Research
Examples of the University’s strong research in cultural memory and social change are:
- interrelations between experience, narrative and memory
- cultural health and well-being
- arts and popular culture as constructors and challengers of cultural memory
- education, media and politics in the making of social meanings
- cultural memory and processes of social change in relation to inequality and multiculturalism
- cultural myths and identities
- re-assessment of cultural premises based on ancient DNA
- digital cultural heritage
Research projects
interrelations between experience, narrative and memory
- Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (Academy of Finland, PI Hanna Meretoja)
- #NeverAgain: Teaching Transmission of Trauma and Remembrance through Experiential Learning (EU/EC, PI Hanna Meretoja)
- Seekers of the New: Esotericism and Religious Transformation in Finland during the Era of Modernisation from the 1880s to the 1930s (Kone, PI Maarit Leskelä-Kärki)
- Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics (NOS-HS, PI Hanna Meretoja)
- Motherhood under Attack: A Transcultural Study of Literary Representations of Jewish Mothers during the Holocaust (Helena Duffy)
cultural health and well-being
- Tracking the Therapeutic: Ethnographies of Wellbeing, Politics and Inequality (TRACKTHERA) (Academy of Finland, PI Suvi Salmenniemi)
- Contestation of Health and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries (NOS-HS workshop grant, 2020-2021, PI Suvi Salmenniemi)
arts and popular culture as constructors and challengers of cultural memory
- PhD research: Documentary imagination: Performing difficult pasts in contemporary Nordic documentary (Niina Oisalo)
education, media and politics in the making of social meanings
- Hollowing Out of Public Education Systems? Private Actors in Compulsory Schooling in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand (HOPES) (Academy of Finland, PI Piia Seppänen)
- Passion and Emotion in Finnish Secondary Schools, 1960-1975: The Breaking of the Emotional Regime in the Final Stages of the Secondary School System (Ville Soimetsä)
cultural memory and processes of social change in relation to inequality and multiculturalism
- Spaces of Confinement in the Institutions of Care and Control in Finland (Academy of Finland, PI Päivi Rannila)
cultural myths and identities
- Legal Literacy in Finland ca. 1750-1920: A Case of Popular Legal Learning in Pre-modern Europe (LegalLiFin) (Academy of Finland, PI Mia Korpiola)
re-assessment of cultural premises based on ancient DNA
- Finno-Ugric Genome (Erkko Foundation, Kone, Finnnish Cultural Foundation, PI Päivi Onkamo)
- Kipot ja kielet: arkeologisten esineiden ja kielellisten typologioiden tietokantoja (PI Päivi Onkamo & Outi Vesakoski)
digital cultural heritage
- Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910 (Academy of Finland, PI Tapio Salakoski & Hannu Salmi)
- Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks In Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840–1914 (Trans-Atlantic Platform, PI Hannu Salmi)
Interdisciplinary research centres and networks
- SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory
- Center for the Study of Bioethics
- Centre for Research on Learning and Instruction (CeRLI)
- Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE
- Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
- Centre for the Study of Language and Wellbeing (LaWe)
- Cultural Interaction Researcher Network (KULTVA)
- International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC)
- John Morton Center for North American Studies
- Research Centre for Culture and Health
- The Multilingual Turku (MTurku) network
- Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern History (TUCEMEMS)
- Turku Urban Research Programme
