University of Helsinki
Dr Soile Ylivuori, main organiser
Dr Soile Ylivuori is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Helsinki. Her current project Decomposing Identities: Race, Gender and Materiality in the Georgian West Indies examines materialised performances of race and national identity, analysing the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a space of cultural, material, and bodily decomposition. Her recent publications include the monograph Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England.
In co-operation
- University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts
- Colonial Spaces, Colonial Power (COSCOP)
- Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History
- The Academy of Finland