We have now filled all spots, but if you sign up below, you will be placed on a waiting list. The number of participants is limited to 20 people.
About the circle
The ambition with the reading circle is to give the participants a space for reflection as well as new perspectives and practices for creativity and understanding that can inspire and infuse their own work.
We will share and discuss texts on crises, response, and collaboration in the light of today’s complex global challenges to support each other’s understanding and practices and explore where they intertwine. How can reading and reflecting across experiences and disciplines help our understanding of a time that offers little hope? What are possible and useful positions when the space for action and change is so challenged?
Selected parts of texts that we explore will be provided by the researchers that host this circle as well as by facilitator Pernilla Glaser, and will span research, popular science, poetry, and fiction. In the circle there will be a variety of formats for discussion and playful examination of the meaning and impact of the texts.
The circle includes four sessions with different focuses. As a participant, we want you to take part in all four sessions. The main-language will be English with the possibility to discuss in Swedish in the group-sessions.
The circle is hosted by Pernilla Glaser in collaboration with researchers Per Sandin and Marie Stenseke from SLU and Claudia Teutschbein from Uppsala University.
Inspired by
This circle is inspired by the similar reading circle Future Making Academy organized by the research platform Collaborative Future Making at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in collaboration with Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, and with the help of Pernilla Glaser.
Heard from participants of the Future Making Academy at Malmö University:
“No demands for achievement but for presence in thought and in listening to each other. I feel a deep gratitude and emotion that I have had the privilege of participating in this reading circle that has enriched me on so many levels.”
”It felt like a nourishing and life-affirming watering hole that invited us to
slow down, lean in, and think and feel together in mindful, inspiring and hopeful ways. The methodology of collaborative reading was creative and refreshing.”
Practical information
The number of participants is limited to 20 people. Overshooting registrations will be placed on a waiting list.
The sessions will take place at 15-18:30 o’clock at a location in central Uppsala (place to be confirmed) on the following Tuesdays during the fall of 2024:
- 27 August
- 24 September
- 22 October
- 12 November.
As a participant, we want you to take part in ALL FOUR sessions.
Tea/coffee, fruit and a sandwich will be served.
SLU colleagues travelling from other SLU campuses can get a travel and subsistence refund from SLU Future Food of maximum SEK 5000 per occasion.
Please note: Participants that have signed up but fail to show up without noticing the organisers or cancelling their travel plans will be charged a no show fee and/or will have to pay for their travel expenses themselves.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
BY EMILY DICKINSON
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
About the hosts
Pernilla Glaser is an educator and facilitator specialized in interdisciplinary practices, with a long time experience in navigating the intersections between research, art and civil society.
She is the creator of Salong Krångel, a platform for knowledge about complexity across experiences. Pernilla is also suprvisor in facilitating conversations for teachers at The Academy of Acting Malmö and SKH Stockholm. www.pglaser.com
Per Sandin, SLU is an associate professor in philosophy at SLU, with broad interests in moral philosophy and applied ethics, for instance the ethics of crises and disasters. He is also a member of the Swedish Ethical Review Authority and an deputy member of the Swedish Gene Technology Advisory Board.
Marie Stenseke, SLU, is full professor in human geography at the University of Gothenburg, and guest professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Academy at SLU. Her research concerns biodiversity, nature conservation and landscape management from a social science perspective. She is a member of several national committees and boards such as the The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s Council for Biodiversity and Ecosystem services and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences national committee for global environmental change.
Claudia Teutschbein, Uppsala University, is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Hydrology. Her main goal is to contribute to a better understanding of hydrological processes in a changing climate and their links to external meteorological, topographic and anthropogenic drivers. She also studies their implications for water quantity (e.g., floods and droughts) and water quality at different spatio-temporal scales, and their socio-economic consequences.
SLU Future Food is a platform that stimulates and develops cross-disciplinary research and collaboration for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems. www.slu.se/futurefood
