has recurringly used wolves (or "beasts", more generally) as the negative example. At the same time, modern human behaviours and attitudes towards the material environment are radically different from anything that wolves, or any other animal, can or has done. Political philosophy has mostly ignored the transformative aspects of material civilization, and focused almost exclusively on relationships between humans. This lecture tries to find ways in which reconciliations are possible.
16 February
Tuomas Laine-Frigren: ”Suomalaiset maahanmuuttajalapset Ruotsissa. Tuoreita näkökulmia 1960-1970-luvun suuren muuttoliikkeen historiaan”
Dosentti Tuomas Laine-Frigren kertoo luennollaan uudesta tutkimushankkeestaan, joka käsittelee suomalaisten maahanmuuttajalasten kokemuksia 1960-1970-luvun Ruotsissa. Millaista lapsuus suomalaisessa maahanmuuttajaperheessä oli? Miten lapset sopeutuivat uusiin ympäristöihin? Miten toisen sukupolven ruotsinsiirtolaiset ovat myöhemmin lapsuuttaan muistelleet? Lasten ja nuorten kokemukset avaavat uusia näkökulmia suuren muuttoliikkeen historiaan.