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Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luento marraskuussa 2023

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Lecture going on.

Professori Amanda Vickery aloitteemassa Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luentoaan. Apulaisprofessori Soile Ylivuori, viime vuoden luennoitsija, esittelee vierailijan.

Helsingin yliopiston historian oppiaineen vuosittainen Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luento muistuttaa Akateemikko Eino Jutikkalan (1907–2006) ja yleisemminkin aiempien historioitsijasukupolvien laajasta elämäntyöstä ja tuoda esiin nykyisten, eri uravaiheissa olevien tutkijoiden työtä historian parissa. Puhujaksi pyydetään vuoroin nuori väitellyt tutkija, kansainvälinen tutkija ja varttuneempi tutkija.

Tämänvuotinen, neljäs Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luento järjestetään pe 24.11.2023 klo 14-17. Tilaisuudessa puhujana on Prof. Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary University of London. Paikkana on Kielikeskuksen juhlasali. Tilaisuuden alussa on kahvitarjoilu.
https://tilavaraus.helsinki.fi/fi/keskusta/kielikeskus-fabianinkatu-26/kielikeskus-juhlasali

Amanda Vickery on varhaismodernin historian professori, jonka tutkimusaiheet ulottuvat myös moderniin aikaan. Hän on tutkinut laajasti sukupuolen ja perheen, sanojen ja esineiden histiraa. Hänen uusin hankkeensa on ”What Women Wanted. Women’s Hopes in Britain, 1945-c.1970”.

Ohjelma

13.45 – 14.15 Kahvi- ja pullatarjoilu / Refreshments

14.15 – 14.30 Prof. Laura Kolbe: Vuosikatsaus, gradupalkinnot / State of the Department, Thesis Awards

n. 14.30 Prof. Amanda Vickery: ”Making British Beauty:  Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970”

n. 16.30 – 17.00 Tilaisuus päättyy / Closing words

Esityksen otsikko ja tiivistelmä:

”Making British Beauty:  Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970”

This lecture examines the Miss Great Britain beauty pageant staged at Morecambe in Lancashire between 1945 and 1970.  A beauty contest may seem a retrograde event, to be reviled for vintage sexism, or dismissed for triviality. The Miss Great Britain contest was a highly visible performance of ideal femininity, hall-marking that which was desirable and conventional for post-war women.  It was not a bizarre spectacle remote from ordinary lives.  Before the rise of television and the package holiday, the seaside beauty contest was interwoven in the leisure and parochial culture of the working and lower middle classes, ‘as big a part of British summers as ice creams and donkey rides’. Rather than simply sit in judgment on past sexisms, this lecture recreates a lost mentality. Miss Great Britain was run by the Publicity Department of Morecambe Borough Council whose papers are now in the Lancashire Archives.  Tens of thousands of photographs and application forms document the bodies, origins and occupations of every single entrant for 25 years. They have been barely used by historians, but they are a portal to a vanished world.  Miss Great Britain sustained highly specific conventions of femininity: white, Anglo-Saxon and ladylike in the 1940s and 50s, graduating to white, Anglo-Saxon dolly birds in the 1960s and 70s. Sexism was woven into the beauty contest, but so was the possibility that a nice girl might exhibit an appropriately disciplined body without shame. The contestants flaunted their figures and self-belief, in a manner unthinkable for their grandmothers.

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Tietoa aiempien vuosien Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luennoista ja gradupalkinnoista:  https://blogs.helsinki.fi/historia/tag/eino-jutikkala-luento/

 

 

 

 

 

ELBOW research project – histories of electricity, medicine, knowledge and experience

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Our associate professor Soile Ylivuori was awarded a five-year grant for her ELBOW research project a year ago, and the project is on the progress. Since the first of September, two new members joined the team, and now there is a five-member team working on the history of electricity, medicine, knowledge and experience.

Here, you can get to know the ELBOW project and its members.

What does ELBOW mean?

ELBOW comes from the words Medical Electricity, Embodied Experiences, and Knowledge Construction and the letters in these words. These are the key words that guide our research project.

