Foto av Laura Hellsten
20162025

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Personlig profil

Biografi

Hellsten is a Doctor in Systematic Theology from Åbo Akademi University. Her first Master's was in Education, from Oulu University and her second Master's was in Theology from Åbo Akademi. She has lived and studied in Portugal, Sweden and the US. Currently, she is placed in the archipelago of the Åland Islands where she lives with her cat Moses on Kökar.

She published her dissertation Through the Bone and Marrow: Re-examining Theological Encounters with Dance in Medieval Europe with Brepols in 2021. In her first post-doctoral position Hellsten did ethnographic fieldwork on Ethics and Science Communication in the Stiftelsen Åbo Akademi funded Centre of Excellence BACE. BACE is a collaboration centered on developing a platform for bioelectronic activation that enables the control of cell signals and, thereby, the stimulation of cell functions. To investigate the aspect of science communication, Hellsten developed and led the research project Avtryck i det okända - Forcing the Impossible, which created collaborations between artists and researchers in the broader context of Åbo Akademi. Hellsten is currently writing a book on the challenges and possibilities of cross-disciplinary research, particularly on how theology may create fruitful collaborations with natural science projects when engaging with the arts.

Forskningsintressen

In her post-doctoral position at the Polin Institute, Hellsten leads the project The Praxis of Social Imaginaries - a Theo-artistic Intervention for Transdisciplinary Research. This project works in tandem with the Nordic Summer University study circle The Praxis of Social Imaginaries. Cosmologies, Othering and Liminality, which Hellsten co-hosts together with historian and dance researcher Lindsey Drury (PhD, Freie Universität Berlin/ University of Kent) from 2023 to 2025.

The larger project aims to create a platform for transdisciplinary research collaborations that simultaneously train scholars in science communication and investigate the relationship between praxis and social imaginaries in reading medieval travel accounts while critically inquiring about histories of othering and racialisation. The project was enabled by the Nordic Summer University's winter and summer symposia, where artists and activists join scholars in co-creating knowledge and artistic performances. From the summer of 2025, the project will work more closely together with the new Centre of Excellence: Sustainable Ocean Sciences (SOS) at Åbo Akademi Foundation. In that collaboration philosopher and artistic researcher Eduardo Abrantes (PhD, Roskilde University), works with questions of migration of knowledge between the past and present and different research fields. Furthermore, theologian Shilulina Jamir (India) collaborates with us in the inquiries we do into creating theo-artistic interventions that are open to Indigenous epistemologies.

Expertis relaterad till FN:s globala mål för hållbar utveckling (SDG:er)

2015 godkände FN:s medlemsstater 17 globala mål för en hållbar utveckling (SDG:er), för att utrota fattigdomen, skydda planeten och garantera framgång för alla. Denna personens arbete bidrar till följande SDG(:er):

  • SDG 3 – God hälsa och välbefinnande
  • SDG 4 – God utbildning
  • SDG 5 – Jämställdhet
  • SDG 10 – Minskad ojämlikhet
  • SDG 11 – Hållbara städer och samhällen
  • SDG 14 – Hav och marina resurser
  • SDG 16 – Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen
  • SDG 17 – Genomförande och globalt partnerskap

Utbildning / akademisk kvalifikation

Magister, Teologi

20042012

Magister, In Education - International Program, University of Oulu

20002008

Externa befattningar

Student, Sámi University College

aug. 2022dec. 2022

Student, Sámi University College

sep. 2021 → …

Nyckelord

  • BJ Ethics
  • BL Religion
  • BR Christianity
  • BV1460 Religious Education
  • BT Doctrinal Theology
  • D111 Medieval History
  • D051 Ancient History
  • NX Arts in general
  • LB2300 Higher Education
  • LB2361 Curriculum

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