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Dissenting visions : the executive, parliament and the porblematic Anglo-American collaboration in the changes of British Atomic Foreign Policy 1845-…
2016
FM Matti Roiton yleisen historian väitöskirja Dissenting Visions – The Executive, Parliament and the Problematic Anglo-American Collaboration in the Changes of British Atomic Foreign Policy 1845–6 tarkastettiin 28.11.2015 Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori Jussi Hanhimäki Graduate Institute of International and Development Studiesista, Genevestä ja kustoksena professori Pertti Ahonen Jyväskylän yliopistosta.
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…