So, the project explores the way people interacted with electricity in the context of medicine, how they experienced electricity through their bodies, and how they understood and produced knowledge on electricity based on their experiences. The time and place for this exploration is Europe and the Atlantic World during c.1740–1840.

What does ELBOW research project do?

ELBOW uses medical electricity as a window into examining not simply how scientific knowledge was constructed in the long eighteenth century—but more specifically, into the role of embodied experience in this process.

Who belongs to the ELBOW research team?

 

The ELBOW research team. Project leader Soile Ylivuori (left), doctoral researcher Edna Huotari, postdoctoral researcher Annika Raapke, university researcher Stefan Schröder, and research coordinator Lotta Vuorio

Associate professor Soile Ylivuori is the project leader of the ELBOW research project. By her side, there are three researchers working on the history of electricity, medicine, knowledge and experience – postdoctoral researcher Annika Raapke, university researcher Stefan Schröder, and doctoral researcher Edna Huotari. With the whole research team, various point of views on the subject and different times will be covered. Besides the researchers, research coordinator Lotta Vuorio belongs to the ELBOW research team.

Who supports the project financially?

The project is funded by the European Union, European Research Council (ERC) for years 2022–2027. The ERC Starting Grant is a grant scheme of the European Research Council targeted at promising research directors in the early stages of their careers, as is introduced here.

Where one can follow the project?

You can follow how the project evolves through social media (Facebook and Instagram) and the ELBOW website and blog.

Read more about the project in the following news article written by University of Helsinki: https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/tieteellisen-tiedon-rakentumisen-tutkimiseen-viisivuotinen-erc-rahoitus

Historical Travel and Communications in Finland, c. 1650-1917 (HISCOM)

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Liikkuvuus, tieverkosto ja viestintä Suomessa n. 1650-1917 (HISCOM) on saanut neljän vuoden rahoituksen Suomen Akatemialta. Suomen ja Pohjoismaiden historian professori Anu Lahtisen johtama hanke käyttää historiallista paikkatietoa sekä arkeologien ja historiantutkijoiden asiantuntemusta analysoidakseen historiallista muutosta laajan maantieteellisen tarkastelun ja paikallisten analyysien kautta. Selvitämme, miten tieverkostot muuttuivat, missä muutokset olivat merkittävimpiä ja mitä alueellisia eroja voidaan havaita. Tutkimus vie anayysin pääteiltä tarkastelemaan koko laajaa kyläteiden, talviteiden ja polkujen verkostoa sekä sitä, millainen merkitys teillä oli paikallisiin yhteisöihin sekä millainen merkitys paikallisilla yhteisöillä oli tieverkoston kehittymiseen.

Hanke toteutti vuonna 2022 Helsingin yliopiston tulevaisuusrahaston tuella pilottiprojektin, jonka havainnot ilmestyvät Suomen Keskiajan Arkeologian Seuran SKAS-lehdessä vuoden 2023 aikana. Syyskuussa 2023 käynnistyvä Akatemian rahoittama hanke tiedottaa toiminnastaan lukukauden alkaessa.

The project Historical Travel and Communications in Finland, c. 1650-1917 (HISCOM), funded by the Academy of Finland in 2023-2027, aims to bring in the plentiful cartographic evidence for historical roads from a series of Finnish seventeenth-, eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century map sources. Combining qualitative, contextual, and source critical analysis to mass-data analysis of the cartographic evidence, HISCOM will create a GIS road map database of late Early Modern (c. 1650-1809) and Autonomy Era (c. 1809-1917) Finland from various atlas sources. The project is led by Anu Lahtinen, Professor of Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki.

The methodological approaches to the digitisation of the Finnish atlas material were developed with reference to previous digitisation projects internationally and tested in a successful pilot project in 2022. More information will be available in the autumn 2023.

Kirjallisuutta / Literature

Oksanen, Eljas, Ida Saarenpää, Anu Lahtinen. Exploring Methodologies for Large Scale Digitisation of Historical Roadways: the HISCOM Project. SKAS 2/2022 (hyväksytty julkaistavaksi / accepted, forthcoming).

