KEYNOTES

Nordic Summer University public keynotes by Dr Anna Reading and Dr Naomi Scheman in Roosta.

These keynotes are free for anyone to join from 15.30 to 17.

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Monday 29.07

Eco-Queering Memory

In this keynote Anna Reading asks us to rethink agency and narrative in relation to memory through examples of non-human memory and research she is doing on memoirs and neurodivergent memory. 

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Tuesday 30.07

On Being Unsettled

Naomi Scheman will argue against demands for knowledge, clarity, and intelligibility, in favor of embracing the vulnerability of mutual acknowledgment. Such vulnerability is particularly relevant when you try to work in coalition with those you do not yet understand, especially when their encounters with oppressive systems (such as gender) differ from your own and when their ways and yours of struggling with those systems destabilize the ground under each other's feet.

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Wednesday 31.07

Hopeful Agency: Re-Mixing Migration Memory through Participatory Mixed Media

In this talk, Anna Reading reframes agency and the implicated subject through showing how participatory and engaged memory work can provide for hopeful agency. Anna Reading draws on her Moving Hearts creative research project with the UK's Museum of Migration.

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Friday 2.08

Stones as Stories: Toward an Epistemology for 21st Century Research Universities

For her second lecture, Naomi Scheman will start by sketching an ontological picture of things as stories, existing as loci of idiosyncrasy in webs of relationship. Building on that picture, she will walk us through a book she is thinking of writing, arguing that thinking of the world that way calls for an epistemology and methodology that are more like community-based participatory research than like laboratory science: relational, collaborative, and committed to trustworthiness. Such ways of knowing call in turn for combatting the "global excellence pandemic," which affects universities around the world by relying on generic metrics, in favor of responsively/responsibly being this particular university in this particular place with these particular connections, effects, dependencies, and vulnerabilities.