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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...

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)”...

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...

Population encounters have shaped people in Finland

31.10.2023

People living in the area of Finland have never been a homogeneous group. Our cultural, genetic and linguistic heritage all have a diverse background and are in a constant state of change. People, ideas, customs and diseases have always moved from place to place and left their mark on the population. In a major research consortium, researchers are studying how these marks are still visible in people.