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From the Director 3 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies 5 Helsinki Collegium Fellows 2020–2021 6 Erkko Professor Karen Knop 16

2021 Art Fellow Pedro Oliveira 19 HCAS Alumni: Down by the Water Webinar Series 22 HCAS Events 2020–2021 24 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER

IAS Collaborations in 2020–2021 34 Upcoming HCAS Events in 2021–2022 35

EDITORS HCAS STAFF

Editor in Chief: Director: Kaisa Kaakinen Tuomas Forsberg

HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR STUDIES ADVANCED | Contributors: Deputy Director: Irinja Bickert Hanne Appelqvist Dominika Baczyńska-Kimberley Research Coordinator: Shanna Constantinescu Kaisa Kaakinen Sofie Henriksen Tuomas Forsberg Head of Administration: Riina Koskela Mira Matikkala FRONT COVER Mari Peltonen Service Coordinator: Layout: Laura Karilainen Photo: Veikko Somerpuro Hanna Sario Financial Controller: Printing: Outi Salonen BACK COVER Unigrafia HR Specialist: Laura Haarala Photo: Kaisa Kaakinen

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THE QUALITY OF ACADEMIA DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF REVIEWING Text: Tuomas Forsberg Photo: Veikko Somerpuro

Academia as an institution depends on peer review. Peer review is an essential aspect of processes related to publication, recruitment, the distribution of funding, and conference organization. External evaluators are indispensable to the Collegium, too, especially in the selection process of our fellows. It is important to acknowledge the work of the hundreds of academic experts who have agreed to review our applications as well as the proposals submitted to our in-house book series AHEAD. The Collegium itself is also regularly assessed as a unit. We wish to express our gratitude to all of the reviewers for their input. We have been accustomed to think that academic work consists of research, teaching, and societal interaction as well as administrative duties. We recognize achievements in these areas and have ways to assess the contributions that people make. However, reviewing, although being a core mechanism of science, is seldom recognized as a separate area that demands its own kind of expertise. While solid expertise is required from an academic evaluator, the best evaluators are not always the most prominent researchers. Reviewing tasks are often only tacitly acknowledged, because a great deal of peer-reviewing is carried out anonymously. A great bulk of reviewing is done free of charge, and very few prizes are devoted to exemplary reviewers. Reviewing is also time consuming. The situation is not helped by the fact that many senior academics often decline requests for reviewing, thereby passing the buck to others, who then carry the collective burden. What makes a good evaluator? It is not that good academic evaluators are simply ‘objective’, because in the usage of the criteria and able to recognize there are no commonly shared objective standards of the application’s merits on its own terms within the evaluation. Indeed, evaluators are asked to do the job framework of the purpose and justifications that the with the understanding that their judgments have a applicant presents. Nor should a good evaluator be subjective element, which reflects their own criteria sloppy or depart too far from the conventional way of for what counts for quality, originality, or scientific assessing academic merits without proper justification. excellence. At the same time, evaluators are expected In Finland, the Committee for Public Information to make their evaluations from a broader perspective (TJNK) and the Federation of Finnish Learned than their personal point of view, to be transparent Societies (TSV) have published guidelines for Good

3 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 diverge. This is natural, too, at least in part, but does diverge. Thisisnatural, too, atleastinpart,butdoes grades and comments reviewers’ different Sometimes proposed projectandseethingsinabroadercontext. the of significance the on applicant the with disagree subjective mysidebiasinjudgement. Reviewersmay they receive. Thisisinawayunavoidablegiventhe internationally. opportunities withregardtoOApublishingvary been rapidlychangingandexpectationsaswell of evaluationmaybeproblematicaspracticeshave access totheirresearchoutputsasanewcriterion For example,researchers’activityinpromotingopen process maystillcreateconfusionandambiguity. researcher’s careerintoconsiderationintheevaluation sound, integratingmultipleanddiverse aspectsofthe merit. Itsurelyshould.However, asfairitmay evaluation workshouldbebetterrecognisedasa guidelines alsorecommendthatexperienceinexpert The significance. particular of are metrics research the recommendationsforresponsibleuseof Practice inResearcherEvaluation. Intheseguidelines, Evaluatees are often dissatisfied with the reviews reviews the with dissatisfied often are Evaluatees 4 critical reflection and expertise. expertise. and reflection critical principles ofacademiaasanorganizationthatrestson Most importantly, itwouldcontradictthebasic effective. less and just less be likely most would reviews Yet, asystemthatdoesnotrelyonindependentexpert Some mistakesormarginsoferrorareunavoidable. problem ofcomparingapplesandorangesisapparent. Particularly inaninterdisciplinarycontext, the that theopinionofexpertsishonoured. an expertorganization, thedefaultpositionoughttobe follow theevaluators’recommendations. However, in blindly not do decisions final the if unfairness of sign and potentialbiases.Therefore,itisnotnecessarilya responsible forassessingthereviewstheirquality face value. Theemployer, grantgiveroreditoris reviews intoonecompromisedassessment. different the combining artificially of instead reviews it isbetterthatsuchadiscrepancyvisibleinthe not yetrendertheprocessarbitrary.Moreover,often No reviewer and no review system is perfect. No reviewerandnoreviewsystemisperfect. Academic evaluationsshouldnotbetakenat INTRODUCING THE COLLEGIUM

HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies was established in 2001 as an independent institute of the University of Helsinki. In the spirit of the concept of an institute of advanced study, HCAS facilitates innovative, curiosity-driven research and multidisciplinary interaction between different fields of research. HCAS provides its fellows excellent conditions to pursue their research in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will celebrate its twentieth anniver- sary during the academic year 2021-2022. A preview of upcoming events can be found on page 35. Director Tuomas Forsberg speaking to fellows in the HCAS Common Room during orientation week. (Photo: HCAS)

HCAS fellows on a winter walk on the Seurasaari and Pukkisaari islands in Helsinki. (Photo: Kaisa Kaakinen)

5 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 HCAS FELLOWS Kone Foundation promotes dialogue between art and Kone Foundationpromotesdialoguebetweenartand Postdoctoral Fellowshipin theArts Sweden. in a university with affiliation an have who scholars for fellowship a offers Foundation Kone scholar. senior established to researcher postdoctoral junior from stages, career different represent Fellows Core on sciences. topics human related tofocusing the fields other in researchers to law, and and theology sciences, educational sciences, social humanities, the in open to researchers call annual on an based is process. application international and acompetitive through fellows selects Studies for Advanced Collegium The Helsinki The funded by the Erik AllardtFellowship fundedbythe The HCAS Core Fellowship Core HCAS The of include ­publications Her geographies. recent world-literary World’‘Second current within former the at reconstructing aims project This literature. 1990s European post- in on utopian imaginary focuses and sciences social and ­theories world-literary emerging with combines narratology research ­current Her Giessen. Liebig University Justus aPhD from has Bekhta Natalya of Europe on the Semi-Periphery Literary Tropes Communities: Irrealist Imaginary Alternative and the Collective porary Fiction porary investigates how new forms of political subjectivity are constructed online. constructed are subjectivity how of political new forms investigates project the Finland, and Estonia sensibility. from Using examples political of forms by new, replaced been has more individualized participation conventional political that is explanation alternative an politics, from generation. alienated being young as Though people seen have been younger of the participation on political focuses Collegium atproject the (2015-2019). committee executive Association Sociological European Her amember as of the served of recently Youth, has Sociology and ISA, of the committee research international of the she vice-president is University. at Tallinn of Sociology Currently, Professor is Allaste Airi-Alina Media Social via Youth Participation Political KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (SPRING 2021) AIRI-ALINA ALLASTE AAY EHA BEKHTA NATALYA funded by the funded bythe

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DAVID COLLINS | CORE FELLOW Disenchanting Albert: Magic in the Service of Disenchantment

David Collins is Associate Professor of Medieval Intellectual and Cultural History at Georgetown University. He has higher degrees in history, philosophy, and theology, and a PhD in history from Northwestern University. He has published extensively on Renaissance humanism, medieval magic, religion, and science; he recently completed The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic (Penn State Press, 2019). His research focuses on medieval philosopher Albertus Magnus, and how his life serves as a lens through which it is possible to address the larger challenge of Western thoughts on disenchantment, especially as it bears on the two fields in which Albert’s study of magic proved most controversial, science and theology.

