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- New: Call for participation in two one-year circlesThis 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 the study circle you would like to attend for more information. Political Myths and Critique in the Age of Post-Truth (CFP) Recent events have once again made…
- Calls for Participation Summer Session 2023 in Lithuania now open!Location: Palanga, LithuaniaArrival: 27th of July 2023. Departure day: 3 August 2023. How to take part in the summer session To attend, you need to apply to one of the study circles of Nordic Summer University (see list below). Once you have identified the study circle you want to participate in, you need to respond to their call of proposals before the deadline. When your participation has been confirmed by the coordinators of your study circle, you will need to…
- NSU November NewsletterDear NSU community, In case you have not received the newest newsletter, you can read it here. And don’t forget to sign up for the NSU newsletter: https://www.nsuweb.org/newsletter/ In this newsletter you will find the following information: Summer Session 2022: New Study Circles – Welcome! Winter Symposia 2023 – Calls for Papers online! Call for Study Circle Proposals 2024 – 2026 SAVE THE DATE! Summer Session 2023 in Lithuania! Upcoming Meeting: Anti-discrimination Policy Update Call for Participation in the Nordplus Application…
- NSU, Study Circle 8: Diversity, Transformation, and the Future. Call for Papers, 3-5 March 2023, Aarhus DenmarkCall for Papers Theme: Diversity, Transformation, and the Future Winter Session, 2023, March 3rd to 5th At VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark Nordisk Sommeruniversitet Nordic Summer University Study Circle 8: Futures of Education, Cultural Diversity, Imaginations and Collective Transformations in Time of the Anthropocene Call for Papers Theme: Diversity, Transformation, and the Future Winter Session, 2023, March 3rd to 5th At VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark Description of theme: This Winter Session will discuss Theme 5: Diversity, Transformation, and the…
- Circle 3: Feminist Philosophy on Thought, History, and Action On Writing, Reading, and Thinking TogetherFrom 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 loud together, a mix of workshops and paper presentations filled our afternoons. What does it mean to write together? Writing together can mean writing in the…
- Trace of Summer Session 2022: Visualisation of ExistenceA 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 visual trace of us being at Rønningen folkehøgskole became quite an exciting task to memorize our presence and turn it into our history.
- Circle 6: The Weakness of the Will and Cognitive Dissonance: Why Climate Action is Not Taking PlaceWhy 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 to act environmentally friendly?My colleague Woochang Choi and myself started a discussion about these questions, as we wanted to better understand the root-causes of climate action…
- Multilingual Poetry Reading — August 2, 2022This 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 the laptop at the beginning. Then follows an English translation, read by Dr. Lucy Lyons; her reading proceeds with ten single words. These words were chosen…
- Circle 7: Artistic Research in PicturesThis 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 employ in our research, through the lens of phenomenology. The multiple answers to these questions were explored as experience, looking at embodied memory, how layering occurs…
- Football for everyone!On August 3, after all of the study activities, football match took place. A one sided affair which they won 17-0.
- An overview of Summer Session 2022 from granted participants“My experience of the NSU is the serendipitous benefit of the informal conversations with those sharing the time between sessions to share feelings that share the same interest in what turned up unexpectedly during those conversations. Unexpectedly. Taking some time to articulate some comments that often turn out to be helpful spiraling around those ‘what turned up’ phenomena. Priceless.” Bill Thompson, study circle 8,“Futures of Education, Cultural Diversity, Imaginations and Collective Transformations in Time of the Anthropocene” ⠀ “For me,…