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1.10.2024 VISITING LECTURE
International Organizations: Empirical/Anthropological Approaches. Lecture course “The EU, Contract Law and Global Value Chains: ”Perspectives on Fragmentation” by Jaakko Salminen, Master’s Programme in European Business Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University
 
28-30.8.2024 HOST & CO-ORGANZER
Group visit to Lund University and Copenhagen for TUTKAS: Society of Finnish Researchers and Parliamentarians.
 
17.5.2024 PAPER
‘Maturing an issue: Toonen. v. Australia’ at Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki.
 
12.3.2024 KEYNOTE
‘What’s in a Method? Reflections on Theory, Method and the Joy of Research’. 3rd National LLD Students’ Research Seminar, University of Lapland. 
 
15.2.2024 VISITING LECTURE
‘Who is ‘everyone’ in human rights: viewpoints from LGBTI+ rights’. Lecture course ‘Ideas, Ideologies and Identities in Europe’, University of Helsinki.
 
26.1.2024 TALK
‘What used to be – or one scholar’s journeys in/with the social media’, at Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki.
 
25.1.2024 CHAIR
Panel ‘Vuoropuhelua etsimässä‘,  by Allegra Lab Hki & Tutkitusti. Night of Science, Ravintola Kustaa Vaasa.
 
1.12.2023 PAPER
‘Where/what is Knowledge? Interdisciplinarity within Human Rights Research and beyond’, at the Symposium ‘Theoretical Foundations for Interdisciplinary‘, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
 
10.10.2023 PAPER
‘Looping for Human Rights: an Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’, at the Anthropology and Sociology Seminar, Geneve Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,
 
1-31.10.2023 VISITING FELLOW
Global Governance Center, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
 
15.9.2023 PAPER
‘Looping for Human Rights: An Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’, at Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki. 
 
1.8-31.5.2023 VISITING RESEARCHER
 
1.8.2023-31.8.2023 RESEARCH SABBATICAL
Leave of absence from Lund University to work on book project ‘Looping for Human Rights: An Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’, sabbatical funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 
 
15.6.2023 NEW POSITION OF TRUST
Vice board member of Tutkas, Society of Finnish MPs and researchers (2023).
 
 
17.5.2023 COMMENT
Algoritmit rajoittavat tutkijoiden sananvapautta.‘ With Henrik Rydenfelt. Suomen Kuvalehti.
 
16.5.2023 PAPER
‘Searching for evidence at the UN Human Rights Committee’s individual communications: numbers and other ‘objective’ facts.’ With Reetta Toivanen. At Symposium: Evidentiary Regimes at UN Treaty Bodies, ERC-project DISSECT, University of Ghent.
 
5.5.2023 DISCUSSANT
Book discussion on the Everyday Makers of International Law (CUP 2022) by Tommasso Soave. The American Society of International Law (via zoom, video here).
 
22.4.2023 COMMITTEE CHAIR
PhD Examination for Adelaide Caballero’s dissertation ‘Shortchanged: Elderly Women Street Vendors in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.’ Department of Social Anthropology, Uppsala University 
 
4.4.2023 PAPER
‘Methodologically Blonde at the UN in a Tactical Quest for Inclusion’ (with Dana Hausman). Human Rights Research Seminar, Lund University.
 
29.3-21.5.2023 COURSE
Human Rights Research Methods and Ethics. Human Rights Master’s program, Lund University (15 credits)
 
17.1-28.2.2023 NEW COURSE
Den globala och den lokala inom mänskliga rättigheter (The global and the local in Human Rights), Bachelor program, Lund University (10 credits)
 
15.12.2022 NEW ARTICLE
Planned Misesry of the Children in Al-Hol: Distancing as Bar to Rights and Consular Protection’, (Co-Author with Outi Korhonen), Beijing Law Review 14(2), 2022, 864-881.
 
15.12.2022 PAPER
‘The resilience of human rights in a world of ongoing crisis’, Webinar on Law, Crisis & Social Resilience, Lund University.
 
28.10.2022 NEW FUNDING
1-year Sabbatical for book project ‘Looping for Human Rights: an Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’ (summer 2023-summer 2024). Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
 
1.11-10.1.2023 NEW COURSE
Human rights in the history of  politics and philosophy (with Lena Halldenius), Master’s program, Lund University.
 
