We are warmly welcoming everyone to the Christina Research Seminar to the presentation by Anna Shadrina on the topic “The Babushka as a Metaphor of Women’s Old Age in Russia and a Means to Resist Ageism”. The seminar will take place on Tuesday 8th of October at 16-18 at Lecture […]
Check here the workshop program and some nice pictures! The Corekin Project Team Director Antu Sorainen and junior member Alisa Zhabenko presented their research in the KinLab workshop “Shifting Kinship Relations: Workshop on Marriage, Sexuality and Family”, at the Aegean University, on 23-24 May 2019.
At the end of March 2019, the Corekin and QueerWils Research Projects welcomed Professor Davina Cooper (king’s College, London) at Think Corner, Helsinki University with Public Talk “A Very Binary Drama: the Conceptual Struggle For Gender´s Future”. The talk was followed by a discussion with Professor Tuija Pulkkinen and moderated […]
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 […]
