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Outputs
Conference Presentations
October 2026: Visual History Now: using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality and space. University of Tampere.
- Juvonen, Tuula. Emancipated Women in Photography. The Case of Helmi Tengén (1875–1971)
- Jukes, Joe. Lesbian Geographies in the Auli Kaartinen Archive.
- Tolvanen, Kaisa. Assemblage Thinking with Archival Photographs.
August 2026: 9th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
- Jukes, Joe. Picturing queer rurals through Finnish photographic archives.
May 2026: Mundane Queer History Conference. University of Bergen, Norway.
- Juvonen, Tuula. Hide and Seek at Bachelors’ House Museums.
- Jukes, Joe. At Home in the Countryside: Views unto queer rurality in Finnish photographic archives.
March 2026: 8th Annual HEX Conference: Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures. Tampere University.
- Juvonen, Tuula. Representing Independence – Early Feminist Activist in Photographic Images.
- Jukes, Joe. Queer Experience without Sex? Thinking experience as erotic process with the Veijo Rönkkönen archive.
- Tolvanen, Kaisa. Queer Photographs and Assembled Materiality.
- Kleemola, Olli. Moderator and discussant.
Research Events
September 2026: Visuaalisen historian (ViHi) verkoston kahvitunti (30.9.26)
- Juvonen, Tuula. What can photography tell us about early feminists?
- Tolvanen, Kaisa. Materiality in queer photographs.
- Jukes, Joe. No sex in a queer archive? Space and sexuality in photographic collections.
May 2026: Afterlives of Queer Images. A Roundtable on Queer Visual Archives and Queer Imagery Within Archival Contexts.
- Juvonen, Tuula. What do I see? Browsing Finna.fi
- Jukes, Joe. “Dancing“ in and around the queer archive.
Alongside: Ann Cvetkovich (University of Texas at Austin), Jennifer V. Evans (Carlton University), Alexis Bard Johnson (ONE Archives at the USC Library) and Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main).
Research Announcements
October 2026: Emil Santtu Uuttuu (and collaborators) launched On Photographs at MadHouse Helsinki (9-10.10.26)
On Photographs examined photo archives and the descriptive data of collections from the perspective of small gestures and absence. What is left out? With lectures from Rita Paqvalén and Tuula Juvonen (PI, Picture Me). More info on our Events page.
February 2026: An overview of our project was published on the German Visual History 'online reference resource'.
Read the announcement here.
Extract: In our project, Picture Me, we engage with a burgeoning interest in queer Finnish history and with scholarship from the German tradition of visual history to consolidate a new research field called queer visual history. Each researcher in the project is working with a particular archival record, or records, associated with Finnish historical figures that are alleged to have lived queer lives.
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