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Natan Elgabsi

Natan Elgabsi

By Rethink

Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University

Natan Elgabsi’s PhD project in philosophy started in 2014 and will be finished in early 2022. In the project, he works mainly on the relationship between epistemology and ethics in the human sciences, particularly on existential questions of responsibility and understanding in the philosophy of historical and anthropological writing. From 2022 onwards Elgabsi will work as a researcher in the project Doing Justice to Experience: Relations to the Difficult Past in History and Memory. The principal investigator of the project is Jonas Ahlskog, and the project is funded by Kone Foundation.

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Mikko Kainulainen

Mikko Kainulainen

By Rethink

Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku

Mikko Kainulainen is a PhD candidate at the University of Turku, Finland. With a focus on epistemic practices and conceptual change, his current research is located at the intersection of history education and expertise in history.

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

By Rethink

Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu

Professor of Philosophy Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and has also worked in the universities of Durham, Leiden and Hull. Kuukkanen is a founder and co-director of The Oulu Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, and has published widely on the philosophy of science and specifically on Thomas Kuhn, on the philosophical foundations of the historiography of science and the history of ideas, and on the philosophy of historiography. His book Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (Palgrave) was published in 2015.

Ilkka Lähteenmäki

Ilkka Lähteenmäki

By Rethink

Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu

Ilkka Lähteenmäki (PhD, philosophy) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on possibilities and limitations of different forms of historical (re)presentation, including games, social media feed, museum exhibitions, and of course the traditional narrative historical text. Lähteenmäki’s PhD thesis discussed the theoretical usefulness of conceptualising different kinds of historical representations as historical worlds instead of informative texts or explanations.

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Jan Löfström

Jan Löfström

By Rethink

Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku

Jan Löfström, PhD, is Professor of History and Social Studies Education at the University of Turku. In 2020-2021, he was Visiting Professor at the Linnaeus University, in a project on the intersections of historical and moral consciousness, directed by Professor Niklas Ammert and funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project resulted in the book, “Historical and moral consciousness in education: Learning ethics for democratic citizenship education”, by Niklas Ammert, Silvia Edling, Jan Löfström and Heather Sharp, published by Routledge in 2022. His research interests include uses of history, teaching of controversial and sensitive history, historical consciousness, theoretical foundations of school social studies, economic education, and gender education.

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Kalle Pihlainen

Kalle Pihlainen

By Rethink

Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University

Kalle Pihlainen is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University and of Political History and Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as literary and historical culture, with particular emphasis on the ethics and politics of historical representation, embodiment and existential phenomenology. He has published extensively on these topics in journals and anthologies, and a book, The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (Routledge). His current research project, funded by the Estonian Research Council, concentrates on the turn to materiality in recent theory debates. He is active in a number of organizations for the promotion of research in the theory and philosophy of history, including the International Network for Theory of History (INTH), of which he is a co-founder.

Marjaana Puurtinen

Marjaana Puurtinen

By Rethink

Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku

Marjaana Puurtinen’s (Adj. Prof.; PhD, education; MA, history) research focuses on the characteristics of expertise and the development of skills related to proficiency in both history and music. In addition to her interests in bridging general cognitive theories on expertise to more domain-specific views on proficiency, she has specialized in the application of eye-tracking methodology to learning research and worked on the visual processing of music notation, written text, and historical images. She is one of the two coordinators of the Turku Eye-Tracking Laboratories. In 2021-2026, Puurtinen holds an Academy Research Fellow position at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku and works on her project Eye on History: How Experts and Novices Deal with Visual Representations of the Past.

Arja Virta

Arja Virta

By Rethink

Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku

Professor of History and Social Science Education Arja Virta has a PhD in both history (1982) and education (1995), as well as a long experience in educating history and social science teachers. In 2010–2015, she was the Vice-President of the International Society for History Didactics and, since then, has continued as a member of the organization’s Scientific Advisory Board. Virta has, among other topics, studied the way that children and adolescents manifest their understanding of the past while working with history-related material as well as dealt with the professional growth of prospective history teachers. In 2014, she led a study on the visual literacy skills of history students (funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation). She is currently acting as the Head of Department of Teacher Education at the University of Turku.

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Pekka Tolonen

By Rethink

Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku

Pekka Tolonen (MA, contemporary religion) is a University Teacher at the Department of Teacher Education and in charge of the teaching of religion and history didactics to future elementary school teachers.

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Anna-Kaisa Ylitalo

Anna-Kaisa Ylitalo

By Rethink

Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä

Anna-Kaisa Ylitalo’s research focuses on statistical analysis of eye movements, namely spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, point processes, longitudinal data analysis and methodology development. Her doctoral thesis in statistics, finalized in 2017, is about the statistical inference and modeling of eye movements using spatial and spatio-temporal point processes. At present, Ylitalo works as a project researcher in a research consortium ”Reading Music: Eye-movements and the Development of Expertise”. The consortium is funded by the Academy of Finland (2014–2018) and is a collaboration between University of Jyväskylä and University of Turku.

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