Events

Upcoming events at the Faculty.
Event A new direction for humanities and social sciences: Finnish SSH expertise at the heart of Europe. Come participate in the discussion 23.9!

A new direction for humanities and social sciences: Finnish SSH expertise at the heart of…

23.9.2025 at 13.30–15.00 The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24, 00100 Helsinki
Open invitation to participate in our hybrid event on September 23, 2025.
Event 24.9. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Meri Kulmala, Reetta Mietola & Auli Vähäkangas: Ethical Challenges in Co-Research

24.9. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Meri Kulmala, Reetta Mietola & Auli Vähäkangas: Ethical…

24.9.2025 at 12.15–13.15 Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor, room 524
The Methodological Unit of HSSH organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences.
Event AMME Seminar: Science and the Social Lives of Ancient Materials

AMME Seminar: Science and the Social Lives of Ancient Materials

25.9.2025 at 16.15–18.00 Fabianinkatu 33 room 4038, 00170 Helsinki
Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminars are open to all and consist of two talks followed by a shared question round and discussion on the seminar specific theme.
Event Guest lecture: "Ethnographic studies of writing: data and methods over time and across contexts"

Guest lecture: "Ethnographic studies of writing: data and methods over time and across…

26.9.2025 at 10.30–12.00
Professor Karin Tusting from Lancaster University (UK) will visit Finland on 26 September.
Event MUSCOLWAR TALKS. Grigory Mavrov: Muslim Media Narratives of War: Palestine and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective

MUSCOLWAR TALKS. Grigory Mavrov: Muslim Media Narratives of War: Palestine and Ukraine in…

1.10.2025 at 12.00–13.30 Language Centre, Fabianinkatu 26, 00100 Helsinki
The paper compares the media coverage of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza on platforms with predominantly Muslim audiences.
Event 1.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Thibaut Duthois: Mobile eye-tracking as a window on inequity in children’s language development opportunities

1.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Thibaut Duthois: Mobile eye-tracking as a window on inequity…

1.10.2025 at 12.15–13.15 Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor, room 524
The Methodological Unit of HSSH organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences.
Event Aleksanteri Visiting Fellows Seminar with Maxim Alyukov | The Twilight Zone: Reflexive Propaganda, Political Cognition, and Hybrid Media Ecology in Authoritarian Russia

Aleksanteri Visiting Fellows Seminar with Maxim Alyukov | The Twilight Zone: Reflexive…

1.10.2025 at 15.00–16.30 Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki Metsätalo, 3rd floor B311/room 10
Maxim Alyukov on reflexive propaganda, political cognition and hybrid media ecology in authoritarian Russia, at the Aleksanteri Institute's Visiting Fellows seminar
Event 8.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Terhi Utriainen & Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen: Collaborating with art as an explorative methodology

8.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Terhi Utriainen & Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen: Collaborating with…

8.10.2025 at 12.15–13.15 Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor, room 524
The Methodological Unit of HSSH organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences.
Event NORDIK 2025: Why so Nordic? The Nordic as Fact and Fiction in Art History

NORDIK 2025: Why so Nordic? The Nordic as Fact and Fiction in Art History

20.–22.10.2025 at 09.00–16.00 Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki
The Conference is organized by the Nordic Association for Art Historians NORDIK in collaboration with the University of Helsinki.
Event Aleksanteri Conference: Extremisms: ambiguities, ideologies, agency

Aleksanteri Conference: Extremisms: ambiguities, ideologies, agency

22.–24.10.2025 at 09.00–19.00 Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki
The 24th Annual Aleksanteri Conference addresses the pressing challenges of extremism in a world shaped by prolonged and overlapping crises under the title Extremisms: Ambiguities,
Event Emilio Del Pupo: Green Deals and Raw Deals

Emilio Del Pupo: Green Deals and Raw Deals

8.11.2025 at 10.00–12.00 Porthania, PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki
Emilio Del Pupo, M.Sc. will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Green Deals and Raw Deals - Power, Sustainability and Agriculture in EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations" in the Faculty of Arts…
Event International Conference- Imperical Experiences In Family Violence: Crimes And Criminology In 19th–20th Centuries

International Conference- Imperical Experiences In Family Violence: Crimes And Criminology In…

15.–16.12.2025 at 00.00–00.00 Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference Imperial Experiences in Family Violence.
Event Maple Leaf and Eagle 2026 Conference

Maple Leaf and Eagle 2026 Conference

20.–22.5.2026 at 09.00–16.00 Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki
The Maple Leaf and Eagle conference offers an inclusive venue for discussing the current status of North American Studies.