Author Sirpa Kähkönen's lecture

The acknowledged Finnish author and columnist Sirpa Kähkönen will give a guest lecture titled War as immaterial inheritance. How writing fiction can help to cope with transgenerational trauma material at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, on Thursday December 1, 2022 at 9-12 am.

Sirpa Kähkönen’s extensive literary work combines fiction with factual historical events and social development in Finland, specifically during the 20th century Kuopio, where she herself grew up and went to school.  As central themes, Sirpa Kähkönen’s novels often deal with life and fate of civilian population in the times of crises, on microhistory of women and children, and on the interplay between great social ideologies and utopias on one hand, and the life of small people on the other.

In 2011-2018 Sirpa Kähkönen chaired the Finnish PEN, which is part international association of writers promoting freedom of expression.  From 2018 onwards she has been the chairperson of the Union of Finnish Writers.

The guest lecture is provided by the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UEF. While being part of the international Master of Public Health program and the Arts and Health -course, the lecture is also open for wider audience. The lecture is in English, and will be heard in the seminar room CA300 at the Canthia building, UEF Kuopio Campus.

For more information:

Professor Jussi Kauhanen, tel. +358 40 552 5104, jussi.kauhanen.@uef.fi