University of Helsinki
Siria Kohonen is a post-doctoral researcher based in Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in Finno-Karelian pre-modern healing rituals and has worked extensively with theoretical approaches from cognitive studies of religion. She completed her doctoral dissertation Healing, Magic, and Mind: The Early Modern Finnish-Karelian Healing Tradition in Light of the Cognitive Science of Religion and Ritual Studies in 2022.
Within the ASME project, Siria has recently presented papers on:
- “The variety of emic perspectives – Specialists’ knowledge and common knowledge” at Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National (28th–30th June 2023)
- “Ritual Techniques for “Materializing” Pain in the Finno-Karelian Healing Tradition” at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Relginos: Religions and Technology (4th–8th September 2023)
For more information about Siria and her publications, see her page in the University of Helsinki research portal.