Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies announces new Fellows beginning their term in August 2019

HCAS welcomes 12 new Core Fellows, two Postdoctoral Fellows in the Arts and visiting fellows participating in the Erik Allardt and Kone Foundation Fellowship programs to join the HCAS community in mid-August 2019.

Out of 216 applicants for the Core Fellowship positions, 12 researchers were selected to HCAS for terms of one or two years. The HCAS Core Fellowship Program offers researchers the opportunity to concentrate on their research projects without administrative duties, and encourages interdisciplinary cooperation between scholars working in different fields of study. 

HCAS will also host visiting fellows participating in the Erik Allardt Fellowship program, which promotes academic exchange between Sweden and Finland, and the Kone Foundation Fellowship program for Baltic, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian scholars.

Furthermore, HCAS invites two postdoctoral artists to work in the Collegium for one year, funded by the Kone Foundation. The Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts Program endorses new forms of dialogue between art and scholarship. In addition to being practicing artists, all the HCAS Art Fellows hold PhDs, and they take part in the weekly Fellows' Seminar where the HCAS Fellows present their research projects. 

The next call for the Core Fellowship and the Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts will open in mid-August and close in mid-September 2019.

More information:

HCAS Project Planner Kaisa Kaakinen, +358 2 941 22493, kaisa.kaakinen@helsinki.fi

 

The Core Fellows beginning in August 2019:

(Read the project descriptions and bios of the HCAS fellows here and here.)

 

Natalya Bekhta, Postdoctoral researcher

Arts, literature, musicology

Title of research project: Alternative Communities: Irrealist Tropes and the Collective Imaginary on the Literary Semi-Periphery of Europe

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

                                                                                                                   

Niko Besnier, Research director

Anthropology, ethnology, folklore

Title of research project: Utopia Modern: Palm Springs and the American Imaginary

Duration of term at HCAS: 1 year

 

Andreas Bieler, Research director

Social sciences

Title of research project: Between Commodification and Commoning: Fighting for Public Water in Europe

Duration of term at HCAS: 1 year

 

Nicolas Pierre Faucher, Postdoctoral researcher

Philosophy

Title of research project: Manufacturing Belief in Latin Medieval Philosophy

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Ekaterina Gruzdeva, University researcher

Linguistics and philology

Title of research project: A grammar of Nivkh, an isolate Paleosiberian language

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Ari Heikki Haukkala, University researcher

Social sciences

Title of research project: Disseminating heritable cancer risk information to relatives: Knowledge, duty, fear, guilt, and support in social networks

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Maijastina Ritva Tuulikki Kahlos, University researcher

History and archaeology

Title of research project: Waiting for Barbarians, Recognizing Immigrants, Making Romans:

Roman Ambiguities and the Uses of ‘Barbarians’ in the Political, Social and Religious Struggles in Late Antiquity (300-500)

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Tuukka Kaidesoja, University researcher

Social sciences

Title of research project: Cognitive Sociology - What, Why and How?

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Tuomas Pernu, University researcher

Philosophy

Title of research project: Agency and Free Will in a Physical World

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, Postdoctoral researcher

Media and information studies

Title of research project: Racism without others: Everyday mediations in Poland

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Louise Settle, Postdoctoral researcher

History and archaeology

Title of research project: Unruly Emotions: Changing Emotional Cultures of Married Life in Britain, 1945-1985

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

Jaana Simola, University researcher

Psychology

Title of research project: When attention wanders: Neurocognitive basis of fluctuations in attention

Duration of term at HCAS: 2 years

 

The Postdoctoral Fellows in the Arts 2019-2020:

 

Matti Kangaskoski

Literature

Title of project: Poetics of the Future

 

Minou Norouzi

Film and curating

Title of project: Revolutionary Patience

 

Kone Foundation Fellows, Fall 2019:

 

Elena Circovic

Law

Title of research project: Space, ice, and the Final Frontiers of International Law's Universality

 

Eneken Laanes

Literary Studies

Title of research project: Translating Memories: Eastern European Past in the Global Arena

 

Erik Allardt Fellows:

 

Robert Appelbaum (Fall 2019)

Literary Studies

Title of research project: The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare

 

Kerstin Enflo (Spring 2020)

Economic History

Title of research project: Long run regional growth and development in the Nordic area