Visa Immonen
Professor FSA
vialim@utu.fi Office: 126 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7616-500X |
Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Monastic Archaeology, History of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Studies
I am a professor of archaeology at the University of Turku, Finland. Besides Turku, I have worked as an assistant professor of cultural heritage studies at the University of Helsinki in 2016–2017, a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2010–2011, and Bard Graduate Center, New York in 2018, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in 2015–2016.
I have done sustained conceptual and empirical research on cultural heritage studies with a particular interest in heritage management, pedagogy, and digitalisation. I have discussed issues related to heritage in such articles as ‘“Quidditching”, and the Emergence of New Heritage Identities – Amateur Metal Detecting in Finland’ (with Joonas Kinnunen, Public Archaeology, 2017), and ‘Photographic Bodies and Biographical Narratives: The Finnish State Archaeologist Juhani Rinne in Pictures’ (Photography & Culture, 2012). In 2016 I published a monograph on the development of cultural heritage legislation and administration during the 20th century.
In addition, I have systematically worked on historical material culture, especially luxury consumption. My doctoral dissertation Golden Moments – Artefacts of Precious Metals as Products of Luxury Consumption in Finland c. 1200–1600 was published in 2009. Presently, I direct a project funded by the Academy of Finland, titled ‘Carving Out Transformations – Wood Use in North-Eastern Europe, 1100–1600’ (2018–2022). Another project of mine is integrated with university teaching, and based on student contributions, it produces a mobile app on urban archaeological achievements aimed at wider audiences.
- Nobility in medieval Turku: The challenge of the disjointed source material (2024) Lübecker Kolloquium zur Stadtarchäologie im Hanseraum, Band XII. Adel in der Stadt. Archäologie im Kontext mittelalterlicher urbaner Eliten Harjula, Janne; Immonen, Visa; Ratilainen, Tanja
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - THE CONSTRUCTION DATE OF THE DOMINICAN CONVENT OF ST OLAF IN TURKU, FINLAND (2023)
- Fennoscandia Archaeologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Arkeologisen kylätutkimuksen menetelmät: Esimerkkinä Turun kaupunkia ympäröivät keskiaikaiset kylät (2022)
- Muinaistutkija
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - At the fringes of urbanisation. A socio-economic model of founding of the town of Turku, Finland, c. 1300 (2022)
- Zeitschrift für Archaologie des Mittelalters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Historiallisuus ja kulttuurinen muisti (2022)
- Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Kaupungin kulttuuriperintö on ajallinen viidakko (2022)
- Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Kaupunkien kulttuuriperintö ja osallistaminen (2022)
- Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Material Religion, Volume 18, Issue 5 (2022) (2022)
- Material Religion
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North (2022)
- Material Religion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tiilentekijöitä jäljittämässä Turun Kakskerran Poralan kylätontilla (2022)
- SKAS
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Urban heritage as the anchor for an uncertain future? The city of Turku and the COVID-19 crisis (2022) LIVING (WORLD) HERITAGE CITIES. Opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives of people-centered approaches in dynamic historic urban landscapes Immonen Visa, Mäki Maija
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 1/2022 Kulttuuriperintö ja osallistaminen (2022)
- Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - 3D Imaging in Museums (2021) Museum Studies - Bridging Theory and Practice Immonen Visa, Malinen Ismo
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Keskiaikainen papin sinettileimasin Siuntiosta (2021)
- Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Keskiajan kirjallinen kulttuuri Turussa – kielet arkeologisissa löydöissä, esineissä ja tekstilähteissä (2021) Kieliä ja kohtaamisia Turun historiassa: Näkökulmia monikielisyyteen Salonen Kirsi, Harjula Janne, Immonen Visa
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Kulttuuriperintö koronakriisistä selviytymisen voimavarana (2021)
- Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - Medieval Literacy in Turku: Material and Linguistic Remains from a Multilingual Townscape (2021) Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages Harjula Janne, Immonen Visa, Salonen Kirsi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Menneisyyden näyttäminen on tulevaisuuden tekemistä (2021)
- Kohti vuotta 2029 - Turun kaupungin blogisarja
(E1 Popularised article) - New tools for studying Finnish archaeology and Uralic languages (2021)
- Antiquity
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Something Distinct, or Business as Usual? Interpreting the Plan of the Late Medieval Bridgettine Monastery in Naantali, Finland (2021)
- Religions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)