2022 COMMITTEE MEMBER
Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, APLA: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
 
7.10.2022 COMMITTEE MEMBER

PhD examination for Frida Nilsson’s thesis Självklart och oklart – Mänskliga rättigheter som kunskapsinnehåll i gymnasieskolan, Lund University.

31.8-12.10 NEW COURSE
Mänskliga rättigheter och vetenskapliga metoder (with Andreas Tullberg), Bachelor program, Lund University.
 
12.9.2022 PODCAST INTERVIEW
How Anthropology Helps Us Understand Multilateralism. The Next Page: Podcast of the UN Library & Archives.
 
29.7.2022 DISCUSSANT
Rethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography. Biennial conference of the EASA, Belfast (via zoom).
 
5.7.2022 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
 
9.6.2022 NEW ARTICLE
‘Visibility, impact and relevance in international law’ (read hereLondon Review of International Law, 2022;, lrac011, https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrac011
 
2.6.2022 NEW ESSAY
 
15.5.2022 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
‘Miksi korona-aika on jäänyt meille päälle?’ By Pihla Loula, Helsingin Sanomat.
 
12.5.2022 DISCUSSANT
Book panel: Vernacular Rights Cultures, by Sumi Madhok. Lund University.
 
1.4.2022 PANELIST
Plenary on Law and the End of Anthropocentrism. Doctoral Method Clinic, University of Turku.
 
10.3.2022 DISCUSSANT
Book Panel Discussion: Making Human Rights Right? The Future of Global Human Rights Governance by Nina Reiners (via zoom). Geneve Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
 
2.2-11.5.2022 CONVENER
Research Seminar series ‘Reconfiguring the subject of (human?) rights in the age of the Anthropocene’ (with Emelie Lantz). Human Rights Studies, Lund University.
 
21.1.2022 CHAIR AND HOST
Panel: ‘Community and Responsibility in Gaming’, Raha-Peli-Ilta (Evening on Gaming, Gamification and Money), Night of Science, Allegra Lab Hki (video here, English panel starts at 2:15, other program in Finnish)
 
18.1-25.3.2022 COURSE
Human Rights Research Methods and Ethics’. Lund’s Interdisciplinary Human Rights Master’s Program. (15 CET). 
 
30.12.2021 RADIO INTERVIEW
“Koti, korona ja kodittomuus.” (Home, Covid-19 and homelessness). Havaintoja Ihmisestä, by Susanna Vainiola. YleAreena.
 
20.12.2021 REVIEW ARTICLE
“Minä olen joki, joki on minä” – ympäristö, ihmisoikeudet ja ontologinen muutos (“I am the river, the river is me”: the environment, human rights and ontological change). With Alina Rapin. Oikeus-lehti 4/2021, 559-570 (Finnish summary here).
 
15.12.2021 (Zoom) ROUNDTABLE
Informed Publics, Media and International Law by Daniel Joyce. London Review of International Law.
 
13.12.2021 NEW ESSAY
 
17.11.2021 NEW AFFILIATION
Research Associate, Global Governance Centre, Geneve Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2021-2022).
 
9.11.2021 PANELIST
Tutkijakummitoiminta, Webinar by Tutkas.
 
14.10.2021 KEYNOTE
‘Keeping up Standards for a Better World: Anthropological Alternatives to the Study of IOs.’ At Conference ‘Alternative Approaches to the Study of IOs’, 14-15 Oct, Geneve Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (video available here, at 2:42)
 
7.10.2021 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
‘Halaus pitkästä aikaa’. Helsingin Sanomat, Anni Härkönen & Anni Keski-Heikkilä.
 
6.10.2021 PRESENTATION & VIDEO
’10 Tips for a (kick-ass) presentation’. Doctoral seminar in human rights and minority studies, Åbo Akademi.
 
11.9.2021 JURY MEMBER
The Social Movement Awards 2021, Why The World Needs Anthropologists, Prague.
 
9.9.2021 RADIO INTERVIEW
Kotoa muuttaminen on siirtymäriitti. Havaintoja ihmisestä, Yle Areena.
 
24.8.2021 VIDEO INTERVIEW
 
16.8.2021 ESSAY
 
24.7.2021 INTERVIEW
 
18.3-3.6.2021 COURSE
Human Rights Monitoring in Anthropological Perspective. Human Rights Master Program, Lund University
 
25.5.2021 INVITED TALK
‘Uhka maailmalla – uhka kotona: koronapandemian odottamattomat ulottuvuudet.’ Lounaskokous, Nordiska administrativa förbundet, Suomen-osasto.
 
