Seminar to Celebrate Professor Emeritus Pertti Haapala

Tampere University and Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) will organize a seminar to celebrate Professor Emeritus Pertti Haapala´s long and significant career.

The event will take place in Tampere University Main Building´s main auditorium (Auditorium A210) on Thursday 2nd June at 5–7.30. p.m. (Coffee service starting at 04.30)

Programme

• Welcome, Professor Pirjo Markkola
• Tampere University´s Greetings, Professor Juho Saari, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
• Writing the Nation Today: Challenges and Pitfalls, Professor Stefan Berger
• The Promise of Social History. On the Role of Theory in Pertti Haapala’s Research, Professor Marja Jalava
• From Theory to Social Change in the 21st Century: How can we save the planet?, Professor Christopher Lloyd
• History of Society and the Lived Welfare State, University Researcher Minna Harjula
• Lived Religion in Early Modern Society and Other Histories of Experiences That Never Were, Professor Raisa Toivo
• Concluding remarks, Professor Emeritus Pertti Haapala

Sparkling wine offering

Please register by 24 May here

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Photograph: Jonne Renvall/Tampere University