Publications

Books

Shildrick, M. (2022) Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment. Bloomsbury: London.

Urakova, A. (2022) Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Palgrave: Cham.

Urakova, A.; Sowerby, T. A. & Sala, T. (eds.) (2022) The Dangers of the Gift from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Routledge: London & New York.

Articles and book chapters

Shildrick, M. (2023) Get a Life! – Review article on Posthuman Feminism (Rosi Braidotti). Cultural Politics.

Urakova, A (2023) Penetrating into the Secrets of the Afflicted Heart:’ The Man of the Crowd’” and Antebellum Philanthropic Discourse. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 24, no. 1: 1-20.

Sowerby, T. A.; & Urakova, A. (2022) Introduction: Unwrapping the Dangerous Gift. In: The Dangers of the Gift from Antiquity to the Digital Age, toim.. Alexandra Urakova, Tracey A. Sowerby, and Tudor Sala. Routledge: London & New York, pp. 1-24.

Urakova, A. (2022) The Most Precious of All Gifts Sentimentality, Consumption, and The Gift of Death in Warner, Phelps, and Twain. In: The Dangers of the Gift from Antiquity to the Digital Age, eds. Alexandra Urakova, Tracey A. Sowerby, and Tudor Sala. Routledge: London & New York, pp. 65-82.

Shildrick, M. (2022) Entangling Viral Encounters, Immunity and the Gift. Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 1(2): 57-72.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2022) Lines that do not speak: Multispecies hospitality and bug-writing . Hospitality & Society 12(3): 343-359.

Pyyhtinen, O. & Lehtonen, T.-K. (2022) The Gift of Waste: The Diversity of Gift Practiceds among Dumpster Divers. Anthropological Theory. (OnlineFirst)

Pyyhtinen, O. & Rinne, N. (eds.) (2022) Lahja [a thematic section on the gift]. Niin & näin, 2/2022: 59-95.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2022) Antropologisen elementarismin tuolle puolen – Lahjakäytäntöjen moninaisuus nyky- yhteiskunnassa. Niin & näin, 2/2022: 59-62.

Shildrick, M.: (2022) COVID-19:n biofilosofiaa ja -politiikkaa: Pandemian uudelleenarviointi Roberto Espositon immuniteettiparadigman valossa (trans. O. Pyyhtinen). Niin & näin, 2/2022: 87-95.

Urakova, A. (2022) Ylhäältä annettu lahja – Akateemiset apurahat ja tutkijastipendit lahjanvaihdon kontekstissa (trans. T. Rantanen). Niin & näin, 2/2022: 79-85.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2021) Marcel Hénaff and the Heterogeneity of Gift Practices. Book review of Marcel Hénaff: The Philosophers’ Gift: Reexamining Reciprocity. Fordham University Press, New York, 2020. MAUSS International 1(1): 273–280.

Talks and presentations

Lampinen, S.; Pyyhtinen, O. & Uusitalo, N. (2024) Garbo-asemics: the givenness of waste as material data. GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE Conference, Helsinki, 6 June.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2023) Displacements between gift, poison, and waste: bringing art and scholarship into dialogue. Displaced gifts, Tampere University, 30 Nov. 

Shildrick, M.: Temporalities of Death, Dying and Transplantation’ – invited arts/science salon series, University of Toronto (invited talk; Aug 2023)

Shildrick, M.: Visceral Prostheses: somatechnics and posthuman embodiment – invited seminar with PhD/postdocs on Frictions of Futurity in Transplant Medicine project, University Hospital Network, Toronto (invited talk; elokuu 23)

Shildrick, M.: Posthumanism and the Gift – Zoom presentation to Aalto University participants (June 2023)

Urakova, A.: On Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of Stockholm, English Department, 7 Feb 2023. (invited talk)

Urakova, A.: Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of Uppsala, English Department, 28. maaliskuuta 2023. (invited talk)

Shildrick, M.: Visceral prostheses, biotechnologies and posthuman embodiment’ – invited presentation for hybrid Joint Sessions in Feminist Theory at Freie Universität, Berlin and University of Helsinki (Nov. 2022).

Urakova, A.: A Gift with No Giver: The Narrative of Sacrifice in Maylis de Kerangal’s Mend the Living. Mimesis Scandinavia Stockholm, Stockholm University, 13 May 2023.

Urakova, A: Between Depths and Surfaces: Nineteenth-Century Philanthropy, Slums, and City Marginals. Underground Imaginaries, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, 26 May 2023.

Urakova, A. (2022) Historical Novel, National Property, and Literary Debt in the American
Context (1820s). Paper delivered at the conference “Economies of the Literary Nation: Literary Capitalism and Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Budapest, June 13.

Shildrick, M. (2022) How visceral prostheses queer the nature of the gift – Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, May 31.

Urakova, A. (2022) Dangerous Giving. Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, May 31.

Shildrick, M. (2022) Micro-biologies and the temporality of life: rethinking the bio-imaginary’ – open lecture, University College Cork, May 22.

Urakova, A. (2022) Penetrating into the Secrets of the Afflicted Heart: “The Man of the Crowd” and Antebellum Philanthropic Discourse. Paper delivered at the Poe Studies Association conference, Boston, April 8.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2022) Sosiologian kolmannet. Sosiologipäivät, the national annual sociology conference in Finland, 25 March, Jyväskylä (online).

Pyyhtinen, O. & Vierimaa, J. (2022) Multi-species Hospitality and Bug-Writing: Thinking with Zhu Yingchun’s The Language of Bugs. Humans, Ticks and Insects in Multispecies Networks workshop (online), Åbo Akademi, 18 March.

Pyyhtinen, O. (2021) Antropologisen elementarismin tuolle puolen: lahjakäytäntöjen moninaisuus nyky- yhteiskunnassa. An invited talk at the philosophy research seminar, Tampere university, 18 Nov (online).

Artistic works

Lampinen, S.; Pyyhtinen, O. & Uusitalo, N. (2024) ‘What Remains?’ A video installation exhibited at the GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE exhibition, Cable Factory (Kaapelitehdas), Helsinki, 6 – 15 June.