Activities in Nordic Summer University (NSU) revolve around thematic Study Circles that run during a three-year cycle. Each circle has two or three coordinators who are responsible for organising the symposia. The Study Circles generate the academic content of NSU.

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Present Coordinators 2024–2025:

Circle 1: Place of Heritage in Interdisciplinarity

Alina Kalachova

Coordinator Study Circle 1

Elena Bogdanova

Coordinator Study Circle 1

Circle 2: Cybioses – life in the future imperfect

Eric Deibel

Coordinator Study Circle 2

Turkey.

Palle Dahlstedt

Coordinator Study Circle 2

Talya Deibel

Coordinator Study Circle 2

Circle 3: The Praxis of Social Imaginaries. Cosmologies, Othering and Liminality

Laura Hellsten

Coordinator Study Circle 3

(hon/hän/she)

Finland

Lindsey Drury

Coordinator Study Circle 3

(she/sie)

Circle 4: An/Other\not-I/(m)\Other in Feminist Philosophy

Carol Stampone

Coordinator Study Circle 4

Nicole des Bouvrie

Coordinator Study Circle 4

Emilia Plichta

Coordinator Study Circle 4

Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In A More-than-human World

Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri

Coordinator Study Circle 5

Wendy Wuyts

Coordinator Study Circle 5

Circle 6: What is critical about critical theory? Bridging the gap between social science and philosophy

Olli Herranen

Coordinator Study Circle 6

Magnus Hörnqvist

Coordinator Study Circle 6

Circle 7: Act, React & Reflect: Meta-perspectives on climate change knowledge

Anders Hylmö

Coordinator Study Circle 7

Jakob Lundgren

Coordinator Study Circle 7

Circle 8: Queer Materialism

Ruth Thrush

Coordinator Study Circle 8

Thomas Chesworth

Coordinator Study Circle 8

Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation

Fernando Racimo

Coordinator Study Circle 9

Kristiina Visakorpi

Coordinator Study Circle 9

Circle 10: Decolonising the Anthropocene through Artistic Research