17.5.2021 PRESENTATION
”What UN?’ Methodologically blonde reflections on doing ethnography at the UN.’ In Webinar on Empirical Research within the UN Human Rights System. ERC-project RIVERS (Video available here).

10.5.2021 KEYNOTE
Kansainvälinen liikkuvuus ja kulttuuriyhteistyö pandemian aikana – digitalisaation mahdollisuudet. Valtakunnallinen Aleksanteri-foorumi
 
4.5.2021 ROUNDTABLE
 
15.4.2021 TALK
‘Oma maa mansikka, muu maa mustikka? Suomalaisten minäkuva koronapandemiassa’. Käytännönlähtöisen tutkimuksen yhdistyksen Praba ryn 20-vuotisjuhlaseminaari, Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu.
 
20.1-30.3.2021 COURSE
Research Methods and Research Ethics. Human Rights Master program, Lund University. 
 
18.3.2021 TRAINING & INTERVIEW
Arvot, ihmisoikeudet ja yhdenvertaisuus -koulutus, Oulun kaupunki. Article of training here.
 
15.3.2021 NEW PUBLICATION
 
19.2.2021 VISITING LECTURE
‘What’s anthropology got to do with it? Methodologically blonde reflections on Anthropology, Human Rights and the Law’, Bachelor program in Law & Anthropology, London School of Economics
 
8.2.2020 PANEL DISCUSSION
COVID-19 ja eläimet. Yhteiskunnallisen ja kulttuurisen eläintutkimuksen seura. Video available here. 
 
26.1.2021 TV INTERVIEW
 
22.1.2021 INTERVIEW
 
19.1.2021 TALK
Kaikki kotona: kuinka korona mullisti maailmamme. Korona keskellämme-esitelmäsarja, TammerNova Rotarit.
 
14.1.2021 NEW EVENT
Muutosmysteeri, Tieteiden Yö / Night of Science, Allegra Lab Hki
 
14.1.2021 NEW REPORT
 
12.1.2021 TV INTERVIEW
 
7.1.2021 TV INTERVIEW
 
1.1.2021 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
Pandemia paljasti onnemme,‘ Heidi Väärämäki & Hanna Kainulainen, Helsingin Sanomat.
 
19.12.2020 TV INTERVIEW
 
10.12.2020 INTERVIEW
Kohtaamispaikalla (video 25 min), interviewed by Pia Lindroos, Akateeminen kirjakauppa
 
8.12.2020 BOOK FEATURE
‘Kun tutusta tuli uhka,’ Tuula Koukku, Tiede 14/2020, 62-63.
 
7.12.2020 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
 
6.12.2020 TV INTERVIEW
 
4.12.2020 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
 
3.12.2020 NEW PROJECT
Tutkitusti-verkoston yleistajuisen tiedejulkaisemisen yhteistyöhanke 2021-2024 (PI), Koneen säätiö.
 
24.11.2020 TV INTERVIEW
 
12.11.2020 PODCAST
 
11.11.2020 PAPER
 
30.10.2020 NEW POST
 
24.10.2020 BOOK FEATURE
 
22.10.2020 NEW POST
‘Kirjassa on glamouria!’ Julkkaritunnelmia 21.10.2020 #kaikkikotona
 
15.10.2020 RADIO INTERVIEW
‘Kaikki kotona?‘, Miia Krause, YlePuhe & YleAreena.
 
14.10.2020 INTERVIEW
 
12.10.2020 NEW BOOK
 
5.10.2020 NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
 
21.9.2020 NEW ENTRIES
‘Human Rights’, ‘International Humanitarian Law’ & ‘Monitoring Mechanisms’, In Humanitarianism: Keywords (Ed. Antonio De Lauri), Brill (Open Access)
 
10.9.2020 NEW NOTE
 
3.9.2020 NEW COMMENTARY
‘COVID-19 and New Paradoxes of Human Rights Monitoring’, in Multidisciplinary perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2020, 48-49.
 
