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Research interests
My research interests include material culture, consumption, lifestyle, work and leisure, family and gender history as well as microhistory, cultural history and history of elites in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden, Finland and Europe.
I have published on material culture, consuming practices, credit and debt, private economy of elite families, handicrafts and shopping, life at country house and in town, food culture and work of servants. My current research topics include research on the cultural history of work, material culture, everyday life, family history and material culture of opera, as well as country houses and manorial society in eighteenth-century Sweden.
Together with Charlotta Wolff, I organise the online seminar Methods in cultural and intellectual history (Europe, Scandinavia).
From 2023, I am the president of the Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
I am a member of the board for open access history journal Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, member of the board for open access journal Apparence(s), and member of the editorial board for the series Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Amsterdam University Press.
From 2011 to 2022, I was co-editor for the open access 1700-tal – Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and from 2016 to 2020, co-editor for Historiallinen Aikakauskirja.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, English abstract: Consumption and the lifestyle of the high nobility in eighteenth-century Sweden, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 10 Nov 2009
Licenciate, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 21 Dec 2004
Master, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 28 Nov 2000
External positions
Visiting associate professor, University of Luxembourg
2016 → 2019
Professor, University of Turku
2016 → 2018
Docent of European History, University of Helsinki
2015 → …
Docent of Finnish and European History, University of Turku
2015 → …
Postdoctoral researcher (Academy of Finland), University of Helsinki
2013 → 2016
Visinting Research Fellow, University of Northampton
2012 → 2015
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki
2011 → 2013
Editor; managing editor, Finnish Literature Society
2001 → 2011
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Slavery, Abolition and Archipelagic Connections in the Swedish Caribbean
Ilmakunnas, J. (Principal Investigator) & Wilson, V. (Coordinator)
01/02/24 → 31/12/28
Project: EU
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Vägen över havet – Kulturell växelverkan mellan universitetsstäderna Åbo och Uppsala 1640–1828
Ilmakunnas, J. (Principal Investigator), Wolff, C. (Co-Principal Investigator), Artukka, T. (Co-Investigator), Engblom, R. (Co-Investigator), Hollsten, L. (Co-Investigator), Savolainen, P. (Co-Investigator) & Välimäki, M. (Co-Investigator)
01/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Other
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Shopping i Stockholm: Sociala praktiker på gatunivå, 1700–1850
Hellsing, M. (Editor) & Ilmakunnas, J. (Editor), 2023, Stockholmia förlag. 384 p.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Edited Book/Edited Journal › Scientific › peer-review
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Ett ståndsmässigt liv: Släkten von Fersens livsstil på 1700-talet
Ilmakunnas, J., 2012, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland.Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Life-stage, work and daily routines of the eighteenth-century Swedish elite: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna’s diaries
Ilmakunnas, J., 2022, Daily lives and daily routines in the long eighteenth-century. Andersson, G. & Stobart, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 62–81 (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Northern comfort and discomfort: Spaces and objects in Swedish country houses, c.1740–1800
Ilmakunnas, J., 2020, The comforts of home in Western Europe, 1700–1900. Stobart, J. (ed.). Bloomsbury academic, p. 45–66Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Konsten att avbilda arbete: Kvinnors sysselsättningar och vardag på Pehr Hilleströms genremålningar från 1770-talet till 1810-talet
Ilmakunnas, J., 2018, In: Historisk tidskrift för Finland. 103, 1, p. 1–45Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile89 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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Metoder inom kultur- och idéhistoria (Europa, Norden)
Ilmakunnas, J. (Organiser) & Wolff, C. (Organiser)
2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, symposium or workshop
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Adeln, arkiv och minne
Ilmakunnas, J. (Invited speaker)
2 Dec 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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University of Gothenburg
Ilmakunnas, J. (Visiting researcher)
18 Nov 2024 → 30 Nov 2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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SLS seminarium och workshop för akademiskt skrivande
Salmesvuori, P. (Organiser) & Ilmakunnas, J. (Organiser)
30 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, symposium or workshop
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Operans efemära materialitet
Ilmakunnas, J. (Speaker)
13 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference presentation