Past events

ABOAGORA 2013 , organised on August 13-15, discussed the complex relationships between man and machine.

ABOAGORA 2012 was held on August 14-16 at the Sibelius Museum and the Donner Institute at Åbo Akademi, under the theme “The Power of the Sacred and the Secular.” The Symposium focused on a process that is fundamental to Western culture, that of separation between sacral and secular culture.

ABOAGORA began in Turku in 2011 during the city’s European Capital of Culture Year, as a joint effort by the Turku Music Festival, the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku, and the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History at Åbo Akademi University.