30 August 2024 | 10:15–11:45 Mars Workshop: Dystopic futures What can be found in the imaginaries of the undesirable?
30 August 2024 | 10:15–11:45 Mars Workshop: Mapping Futures The Mapping Futures workshop invites participants to reflect, share experiences, and co-create maps to different futures.
30 August 2024 | 13:15–14:45 Mars Performative Session: To other worlds, to the stars of Mars The stretches of Finnish fiction from Earth to Mars at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (“Atlas of Finnish Literature 1870–1940” project)
30 August 2024 | 15:15–16:45 Mars AGORA: When Peace Comes Thella Johnson on her novel Peace and how to live after war
30 August 2024 | 17:00–19:00 Mars Closing Reception: Sampo Lassila Narinkka Sampo Lassila Narinkka performs at the closing reception of Aboagora 2024.
29 August 2024 | 10:15–11:45 Mars Panel Session: A De/Colonial Present In this panel session, the Aboagora Research Retreat participants will discuss their academic and artistic work, colonialism and decolonisation.
29 August 2024 | 13:15–14:45 Mars AGORA: The God of War, Palestine, and Emancipatory Human Rights This AGORA talk is given remotely, followed by a Q&A session via Zoom.
29 August 2024 | 15:15–16:15 Mars Panel Session: ”Friday evenings at six o’clock” Public art, Memory and the Finnish Civil War
29 August 2024 | 16:15–17:30 | Kurjenkaivonkenttä / Tranebrunnsplan, Turku, Finland Mars Installation: ”Friday evenings at six o’clock” You will need a smartphone and headphones for viewing this virtual monument.
29 August 2024 | 18:00–20:00 Mars Performative Session: Antimilitarism and academic activism In this session we will hear from researcher and activist Syksy Räsänen and the Third Space theatre group.
28 August 2024 | 10:15–11:00 Mars Opening Ceremony We officially open Aboagora 2024 with opening remarks, greetings from the Holst Society and introduction to War Gods and masculinity art exhibition.
28 August 2024 | 11:15–12:45 Mars Panel Session: Rebuilding Beyond Ruins Navigating Post-War Recovery and Environmental Resilience