Erkki Tuomioja´s opening remarks at the International Students of History Association Seminar in Helsinki 25.7. 2017 2015 was the centenary of the events in the Ottoman Empire in which up to a million and a half Armenians met their deaths. Historians on all sides are more...
On September 4-5 we organize a seminar on the joint and parallel histories of Russia and Ukraine. The seminar is organised in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, the University of Helsinki and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. We wish to facilitate discussion...
On Monday 20 February, Historians without Borders and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) organised a seminar on “Politics and History - What Should be the Role of Politicians Dealing with History?” Professor Timothy Garton Ash delivered a keynote speech followed by a panel...
Historians without Borders in Finland hosted on January 30th in Königstedt Manor, near Helsinki, a meeting with five Russian and five Ukrainian well-known historians to discuss issues of history under the heading Analyzing the 20th Century in Ukrainian and Russian historiography today. On Sunday evening...
Historians without Borders in Finland, our Finnish NGO founded in June 2015, now has more than 300 members. The international network for which we are acting as the secretariat keeps growing. After our conference in May 2016 we have had meetings with historians in Vienna, ...
In the evening of 9 November, Historians without Borders in Finland (HWB) had the pleasure of hosting a discussion with Professor Timothy Snyder from the University of Yale. Professor Snyder is known as the leading historian of the Holocaust, and has published widely on Central...
At our conference ‘Historians without Borders: The Use and Abuse of History in Conflicts’ the International Network of Historians without Borders was established and a Coordinating Committee was appointed to lead its work. The members of the first Coordinating Committee of HWB are Prof. Jan...
While the most of us can agree that we need more history in the society and politics, the ways to promote this are not always clear and simple. In an article in the September issue of the Atlantic, Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson argue that there...