Oula Seitsonen is taking part in a “Dialogues with the Past” seminar “Materialities of the Pressing Past: Challenges in post-medieval archaeology and the archaeology of the recent past” in Copenhagen this week. As described, “[T]his seminar aims to explore the landscape of archaeological research as it transgresses conventional frameworks for a discrete ‘past’ and turns towards archaeology as the study of things, events and processes that are of archaeological relevance”. Oula will present a paper “Haunting and haunted reminders of the past: Special deposits and features at German-run WWII PoW camps in Finnish Lapland”, dealing with some of the unexpected finds and features with apparent relations to the northern rural beliefs in magic and spiritualities.

Tivoli in Copenhagen (Photo: Oula Seitsonen).