Panel: “Finnish Canadian Networks and Mobilities”

Presenters:
Aleksi Huhta is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki’s North American Studies program. He currently researches connections between Finnish American political activism and global imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Email: aleksi.huhta[@]helsinki.fi
Presentation Title: “Finnish immigrants and Canadian colonization policy”

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander is University Lecturer in Folklore Studies at Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. Her long-term fields of interest include vernacular literacy, oral history research, working-class culture and immigrant culture. One of her recent publications is Handwritten Newspapers. An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods (co-edited with Heiko Droste), Studia Fennica Historica 26, Finnish Literature Society 2019. Email: kirsti.salmi-niklander[@]helsinki.fi
Presentation Title: “Handwritten newspapers (“Nyrkkilehti”) as an alternative medium among Finnish immigrants in Canada and the U.S.”

Sanna Suomi is a doctoral candidate in Folklore at the University of Turku’s School of History, Culture and Arts Studies. Her dissertation focuses on the letters and lives of Finnish migrant women in the United States after the Second World War. Email: sklepp[@]utu.fi
Presentation Title: “Everyday Lives through Finnish Canadian Women’s Letters after WWII”

Tuomas Hovi, is working as a post-doctoral researcher in Folkloristics at the University of Turku. His research interests include tourism, dark tourism, heritage, popular culture, identity, and the use of tradition. His current research is about heritage and the cultural identity of Finnish Americans in the United States. Email: tuomas.hovi[@]utu.fi
Presentation Title: “Expatriate Finns in Canada”

Panel Chair:
Samira Saramo is a Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland. Her research looks Finnish North American history through the lenses of the everyday, place, emotion, community-building, and life storying.