
Lunch Seminars in Minority Studies Fall 2025 and Spring 2026
Welcome to the monthly lunch seminars in minority studies. The lunch seminar is a live-streamed physical seminar and can be followed via Zoom. You can find the Zoom link here: here.
Välkommen till de månatliga lunchseminarierna i minoritetsstudier. Lunchseminariet ordnas på Arken men i hybrid form och kan även följas online via Zoom. Du hittar Zoom länken här.
17.9 Isa Hukka, Cripping Identity. On the Philosophy of Disability.
Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Seminar room Camera Obscura (E201), Arken, Åbo Akademi.
15.10 Malin Ekelund, Adjudicating Asylum Claims of Sexual or Gender Minority Applicants”? Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Seminar room Camera Obscura (E201), Arken, Åbo Akademi.
19.11: Helena Krohn, University of Helsinki, ”Deathscaping Nonreligion”, Time: 12:00-13:00. Place:
Camera Obscura (E201), Arken, Åbo Akademi.
17.12 Anna Vuorinne, University of Turku. ”Diversity in Finnish comics history: On queer humour and activism in comics published in Seta’s magazine”. Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Camera Obscura (E201), Arken, Åbo Akademi.
21.1 Jagat Kunwar, Linguistic Gatekeeping in Recruitment: Structural and Symbolic Mechanisms in Host-Language-Dominant Labour Markets,12:00-13:00, Camera Obscura (E201), Arken Åbo Akademi.
18.2 Minna Seikkula, University of Helsinki, Statecraft of differential inclusion: the berry industry linked migration as an example of legally cheap labour. Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Seminar room Camera Obscura (E201), Arken, Åbo Akademi.
18.3 Olivia Maury, University of Helsinki,
Racialized Geographies of Labour: The Case of
Food Delivery Workers. Time: 12.00-14.00, Camera
Obscura (E201) Arken, Åbo Akademi.
15.4 Jutta Ahlbeck, Åbo Akademi, Loud, but Silent: Disability and Childhood, ca. 1920-1960 / funded by The Kone Foundation. Place: Källan (C201) Arken, Åbo Akademi.
13.5 Kari Silvola, The Posthumous Stamps of Tom of Finland: Tracing Queer Histories from Homoerotic Mail-Order to Cruising during the Cold War. Jyväskylä University, Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Camera Obscura (E201) Arken, Åbo Akademi.

