Programme

22.11. Wednesday – SOBIO days & YHYS pre-colloquium conference

12.00-12.45 Lunch at own cost in Restaurant Usva, Kauppakatu 44

12:45-13:00 Moving across the street to Laulutalo

13:00-13:05 Welcoming words by Irmeli Mustalahti, University of Eastern Finland

13:05-13:35 Keynote Speech: Impactful science communication by Sari Eskelinen, communications specialist, University of Eastern Finland

13:35-13:50 Commentary speech about science communication by Markus Melin, research manager, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)

13:50-14:00 General discussion

14:00-14:45 Pitching your own research

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:00 Science speed dating

16:00-16:10 Short break

16:10-17:15 Science communication workshop by Anna Mustonen, Versus. The participants get to practice science communication with their own research and topic.

18:30 Evening get-together at Laulutalo: sauna, food, drinks, karaoke, networking

23.11. Thursday – YHYS Colloquium 2023 – Educa Building

11:15 Coffee and registration

12:00 Opening of the conference

12:15 Short movie: Entangled Forest

12:30 Keynote: Eco-social reconstruction as horizon for emancipatory social-ecological transformations by Ulrich Brand, Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. Commentary by Emma Hakala, Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

13:30 Keynote: The Political Economy of Conviviality in Times of Crisis by Patience Mususa, Senior Researcher at Uppsala University. Commentary by Irmeli Mustalahti, University of Eastern Finland

14:30 Coffee break

15:00 Working groups

17:30 YHYS Annual meeting

19:15 Conference dinner at Ravintola Filipof, Torikatu 10

24.11. Friday – YHYS Colloquium 2023 – Educa Building

8:30 Registration and info desk opens

9:00 Working groups

11:00 Coffee

11:15 Keynote: The Case for Polycrisis as a keyword of our interconnected times by Ville Lähde, researcher at the BIOS Research Unit in Helsinki. Commentary by Janne Hukkinen, University of Helsinki

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Award ceremony: 2023 Yrjö Haila Award for Masters’s Thesis

13:15 Panel discussion: Is there room for collaborative governance in an era of environmental polycrisis? (in Finnish)

14:15 Announcement of the YHYS Jubilee year 2024 and the next Colloquium

14:30 Closing words