Heli Tissari, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Mikko Salmela (eds.) 2008 Happiness: Cognition, Experience, Language
Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 3.
Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. 175–176.
Contributors
Prof. Juha Sihvola is the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
He is both a historian and a philosopher and has published widely on ancient philosophy, including emotions, and on ethical issues, both in English and in Finnish.
His publications in 2008 include two co-edited collections of articles, one on ancient philosophy and the self (Springer) and another on the state of the Finnish nation.
Dr. Mikko Salmela is a Docent and University Researcher at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki. His doctoral dissertation in 1998 concerned the moral and cultural philosophy of six major Finnish philosophers of the 20th century. Salmela spent three years 2004–2007 at the Helsinki Collegium studying the affectivity and normativity of emotions. His current research project is focused on collective emotions.
Prof. (emeritus) Markku Ojanen represents the Department of Psychology, University of Tampere. His main research areas are positive psychology, happiness and well-being, health psychology, evaluation of interventions, psychosocial rehabilitation and personality psychology. He has written 18 books about these topics and lectures weekly about happiness, well-being and good life. His latest book is the first book about positive psychology in Finnish.
Dr. Anne Birgitta Pessi is a docent in church and social studies (University of Helsinki) and in sociology (University of Kuopio). She is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced studies whose research there focuses on issues of altruism and good life. She has published a great number of international articles on these and related topics, and several scientific monographs, in particular on volunteering in the Finnish church. She is also an active contributor to the Finnish media.
Dr. Sari Kivistö is a docent and a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Her research interests include ancient Latin and Neo-Latin literature, satire, classical traditions and history of rhetoric. She is the author of Creating Anti-Eloquence:
Epistolae obscurorum virorum and the Humanist Polemics on Style (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2002). Recently she has been working on two early modern projects, entitled Medical Analogy in Latin Satire (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan) and University Satire and Academic Humour in the Early Modern Period.
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Prof. (emeritus) Hans-Jürgen Diller is Professor of English (emeritus since 1999) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His subject is English medieval literature and history of the English language. He has published books on the English mystery play, linguistic problems of translation, and English metre. In the last few years he has concentrated on the history of the English emotion lexicon.
Prof. Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His main research interests include the conceptualization of emotions, the study of metaphor and idiomaticity, and the relationship between language, mind and culture. His most recent books include Language, Mind, and Culture: A Practical Introduction (2006, Oxford University Press), Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation (2005, Cambridge University Press), Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2002, Oxford University Press), and Metaphor and Emotion (2000, Cambridge University Press). He has taught at several American and European universities and is currently working on the issue of what it means to understand a culture from a cognitive point of view and on the notion of abstract concepts.
Dr. Heli Tissari wrote her doctoral dissertation on the senses of the English word love and its conceptual metaphors in Early Modern (ca. 1500–1700) and Present- day English in 2003. She then spent three years as a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium working on other words for emotions (2004–2007). She now continues to do research on emotions, word meaning / concepts and metaphor at the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English at the Department of English, University of Helsinki.
