Program

Thursday 24.4.2025 (Thursday’s program is in Finnish)

11.30-12.30 Registration (Aurora building lobby, entrance B)

• Artist Johanna Turunen’s Open Guest Book Artwork

12.30-12.45 Opening session (AU100 auditorium)

• Welcome: Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Chair of the Board, Society for Cultural Policy Research in Finland
• Musical performance: Violinists from the Joensuu Conservatory
• Opening words: Professor Mikko Jakonen, University of Eastern Finland

12:45–13:45 Keynote Juhana Venäläinen, Kulttuurin talous ja omistamisen muuttuvat mielikuvastot
Cultural Policy Research Yearbook’s Celebratory Lecture (AU100 auditorium)
14:00–15:30 Session 1 (AU 206, AU 207, AU 208, AU 209)
15:30–16:00 Cultural Policy Research Yearbook’s presentation session, coffee (AU100 upper lobby)
16:30–17:30 Panel discussion: Spaces for Art and Culture in Joensuu (Cultural Center Ahjo, Kirkkokatu 23)
19.00–20.30 Reception, the City of Joensuu (Joensuu city administration building, Torikatu 19A, 2. floor.)

Friday 24.4.2025

9:10-9:15 Musical performance: Violinists from the Joensuu Conservatory (AU100 auditorium)
9:15–10:15 Keynote: Ann-Sofie Köping: Entrepreneurs within art and culture. Stories of work and organizing within the Swedish art field (AU100 auditorum)
10:30–12:00 Session 2 (English session available) (AU 207, AU 208, AU 209)
12:00 –12:45 Lunch (not provided)
12:45–14:15 Session 3 (English session available)  (AU 207, AU 208, AU 209)
14.15-14.30 Conference closing (AU 206)