WED, 6 May
12:00 – 16:00 ESN afternoon, PinniB 3107
THU, 7 May
9:30 – 10:15 Registration for the event begins (Pinni B lobby)
10:15 – 12:30 Opening of the conference, awards and keynote speech, Pinni B1100 auditorium
- Greeting by Marko Seppänen, Dean of the Faculty of Management and Business
- Greeting by the Chair of the Finnish Political Science Association
- Political Science Association master’s thesis award and The Finnish National Election Study Consortium (FNES) award for innovative use of Finnish election study data
- Keynote lecture: Professor of International Politics Emilian Kavalski, Governing from Above: Platforms, Infrastructures, and Power in a Turbulent World
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Workshops I
15:30 – 16:30 Meet the Editors coffee break, Pinni B Lobby buffet
16:30 – 18:00 Workshops II
19:00 Conference dinner at Plevna Brewery Restaurant
FRI, 8 May
9:00 – 10:30 Workshops III
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break, Pinni B Lobby Buffet
11:00 – 12:30 Workshops IV
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Politiikasta.fi panel discussion
At the conference, participants will have the opportunity to meet the editors-in-chief and editorial teams of the publications of the Finnish Political Science Association. The Association’s publications will be presented at the conference during the coffee break on Thursday, 7 May. The Meet the Editors event has been funded by the Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishers.
The peer-reviewed journal Politiikka is the flagship of Finnish political science research. Founded in 1959 and now in its 68th volume, Politiikka publishes original political science manuscripts in Finnish and Swedish. Have you ever wanted to learn what goes into the editorial processes of an academic journal? Are you planning to publish in Politiikka? Now is your chance to ask the editorial team directly in a relaxed setting over coffee. During the 2025–2026 term, the journal’s editors-in-chief are University Lecturer Josefina Sipinen and Postdoctoral Researcher Jussi Westinen from Tampere University. The Managing Editor is Doctoral Researcher Aleksi Kivimaa.
Pro et Contra is the Finnish Political Science Association’s open-access, peer-reviewed English-language book series, published since 2020 in collaboration with Helsinki University Press. The series offers an opportunity to publish political science research in high-quality monograph form, reaching broader audiences than before. Its digital format also enables innovative multimedia content as part of book publishing. The Editor-in-Chief of the series is Docent Taru Haapala (Autonomous University of Madrid), and the Series Editor is Docent Anna Kronlund (University of Turku).
The award-winning Politiikasta.fi is the Finnish Political Science Association’s online magazine, whose mission is to popularize the social sciences, especially political science research. Politiikasta.fi makes research understandable, engaging, and useful. Politiikasta publishes articles and reviews by researchers and social scientists on current and timeless political issues and political science research. The magazine publishes in Finnish, Swedish, and English. It also produces a wide range of other content and engages in science communication activities, from podcasts to guest lectures and podcast production. In recent years, Politiikasta has also produced content in plain language. Come and learn more about science communication, perhaps you’ll be inspired to join the editorial team? The Editor-in-Chief of Politiikasta is Senior Researcher Mikko Leino (University of Turku), and the Managing Editor is Hanne Vuorela.