In the Georgian village of Orozmani, a remarkable discovery has been made: a roughly 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to Homo erectus. Finnish researchers are helping to map the site’s environmental and climatic conditions in a project funded by the Sohlberg...

What is reality, and how do we understand our place within it? For more than two thousand years, questions like these have been shaped by Aristotle’s Metaphysics, one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The title Metaphysics does not come from...

The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, in collaboration with Åbo Akademi University, is organizing a symposium in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Society’s honorary member, Professor Nils-Erik Enkvist. The full-day symposium will take place...

The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters has published a new book: Mitt forskarliv, written by René Gothóni (2025). Mitt forskarliv is a personal retrospective on a creative academic career, incorporating self-analytical elements and presenting unique scientific...

The traditional Peace Symposium in Uusikaupunki is held every other year in collaboration between the City of Uusikaupunki and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. This year, the symposium will take place on August 15–16, 2025, at the Cultural Centre Cruselli,...