Hooray! We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary in 2023! The celebrations will be themed around the future of arts.
The Forum believes that responsible and future-focused historical research will be an integral and important part of all art universities in the future.
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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Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.
This research concentrates on three opera singers: Emmy Achté and her daughters Aino Ackté and Irma Tervan and their extensive correspondence via letters.
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We support national multidisciplinary research on music and the surrounding cultural reality.
More information about interesting databases and our networks.
The symposium takes place every other year, gathering together leading music historians from all over the globe.
Networking, a collegial feeling and agile operations are the Forum’s key characteristics: the Forum strives to offer resources, training, guest speakers and lecturers requested by its members.
Find out about our past activity on our old website
The reading club will concentrate on a collection of chosen articles from the selected book.
The online exhibition presents the history of the R Building. It is realised by Adjunct Professor Riku Hämäläinen as part of the University of the Arts Helsinki`s History Forum`s Oral History Project.
The History Forum’s monthly meetings take place on Thursdays, and are named accordingly.
The art of dance does not exist in a vacuum, and its slowly shifting and increasingly local canons reflect what are considered as of importance at a given time and place. The canons of the twenty-first century and the histories that get told of dance ought to reflect a very different world than that of the alleged first modern dancers who made dance an art by, of, and for white people. Read more about Hanna Järvinen`s article about the whiteness of modern dance, 1880s to 1930s.
The symposium will take place on February 12–13, 2024, at the Helsinki Music Centre, and the event is organised by the University of the Arts Helsinki History Forum, the Sibelius Academy doctoral schools DocMus & MuTri, and the research association Suoni. Read more about Call for papers.