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Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Book Launch with Colin Davis

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2.10.2024 at 19.00 - 20.30
You are warmly invited to celebrate the release of a new edited volume, Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis, on Wednesday October 2, 2024, at 19:00 EEST (online). At this online event, the book’s editors and contributors will briefly introduce their chapters and invite...

Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing Seminar

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14.5.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
The Research Centre for Culture and Health at the University of Turku explores the connections between culture, health, and illness from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is interested in all aspects of research and education relating to health and culture from pedagogical, narrative, artistic...

University of Turku most popular university in Finland in spring's second joint application round

03.04.2024

The University of Turku was the most popular university in this spring’s second joint application round for the Finnish-language degree programmes which ended on 27 March 2024. The total number of applicants to the University's Finnish-language degree programmes was 31,824, which is also the highest number of applicants ever to the University of Turku. The previous applicant record from 2021 (31,511) was broken in the last hour of the application round.

Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar

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13.2.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
Islands, Isolation, and Illness Per Mendoza, University of Turku “Isolated Narratives? Narrative Ethics, Affectivity, and Spatiality in Johanna Holmström’s Själarnas ö” Mathieu Bokestael, University College Dublin “What is a Caring Historiography? Lessons from Sarah Moss’ Night Waking (2011)”...

Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar

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16.1.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar January 16, 14:00-16:00 EET Literature, Anthropology and Pain Anna Ovaska, Tampere University “Reading Chronic Pain: Narrative and (In)Visibility” Henni Alava, Tampere University “Finnish Sisu, Finnish Pain: What (if anything) is Culturally Specific in...

Science of the Changing Sea

13.04.2023

The Baltic Sea is in many ways a unique research subject – at the same time, it is a young sea, but also one of the busiest and most polluted seas in the world. It has been called a laboratory, a time machine, and a pilot, as the conservation methods that have been developed for the Baltic Sea are applicable around the world. At the University of Turku, biologists, geographers, historians and researchers in natural sciences and maritime spatial planning are focusing on the current challenges. Six researchers reveal how their research aims to improve the state of the Baltic Sea.