Congratulations to Anne Heimo – our partner from Turku University!

Anne Heimo defended her Doctoral Thesis „Rebellion in Sammatti. Local Interpretations of the 1918 Finnish Civil War as Part of the Social Process of History Making”.

The study presents the new and factual aspects both oral history research and folkloristics that observing the interpretations of the past as a continual process. The study is a part of the studies on narrative, war history research and cultural memory research.

On the photo prof. Pekka Hakamises, Tiiu Jaago (University of Tartu) and Anne 8.05.2010, in Turku

This Book is published in Finnish Literary Society Publishing: http://kirjat.finlit.fiindex.php?showitem=2290

In the part of thanks Anne Heimo wrote: "I am happy from the Latvian National Oral History – projects’ manager Mara Zirnite and her research group for her invitations to Riga, Tartu and Hamara. It has always been a pleasure to meet Mara and her colleagues from Riga and the USA."