CHRISTINE DAIGLE | CORE FELLOW Rethinking the Human: Posthuman Vulnerability and Its Ethics Potential

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Post­ humanism Research Institute at Brock University. In addition to her work in posthumanism, material feminism, and the environmental posthuma- nities, she has published extensively on the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Her current research at the Collegium explores the concept of posthuman vulnerability and its ethical potential as seen from a posthumanist material feminist point of view.

DMITRY DUBROVSKY KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (FALL 2020) History on Trial: Russian Memorial Laws and Counter-extremism Litigation

Dmitry Dubrovskiy is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science at HSE University, Moscow and Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg. Dmitry received his PhD in 2007 and has since worked as a Research Fellow in the Russian Museum of Ethnography and European University at St. Petersburg, Ethnic Studies Program. Additionally, he has also worked as a Galina Starovoitova Fellow (2007-2008), a Kone Fellow (2010), a Reagan-Fascell Fellow (2015), and a Scholars Rescue Fund Fellow (2015-2017). He has also worked as a lecturer on human rights at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. His current research focuses on Russian memorial laws and counter-extremism litigation. By contrasting European Law and the Russian approach to the “Glorification of Nazism,” the project examines legal tools that restrict freedom of history in Russia.

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KIRSTI JÕESALU KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (FALL 2020) Remembering and Staging Communism at (East) European Museums: The Case of Estonian History and Cultural Museums in Comparative Approach

Kirsti Jõesalu is an ethnologist working as a researcher at the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu. In her previous studies, she has looked at the intersections of public and private remembering. She has published in such international journals as Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Baltic Studies, and Oral History. Her current research deals with the role of museums in contemporary Baltic societies in dealing with the multiplicity of competing perceptions of the 20th century past (and especially the communist past) in changing political and socio-economic contexts. In her new project (led by former Kone-fellow Ene Kõresaar), “Practices and Challenges of Mnemonic Pluralism in Baltic History Museums,” she investigates together with her co-researchers the roles, responsibilities and practices of history museums in creating pluralist and reflexive spaces for memory work.

MAIJASTINA KAHLOS, CORE FELLOW

Waiting for Barbarians, Recognizing Immigrants, Making Romans: Roman Ambiguities and the Uses of Barbarians in the Political, Social and Religious Struggles in Late Antiquity (300-600)

Maijastina Kahlos is a historian and a classicist, as well as Docent in Latin and Roman Literature at the University of Helsinki. Most recently, she has published a book, Religious Dissent in the Late Roman Empire in 350- 450 (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her project at the Collegium explores the uses of immigrant and alien groups in internal political, social and religious struggles in Roman Late Antiquity. More specifically, the project examines the mechanisms by which the Romans dealt with immigrants and aliens, both at the conceptual and rhetorical levels of knowledge ordering, ethnicization and religious othering, as well as at the socio-political level.

TUUKKA KAIDESOJA, CORE FELLOW

Cognitive Sociology: What, Why and How?

Tuukka Kaidesoja is a member of the TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Helsinki, and a Docent in Sociology at the University of Turku. Additionally, he is the principal investigator of a research project on the cognitive social sciences that is funded by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. His main research areas have been in sociological theory, mechanism-based explanations in the social sciences, critical realism in the social sciences, and science policy. His project at the Collegium explores the intersection between sociology and the cognitive sciences with a specific aim, among other things, to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing the interdisciplinary integration between the cognitive and social sciences.

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XIN LIU, CORE FELLOW Ecological Assetization: New Configurations of Economy and Ecology

Liu Xin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Her research has been published in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies, Parallax, Media Theory and Journal of Environmental Media. Her interests include science and technology studies, economic sociology, and feminist theory. Her project at the Collegium investigates one of the most challenging issues facing humanity today: how to simultaneously cultivate ecological and economic sustainability.

RYAN MULLINS, CORE FELLOW From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker

Ryan Mullins has a PhD in Theology from the University of St Andrews, and he currently works in philosophical theology. His primary interests are philosophy of time and philosophy of religion, and his previous publications include God and Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and The End of the Timeless God (Oxford University Press, 2016). He also has his own podcast “The Reluctant Theologian.” His research at the Collegium focuses on the following questions: What is time? In what sense is God responsible for the existence of time? What kind of structure might God give to a time series? What are the implications for religious doctrines of creation, providence, and life after death?

PEDRO OLIVEIRA KONE FOUNDATION POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN THE ARTS On Temporalities of (Colonial) Sonic Biometrics

Dr. Pedro Oliveira is a researcher and sound artist whose work focuses on a material inquiry of sound, using both artistic and academic methods to explore and interrogate the articulations of listening, coloniality, and violence in the policing of urban and border spaces. His project at the Collegium concerns the development and deployment of so-called “automated accent recognition” technologies in the migration and border industry of Germany.

11 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 Tuomas Pernu is University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy and in of Science Tuomas Lecturer Pernu University is in aPhysical World Will and Free Agency PERNU, TUOMAS Communication Patterns of Traditional Communities Communities Traditional of Patterns Communication Interethnic in North Reconstructing Asia: Areas Multilingual KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (SPRING 2021) MARIA PUPYNINA Poland. in nationalism and racism to untangle geography sociology, such as history, social and disciplines with studies communication cross-fertilizes Collegium at project the postdoctoral 2018. Moral Education,” in as of Helsinki University at Her the Trade Communication “Ethical titled dissertation, defended her doctoral world. She globalized increasingly an face that challenges not, ethical or play addressing, in other, role it can the that in she interested is context(s) its to dissect on the and, one sheobject: on the tries hand, multisided a as communication mediated approaches she research, her In researcher. communication and media a is Połyńczuk-Alenius Kinga Poland in Mediations Everyday Others: without Racism KINGA PO will. free and symmetries physical of relationship fundamental the analyzes and explanation physical in indeterminism and roles of determinism the explores Collegium the at project His biology, physics, sciences, particular. in medicine, and philosophy natural of and philosophy of the in mind expertise research 2013. philosophy) in He(theoretical has of Helsinki University at the Philosophy of Department the and physiology) and (neuroscience of Biosciences Department the represents jointly which of mind philosophy naturalistic in explanation He completed PhD on causal his King’s London. College and Fellow of Helsinki University at the Research a and (UEF), Finland of Eastern University at the Ethics Research Lower Amur areas. Amur Lower and Peninsula Chukchi the such as Asia, of North regions multicultural comparable other to the diachronically area present the day,the making to 19th of century middle the the from communities Kolyma Lower the of to She compile over plans apicture time. indigenous communities between interaction ethnic and linguistic the to illustrate region Kolyma Lower of the study case the concerns Her collegium at project the Yakutia. and Kamchatka of Chukotka, districts to various expeditions multiple she and undertook language, PhD Chukchi topic the was Petersburg. St. Her studies, for Linguistic Institute the and University at Pedagogical Herzen State completed She has studies RAS. studies for Linguistic fellow Institute at the aresearch is Pupynina Maria 12 Ł Y Ń CZUK-ALENIUS, CZUK-ALENIUS, CORE FELLOW

