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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.

  • Uniarts Helsinki projects

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

Executive group of the History Forum

Our researchers

What we do

News

  • One House, Two Hearts – The History of the Sibelius Academy R Building

    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.

  • Operasampo portal has been published

    Operasampo: Opera and music theatre performances in Finland 1830-1960 publishes rich linked open data on more than 9 000 opera and musical theater performances and on more than 3 500 people who played a role in them.

  • Thursday Forum`s program for spring 2025

    The History Forum’s monthly meetings take place on Thursdays. Pick up the most interesting visiting lecturers and save the meetings to your calendar.

  • Blog post: Jean Sibelius – Finland’s most famous radio star

    Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) was a well-known composer outside Finland already in the early 20th century. In the 1930s, his fame grew into new spheres. At that stage, Sibelius himself had already stopped publishing new masterpieces. According to Janne Mäkelä`s blog post it was radio that catapulted him to global fame.

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