11/2024 Project web pages are open!

Welcome to the web pages of the FinNamKnow research project! From here you can find all the information about the research project, its public outreach and its researchers. The pages have been divided into different sections to ease the use. Here are the brief introductions for the current subdivisions of the site:

Front page: The place to start. Here you can find the most condensed description of our project plan. On the bottom of the page you can easily see and access our newest blog/news posts.

Project: This is the go-to place if you want to find out more about the project’s initial objectives. You can also read more about the three main themes of this project: Owambo material culture, children’s culture, and memory. If there’s anything you want to ask regarding the project, you can find the contact information for our project leader, Leila Koivunen on the bottom of the page.

Events and Activities: If you want to know what’s hot in the project, Events and Activities is your place to be. Want to hear about the public displays of our research? Want to participate in seminars or read news items about this project?  Here we update our most topical public occurrences and keep list of our previous moments of public outreach.

Publications: For a research project like ours, the scientific publications are the obvious result. From our publications page you can find our newest research and also see what kind of scientific research the team, and its collaborators, have done in the recent past regarding the Finnish-Namibian relations.

The Diaries of Martti Rautanen: Martti Rautanen was one of the first Finnish missionaries in Owambo in the 1870s. During his stay, he kept a diary portraying daily life, local cultural practices, climate, and much more. Here you can find information how to gain access to use these, now digitalised, documents.

Research Team: Here you can find us! The project research team, and its specialist members provide short descriptions about their research. Most of us have also provided links to our research profiles and email addresses for contacting.

Blog: “You are here!” As you are already reading this piece, you’ve accessed one of the blog texts, provided by the research team. We tend to regularly (about once a month) write certain updates of our research and life around it, or provide our reflections on meetings and other events we have attended regarding this project.

I sincerely hope you enjoy delving into our project web pages, and if you find something that is not properly working, don’t hesitate to contact me through email: javhol[at]utu.fi.

Jerkko Holmi, Doctoral researcher, Contemporary History, University of Turku