Book Launch
The University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins […]
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’
Thematic week: History of Human Rights
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human
Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the
Boyhood. Twelve Years on Film
“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei,
Migrants in Translation
Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly
Governing Refugees. Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
I was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it”
The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil
Tsing and Descola in videos! #CFAS
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired
Happenings
The second Helsinki Knots Symposium: 23 October 2015
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between