Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Application Procedure 2010

On 1 February 2010, the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies has appointed, on the basis of the Executive Board's and the Academic Advisory Board's recommendations, the following applicants as researchers of the Helsinki Collegium (in alphabetical order):

• Al-Sharmani Mulki (1.8.2010-31.7.2011)
  “Reforming Egyptian Family Laws: Processes, Outcomes, and Gender Justice”
• Armstrong Karen (1.8.2010-31.7.2012)
  “Theorizing Fertility Regimes”
• Artemyeva Tatiana (1.8.2010-31.7.2012)
  “Russian Philosophy of the Enlightenment”
• Hämäläinen Pekka (1.8.2010-31.7.2012)
  “The Shapes of Power: Frontiers, Borderlands, Middle Grounds, and Empires in North America, 1600-1900”
• Jalava Marja, Kone Foundation Senior Fellow (1.8.2010-31.7.2013)
  “Negotiating the Nordic Regime of Historicity: The Breakthrough of Social History in the Nordic Historiography, c. 1890s–1930s”
• Korpiola Mia (1.8.2010-31.7.2013)
  “Foreign Law for the Needs of a Brave New World? The Reception of Learned Law in Reformation Sweden (1500-1620)”
• McCormack Donna (1.8.2010-31.7.2012)
  “Transnational Transplantations: Bodily and National Borders in Selected Postcolonial Novels and Films”
• Niemivirta Markku (1.8.2010-31.7.2013)
  “To Err Is Only Human: A Multidisciplinary Study of Sensitivity to Failure”
• Swirski Peter (1.8.2010-31.7.2012)
  “The Unknown Lem: Rediscovering European Literary and Intellectual Legacy”
• Vuolteenaho Jani (1.8.2010-31.7.2013)
  “Naming, Power and Urban Space: Inscriptions of Local Heritage, Nationalism and Place Marketing in the Namescape of Helsinki”

In case a nominated researcher is unable to accept her/his post, the following applicants have been nominated into reserve (first three in rank order, the rest in alphabetical order):

1) Toivanen, Reetta
“Good Intentions; Questionably Outcomes – a critical approach to human rights activism in Europe”

2) Newby, Andrew
“Race, Hope & Charity: British reactions to famine in Finland and Ireland, c. 1845-1870”

3) Kaunonen, Leena
“Intermediality and Modernism in Post-War Finnish Poetry”

• Dichter, Heather
  “The Political Use of Sport in Germany from Occupation through the Cold War, 1944-1972”
• Jantunen, Tommi
  “Signs, Syllables, and Sentences – A Critical Investigation into the Foundations of Modern Sign Language Research from the Perspective of Three Linguistic Sequential Basic Units”
• Kuismin, Anna
  “From Plough to Pen: Vernacular Life Writing in 19th century Finland”
• Rossi, Leena-Maija
  “Imagined White People and Different Shades of Pale: Intersections of Whiteness, Gender and Sexuality in Finnish Visual Culture”
• Saarikoski, Helena
  “Modernization through Embodied Experiences. An ethnographic study of popular Finnish dance cultures from 1930s to 1960s”
• Saikku, Mikko
  “The Endangered Wild Atlantic Salmon of North America: The Uses of Environmental History for Contemporary Conservation Efforts”
• Taavitsainen, Irma
  “Meaning-making Practices in the History of English”