Looking back to think forward: Finland, Northern Europe, Eurasia

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The recent crises have made people to look at the event of the past, to see how and why societies have reacted rather differently to them. The reasons for present day reactions and solutions are often rooted in the past.

For example, while most European countries have outsourced their security of supply after the cold war era, Finnish National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA) still maintains large permanent reserves of standby emergency supplies. According to NESA, Finland has geographical characteristics that cause difficulties to the organisers of crisis preparedness and necessitates the upholding of permanent reserves.These include cold weather, long distances, remoteness from international centres of trade, and dependence on maritime transport.

This approach has a long history. The roots of Finnish national crisis preparedness can be traced past Finland’s independence, to its joint history with the Russian Empire and the Swedish Realm, and the basics have stayed the same for three hundred years. The security of supply aimed for the benefit of Finnish people has always been a combination of state-controlled reserves and cooperation with the private sector to encourage voluntary storing.

During the early modern centuries, the European states were primarily concerned with procuring and storing supplies for their armies. Furthermore, in most countries, both the maintenance of armies and the attempts to organize emergency supply for civilians were outsourced to merchants and other private entrepreneurs In Europe’s Nordic periphery, where winters were harsh, distances were long, population was scarce, and merchants had small resources, complete outsourcing of military and civilian supply was an impossibility, and government-regulated public granaries were a necessity.

Think Forward studies the ways in which the resilience of the present day society is connected to the past, highlighting the need to understand the processes that have enhanced confidence or that have failed to do so. The history of Northern crisis preparedness and security of supply is a theme with both national importance and connections to current international debates in the field of history, but which we know scarcely little about. We welcome new members and initiatives related to the topic – from the point of view of resilience, preparedness, maintenance, private life, gender, politics, diplomacy, security, &c.

This blog text is based on a project plan written by Juha-Matti Granqvist, Sampsa Hatakka and Anu Lahtinen, as well as on a presentation given by Anu Lahtinen in the online conference Geopolitics of the New Reality: Kazakhstani and Eurasian Experience, organized by The International Information Technologies University (IITU, www.iitu.kz), Department of Media Communications and History of Kazakhstan, on 7 December 2022.

See other Think Forward contributions:
https://tinyurl.com/ThnkFwd

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/historia/tag/think-forward/

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/projects/looking-back-to-think-forward-long-term-perspective-on-crisis-sig

Looking back to think forward. A project and a research network

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Looking Back to Think Forward: Long-term Perspective on Crisis signals and Resilience building (Think Forward) – Menneisyys tulevan tukena: Pitkän aikavälin näkökulma kriisin merkkeihin ja kriisinkestävyyteen

The past is marked by crisis – disruptions of a system, whether political, economic or environmental, challenging the existing equilibrium. Change is triggered by an external shock that is often considered sudden or unexpected, shaking the resilience of the society or a community. Most often, however, there have been at least weak signals that have been left unnoticed.

In the Nordic Countries in general and in Finland especially, crisis preparedness has always been critical. The roots of Finnish national crisis preparedness can be traced past Finland’s independence, to its joint history with the Russian Empire and the Swedish Realm, and the basics have stayed the same for three hundred years. The security of supply, for example, has always been a combination of state-controlled reserves and cooperation with the private sector to encourage voluntary storing.

During the early modern centuries, the European states were primarily concerned with procuring and storing supplies for their armies. Furthermore, in most countries, both the maintenance of armies and the attempts to organize emergency supply for civilians were outsourced to merchants and other private entrepreneurs In Europe’s Nordic periphery, where winters were harsh, distances were long, population was scarce, and merchants had small resources, complete outsourcing of military and civilian supply was an impossibility, and government-regulated public granaries were a necessity.

Think Forward studies the ways in which the resilience of the present day society is connected to the past, highlighting the need to understand the processes that have enhanced confidence or that have failed to do so. The history of Northern crisis preparedness and security of supply is a theme with both national importance and connections to current international debates in the field of history, but which we know scarcely little about. The aim of this project is to offer new, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art research on the subject. We welcome new members and initiatives related to the topic – from the point of view of resilience, preparedness, maintenance, private life, diplomacy, security, &c.

