Friday Cultural Lectures

Friday Cultural Lectures brings together five lecture series on different topics throughout the autumn. All lectures are free.

Wonderful Japan - non-fiction author Esa Mäkijärvi
18.9. Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto - A heaven of food and culture
25.9. Tokyo - Japan's political and economic heart

Colourful Thailand - non-fiction author Esa Mäkijärvi
2.10. Northern Thailand and Chiang Mai - Land of a million rice fields
9.10. Central Thailand and Bangkok - Concrete and a fast-paced life

Sweden's Age of Greatness - the ideal nobleman and Queen Christina's flourishing court culture - MA, doctoral researcher Pihla Pekonen
23.10. Vir nobilis idealis - the ideal nobleman of the 17th century
30.10. Masquerades and animal fights - Queen Christina's court culture in Stockholm 1644-1654

Sacred places of religions: pilgrimage and mass tourism - docent Jyri Komulainen
6.11. Sacred places of India
13.11. Catholic Marian pilgrimage sites

Finnish women artists - MA Tiina Ottela
20.11. National art at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries
27.11. Modernism in the 1910s-1930s