International Conference

9.-10.2.2012

Helsinki, Finland

Call for Papers (pdf)
Poster (pdf, 2 MB)
UPDATED Programme and working group locations!
The conference brings together development researchers, practitioners, civil society actors and policy makers to rethink, debate and reframe the interlinkages between development and citizenship.

Friday 10.2.2012

9.00-11.00 Plenary session (Room 104)

* Presentation: Dr. Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge: Why is ‘citizenship’ important to ‘development’?

Discussion

11.00-12.00 Lunch

12.00-14.30 Working groups

(2) Environmental risk and environmental citizenship (Room 401)
(3)
Negotiating culture, identity and education in a global world (Room 208)
(4)
Religion and development in the Global South (Room 405)
(5)
The dynamics of citizen participation in a global world (Room 313)
(6)
Citizenship and transnational belonging (Room 312)
(7)
Education and the changing forms of citizenship (Room 505)
(8) North-South learning and citizenship transformations (Room 104)

14.30 Coffee

14.45-16.45 Plenary session: “Generations of Global Citizenship in Action” (Room 104)

Prof. Carles Feixa Pàmpols, Catedràtic d’Antropologia Social University of Lleida, Catalonia-Spain

Dr Geoffrey Pleyers, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Moderator: Prof. Teivo Teivainen, University of Helsinki

In addition: Comment from the Finnish Youth Research Network

16.45-17.00 Closing of the Conference, Jussi Pakkasvirta, Head of the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki