Transnational Relations in the Contemporary World

Organizer: Research group of Transnationalisation, Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism (TRANS-NET), School of Education, University of Tampere

Programme

9.15-9.35 Opening of proceedings: Migrant transnationalism
Professor Pirkko Pitkänen, School of Education, University of Tampere

9.35-10.45 Transnational relations in the Estonian-Finnish space
Researcher Mari-Liis Jakobson, Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Tallinn University
& Researcher Pauliina Järvinen-Alenius, School of Education, University of Tampere

10.45-11.00 Discussion

11.00-11.45 Ruptures of Nostalgia:  Migration, Marriage and the Punjabi Transnational Public     
Assistant Professor  V.J. Varghese, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India

11.45-12.00 Discussion

12-13 Lunch break

13.00-13.45 Transnationalism and methodological nationalism
Assistant Professor Leif Kalev, Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Tallinn University

13.45-14.00 Discussion

14.00-14.30   Transnational kinship across Poland and Finland.
Researcher Anna Matyska, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tampere

14.30-14.45 Discussion

14.45-15.15 Closing remarks
Researcher Mika Raunio, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tampere                                                                                                                          

Further information
Dr. Virve Kallioniemi-Chambers
School of Education 
virve.kallioniemi-chambers@uta.fi