Conference & Speaking Event

Conferences & Speaking Events: 

9.1.2025 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Henrika Ylirisku, Varpu Mehto, Verneri Valasmo & Riikka Hohti: Objects of affection: Playful encounters with stuffed animal toys, taxidermy, and atmospheres. Conference paper an a workshop. 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI), Edinburgh, UK.

11.2024 Multispecies and Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Education Research- Graduate Course , University of Helsinki, Faculty of Education.

22.11.20240 Kuvis x Mieli tuotti oivalluksia ja osaamista (Kuvis x Meili Produced Insights & Expertise), Guest Speaker- Matters of Empathy.

28.10- 25.11.2024 Creative Methodologies - Graduate Course, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Education

10.2024 Visual Research Methodologies in Educational Sciences- Gradute Course, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Education.

22.11.2024 Riikka Hohti, Varpu Mehto, Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Verneri Valasmo & Henrika Ylirisku: Kasvatus: ihmiskeskeinen voimakenttä. Eläintarhan ja museon ilmapiirit ja näyttämöt. Conference paper. FERA 2024, Turku.

22.10.2024 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas: Deathly Encounters. Ars Morendi –art workshop . Cultural Center Stoa, Helsinki.

28.8.2024 Riikka Hohti, Varpu Mehto, Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Verneri Valasmo & Henrika Ylirisku: Atmospheric forcefields: Stages and margins in anthropocentric education. Conference paper. 12th New Materialisms Conference: Intersectional Materialisms. Maynooth, Irlanti.

8.2.2024 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas: Empathy Software Upgrade? Conference presentation. Aikuiskasvatuksen Tutkimuspäivat (Adult Education Research Day), Helsinki, Finland.

10.1.2024 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Henrika Ylirisku, Varpu Mehto, Verneri Valasmo & Riikka Hohti: Multispecies speculative design and the peculiar ethics of a Natureculture Research Station. Conference paper and a workshop. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI), Helsinki, Finland.

15.12.2023 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas: Anti-narrative video artworks presents: What is Empathy? Konferenssiesitelmä, Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät 2023, Espoo, Finland.

28.8-1.9.2023- Creative Methods - Intesive Graduate Course, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Education

5.10.2023 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Riikka Hohti,  Henrika Ylirisku, Verneri Valasmo & Varpu Mehto: The building of a Natureculture Research Station: A multispecies design for more-than-human worlds. Conference paper, (Un)Common Worlds III: Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anhropocenes, Oulu, Finland.

27.1.2023 Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas: Matter(s) of Empathy in Art Education & Research. Doctoral defence, Helsingin yliopisto, kasvatustieteellinen tiedekunta.

Antroposeenin lapset (ATMOSPHERES): Project presentation and a workshop on multispecies storytelling (with Riikka Hohti, Henrika Ylirisku, Varpu Mehto, and Verneri Valasmo) Research Day Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

Children of the Anthropocene – Environmental atmospheres and educational contexts in “ruins” (with Riikka Hohti, Henrika Ylirisku, Verneri Valasmo, Varpu Mehto) 24.11.2022, Finnish Education Research Association (FERA), Oulu, Finland  23.-24.11.2023

Composting arts-based methods into posthuman narratives. 24.11.2023, Finnish Education Research Association, Oulu, Finland, 23.-24.11.2022

EDUCATION BEYOND THE HUMAN -reading group

3.10.2022 Antroposeenin lapset (ATMOSPHERES): Kickoff seminar and a seagull workshop, University of Helsinki.

A complex multi-faceted construct: Assessing adolescent understanding of empathy in 21st Century context, 22.3.2019, International Journal of Art & Design Education (IJADE), Goldsmiths, London, 22.-23.2.2019

Youth Desktop Documentaries Presents: “What is Empathy?” 28.7.2018, USSEA/InSEA Regional Conference: Building a Civil Society through Art. Wichita State University, Kansas USA. 27.-29.7.2018

Visual Literacy, Youth, and Identity Formation, 20.6.2018, INT ER VEN TIO NS: InSea Congress, Scientific and Social Interventions in Art Education, Aalto, Finland, 18.-21.6.2018

4th Conference on Arts-based Research and Artist Research: Rethinking arts-based research, artistic research -and global/local communities.  School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland (June 28-30, 2016).

InSEA Regional Conference Vienna 2016. Art and Design Education in Times of Change University of Applied Arts Vienna 22–24 September 2016

Deconstructing the Superhero, 23.3.2013, Missouri Art Education Association, Springfield Missouri, 22.-23.3.2013