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THOMAS-ANDREAS PÕDER KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (SPRING 2021) The Dynamics and Varieties of Religion in the Semiosphere

Thomas-Andreas Põder is Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Theology of the EELC, Tallinn, and Lecturer of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Tartu. He has authored two monographs: The Culture of Faith in Lutheran Perspective: Historical and Constructive Explorations in Theological Thought (Tallinn: EELK UI, 2018) and Solidaristic ­Tolerance: Theology of the Cross and Social Ethics in the Work of Alexander von Oettingen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016). Most recently he has co-edited Sign, Method, and the Sacred – New Directions in ­Semiotic Metho­dologies for the Study of Religion (DeGruyter, to be published in 2021). His project at the Collegium seeks to contribute with a novel theo­ semiotic methodology to a better understanding of religion as a lived reality and a dynamic factor that affects societies and communal life in Europe.

LIIA REBANE KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (FALL 2020) 16th Century Bookbindings of the National Library of Finland

Liia Rebane has studied library science as well as book and art history in the Universities of Tallinn and Helsinki. She received her PhD from Helsinki University in 2018. Her research is connected to material cultural heritage focusing on 16th century bookbindings and gives an overview of the movements and production of 16th century Northern-European binders. In addition to being active in the museum sphere, establishing the museum of technology at Tallinn University of Technology and belonging to the council of the University, she has also been a long-standing member of the exhibition commission in the Estonian Cultural Ministry. Liia Rebane has also given lectures of the history of bindings at the Estonian Academy of Arts for many years. Her interests include material cultural heritage, micro history, and iconography. Currently, her research focuses on the collection of foreign literature of the sixteenth century in the National Library of Finland.

MAGNUS RYNER, CORE FELLOW Lost Decades: Germany, the United States and the Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations after Bretton Woods

Magnus Ryner is Professor of International Political Economy and former head of the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London. He has published extensively on the problem of welfare capitalism in the era of global neoliberalism, as well as on the so-called ‘Nordic Model’, the German social market, and European integration. By drawing on post-Keynesian and regulation-theoretical traditions, his current project seeks to explain why globalization and European integration are associated with socio-economic stagnation in Europe and the US. More specifically, it addresses the problem of American and German hegemony after the 1971 collapse of Bretton Woods.

13 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 Other Nordic Countries Other and in Finland Decline Fertility Factors Driving Psychosocial behavioral significance of attentional fluctuations. attentional of significance behavioral the as well as basis cognitive and neural the approaches, her examines project statistical various and eye-tracking EEG, MEG, such as ofrange methods, awide using By wandering. to self-generated mind environment such as states when external attention the about episodes decouples us the from inform can fluctuations attentional how and flexibility cognitive in interested especially She is attention tasks. various during dynamics brain and performance psychology. concerns aPhD in has and Her psychology research cognitive and neuroscience cognitive in professional aresearch Simola is Jaana in Attention of Fluctuations Wanders: Attention Basis When Neurocognitive SIMOLA, JAANA conditions. socio-economic local gender,and class, period, time to according differed 1945 rules how 2000, emotional and and the between to couples Britain in given advice marriage the influenced media the and profession, medical the 1900-1939 and in Britain, Sphere 1907-1962the Private HerUniversities. publications include recent Sheffield and Edinburgh Cambridge, between project collaborative a of part as abuse sexual of child history on the research undertaken also (Tampere, 2016-2018). Research Social for Advanced SheInstitute has 2013-2014) (Edinburgh, the and Humanities the in Studies Advanced for Institute at fellowships, the postdoctoral held since two has and 2013 in completed her of PhD Edinburgh University at Settle the Louise LifeMarried in Britain, 1945-2000 of Cultures Emotional Changing Emotions: Unruly SETTLE, LOUISE preferences. fertility in by changes anticipated are trends fertility actual the whether investigates she demographic and perspectives, psychological intentions and from desires, ideals, role the of fertility examining By Nordic the countries. in decline depression (2020). fertility recent on the focuses Collegium at the Her research (2018-2019), reporting symptom in factors heterogeneity the of as well as 2017. in of Helsinki University psychosocial investigated she then, has Since the her from Psychology PhD She in received health. mental and public health, psychology, psychology, health of family areas the in works She also research. on fertility focusing currently psychologist aresearch is Savelieva Kateryna KATERYNA SAVELIEVA,

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GUSTAVS STRENGA KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (FALL 2020) How to Speak with Russians? A Language of Diplomatic Gift-exchange between Livonians, Hanseatics and Muscovites during the Late 15th and 16th Centuries

Gustavs Strenga is a senior researcher at the National Library of Latvia, where he has also curated exhibitions. He has a master’s degree from the Central European University (2006), and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London (2014). Additionally, he has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Tallinn University (2018-2020). Some of his main research interests are the history of medieval Livonia and memory studies. His current project explores the role that diplomatic gifts played in the relationship between Livonians and Russians during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

MARGIT SUTROP KONE FOUNDATION FELLOW (2020) Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Analysis

Margit Sutrop is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu and founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD in Philosophy in 1997 from the University of Konstanz. Since 2004, she has worked as an ethics expert for the European Commission and European Research Council, been a member of the Section Committee of Academia Europaea, and the international advisory boards of the University of Konstanz and the Ethics Centre of the University of Tübingen. From 2013-2019 she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Tartu. She has authored and edited numerous books and articles, as well as been the recipient of many research grants. Currently, her research focuses on how ethics and trust can be incorporated into AI. In 2021, Margit Sutrop started working in the Parliament of Estonia, appointed as a member of the Cultural Affairs Committee as well as of the European Union Affairs Committee.

FRANS SVENSSON, ERIK ALLARDT FELLOW Descartes’ Ethical Perfectionism

After obtaining his PhD in Philosophy from Uppsala University in 2006, Frans Svensson has held various positions at the Universities of Witwatersrand, Arizona, Stockholm, and Umeå. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg, and his interests include ethics, the history of philosophy, and moral psychology. His research at the Collegium focuses on Descartes’ ethics, and how it constitutes a unique kind of ethical perfectionism.

