Prof. Dr. Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä.

He has a wide range of research interests concentrating especially on the history of political and social discourse in the long term from comparative and transnational perspectives. He cooperates with political historians, political theorists and language policy researchers to produce multidisciplinary, comparative and transnational analyses of past political discourses and cultures in Finland, Sweden and major European powers.

Pasi Ihalainen is Director of the research center of Comparative Studies on Political Cultures and involved in various research centers and groups. He is currently Chair of the APH.

Recent publications are Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State (New York: Berghahn Books 2022) edited with Antero Holmila and ‘A Model Country or a Peripheral Anomaly? The Finnish Women’s Suffrage and Female MPs in Transnational Debates, 1906-19’, in: T. Kaiser, & A. Schulz (eds.), Vorhang auf! – Frauen in Parlament und Politik . Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteienrliament and Parliamentarism: a comparative history of a European concept 185 (Droste Verlag 2022) 55-72, with T. Kinnunen.