Visa Immonen
Position
Professor
Affiliation
- visa.immonen@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582310
- Visitor address
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Øysteins gate 3
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Visa Immonen
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Short info
I am Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bergen. Much of my work focuses on medieval material culture in the Nordic countries, but I am also interested in cultural heritage, and heritage management.
Publications
Academic book chapter
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Anna Sivula (2025). Arkeologia ja aineettoman kulttuuriperintötyön jännitteiset yhteisöt. (external link)
- Janne Harjula; Visa Aleksis Immonen; Tanja Ratilainen (2024). Nobility in Medieval Turku: The Challenge of the Disjointed Source Material. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Keskiajan puuntyöstön materiaalit, tekijät ja työvälineet Suomessa. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Hybrid Spaces, and Geolocative Mobile Apps for LGBTQ Heritage. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Kosteikkojen puiset aarteet keskiajalta: Sukset, ruuhet ja veneet. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Lopuksi: Puunkäytön lastuja. (external link)
- Janne Harjula; Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Keskiajan puiset astiat ja ruokailuvälineet. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Johdanto: Keskiajan monipuolinen puu. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2022). 3D Modelling of Heritage Objects: Representation, Engagement and Performativity of the Virtual Realm. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Tapio Salminen (2025). Traces of Medieval Individuals: New Seal Matrix Discoveries in Finland. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Maija Mäki (2022). Urban heritage as the anchor for an uncertain future? The city of Turku and the COVID-19 crisis. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). The Uses of Queer Heritage. (external link)
Journal review
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). [Book review:] City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500: A Comparative Approach. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Stefan Drechsler, Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland: Literary and Artistic Activities of the Monastery at Helgafell in the Fourteenth Century. (Manuscripta Publications in Manuscript Research.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 275; color and black-and-white figures. €120. ISBN: 978-2-5035-8902-2.. (external link)
Lecture
Academic article
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Urbaani kulttuuriperintö ja fragmentaatioteoria: Esimerkkinä Turun kaupunkiarkeologia. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Heritage imagination as a spatial practice, and the possibility of alternative futures. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2024). Urban Heritage, and the Theory of Fragmentation: The Development of Archaeology in the City of Turku, Finland. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2022). Nude heritage selfies as a visual practice. (external link)
- Petro Pesonen; Ulla Moilanen; Meeli Roose et al. (2024). Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA). (external link)
- Hanna-Maria Pellinen; Aalto Silja; Jussi Kinnunen et al. (2022). Tiilentekijöitä jäljittämässä Turun Kakskerran Poralan kylätontilla. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Marika Räsänen (2022). Splendor and Scarcity of Religious Matter: Medieval Cathedral Treasuries of the North. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Anna Sivula (2024). The politics of heritage education: an analysis of national curriculum guidelines in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2022). What is Queer Heritage? Queercache and the Epistemology of the Closet. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Fragmentaatioteoria arkeologiassa ja sen uudet suunnat. (external link)
- Hanna-Maria Pellinen; Silja Aalto; Jussi Kinnunen et al. (2022). Arkeologisen kylätutkimuksen menetelmät: Esimerkkinä Turun kaupunkia ympäröivät keskiaikaiset kylät. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Culture as colonialism: The Hanseatic League in Bergen and Turku. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Genes as Cultural Heritage: A Case Study on Finnish Amateur Discussions. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Joonas Kinnunen; Janne Harjula (2022). At the fringes of urbanisation: A socio-economic model of founding of the town of Turku, Finland, c. 1300. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2024). Heritage as a gift of Public space: The removal of Lenin Memorials in Finland in 2022. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Tanja Ratilainen; Jussi Kinnunen et al. (2022). The Construction Date of the Dominican Convent of St Olaf in Turku, Finland: A Re-Evaluation. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Niko Hakkarainen; Anna Sivula (2025). Anticipatory grief and ecclesiastical heritage: The demolition of modernist churches in Finland. (external link)
Book anthology
Conference lecture
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2024). What can failing tell about the relationship between heritage and archaeology?. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). The Christianisation of Finland from an archaeological point of view. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2025). Wooden objects and the question of circular economies in the Late Middle Ages. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Anna Sivula (2022). Intercultural heritage, and national elementary school curricula. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2024). Museoaktivismin yhteisöt ja niiden visiot museoiden tehtävästä. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2022). Biography, itinerary, assemblage – What is a ship?. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2022). Wood in Northern Europe, and Medieval Ecocriticism. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen; Niko Hakkarainen; Anna Sivula (2023). “The most important thing about a church is that it is there!" – Finnish ecclesiastical heritage and dealing with anticipatory grief. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2023). Artefacts, Science and Ecocriticism: The Use of Wood in Medieval North-Eastern Europe. (external link)
- Visa Aleksis Immonen (2024). When silence abounds – The removal of public Lenin sculptures in Finland in 2022. (external link)