CoreKin & Queer Wills Research Projects and the Helsinki University Gender Studies hosted J. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) for the lecture “Unbuilding Gender” at the Helsinki Think Corner, on the 4th of February 2019. More than 160 people visited the talk, and more followed the live streaming. The Event was […]
We are happy to welcome you to the Public Talk “A Very Binary Drama: the Conceptual Struggle For Gender´s Future” by a fab speaker Professor Davina Cooper (King´s College, London) and a fab discussant Professor Tuija Pulkkinen (Helsinki University) Save the date! The Talk will be held at Think Corner, […]
Extremely happy to announce the Public Lecture of Jack Halberstam: “Unbuilding Gender”!Please share widely 🙂 Date: Monday 4 February 2019, 4-6pmVenue: ThinkCorner, at the University HelsinkiTotally free of charge, everyone warmly welcome! Note:This is the first event of the Spring 2019 Dialogue Series, consisting of two extraordinarily interesting public talks […]
The project will participate in the Gender Studies 2019 Conference “On Violence”, 24th –26th October 2019 at the University of Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to see many of you there! The official CFP will follow 1March. Call for Workshops open .7th of January –15th of February 2019 For now, more info […]
Since the Seasonal holidays, New Year starting, we would like to jump into the first car and present you how productive, educational and fun was the international CoreKin Master Class “Queer/ing Kinship” that was organised together with the SKY Doctoral Program, and took place at the Helsinki University Gender Studies 3.-4.12. 2018. We had […]
”Close Relations” a multi- and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies took place in the beautiful and historical university town of Uppsala, Sweden, on 24-26th October 2018. The 5-strong group from the CoreKin team attended the inspiring event! Brilliant researchers from Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, US, UK, Russia […]
The CoreKin Project and SKY doctoral program are organising a PhD course “Queer/ing Kinship” at Helsinki University 3-4 December 2018. Course organiser is Dr Antu Sorainen (University of Helsinki, Finland); Visiting course lecturers: Dr Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen (University of Stavanger, Norway) and Dr Thomas Strong (Maynooth University, Ireland) The course includes the […]
Dr Anna Moring, one of the two postdoc members of the CoreKin research project team has joined the project full-time from 01.06.2018. She is going to work on “(Re)Defining Legal Kinship Relatedness and Closeness in the Law on Custody and Visitation in Finland” for the Special Issue that the Corekin […]
Dr Mari Tapaninen will give her docenture lecture on kinship in anthropology at the University of Helsinki at Old Sociology Library (Unioninkatu 35), room 344. 14.03.2018 (Wednesday) Time: 1.30-2pm Dr Mari Tapaninen is an expert in kinship and gender, and we are very proud that she is the Board Member of […]
We are very happy to publish some pictures and a short video of the public talk, “Sexual Worldings: ‘MSM’ Orientations”, given in January 2018 at the University of Helsinki Gender Studies by Dr Paul Boyce (University of Sussex, UK). The video is an edited version of the one hour talk, […]
