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) For more information about […]
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, […]
CoreKin warmly welcomes you to a public talk “Sexual Worldings: ‘MSM’ Orientations ” by Dr Paul Boyce. Tue 23rd of January at 4-6 pm University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 38, Lecture Hall C 120 The talk is free and open to everyone! Hoping to see many of you in two weeks! Please spread the […]
Corekin is happy to introduce a new intensive course on “Queering Kinship and Intimate Relations in Theory and Practice” on January 22 – February 2, 2018. Corekin Team members Anna Avdeeva, Anna Heinonen, Antu Sorainen and Alisa Zhabenko with our close collaborator Dr Anna-Maria Tapaninen will give research-based talks and workshops on the […]
During her visit Antu and Marie-Andree will be working on questions that emerged from their collaboration on the CoreKin project and will focus on wills and inheritance in sexually marginalised groups and contrasting and reimagining margins of kinship. The main aim is to explore the legal imaginations and conceptualisations of […]
Looking at concerns that Kevin Spacey has deliberately or otherwise equated child abuse with his same-sex sexuality one can only wonder at his intent. But was he really reviving the spectre of this equation or was he just joining the dots in the information he released – setting his actions […]
Part of the CoreKin Team (Antu Sorainen and Alisa Zhabenko) visited the 1st European Lesbian* Conference in Vienna, Austria October 2017. More than 500 lesbians* from all over the world participated in the event, in particular from the Central and Eastern Europe. The conference was refreshingly very off US/UK -centre and diversity […]
The past week has been a week of good news for Finnish families, especially those who are something else than heterosexual nuclear families with biological children. First, on Friday the 22nd September, the so-called Maternity law got the majority of the legal committee of the Finnish parliament behind it. […]
