Bittersweet: Everyday Life and Nostalgia for the 1950s

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto is Postdoctoral Researcher of European Ethnology at the University of Helsinki. She earned her PhD degree at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, in 2013. In 2014, she was Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most important publications include a monograph Her Own Worth: Negotiation of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer (2014). Koskinen-Koivisto's research interests include questions related to narrative, identity, and societal change. In her current project, Koskinen-Koivisto examines the material heritage of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland and the culture of commemoration.

Hanna Snellman is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Helsinki. Currently she is fulltime Vice Dean at the same university. Earlier she has worked as Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, as Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and Visiting Professor at Lakehead University, Canada. She has also been a visiting researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden, and York University, Canada. Snellman's research focuses on mobility: her PhD (1996) was about lumberjacks in Finnish Lapland and their itinerary lifestyle. After that she has published extensively on immigration from Finland to Sweden. Currently she is working on projects on Finnish American cookbooks and transnational death.