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Save the date for the Summer Session!
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The week-long Summer Session is the yearly culmination of NSU’s activities where all circles hold their symposia at a shared location. The session takes place at a location in the Nordic or Baltic countryside, usually at the end of July. Study circles work during the day and in the evening, numerous social and cultural events take…
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Look at the Summer Session from the Participant’s Perspective!
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“It was my first time at NSU and I found myself quickly welcomed to this friendly and established community that NSU seems to be, with its own vision based on democratic values. In this community I found artists, scholars, students and professionals in different fields working together, learning together, sharing ideas as well as…
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Summer Session 2023 Guide
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Welcome to the Nordic Summer University Summer Session 2023, which will take place from 27 July – 3 August 2023, in Palanga, Lithuania! Here is a guide to all of the organisational information: All of the updates are published on the blog of the summer session. Check it to know the latest information!
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New: Call for participation in two one-year circles
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This summer during the NSU Summer Session in Palanga, Lithuania, there will be two new circles hosting a full-week seminar: Political Myths and Critique in the Age of Post-Truth (CFP) Experiencing Liminal Space: An Endeavour within Feminist Philosophy (CFP) Applications will be considered until May 15th, and afterwards on a rolling basis. Please contact the coorindators of…
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Circle 3: Feminist Philosophy on Thought, History, and Action On Writing, Reading, and Thinking Together
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From the 28th of July until the 3rd of August 2022 we had the privilege to get together to read, write, think, converse, and share at Rønningen Folkehøgskole, as part of the Nordic Summer University Summer Session. We started our days with writing exercises. After the first fika of the day we read out…
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Trace of Summer Session 2022: Visualisation of Existence
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A workshop called “Looking For Personal Connections With The Place” took place on July 31, organised by Circle 10 and Emilia Plichta. The central idea of the workshop was to visualise our connections with the new place. In order to find them, various tools where used, for example, mapping, drawing, photographing, etc. Creating a…
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Circle 6: The Weakness of the Will and Cognitive Dissonance: Why Climate Action is Not Taking Place
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Why is it that we want to act in favour of the environment but end up compromising our believes and use e.g. one-way cups for our daily coffee to go? Why is effective climate action somehow not happening effectively for each of us, even if we have strong moral instances that tell us how…
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Multilingual Poetry Reading — August 2, 2022
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This reading is the transformation of a project that first was realized in 2014, among a group of civil rights activists from Eastern Europe. It started out from a poem by Ukrainian author Tanya-Mariya Litvinyuk. Here, Ms. Litvinyuk actually takes part at the NSU gathering, through a sound recording; her voice is heard from…
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Circle 7: Artistic Research in Pictures
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This year Circle 7 organised a different summer symposium in Oslo. We tried to focus on a few research questions, which guided us throughout the symposium, and which were approached by each participant in different ways. We looked together at what knowledges can our practices create or help to create and what methodologies we…
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Football for everyone!
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On August 3, after all of the study activities, football match took place. A one sided affair which they won 17-0.