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Newsletter 33: News from National Committees: Finland
ON LINE COURSE
Education on gender history in Finnish universities is getting new intensity
by the project launched within the Finnish Virtual University. Universities
of Turku and Tampere are designing a pilot on-line course on gender history.
The virtual university is, above all, a new method of networking between universities.
The current services provided by universities will be complemented with components
utilising information and communication technologies and by developing completely
new net-based
services. Eventually new working methods, multi-mode study as well as the sharing
of expert knowledge will become an accepted part of university life. The joint
initiative gathers together expertise on the field of gender history, but it
also provides wider opportunities for student in various universities to get
competent education on the specialized themes of gender history.
CONFERENCE
A multidisciplinary conference on gender and religion was organized in March by feminist scholars at the University of Turku. The two-day conference was a good starting point for future cooperation between feminist scholars in history, sociology, literature, religious studies and theology. During the last few years religion and religious practices have become an expanding field of gender studies in Finland (see Pirjo Markkola (ed.), Gender and Vocation. Gender, Religion, and Social Change in the Nordic Countries, 1830-1940 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2000).
-compiled by Pirjo Markkola
pirjo.markolla@uta.fi