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Pasi Saarimäki

Post doctoral fellow
University of Jyväskylä
Participates in 1 Session

Anne Häkkinen is currently working as postdoctoral researcher in the multidisciplinary research project People as keepers of intangible industrial heritage (2020-2022) at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology (ethnology and anthropology), in Finland. Her research interests are diverse ranging from industrial and cultural heritage to migration. Häkkinen has previously studied translocality, transnational marriages, gender, couple formation, arranged marriages, online courtship, and sexuality in the Kurdish diaspora (PhD 2020). She has also worked on several research projects related to migration and integration conducted by the Migration institute of Finland. She has long-standing experience of carrying out different types of interviews, such as oral history and ethnographic interviews as well as survey inquires. She is especially experienced in using qualitative narrative methods and analysis. Pasi 

Saarimäki is currently working as project leader and postdoctoral researcher in the multidisciplinary project People as keepers of intangible industrial heritage (Kone Foundation 2020-2022) at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology (Finnish history), in Finland. Saarimäki is a gender historian, who has studied sexual behaviour and norms, marriage, and divorces in Finland in the late 19th century and early 20th century. In recent years, Saarimäki has carried out commissioned research, which has related to significant social phenomena in Finland in the late 19th century and in 20th century. This research includes one biography, one local history, and a study, which concern the life of karelian people immigrants in southern Finland after the WWII, will be published in spring 2021. Saarimäki has a wide-ranging experience of archival sources, newspapers and interviewing.

Sessions in which Pasi Saarimäki participates

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Anne Hakkinen, University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology (Speaker)

Pasi Saarimäki, University of Jyväskylä (Speaker)

Pasi Saarimäki & Anne Häkkinen The recognition of industrial heritage has typically been focused on its more material and tangible sides such as m...

Sessions in which Pasi Saarimäki attends

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
2 hours, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Signup required

Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine

Cocktail

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...