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My Best Memories at the University of Helsinki

There are so many memories from my student days that it is hard to choose the best. One moment that stuck in my mind was when the student organisation Kronos turned 50 in November of 1995. There were about 300 people celebrating at the event in the Old Student House, including the famous historian Eino Jutikkala. The party went on all night, and when I left in the morning to look for a ride home, the city was pure white from the snow that had fallen overnight. Read more »

My best memories at the University of Helsinki

When I’m asked for my best memory at the university, the first thing that comes to mind are Auli Hakulinen’s lectures and her teaching and instruction in general. So the best memories are related to the intellectual side, to sources of inspiration and realisation. Dr Hakulinen managed to have an effect on me on every course where I participated. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsinki

Many of my memories from the University of Helsinki are anchored in spaces: the incredibly beautiful foyer of the old wing of the Main Building, the rooms of the Department of Finnish Literature on Liisankatu, the hall of the National Library. Read more »

My best memory from the University of Helsinki

I have many good memories from the University of Helsinki, but there’s one that beats them all. It was the end of 1989 and I was a research associate at the Department of History. Read more »

My best memory at the University of Helsinki

Many people like me – students who took a long time to find their own field – must feel that it is difficult to name a single moment or event that stands out above all others in such a thoroughly golden period. My time as a student at the University of Helsinki is one long wonderful memory, where what brings me the most delight and inspiration are the many still vivid discussions and arguments with my fellow students. Perhaps the best way to remember my studies is as a tapestry of numerous long-running, overlapping discussions that seemed to be growing and progressing all the time. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsink

My best single memory from the University of Helsinki is from the beginning of the 1990s. While attending my Master’s seminar in 1990–91, I got to know the new side of the Main Building and the cloakroom porters Auli and Ritva. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsinki

My best memories from the University concern moments when I've been part of a team of colleagues achieving something collectively. My particular favourite is the third Nordic intellectual history conference for post-graduate students (NIHK), organised by a group of post-graduate students from the Department of History in 2001. Read more »

Rewarding memories of university field work

My best memories from the university of Helsinki are linked to various situations. Learning has involved not only the acquisition of new knowledge but also what research has brought to me personally. While conducting field work I have met a diverse range of people and unexpected things have occurred. An archaeologist’s specialty is long periods of field work in different corners of the globe. The most interesting moments have involved investigating surprising environments and places and the observations and finds that have arisen as a result. For me this has been in different parts of Finland, with Finno-Ugrian peoples and in the Middle East in a multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence project led by Jaakko Frösén in Jordan. They have enriched my world and helped me see how life is lived differently elsewhere. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsinki

My best memories from the University of Helsinki deal with books and with the teachers who encouraged me to read. Esa Saarinen led me to philosophy, Pertti Seppänen to classical Chinese literature, Sara Heinämaa to women’s studies, Outi Nyytäjä to drama. Read more »

My Best Memory from the University of Helsinki

One of my best experiences at the University of Helsinki was when, as a fresher, I opened a textbook for the first time. It gave me a strong sense that I had become part of something with a very long historical tradition. I had the same feeling when I received my Master’s Degree at the graduation ceremony. The University of Helsinki is the oldest university in the country, and that is one of the reasons these rituals are particularly festive and memorable. Read more »

My Best Memory from the University of Helsinki

The one university memory that stands out above all others is the defence of my doctoral thesis on March 6, 2004 — although I can remember surprisingly few details. Despite the fact that it was right in front of my eyes, I decided in advance I would not look at the clock. When I finally dared to take a look, to my amazement I saw that almost three hours had flown by. Read more »

My Best Memory From the University of Helsinki

I have never forgotten my inauguration as Professor of Scandinavian Literature. It took place on January 30, 2012, during a blizzard. My family was stuck at Stockholm Arlanda Airport dressed in their finest (I have four sons), and they did not make it to the ceremony, as all the flights were cancelled. Read more »

My Best Memories from the University of Helsinki

Between 2002 and 2003 I worked as an acting lecturer of women’s studies at the Christina Institute, and my task, in addition to teaching, was to put together the first women’s studies – later gender studies – master’s programme. After that temporary posting, I remained at the Christina Institute as a postdoctoral researcher, until work led me to Stockholm in 2005. Read more »

My Best Memories from the University of Helsinki

There have naturally been many great moments and experiences at the University of Helsinki. Learning experiences as a student and researcher,… Read more »

My best memory from the University of Helsinki

My best memory at the University of Helsinki is probably related to the Helsinki Summer School course about heavy metal I lectured and coordinated in August 2015. To put in practice what I had planned was a tough but rewarding experience and seeing it becoming truth was priceless. I had a wonderful class of students more or less as old as me, and being ‘the teacher’ didn’t spoil either the fun of it or the amicable vibe with the group. Furthermore, I had the possibility of structuring the course at freedom and I was pleased I got many and various guest-lecturers to speak during the lectures. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsinki

My best memories from the University of Helsinki are connected with the International Summer School in Theatre Studies, where I completed my doctoral dissertation between 1995 and 2000. During those years it dawned on me that our professor, Pirkko Koski, had succeeded in recruiting the international crème-de-la-crème of our field to the Summer School teaching staff. By bouncing ideas of this group of experts, it was easy to present my own papers at the conferences of the International Federation for Theatre Research, even in the early stages of my PhD programme. I felt privileged to get to know many of the congresses’ keynote speakers. Read more »

My best memories at the University of Helsinki

My best memories at the University of Helsinki are connected with the Department of Ethnology and my dissertation. When I was writing my Master's thesis on the history of ethnology, I was asked to substitute for a research associate at the Department of Ethnology, and the following year I was hired for the position. This opened up an academic career that I hadn't even known to dream of. Us research associates formed a good team, and Professor Juhani U.E. Lehtonen was a fair boss. Read more »

Collective Writing and Difficult Memories

The overarching theme in my research is the interaction between oral and written culture. My 2004 doctoral dissertation, Itsekasvatusta ja kapinaa (‘Self-education and rebellion’), dealt with conversational community of working-class youth in the 1910s and the 1920s in Karkkila. The most important source material was a handwritten Valistaja (‘Enlightener’) magazine published by the young proletariats, which was found in the attic of the Karkkila police station. Handwritten magazines have taken me on long voyages in time and space. Read more »

My best memories from the University of Helsinki

During my student days, the university of Helsinki was full of experiences. After school, it was amazing to be able to participate in the lectures of one’s choice and get to know how matters could be formulated and presented in different ways. Back then, professors had the time to prepare their lectures carefully and include much that was certainly not written into the study programme. Before work began to take up too much of my time, I listened to lectures from literary scholars just for the fun of it. The Department of Art History operated on the top floor of the Main Building together with its own library. It was a bottomless treasure trove. From the open shelves one could find anything whatsoever – in addition to the thing one was actually looking for. Read more »