Webinar: Historiens bångstyriga – Historian vallattomat
The Disability History Month webinar on Finland-Swedish disability history will be organised on 15.9.2025 at 15.30-17.30 (Helsinki time).
We will dive into the story of the incredible Deaf adventurer Martin Hellöre and the history of Finland-Swedish sign language users, as well as learn what kind of disability history can be found in Finland-Swedish archives, and what history can give to today’s activism.
Place
Zoom:
Link to the Zoom Webinar: Historiens bångstyriga
Passcode: 150925
Link to the speech-to-text interpretation (directs toText-on-tap)
Program
The program will be published in the end of August!
Presentations by Anna Caldén, Håkan Westerholm, Anita Hellöre, Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch / Svenska litteratursällskapets arkiv and Lena Karhu / Svenska centralarkivet.
Moderated by Rita Paqvalén / Culture for All Service.
The program and presentations of the speakers have been published on our Swedish website: Go to Historiens bångstyriga event page in Swedish
Accessibility
The main languages of the event are Swedish and Finland-Swedish Sign Language. The audience can ask and comment also in English and Finnish.
There will be interpretation to and from Finland-Swedish Sign Language and speech-to-text interpretation.
Organisers
The event is organised by the Network of Disability History Month and funded by Konstsamfundet and Innolux.
