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Julia Bethwaite

Doctoral Researcher

Faculty of Management and Business

| Sub unit: Politics

University

Tampere University

Work email

julia.bethwaite [at] tuni.fi

Phone number

+358505099259

Campus

City Centre Campus

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbethwaite/

Twitter

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About me

Julia Bethwaite is Doctoral Researcher in International Relations at Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests focus on the role of art in international relations and world politics, practices of cultural diplomacy and museum diplomacy, transnational cultural relations, elite networks and interaction of state and non-state actors within the transnational field of art. In her doctoral dissertation, she examines art institutions such as the Venice Biennale and fine art museums from the perspective of power, focusing on Russian actors. Besides her doctoral research, she has been working as Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (2017–present).

Responsibilities

Doctoral Researcher in International Relations and Academic Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change.

Research fields

Research career

‘Cultural Statecraft in International Relations: The Case of Russia’, funded by the Academy of Finland at Tampere University, Finland (2017–2020), Principal Investigator: Tuomas Forsberg. Participating as Doctoral Researcher from 2017 until present.

‘Making Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide’, funded by the Kone Foundation (2016–2018), Principal Investigator: Anni Kangas. Participated as Doctoral Researcher 2016–2017.

‘The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies – Choices of Russia Modernisation’, funded by the Academy of Finland (2012–2017). Participated as Research Assistant (2014–2015) and Doctoral Student (2015–2017) in the clusters ‘Foreign Policy’ and ‘Diversification of Economy’ 2014–2015.

Selected publications

Bethwaite, J., & Kangas, A. (2018). The Scales, Politics, and Political Economies of Contemporary Art Biennials. Arts & International Affairs, 2(3), pp. 73–90. Available at https://theartsjournal.net/2018/02/07/the-scales-politics/

Bethwaite, J., & Kangas, A. (2019). Parties, Pavilions and Protests: The Heteronomous World Politics of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. New Perspectives, 27(2), pp. 29–61. Available at https://perspectives.iir.cz/download/02-2019-3-julia-bethwaite-anni-kangas-parties-pavilions-and-protests-the-heteronomous-world-politics-of-the-russian-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale/

Bethwaite, J. & Kangas, A. (2020). Paradoxes of the Biennale. OnCurating, 46, pp. 494–502. Available at https://www.on-curating.org/issue-46-reader/the-paradoxes-of-the-biennale.html

Kangas, A., & Bethwaite, J. (2019). Venäjän Venetsian-paviljongin paradoksaalinen valta. Idäntutkimus, 1, pp. 23–44. Available at https://journal.fi/idantutkimus/article/view/81964

Kangas, A., Kujala, J., Heikkinen, A., Lönnqvist, A., Laihonen, H., & Bethwaite, J. (Eds.). (2019). Leading Change in a Complex World: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Tampere: Tampere University Press. Available at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-0845-2

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