18.8.2020 NEW POSITION
 
17.6.2020 NEW PROJECT
 
15.6.2020 COMMENT
 
26.5.2020 OPENING WORDS
 
20.5.2020 COLUMN
 
6.5.2020 INTERVIEW
‘Neljän seinän sisällä.’ By Emmi Laukkanen, Kotivinkki.
 
2.5.2020 INTERVIEW
 
25.5.2020 EXPERT STATEMENT
Koronapandemian vaikutukset ihmismieleen ja toimintakykyyn. Eduskunnan tulevaisuusvaliokunnan julkaisu 1/2020
 
24.4.2020 INTERVIEW
20.4.2020 INTERVIEW
‘Minulle tuli spitaalinen olo’. By Eliisa Aikkila, Helsingin Sanomat.
 
13.4.2020 NEW COMMENTARY
 
4.4.2020 INTERVIEW
‘Korona: näin taklaat ahdistusta’. By Marjut Mäntymaa. YleAreena.
 
2.4.2020 NEW BLOG POST
 
1.4.2020 INTERVIEW 
‘Paulalla on 10 laatikollista ruokaa’. By Anni Saarela. Iltalehti.
 
28.3.2020 INTERVIEW
‘Kolme neljästä ei juuri pelkää koronan vuoksi’. By Maarit Vaaherkumpu, Uutissuomalainen & Aamuposti.
 
20.3.2020 NEW BLOG POST
 
18.3.2020 INTERVIEW
Tuntuuko koronatilanne maailmanlopulta?’ By Nadja Mikkonen, YleUutiset.
 
17.2.2020 NEW ARTICLE
 
7.2.2020 COMMENTARY
‘Koronavirus ja saastaiset lepakonsyöjät’. AntroBlogi. (Most read text of AntroBlogi for February & March 2020).
 
3-4.2.2020 MEETING
Executive Committee of the EASA, Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Nanterres Université.
 
28.1.2020 VISITING LECTURE
‘Vapaudet, oikeudet & velvoitteet: oikeusajattelun klassikot’. In course ‘Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet’ (by Emilia Palonen), University of Helsinki
 
23.1.2020 TALK
‘Scholar & New Audiences’. Winter School 2020 of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
 
16.1.2020 CHAIR
Piiloöljy-ilta‘, Tieteiden yö, Sofia Bistro, Kiseleffin talo, Helsinki. With Allegra Lab Hki & Häiriköt päämaja.
 
15.1.2020 VISITING LECTURE
‘Enforcing Human Rights: United Nations.‘ In lecture course ‘Introduction to Human Rights law’ (by Ukri Soirila), University of Helsinki
 
20.12.2019 SEASON GREETINGS!
 
10.12.2019 NEWS
 
9.12.2019 NEW BLOG POST
 
26.11.2019 MODERATOR
Onko oikeusvaltio kriisissä?’ Tutkas-verkosto, Pikkuparlamentti, Eduskunta. Tallenne keskustelusta täällä.
 
22.11.2019 NEW BLOG POST
 
22.11.2019 PAPER (remotely)
‘Improving the World via accounting law? Reflections on Human Rights, Corporate Obligations, Law, and Politics’ In Roundtable on “Changing Climates of Politics and Law,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 22, 2019, Vancouver, BC.
 
13.11.2019 COLUMN
 
11.11 INTERVIEW
 
9.11 CEREMONIAL SPEECH
 
8.11.2019 VISITING LECTURE
Tutkija ja uudet yleisöt‘. Asiantuntijuus-kurssi, Valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, Helsingin yliopisto
 
28-29.10.2019 EASA AGM & Executive Committee Meeting
 
26.10.2019 TALK
‘The future of European Anthropology & the EASA’. At ‘Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Sustaining Cities‘, Oslo. Paper available here.
 
11.10.2019 VIDEO
‘Loops and Holes: Negotiating human rights at the Centre’. German Anthropological Association 30.9. Videos of all plenaries available here.
 
30.9.2019 PLENARY PAPER
 
11.9. NEW BLOG POST
 
9.9.2019 WORKSHOP
 
5.9.2019 NEW ESSAY
 
19.8.2019 FORTHCOMING ARTICLE
 ‘Guarding Utopia: law, vulnerability and frustration at the UN Human Rights Committee’ accepted for publication in a special issue of Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale on ‘Bureaucratizing Utopia’
 
5.8.2019 NEWS
Article ‘Where’s the Well: DNA evidence, personal narratives and unpredictability in Finnish family re-unification’ picked as the Editor’s choice of Migration Studies – article available here as OA.
 
