Projects
On-going projects including the researchers of the center:
- History of Winter: Winter and People during the Industrial Transformation of Finland (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Anna Sivula (PI), Simo Laakkonen, Petri Talvitie, Saara Matala, Tanja Riekkinen, Rami Mähkä, 2024-2028)
- A Discussion on Forests: The Forest as an Epistemological Tool in the Heart of Medieval Southern Italy (Kone Foundation. The Team: Teemu Immonen (PI), Anni Hella, Outi Kaltio ja Ned Schoolman, 2024-2027)
- Satakunta Peatlands: From Peat Production to New Livelihoods and Meaningsin (EU-funding. The Team: Eeva Raike (PI), Laura Puolamäki, 2024-2026)
- Venny-Soldan-Brofeldt’s and her family’s relationship with nature as an environmental biography (Wihuri Foundation. Katja Weiland-Särmälä 2025)
- The Ecohistory of Finnish Movies (Kone Foundation. The Team: Kimmo Laine (PI), Noora Kallioniemi, Silja Laine, Laura Saarenmaa, Tommi Römpötti, Aymeric Pantet, Pietari Kääpä, 2023-2027)
- Changes and Impact of the Forest Relationship in Finnish black Metal Music Culture (Kone Foundation. Aili Mustamo, 2023-2027)
- Shared Paths: The Forest as a Multispecies Home (Kone Foundation. Noora Schuurman, 2023-2027)
- Grove of Stories – Sagalund: Home Museum, Environment and Biographical Time (Svenska Kulturfonden / Art Promotion Center Finland. The Team: Maarit Leskelä-Kärki (PI), Karoliina Sjö, Katja Weiland-Särmälä, Otto Latva, Erika Adamsson ja Aleksi Kauppinen, 2023-2025)
- Fauna et Flora Fennica (Kordelin Foundation. The Team: Otto Latva (PI), Aino Jämsä, Noora Kallioniemi, Jere Kyyrö, Silja Laine, Heta Lähdesmäki, Heli Rantala, Hannu Salmi, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Harri Uusitalo, 2023-2025)
- Memories of Porpoises (The Weisell Foundation. The Team: Otto Latva (PI), Noora Kallioniemi, Silja Laine, 2022-2025)
- Disappeared, Endangered and Newly Arrived Species: The Human Relationship with the Changing Biodiversity of the Baltic Sea (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Otto Latva (PI), Teija Alenius, Heta Lähdesmäki, Hannu Salmi, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Harri Uusitalo, 2021-2025)
Finished research projects:
- Diversities of the Environmental Movement in Russia (Kone Foundation. The Team: Simo Laakkonen (PI), Juha Kotilainen, Antonina Kulyasova, Alexandra Orlova, Matti Salo, Svetlana Tulaeva, and Maria Tysiachniouk, 2021-2024)
- Human and Tick in Anthropocene (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Tuomas Räsänen (PI), Laura Hollsten, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Nina Tynkkynen ja Taina Syrjämaa, 2020-2024)
- Survivors of Ragnarök – tracing Late Iron Age and early medieval maritime migrations in the Baltic Sea region (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Kristina Ilves (PI), Teija Alenius, Veronica Walker Vadillo, Kristina Vajanto, Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä, Mia Lempiäinen-Avci, Tuija Kirkinen, 2020-2024)
- Culture of Unsustainability: Animal Industries and the Exploitation of Animals in Finland since the Late Nineteenth Century (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Taina Syrjämaa (PI), Marja Jalava, Taija Kaarlenkaski, Otto Latva, Eeva Nikkilä, Tuomas Räsänen, and Helinä Ääri, 2019-2023)
- Seili: The Island of Life (Kone Foundation. Työryhmä: Ilari Sääksjärvi (PI), Mia Lempiäinen-Avci, Heta Lähdesmäki, Mia Rönkä, Janne Rantanen, Annika Saarto, Sanna Pätsi, Ari Linna, Vesa-Matti Väärä, Tapani Hopkins, Visa Immonen, Maria Louna-Korteniemi, 2019-2021)
- Living with the Baltic Sea in a changing climate: Environmental heritage and the circulation of knowledge (The Academy of Finland. The Team: Nina Tynkkynen (PI), Silja Laine, Jaana Kouri, Otto Latva, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Tuomas Räsänen, 2018-2022)
- Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks In Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914, (The Academy of Finland, Hannu Salmi (PI), 2017–2020)
- Ilmastonmuutosta koskeva tieto ja Itämeri (Tiina and Antti Herlini Foundation, The Team: Nina Tynkkynen (Pl), Silja Laine, Jaana Kouri, Otto Latva, Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, and Tuomas Räsänen, 2018-2019)
- Vesi kulttuurisena ja sosiaalisena tilana (The Academy of Finland, Arja Rosenholm (PI), 2012-2016)
- The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies – Choices of Russian Modernisation (The Academy of Finland, Markku Kivinen (PI), 2012-2017)
- Knowledge Management for the Baltic Sea protection (The Academy of Finland, Nina Tynkkynen, 2010-2014)