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.
Call for Papers: XXI Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity
'Popular & Elite: Religious Practices in Late Antiquity'
Tvärminne, Finland, 12–13 October 2012
The Finnish Symposium on the study of Late Antiquity meets in the autumn for the 21st time. The topic is now religious practice around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity. Suggestions for papers are invited until 1 June.
![By Jerzy Strzelecki (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](images/villa-romana-del-casale_sicily_cropped.jpg)
North American Studies conference eyes up the West
The Maple Leaf & Eagle Conference on North American Studies dissects the West in movies, history and international relations – and much more. The biennial conference has evolved into one of the biggest symposia in its field in Europe. This year the conference runs on May 8–11.
Public lecture
- Friday 25 May, 4–6pm, Unioninkatu 38 B107
Dr Nida Chenagtsang, International Academy for Traditional Tibetan Medicine, IATTM
Tibetan Healing Art: Happy Mind and Healthy Body
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