28.7.2019 TALK
 
3.6.2019 PAPER
History of Human Rights: the Versailles perspective’, in ‘Versailles and Rights: a Centenary Appraisal’, Helsinki Col­legium for Ad­vanced Stud­ies and the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.
 
24.5.2019 ORGANIZER
‘Concepts, paradigms and slogans – From human rights to human dignity and sustainability.‘ EASA LAWNET-seminar with The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives  (EuroStorie), Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)
 
21.5.2019 VIDEO
 
15.5.2019 PODCAST
‘Keskusteluja elämästä ja antropologiasta‘, AlterNATIIVI, AntroBlogi (hosted by Anna Haverinen)
 
9.5.2019 PANELIST
‘Law and ethnography: a Methodological debate’, with Marie-Benedicte Dembour and Jane Cowan. Helsinki Socio-Legal Studies Initiative
 
3.5.2019 DISCUSSANT
 
9.4.2019 BLOG POST
 
8.3.2019 PAPER
Movement in the Right Direction’: An Ethnography of a Human Rights Report’, Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
 
29.3.2019 NEW BLOG POST
 
11.3.2019 COLUMN
 
8.3.2019 TALK
Tutkimustiedon uudenlaiset viestintä- ja vaikutusmahdollisuudet. Ethnos Ry Kevätseminaari.
 
5.3.2019 TALK
Movement in the right direction: an ethnography of a human rights report’, Anthropology Department Seminar Series, Sussex University
 
5.3.2019 VISITING LECTURE
Human Rights: Local, Global – and everything in between: the case study of Finland’. Course: Human Rights (By Julie Billaud), Sussex University
 
Nov 2018-Feb 2019 UN CONSULTANCY
 
11-12.2.2019 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Convening meeting of the new Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2019-2020), University of Lisbon
 
11.2.2019 OPINION
‘Mistä rahoitus populaarille tiedejulkaisemiselle?’ With Taina Tuori, Mikko Poutanen, Ninnu Koskenalho, Suvi Jaakkola & Lotta Haikkola, Helsingin Sanomat, Mielipide
 
7-8.2.2019 DISCUSSANT
‘Law and Language: Engaging the Field’, University of Jyväskylä
 
1.2.2019 NEWS
 
1.2.2019 VISITING LECTURE
Oikeudet, vapaudet & velvoitteet’. Course: ‘Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet’ (‘Rights, Liberties & Duties‘ in Course: Principles of Political Thought (by Emilia Palonen)), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
 
28.1.2019 PANEL
Paneelikeskustelu ihmisoikeuksien tulevaisuudesta. KIOS 20 vuotta -juhlatilaisuus
 
23-25.1.2019 MODERATION
‘Academic Writing and Publishing’, Winter School of the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies
 
17.1.2019 NEWS
 
11.1.2019 INTERVIEW
MTV3 News Broadcast at 10 pm (LIVE) on Panel on Climate change, Lava-Klubi, Night of Science (at 0:15:30)
 
11.1.2019 CHAIR
Sanoista tekoihin ilmastonmuutoksessa. Kuinka radikaaleja tekoja tarvitaan?’ Panel on Climate Change at Lava-Klubi Tieteiden yö 2019. (Night of Science)
 
11.1.2019 TALK
Tiedeviestinnän mahdollisuudet’. Katsomukset.fi 1 vuotta -tilaisuus, Thirsty Scholar, Tieteiden yö 2019 (Night of Science)
 
15.12.2018 NEW PAPERBAG
Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights‘, Eds, Pamela Slotte & Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Cambridge University Press, 2015/2018
 
5 & 13.12.2018 PAPER & ESSAY
Movement in the Right Direction: Reflections on 70 years of world improvement’At ‘The UDHR at 70: Historical and Juridical Perspectives‘, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies & Geneva Academy of International and Humanitarian Law. Edited version published at The Global
 
28.11.2018 NEW ARTICLE
´Methodologically blonde at the UN in a tactical quest for inclusion.´ Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale, 26(4), 2018, 456-470
 
17.11.2018 PAPER (via skype)
Peer review 2.0 at Allegralaboratory.net: Reflections on creativity, knowledge and novel publication formats”, Invited paper at panel by Somatosphere at the American Anthropological Association, San Jose
 
14.11.2018 ESSAY
 
15.8.2018 PAPER
Dependent emancipation: the mechanisms and paradoxes of travelling human rights policies: the case of ‘LGTBI’ in 5 moments”, Bi-Annual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm