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Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing Seminar

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14.5.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
The Research Centre for Culture and Health at the University of Turku explores the connections between culture, health, and illness from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is interested in all aspects of research and education relating to health and culture from pedagogical, narrative, artistic...
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University of Turku most popular university in Finland in spring's second joint application round

03.04.2024
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The University of Turku was the most popular university in this spring’s second joint application round for the Finnish-language degree programmes which ended on 27 March 2024. The total number of applicants to the University's Finnish-language degree programmes was 31,824, which is also the highest number of applicants ever to the University of Turku. The previous applicant record from 2021 (31,511) was broken in the last hour of the application round.

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Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar

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13.2.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
Islands, Isolation, and Illness Per Mendoza, University of Turku “Isolated Narratives? Narrative Ethics, Affectivity, and Spatiality in Johanna Holmström’s Själarnas ö” Mathieu Bokestael, University College Dublin “What is a Caring Historiography? Lessons from Sarah Moss’ Night Waking (2011)”...
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Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar

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16.1.2024 at 14.00 - 16.00
Research Centre for Culture and Health Seminar January 16, 14:00-16:00 EET Literature, Anthropology and Pain Anna Ovaska, Tampere University “Reading Chronic Pain: Narrative and (In)Visibility” Henni Alava, Tampere University “Finnish Sisu, Finnish Pain: What (if anything) is Culturally Specific in...
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Aboagora 2023 "Void"

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23.8.2023 at 10.00 - 25.8.2023 at 19.00
Aboagora brings together academia, the arts and society. This exciting annual event consists of interdisciplinary discussions and performances that combine scholarly and artistic viewpoints. Aboagora offers a forum for researchers, artists and the public to establish new dialogues and discover new...
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Talk on Coloniality of language and pretextual gaps

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27.4.2023 at 16.00 - 17.30
Talk on Coloniality of language and pretextual gaps Professor Carolyn McKinney (University of Cape Town, South Africa) will give a presentation that will draw on her recently published paper. ‘Coloniality of language and pretextual gaps: a case study of emergent bilingual children’s writing in a...
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