HCAS Core Fellows Olesya Khanina and Jitka Štollová have been awarded major grants to pursue their research at the University of Helsinki. In addition, HCAS Erkko Professor Kevin Durrheim has been appointed to a SARChI Chair funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.

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HCAS Core Fellows Olesya Khanina and Jitka Štollová have been awarded major grants to pursue their research at the University of Helsinki. In addition, the current Erkko Professor at the Collegium, Ke...

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For 25 years, HCAS has brought together scholars in the social sciences and humanities to think, argue, and exchange ideas. To celebrate this milestone, we are proud to share a new video featuring interviews with current fellows and alumni. We hope you enjoy the video and have a wonderful summer!

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies 25 years

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Last Friday, Collegium's founders, fellows, alumni, partners, and supporters gathered to celebrate the institute's 25th anniversary. A day of reflection, conversation, and celebration, it brought together many of the people who have shaped the Collegium over the past quarter century.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week! In a recent interview, our Director Hanne Appelqvist reflects on the Collegium’s role in giving researchers the time, space, and community to devote themselves to their research.

“The musicians may change, but the music plays on” – Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies creates space for thinking | University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki’s Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Director Hanne Appelqvist describes its significance in the ability to give researchers the ti...

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The Collegium's 25th Anniversary Newsletter is hot off the press! Access the full issue as a PDF on our website: www.helsinki.fi/%E2%80%A6/he...

“The international community must strengthen our global healthcare infrastructure in order to protect everyone's ability to live minimally good lives.” – Creative Resolve: The Future of Global Health Join us for a screening and panel discussion on the documentary with HCAS alumna Nicole Hassoun.

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HCAS alumna Nicole Hassoun hosts a screening of the documentary Creative Resolve: The Future of Global Health on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24 ...

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The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary this June. To mark this milestone and to launch a new chapter in its history, the Collegium hosts a series of events and unveils an updated website with a new visual identity.

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The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary this June. To mark this milestone and to launch a new chapter in its history, the Collegium hosts a series of events and unv...

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Last week HCAS hosted an enthusiastic group of scholars to discuss virtues and vices. In addition to historical analyses, participants reflected on the global, feminist, environmental, and political dimensions of humility, anger, love, and justice. Thank you to all who participated in this event!

HCAS Honorary Fellow and Distinguished Research Professor at American University, James H. Mittelman, hosts a panel discussion on his recent publication, Runaway Capitalism, on June 15 at HCAS. Read more and register: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

To celebrate the past academic year, HCAS Fellows and staff gathered in Tallinn for our annual retreat. In addition to a final common seminar on interconnections between law and fiction at Tallinn University, we toured museums and enjoyed each other’s company and talents over dinner and at karaoke.

HCAS alumnus Charlie Kurth has been awarded for his courageous actions in defence of academic freedom. The Collegium warmly congratulates him on this well-deserved recognition. dailynous.com/2026/05/20/t...

Two Philosophers Win “Courageous Colleague” Award - Daily Nous

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has bestowed its Berkson Courageous Colleague Award on two philosophers. Those two philosophers are Mike Gregory and Charlie Kurth, both of C...

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Registration for the HCAS Anniversary Symposium “Artifice and Its Insecurities” closes at the end of this week! Read more and register: blogs.helsinki.fi/artifice-sym...

Registration for the Virtue and Vice workshop closes this week! Join scholars across philosophy, political science, anthropology, and theology to examine how virtues and vices are conceptualized and used – both in history and today. Read more and register by May 24: blogs.helsinki.fi/virtue-vice/

What draws nearly 400,000 viewers to a conversation on Russian literary studies? Professor Oleg Lekmanov, our @koneensaatio.fi Visiting Fellow, offers compelling insights into the field in this in-depth interview with prominent Russian opposition journalist Katerina Gordeeva.

Олег Лекманов: большой разговор о современной литературе // «Скажи Гордеевой»

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During his fellowship, Anton Kotenko worked on a book about the history of the concept of modern Ukraine. “The Promise of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of Nineteenth-Century Nationalism”will be published later this month. Read more in the #HCASAlumni Gallery: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

“I see my periods at the Collegium as the most formative times for my career.” Virpi Mäkinen has spent a total of ten years in various roles at HCAS. The relationships she built continue to flourish to this day. Read more in the #HCASAlumni Gallery: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

A special coffee hour at the Collegium today: we enjoyed Finnish May Day treats and took part in a hands-on cyanotype printing session led by Kone Arts Fellow Corrie Tan. The resulting artworks will be on display at next week’s Slow Salon.

The HCAS Anniversary Symposium “Artifice and Its Insecurities” interrogates “artifice,” the agency of human invention, and the anxieties that it provokes. June 9–10 at HCAS. Registration is now open: blogs.helsinki.fi/artifice-sym...

We are pleased to share that our fellow Professor Milda Ališauskienė has been elected President of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA) for a four-year term. Warm congratulations on this achievement!

Registration for Human Interaction in the Age of the Internet closes on Sunday! Join us on May 11–12 for a meeting about the new norms of interaction that organize belonging, truth, civility, and conflict in connected worlds. Register by April 26: blogs.helsinki.fi/erkko-confer...

HCAS Workshop “Virtue and Vice – Historical, Philosophical, and Contemporary Dimensions” sheds new light on theories of human moral character. May 28–29 at the HCAS. Registration is now open: blogs.helsinki.fi/virtue-vice/...

The HCAS is thrilled to announce its new fellows for the 2026–2027 academic year. This fall, we will welcome 21 scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to our community. Find the full list of fellows and project titles on our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

This conference is an experiment. Human Interaction in the Age of the Internet toys with the format, keeping the strengths of a small-group meeting while rethinking the standard model of paper delivery. Read more and register: blogs.helsinki.fi/erkko-confer...

The Asian elephant. The Christmas Island red crab. The Finnish lattakääpä (artist’s conk, a polypore). SLOW SALON: temporal encounters between two archipelagoes, May 7 at the HCAS. Organized by @koneensaatio.fi Arts Fellow Corrie Tan. Read more: blogs.helsinki.fi/slow-salon/

The 2026 Erkko Conference “Human Interaction in the Age of the Internet” brings together scholars across the social sciences, humanities, and computational research to explore how digital infrastructures are reshaping social life. Registration is now open: blogs.helsinki.fi/erkko-confer...

“My time at the HCAS was the highlight of my scholarly career and life.” Featured in the #HCASAlumni Gallery is Professor Kirby Deater-Deckard (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Read more about Kirby’s research and time at the Collegium: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

“This was the first time in my career that I could do research full time, and it felt luxurious.” Annette Arlander reflects on her time as Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts. Read more in the #HCASAlumni Gallery: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

What Do You Mean by That? Methods, assumptions, and limits in archaeology and linguistics, April 17 at the HCAS. Read more and register: tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

What can the history of emotions tell us about humanity? HCAS Core Fellow Rob Boddice discusses whether human emotions have changed over time on ABC Radio Australia.

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Have you ever wondered what your ancestors were feeling decades or centuries ago? Rob Boddice is an historian who argues that differences in our contexts and world-views would make our emotional exper...

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Last week, Intelligence³ Fellow Otto Lappi brought together his professional networks for the Speed of Sight workshop. Participants specializing in driving simulators, racing driver telemetry, and eye tracking data analysis shared their ongoing projects, plans, and ideas for future collaboration.