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Uniarts History Forum

The research network believes that responsible and future-focused historical research will be an integral and important part of all art universities in the future. We are part of Uniarts Helsinki's Research Institute.

Sitra's playerr from the 20th century.

Introduction

The basic premise of Uniarts Helsinki’s History Forum is that the research of the history of arts cannot be separated from the practice of art, seen as a contemporary, dynamic interpretations of history. The Forum believes that responsible and future-focused historical research will be an integral and important part of all art universities in the future.

Find out more about what the History Forum does.

The Forum supports the University’s research strategy in regard to the collaboration between its core competencies, academies and departments, and to internationalisation. Uniarts Helsinki should integrate research and knowledge of history at all levels, from Bachelor and Master-level programmes to the most advanced research structures and knowledge production.

For the History Forum – and for Uniarts Helsinki’s other research centres – the central inquiry is to explore how arts and artists can exist and function within the society, enriching it and embracing their responsibilities.

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Contact information

  • Anne Kauppala

    Professor, musicology, opera research, history of performance culture, DocMus Doctoral School, Sibelius Academy
    +358407104287
    anne.kauppala@uniarts.fi

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Get to know our research

  • A classroom of one’s own

    Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.

  • Cantatriches Achté

    This research concentrates on three opera singers: Emmy Achté and her daughters Aino Ackté and Irma Tervan and their extensive correspondence via letters.

  • Music, War and Peace in Europe 1922 – 2022

    War is one of the prominent themes of 20th century music. The project “Music, War and Peace in Europe 1922−2022” wants in the context of the invasion of Ukraine to recall the disastrous consequences of European totalitarianisms as instigators of armed conflicts, genocides such as the Holocaust, and to share with European audiences the idea that continental peace cannot be based on the market alone, but also on strong common values of democracy, the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, freedom and unity.

  • Uniarts Helsinki projects

    See all Uniarts Helsinki research projects as well as development and international co-operation projects.

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