Juno is interdisciplinary doctorial programme that combines historical approach, cultural analysis and critical art studies. It educates specialists in cultural change bringing together 16 fields of research.
The School of History, Culture and Arts Studies is a multidisciplinary unit consisting of 16 departments and five degree programmes. Our research focuses on medieval and early modern history, nature and its diversity, multiculturality and the processes of cultural interaction, arts and popular culture, experiences, stories and memory, as well as humanities-oriented approaches to digitalisation. The School also places a strong emphasis on gender studies across its disciplines.
Read more about the Archives' collections below.
The University of Turku, with the support of the Turku University Foundation, has published an online gallery that brings together selected works of art from the collection on display across the University's campuses.
Physicist Stefan Hell, who started his research at the University of Turku in the 1990s, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in autumn 2014. The 10th anniversary of the prize will be celebrated on 4 September with a portrait unveiling at 12-14 in Alhopuro lecture hall and a science and art event open to the public at 14-20 at Visitor Centre Joki.
A new study from the University of Turku and Aalto University in Finland reveals that art has a powerful effect on people's bodies and emotions.
The materials of history, culture and art studies are gradually transferred from Teutori Library to the new Arcanum Library. First, the books, magazines and series of the general collection will be moved and they will be out of use since 16 January 2023. The course books will be moved to Arcanum later.