15 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 commit informally and participate in transnational commit informallyandparticipate intransnational agreement underinternational law, buttheycould city leaderspledgedtoabide bytheagreement. change, anumberofUSstate,Indigenous, countyand would withdrawfromtheParisAgreementonclimate President TrumpannouncedthattheUnitedStates backlash involvessub-divisionsofthestate.When must alsohaveasayforcertainkindsoftreaties. to theexecutiveonlyandhaveheldthatlegislature traditional viewthatthedecisiontowithdrawbelongs Kingdom, forinstance, courtshaverejectedthe of thelegislatureaswell.” leader canmakealonebutshouldrequiretheapproval argue thatatreatyexitisnotdecisionpopulist international treaties. that haveabandoned, unsignedorwithdrawnfrom best-known exampleofthebacklashismanystates phenomenon the“riseofforeignrelationslaw”. The and unmadeinanumberofcountries. Shecallsthis has alreadychangedhowinternationallawismade it turnsoutthatresistancetothepopulistbacklash it morelaw representative.” to and democratic make how and to international change backlash of the causes underlying the identifying with concerned are others law, of international while resilience the and backlash to the on resistance focus lawyers international law,” international against “Some states. Knop backlash about populist “A the written been lot has INTERNATIONAL LAW POPULIST BACKLASH AGAINST has become atopic of increasing interest. international treaties. An unknown field of law in most countries, foreign relations law she researches international law, foreign relations law and populism as athreat to Law at the University of Toronto. At the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor (2020-2021) Karen is Knop Professor of Text: Mari Peltonen, Photo: Veikko Somerpuro RELATIONS LAW THE ANSWER TO POPULISM? ERKKO KNOP: PROFESSOR KAREN “They could not be formal parties to the “They couldnotbeformalparties tothe populist the to resistance of example different A According toKnop, inSouthAfricaand theUnited “One strategyforresistingthebacklashhasbeento Karen Knopshowsthatifwelookatnationallaw,

16 in formssuchasreferenda.” populist movementsmakeclaims fordirectdemocracy leaders,” Knop claims.“Itisalsoanareawhere is notonlyabouttheexecutive powersofpopulist held atpoints). second Brexitreferendum(whichcameclosetobeing with theslogan, ‘We wantapeople’s vote’, meaninga the EuropeanUnion. Otherprotesters carriedsigns maintained thatthepeoplehadalreadyvotedtoleave defending democracy’, whilepopulist protesters negotiations heldsignssaying, ‘Thisis about Minister suspendingParliamentduringtheBrexit persuade populists–onthecontrary.” the involvementofcourtsandlegislatureswillnot can claimtohavedemocracyontheirside, and escape treatyobligations. to efforts led even or joined recently have Republic one. uneasy an is foreign relations in legislatures and role of courts increasing law the and international between alliance this shows that she also But or to compensate for withdrawal. that withdrawing from state to stop their to laws try national have used exit opponents gives, of treaty Knop examples the In TREATIES NATIONAL LAWS AGAINST FOR AND TOOLS AS agreement withtheCanadianprovinceofQuebec.” against Californiaforengaginginanenvironmental administration broughtanunprecedentedlawsuit says. “Tocounterthistypeofresistance, theTrump networks withsub-divisionsofotherstates,” Knop “In other words, populism in foreign relations law “In otherwords,populisminforeignrelationslaw Street protesterswhowereagainstthePrime “And theBrexitexampleshowsthatbothsides Courts inVenezuela, ColombiaandtheDominican IS FOREIGN FOREIGN IS

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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CURRENT ALLIANCE international law, and even go so far as to argue BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND FOREIGN that this should be true of treaty exit more generally RELATIONS LAW when it is clear that a state’s decision to withdraw has violated a fundamentally important rule of its own law. A closer look at the current alliance between “We need a critical historical understanding of this international law and foreign relations law shows that kind of relationship between the international and whether or not this alliance is successful in resisting the domestic,” says Knop. “Recovering this history is the populist backlash, it may have risks for the status likely to give us a very different picture of the state in quo of international law in the longer run. international law: one that may reveal the negative Although international lawyers do not usually pay impact of nationalism and imperialism in new ways, attention to the foreign relations law of individual but also open up positive possibilities for pluralism states, Article 50 in the EU Treaty refers to this law: that would have implications for Indigenous peoples it specifies that any member state can decide to and their law, among others.” withdraw from the Union “in accordance with its own Together with Professor Martti Koskenniemi, constitutional requirements”. Karen Knop is holding an informal workshop on this According to Knop, some scholars argue that subject at HCAS this June involving colleagues from failing to secure Parliamentary approval for the a number of countries. (For a short description of the UK’s withdrawal would have made it ineffective in workshop, see page 33.)

17 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 studies as well as being “intradisciplinary”: she is studies aswellbeing“intradisciplinary”: sheis dissertations eachtime. highly impressedbytheoriginalityandrigourof the UniversityofHelsinkiseveraltimesandhasbeen summer.” Helsinki –andIamexcitedtoteachthereagainthis School onInternationalLawattheUniversityof in mycareer,ItaughtattheInternationalSummer in theworld,” Knopstateswithappreciation. “Early the mostcutting-edgegroupsofinternationallawyers to cometheUniversityofHelsinki,whichhasone divide. rural urban/ the recently most difference, of forms other of gender, and inequalities culture with concerned is concepts law.domestic on these Her perspective and international between relationship the and nationality self-determination, sovereignty, including law, international public in concepts foundational for Research. of TorontoUniversity Dean Associate and Journal Law of Toronto, of Editor the as served where she has Knop Karen WHY HELSINKI AND HCAS? HCAS? AND HELSINKI WHY Knop has also served as a doctoral examiner at Knop hasalsoservedasadoctoralexaminerat “Any internationallawyerwouldjumpatthechance Knop’s own work draws on history and gender Knop’s ownworkdrawsonhistoryandgender Her scholarship tackles some of the most some most of the Her tackles scholarship is Professor of Law at the University University at of Law the Professor is 18 from the American Society of International Law, from theAmericanSocietyofInternationalLaw, Merit of Certificate a received which Press), University Determination inInternationalLaw complexity ofthestate. foreign relationslaw,whichinvolvesthepublic-law introduces privaterelationsintointernationallaw, and to havelosttouch: privateinternationallaw, which tends law international public which with law of fields international lawbyexaminingthemcriticallythrough approaches tofundamentalissuesofdiversityinpublic the others. offer to has perspective field’s each what and problem a up divide law of fields different how in interested three countries. in published journals five of boards editorial the on of InternationalLaw in2020. ProfessorKnopserves others. ShedeliveredacourseattheHagueAcademy Law Review European JournalofInternationalLaw University Press). Herarticleshave appearedinthe and, aseditor, Her booksinclude Professor Knop’slatestworkdevelopsalternative and Gender andHumanRights

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MEET PEDRO OLIVEIRA – THE NEW ART FELLOW Text: Sofie Malm Henriksen & Riina Koskela Photo: Sofie Malm Henriksen & Riina Koskela Riina & Henriksen Malm Sofie Photo:

The Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts offered by the MACHINE “LISTENING” Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and funded by Kone Foundation provides an excellent opportunity Pedro Oliveira’s current research, On Temporalities to combine academic work and artistic practice. The of (Colonial) Sonic Biometrics, focuses on the Fellowship is aimed at scholars with a doctoral degree development and deployment of automated accent and experience in artistic work, and its purpose is to recognition technologies in the migration and border develop cooperation and dialogue between art and industry of Germany. scholarship. For the year 2021, the Art Fellow hosted In the project, he is investigating onto-epistemolo- by HCAS is researcher, sound artist and educator Dr. gical questions, such as what it means when a ­machine Pedro Oliveira. listens; what kind of body does it produce; who is Being both a researcher and an artist allows ­allowed to be perceived as a body, both legally and Oliveira to discover connections that would otherwise discursively, and finally; how does machine listening be difficult to find within a purely academic setting. differ from when a human listens? With artistic methods, Oliveira says, it is possible to Situating these questions within a theoretical create even “speculative connections” which is one way framework of sound studies and decolonial thinking he approaches his current research at the Collegium. allows Oliveira to investigate the limits of the detectability of a voice, and how accent automation software is weaponized in the migration and border industry to control the movement of racialized, gendered and sexed bodies.

