October 29th
4 p.m. (Presentation will begin after a short business meeting of The Friends of the Van Pelt Library)
This presentation is open to the public
Please join us in the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library
East Side Reading Room
Ulla Aatsinki, visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Social Sciences Department, will be giving a presentation on October 29, 2009, titled “Research, Resource and Remembrance - How to Study Schooling of Finnish-American Children in Upper Peninsula in the 1920’s”.
Dr. Aatsinki is a graduate from University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. Her dissertation was about the labor movement in Northern Finland right before and after the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.