Intensive stay in Finland as part of a NordIAS Visiting fellowship
As part of the New CAS project: “Scarred people” – Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC), Centre leader Mamelund has presented his research in workshops in Tampere (17 April) and in Helsinki (21 April). He also participated in day-to-day academic and social activities in both cities. As the study context of the “Scarred people”-project was the city of Tampere, he also visited several museums and had several walks to understand the pulse and the social and economic history of the city.
Program workshop in Tampere:
“The Scarring Effects of Wars, Crises and Diseases at 20th century–Lifespan, Health and Intergenerationality“:
Jarmo Peltola and Sakari Saaritsa, Diagnoses, Scarring, selection, interaction: The longevity effects of a 1916 Typhoid Epidemic in a Finnish Industrial City
Jarmo Peltola, Leena Enbom and Sakari Saaritsa, Scarred City. Exploring Lifespan and Mortality Patterns among Former Civil War, Participants in Tampere
Virva Liski, Ilari Taskinen & Ville Kivimäki, Health at war: social and regional patterns of morbidity among Finnish soldiers in the Second World War
Emma Raitoharju, Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects of War Stress: Follow-up Study on Finnish Soldiers of World War II and Their Descendants
Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Indigenous Peoples & Pandemics
17.4.2026, 12.00–16.30
Tampere University Pinni B4113
The event was organized by: Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere University, Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki, HEX Centre for the History of Experience, Tampere University.
Program workshop at the University of Helsinki:
“SCAR/RED: The impact of epidemics and civil conflict on population health, past and present“
Time: April 21st, 2026
Venue: TBA, University of Helsinki & Zoom
All times Eastern European Summer Time (Helsinki)
10.00-12.00
Svenn-Erik Mamelund (OsloMet Centre for Research on Pandemics and Society (PANSOC)): Social Inequalities & Pandemics
Jarmo Peltola & Sakari Saaritsa (Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki): Scarring, Selection, Interaction: The Longevity Effects of a 1916 Typhoid Epidemic in a Finnish Industrial City
Serena Vigezzi (University of Southern Denmark, Stockholm University & Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki): Lifespan Variation in the Wake of COVID-19
Tuuli Hurme (Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki): Short-Term Effects of the 1917-1919 Turmoil on Child Health in Helsinki, Finland
12-13 Lunch
13.00-14.30
Jarmo Peltola & Sakari Saaritsa (Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki): Selection, distribution and change in birth weights during the Great Depression of the 1930s in an urban near-complete count data
Moritz Oberndorfer et al. (MaxHel, University of Helsinki): Social Inequalities in Birthweight in Times of Crisis: A Population-Wide Analysis of Social Inequalities in Birthweight Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Individual-Level Data from 14 Countries
Jarmo Peltola, Leena Enbom & Sakari Saaritsa (Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki): Scarred City: Exploring Lifespan and Mortality Patterns among Former Civil War Participants in Tampere, Finland
14.30-15.00 coffee
15.00-1800 online meeting: Cooperation going forward