People

Dr Kaius Tuori is the director of subproject 1, . He is a Professor of European Intellectual History at the University of Helsinki. He is a scholar of legal history involved in research projects on the understanding of tradition, culture, identity, memory and the uses of the past. He is also the director of the ERC-granted research project (SpaceLaw).

Kaius Tuori will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish, English and limitedly in Swedish.

Keywords: general history, politics of history, identity, justice and its history, antique and its after-effect.

Dr Pamela Slotte is the director of subproject 2, . She is Professor of Religion and Law in Åbo Akademi University. A scholar of theology and law, she has worked on topics of theological ethics and philosophy of religion, history of ideas, political theology, human rights, as well as the field of law & religion more broadly.

Pamela Slotte will gladly comment on current topics related to her research via e-mail in Swedish, English, Finnish and German.

Keywords: freedom of religion and conscience, history and theory of human rights.

Dr Reetta Toivanen is the director of subproject 3, . She is Professor of Sustainability Science (indigenous sustainabilities) at the , and the leader of funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland. Toivanen is docent in social and cultural anthropology at the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland and a non-resident research fellow at the . She is a scholar of anthropology and law involved in research projects addressing power and inequality, culture and identity and Arctic studies.

Reetta Toivanen will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish, English, Swedish and in German.

Keywords: sustainable development, youth perspective, refugees, minorities, human rights from non-lawyer perspective, immigration, mandatory Swedish in Finnish schools, regional minorities, sámi people.

Dr Ville Erkkilä is the team leader of subproject 1, .  He is a university researcher at the Centre for European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki. He has a background in legal history and intellectual history. His research focuses on history of historiography, conceptual history, affective history, and more specifically, on the legal historiography of East Germany.

Ville will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish and English.

Keywords: the use of history in ideologies/ideologically, anti-EU.

Dr Marco Piasentier is a lecturer at the University of Salerno and an affiliated researcher working on subproject 2, .

His disciplinary background is philosophy, and his work chiefly focuses on themes in Post-Kantian European philosophy, social & political thought, and the history of 20th Century philosophy, analytic and continental.

Marco will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English and Italian.

Keywords: 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, genealogy, biopolitics, science and critique, ‘end of metaphysics.’

Dr Miika Tervonen is the team leader of subproject 3, . He is a university researcher at the Centre for European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki. He also leads the research project (GATE, Academy of Finland 2022-2026). Miika's research focuses on histories of migration, minority politics and borders, as well as on nationalism and historiography. His is currently working on a book ”Writing the Past White: Nation, Race and Coloniality in Finnish National Histories”. 

Miika Tervonen will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish and English. 

Keywords: migration, borders, deportation, minorities, nationalism, and historiography. 

Dr Paolo Amorosa is a university lecturer at the Faculty of Law and an affiliated researcher working on subproject 1, . He has a background in international law, law and religion, and legal theory. His research deals primarily with the history of international law and human rights in the twentieth century.

Paolo Amorosa will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English.

Keywords: international law and politics, human rights, international institutions from both contemporary and historical perspective, especially in the context of USA and Italy.

Dr Jacob Giltaij (MA, Ph.D.) He is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki. He has a background in Roman law, legal history and international law, but is interested in the wider implications of the relation between law, legal science and developments in history and society.

Jacob Giltaij will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English.

Keywords: human rights from a historical perspective, refugee research, refugee researchers, roots of identity politics.

Dr Timo Miettinen is a university researcher in subproject 2, . He is docent at the University of Helsinki and the director of the research project Between Law and Politics: Rethinking the Intellectual Foundations of the European Economic Constitution (funded by the UHEL). He is a scholar of philosophy and European studies and has worked on the topics of history, politics, universalism and liberalism.

Timo Miettinen will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish and English.

Keywords: European Union, Europe, European politics, national politics of EU countries, European ideas and narratives, history of Europe, economic politics of the EU, European ideologies.

Dr Zoë Jay is an affiliated researcher in subproject 1, . She has a background in international relations and political science. Her research focuses on European politics, human rights, and the politics of international law, especially compliance with the European Court of Human Rights.

Zoë Jay will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English.