19 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 Binner) Katrin (Photo: 2020. November Frankfurt, atBASIS Installed 2019. Echoes." of Detectability "The epistemic device.” an as colonialism continuation of the and to coloniality, to colonialism awhole, as bordering especially techniques, these all relates “that connection adiscursive it is argues, Rather, he nature. their in colonial are biometrics not border is and control 1:1, sonic but these that migration German the and coloniality between connection historical the that acknowledges Oliveira elsewhere, ifthis thing ishappening Hereaswell?” doing research aboutThere. Butwhy amIlooking researcher andIamprivilegedenough tobeinEurope to There. So, then Istartedthinking, IamaBrazilian ty continuesThere. Which istrue.Butitnotexclusive “Because Brazilisaformercolony, therefore coloniali something thathappened continuation ofcolonialismandracializedviolence as comments onhisworkwhichwouldframecoloniality, in Brazil.Oliveira explainshowhealwaysgot of colonialityandlisteningrelatedtopoliceviolence forums. Thedissertationinvestigatedthecontinuity presenting hisPhDdissertationinvariousacademic borders ofGermanywassparkedwhenhe His interest in looking at coloniality within the His interestinlookingatcolonialitywithinthe There:

- 20 which isanoverallthemeforasylumseeker: temporal perspectivethroughtheaspectofwaiting, the momentwhenasylumseekerperformstest. finally; and interpretation, and calibration adjustment, collection ofthedatabase; trainingofthesoftwareby software, whichisitselfdividedintothreemoments: temporality. spatial speculative first the is recordings forced of context This war. of of voices prisoners the to record former Prussia, Germany, in camps among prisoner travelled Doegen To Doegen. of accents, Wilhelm acatalogue create of auspices phonetician under the century 20th early the in Commission Phonographic Prussian the and today, Germany in of accents collection the between connection spatial and atemporal is there First, many-fold. it is that explains Oliveira Pedro project, of the about perspective temporal the asked When PEOPLE OF PROCESSING THE which these twominutesdecideupontheir lives.” minutes, sothere isaconstraintontheir time, in to the roomtobetested, they have tospeak fortwo before their casesareprocessed,andwhen they come “Asylum seekersareusuallywaitingforalongtime The testing however stretches into the third The testinghoweverstretchesintothethird The secondtemporalityisconnectedtotheaccent

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Subsequently, the recorded voice is cut into snippets of By experimenting with deconstructing, 10 milliseconds. All of these temporalities have strong reconstructing and performing voices in different connections to the immigration and asylum industry, ways, as with the Greek woman singing in Portuguese, which seek to reduce the processing time of people. Oliveira points to a place where social bodies can Ultimately, Oliveira says, the industry is operating in challenge this rigid and dehumanizing system and thus microtime to make macro decisions. maintain or reclaim opacity.

“THERE IS A POINT AT WHICH METHODS A YEAR AT THE COLLEGIUM DEVOUR THEMSELVES” Having explored these themes artistically in recent Pedro Oliveira too works with processing voices, albeit years, Pedro Oliveira sees his year at the Collegium through artistic means. In his earlier work, “There is a as a great opportunity to focus on the academic side point at which methods devour themselves”, a Greek of the work, as well as to look back and to derive singer who does not speak Portuguese is performing a theory from his previous works. Finally, referring to Brazilian song learned by heart. In that work, Oliveira the multidisciplinarity of the Collegium, Oliveira says illuminates the very point where the methods of accent that the research of other current HCAS fellows is software devour themselves: the narrow and binary fascinating and mostly out of his scope, and that this categories dehumanize and violate bodies that do not exchange contributes to his own knowledge and sense fit into clear-cut categories of accent equals geography. of the world. In this way, the inherently dehumanizing aspect of the To explore more of Pedro Oliveira’s artistic work, software technology is also what makes it faulty. visit https://oliveira.work.

21 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 a first step in a fruitful collaboration. collaboration. fruitful a in step first a Philippines andMexicointouch, inwhattheyhopeis as, forinstance,theeventhas putscholarsfromthe acted asabridgeintheworld ofmaritimearchaeology, happy toobservethattheseriesrunfromHelsinkihas London,” saysWalkerVadillo. prestigious butbecausetheyaresowelllocatedcloseto like OxfordorCambridge,notonlybecausetheyare archaeology. Peopleusuallywanttopresent atplaces and transformHelsinkiintoakindofhubmaritime Spain andtheAmericas. Spanish-speaking communityofarchaeologistsin Helsinki toAsianscholarlynetworksandthelarge instance, theorganizershavebeenabletoconnect For contexts. geographic different from communities disciplines,” EmiliaMataixFerr different into tap can archaeology maritime doing us broadenthescholarlydiscussions, aspeople Vadillo explains. “Yes, andthisapproachreallyhelps understand maritimecommunities,”Veronica Walker who arenotarchaeologiststoexplainhowthey speakers invite also we and areas, different in means about thewholeconceptof‘maritimity’, whatit is series Our regions. specific or topics nautical or too.me archaeology, out it to reaches disciplines, other on mariti is puts series it). of the focus nity the While commu- research maritime of the hashtag the as days, (#MaritimeMon Mondays on sessions biweekly has September 2020, in series webinar Inaugurated the Common Room of the Helsinki Collegium afew years back. Maritime Archaeology archaeology at to the launch UH, awebinar series and archaeology at the University of Helsinki, and Kristin Ilves, assistant professor of maritime She sought help from Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, alumna and researcher HCAS of Roman law of Helsinki, realized that the unexpected situation required new forms of academic exchange. Advanced Studies alumna Veronica Walker Vadillo, amaritime archaeologist at the University When the global pandemic stopped all conference travel last spring, Helsinki Collegium for Kaakinen Kaisa By ARCHAEOLOGY MARITIME ON SERIES WEBINAR ALUMNI– HCAS HOST AN INNOVATIVE GLOBAL DOWN BY THE WATER, ACROSS THE TIME ZONES Walker Vadillo and Mataix Ferrándiz have been Walker Vadillo andMataixFerrándiz havebeen “We decidedtotakeadvantageofthis pandemic Furthermore, theseriesbringstogetherscholarly “Similar webinarsareoftenfocusedonunderwater . This conversation that now scholars connects across continents began in the á ndiz adds. - - 22 Down by the Water –Global Conversations in research endeavors. research endeavors. future their for contacts find to and elsewhere happening researchers andstudentstogetaglimpseofwhatis attending fromFinland. TheeventsallowHelsinki-based impact, asthereisalwaysagoodnumberofpeople great resourceforteaching. Theprojectalsohaslocal over 1,000 views, andthevideoarchivealsopresentsa Some recordingsoftheevents havealreadyreached a mixofpeoplefromvarious locationsandcareerstages. many parallelstowhathappenedintheRomanEmpire.” find and Ocean Indian the studying am I now Right can sometimesbeusedtounderstandotherempires. research, “saysMataixFerrándiz. “Methodsthatweuse of fields own their in isolated quite often are Empire scholars doingclassicsandresearchingtheRoman Ferrándiz, who specializes in Roman law connected to Ferrándiz, whospecializesinRomanlawconnectedto landscape ofAngkorattheMekong river, andMataix Vadillo, whowasresearchingtheriverine cultural on Siberianrivers aslanguagecontactareas.Walker presented attheCollegium’sweeklyseminarherresearch a presentationbylinguist Collegium. at the exchanges interdisciplinary the from had it form notnot grown have current its would likely most series the say that Both Studies. for Advanced Collegium Helsinki at fellows were the earlier, when Ferrándiz Walkeryears Vadillo Mataix and two born was series concept of the The interdisciplinary HOW IT COLLEGIUM AT ALL BEGAN HELSINKI THE The events tend to draw about 50 online participants, The events tendtodrawabout50onlineparticipants, as key, is exchange this field own my for “Also An important spark for the project came from An importantsparkfortheprojectcamefrom Olesya Khanina , who , who HCAS ALUMNI

