The FSSL’s 3rd Research Symposium for Early Career Historians on the History of Science and Learning & the 11th Jaakko Suolahti Lecture

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Thursday 24.9.2026

Location: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Mariankatu 5, Helsinki (Väisälä Hall, 2nd floor)

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10.00 Welcome & housekeeping

10.05–11.35 Session 1

Ahto Apajalahti: Cold War Science in Finland from 1940s to 1970s

Jean Lukkarinen: With the language of science and against the science: The construction of gender diversity in 96- and Seta-magazines in 1960-1980

Liisa Kunnas: “We broke the science museum mold”. Short and long histories of the concept of science centre

11.35–12.30 Lunch

12.30–14.30 Session 2

Lotta Aarikka: From Anonymous Speakers to Language Masters and Back Again: A Historical Perspective on Speaker Identification in Finnish Regional Variation Research

Teemu Palkki: Subject association magazines in studying the history of a field of research – fenno-ugristics field in student magazines

Vuokko Schoultz: What constitutes rape? The interpretation of professor Brynolf Honkasalo and references to his perception in rape trials in the city court of Helsinki in 1951–1961

Iida Karjalainen: A word for Egypt. Nationalism and universalism in French schools in Egypt, 1910–1935

14.30–15.00 Coffee break

15.00–16.30 XI Jaakko Suolahti Lecture

Historians, Institutions and Freedom: Challenges in Writing the History of the Modern University

Associate Professor Maria Simonsen, Aalborg University

18.00 Celebratory dinner at Restaurant Southpark (Bulevardi 40, Sinebrychoff Park) – for registered participants only

Friday 25.9.2026

Location: The House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 10, Helsinki (Cedercreutz Hall 5th floor)

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9.30-10.00 Morning coffee

10.00–11.30 Session 3

Kuu Aholainen: Perceiving Science, Art and Philosophy – When Ways of Conceptualizing Meet on Erkki Ahonen’s Fictional Novels

Reetta Sippola: Multispecies knowledge. Material entwining of animals, environment and Captain Cook´s Arctic exploration

Aino Kirjonen: “A Pussy in A Box”: Affective and Sensory Encounters in Feline Dissections in U.S. Zoology, 1880–1914

11.30–12.15 Lunch

12.15–13.30 Panel discussion (in Finnish)

The future of research and teaching in the history of science and knowledge

Panelists: Janne Tunturi, Heini Hakosalo, Marja Jalava and Stefan Nygård

13.30 Closing of the symposium