Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

The 2012 Fellowship Appointments at HCAS

Information about the 2013 Application Procedure will be posted to this page by the end of June 2012.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, established in 2001, is an independent institute within the University of Helsinki that undertakes advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. The Collegium promotes dialogue between different academic fields and supports international cooperation. The Collegium appoints research fellows through a high level international competition. Only less than four percent of the applicants are appointed annually. The Collegium currently hosts some 55 research fellows representing different fields of research. The working language at the Collegium is English.

The Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies has appointed, based on the Executive Board's and Academic Advisory Board's recommendations, the following applicants as research fellows of the Helsinki Collegium (in alphabetical order):

• Alho, Kimmo (1.9.2012-31.7.2014)
  “Brain Activity during Social Perception and Decision Making”
• Harrison, Klisala (1.9.2012-31.7.2015)
  “Sustainability and Indigenous Aesthetics: Musical Responses to Loss and Survival in Sámi and Native Canadian Theatre”
• Lehtipuu, Outi (1.9.2012-31.7.2015)
  “Immortality and Resurrection in Early Christian Polemics”
• Lehtonen Turo-Kimmo 1.9.2012-31.7.2014
  “Commodifying Life and Death. An Ethnography on Life Insurance Markets”
• Mueller, Jan-Werner (1.9.2012-31.7.2013)
  “Christian Democracy: A New Intellectual History”
• Sumiala, Johanna (1.9.2012-31.7.2015) Kone Foundation Senior Fellow
  “Death in Media Society: Expanded Fields of Death Rituals in the Contemporary Age (DEMESO)”
• Tolonen, Mikko (1.9.2012-31.7.2015)
  “Writing the History of Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment”
• von Weissenberg, Hanne 1.9.2012-31.7.2015
  “Defining Authority. The Minor Prophets and the Canonical Process in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls”
• Willson, Kendra (1.9.2012-31.7.2014)
  “Control of Personal Names: Language, Power, and Identity”
• Yurchak, Alexei (1.9.2012-31.7.2013)
  “Lenin’s Two Bodies: The Hidden Science of Communist Immortality”                    

Reserve list (please note that the names are in alphabetical, not in rank order):

The length of the research period for a person who can be appointed from this reserve list depends mainly on the length of the research period of the person who relinquishes his/her post.

• Fuhrmann, Arnika
  “Under Permanent Exception: Buddhist-Muslim Coexistence and the Liberal Impasse in Contemporary Thai and Malaysian Cinema”     
• Gava, Gabriele
  “Kant’s Transcendental Method of Philosophy and It’s Legacy to Pragmatism and Philosophy Today”
• Idström, Anna
  “Mortality of Metaphors – A Comprehensive study of Komi idioms”      
• Laes, Christian
  “Disability and Impairment in the Roman Empire: Between Inclusion and Exclusion” 
• Martikainen, Pekka
  “Socio-demographic Determinants of Mortality and End of Life Care Use in Ageing Populations”   
• Nygren, Anja Kaarina             
  “Environmental Risks, Governance, and Social Vulnerabilities in Southern Cities”      
• Stephanov, Darin
  “Images or Rulership, Practices of Monarhic/Dynastic Celebration, and Their Nationalizing Effects in the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1836-1905”             
• Tendler, Joseph
  “The Presence of the Past: Benedetto Croce’s Circle, Trans-Atlantic Entanglements and European Histories, 1903-2003”             
• Thatcher, Ian
  “The Russian Provisional Government 1917” 
• Weiss Hadas
  “Housing, Insecurity, and Social Reproduction”
• Yeomans, Rory
  “The City of the Dead: Mortality, Mass Murder and the Politics of Sacrifice in Ustasha Croatia, 1941-1945”