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At the Faculty of Arts you can complete a degree in 6 Bachelor’s, 18 Master’s and 11 Doctoral programmes. The University of Helsinki scores highly in international comparisons of research and teaching in the humanities: it is among the leading Nordic and European universities and close to the top 50 in the world.
Events
Event 8.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Terhi Utriainen & Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen: Collaborating with art as an explorative methodology

8.10. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar with Terhi Utriainen & Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen: Collaborating with…

8.10.2025 at 12.15–13.15 Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor, room 524
The Methodological Unit of HSSH organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences.
Event NORDIK 2025: Why so Nordic? The Nordic as Fact and Fiction in Art History

NORDIK 2025: Why so Nordic? The Nordic as Fact and Fiction in Art History

20.–22.10.2025 at 09.00–16.00 Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki
The Conference is organized by the Nordic Association for Art Historians NORDIK in collaboration with the University of Helsinki.
Event Aleksanteri Conference: Extremisms: ambiguities, ideologies, agency

Aleksanteri Conference: Extremisms: ambiguities, ideologies, agency

22.–24.10.2025 at 09.00–19.00 Unioninkatu 40, 00170 Helsinki
The 24th Annual Aleksanteri Conference addresses the pressing challenges of extremism in a world shaped by prolonged and overlapping crises under the title Extremisms: Ambiguities,