Welcome

At the Frontiers of Humanity: Extreme Necessity in the History of Ethics, Law and Politics, 300–1600 is a four-year research project funded by the Academy of Finland.
The  project is led by senior lecturer Virpi Mäkinen.
The research environment of the project is the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki.

Photo from the doctoral conferment dinner in June 2023. The member of our advisory board, Prof. Annabel Brett (left) from the University of Cambridge was conferment to an Honorary Doctorate and Mikko Posti as a Doctorate of Theology (right). Other: Heikki Haara, Virpi Mäkinen, and Ritva Palmén.

Extreme Necessity Poster-VALMIS-KUVATEKSTI