The first plans for the project have been jointly drafted in several application processes in the year 2020-2021. This summary is based on the joint work of Associate Professor Anu Lahtinen, Dr. Juha-Matti Granqvist and Dr. Sampsa Hatakka. For more information, please contact Anu Lahtinen https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/anu-lahtinen

Other Think Forward contributions: https://tinyurl.com/ThnkFwd

See even the book launch of Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland (eds. Petri Talvitie, Juha-Matti Granqvist), https://blogs.helsinki.fi/historia/2021/11/29/tutkimustiistai-zoom-30-11-klo-15-00-17-00/

Military Maintenance and Archaeology / Arkeologiaa ja sotilashuoltoa (Tuesday Meeting / Tutkimustiistai)

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Tutkimustiistai / Tuesday meeting 30 November, 15.00-17.00 (3-5 pm)

ca. 15.00.-15.30 Eljas Oksanen: Mapping citizen science archaeology in Finland / Kartoittamassa arkeologista kansalaistiedettä Suomessa

ca. 15.30-16.30 Book Presentation: Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland (eds. Petri Talvitie, Juha-Matti Granqvist)  https://hup.fi/site/books/e/10.33134/HUP-10/   This volume examines civil-military interaction in the multinational Swedish Realm in 1550–1800, with a focus on its eastern part, present-day Finland, which was an important supply region and battlefield bordered by Russia. Sweden was one of the frontrunners of the Military Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Zoom address for the meetings:
Topic: Tutkimustiistai
Join Zoom Meeting
https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/61655480277?pwd=UDVKWS9VamUrb3ZuWW1seDNabEJlZz09
Meeting ID: 616 5548 0277
Passcode: 515868

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”Tutkimustiistait”: joka kuun viimeisenä tiistaina klo 15.00 alkaen järjestetään (etä)tilaisuus, jossa tutkijat voivat lyhyesti esitellä tutkimuksiaan. Esitykset n. 10 min. + 10 min keskustelu, 2-3 esitystä per kerta. Esitykset suomeksi, ruotsiksi ja englanniksi tervetulleita.

Varje månads sista tisdag ordnas ett tisdagsmöte (zoom) kl. 15.00; där forskare kan kort berätta om sin forskning. Föredrag typ 10 min. + 10 min diskussion, 2-3 presentationer per möte. Presentationer på finska, svenska, engelska välkomna.

Every last Tuesday of each month, at 15.00, we are planning to have a meeting with short presentations abut ongoing projects. Presentations ca. 10 min + 10 min discussion, 2-3 presentations per Tuesday. Presentations welcome in Finnish, Swedish, English.

Seminar on the History of Domestic Violence, 1 October 2021!

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The 5th Seminar in History of Domestic Violence and Abuse series, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki.

October 1, 2021 at 10.00 LONDON TIME [Suomen aikaa klo 12!]

Elena Chepel, ‘How to complain about violence if you are a woman: language and gender in Ptolemaic papyrus petitions’

Despina Iosif, ‘Populus Exasperatus: The violent Graeco-Roman crowd’

Annette Volfing, ‘Beating the bride into Shape: Domestic violence within bridal mysticism’

Juliana Dresvina ‘The Uncomfortable Liber Confortatorius: Grooming in a monastery?’

Since January 2021, Lahtinen & Dresvina have been organizing online seminars on the long history of domestic violence and abuse. For more information about the following events, please follow the updates via https://tinyurl.com/histviolence

Register in advance for this meeting: https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mlc-CqqjMqGdPNvsw1b_wOS84lyG6YlkgI

 

Webinar series: Reflecting on German (Post)Colonial Connections

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On September 2021, Dr. Minu Haschemi Yekani (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr. Dörte Lerp (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Janne Lahti (University of Helsinki) are organizing a webinar series called Reflecting on German (Post)Colonial Connections. The webinar series consists of four events that build up the discussion on German colonial legacies.

 

The aim of this webinar series is to set out to bridge divides between the past and present, between different national histories, between academic specializations, and between academic and non-academic sectors. In short, the organizers intend to span temporal, national, epochal, and sectional divides. They take up recent debates on German colonial histories and legacies, and advance discussions on them in a transnational, multidisciplinary, and intersectional framing.

