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Viipuri liikkumisen keskuksena 1800-luvun alkupuoliskolla

2021

Viipuri oli rajakaupunkina 1800-luvun alkupuoliskollakin liikkumisen keskus, jonka kautta kulki runsain määrin matkustajia niin itään ja erityisesti Pietariin, kuin myös lännen suuntaan. Matkustaja- ja passirekistereiden kautta on mahdollista analysoida, mitä matkustusdokumentteja liikkujat käyttivät, ja keitä kulkijat olivat. Jossakin määrin aineisto mahdollistaa myös kurkistuksen kaupungissa tapahtuneeseen majoitustoimintaan ja vieraanvaraisuuteen. Tämän ohessa on mahdollista tehdä johtopäätöksiä matkaajien sukupuolesta ja sosiaalisesta asemasta, mutta kokonaisuudessaankin rekisterien tarjoama kuva liikkumisesta on ennen kaikkea suuntaa antava. Esimerkiksi passirekisterit kertovat vain pa…

Capturing situational interest in the past : the salience of children’s experiences in open-air museums 

2019

Open-air museums are immersive learning environments disseminating ideas about the lifestyle and material culture of pre-modern times. Considering their significance and prevalence in Northern and Eastern Europe, little is known about how contemporary children perceive these cultural heritage spaces. This study scrutinizes how primary school pupils from Sweden and Belarus encountered visits to Skansen (Sweden) and the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle (Belarus) and expressed experiences about their visits in drawings and in follow-up interpretations. To record the patterns in children’s experiences, a mixed method was employed, including participant observatio…

Economic History of the United States

2019

How did the United States of America arrive where it is today? Growing from an extremely poor and sparsely populated land into the wealthiest nation on earth, USA is a colonial success story. But there is more to the story than economic growth; poverty, inequality, racial conflict, declining fertility, violence, and economic instability are outcomes of economic decisions that were made in the past. During this course we will go over the characteristics, the main facts of the US economy that can be credited for its exceptional historic economic growth with an eye to understand its current economic conditions. We will break down the individual components of the US economy that have contribute…

The impact of urban transformations on the morphology of streets networks

2017

This research takes place in the field of quantitative analysis of historical streets networks.During the last decades, many studies have used network analysis or space syntax approachin a diachronic perspective, either to observe the interdependence between networkconfigurations and land-use, or to explore the link between network configurations and knownurban phenomena, such as densification, dispersal or expansion. These researches often focuson one single transformation rather than on the long time evolution of networks. In this work,we will explore the evolution of the street network of Paris, between 1300 and 1871, and linkthis evolution to all the transformations that occurred in the…

La contestación a los próceres. Pugna de facciones y desórdenes en Valencia (1376-1478)

2021

La intermitencia de los ataques verbales y escritos contra las decisiones de gobierno de la ciudad de Valencia a lo largo de un siglo se inscriben en una dinámica absorbente, liderada por partidos rivales de la oligarquía, capaces éstos de asumir reivindicaciones grupales ajenas y de arrastrar a parte de los ciudadanos y de los menestrales bajo fórmulas clientelares. Las circunstancias concretas de las protestas superaron los cauces institucionales previstos en una asamblea municipal renovada anualmente y con amplia representación social, la cual se demostró más como plataforma para la adhesión de los vecinos respecto a los líderes de la sociedad política y menos como órgano de discusión po…

Being Aurovilian : constructions of self, spirituality and India in an international community

2006

David Cronenberg : une mission utopique

2002

This essay is meant as an introduction to the body of Cronenberg's work up to and including Spider. It is an attempt to analyze what Cronenberg calls his mission in aesthetic and ethical terms, Cronenberg having admitted to Serge Grünberg that he wanted to participate in changing contemporary norms by encouraging the spectator to see something beautiful when his initial reaction is repulsion. I argue that the utopian/dystopian aspect of the diegeses of Cronenberg's early films becomes a structuring element in his later films. I first examine Cronenberg's approach to the fantastique in Shivers and Rabid, with particular interest to the monster as a metaphor of the repulsive. In the later fil…

La ville, la raison et le rêve : entre théorie et utopie

1997

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Hermetic Roots of Marsilio Ficino’s Anthropocentric Thought

2013

Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical Hermetica, his allegiances to the Hermetic ideas have been recognized only in his theory of magic (only to be denied later), while in other cases, in general, scholars tend to deny the impact of Hermetic writings instead of accepting it. This paper explores a topic in which the denial has been particularly harsh, namely Ficino’s Promethean philosophy of man, highlighted as the most influential achievement of his thought by previous generations (e.g. by Trinkaus). Despite the neglec…

Diplomatic Wives, Cultures of Dress, and Brita Kekkonen : The New Study on the Cultural History of Diplomacy Has Started

2021

In this article, I discuss the private dress collection of Brita Kekkonen (1927–2013), a diplomatic wife, who was a very well-known figure in Finland during the period of the Cold War. Brita Kekkonen was also a very talented dress-maker and a very fashionable figure in diplomatic circles. Some eighty outfits made by Brita Kekkonen have survived to this day, in addition to her volumi-nous pattern collection, containing more than 1,000 patterns from several decades. The aim of my new postdoctoral research project is to identify Bri-ta Kekkonen’s dresses and examine their use, politico-cultural meanings and design in the context of the Cold War, diplomatic etiquette and Kekkonen’s own personal…