Content on Finland

Finnish theatre director Vivica Bandler’s work reflects her innovative and candid directorial style.

This presentation is from a transdisciplinary research workshop entitled Nordic Noir, Geopolitics and the North held at Aarhus University in October…

Second homes are used as holiday and weekend getaways in the Nordic countries by many people, not just the elite, probably due to widespread…

A number of peace research institutes emerged in the Nordics from around 1960. They were initially seen as politically radical and interdisciplinary…

The internet facilitates social relations and participation in society in the Nordics which is a thinly populated region excepting Denmark. State…

Even before Norway banned smoking in public arenas in 2004 and the other Nordic countries followed suit, the percentage of the population who smoke…

Writing in Swedish, the Finnish writer-illustrator Tove Jansson is most famous for her creation of the mythical creatures The Moomins.

The use of folk costumes is widespread in, for example, Åland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Sami areas and their social importance varies,…

Einojuhani Rautavaara is one of the best-known Finnish composers of the twentieth century. Perhaps most famous globally for his Seventh Symphony, the…

The scientific study of language form and meaning, including the specialised branch of runology, has been a prominent academic pursuit in the Nordics…