There are not many working days left until the seasonal holidays, but I managed to squeeze in a small trip to the Baltics in my schedule. UNESCO invited me to be a keynote speaker at…
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Yesterday, I was invited to attend two panel discussions, first one at the Human Rights Days (MR-dagarna) in Helsingborg and another at the inaugural event of a newly established local media hub in Gothenburg. Both…
Week 43 is officially the Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24–31 October) coordinated by UNESCO. The topic of this year’s edition focuses on digital platforms, with the title “Media and Information Literacy in Digital…
Last week, my intensive week in Stockholm culminated with the opportunity to announce a new thesis competition for students in higher education. The Sweden-Finnish Delegation introduced a thesis competition, with an amount of 10 000…
Yesterday, I had a different task as a webinar moderator from the usual. We organized a memorial webinar in honour of the linguistic researcher Tove Skutnabb-Kangas who passed away in May. With all personal stories, it…
The last week of September is always very bookish in Gothenburg. The Gothenburg Book Fair, which was arranged from 28 September to 1 October, has become an institution as part of the cultural offerings in…
The most recent special issue of Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier, the leading Finnish multicultural journal in cultural studies that I’m currently an editor-in-chief of, deals with quantification and measurability – it is called “the cultures of…
A couple of months ago, I made a post about my relationship to minority politics that could have been regarded as a closure of a chapter. Well, it was, but a new chapter opened sooner…
Last week, having delivered a keynote lecture on artificial intelligence and academic publishing in my hotel room in Finland, I got a comment regarding my approach. The commentator said that this was the first time…
This year’s intensive course for Swedish and Finnish journalism students had energy journalism as its theme. The intensive course, organized at Hanaholmen, the cultural centre for Sweden and Finland, is part of a course programme…
Cultural journalism has a long tradition in daily newspapers and cultural magazines, but it has been systematically neither produced nor studied in local newspapers. This marked the starting point for a recent study that examined…
Finnish language is one of the national minority languages in Sweden. The number of speakers has, however, decreased during the past decades. After the governmental initiatives of language revitalization – of which the most visible…