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
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
Lindsey Drury
Coordinator Study Circle 3
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
Ad Hoc: Decolonising the Anthropocene through Artistic Research
Heidi Seppälä
Ad Hoc Circle coordinator
Emmanuel Ndefo
Ad Hoc Circle coordinator
