The Scarring Effects of Wars, Crises and Diseases at 20th Century – Lifespan, Health and Intergenerationality, Tampere University City Centre Campus, Pinni B4113, on Friday, 17 April 2026, at 12.00-16.30

Welcome to meet and discuss with our NordIAS Visiting Fellow Svenn-Erik Mamelund from the Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (CAS) and researchers from Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki, as well as from HEX Centre for the History of Experience, Tampere University.

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