maritime commerce, understood that they could learn a lot from the way linguists approach riverine cultures. The seminar and lunch conversations grew into a symposium project, in which fellows working on archaeology, law, linguistics and anthropology set out to understand better the human– environment interactions in maritime and fluvial spaces. In addition to Walker Vadillo, Khanina and Mataix Ferrándiz, the symposium team included archaeologist Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä, a specialist in material culture and archaeological science. The resulting symposium Down by the Water: Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Role of Water This photo, adorning the website of the Down by the Water Transit Points in Past Societies took webinar series, appears in A History of the Philippines (1905) place in November 2019 at the Collegium. by David P. Barrows. www.gutenberg.org/files/38269/38269- h/38269-h.htm#pb201 “During the symposium, we were constantly talking about how all this was so rare, so out of our comfort zone. It became something wonderfully strange. That is what we want to continue, although the new series temporal landscapes in the ports are dependent on is more focused on archaeology and anthropology. We a specific rhythm of different activities. In order to also aim to bring in people who are not from these explain how the activities come together as the life of a areas,” Walker Vadillo and Mataix Ferrándiz explain. port city, Junco draws on music and musicology. “I am very excited about the chance to have such FROM SEMINAR TO PODCAST speakers and conversations and to give the audience the opportunity to ask questions, it really enhances The organizers of the 2019 symposium are currently what we can contribute to the field in terms of theory,” editing a book that will be published in the series Walker Vadillo says. Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater In addition to welcoming new audiences, the Archaeology by BAR Publishing. organizers are open to proposals for presentations. If As for the webinar series, the organizers want to interested in giving a talk in the series, you can contact explore the podcast format, which allows one to listen the organizers by email. to the conversations without being tied to the screen. As there are not many maritime archaeology podcasts out there, this is a promising direction. In addition to Veronica Walker Vadillo: presentations, the series has already featured some email: [email protected] roundtable discussions, such as a discussion on March Twitter: @VWalkerV 8, 2021, on women doing maritime archaeology. “As we change the format into a more conversational Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz: tone, I really want to emphasize the advances we are email: [email protected] making in theoretical frameworks,” Walker Vadillo says. Twitter: @Mataix_emilia As an example of a session highlighting theoretical advances in the field, she mentions the event on April Website: 19, 2021, with Roberto Junco, who works with blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater the concept of temporal landscapes and talked about the archaeology of the Manila Galleons and current Facebook: excavations in Acapulco. Junco studies how the www.facebook.com/4DownByTheWater

23 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 Research Coordinator Research Director Deputy of HCAS fellows. workshops led by HCAS small and discussions for plenary premises HCAS at gathered the of Helsinki University of the students 40 About doctoral building. career and networking and speaking on public 2020 Winter School The HCAS focused “TAKING NETWORKING” STAGE: THE LISTENING, SPEAKING, 22–24.1.2020: STUDENTS, SCHOOL FOR DOCTORAL HCAS WINTER eventsHCAS from spring 2020 to summer 2021 are presented on the following pages. public events at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies took place online. Highlights of from the point of view of the humanities and social sciences. In fall 2020 and spring 2021, all seminar organized by Fellows HCAS in 2020 June to discuss the ongoing global pandemic spring 2020. However, the exceptional situation also gave rise to new such ideas, as aone-day The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to postpone or cancel some of the events planned for 2020–2021 IN COLLEGIUM EVENTS other and with HCAS fellows during coffee breaks. coffee during fellows with HCAS and other with each to interact achance had students doctoral The academia. beyond outreach and speaking public concerning tips and experiences their shared Ylöstalo Hanna Alumna HCAS and Halme-Tuomisaari Miia Fellow HCAS Bekhta Fellows by HCAS 2020 organized was and and

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HCAS SYMPOSIUM “NO SUCH THING AS HERITAGE?” – FROM BASIC ASSUMPTIONS AND CONSTRUCTS TO RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS, 4.–6.3.2020

The “No Such Thing As Heritage?” Symposium of Helsinki). In addition to the academic program, focused on practices, assumptions, constructs and the symposium included performances by two artists. ideologies linked to heritage and its operation, looking Finnish folk singer and musician Emmi Kuittinen’s especially at categories and oppositions constructed session focused on performing Karelian laments in through discourse. The emergence of critical heritage modern society, and Girilal Baars, a composer perspectives has produced two levels of discussion based in Uppsala, Sweden, performed his music that in heritage studies to which this symposium added a combines electroacoustic music and sound art with third by looking critically at critical heritage studies elements from traditional vocal folk music. and the constructedness of the categories and The main organizers of the event were HCAS oppositions that have structured it. The event weaved Fellows Eila Stepanova and Rani-Henrik together the various threads of current debates by Andersson, HCAS Alumna Elo-Hanna Seljamaa bringing together representatives of different forms of (University of Tartu) and Frog (Folklore Studies, heritage “on the ground” and diverse strands of critical University of Helsinki). heritage studies and beyond. The keynote speakers were Laurajane Smith (Australian National University), Kristin Kuutma Symposium website: (University of Tartu) and Suzie Thomas (University blogs.helsinki.fi/nosuchthingasheritage

Andreas Kalkun from the Estonian Literary Museum giving a presentation in the HCAS Common Room.

Eila Stepanova introducing Emmi Kuittinen, who performed laments based on Karelian traditions.