The webinar series consists of four events with separate registrations and links for Zoom. Download the webinar poster HERE.

WEBINAR 1, 9th September

The first webinar is called ”Among Empires: German Entanglements in the Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds”. We hear Tiffany Florvil (Albuquerque), Diana Natermann (Leiden) and Andi Zimmerman (Washington D.C.) as presenters in the first webinar. Minu Haschemi Yekani (Berlin), Dörte Lerp (Berlin) and Janne Lahti (Helsinki) will moderate the discussion.

REGISTRATE HERE (Webinar 1): https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MrcO6tqzIrHtxaO8eM4OTHJ2xg_J_Y2S-H

 

WEBINAR 2, 14th September

The second webinar is called ”Beyond Collections: Decolonizing Museums”. We hear Bonita Bennett (Cape Town), Alina Gromova (Berlin) and Kristin Weber-sinn (Berlin) as presenters in the second webinar. Bebero Lehmann (Cologne) and Dörte Lerp (Berlin) will moderate the discussion.

REGISTRATE HERE (Webinar 2): https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Usc-6rqT0iGNTI9kHgbY0EiwMYQ-QyaDix

 

WEBINAR 3, CANCELLED!

The third webinar is called ”Colonial Heritage as Political, Private and Public Memories”. We hear Idesbald Goddeeris (Leuven), Britta Schilling (Utrecht) and Greer Valley (Cape Town) as presenters in the third webinar. Janne Lahti (Helsinki) will moderate the discussion.

 

WEBINAR 4, 30th September

The final and fourth webinar is called ”The (Post)Colonial Dimension of German Migration History”. We hear Maria Alexopoulou (Berlin), Fatima El-Tayeb (San Diego) and Noa K. Ha (Berlin) as presenters in the fourth webinar. Minu Haschemi Yekani (Berlin) will moderate the discussion.

REGISTRATE HERE (Webinar 4): https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UsfuGvqT4sH9RxM2FthO24knCpBje6dQS5

 

TIME AND REGISTRATION

Time of all the webinars: 6PM-8PM Berlin time (CEST), 7PM-9PM Helsinki time (GMT+3)

Registrations will be approved manually, on Monday 30th August at the earliest.

The series is free, but a registration is required. Also, you can attend one event or the whole series. Welcome!

History of Domestic Violence and Abuse seminar series, 14 June 2021

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Welcome to the History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 14 June 2021, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki.

Since January 2021, Lahtinen & Dresvina have been organizing online seminars on the long history of domestic violence and abuse. For more information about the following events, please follow the updates via https://tinyurl.com/histviolence

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History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 14 June 2021, 10am (BST / London) (11am CET, 12 EET / Helsinki)

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, “Violence Against Women in Ancient Greece”

Maria Dell’Isola, “Violence Against Women in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles”

Olivia Milburn, “Violent Women in Early Imperial China: The State of the Law”

Pehr Granqvist, Mårten Hammarlund and Tommie Forslund, “Experiences of Abuse, Trauma, and Maltreatment Among Mothers with Mild Intellectual Disabilities”

Register in advance for this meeting: https://tinyurl.com/yx55zf9t

History of Domestic Violence and Abuse seminar series, 13 May 2021

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Welcome to the History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 13 May 2021, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki. We study and discuss the long history of domestic violence and abuse.
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History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 13 May 2021, 10am (BST / London) (11am CET, 12 EET / Helsinki)
Jane Gilbert ‘Sexual Violence and Sex Workers: Lorelei Lee’s ”Cash/Consent” and Villon’s Belle Hëaulmière’
Trevor Dean ‘Domestic abuse from the perspective of husband-murder in late medieval Italy’
Emma Whipday ‘Tom Tyler and His Wife: Domestic Violence and Comedy in Early Modern Wife-Taming Narratives’
Lewis Webb ‘Regulation of violence against citizen women in Republican Rome’
Julia Bolton Holloway ‘Widows and Orphans’