Here are the confirmed teachers of the online course Health and Media, to be held online 7 September–13 October 2021. They will be supported by members of TaRC.
Julie Chen (Chen Yu-Wen)
Julie (Yu-Wen) Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki. She is concurrently Hosting Professor (Hosťujúci profesor) at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. Dr. Chen is the academic liaison for the University of Helsinki at the Nordic NIAS Council based in Denmark as well as the Nordic Center in Fudan University, China. In Helsinki, she teaches Chinese foreign relations, governance in China, East Asian economy and consumption, as well as Taiwan’s society and culture. Twitter: @julieyuwenchen.
Dale Hudson
Dale Hudson is an associate professor of Film and New Media at New York University Abu Dhabi and digital curator for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). He is author of Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods (2017) and co-author of Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (2015). His essays appear in Afterimage, American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Jadaliyya, Screen, Studies in Documentary Film, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, and elsewhere.
Sari Kivistö
Sari Kivistö is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Tampere University. Her research interests include, for example, epistemic vices, suffering and antitheodicy in literature, and Neo-Latin literature. Kivistö’s publications include Lucubrationes Neolatinae. Readings of Neo-Latin Dissertations and Satires (2019), Kantian Antitheodicy. Philosophical and Literary Varieties (with S. Pihlström, 2016), Death in Literature (ed. with O. Hakola, 2014), The Vices of Learning. Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities (2014), and Medical Analogy in Latin Satire (2009). Kivistö is an invited member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.
Olga Logunova
Olga Logunova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Russia. She lectures and holds seminars on the following courses: Contemporary Means of Communication and Culture of Consumption; Research Methods for Media Texts; New Media and Digital Culture; New Trends in Media Studies. She has taken part in several thematic scientific conferences (ICA, ECREA, CEECOM, and others). A member of the research team in the Russian Science Foundation grant (RSF No17-78-20164) “Sociotechnical barriers of the implementation and use of information technologies in Russia (2017-2020), she has had 46 publications in total, including publications in peer-reviewed international journals.
Sergei Mokhov
Sergei Mokhov defended his Ph.D. thesis that focused on the funeral industry in contemporary Russia at the Higher School of Economics (2019). In 2018-2019, he was an Oxford Russia Fellow with a project on the hospice movement in Russia. Since 2020, he is a research fellow at the Center for Medical Anthropology (Russian Academy of Science) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University. His current project focuses on Soviet oncology and the care for dying people in the late USSR. Sergei is the author of The Birth and Death of the Funeral Industry: From Medieval Graveyards to Digital Immortality (Commonplace, 2018; Alexander Piatigorsky Literary Prize) and The Brief History of Death (Individuum, 2020).
Patricia R. Zimmermann
Patricia R. Zimmermann is a professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). Her most recent books include Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (2015), Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of Independent Public Media (2016), The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Film (2017), Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (2018), and Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (2019).
TaRC support
The teachers above will be assisted on the course by several TaRC members, most notably course convenor Svetlana Pasti.
Svetlana Pasti
Svetlana Pasti is an Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC) at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests are in journalism studies and comparative research in the BRICS countries. She is the author of two monographs, A Russian Journalist in Context of Change: Media of St Petersburg (2004) and The Changing Profession of a Journalist in Russia (2007), as well as over 30 peer-reviewed chapters and journal articles. She is also the author and co-editor of The BRICS journalist: Profession and practice in the age of digital media (African Journalism Studies, 2015), and Contemporary BRICS Journalism (Routledge, 2018), and co-author of several chapters in the forthcoming books: D.K. Thussu and K. Nordenstreng (eds.) BRICS Framing a New Global Communication Order? (Routledge, 2021) and C. Mellado (ed.) Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. (Routledge, 2021).