Gambling, Casinos and the Public Good - International Research Conference (September 26, 2013), Helsinki

Gambling, Casinos and the Public Good –

International Research Conference

September 26, 2013

At the Ateneum Art Museum

Ateneum Hall

Kaivokatu 2

00100 Helsinki, Finland

The purpose of the third international research conference is to analyze the impact of casino gambling from operational, legal, political, social, and cultural perspectives in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The presentations focus on legal and illegal gambling in brick and mortar as well as online casinos, casino gambling operation in modern societies and cultures, problem gambling in casinos, and the importance of the public good.

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Conference Program

09.00 Pekka Hakkarainen (Head of Department, THL): Opening words

Legal and Illegal Gambling

Chair: Risto Eräsaari

09.15 Virve Pöysti (University of Helsinki, FIN): Online Casinos – Finnish and French Models

09.35 Jeanne Piedallu (Université Paris Descartes Sorbonne, FR): Ethnography of Clandestine Poker

10.00 Coffee Break

Public Good, Issues and Impacts
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma


10.30 Risto Eräsaari (University of Helsinki, FIN): The Goodness of Private and Collective Good

11.15 Johanna Järvinen-Tassopoulos (THL, FIN): The Border Casino Case - Benefits, Costs and the Downsides

11.45 Lunch (self-paid)

Regulation and Responsible Gambling
Chair: Pekka Hakkarainen

12.45 Linda Hancock (Deakin University, AU): Regulatory Failure? What Casino Workers Say About Responsible Gambling at the Largest Casino in the Southern Hemisphere

13.30 Sytze F. Kingma (University of Amsterdam, NL): The Paradoxes of Responsible Gambling

14.15 Coffee break

Politics and Policies

Chair: Johanna Järvinen-Tassopoulos

14.45 Heidi Sinclair (University of Cape Town, ZA): The National Responsible Gambling Program of South-Africa

15.30 Belle Gavriel Fried (Tel-Aviv University, IL) Gambling Arena in Israel, and the Uniqueness of the Israeli Casino Debate

16.15 Concluding remarks
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Abstracts, brief bios, and presentations:
http://www.thl.fi/fi_FI/web/fi/tutkimus/hankkeet/rahapelitutkimus/seminaarit_ja_konferenssit/gambling

You are warmly welcome!

No registration fee.

If you have any questions, please contact Minna Leppänen (minna.leppanen@thl.fi) or Johanna Järvinen-Tassopoulos (johanna.jarvinen-tassopoulos@thl.fi).