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Finntopia: Finland - the happiest nation in the world?

06 November 2024, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm

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By Martin Butcher, Chair, ASCR Committee and former UCL Registrar

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A talk about how the history and art of Finland came to establish the national identity “Finnishness” and how the country has since developed into a kind of “utopia”.
Finland can fairly lay claim to have been one of the big success stories of the modern age. The transformation of what less than a century ago was a poor agrarian land on the northern periphery of Europe into one of the most prosperous states in the European Union today is a remarkable story.