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 […]
”Do we need small tags or logos for those law offices who position themselves as queer-friendly?”, asked the Attorney-at-Law, LLM Hanna Rahikka and Docent Antu Sorainen at the Turku University Law & Crises – conference on 1st September 2017. (Suomenkielinen versio uutisesta alla)
“My private and exceptional intimate happiness: same-sex relationships and motherhood during the last Soviet Period in Russia” was the title of the talk that Alisa Zhabenko, a junior CoreKin Team member, gave at the ground-breaking international conference “Communist Homosexuality 1945 – 1989 / Bodies – Languages – Images” at the […]
Antu Sorainen gave a Corekin talk on “The Carol Effect” in Intergenerational Encounters workshop, at the University of Tampere, 6.-7.October. The title of the talk refers to Patricia Highsmith’s novel from 1952, “The Price of Salt”, which was the inspiration for the 2015 movie “Carol” by Todd Haynes. Sorainen focused […]
