RESEARCH INTERESTS

Book:
German Body Culture
The study, Beyond the Gymnasium. Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany, 1770-1870, charts the rise of the German Bildungsbürgertum. I argue that the formation of this class was not predominantly based upon its academic prestige but on its everyday life, on its concern with the body.

Research Project:
Transformations of Honor in Germany, 1700-1945
For the next project, I explore, through a series of case studies, how the sense of honor changed in Germany during the formative centuries of German culture and how these changes shaped German political and social landscape. I have started to develop the foundations of this project during my visits to the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 1997 and 1998 and to Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft in Göttingen in 1999.


PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Bildung der Triebe. Der deutsche Philanthropismus (1768-1788) (Turku: University of Turku, 1993).

Articles and Chapters:
“From Honor to Merit. Transforming an Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Germany” in Vera Lind, Otto Ulbricht, eds., Emotions in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America (Under contract with Cornell University Press).

“Emotions as Mutual Recognition. Understanding Honor in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 22-27, 2002. Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Aberystwyth: ISSEI, 2002).

"The Spa: Emotional Economy and Social Classes in Nineteenth-Century Pyrmont." Central European History, 1:2002, pp. 37-73.

"Historia, tunteet ja instituutiot. Lähtökohtia tunteiden historiaan" in Timo Soikkanen, ed., JÄLJILLÄ. Kirjoituksia historian ongelmista. Vol. 1 (Turku: Kirja-Aurora, 2000), pp. 167-185.

“Uusi eurooppalainen yliopisto. Miten Suomi voisi olla yhtä ylpeä yliopistoistaan kuin se on Nokiasta” in Kanava (2000).

“Saksa verkossa: Herzog-August-Bibliothekin tapaus.” (Germany in the WWW: the Case of Herzog-August-Bibliothek.) in Agricolan Tietosanomat, 3/1998. http://www.utu.fi/agricola/tietosanomat/.

"Bildung der Affekte. Der pädagogische Philanthropismus und die Entstehung des Bildungsbürgers" in Erich Donnert (ed.), Europa in der Frühen Neuzeit. Vol. 4., (Köln: Böhlau, 1997), pp. 215-228.

"What is Philanthropy? The Philanthropismus and the formation of passions in late eighteenth-century Germany" in Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment. Vol. 2. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 347 (1996), pp. 1003-1006.

"Dietetiikka, affektit ja ruumis. Saksalainen 1700-luvun filantropismi ja kasvatuskäytännön muutos" in Heikki Mikkeli and Timo Joutsivuo (eds.), Terveyden Lähteillä. Länsimaisen Terveyskäsitysten kulttuurihistoriaa (Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1995), pp. 121-149.

"Zur Bildungsgeschichte einer sächsischen Stadt--Wittenberg in den pädagogischen Umwälzungen des 18. Jahrhunderts" in Stefan Oehmig (ed.), 700 Jahre Wittenberg. Lokale, nationale und internationale Wirkungen. Cologne; Vienna; Weimar, Germany (Böhlau Verlag, 1995), pp. 313-327.

"Peter Villaumes Gedanken von der Bildung der Triebe im Zusammenhang der Entstehung der deutschen Bildung" in Zwischen Wörlitz und Mosigkau. Heft 40 (1994), pp. 24-27.

"Mitä on sivistys?" in Tuomas Seppä, Tapani Hietaniemi, Heikki Mikkeli, Juha Sihvola (eds.), Historian Alku, Historianfilosofia, Aatehistoria, Maailmanhistoria (Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1993), pp. 179-195.

"Jörn Rüsen-yhteiskuntahistorian hermeneuttinen tulkki" in Tiede & Edistys 4/1992, p. 266.

"Yhteiskuntahistorian loppu: historian unohdettu kerronnallisuus" in Historiallinen Aikakauskirja, 3/1990, pp. 208-217.

Book reviews:
Moritz Föllmer, ed., Sehnsucht nach Nähe: Interpersonale Kommunikation in Deutschland seit dem 19 Jahrhundert (Stuffgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004) in H-NET BOOK REVIEW. Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu (September, 2005)

Anthony La Vopa, Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001) in German Studies Review 1:2003,pp. 144-146.

"Aatelin kirjoista kansalaisyhteiskuntaan (From the Aristocratic Book Culture to Civil Society)." A Book review of Documenta Pragensia. Císlo X/1; X/2. Archiv Hlavního mésta Prahy. Sestavili Václav Ledvinka a Jiří Pešek. Praha 1990; Kroupa, Jiří, Alchymie Štěstí. Pozdní osvícenství a moravská společnost 1770 - 1810. Brno 1986 in Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 3/1995, pp. 238-240.


CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Flirting with the Environment. The Aesthetics of Walking in Jean Paul and Karl Gottlob Schelle” 29th Annual International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 06/2-7/05.

“Making the Classical Man. Masculinity and Education in Late-Eighteenth Century Schnepfenthal.” Bucknell University. Guest Lecture Series in Women’s and Gender Studies, 11/17/04.

“Rethinking masculinity in classical (18th and 19th centuries) Germany.” Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania German History Workshop, Philadelphia, 03/27/04.

“Sensitive Man and Masculinity. Tracing Social Practices in Eighteenth-Century Germany.” Columbia University Seminar: Eighteenth-Century European Culture, 02/12, 2004.

“Men Dancing, Men Walking. Defining Male Habitus in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, 09/20/2003.

“Walking.” Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania German History Workshop, Philadelphia, 03/22/03.

“From Honor to Merit. Transforming an Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Germany.” Conference “Emotions in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America” at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., November 7-10, 2002.

"Emotions as Mutual Recognition. Understanding Honor in Nineteenth-Century Germany," Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, Wales, 07/25/2002

"Ambition or Merit: German Educational Ideology, 1780-1850." Annual Conference of the National Academy of Education, New York, 10/12/2000.

"Merit or Honor. The Place of Bildung in the Middle Class Everyday Life, 1800-1850." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Houston, 10/7/2000.

"Honor and Mutual Recognition. The Economy of Emotions of Spa Guests in Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Chicago, 1/8/2000.

"Dietetics and the Constitution of the Educated Middle Class in Germany, 1770-1831," at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, 10/10/1998.

"Zur Problematik der Ehre und des Ehrgeizes bei Francke und Thomasius als Ansatz zur Geschichte eines Affekts im 18. Jahrhundert," Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 10/20/1997.

"Dietetics. Everyday Life and the Science of Everyday Life, 1790-1850," Central European Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, 2/6/1996.

"Was heißt Philanthropie? Der pädagogische Philanthropismus der Aufklärung zwischen staatlicher Disziplinierung und Selbstentfaltung," at the 9th International Congress on the Enlightenment, Münster, Germany, 7/28/1995.

"Philanthropy, Pedagogy, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Germany," at the conference "The Religious and Legal Origins of Modern Philanthropy," University of Illinois, Chicago, 11/19-20/1993.

"Rußland als narratives Muster--Überlegungen zur Funktion der Geschichtsschreibung für die europäische Identitätsbildung (am Beispiel Finnlands)," University of Bielefeld, Germany, lecture series co-ordinated by Jörn Rüsen, 6/17/1992.