Unfolding home-making: Neighbourhoods, shared housing, and unexpected intimacies

Welcome to an open seminar on-site on Joensuu campus, and online via Teams.

The event is funded by the BOMOCULT research community and co-organised by two UEF research projects Precarious intimate infrastructures of migration and work (funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation) and Gender and sexuality in Finnish communal living (funded by the Kone Foundation).
 

Seminar programme

Session 1

9.30–10.50: Opening words and keynote (streaming not available)

Professor Päivi Kymäläinen, Tampere University:
Lived legalities of Housing First units

11.00–12.30: Presentations (streaming begins)

Doctoral researcher, M.Soc.Sci Katariina Kotila, University of Eastern Finland:
Young adults' sense of home

Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Anna Heinonen, University of Eastern Finland:
Spatial and sensory intimacies in Finnish communal living

Session 2

13.30–14.45 Keynote

Senior researcher, Docent Olga Tkatch, University of Helsinki:
The housing-neighbourhood nexus in migration and displacement: crafting spaces of belonging

14.45–15.15 Coffee

15.15–16.45 Presentations

Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Tuomo Alhojärvi, University of Eastern Finland:
White ecology: Finnish imaginaries of climate migration and infrastructuring a post-dystopian home

Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Laura Mankki, University of Eastern Finland:
Unfolding precarious intimate infrastructures in migrants’ housing and living arrangements

Closing of the seminar.

For further information, please contact Anna Heinonen, email [email protected].