Ulla Kallberg is defending her doctoral thesis in ethnology ”Sillä ainahan merimies sentään on erimies”: Merimiesidentiteetit muuttuvassa maailmassa (in english ”For always a sailor is a different man”: Seaman identities in a changing world) at University of Turku on Saturday 12 November 12:00-16:00. More information can be found on University of Turku’s website.
An short excerpt from the english summary:
”This study, which is part of the field of ethnology, examines the manifestation of the self and self-understanding of Finnish sailors in the working communities of steamers transporting freight. Central to it is the experience of an individual working as a sailor on an ocean liner about his own self and how he understands himself. The events described in the study date to between 1910 and 1955.”