Last Friday (16th December) our Project had the pleasure of having a workshop with environmental historians Paul Sutter and Mikko Saikku. Just to give an idea about the inspiring research that is going on at UH, here are the titles of the day:

• Paul Sutter: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
• Paula Saari: Inserting Yellowstone into a National Story: The American Influence on the Development of the National Park Idea in Finland
• Suvi Rautio: Aesthetic readings in an ethnic minority village in SW China
• Kaisa Kortekallio: Ecological Mood in the Climate Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi
• Pekka Raittinen: “OUR LAND IS POOR“ Runeberg, Kiviand Forestry
• Matti Hannikainen: Artificial Land Filling in Helsinki and Espoo –The case of Laajalahti
• Leena Enbom: Soil pollution and ill-health. Mapping the geography of environmental hazards during the early urbanization of Helsinki
• Corinna Casi: The Non-economic Value of the Barents Region