Khruschevs in Hollywood

Khruschevs in Hollywood
Khrushchevs amid Hollywood charm in 1959

24 February 2012

Getting to Jyväskylä

As some of you have asked about how to get to Jyväskylä from Helsinki airport. Below is some simple advise, but please notice that timetables for mid-June are not available yet. Major changes are unlikely, so you can check connection e.g. from March and they will likely be the same in June, too:

TRAIN - Finnish trains are operated by a company called VR. To get a train to Jyväskylä you need to get to Tikkurila railway station by bus 61 or 61V from Helsinki-Vantaa aiport, in front of Terminal 2. Cost is 2,70€ and takes some 15 minutes. By train, it takes 3+ hours to reach Jyväskylä. Timetables can be found in English: http://www.vr.fi/en/index.html (From Tikkurila to Jyväskylä). Tickets can be bought online and printed beforehand.

BUS - buses run directly from airport to Jyväskylä. You'll find timetables from Matkahuolto-webpages:
http://matkahuolto.fi/en/ Starting place needs to be "Helsinki-Vantaa" and destination "Jyväskylä" (you get message "search gave several place names", but just press "search timetable" at the bottom of the page.

PLANE - planes between Jyväskylä and Helsinki are currently very cheap, cheaper than buses or train in many cases, but problem is that there are only few connection a day. You can check them from Flybe: http://www.flybe.com/ From Jyväskylä (Tikkakoski) airport you have a direct bus to the center for 5€. It leaves after passangers have had a chance to pick up their baggage.

In case of Tampere airport, there is bus connection to the center and best way to get to Jyväskylä is by train (1,5 hours).

For those coming from Russia, you need not to take your train all the way to Helsinki. Trip is substantively shorter if you exit in Kouvola and take a train (or bus) from there to Jyväskylä. You also save some money. Check Matkahuolto and VR webpages for timetables.

23 February 2012

Program outline

In order to help everyone plan their arrival and departure from Jyväskylä, you will find here a program outline. It is the structure that will be used in placing the panels and keynotes in the proper program that will be made public in early April.

Thursday
Opening at 10am
Panels 11am-4pm
Keynote 4-6pm
Evening reception

Friday
Panels 9-12 am
Keynote 1-3pm
Panels 3-6pm
Wine & Snacks

Saturday
Panels 9-12am
Keynote 1-3pm
Panels 3-6pm
Farewell party

On Thursday, there is a morning train from Helsinki and Tampere that will allow you to reach 10am session in time.

Pre-registration

Pre-registration for the conference participants as well as for the audience is now open. Everyone needs to register, even if you are presenting a paper in the conference. We need the information in order to prepare for the conference and for booking necessary venues. We strongly advice you to register as soon as you have made your travel arrangements and know when you will be arriving to and leaving from Jyväskylä.
Registration is done by filling this form: REGISTRATION.
You only need to register once.

Hotels in Jyväskylä

Participants are free to choose their accomodation in Jyväskylä.

Conference has negotiated rooms with fixed prices in three different hotels that are very centrally located (walk distance to university) that you can book on your own directly from the hotel (these rates are valid from June 13-18). There are:

Sokos Hotel Alexandra
Economy rooms 85€
Standard rooms 99€

Sokos hotel Jyväshovi
Standard rooms 99€

In case of sokos-hotels, books rooms via e-mail (sales.jyvaskyla@sokoshotels.fi) or call +358-20-1234640

Hotel Milton (lower price valid from Friday onwards):
single rooms 60/70€
double rooms 80/100€

Aforementioned hotel prices include plentiful breakfast buffet and free us of hotel sauna.
You need to have a refer code to have a room for this price. If you have lost the mail which had the refer code you can ask for it from the conference e-mail.

These quotas expire after 13 May, so we strongly recommend you book your room before that date as there other several other conferences in Jyväskylä at the time.

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Jyväskylä has naturally other hotels for which we don't have quotas, here are some:

Omena-hotel (breakfast optional)
rooms (can accomodate up to 4 persons) around 55€

Hotel Harju (prices include breakfast, rooms have bathroom & kitchenette)
singles 49€
double 60€

Furthermore, there is a Scandic hotel, Cumulus, as well as other Finnish and Scandinavian chains in Jyväskylä whose prices, however, are very similar to those of Sokos-hotels.