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Brief Curriculum Vitae of Tero Anttila�

Current Situation:

Doctoral Student at the University of Oulu in Finland.

Major Subject: History of Science and Ideas. �

Preparing a thesis on Swedish and European historical research from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Has been as visiting doctoral student at the University of Uppsala in 2009. �

Other fields of interest: the role of myth in history, early modern scientific and religious thought, theories of nationalism and ethnicity as well as 20^th century philosophy of history.

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Selected Sample of (English) presentations

Lecture: "Historical views on national and ethnic identity: In Search of Origins – National�Myths in the Pre-Modern Swedish Historical Research". 17.3.2010, Oulun Yliopisto (University of Oulu). Northern Memory and Identity. 13.2–12.5.2010. �

Conference Presentation: "Between Bureus and Rudbeck: the Development of the Hyperborean motive in Swedish historiography 1630–1680". CFP Nordisk konferens i idéhistoria, Umeå Universitet (University of Umeå, Sweden) 22-23.9.2009. �

Conference Presentation: "The Power of the Ancient Wisdom: Johannes Bureus (1568–1652) and the Esoteric-Patriotic Background of the Hyperborean Theory in the Seventeenth century Swedish Historiography". At The 29^th Irish Conference of Historians: Power & History. University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College, Venue: Strand Hotel, Limerick 12–14.6.2009.�

Conference Presentation: "East of Atlantis: Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s (1630–1702) Description of the Region of Ancient Finland in Atlantica". Itämeren itälaidalla II (On the Eastern Edge of the Baltic Sea -seminar II) (University of Oulu) 28–29.8.2008.�

Selected (English) Publications

Tero Anttila, East of Atlantis – Ancient Finland and its Inhabitants in Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s (1630–1702) Atlantica, 39–56. Conference Anthology, "Itämeren Itälaidalla II". ed.: Kari Alenius, Anita Honkala & Sinikka Wunsch, Rovaniemi 2009. �

Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Jarmo Pulkkinen & Tero Anttila, Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Discoveries and Innovations, Rovaniemi 2008.��

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