Connective Histories of Death

Dr. Samira Saramo (ORCID: 0000-0002-7570-6177) is a Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland. Samira is a transnational and transdisciplinary historian, whose research interests include life storying, migration, emotion, death, place-making, and the everyday. She has recently analyzed place and emotion in the context of death in Transnational Death, edited with Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto and Hanna Snellman, (SKS 2019) and “‘I have such sad news’: Loss in Finnish North American Letters” (European Journal of Life Writing, 2018).

Dr. Marta-Laura Cenedese (ORCID: 0000-0002-0240-1612) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and associate researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin, Germany). Marta is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century postcolonial literatures, cultural memory studies, multimodal storytelling practices, the intersections of literature, history and politics, death and illness, and writing methodologies. She is the author of several articles and book chapters and of the monograph Irène Némirovsky’s Russian Influnces: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).