New Professors' Celebration Lectures

In the New Professors' Celebration Lectures, professors will present topic of their research to the public and reflect their scientific discipline's significance in the future.

This event will be recorded. The recording will be added to this website soon after the event.
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Public lectures, seminars and round tables
Science events
Citizen science
Academic celebrations
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Finnish
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Sign language interpretation available, on request in advance
Event space is accessible for all
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Communications and Community
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Free of charge
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New Professors' Celebration Lectures will be held on Wednesday, 7 May, 2025, starting at 12:00 noon in the Seminarium (S) and its old assembly hall (S212) in the second floor. The celebration lectures are part of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ academic events. Professors' will give lectures in their native language. 

We kindly ask the public to be seated by 12:00 noon.
Doors to the old assembly hall open to the public at 11:30 a.m. 

Mika Haapanen, School of Business and Economics
Piia Astikainen, Faculty of Education and Psychology
Tiina Kontinen, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Jan Kujala, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Opening words by Vice Rector Marja-Leena Laakso.

The event will be followed by a coffee party in the Tissari Art Collection Hall (S-building, 1st floor).

The dresscode for the audience is casual.
Please note that this event is held in Finnish. 

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Kuvassa kevään 2025 uudet professorit.
In the picture (from left to right): Mika Haapanen, Piia Astikainen, Tiina Kontinen and Jan Kujala.

New professors

Mika Haapanen is in his teaching and research focused on the economics of education and labour and, more extensively, microeconomics. Haapanen will give his celebration lecture entitled "Is education a worthwhile investment?".

Piia Astikainen has been particularly interested in language learning and social perception. Her latest project (2022-2026), funded by Research Council of Finland, provides information on the role of interaction in foreign language learning.Astikainen will give her celebration lecture entitled "The learning and shaping brain in interaction".

Tiina Kontinen has published on non-governmental organisations as development actors, civil society, civic space and citizenship, mainly in Tanzania and Uganda, and knowledge production in North-South cooperation. She has led several collaborative projects with African universities. Kontinen will give her celebration lecture entitled "Civil society as a subject for development research".

Jan Kujala is in his research focused in specific on the use of advanced analytical methods for different types of data measured by magnetoencephalography (MEG).Kujala will give his celebration lecture entitled "The multiverse of magnetoencephalography".

Please note! The lectures will be in Finnish.

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