BA, MA, PhD
PhD, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Aesthetics, 2009. Learning from Venice: What a Unique City Can Teach About the Aesthetic. Supervisors: Arto Haapala & Ossi Naukkarinen. Opponent: Arnold Berleant. Secondary assessment: P. T. Karjalainen.
Licentiate of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Aesthetics, 2003. Richard Shustermanin pragmatistinen populaaritaiteen estetiikka. [The Aesthetics of Popular Art of Richard Shusterman.] Assessment: Ilona Reiners & Simo Säätelä.
MA (& BA), University of Helsinki, Aesthetics, 1999. Populaaritaiteen teorian esteettinen käänne. Alempien taiteiden filosofian synty. [The Aesthetic Turn in Popular Culture Studies. The Birth of the Philosophy of the Lower Arts.]
Major for BA and MA: Aesthetics (Arto Haapala). Minors: Semiotics (70 credits, Eero Tarasti) & Philosophy (Swedish, the department leaning towards idea history, 35 credits).
Research Visits and Exchange Studies
Richard Shusterman at TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia US 2002 Spring semester, Visiting scholar. Grant: Academy of Finland.
UNIVERSITY OF PISA 1998-1999 Winter semester, Erasmus.
UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA 1997 Spring semester, Nordplus.
Later Additions
2012-2015 60 credits of studies in Art University Pedagogy at AALTO UNIVERSITY.
2005-2007 25 credits (basic studies) of TAIKOPEDA pedagogical studies for art university teachers.
2009 Basic Studies (25 credits) in Museology and Material Culture, UNIVERSITY OF TURKU (Open University).
Other
1999 (6-7) Trainee: FINNISH-INSTITUTE AT LONDON UK. Supervisor: Jali Wahlsten.
Languages
FINNISH: My mother tongue and the main language of my everyday.
SWEDISH: My mother is a native Swedish speaker, I partly grew up in Sweden (Rinkeby Stockholm, Upplands Väsby, Haparanda) and I studied one term in Uppsala (1997), but still the language is and is not mine. It warms up my world but I make some mistakes in it. Close to native anyway.
ENGLISH: I work 90% in English, I did my MA trainee period in London (Finnish-Institute) and studied one term in Philadelphia (Temple, PhD studies), so I am used to work in English even if I need someone to do a language revision for my articles.
ITALIAN: I am partly specialized in Italian philosophy (Eco, Vattimo) and I studied one term in Pisa. I manage verbally and I read philosophy without any problems.
FRENCH: I lived one winter in Paris (2000-2001) but I cannot speak French. I read it, though, partly following my ability to read Italian. I cannot read Kristeva or Derrida, but I manage Liberation and books on idea history.
SPANISH: Studied Spanish in the early 2010s to the level that I was able to read Ortega y Gasset and Unamuno, though it was hard work. American Airline’s customer magazine did not pose any problems, though. I would need to brush up my skills if I had to get back reading in Spanish.
ESTONIAN: In the early 2000s I studied Estonian to the level that I could read a research article and a detective book in Estonian. Would need some practice to get back to that level though.
GERMAN: I have studied German a bit, and with the help of Swedish I manage to read philosophical or simple fictional texts, although it takes time.
DANISH: It is easy to learn to read Norwegian and Danish if you speak Swedish. I trained myself to do that at some point and I have read books in both languages.
NORWEGIAN: The same as with Danish…
LATIN: I studied latin 3 years as a hobby, and finished with an ability to at least slowly reading a bit of Gallic Wars.
HINDI: I am finishing my 2nd year of hindi now – and I am slowly being able to have small chats with simple sentences with my teacher, and sometimes to understand a sentence or two, or a signpost in Hindi language movies.
OTHER: I have studied Chinese (3 years), Japanese (intensive basics for Japanologists) and Russian (2 years). I have done basic course in Somali language (2019).
WHEN RETIRED, I think I could work on Ancient Greek, Arabic and Hebrew.