Events

  • Legacies / Perinnöt

    a photographic and sound installation about Finnish settlement, extractive industry & colonialism in Northern Ontario, Canada

    April 7–27

    Forum Kortteli, Turku

    Opening Event:

    Tuesday, April 8, 5–7pm

    Discussion Event:

    Wednesday, April 23, 3-5pm

    More Information

  • Sound and Environment Meet & Greet

    Friday, April 11, 14.00–16.00

    Kone Foundation Kamari, Tehtaankatu 21 B 45, 5th floor, Helsinki

     

    Are you working on/with sound recordings focussed on the environment and/or nature in your art or research?

     Would you like to connect with other artists and researchers engaged in these themes?

     

    Join us for afternoon coffee at Kamari on Friday, April 11, for a chance to meet others, share our work, and discuss sound and the environment. 

     

    Please sign-up by April 4, so we can plan accordingly. Sign-up form: https://q.surveypal.com/Sound-and-Environment-Meet-and-Greet 

  • FOHN 2024 - Memory in Movement: Pace, Connection & Introspection

    Keynote:

    “Settler Memory, Forest Memory: Place, Pace, and Feelings in Finnish Migration History”

    University of Jyväskylä

    29.11.2024

    14.00-15.00

    Event Details

  • Työväen historian ja perinteen tutkimuksen seuran 2024 kesäseminaari

    Keynote:

    “Työ, metsä, asutuskolonialismi – Pohjois-Ontarion historia ja muisteltu kanadansuomalaisuus”

    Werstas, Tampere

    19.8.2024

    10.15–11.15

    Tapahtuman Tiedot

  • “Mapping Finnishness in the Thunder Bay Area” Workshop

    When: Tuesday, June 13, 2023, from 6 pm to 8 pm

    Where: Suomi Koti Blue Room (527 County Blvd, Thunder Bay)

    Event Details

  • Tieteiden yö: Miten Suomen koloniaalisuus näkyy arjessa?

    12.1.2023
    18.00 - 20.00
    Ravintola Kustaa Vaasa
    Vaasankatu 10, Helsinki

    Tapahtuman tiedot

  • Public Lecture at the Univeristy of Saskatchewan

    “Building That Bright Future: Finnish North Americans in Soviet Karelia”

    Monday, September 19, 2022

    10am

    Arts 211, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

  • Public Lecture at the Calgary Finlandia Cultural Association


    ”Finnish North American Life in Soviet Karelia”


    Sunday, September 11, 2022

    6:30pm

    Viking Hall, Scandinavian Centre, 739 20 Ave NW, Calgary, AB

  • Thunder Bay Book Launch

    Book Launch of Building That Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans

    Thursday, August 18, 2022

    7pm

    Entershine Book Shop, Thunder Bay, ON