It’s a busy fall! I’ll be defending my doctoral dissertation of Art History (visual studies) in two weeks, October 2. I’m honored by having Ph.D., Docent, Senior Lecturer and the pioneer in Finnish visual studies Leena-Maija Rossi act as my opponent in the defence.
There will be a Finnish-language press release coming out next week. At the same time my English-language dissertation, “Gendered and Contagious Suicide: Taboo and Biopower in Contemporary Anglophone Cinematic Representations of Self-Willed Death”, will be published online in the University of Jyväskylä publishing series.
Before the press release and the dissertation see the light of day, more details of my approaching (Finnish-language and livestreamed) defence can be found from here: https://www.jyu.fi/en/current/archive/2020/08/2-10-2020-fm-heidi-kosonen-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences-art-history
Another exciting thing that will be published next week is the first blog post to Jytte’s new blog series edited by myself and Melissa Plath from Researchers and Teachers of Jyväskylä.
In the blog series, invited writers representing the University of Jyväskylä community comment and reflect on the academic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic from both critical and reparative perspectives. The texts are published in Jyttes’s blog biweekly, starting September 25 with Panu Moilanen‘s text dealing with virtual teaching.
Me and Melissa introduced the entire sevenfold blog series in an introduction that can be accessed through the following link: https://tieteentekijat.fi/en/covid-19-learning-lessons-introduction-to-a-sevenfold-blog-series/?fbclid=IwAR3_OG_u7sKF-e48cVGrnbLo2igq0d69-UROMuhhP4szDx3RnUsoeOHyGj4
THEORY OF TABOO 