Petri Paju
PhD, docent (adj. prof.)
petpaju@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
history of technology; history of nuclear energy; cultural history; business history
I have written broadly on history of technology in Finland and on computing history in the Nordic countries. I’ve been involved in several projects on digital history, including Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910 (2016–2019), and two Kone Foundation funded projects since 2016: Towards a Roadmap for Digital History in Finland and its continuation From Roadmap to Roadshow: A collective demonstration & information project to strengthen Finnish digital history. I’m mostly interested in the historical development of the digital history approaches, and in applying computational methods to answer various relevant historical research questions.
In 2020, I was a Principal Investigator in an externally funded project on Finland and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This line of research was continued in 2021 in another project concerning the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel and preservation of knowledge and memory of it.
In late 2020, I continued research as a project member in the project Informationsflöden över Östersjön: Svenskspråkig press som kulturförmedlare 1771-1918 (PI Prof. Hannu Salmi). Results from that project and from other ones can be found in my publications list.
In 2026, I work for instance on ammonia history and in the project Imagined Homelands. The Finnish-language Press in North America 1876–1923 and the Digital Study of Transnational Culture, see: https://sites.utu.fi/kuvitellutkotimaat/en/
Kulttuurihistorian oppiaineessa vedimme maisteriopintoihin kuuluvaa modernin aikakauden historia -teemaryhmää yhdessä Heli Rantalan kanssa kesään 2024 asti. Osallistun välillä myös muuhun kuten luento-opetukseen.
- Kuviteltu avaruus. Matkoja maan ulkopuolelle. (2021) Kurvinen Heidi, Paju Petri, Saarikoski Petri
- Muutama sana Turun romantikosta (2021) Turun romantikko. Esseitä Hannu Salmelle Saarelainen Juhana, Rantala Heli, Paju Petri, Oiva Mila
- Poikkeusajan keksinnöt – vastikenäyttelyssä vuonna 1918 (2021) Paju Petri
- Text reuse in the Swedish-language press, 1645–1918: DatabaseDigital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History (2021) Vesanto Aleksi, Paju Petri, Rantala Heli, Edoff Erik, Lundell Patrik, Marjanen Jani, Salmi Hannu
- Turun romantikko. Esseitä Hannu Salmelle.International collaboration and Finland in the early years of computer-assisted history research: Combining influences from Nordic and Soviet Baltic historians2021 Saarelainen Juhana, Rantala Heli, Paju Petri, Oiva Mila
- White Wall -televisiosarja houkuttaa pohtimaan ydinjätteen loppusijoitusta (2021)
- Turun Sanomat
- Book review: The Peregrine Profession. Transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880–1930. Per-Olof Grönberg: The Peregrine Profession. Transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880–1930. ISBN 978-90-04-36647-3. (2020)
- Scandinavian Economic History ReviewHistoriallinen Aikakauskirja
- Digital and Distant Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History (2020) Digital histories: Emergent approaches within the new digital history Paju Petri, Oiva Mila, Fridlund Mats
- (2020) Mats Fridlund, Mila Oiva, Petri Paju
- Finland and nuclear non-proliferation. Fifty years of implementing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2020) Paju Petri
- Suomi ydinsulun ja ydinenergian rauhanomaisen käytön edelläkävijänä (2020)
- ATS Ydintekniikka
- (2020) Digital histories: Emergent approaches within the new digital history Paju Petri
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- Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary HistoryHistoriallinen Aikakauskirja
- Ydinsulku ja Suomi. 50 vuotta ydinsulkusopimuksen kansallista toimeenpanoa (2020) Paju Petri
- Digitaalinen historiantutkimus. Ennen ja nyt -lehden erikoisnumero 2/20192019 Paju Petri, Rantala Heli, Salmi Hannu
- Digitaalisen historiantutkimuksen opetuskiertue (2019)
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- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomat
- Tekstien uudelleenkäyttö suomalaisessa sanoma- ja aikakauslehdistössä 1771–1920. Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden näkökulma (2019)
- Tietokannoista tulkintoihin: digitaalisen historiantutkimuksen käytäntöjä (2019)
- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomat



