”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)
CoreKin project year started by a new publication: “Strategies of non-normative families, parenting and reproduction in neo-traditional Russia” in the British Journal of Families, Relationships, and Societies. Antu Sorainen, Anna Avdeeva and Alisa Zhabenko from the CoreKin team joined forces with a prominent scholar Olga Isupova from the Moscow High School of Economics. […]
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 […]
“Risks and Protection in Field Work related to Gender and Sexualities” Workshop took place in the University of Helsinki at the 2nd of December. The Corekin Team members were discussing the obstacles, methodological and ethical problems they are facing in their fields. Dr. Thomas Strong from the Maynooth University […]
Very successful Doctoral course “Queer(y)ing Kinship, Family and Sexuality” took place in University of Helsinki 7-8 of November and was finished by open public lecture “Families of Choice in Poland” by Professor Joanna Mizielinska. The course for couple of days united gender studies and queer researchers from Finland, Sweden, […]
Welcome to open lecture “Families of Choice in Poland” next Tuesday, 8th of November at 2 pm at the University of Helsinki! Location: Topelia-building, lecture hall D112, Unioninkatu 38 D Professor Joanna Mizielinska will present her three year research concentrated on daily life of non-heterosexual families in Poland. The lecture […]
New blog “Sateenkaariperheiden lapset keskenään usein eriarvoisessa perimystilanteessa” published at the Association for the Finnish Lawyers website http://www.lakimiesliitto.fi. The children in the Finnish Rainbow Families are often not in equal position with other families, or even with their own siblings in matters of inheritance; the inheritance tax law reform […]
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 […]
Succesful launch of our project attracted a full room to discuss the future of kinship! We are very grateful to our visitors: Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob (Keele Law School, UK), Dr. Anna-Maria Tapaninen (University of Eastern Finland, Anthropology), CoreKin Board Member Professor of Jurisprudence Panu Minkkinen, University of Helsinki, and the Leader of […]
