”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, […]
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 […]
Survey for Lawyers On Inheritance Arrangements among Rainbow Clients in English and Finnish has now been closed. Thank You very much for all the respondents – there were 111 lawyers and law firms from the US, UK, Australia, Finland and elsewhere who participated! We will come back with the initial […]
Why the queerness, diversity, and fluidity of sexuality and gender are forbidden or ignored in ballet, even though these are essential both to its energy and attraction? Excited by the Excellence in Finland network’s accelerator organized by the Finnish National Ballet in March, we were inspired to write a blog […]
*For English speaking audience: in this blog entry we write about the sexual policies of dance, focusing especially on the legacy of ballet: the queer of sexualities in its core and the conflicting claim for gender. The text is based on our participation in the Excellence in Finland accelerator programme […]
In sports, the aims often seem to be clear enough. In this sense, science and art, characterized by fumbling, contradictions and a constant state of renewal, are very different. The researcher’s owl of Minerva flies at dusk, while the artist re-imagines the world over and over again. The ethos of […]
(For English speaking audience: in this blog entry we write about the importance of overlapping family relations, coach-athlete and team relations for the athlete’s success and self-esteem, based on our participation in the Excellence in Finland accelerator programme with the Finnish Olympic Committee. Follow us for entries in English later!) […]
