Aktiivisuus / Activities

Julkaisut / Publications

Könönen, Maija 2021: Does Genre Matter? The Role of Literary Genre and Narrator in Contemporary Russian Caregivers’ Narratives. In Foreign Countries of Old Age. East and Southeast European Perspectives of Old Age. Edited by Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl & Oana Hergenrötker. Bielefeld: Transcript (= Aging Studies; 19), 291-309.

Könönen, Maija 2020: Contemporary Narratives of Senility. 2020. – Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 12(2), 169–186. DOI: 10.25285/2078-1938-2020-12-2-169-186

Könönen, Maija 2020: Näkökulma: Onko väliä miten dementiasta puhutaan? – Lääkärilehti 75(34), 1588-1589.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana 2020: Migrating in Later Lives. Collective Identities of Russian-Speaking Women in Finland. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 35(2), 155-175.

Vakimo, Sinikka 2020: Ikääntyneet muistellussa lapsuudessa. – Kasvatus ja aika 14(1), 4-25.

Kinnunen, Anna 2019: (Epä)normaali vanhuus. Poikkeavan ikääntymisen rajankäynti 1930-luvun mielisairaalapotilaiden omaisten tulkinnoissa. – Kulttuurintutkimus 35(3-4), 19-33.

Könönen, Maija & Kinnunen, Anna 2019: Dementiapuhe kyseenalaistaa ihmisarvon. – AntroBlogi 28.5.2019.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana & Matyska, Anna 2019: A Postsocialist Legacy in Transnational Famililies: Russian and Polish Women in Finland. – Global Networks 20(1), 85-105.

Zelikova, Julia 2018: Конструирование старения: секс и интимность в пожилом возрасте. – The Journal of Social Policy Studies 16(1), 125-140.

Könönen, Maija; Vakimo, Sinikka; Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana; Zelikova, Julia & Kinnunen, Anna 2017: Normaalin rajoilla – Dementian ja vanhuuden kulttuuriset merkitykset suomalaisessa ja venäläisessä kulttuurissa. – Elore 24(2).

Könönen, Maija & Rogatchevski, Andrei 2017: Madness and Literature. – Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80, 5-12.

Könönen, Maija 2017: The Foolish Wanderer in Contemporary Russian Prose. Natal’ia Kliucharëva’s Novel Rossiia: obshchii vagon and Postsecular Fiction. – Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80, 29-48.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana 2017: Интеграция русскоязычных людей старшего возраста в Финляндии: клуб «Чайка» (Ikääntyvien venäjänkielisten integroituminen Suomessa: Tsaikka-klubi)  «Спектр», 10.11.2017.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana 2016: Transnational Babushka: Grandmothers and Family-making between Russian Karelia and Finland. Pp. 85-104. In Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future Challenges. Edited by Vincent Horn & Cornelia Schweppe (New York & Abingdon, Routledge).

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana 2016: Transnational Grandmothers Making their Multi-sited Homes between Finland and Russia. Pp. 25-37. In Re-thinking Home. Transnational Migration and Older Age. Edited by Katie Walsh & Lena Näre (New York & London, Routledge).

Vakimo, Sinikka 2016: Dementiaa popularisoimassa. – Gerentologia 30(3), 146-147.

Tieteelliset esitelmät / Papers in scientific conferences

Könönen, Maija: Poetics of Space as Articulation of Old Age Senility in Russian Contemporary Short Prose. – 51th ASEEES Annual Convent, San Francisco (USA), 23.-26.11.2019.

Zelikova, Julia: Aging and Generation Conflicts in Russia.- International Conference of European Values Society, Tbilisi (Georgia), 10.-11.10.2019.

Zelikova, Julia: Social Construction of Aging in Russia. Agism and Sexism. – Aging and Social Changes, Vienna (Austria), 16.-18.9.2019.

Zelikova, Julia: Aging in Contemporary Russia. – International conference on Demography, Athens (Greece), 18.-20.6.2019.

Könönen, Maija: “What to do with the Chair?” Approaches to Old Age Senility in Russian Contemporary Prose. – Joint NANAS (North American Network in Aging Studies) & ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies) conference, TrentAging 2019. Trent University, Peterborough (Canada), 30.5.2019.

Vakimo, Sinikka: Affects, Bodies and Agencies: Childhood Memories of Elderly Finnish People in Modernizing Society. –Joint NANAS (North American Network in Aging Studies) & ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies) conference, TrentAging 2019. Trent University, Peterborough (Canada), 29.5.2019.

Zelikova, Julia: Social Construction of Women’s Aging Body in Russia. – Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective, European University at St Petersburg (Russia), 15.12.2018.

Vakimo, Sinikka: Recollections of Old Persons in Childhood Memories of the Elderly. – Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective. European University at St Petersburg (Russia), 15.12.2018.

Kinnunen, Anna: Natural or Deviant? The Dilemma of (Ab)Normal Aging in Finnish Psychiatric Case Histories of the 1930’s. – Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective. European University at St Petersburg (Russia), 14.12.2018.

Könönen, Maija: Dementia Narrative in Contemporary Russian Literature. – Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective, European University at St Petersburg (Russia), 14.12.2018.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana: Collective Identities in Transnational Ageing of Russian-speaking Women in Finland.  – 15th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Staying, Moving, Settling, University of Stockholm (Sweden), 14.8.2018.

