Seminar February 11, 2025:
Organizing, communication and temporalities
We are very delighted to host Joëlle Basque from Université TÉLUQ for a one day seminar in Helsinki in connection to the forthcoming VAKKI conference. We would like to invite you all to join us for a one day seminar on Organizing, communication and temporalities On Tuesday February 11, 2025 at the center campus of the University of Helsinki. The program consists of six presentations that explore communication, temporalities, and communicative materialization of time and futures in organizing and collective action. There will also be time reserved for facilitated discussions.
One day seminar:
Organizing, communication and temporalities
University of Helsinki Feb 11 2025
Programme
09:30–10:00 Welcome and coffee (place)
10:00–12:00 Session 1: Constituting temporalities in collective action
Joëlle Basque & Nicolas Bencherki:
“Some day, we’ll talk about it”: Temporal Weaving for Strategy and Collective Action
Kaisa Lindholm et al.
Evoking the Past to Fight the Future: Links and References as Materializations of Organizational Memory in Platformed Organizing
Visa Penttilä, Frank den Hond, Martin Fougère & Nikodemus Solitander
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation
Lunch 12:00
13:30-15:30 Session 2: Materializing time and futures
Tomi Laapotti & Mitra Raappana
Materialization Processes Throughout Space and Time – What’s the Time?
Heidi Hirsto & Joëlle Basque
Constructing futures in crowdfunding discourse
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen & Meri Frig
Greening the cloud: Roles, responsibilities and future imaginaries of AI infrastructure companies
The seminar is jointly organized by two Research Council of Finland projects: Shifting investment cultures in digital spaces (University of Vaasa) and GET:ORG Generative Technologies in Communicative Organizing (Universities of Helsinki, Tampere and Jyväskylä).
Organizing, communication and temporalities
University of Helsinki Feb 11 2025
Programme
09:30–10:00 Welcome and coffee (place)
10:00–12:00 Session 1: Constituting temporalities in collective action
Joëlle Basque & Nicolas Bencherki:
“Some day, we’ll talk about it”: Temporal Weaving for Strategy and Collective Action
Kaisa Lindholm et al.
Evoking the Past to Fight the Future: Links and References as Materializations of Organizational Memory in Platformed Organizing
Visa Penttilä, Frank den Hond, Martin Fougère & Nikodemus Solitander
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation
Lunch 12:00
13:30-15:30 Session 2: Materializing time and futures
Tomi Laapotti & Mitra Raappana
Materialization Processes Throughout Space and Time – What’s the Time?
Heidi Hirsto & Joëlle Basque
Constructing futures in crowdfunding discourse
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen & Meri Frig
Greening the cloud: Roles, responsibilities and future imaginaries of AI infrastructure companies
The seminar is jointly organized by two Research Council of Finland projects: Shifting investment cultures in digital spaces (University of Vaasa) and GET:ORG Generative Technologies in Communicative Organizing (Universities of Helsinki, Tampere and Jyväskylä).