The Scarring Effects of Wars, Crises and Diseases at 20th Century –
Lifespan, Health and Intergenerationality
Friday, 17 April 2026, at 12.00–16.30
Tampere University
City Centre Campus, Pinni B4113
Programme
Jarmo Peltola & Sakari Saaritsa
Diagnoses, scarring, selection, interaction: The longevity effects of a 1916 Typhoid Epidemic in a Finnish Industrial City
Jarmo Peltola, Leena Enbom & 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: A Follow-up Study on Finnish Soldiers of World War II and Their Descendants
Svenn-Erik Mamelund
Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (CAS)
Indigenous Peoples & Pandemics
The event is 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
More information
Jarmo Peltola
Docent of Economic and Social History
University of Helsinki
jarmo.peltola@helsinki.fi