​Keywords: international law, international politics, European politics, compliance, relationships between national and European legal cultures, UK-Europe politics and Brexit, human rights, politics of Eurovision.

Dr. Karolina Stenlund is a post-doctoral researcher in subproject 1, . She holds a Doctor of Laws from Uppsala University and has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. Her interests lie within the field of legal history, human rights, EU constitutional law, CLS/Crit, and civil law. She is currently working on a project where she critically analyzes the uses of Holocaust memory in EU lawmaking.

Keywords: Legal History, Holocaust memory, Shoah, EU, European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights, Tort Law

Dr Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is a Maria Zambrano fellow at the University of the Basque Country and an affiliated researcher working on subproject 1, . She is a legal historian and a classical archaeologist whose research focuses on maritime archaeology, ancient law, and legal anthropology. She has published extensively on Roman Law and its maritime focus. She is the editor of two volumes, Roman Law, and Maritime Commerce (EUP 2022) and Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Bloomsbury 2022). She is also the author of one monograph Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone under Sea (Brill 2022).

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English.

Keywords: maritime archaeology, ancient law, legal anthropology.

Alina Hruba is a doctoral researcher in subproject 1, . Her research interest is the study of access to justice in Ukrainian court through the prism of the European dimension of the rule of law. She focuses on examination of the right to be heard and the vulnerability of going to Ukrainian courts in times of crisis by combining legal analysis, qualitative fieldwork, and sensory jurisprudence approaches. 

Keywords: access to justice, rule of law, sensory jurisprudence, socio-legal studies 

Dr. Minna-Kerttu Kekki is a post-doctoral researcher in subproject 2, . She is a political and educational philosopher, whose work focuses on media-based publicness, political phenomenology, and collective memory. Her research particularly addresses Edith Stein’s interwar theory on collectives and the state, the appearance of others in media-based encounters, and the memories of Ingrians and Estonians in the Soviet Union. She is currently working on a book “Public discussions in media: The concept, the experience, and a place for learning”. For more information, see personal website minnakerttumaarjakekki.blogspot.com.  

Minna-Kerttu Kekki will gladly comment on current topics via e-mail or phone in Finnish, English, and Estonian (limitedly in Swedish and German). 

Ville Louekari (M.A.) is a Doctoral Researcher in subproject 2, . He works across the fields of history of philosophy, continental philosophy and critical theory. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the concepts of universalism and utopia.

Dr. Kolar Aparna is a postdoctoral researcher in sub project 3, .

She is a woman of colour with a background in performing arts and geography. Her work is focused on producing situated knowledges on borders, displacement and mobilities that move relationally across spatio-temporalities of imperial, colonial and settler legacies shaping the present.

Her research with EuroStorie investigates shadow narratives of Europe in relation to and from displacements across colonial difference during the end of World War II and more recently.

Keywords: displacement, situated knowledges, borders, colonial difference

For more information, see Aparna's research portal:  []

DSocSc Matti Välimäki is a researcher in subproject 3, . He is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for European Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki. He is part of the Academy of Finland-funded research project  (GATE, 2022-2026).

Välimäki's areas of expertise include the development migration politics and legislation, forced migration, and public officers’ practices regarding foreigners. In addition, he specializes in science communication and research on political communication and political parties.

Matti Välimäki will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish and English. 

Keywords: Migration, refugees, political parties, political communication, populism, history

Laura Sumari is a PhD student in subproject 3, . Her mains themes of interests include mobilities, security and postcolonial theory, and in her doctoral dissertation she examines refugee narratives of Europe from a human security perspective.

Laura Sumari will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in Finnish and English.

Keywords: immigration, refugees, human/humane security and insecurity and the experience of security and insecurity.

Floris van Doorn is a doctoral candidate in sub-project 3, . He holds an MSc in International Relations Theory from the London School of Economics. His doctoral research seeks to locate the EU’s external migration policies in both place and time, with a particular focus on the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF for Africa).  

Floris van Doorn will gladly comment on current topics for all forms of media in English.

Keywords: ‘The International’, Empire, Frontiers, European Union, Governmentality, Genealogy

Mai Tuori is the Puppy of Excellence at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives. Her output for EuroStorie is to examine how to make people happy. She will focus equally on all the subprojects. Mai has a background in human resources, bones, eating shoes, and napping.