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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
