Programme23March

Intimate Relations in the Context of (Im)Mobility and Migration; Suvi Lensu and Saara Toukolehto

• Fleeing Syria for love – Relational care in a runaway/refugee marriage in a Jordanian city. Sandra Nasser El-Dine, University of Tampere, Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME)
• Ban on hitting, Language Use, and Independent Children: Perceptions of transforming parent-child relationships among Kiribati migrants in New Zealand. Petra Autio, University of Helsinki
• Between Knowledge and Intimacy: Examining the Experiences of International Scholars in Japan and Latvia. Ieva Puzo, Rīga Stradiņš University
  

Anthropologies (of Aging) Through and Beyond Personhood; Christine Verbruggen and Annette Leibing and Jessica Robbins-Panko

• Remembered Relations and Relations of Remembrance: How Does Relationality Matter in Late-Life Reminiscence?. Jessica Robbins-Panko, Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology, Wayne State
• The Shadow of Dementia: Affective Temporalities of Suspected Dementia. Shvat Eilat, Tel Aviv University
• Neither Humanist Nor Post-human Personhood - ‘Alienation’ for Dementia Care. Annette Leibing, U Montreal
• Towards a multi-species understanding of personhood in later life. Nick Jenkins, University of the West of Schotland
• Re-membering the Uncanny: Crafting Possible Anthropologies Alongside Personhood (With Dementia). Christine Verbruggen, KU Leuven
• Discussant: Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Binghamton University

Politics of kinning and de-kinning: Conjunctions of kinship, care and the state; Katja Uusihakala and Hanna Rask and Anna Pivovarova

• Resourcing of child welfare services as a site of settler colonial de-kinning: Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case on First Nations child welfare . Hanna Rask, University of Helsinki
• “I will try my best”: familism, gender, and the state in making kinning through IVF journeys in China. Tianqi Huang, University of Cambridge
• Households, caring and the Ethiopian state: practices and discourses on women's domestic work. Silvia Cirillo, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
  
• Doing family among the young LGBTQ adults in Lebanon. Laura Menard, University of Portsmouth
• Kinning by other means: registering citizens by creating papered kin among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa . Saana Hansen, University of Helsinki

Infrastructures as Relations; Ria-Maria Adams and Philipp Budka 

• Fence infrastructure in the Danish-German Borderlands: Competition for the right-to-define. Annika Pohl Harrison, Aarhus University
• What does Permafrost mean to you? Inuvialuit and Gwich’in First Nation knowledge holders’ perceptions of a thawing relation. Susanna Gartler, University of Vienna
• The politics and poetics of comparison: Exploring geographies of Arctic transport infrastructure. Alexis Sancho Reinoso, University of Vienna
• Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada. Philipp Budka, University of Vienna
  

What is climate-related? Local perceptions of causality, change and crisis; Timo Kallinen and Jenni Mölkänen

• Heat and climate change: Local perceptions from Eastern Europe. Zofia Bieńkowska, University of Warsaw
• Ticks, forest and ecological crisis: An anthropological study of health practices and discourses among immigrants in Finland from a posthumanist perspective. Alicja Staniszewska, University of Jyväskylä
• Windbreaks and firebelts: Local perceptions and preparedness for environmental destruction in the forest belt of Ghana. Timo Kallinen, University of Eastern Finland
• Changing weather, religion and remaking social relations among Christians in rural northeastern Madagascar. Jenni Mölkänen, University of Eastern Finland
• Causes and effects of yeayer nibiret: climate change perceptions in 11 kebele in Ethiopia. Valentina Acquafredda, University of Urbino

Intimate Relations in the Context of (Im)Mobility and Migration; Suvi Lensu and Saara Toukolehto

• The Intimate Hope and Futurity of Queer Migrants in Kampala, Uganda. Austin Bryan, Northwestern University
• Encrypted Chat Apps and Digital Mutuality in Africa. Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Boston University
• Weddings in Northern Uganda: Social Capital, Social Contagion in a Neoliberal Economy. Stephen Langole, Gulu University
  

Anthropologies of failure; Tiina Järvi

• ‘They always seemed to be disappearing’: the failure of ethnography with the Baining, New Britain, PNG. Enzo Hamel, University of East Anglia, PhD Student
• Meanders of accountability. The management of failure in a corporate environment. Marta Songin-Mokrzan, University of Lodz
• Failure as a negative relation: car accidents on the Kolyma roads. Asya Karaseva, University of Tartu, PhD student
• Failures of a state: approaching state failure anthropologically. Tiina Järvi, DSocSci, Tampere University, postdoctoral researcher

