Seminaari “CHALLENGING POWER: EQUALITY, CULTURE AND MINORITIES”

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INVITATION

The Academy of Finland funded project Challenging Power: Equality, Diversity
and the Integration of Ethnic and National Minorities in Finland, in
cooperation with GENIE (the Paradoxes of Finnish Gender Power Order: Law,
Politics and Multilevel Governance), has the pleasure of inviting you to the
international seminar

"CHALLENGING POWER: EQUALITY, CULTURE AND MINORITIES"

Time:            27 August at 14.15 – 18.00
Venue:          Runeberg Hall, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu
                 33 (2nd floor)
Participation: The conference is open for all interested. Please note
                  that the number of participants is restricted.
Registration:   No later than 20 August 2009 to daniel.moran(at)helsinki.fi


The aim of the interdisciplinary seminar is to discuss minorities'
possibilities for self–identification and political recognition in a
comparative perspective. There is a need to clarify what minority
integration – and the structures of power sharing it entails – means in the
European context. Why is equal access to power not a reality? What are the
visible and invisible dimensions of power that prevent certain people from
full and equal participation? Why is it that significant fractions of some
minority groups do not even seek to become active and participate?

Keynote speakers:
Professor Birte Siim (Aalborg University) Professor Veit Bader (Universiteit
van Amsterdam) Professor Peter Kivisto (Augustana College, Rock Island,
Illinois)


PRELIMINARY SEMINAR PROGRAMME

14:15–14:30    Professor Peter A. Kraus (CEREN): Welcoming words


14:30–15:10    Professor Birte Siim (Aalborg University):
Migration, multiculturalism and gender – a Nordic perspective


15:10–15:50    Professor Veit Bader (Universiteit van Amsterdam):
Strategic Dilemmas of Minorities. 'Consensus' Democracies, 'Contestational'
Majoritarian Democracies, or what?


15:50–16:30    Professor Peter Kivisto (Augustana College):
Citizenship and Immigrant Empowerment: Comparing Transnational Migrants in
Western Europe and North America.


16:30–17:00    Coffee

17:00–18:00     Panel discussion:
Power, Minorities and the Future of Multiculturalism

Chair: Associate Professor Peo Hansen, (Linköping University)
Participants: Peter A. Kraus; Camilla Nordberg; Reetta Toivanen; Niko
Pyrhönen; Östen Wahlbeck

18:00           Reception


For more information and the updated programme see
http://sockom.helsinki.fi/ceren/power/conference2009.html or contact CEREN's
Research Administrator Heidi Lahtinen (heidi.lahtinen(at)helsinki.fi or +358
9 191 28470).

WELCOME!

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