Programme

Nordic Migration Research Conference
Colonial/Racial Histories, National Narratives and Transnational Migration
11-14 January 2021, Online / University of Helsinki
Preliminary Programme (changes possible)

The full conference programme will be ready during the week of January 4th, 2021. A separate access guide and links to the programme will be sent to registered participants on January 8th, 2021.

Monday 11 January 2021 (CET+1)

9:00-17:00 Technical support and information available

10:00-10:30 Opening of the conference

  • Senior Researcher Marja Tiilikainen (Migration Institute of Finland; Chair 2019 ̶ 2020 of the Nordic Migration Research)
  • Director Saara Pellander (Migration Institute of Finland; Chair 2020 of the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration)
  • Professor Suvi Keskinen (CEREN, University of Helsinki)
  • Artist and Researcher Sepideh Rahaa (Aalto University)
  • Vice-Rector Paula Eerola (University of Helsinki)
  • Mayor of Helsinki Jan Vapaavuori

10:30-12:00 Keynote by Professor Anders Neergaard, “Even in Sweden”: Exploring the Swedish Racial Formation, Theoretical Challenges and Dilemmas

12:00-12:30 Lunch

12:30-14:00 Parallel workshops I

14:00-14:15 Coffee

14:15-15:15 Keynote by Visual Artist Marja Helander, The New Paths.

15:15-16:30 Panel discussion: Arts as a way of decolonizing knowledge

Chair: Artist and researcher Sepideh Rahaa

Visual Artist Marja Helander, Professor Mira Kallio-Tavin (Aalto University), Art Curator Abdullah Qureshi

Tuesday 12 January 2021 (CET+1)

9:00-17:00 Technical support and information available

10:00-11.30 Parallel workshops II

11:30-11:45 Coffee

11:45-13:15 Parallel workshops III

13:15-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 ETMU Award

Keynote by Professor Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: race and cherished self-narratives in the Netherlands

Wednesday 13 January 2021 (CET+1)

9:00-17:00 Technical support and information available

10:00-10:45 NMR General Assembly

10:45-11:30 Presenting Helsinki University Press (HUP), Nordic Journal of Migration Research and the NJMR best article award

Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor Lena Näre (Chair, NJMR), Communications and Publishing Manager Anna-Mari Vesterinen (HUP), and Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor Synnøve Bendixsen (NJMR)

Presentation of HUP
Meet the NJMR editorial team
Presentation of NJMR
NJMR best article prize award

11:30-11:45 Coffee

11:45-13:15 Parallel workshops IV

13:15-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Poetry by Kemê

Keynote by Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, What makes "Systemic Racism" Systemic?

Thursday 14 January 2021 (CET + 1)

9:00-16:00 Technical support and information available

10:00-11:30 Parallel workshops V

11:30-12:00 Closing of the conference

Artist Nora Sayyad

Announcement of the next NMR Conference and ETMU Conference

Final words

12:00-13:00 Farewell lunch and matchmaking

Post-conference

14:00-16:00 PhD workshop arranged by the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU)