WED, 6 May (Detailed schedule for Wednesday)
12:00 – 16:00 ESN afternoon, PinniB 3107
13:00 – 15:00 Workshop 25.
17.00 – 18.30 Panel Discussion (only in finnish): The Finnish Review of Political Economy’s Panel: The Political Economy of Polycrisis
THU, 7 May (Detailed schedule for Thursday)
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 (Detailed schedule for Friday)
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
MEET THE EDITORS
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.
THE FINNISH REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY’S PANEL DISCUSSION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POLYCRISIS (unfortunately only in Finnish)
Wednesday, May 6, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Restaurant Telakka, upstairs (Tullikamarin aukio 3, Tampere)
The prevailing world order has drifted into a polycrisis, where political, economic, social, and ecological crises intertwine and reinforce each other.
The global polycrisis is underpinned by diverse political-economic structures, interdependencies, and tensions. How do forms of production and finance, power relations, and the global division of labour fuel interconnected crises? What historical developments and dynamics drive the polycrisis? How is the polycrisis visible locally, such as in Finland? Who benefits from the crises and who bears the costs? How could the polycrisis be overcome?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed in the discussion organized by the Finnish Review of Political Economy. Political economy research helps to understand the polycrisis by examining the political and economic forces behind the intertwined crises.
The panelists are Ville Lähde (BIOS), Otto Kyyrönen (UTAK), and Anna Rajala and Tiina Vaittinen, who have written under the joint pen name Annastiina Rajala-Vaittinen. The discussion will be moderated by Konsta Kotilainen and Markus Ojala, the editors of the Finnish Review of Political Economy.
The discussion will be organized as part of the Finnish Political Science Association’s Annual Conference 2026. The event is open to participants of the conference, students, and the general public. There will also be time for audience questions after the panel.
The event is organized by the Finnish Review of Political Economy, a scientific, peer-reviewed journal that publishes social scientific research on economic phenomena, economic policy, and political economy. The event is sponsored by the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing. Their sponsorship is enabled by royalties collected from domestic scientific publications by the copyright organization Kopiosto.