GENDER EQUALITY AS A DIVERSE PHENOMENON (5 ECTS) spring 2026
online course in Moodle and lectures in Zoom: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/61482549636
Tuesday afternoons at 13:15-14:45 o’clock in Sweden/Norway and 14:15-15:45 o’clock in Finland.
20.1.
Mervi Heikkinen, UOulu: “Welcome and INFO on gender equality as a diverse phenomenon course”
Hanna Peltomaa, ULapland: “Non-heterosexual people’s social space in Lapland”
Aira Huttunen, UOulu: "Information sharing barriers and information evaluation of Finnish transgender people"
27.1.
Mika Venhola, Oulu University Hospital: “Intersex, ethics and medicine”
Lecture will be delivered onsite in Kontinkangas campus – room 105A.
Online reading materials will be available in Moodle.
3.2.
Torjer Olsson, Sámi-institute UiT: “Gender in Sápmi – overview and discussion”
Additional program: a visit to Oulu Art Museum: Eanangiella – Voice of the Land, https://www.ouka.fi/en/news/major-exhibition-sami-art-and-duodji-opens-european-capital-culture-year-oulu-art-museum#
Pre-recorded lectures:
Marjut Pietiläinen, Statistics Finland: “Results of the 7th Finnish Gender Equality Barometer 2024”
Heli Siltala, UOulu: “Family violence as a public health problem”
10.2.
Anastasia Emelyanova, UOulu: ”Gender aspect of Arctic demography”
Anna Rönkä, UOulu: “Gender Equality Work in the Arctic”
17.2.
Mervi Heikkinen, UOulu: “Gender in Arctic Knowledge Production”
Discussion on students’ one page course assignment proposals.
24.2. Winter break ULapland – no teaching / pre-recorded videos
Seija Jalagin, UOulu: “Gender equality and equity in Finland from 1070’s to the present”
Taina Cooke, UOulu: “University of Oulu Equality and Diversity Plan 2026-2029”
Aino Lääkkölä-Pyykkönen, UOulu: ”Fathers and Parental leave. Advancing Equality in Finnish Academia”
3.3. Winter break UOulu – no teaching / pre-recorded video
Firouz Gaini, UFaroe Islands: “Caring Fatherhood in the Nordic Atlantic”
10.3.
Janne Näkkäläjärvi, Sámi Education Centre & Ulla Timlin, UOulu: “Reindeer herder’s wellbeing”
Ilmari Miettunen, ULapland: ”Rethinking masculinities in the (m)antropocene with snow”
17.3.
Kirsti Lempiäinen, ULapland: ”Gender Equality Work in Academia”
Lilli Mittner, UiT: ”Gender Balance. A Condition for Sustainable Transformation?"
24.3.
Lena Abrahamsson, LTU: ”Arctic Futures”
Marja Matinmikko-Blue, UOulu: ”6G and sustainable development”