Seija Jalagin Senior Lecturer, General History, Japanese Studies (research leave) Postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Finland (from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2012). Ms Jalagin is the representative of the Department of History in Erasmus thematic network CLIOH-WORLD (2009-2011) Office: HU376 Phone: +358 8 553 3363 e-mail: seija.jalagin (at) oulu.fi

Research and teaching:

• Research: History of Christian missions, gender history, history of Japan, history of childhood, cultural encounter between Japan and the West

• Teaching: BA seminar in General history; Lectures in contemporary Japanese society; Popular writing and publishing.

Research projects:

1) Paradoxical Emancipation: Women Missionaries and Ecclesiastical Power in 20th-Century Finland, in project "Forcing the Way: Women in Professional Networks of Power and Knowledge in 20th-Century Finland" funded by Power in Finland, research programme of the Academy of Finland, 2007-2010.

2) Mie kerron itte - Tutkimus suomalaisesta lapsuudesta 1900-1930 (Childhood in Finland, 1900-1930); together with PhD Marianne Junila.

 

What's new?

New publication from CLIOHWORLD, Erasmus network for History: Seija Jalagin, Susanna Tavera & Andrew Dilley (eds.) World and Global History. Research and Teaching. A CLIOHWORLD Reader. Cliohworld & Edizioni Plus, Pisa University, Pisa 2011, 239 s. Online version & additional bibliography at: http://www.cliohworld.net

 

Publications:

List of publications (pdf)

Ten most important publications

• Japanin kutsu. Suomalaiset naislähetit Japanissa 1900-1941. English summary: Answering the Call: Finnish Missionary Women in Japan, 1900-1941. Bibliotheca Historica 107. SKS, Helsinki 2007.

• Seija Jalagin & Marianne Junila, Lukittu näky - sota lapsen kokemuksena. Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 2, 2006, pp. 117-131.

• "Kuinka voisi yhden naisen ääni kuulua?": Suomalaiset naislähetit norminrikkojina. Teologinen Aikakauskirja 1, 2006, pp. 105-116.

• Disciples, Sisters or Companions? Japanese and Finnish Women's Mutual Encounter in Mission. Deborah Gaitskell (Quest editor), Women and Missions. Le Fait Missionaire. Social Sciences & Missions . No 16/July 2005, pp. 43-70.

• Japanilais-suomalainen rakkaustarina. Etnisen toiseuden rajankäyntiä lähetystyössä. Olli Löytty (toim.), Rajanylityksiä. Tutkimusreittejä toiseuden tuolle puolen. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2005, pp. 64-85.

• Education or Christian Education? Missionary Girls' Schools in Japan in the Transition Years of the 1930s. Katharina Hallencreutz (ed.), Gender, Poverty and Church Involvement. A report from a research conference in Uppsala, May 6-8, 2002 . Missio No 20. Swedish Institute of Mission Research, Uppsala 2005, pp. 185-202.

• Geisha-kuvan synty ja kuolemattomuus. Annamari Konttinen & Seija Jalagin (toim.), Japanilainen nainen: Kuvissa ja kuvien takana. Vastapaino, Tampere 2004, pp. 58-88.

• Negotiating for Space and Autonomy: Strategies of Finnish Missionary Women in Japan , 1900-1941. Theme issue: Gender and Mission. Scandinavian Journal of History. Vol. 28, No. 2, 2003, pp. 83-102.

• "I didn't come here to play, that's for sure" - Finnish Missionary Women and Authority in Early 20 th Century Japan. Inger Marie Okkenhaug (ed.), Gender, Race and Religion: Nordic Missions 1860-1940. Studia Missionalia Svecana XCI, Uppsala 2003, pp. 81-101.

• Gendered Images - Western Women on Japanese Women. Looking at the Other: Historical Study of Images in Theory and Practise. Edited by Kari Alenius, Olavi K. Fält, Seija Jalagin. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis. Humaniora B42. University of Oulu, Oulu 2002, pp. 13-34.