Roundtable with Otto Latva, Heli Rantala, Noora Kallioniemi and Maarit Leskelä-Kärki.
In this roundtable discussions, Otto Latva, Heli Rantala, Noora Kallioniemi and Maarit Leskelä-Kärki from the University of Turku will discuss recent research focusing on more-than-human agency and multispecies within environmental history. Professor Dolly Jørgensen will moderate the roundtable.
Otto Latva is an historian focusing on human-animal and human-plant studies as well as environmental history at the University of Turku. He has the title of docent in the field of more-than-human history. Otto currently leads three research projects: ‘Disappeared, Endangered and Newly Arrived Species: The Human Relationship with the Changing Biodiversity of the Baltic Sea’, ‘Fauna et Flora Fennica(FaFFe)’ and ‘Memories of Porpoises: The shared past of humans and porpoises in the Finnish sea area’.
Heli Rantala is docent of 19th-century cultural history at the University of Turku. Currently, she is part of the ‘Fauna et Flora Fennica’ project focusing on the study of mammals, trees, shrubs and other seed plants.
Noora Kallioniemi is a cultural historian specializing in media materials. Currently, Noora is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Memories of Porpoises’ project at the University of Turku, Finland.
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki is a senior lecturer of cultural history at the University of Turku, Finland. Maarit is particularly interested in women writers and their relationship with the environment. Together with Otto Latva, Maarit has developed the concept of ‘environmental biography’.