A total of 11 professors from the university’s four faculties will give their inaugural lecture.
The 91’s newly appointed professors will give their traditional inaugural lectures on the Joensuu Campus on 20 May and on the Kuopio Campus on 21 May 2025. On the Joensuu Campus, lectures will be held in the Metria Building, room M100 (Yliopistokatu 7), and on the Kuopio Campus in the Canthia Building, room CA101 (Yliopistonrinne 3). The events are open to all.
This year, a total of 11 professors from the university’s four faculties will give a lecture, providing a popular overview of the key themes of their discipline and own research.
The lecture topics include, e.g., culturally and linguistically diversifying education, Swedish, neurology, commercial law, biomass production and bioenergy, marketing and digital transformation, social work, clinical radiology, pathology, nursing leadership and gastroenterology.
The lectures will be streamed and recorded. Links to the video streams can be found on the Joensuu event page and the Kuopio event page. Lectures are recorded, and the video recordings can later be viewed via the university's website. On the website, you can also get to know the professors and their field of expertise.
Welcome!
Professors' inaugural lectures on Joensuu Campus on 20 May
Philosophical Faculty, Metria, M100, starting at 9:00:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Jenni Alisaari, Education, especially culturally and linguistically diversifying education. Lecture title: Linguistically and culturally responsible pedagogy. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
- Jaana Kolu, Swedish. Lecture title: One hundred linguistic life stories – the experiences of two linguistic minorities in three generations of language maintenance and language shift in Sweden. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Metria, M100, starting at 9:40:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Jussi Sipilä, Neurology. Lecture title: Vale, emävale, tilasto, epidemiologia? Lecture will be held in Finnish.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Metria, M100, starting at 10:00:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Matti Turtiainen, Commercial Law. Lecture title: Securities market regulation in Finland - from self-regulation to sustainable finance. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, Metria, M100, starting at 10:20:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Blas Mola, Biomass Production and Bioenergy. Lecture title will be added later. Lecture will be held in English.
Professors' inaugural lectures on Kuopio Campus on 21 May
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Canthia, CA101, starting at 9:00:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Jonna Koponen, Marketing, especially digital transformation. Lecture title: Digital transformation: a threat or an opportunity for sales leadership and interaction? Lecture will be held in Finnish.
- Aini Pehkonen, Social Work. Lecture title: Client safety in social service. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Canthia, CA101, starting at 9:40:
- Faculty's opening words.
- Juhana Hakumäki, Clinical Radiology. Lecture title: Radiology today - from grayscale images to color and depicting function. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
- Ivana Kholová, Pathology. Lecture title: Cells under the microscope. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
- Tarja Kvist, Nursing Science, especially nursing leadership. Lecture title: Excellent leadership - The foundation of attractive nursing. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
- Ville Männistö, Gastroenterology. Lecture title: Liver diseases as a public health threat in Finland. Lecture will be held in Finnish.
