”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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
”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)
