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Heidi Hakkarainen
@heidihakkarainen.bsky.social
Historian affiliated with the University of Turku, Finland. Interested in history of emotions, book history, press history, history of children's literature and 19th century studies.
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Colleagues at DIGHT-net project are organising a super interesting summer school at @utu.fi in August! dight-net.tlu.ee/call-for-par... The lineup looks really good @heidihakkarainen.bsky.social @hansalmi.bsky.social
Call for Participation: Theorising Digital Cultural Heritage: A DIGHT-Net PhD Summer School - DIGHT-Net
University of Turku 24–26 August 2026 1 ECTS We invite applications from PhD students and other early-career researchers to take part in the DIGHT-Net summer school on theorising digital cultural heri...
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April 28, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Now available in January 2026. My book Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna has just come out in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/3MNglZV

#History #AustrianStudies #NineteenthCentury
Title for Consideration: Comical Modernity
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January 7, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Today we celebrate International Children's Book Day. Our ongoing project Becoming a Reading Nation? Children's Books and Educational Literature in Finland, 1790-1850 investigates literature for children and young people in the early 19th century sites.utu.fi/luka/en/
April 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The Call for Papers for our next biennial conference is now open! Submit your proposals by 1 October 2025 so you can join us at the University of Arizona in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona on 22-23 May 2026. More information can be found at the link below ✨
nachemotion.wordpress.com/conference/t...
March 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Happy International Women's Day
March 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Good God. In Munich, fascist Vance calls for cooperation between German parties and the fascist AfD. The new Axis forms.
J.D. Vance fordert Zusammenarbeit deutscher Parteien mit der AfD
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
US-Vizepräsident: J. D. Vance fordert Zusammenarbeit deutscher Parteien mit der AfD
Bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz will US-Vizepräsident Vance mehr Kooperation mit Parteien wie der AfD fordern. Die Bundesregierung weist seinen Vorstoß ab.
www.zeit.de
February 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day - may today be a bright spot in a darkening world.
February 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
My article discussing the catalogue of the library of the German-language Gymnasium in Vyborg (Wiburg) 1805-1860 has been published (in Finnish) in the journal Kasvatus & Aika: journal.fi/kasvatusjaai...
Viipurin lukion kirjaston kokoelmaluettelo vuosilta 1805–1860 kasvatus- ja kirjahistoriallisena lähteenä
Vuonna 1805 perustettu Viipurin lukio oli Vanhan Suomen alueen ja myöhemmin Viipurin läänin merkittävä koulutusinstituutio, mutta sen kirjastosta säilyneet tiedot ovat pitkään olleet puutteellisia ja ...
journal.fi
January 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Our EU-funded project DIGHT-Net organises a series of online workshops. The first one on digital archives will be on 21 Feb 2025, with @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social as one of the speakers. #digitalarchive #digitalhistory #culturalheritage More info on registration: dight-net.tlu.ee/event/online...
New Trends in Digital Culture Studies, Online Workshop 1: Creation of the Digital Archive - DIGHT-Net
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January 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Hope.

In times of trouble you can always rely on your hope. This seventeenth-century copperplate print of an original handdrawing is titled (in French and German):

l'Esperance. Die Hoffnung.

#earlymodern #hope #skystorians
January 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It took me some time to get here, but here I am.
January 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM