Events and Activities
Current and Forthcoming events
- Film screening, seminar, book presentation and panel discussion as part of Black History Month 2025 events in Helsinki 15-16 September, organised by AfriStadi in collaboration with Historians without Borders, FinNamKnow project and the Finnish-Namiban Society.
- Call for Papers: Modern challenges in decolonial historical research between the Nordics and Southern Africa Proposal deadline 30.9.2025
- Session “Decolonising Knowledge Production: Collaborative Global North-South Reappraisals of Finnish-Namibian relations” at the 8th European Congress on World and Global History (Växjö, Sweden 10.-12.9.2025).
- Session “Dekolonisoivia näkökulmia kolonialistiseen menneisyyteen: Sukelluksia suomalaisten ja namibialaisten yhteiseen historiaan” at the 7th Finnish Conference of History Research (Jyväskylä, Finland 16.-18.10.2025). [In Finnish]
A lecture course “Perspectives to the Relationship between Finland and Namibia“, at the University of Turku 09.09.2025-14.10.2025. [Teaching in Finnish and English]
Previously
Events
- A poster “Owambo and Finnish Children at Mission Stations in Namibia” by Leila Koivunen and Raita Merivirta as part of poster exhibition ‘Modern’ Mothering, Childhood & Child Healthcare: Gendered & Scientised Ideas, Material Cultures & Experiences, Turku City Library 2.-29.6.2025.
- EMHI100-juhlaseminaari “Maailma ja historia liikkeessä” Pub3-luentosalissa Turun yliopistolla 9.5.2025. [In Finnish]
- Julkaisutilaisuus: Keisarin holokausti — Saksan unohdettu kansanmurha ja natsismin siirtomaajuuret. 3.4.2025 klo 17-19, Kaisaniemenkatu 5, Helsinki [In Finnish]
- Dissertation defence: Essi Huuhka, MA. “Kaukaiselle lähimmäiselle. Humanitaarisuus Suomen lähetysseuran Lounais-Afrikan-toiminnassa 1890-luvulta 1910-luvulle” 13.12.2024 [In Finnish]
- Dissertation defence: Raita Merivirta, PhD. “Kulttuurinen kolonialismi ja rodullistaminen näkyi 1900-luvun suomalaisessa lastenkirjallisuudessa” 13.9.2024 [In Finnish]
- Publication event: new information on the history of the Finland-Namibia relationship, Helsinki 22.08.2024
Presentations
- Raita Merivirta attended the conference Englishes in a Multipolar World (the 20th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, ACLALS, 1.-5.7.2025, University of Nairobi) and presented her paper Transcultural and English in the Service of Nordic Settler Colonialism: Karen Blixen and Out of Africa.
Teaching
- Course “Perspectives on External Relations of Independent African States”, 17.10.2024 – 12.12.2024 [in Finnish]
Media appearances
- Kulttuuriykkönen 18.8.2025, Olemmeko syyttömiä? Suomalaiset ja Afrikan kolonialismin varjo. Harri Englund & Leila Koivunen [In Finnish]
- Turun Sanomat 11.4.2025, Alio Jerkko Holmi: Shell-boikotti 1980-luvulla – bensapumppuja valeltiin verellä, töhrittiin maalilla tai saatettiin epäkuntoon [In Finnish]
- Press release: New book sheds light on the history of Finland–Namibia relations in colonial world 29.8.2024
Conferences
- TBD