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CITY CENTRE CAMPUS POLITICAL SCIENCE |
Self-service democracy
Social networks and the information technology revolution are shaking up the traditions of governance. How have the relations between the apparatus of the state and citizens changed?
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CITY CENTRE CAMPUS PEDAGOGY |
Helsinki takes a Fulbright scholar by surprise
Arts education is understood wonderfully broadly in Finland, says a professor of education who moved from Chicago to Helsinki. Art classrooms, sewing machines, multimedia equipment – they are all part of the picture.
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CITY CENTRE CAMPUS HISTORY |
Brought together by the Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, there was a large flow of trade in goods and inventions between the Eastern and Western blocs – in both directions. Not all the actors in the socialist bloc, the small Eastern European countries, Soviet republics, organisations and individuals, were merely focused on enmity.
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COLUMN JANNA KANTOLA |
Odd man out
Most Finns of world literature are ridiculous in some way or other. For example, in the novels of Raymond Chandler the hulking, unsmiling Finns have “wide, horny hands” and “massive bottoms”.
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