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