Topi Artukka
 FT, tutkijatohtori

Suomen historian oppiaine / Discipline of Finnish history

topi.artukka@utu.fi

Arcanuminkuja 1

Turku


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5461-2924

Areas of expertise
High societies and sociability; finnish history; urban history; microhistory; early nineteenth-century; history of students; dancing; diaries and journals

Research community or research topic
Department of Finnish History

Biography

I defended my doctoral thesis Tanssiva kaupunki. Turun seurapiirit sosiaalisena näyttämönä 1810-luvulla (Dancing town. The Turku high society as a social scene in 1810s’ in English) in spring 2021. Thesis was published by The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and the e-version can be found at the following link: https://scientiarum.fi/eng/publications/.

At the moment, I'm working in project called Becoming a reading nation? Children’s books and educational literature in Finland, 1790-1850, where I study the history of social manners and conduct books, and how these text built the bourgeoise identity in early 19th century Finland.

I’m also part of the Opera in the periphery? Åbo and Paris as musical and theatrical capitals, 1790–1840 project led by prof. Charlotta Wolff. In this project In the project I explore the connection between sociability and theatre and examine the early theatre institution that emerged in Åbo, its spatial dimensions and how it was experienced from the perspective of the cosmopolitan social life of the bourgeoisie.



Research
In my doctoral thesis, I study the lives of the high society in Turku, Finland in the early 19th century. I examine how high society was structured, organised, and operated. I’m especially interested in the social lives of the elites and in the different customs and habits of that group. Furthermore, I examine the role of the high society in Turku and discuss the significance of gender, since it is widely known that women’s roles in the function of high society was seminal. I also focus on questions of transnationality: how different European cultural phenomena spread to Finland and how citizens of Turku settled themselves between old Swedish relations and the new Russian regime.


Teaching
Olen suorittanut yliopistopedagogiikan opintoja 10 op verran.

Viimeisin opetus: Luostarimäen historiaa käsittelevällä kurssilla (5 op) luento- sekä pienryhmäopetusta. Kurssi oli aineopintotasoinen.

Vuonna 2019 toimin toisena opettajana Suomen historian linjat ja murrokset -kursilla. Kurssi on osa Turun yliopiston historian perusopintoja.


Olen opettanut lisäksi useita historian perusopintotason verkkokursseja Turun avoimessa yliopistossa.


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