The Department of World Cultures is part of the Faculty of Arts.
PO Box 59
00014 University of Helsinki
Unioninkatu 38 A
+358 (9) 191 22994
Welcome to the Department of World Cultures!
The Department of World Cultures is an umbrella for
- African and Middle Eastern Studies
- Area and Cultural Studies
- Asian Studies
- Classical Philology, and
- the Study of Religions.
This site will tell you more about our teaching and research, and about our engagement with the wider world.
Know your Arabic philosophy
Three days of public lectures and a seminar on Arabic philosophy on 7–9 February. The events, in English, are hosted by a research project on the Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East.
