Henrik Stenius, formerly Director of the Finnish Institute in London, heads the Nordic Studies Programme at the Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, Helsinki University. Active in the International Group of the History of Concepts, his area of research is the political culture of the Nordic countries.

Recent articles

The debate on Europe is missing a crucial dimension because the textures of our imaginative life are parochial and unconnected. We need shared, but provocative symbols and reference-points – perhaps even some carnivalesque statues – to enlarge our sense of the continents.