Nina Öhmanin teksti NAAS 2025 -konferenssista SAM Magazinessa: www.sammagazine.fi/object/5574b... @naas2025.bsky.social @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

It was such a privilege to chair Julie Sze's incredible keynote lecture at @naas2025.bsky.social !

In room PUB1, there was ”a poem” written by three people: ”There is no hope / There is always hope / They brought us hope.” The NAAS2025 conference committee wishes all participants safe travels! #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Bye bye, #Turku, with your tiny little robots! It’s been a great 5 days and a great experience at the #NAASpirations conference! Thanks to @naas2025.bsky.social and @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social for hosting such a great conference!

Thank you @naas2025 for a *superbly* organized conference, three days of great talks & inspiring keynotes, & such a lovely closing reception. #NAASpirations

Attended a zine-making workshop at NAAS 2025. We sat in companionable silence, listening to music, coloring, cutting, and pasting. It was a fun, relaxing, and refreshing way to think through the material I was presenting the next day. Definitely going to use this in the classroom #NAASpirations

#NAASpirations day 3 done. Hanging up my badge. Thanks and good night! #NAASpirations2025

The COLLAPSE is here! ”Aspiring Towards Collapse: Political Exit Movements and Imaginaries of the End of the World” with Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Mila Seppälä, Niko Heikkilä, and Jaakko Dickman. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

#NAASpirations conference keynote by Julie Sze. #NAASpirations2025

#NAASpirations conference closing by P. & T. Kolehmainen (not related). But there's still the after party, too! Many thanks to @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social who did most of the work and without whom @fasafinland.bsky.social couldn't have done this conference.

This is a really terrific organization and conference. Glad to participate this year and attend so many excellent panels.

The COLLAPSE is here! ”Aspiring Towards Collapse: Political Exit Movements and Imaginaries of the End of the World” with Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Mila Seppälä, Niko Heikkilä, and Jaakko Dickman. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

Belated from #naaspiration day 2- absolutely loved the zine making workshop

Emma Lähteenmäki passing the mic. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

Tuula Kolehmainen, Julia Niinistö, and Jaakko Dickman make sure that we can all commemorate these summer days by watching hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs (Kolehmainen and Niinistö in the picture). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social

Keynote by Julie Sze: ”Climate Justice Now!” Reetta Humalajoki chairing. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @fasafinland.bsky.social

Our conference assistants Johanna, Lauri, and Juho at the registration desk. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

Race, classic and cultural expressions panel at #NAASpirations with Sarah Gleeson-White, Justin Parks and @kolehmaistuula.bsky.social

I’m so grateful for these last few days at NAAS 2025 #naaspirations

Day 3 of #NAASpirations. Panel on Activism, Right, and cultural narratives with Panteleimon Tsikos, Kaisa Ilmonen and Olli Saukko. #NAASpirations2025

“Failures and Unfulfilled Dreams” with András Basa-Tamás, Elizabeth Gonzalez, and Jeden Tolentino. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

”Karl Marx in America: Author Meets Critics” with Andrew Hartman, J. Michelle Coghlan, Gregory Jones-Katz, and Niels Bjerre-Poulsen (Anders Bo Rasmussen as chair). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

A specter is haunting America! Great comments by @jmcoghlan.bsky.social on the exciting new book Karl Marx in America by @andrewhartman.bsky.social At @naas2025.bsky.social

The FASA board met at luch @naas2025.bsky.social . Mila Seppälä, Reetta Humalajoki, Elina Siltanen, Nina Öhman, Tuula Kolehmainen, and Vincent Veerbeek in the picture (Ari Räisänen and Pekka Kilpeläinen absent).

”Navigating Cultural Tensions: Aspirations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across a U.S. Public Higher Education System” with Sinikka Grant, David Cantaffa, and Ritu Radhakrishnan. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Suvi Innilä from the city of Turku gave a speech at the conference dinner. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 #VisitTurku #MeetTurku

The conference participants are welcomed to dinner at restaurant Grädda. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Post-second-conference-day-aperol 🥂 #NAASpirations #americanstudies #visitturku @naas2025.bsky.social @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

I gave a talk (with my hands, mostly) @naas2025.bsky.social . #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

A really interesting panel this afternoon in Turku #NAASpirations @fasafinland.bsky.social @naas2025.bsky.social

Day 2 of #NAASpirations. Nordic plenary with Nina Öhman from @fasafinland.bsky.social and Randall J. Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social, with Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social as chair. #NAASpirations2025

Nordic plenary by Randall J. Stephens and Nina Öhman. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

”What Remains of the Common: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics” with Mikko Tuhkanen, Tom Roach, and E. L. McCallum (Sinikka Grant as chair). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

”Imagined Geographies” with Nahum Welang, Jarkko Tanninen, Cathryn Halverson, and Katalin Kállay (Tuula Kolehmainen as chair). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

I also gave my own paper on Sally Wen Mao's Oculus, hyperreality, transmodernity and racism. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025. Photo by Tuula!

Talking in Finland about why it’s time to fight dirty for democracy. Can you tell how much I want to join a “girl gang”? At @naas2025.bsky.social #naaspirations

Marianne Kongerslev and Mikkel Jensen brought us the good news that the next NAAS conference will be held at Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2027! @aau.dk #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

The NAAS General Meeting was held today in Turku, and was chaired by the NAAS President Jørn Brøndal. The meeting minutes will be available on the NAAS website: sites.google.com/view/nordica...

”Aspirations and Failures at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” with Myrto Drizou, Jessica Hanssen, and Jordan Howie (Nina Öhman as chair). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

This week I am taking Arkansas history on the road from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to Turun yliopisto - University of Turku in Finland for the 2025 Nordic Association of American Studies conference 🇺🇸🇫🇮 #NAASpriations #NAASpirations2025

Keynote by Elisabeth Anker: ”fight dirty for democracy, it is time to go low” #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Keynote by Elisabeth Anker: ”We Gow Low.” #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social

Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️ #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

”Limits of Representation” with Elina Siltanen, Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, and Hải Nguyễn. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Nordic plenary, ”Incompossible Futures, Disrupted Presents: The Aspirations of Speculative Fiction” by Jenny Bonnevier and Steen Ledet Christiansen. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

Opening words by the Director of the JMC, Benita Heiskanen and President of FASA, Nina Öhman (Heiskanen in the picture). #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social

And Dr. Nina Öhman from @fasafinland.bsky.social

#NAASpirations conference opening with Prof. Benita Heiskanen from @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social

Happy to enjoy the first day of the #NAASpirations conference! @naas2025.bsky.social @johnmortoncenter.bsky.social #americanstudies

The conference started with a ”Feel Good Morning Flow.” This guided (light) physical activity will be available again on Friday morning at 8:45. #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025