Research and Other Activities

Events
05/18/2012 Annual Open Meeting. Instituutin 27. vuosijuhla.
05/11/2012 Pekka of Finland. Opening of an illustration exhibition at 7.30 P.M.
05/10/2012 "Looking at Pompeian Mirrors". Lecture by Ria Berg. 10.5.2012 at 7pm.
04/19/2012 "North Syrian Impact on Early Greek Sculpture and Inscriptions?" Lecture by Sanna Aro-Valjus (University of Helsinki)
04/05/2012 Concert. The Suzuki Orchestra of Vantaa plays Finnish and Greek light music.
03/30/2012 "Decade of Finnish studies in the Insula of the House of Marcus Lucretius in Pompeii in 2002-12". Lecture by Antero Tammisto (Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis Helsingiensis)
01/26/2012 “Landscape” Painting Exhibition by Rose-Mari Torpo. Exhibition opening on 26 Jan 2012 at 19.00.
12/08/2011 "Make Love, Not War?" The Premiere of Euripides' Trojan Women on Finnish Stage in 1970. Lecture by Sanna-Ilaria Kittelä (University of Helsinki)
11/30/2011 A talk (in greek) on Willhelm Lagus and Fredrika Bremer by Dr. Vasilis Letsios
11/15/2011 The fifth Johannes Sundwall lecture "The Cappadocians and their Languages, 1911 BC - AD 2011" by Prof. Mark Janse (Universiteit Gent / Ghent University).
19.5.2011 Annual Open Meeting
The 26th Annual Open Meeting
7.4.2011 Greek grammar as a stumbling stone in Hellenistic Egypt?
Lecture by Marja Vierros (University of Helsinki)
10.3.2011 Authors and scribes in private letters on papyri
Lecture by Hilla Halla-aho (University of Helsinki)
23.2.2011 Colossi of Love
A documentary screening by XYZ Productions
17.2.2011 Locating buried structures with ground penetrating radar
Lecture by Juhana Leiwo (School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University)
Presentation slides
Presentation notes
7.12.2010 Tragedy Performances Outside Athens in the Fourth Century BC
Lecture by Vesa Vahtikari (FIA)
2.12.2010 Tutto Samos ama il professore
Föredrag av Jan Henrik Swahn
22.11.2010 Η ιστορία μιας μετάφρασης του Ελύτη: Η περίπτωση της Φινλανδίας Lecture by Markku Pääskynen
18.11.2010 Johannes Sundwall lecture by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
20.10.2010 (Inter-)Regional civil society cooperation: Challenges and future perspectives in the Mediterranean, Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions
11.10.2010 The Verbal, Visual and Aural in Picture Books
Lecture by Dr. Riitta Oittinen
30.9.-2.10.2010 International Conference - The Ottoman Past in the Balkan Present: Music and Mediation
9.6.2010 Choir performance of the Kodály choir
20.5.2010 Annual Meeting of the Institute
15.-16.5.2010 Theatrical performance - Pertsa ja Kilu
28.4.2010 Screening of documentary film "Sisters across the Gulf of Finland"
11.3.2010 Dance in the margins? Positioning dancers in antiquity
Lecture by Manna Satama (University of Helsinki)
22.2.-6.3.2010 Art exhibition - Sanna Jalomäki
18.2.2010 Why do we need other people to be happy?
Sociability and other-regard in late ancient ethics
Lecture by Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä)
13.1.2010 A Series of Lectures and Exhibitions on Scandinavian Architecture
Pekka Helin
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14.12.2009 Movie Night
8.12.2009 Winter War -seminar
The Finnish Winter War Photo Exhibition, Maps
25.11.2009 A Series of Lectures and Exhibitions on Scandinavian Architecture
Kimmo Kuismanen
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19.11.2009 Johannes Sundwall lecture by Lorna Hardwick
10/2009-
09/2010		 A Series of Lectures and Exhibitions on Scandinavian Architecture
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12.10.2009 New Discoveriens from Magnetic Surveys at Classical Sites in Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Ukraine
Lecture by Tatiana Smekalova (Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, Denmark)
17.-20.9.2009 A Colloquium on Greek and Latin Linguistics (invited speakers):
Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Problems and Methods
28.-31.5.2009 Thessaloniki Book Fair
14.5.2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute
8.4.2009 Herakleopolis Magna: a Graeco-Egyptian Town in Middle Egypt Lecture by Erja Salmenkivi (University of Helsinki)
17.3.2009 With Greek Eyes: Polybius of Megalopolis on Roman Politics
Lecture by Kaj Sandberg (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae)
11.3.2009 Seminar for Postgraduate Students of Classical Philology (University of Helsinki)
10.3.-31.5.2009 Έκθεση (Κέρκυρα): Αγαπητή Μισητή μου Αθήνα! Στιγμιότυπα από τη ζωή του φινλανδού ελληνιστή Βίλχελμ Λάγκους.
19.-20.2.2009 Colloquium - Styles of Political Theorizing: Exploring Concepts and Rhetorical Practices in History
9.-10.2.2009 Colloquium - Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II
27.11.2008 Mika Waltari seminar
24.-27.10.2008 International Workshop - Defining and Interpreting Ancient Greek Cult Deposits
16.10.2008 Komisario Palmu-elokuvia instituutissa Mika Waltarin hengessä
1.-4.10.2008 Langnet Seminar
19.9.2008 37ο Φεστιβάλ Βιβλίου (12.-28.9)
22.5.2008 Annual Meeting of the Institute
28.2.2008 The Substance and Procedure of Athenian Law
Seminar by Edward Harris (Durham University)
14.2.2008 India as a Mirror of the Otherness in Classical and Medieval West Lecture by Klaus Karttunen (University of Helsinki)

Research Projects

The first directors of the Institute assembled their own multidisciplinary projects, employing postgraduate students. In the framework of these projects a wide range of subjects, such as post-Herulian and Hellenistic Athens, were studied. Some of the results of these projects have already been published in the series of the Institute.

The Final Pagan Renaissance of Athens, AD 267 - 529
Director Paavo Castrén (1985 - 1988)
Risto Aikonen, Arja Karivieri, Julia Burman, Vappu Pyykkö, Gunnar af Hällström, Erkki Sironen
Publication

Hellenistic Athens, 323-30 B.C
Director Jaakko Frösén (1988 - 1992)
Mika Hakkarainen, Kenneth Lönnqvist, Tuula Korhonen, Minna Lönnqvist, Martti Leiwo, Petra Pentikäinen, Tiina Purola, Erja Salmenkivi
Publication

Dionysius the Areopagite in History and Legend
Director Gunnar af Hällström (1993 - 1995)
Jeanette Lindblom, Markku Nikulin, Eino Palin, Leena Mari Peltomaa, Hanna-Riitta Toivanen
Publication

Mythical Bodies: Greek Myths and European Thought
Director Kirsti Simonsuuri (1995 - 1998)
Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto, Risto Heikkinen, Kalle Kuusimäki, Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski, Mikael Olin, Anna
Pietiläinen, Anne Siikaluoma-Tervonen, Leena Viitaniemi

Late Classical and Hellenistic Heroa
Director Leena Pietilä-Castrén (2000 - 2004)
Mari Mikkola, Mikko Suoninen, Tiina Tuukkanen, Hanne Wikström
Publication

Further Research

August Myhrberg and North-European Philhellenism. Building the Myth of a Hero
Petra Pakkanen
Publication

The Image of Finland in the Greek Press during the Winter War of 1939 - 1940
Kira Kaurinkoski, Maria Martzoukou, Maria Gourdouba
Publication