25 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 Moderator: Veronica Walker Vadillo (HCAS) Walker Vadillo Moderator: Veronica Virtanen Kristiina of Helsinki), (University Löfström Andrews Molly Speakers: 2020 12, March Design, Research of Ethics group? research their of rest the investigator and principal the or supervisees, and PhD supervisors between relationship the in may arise issues ethical What acknowledgements? collaboration? How negotiate do authorship they and in fairness How ensure with? docollaborate they who to choose How do researchers pitfalls. and difficulties potential its has that activity academic essential an as collaboration on focused discussion The OF COLLABORATION,ETHICS MARCH 5, 2020 youtube.com/user/TheHelsinkiCollegium/videos on HelsinkiCollegium’sYoutubechannelat pandemic. the due to canceled of was impact ethics on the series the participants. live involving projects research design and other each with collaborate when face they researchers that issues on ethical reflected researchers Helsinki of University other and 2020 spring In ETHICS RESEARCH ON PERSPECTIVES KOLLEGIUM TALKS: The recordings of the two discussions are available The recordingsofthetwodiscussionsareavailable

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, HCAS IN-HOUSE SEMINAR ON JUNE 16, 2020

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As the first pandemic lockdown gave way to less severe restrictions in the Helsinki area in June 2020, HCAS fellows returned to the Common Room of the ­Collegium to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic from multidisciplinary perspectives. Molly Andrews, Jane and Aatos Erkko Professor in 2019–2020, had ­proposed the idea to Niko Besnier and Andreas Bieler, and together they invited all fellows to contri­ bute a short talk about the pandemic based on their disciplinary expertise. This produced a multifaceted discussion in which the pandemic was approached from the point of view of history, literature, psycho- logy, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, political science, poetry, filmmaking and more. The contri­ MULTIDISCIPLINARY Perspectives butions to the seminar were later published as a on the COVID-19 PAndemic pamphlet that is available on the HCAS website.

Link to the publication: www.helsinki.fi/ en/helsinki-collegium-for-advanced-studies/ multidisciplinary-perspectives-on-covid-19 The cover of the pamphlet (design: Shanna Constantinescu)

27 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 contemporary-mobility-on-zoom mediterranean-flows-tracing-ancient-and- blogs.helsinki.fi/hcasblog/2021/01/11/ Read the entire blog entry at: blog entire entry the Read religion, philosophy,andgeography.” sociology, anthropology, classics, theology, thestudyof by researcherstrainedinhistory,archaeology, to beadelight. […]Weheardexcellent contributions cross-disciplinary vision, asthesymposium turnedout Flows’ cametobe. of travelandmobility. Thisishow‘Mediterranean conversation partnerstoancientmodesandmoments related movementwouldprovideexcellent clear thatcontemporarycasesofMediterranean- diverse groupofcolleaguesatHCAS,itsoonbecame with textsand/ormaterialculture, butthankstoour think”: write abouttheprojectinHCASblog“Freedomto Ferrándiz, AnnaUsacheva and alumni Mediterranean region. on the focusing ideas, and objects, of individuals, for interdisciplinary inquiry into the movement to aspace create was symposium forrationale this held 10–11, on on December was Zoom 2020. The The 10.–11.12.2020 MOTION, IN OBJECTS AND FLOWS IDEAS –PEOPLE, MEDITERRANEAN SYMPOSIUM: HCAS by delivered Lecture 2020 Memorial Westermarck by the sociology. preceded The was panel Finnish on impact his and career Allardt’s of significance Luhtakallio and Jallinoja 2020.25, The panelists, Sociologist of memory Finnish in discussion apanel co-organized HCAS and of Helsinki University of the Science Social of School Swedish Society, the The Westermarck 26.11.2020 ERIK ALLARDT PANEL, AND SKEGGS BY LECTURE BEVERLEY MEMORIAL WESTERMARCK We are happy that we followed the Collegium’s We arehappythatwefollowedtheCollegium’s “All ofusorganizersworkontheancientworld, The organizersofthesymposium,HCASfellows

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SPRING 2021

HCAS WINTER SCHOOL FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS: ACADEMIC COLLABORATION AND CAREER BUILDING: BENEFITS AND PITFALLS, MARCH 10–12, 2021

The HCAS Winter School 2021 ­delved into the topic of collaboration and its role in academic career building. The course gathered some ­thirty ­University of Helsinki doctoral students on Zoom to explore the many benefits and pitfalls associated with collaboration in different contexts, such as writing and publishing, research projects and funding applications, inter­ disciplinary ­research and collaboration with non-academic partners. Due to the ­COVID-19 pandemic, all plenary and workshop sessions were conducted online. The organizing team consisted of HCAS Fellows Ryan Mullins, ­Kinga Połyńczuk-Alenius and Winter School 2021 Screenshot ­Louise Settle, as well as HCAS ­Deputy Director­ Hanne Appelqvist and Research­ Coordinator Kaisa ­Kaakinen.

JANE AND AATOS ERKKO LECTURE BY KAREN KNOP: “UNEASY ALLIANCES: POPULISM, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RISE OF FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW,” MARCH 25, 2021

HCAS hosts Karen Knop (Professor of Law at the University of Toronto) as the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society in the academic year 2020-2021. In her public Erkko lecture at HCAS, Professor Knop presented her new project on populism, international law and the rise of foreign relations law. Professor Knop was introduced by Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki. Read more about Karen Knop’s research on pp. 16-18 of this newsletter.

Karen Knop's lecture was live streamed from the Common Room of HCAS.

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PUBLIC EVENT WITH SOCIO-LEGAL SCHOLAR MARIANA VALVERDE: “CHRONOTOPES OF LAW AND MULTI-SCALAR GOVERNANCE: NEW CONTEXTS,” MAY 20, 2021

In her celebrated book Chronotopes of Law: The event began with Professor Valverde’s talk Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance, leading socio- about chronotopes of law and how to theorize multi- legal scholar Mariana Valverde (Sociolegal Studies, scalar governance, followed by a discussion with three University of Toronto) develops a new framework University of Helsinki professors, Jeremy Gould for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law (Social Anthropology, Helsinki), Jan Klabbers and other forms of governance. Valverde’s innovative (Faculty of Law, Helsinki) and Karen Knop (HCAS), approach adapts philosopher and literary theorist who brought Prof. Valverde’s ideas to bear on new Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the “chronotope” contexts: postcolonialism, international organizations to law and brings together diverse research and transnational justice. traditions, including anthropological approaches to legal temporality and studies of law and space by geographers.

Original by August Schwerdfeger, https://flic.kr/p/2jhUf4v, and Andrew Malone, https://flic.kr/p/Nv9px, CC BY 2.0 licensed, modified into a 'tiny planet' by HCAS.

31 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 best-known truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) best-known truthandreconciliation commission(TRC) Truth andReconciliationCommission ofCanada, the Moran consideredwhatmight belearnedfromthe a truthandreconciliationprocess inFinland. Professor international andtransnationalperspectives. offers issues these on research whose HCAS), (both international relationsexpert moderated byinternationallawyer was discussion The disciplines. scholarly different to bearinthediscussion, aswellthose oftheir or institutionallevelandbroughtthoseperspectives in reconciliationprocessesatthenational, regional perspective. comparative in reconciliation and injustice historian scholar Kuokkanen scientist event brought together political appoint 2021, in this will of Finland Government People Sámi the Concerning Commission anticipation ofIn the STATES”, UNITED CANADA, MAY ON EVENT ONLINE PUBLIC 2021 25, RECONCILIATION AND INJUSTICE “TRUTH, COMPARATIVE IN FINLAND, PERSPECTIVE: Professor Kuokkanen spoke about the prospects for Professor Kuokkanenspokeabouttheprospectsfor All three speakers have played leadership roles All threespeakershaveplayedleadershiproles Mayo Moran Mayo David Collins (University of Lapland) with legal legal of Lapland) (University with Truth and Reconciliation Reconciliation and Truth (University of Toronto) (University and (HCAS) to discuss historical Tuomas Forsberg Karen Knop Rauna Rauna that the and and

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HIGHLIGHTS OF HCAS EVENTS 2020–2021

IDEOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES AND Pexels from Grabowska Karolina SOCIAL SCIENCES, HCAS SUMMER COLLOQUIUM, JUNE 1, 2021

The in-house seminar on COVID-19 at HCAS in June 2020 began what might become a tradition of summer seminars in which HCAS fellows discuss a chosen topic drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives. In 2021, we decided to focus on the role of ideology in the humanities and social sciences. The choice of topic was sparked by a heated debate in the Finnish media after an editorial in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat touched upon the issue in April 2021. We wanted to Speakers: Hanna Snellman (Professor and Vice create a space for a discussion among HCAS fellows Rector, University of Helsinki), Anna Rotkirch to reflect on the broader societal and scholarly context (Research Professor and Director of the Population of such contemporary debates and tensions. The Research Institute, Väestöliitto), Tuomas Forsberg colloquium consisted of short presentations proposed (Professor and Director of the Helsinki Collegium by individual fellows and an open discussion, followed for Advanced Studies), Veronica Walker Vadillo by a social gathering outdoors. (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki), Christian Hakulinen (University Lecturer, University of Helsinki).

