Matti Välimäki
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Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher, EuroStorie, Centre for European Studies, Uni of Helsinki

#GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-Vaelimaeki/research
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Article out! 'Covered tracks? #Deportation as a historical blind spot in twentieth to twenty-first century Nordic countries' (with @miika99.bsky.social - OA, link & abstract below)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
#maahanmuutto #migration #refugees
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Avoimella otteella -podcastin uusimman jakson vieraana on Mari Toivanen. Diginomadismia käsittelevä jakso on avoimesti kuunneltavissa, ja siitä löytyy myös tekstivastine podcastin sivuilta: www.helsinki.fi/fi/helsingin...

@maritoivanen.bsky.social #podcast #tutkimus #etätyö #diginomadismi
🌟🚀 Avoimella otteella -podcastin 7. kausi alkaa! Aluksi Aleksi Peura keskustelee dosentti Mari Toivosen kanssa diginomadismista. Onko diginomadismi kestävä elämäntapa ja miten se vaikuttaa työelämämme tulevaisuuteen? Jaksot suoratoistossa ja podin verkkosivulla www.helsinki.fi/fi/helsingin...
Podcast Avoimella otteella | Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto | Helsingin yliopisto
Avoimella otteella on Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston podcast, jossa avoimia julkaisukanavia hyödyntävät yliopistolaiset kertovat oman opetus- tai tutkimustyönsä näkökulmasta mikä avoimemmassa tieteess...
www.helsinki.fi
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share!

@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨

📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!

We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.

📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

#CFP 🗃️
SHS Annual Conference 2026
Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Suomen ulkomaalaisväestö 1980-1992 / Foreign born/citizens in Finland, 1980-1992

(Korkiasaari 1993) #maahanmuutto #immigration
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Ruotsin suomalaisväestö 1900-1991 / Finns in Sweden, 1900-1991

(Korkiasaari 1993) #maastamuutto #emigration
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This article by Mervi Kaukko, Sinikka Neuhaus and myself on the history of #refugeeeducation in Finland & Sweden was just published in the History of Education.

Link to Open Access article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

#refugees #education #migration #history #nationalism #nationbuilding
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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***Write for the IEHS Blog***

Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity.

For more information:

iehs.org/submit-a-blo...
Submit a blog post
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
royalhistsoc.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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On aika ehdottaa tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon saajaa! Palkinto myönnetään ajankohtaista ja merkittävää tiedonjulkistamistyötä tehneelle henkilölle tai taholle.

Ehdotuksia otetaan vastaan 1.12. saakka. Lisätietoa palkinnosta löydät Tiedonjulkistamisen neuvottelukunnan sivuilta 👇
Tee ehdotus tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon saajaksi
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö myöntää valtionpalkinnot vuosittain Tiedonjulkistamisen neuvottelukunnan esityksestä. Kuka tahansa voi ehdottaa palkittavia.
tjnk.fi
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Coming up!

'Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories' investigates the #memory work and #mnemonic practices of families dispersed by #war, conflict, repression, occupation, and forced #migration. The book is edited by Johanna Leinonen et al.

Read more about our upcoming books at: hup.fi/catalogue
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The United Nations estimates that 6.2 million babies will be born this year across the continent of Europe, including Russia.

A greater number of babies are expected to be born in Nigeria alone - 7.6 million kids!
population.un.org/dataportal/d...
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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At least 14 *people* deada after dinghy sinks in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's coast
Migrants dead after dinghy sinks in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's coast
Greece is a major entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
www.euronews.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Forty *people*, including infants, die as boat sinks off Tunisia
Tunisia boat accident leaves 40 migrants dead, officials say
All the victims and those rescued were from sub-Saharan African countries, an official says.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Smart people keep saying…

“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Avoinna kolme huikean mielenkiintoista post-doc paikkaa väestöennusteiden ja inhimillisen pääoman tutkimuksen parissa!

MigScene-konsortio on osa Strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston Osaaminen, työvoiman riittävyys ja maahanmuutto tulevaisuuden Suomessa (SKILLS) -ohjelmaa.
MigScene tutkii, miten inhimillinen pääoma ja tuottavuus voivat kehittyä Suomessa erilaisten koulutus-, maahanmuutto- ja integraatioskenaarioiden avulla.

Lue lisää ja hae 11.11.25 mennessä!
Haemme kolmea väitellyttä tutkijaa MigScene-hankkeeseen
Väestöliiton Väestöntutkimuslaitos ja Helsingin yliopisto tarjoavat kolmea post doc -tutkijan paikkaa väestöennusteita ja inhimillisen pääoman kehitystä tutkivaan hankkeeseen.
www.vaestoliitto.fi
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Poliittisen historian yliopisto-opettajan sijaisuus
agricolaverkko.fi/ilmoitukset/...
agricolaverkko.fi
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Critical Approaches to Polycrisis: Discourses of Conflict, Migration, Risk, and Climate -- incl. contributions by @tamsinparnell.bsky.social @stefmaci.bsky.social @niallrcurry.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social
books.google.co.uk/books?id=uyh...
Critical Approaches to Polycrisis
books.google.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM