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...
While visiting Berlin during the meeting of our Coordinating Committee, we also had the opportunity to speak with German historians at the Embassy. 11 local historians from different German and Danish universities took part in the event. At the meeting all the attendees also had...
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...
The publication event of the Finnish version of the anthology ‘The Use and Abuse of History’ (Siltala 2016) took place 20 April at the University of Helsinki. Some of the contributors to the anthology also took part in a panel discussion moderated by Janne Virkkunen,...
On Friday January 29th 2016 Historians without Borders helped organise a lecture for 51 American college students at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. Oula Silvennoinen, Adjunct Professor of European History at the University of Helsinki and a member of the HWB board spoke...
Erkki Tuomioja, the president of Historians without Borders, had a lunch meeting with Swedish historians in Stockholm and discussed themes concerning the HWB initiative. The meeting, arranged at the Embassy of Finland, was attended by Mats Berguist, Gunlög Fur, Kristian Gerner, Alf W. Johansson, Mats...
Erkki Tuomioja PhD, MP African dialogue lecture series University of Johannesburg 16th October 2015 Everyone, the general public as well as politicians, would benefit from a better knowledge of history, and I say this not only as a historian who shares the profession’s vested interest in getting...
Historians without borders. Outline for an initiative. P.M. by Erkki Tuomioja PhD, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 3.5. 2015 In today’s world we should be increasingly concerned about both the ignorance and abuse of history in politics and how this impacts on international relations. To claim that we have...