The Collegium edits and coordinates the multidisciplinary publication series AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN 2737-2812). Launched in 2021 to celebrate the Collegium’s 20th Anniversary, the series provides a venue for high-quality collections of articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences, including education, law, and theology. True to the concept of an institute for advanced study, the series welcomes multi- and interdisciplinary contributions that often struggle to find a suitable publishing forum in discipline-based series.
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This volume brings together researchers from various fields to enhance discussion of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as one continuum. With new archaeological data and a focus on both textual and material remains, archaeologists, historians, classicists, and theologians shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
Katja Ritari holds the title of docent of Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki.
Jan R. Stenger is a professor of Classics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
William Van Andringa is a director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris.
For more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean national security addresses family, public health, and national unity. Banal Security illustrates how as a result, queer Koreans are seen to represent a viral threat to national security. Taking readers from police stations and the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Timothy Gitzen shows how security weaves through daily life and diffuses the queer threat, in a context where queer Koreans are treated as viral carriers, disruptions to public order, and threats to family and culture.
Timothy Gitzen is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University.
This book reinterprets the Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. It places Finns as active participants in settler colonial histories, circulations of knowledge, and their ongoing legacies.
Rani-Henrik Andersson (PhD) is senior university lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki and the principal investigator of HUMANA—Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing New Research Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change.
Janne Lahti (PhD) is a historian who works at the University of Helsinki as an Academy of Finland research fellow. His research focuses on global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, and Nordic colonialism. Lahti is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Settler Colonial Studies.
For generations of Indigenous peoples, national parks and other preserved spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate.
Rani-Henrik Andersson is Senior University Lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki and the Principal Investigator of HUMANA—Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing New Research Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change.
Boyd Cothran is Associate Professor of History at York University and the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Saara Kekki is a Postdoctoral Researcher in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki.
COLLeGIUM was a scholarly e-journal published by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies from 2006 to 2017. Its twenty-three volumes, written or edited by HCAS fellows, remain fully open access. All studies in the series were peer-reviewed internationally.