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INVEST is the first Finnish Flagship to get an external assessment

05.02.2024

Research Flagship Centre INVEST is commissioning an international external assessment of its activities and future options as the first Finnish Flagship. The assessment will help INVEST and its host organisations to decide on the future of its activities after the end of the current flagship period. 

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...

Apply for a "presidential research home" for the year 2024

17.11.2023

The University of Turku is opening for application access to a research residence renovated from the birthplace of former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto (”Manun kammari”, "Manu's chambers"). The application period ends on 15 December 2023 at 16.00.

Authors meet a (friendly) critic: Democracy and the Future

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27.9.2023 at 18.00 - 19.00
This webinar will deal with the recently published edited volume “Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems” (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), edited by Michael MacKenzie, Maija Setälä, and Simo Kyllönen. The book brings together political philosophers, democratic...

Sixth Europe Forum Will Focus on a Changing Europe

26.06.2023

Is Europe a divided continent or a united union? The Europe Forum organised in Turku for the sixth time is focused around this question. The Forum changed its dates to August–September and will also relocate to new venues: A Speakers’ Corner hosted by Director of the Centre for Parliamentary Studies Markku Jokisipilä will be located at Turku market square, other event venues include the Sigyn hall on Linnankatu street as well as the premises of the Turku Conservatory and Arts Academy.