About the speaker:

Dr. Petteri Norring is postdoctoral research fellow at the Unit of History, Philosophy, and Literary Studies at the Tampere University, Finland. He is interested in multispecies intellectual and social history and focused on the modernization of swine husbandry in Finland from the perspective of historical animal studies. Currently, he is working in a four-year project “Making the Modern ‘Meat Complex’ – The Co-production of Humans and Livestock in Finnish Agricultural Modernization, c. 1880s–1960s” funded by The Research Council of Finland. Before his current research, his work centred on the history of the 19th and the 20th century Nordic historiography wherein his main interest concerned the normative function of historical knowledge and historians’ concepts about societal development. Norring is also specialised in theoretical and methodological topics concerning the historical research. He is presently co-editing a volume on theories in cultural history.