Meet the New TIAS Fellows!

 

An online event

Thursday 13 January 2022 15.00–16.00

On 1 January 2022, seven new Fellows joined the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). We welcome colleagues from the University of Turku and beyond to join us in this online seminar to find out more about TIAS, its new Fellows and their research. Please join us online for an hour of interdisciplinary research excellence.

Following a welcome from TIAS Director, Professor Martin Cloonan, each of the new Fellows will introduce themselves and their TIAS project in 5 minutes presentations in the following order.

Postdoctoral Fellows 2022–2024

Katariina Koistinen (TSE): “Company actors in the midst of food system transition to sustainability”
Marjo Kolehmainen (Humanities): “Networked Care: Explorations of Intimacy in Digital Therapy (Net Care)”
Amalia Verdu Sanmartin (Law): “The person on the edge: Disrupting normative legal knowledge in the digital age”

Collegium Fellows 2022–2024

Massimo Fichera (Law): ”’'We the Court' v. 'We the people': A Chrono-Legal Theory of Constitutional Change for the European Union” 
Heidi Kurvinen (Humanities): “Children in Social Movements, 1959-1989. Political Agency in Childhood and its Effects on Adulthood Participation in Finland”
Elina Valovirta (Humanities): “Romancing the Caribbean: Sex, Sex and Sustainability in Caribbean Literature and Culture”
Outi Vesakoski (Humanities): “Development of Linguistic and Genetic Landscapes in Finland and the Uralic Language Speaker Area”