Organizer and moderator: HCAS Fellow Kateryna Savelieva

Event page: www2.helsinki.fi/en/node/107513

THE LOST PUBLIC SIDE OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW, JUNE 15–16, 2021

WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY PROF. KAREN KNOP AND PROF. MARTTI KOSKENNIEMI Public international law has a neglected and troubled Tuomas Pernu giving his presentation "Science and history with the outward-facing aspects of domestic ideology: what is the question?" (Image source: U.S. Department of Energy) public law: those aspects of a state’s law concerned with the distribution of powers over foreign relations between different branches and levels of government SEMINAR: PARENTS IN ACADEMIA, and treated together in a few legal systems as a JUNE 4, 2021 distinct field of “foreign relations law.” Which branch of government can commit the state to a treaty or This seminar focused on work-family balance in declare war, for example? academia and discussed good strategies and potential The story of twentieth-century public international difficulties related to combining parenthood and law is often told as one of breaking away from academia. The discussions dealt with strategies to analogies with property, contract and other domestic overcome these difficulties, support and opportunities private law concepts to become meaningfully public provided for (young) parents by the University of at the international level – perhaps even a global Helsinki, parents’ needs and wishes, and how to make constitutional order or rudimentary federation. the University of Helsinki even more family friendly. This story effectively erases international law’s

33 HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | NEWSLETTER 2021 EVER-CHANGING (THE SHORT HISTORY OF NOW), 2009 NOW), OF HISTORY SHORT (THE EVER-CHANGING THE OF REFLECTIONS series the from Vasko: Ea #6 Photo: blogs.helsinki.fi/publicinternationallaw2021 history andreadytoolsforanalysiscritique. which internationallawyersaresurprisinglylackingin and potentiallyuneasyrelationshipswithpubliclawfor architecture ofstates. Thisalsoleadsthemintonew to lookforpressurepointsintheforeignrelationslaw and institutionshaveledpublicinternationallawyers treaties multilateral from withdrawal resist to Efforts an importantreasonwhythisworkshopissotimely. relations law. “exceptionalism” intheUnitedStatesandEUexternal law inBritishlegalhistory,foreignrelations public lawintheGermanandFrenchlineages, colonial international lawtobeexaminedincludesexternal and itsimplications. Thelostpublicsideof to discussthecontoursofthismissinghistory researchers centeredattheUniversity ofHelsinki Martti Koskenniemi(FacultyofLaw) bringstogether Professor ofLaw, University ofTorontoandProfessor organized byErkkoProfessorKarenKnop(HCAS/ publication in2-3years, thisinformalworkshop with aviewtolargerco-sponsoredconferenceand corporations –underthepubliclawofthatstate. provinces, colonies, territories,legislatures,protesters, as aforeignrelationsactororcollectionofactors– relationship tothenormsthatconstitutestate The populist backlash against international law is The populistbacklashagainstinternationallawis Designed asasmall“ideasincubation”event 34 Advanced Study (UBIAS) Study Advanced the and Study, of Advanced Institute Netherlands 2021 20–21, April on the in participated also representatives HCAS (NetIAS). Study of Advanced of Institutes Network European of the meetings online ad hoc of form several the in for instance of more collaboration, even and forms intense new pandemic created the during institutes the on manage to how ideas exchange to best However, COVID-19 pandemic. the need the 2020 in due or to postponed canceled to be had study of advanced of institutes networks international of meetings physical The 2020–2021IN IAS COLLABORATIONS National Borders.” Global SportUnderminesandStrengthens topic of“Borders, Youth,Neoliberalism: How Core Fellow2019–2020) presentedonthe October 8,Professor the FailureofNarrative Imagination,” andon a talktitled“TheCOVID-19 Pandemicand (Erkko ProfessoratHCASin2019–2020) gave June 18,2020, Professor under thethematicheading“Borders. online lectureseriesinspringandfall2020 other NetIASmembersinthe France. Marseille, in of IMéRA organization under the virtually 2021 12–14, April on Conference Furthermore, HCAS collaborated with Furthermore, HCAScollaboratedwith NetIAS Annual Business meeting University-Based Institutes of of Institutes University-Based Niko Besnier , organized by the by the , organized Molly Andrews

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UPCOMING HCAS EVENTS IN 2021–2022 HCAS will celebrate its 20th anniversary during the academic year 2021–2022 – fashionably late due to the coronavirus restrictions that affected events in the first half of 2021. This is a preview of the upcoming anniversary year events; further events will be announced next academic year on the HCAS website as well as on Twitter (@HCollegium) and Facebook.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 Introducing the public to research conducted at HCAS, HCAS COMMON ROOM & ONLINE the Kollegium Talks events in 2021–2022 will have the Anniversary panel on the very idea of an Institute for format of a dialogue between two HCAS fellows. The Advanced Study (in Finnish) fellows will engage in a conversation on a topic that they have chosen themselves and that connects their research Speakers: interests and passions. The discussions will take place at Docent Hanne Appelqvist University of Helsinki’s event space Think Corner, and (Deputy Director 2019–) they will be live streamed and published as recordings on Professor Sari Kivistö the HCAS Youtube channel. The speakers and topics will (HCAS Director 2015–2016) be announced in fall 2021. Professor Sami Pihlström (HCAS Director 2009–2015) JANUARY 20, 2022: Chancellor Emeritus Kari Raivio TIETEIDEN YÖ – THE NIGHT OF SCIENCE (Rector 1996–2003) HCAS will participate in the Night of Science, a block Professor Emeritus Raimo Väyrynen party for science and research celebrated annually in (HCAS Director 2002–2004) Helsinki. The Collegium will welcome the Night of Science audiences to its premises for a program planned Moderator: Director Tuomas Forsberg by HCAS fellows. The program details will be announced in fall 2021. KOLLEGIUM TALKS JUNE 15, 2022 AT 2:15 PM FALL 2021: 29.11., 9.12., 13.12. at 5:00 pm, ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Think Corner Stage The Great Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building SPRING 2022: Dates TBA JUNE 16–17, 2022 HCAS ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: COSMOPOLITAN KNOWLEDGE

JUNE 20–21, 2022 “STILL I RISE”: POLITICAL NARRATIVES IN A RAGING WORLD Conference organized by Molly Andrews (Jane and Aatos Erkko Professor in 2019–2020)

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