Kinnunen, Anna: Home or Hospital Care? Constructing Boundaries between Normal and Pathological Ageing in Finnish Psychiatric Case Histories of the 1930’s. – New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course, University of Leeds (UK), 19.3.2018.

Vakimo, Sinikka: Images of Old Women in National Context. – New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course, University of Leeds (UK), 19.3.2018.

Kinnunen, Anna: Tylsistyvä mieli, ehtyvä ruumis. Merkintöjä vanhuudesta 1930-luvun psykiatrisissa sairauskertomuksissa. – Vanhuus ruumiin ja mielen kontekstissa / Body and Mind in Aging, Itä-Suomen yliopisto (Joensuu), 13.12.2017.

Könönen, Maija: Dementia Narratives in Contemporary Russian Literature. – Vanhuus ruumiin ja mielen kontekstissa / Body and Mind in Aging, University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland), 13.12.2017.

Vakimo, Sinikka: Ruumiillisuuden ulottuvuuksia kulttuurigerontologiassa. – Vanhuus ruumiin ja mielen kontekstissa / Body and Mind in Aging, Itä-Suomen yliopisto (Joensuu), 13.12.2017.

Könönen, Maija: The Role of Literary Genre and Narrator in Representing Old Age and Old Age Senility in Contemporary Russian Literature. – 17th Annual Aleksanteri-Conference “Russia’s Choices for 2030”. University of Helsinki (Finland), 27.10.2017.

Zelikova, Julia: Aging and Welfare State in Russia: Solidarity and Intergenerational Conflicts .– 17th Annual Aleksanteri-Conference “Russia’s Choices for 2030”. University of Helsinki (Finland), 27.10.2017.

Zelikova, Julia: Social Justice in Aging Society (case of Russia). – 13th ESA Conference, August 2017, Athens (Greece).

Könönen, Maija: Cultural Narratives of Old Age Senility and Ageing in Russian Contemporary Literature. – Joint ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies) and NANAS (North American Network in Aging Studies) conference / 9th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, AgingGraz 2017. University of Graz & Medical University of Graz (Austria), 27.4.2017.

Vakimo, Sinikka: Exploring Conceptions of Old Age and Dementia in Finnish Culture. – Joint ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies) and NANAS (North American Network in Aging Studies) conference / 9th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, AgingGraz 2017. University of Graz & Medical University of Graz (Austiria), 27.4.2017.

Zelikova, Julia: Let’s Speak about Sex. Love, Sex and Loneliness in Older Age in Contemporary Russia. Joint ENAS (European Network in Ageing Studies) and NANAS (North American Network in Aging Studies) conference / 9th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, AgingGraz 2017. University of Graz & Medical University of Graz (Austria), 27.4.2017.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana: Transnational Babushka. Grandmothers and Family Making between Russian Karelia and Finland. – Seminar “Between the Normal and the Abnormal – Cultural Meanings of Dementia and Old Age in Finland and Russia”. University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland), December 2016.

Zelikova, Julia: On Attitudes Toward Older People and Aging in Russia. – Seminar “Between the Normal and the Abnormal – Cultural Meanings of Dementia and Old Age in Finland and Russia”. University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland), December 2016.

Könönen, Maija: The Living Dead among Us: Cultural Narratives of Dementia and Ageing in Russian Contemporary Literature. – 16th Annual Aleksanteri Conference ”Life and Death in Russia”. University of Helsinki (Finland), 27.10.2016.

Zelikova, Julia: Subjective well-being in the Late Life period in contemporary Russia. – 16th Annual Aleksanteri Conference ”Life and Death in Russia”. University of Helsinki (Finland), 27.10.2016.

Könönen, Maija: Representations of Ageing in Russian Contemporary Literature. – Slavistmöte 20.8.2016, University of Stockholm (Sweden).

Muu aktiivisuus / Other activities

Könönen, Maija & Kinnunen, Anna: Asiantuntijahaastattelu Saimassa 1/2019, Dementian tragedia vai vanhuuden höperyys?

Könönen, Maija: Esitelmä ”Mielipuoliset päiväkirjurit N.V. Gogol ja L.N. Lunts” Venäläisen kirjallisuuden seuran Gogol-luentosarjassa, 19.2.2018.

Tiaynen-Qadir, Tatiana: Tutkijavierailu ulkomaille 8.10.2017-21.10.2017. Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir opetti Foreign Professor under the Visiting Scholars -ohjelman puitteissa Fatima Jinnah Women yliopistossa Pakistanissa mm. naisten ikääntymisestä ja ylirajaisesta antropologiasta.

Könönen, Maija: Yhteistyö HVKS:n Tsaikka-projektin kanssa: ”Elämäni käsikirjoitus” -projektin päätösseminaari 7.6.2017, jossa ryhmään osallistuneet maahanmuuttaja-taustaiset kertoivat kokemuksestaan ryhmän toiminnasta ja lukivat otteita kirjoittamastaan. Lisäksi näyttelijä Kati Outinen esitti monologin muistista ja minuudesta
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Zelikova, Julia: Public lecture in European University at St. Petersburg, ”Myths About Aging in Russia”. St. Petersburg (Russia), March, 2017.

Könönen, Maija: Alustus ja keskustelu ”Sukupolviketjun jännitteet”. Sukupolvi-seniorisektorin teemailta Maria-Akatemia, Helsinki 30.3.2017.