Politics of kinning and de-kinning: Conjunctions of kinship, care and the state; Katja Uusihakala and Hanna Rask and Anna Pivovarova

• Politics of care and moral reproduction in Belarusian countryside: futural antagonisms of state and kinship. Roman Urbanowicz, University of Helsinki
  
• Thickening the plot: care, emplotment and the claim for kinship in mother’s lawsuit against the state after stillborn burial in a mass grave. Shvat Eilat, Tel Aviv University
• Memory, time and temporality of kinship in foster care stories. Anna Pivovarova, University of Helsinki
• Temporality and ambivalence of kinship: Politics of kinning in the lives of late colonial British child migrants . Katja Uusihakala, University of Helsinki
  

Infrastructures as Relations; Ria-Maria Adams and Philipp Budka

• “The railway brings China closer, but also further away”: The Laos-China Railway and the (re)making of neighbour relations. Phill Wilcox, Bielefeld University
• The time of the operator: A missing piece in the social study of telecommunication and infrastructure. Joachim Otto Habeck, Hamburg University
• Empathy and/or Abjection: (Digital) infrastructural relationalities in Pakistan’s social inclusion assemblage. Ali Mohsin, Geneva Graduate Institute
• Digital infrastructures, imaginations and futures in the Everest tourism industry. Jolynna Sinanan, University of Manchester

Relationships and Resilience; John P. Ziker and Elspeth Ready

• Separating the family for the sake of collective wellbeing: Processes of social resilience in the context of an economic crisis in Argentina. Sara Kauko
• Resilience to Whom? Conflicts of Wind Resilience Between Agents on Penghu archipelago, Taiwan. Yaqing Zhan
• Maps and Search and Rescue in the Arctic: more-than-human interactions in an incident response. Virga Popovaitė
• Towards a Resilient Neo-animist Paradigm of Resource Circulation. Eric Arnould
• Somatic traits and economic transfers: giving and taking strategies across social gradients. Karl Mertens

Algorithmic (re)configurations; Sonja Trifuljesko and Tuukka Lehtiniemi

• Human-Technology Relations in Coding Processes: Using Postphenomenology to Analyze Algorithmic Systems. Tamara Gupper, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Cyborg publics and spheres: Considering Haraway’s cyborg theory to understand the algorithmic and hybrid public sphere. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, University of Helsinki
• Queer Sonic Fingerprints: Working with genetic algorithms between anthropology and sound art. Isabel Bredenbröker, Humboldt Universität Berlin and Adam Pultz Melbye, Queen's University Belfast
• Engagement and emotions in game data work. Taina Myöhänen, Tampere University
• Algorithms are a Mystery to Us: Algorithmic Visibility & Journalistic Freedom of Expression on YouTube and TikTok. Anumita Goswami, Tampere University

Relations in the Physical Absence: Dead and Disappeared Persons; Saila Kivilahti Kivilahti and Ville Laakkonen

• Relationality of Knowledge: Migrant Disappearances in the Western Mediterranean. Saila Kivilahti, Tampere University
• Dreams of the Deceased – Meanings and Interpretations. Silja Heikkilä, Independent Researcher
• Harmful Presence, Ignorant Absence: The Hauntings of UC Berkeley. Lærke Cecilie Anbert, Aarhus University
• Abhorrent Anomalies: Unknowability in Refugee and Migrant Disappearances and Border Deaths. Ville Laakkonen, Tampere University

Infrastructures as Relations; Ria-Maria Adams and Philipp Budka

• A heritage, a sense of locality or just a commodity? The healing infrastructures of modern day Zdrój spa, Poland. Hubert Wierciński, University of Warsaw
• Devils, “coffins” and saunas – Exploring the dynamics of human-subterranean relations in Finnish underground mines. Teresa Komu, University of Lapland
• Relating to wind energy infrastructures in the Finnish North. Anna Varfolomeeva, University of Helsinki
• Relational infrastructuring: Precarious presence and the co-constitution of urban spaces, lives, and governance in Windhoek. Lalli Metsola, University of Helsinki

Relationships and Resilience; John P. Ziker and Elspeth Ready

• Resilience as selective independence in the Canadian Arctic. Franz Krause
• Variation in foraging returns among Inuit harvesters. Friederike Hillemann and Elspeth Ready
• The structure of subsistence risk-management networks. Elspeth Ready and James Holland Jones
• Social Support Networks, Household Structure, and Changing Livelihoods in Ulukhaktok, NT. Peter Collings and Friederike Hillemann
• Connectedness and Social Capital in Taimyr. John Ziker