School of Humanities - News

Mobilities can be banal or extraordinary. They are filled with meanings that tell us about the world we live in.

According to University Lecturer Johanna Uotinen, graduates in the human sciences are specialists with flexibility and broad-based expertise, capable of mastering large entities.

Professor Markus Forsberg has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor Marja Laasonen Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty for the period 1 January to 31 December 2025.

The linguistic autobiographies of Finnish and Meänkieli-speakers in Sweden include painful memories, but also pride in their Finnish and Tornedalian roots.

The lecture topics range from cultural studies, education and society to AI, environmental law, aerosols, atmosphere and neuroscience.

The study reveals how Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore's poetry shows the process of mobility through its mystical Sufi representations that makes it unique in the context of Anglophone mystical literature.

A common and shared period of time shouldn’t be considered in isolation from difference and particularity. We experienced, and continue to experience, the ‘same’ pandemic in endlessly diverse ways.

Scientific Councils have granted a total of 10.5 million euros of funding to 9 new Academy Research Fellows and to 11 Academy Projects at the University of Eastern Finland.

The piloted development service was a platform for collaboration between local businesses and international students wishing to find employment in North Karelia.

12–14 June 2024, UEF Joensuu campus hosts the significant international conference Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities that addresses topics of cultural mobility and multiethnicity.