Panel Session: Repairing for Peace
In this panel session, the ABOAGORA Research Retreat participants will discuss their academic and artistic work and search for imaginaries of peace at the time of accelerating militarisation.
Retreats
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ABOAGORA Retreat VIII – apply by April 30, 2025!
The ABOAGORA Retreat VIII: Repairing for Peace invites MA Arts Students and Doctoral Researchers in the arts, humanities, and sciences to imagine peace at the time of accelerating militarisation. What kind of peace is promised by the securitisation of all aspects of everyday life? How to repair relations needed for peace as something other than a transactional, compromised or predetermined contract? The Retreat takes place September 7–9 on the island of Seili in the Turku archipelago.
Aboagora Research Retreat VII: A De/Colonial Present
The ABOAGORA Retreat VII: De/Colonial Present invited MA Arts Students and Doctoral Candidates in the arts, humanities, and sciences to reflect together on how the living legacies of colonial histories play a role in the conflicts raging today and, on the other hand, how decolonial practices propose alternative ways out of these battles over territories and words, resources and rights.
ABOAGORA Pre-symposium VI: Edges of Knowing
The ABOAGORA Pre-symposium VI: Edges of Knowing invited Doctoral Researchers in the arts, humanities, and sciences and MA Arts Students to reflect together on what haunts the systems of knowledge and the limits of the thinkable at this time of omnicrisis, uncertainty and change.
ABOAGORA Pre-symposium V: Turbulent Times
The ABOAGORA Pre-symposium invited Doctoral Candidates in the arts, humanities and sciences and MA Arts Students to reflect together on what is in the air in these turbulent times.
ABOAGORA Pre-symposium IV: Burning Questions
The 2021 ABOAGORA Pre-symposium research retreat invited Doctoral Candidates in the arts, humanities, and sciences and MA Art Students to gather around burning questions of the world on fire today.
ABOAGORA Pre-Symposium III: Water
ABOAGORA – Between Arts and Sciences invited Doctoral Candidates and Art students to investigate the shifting borders of water and land in the Pre-Symposium event in the Turku archipelago. The theme of ABOAGORA in 2020 was Water, while the Pre-Symposium focused on the significance of place in research and artistic practices. What are the different senses of place in the work of a researcher or an artist? What do we bring with us, take away and leave behind? How are our practices making their mark on the environment, and how does the environment affect our practices?
ABOAGORA Pre-Symposium II: Earth
ABOAGORA invited doctoral candidates and art students to discuss and develop ideas about the earth – its past, present and future. What kinds of views are there in the history of the earth and between earth and humans? What are our hopes and dreams for the future of the earth – or our worst fears?
ABOAGORA Pre-Symposium for Doctoral Candidates
The very first Aboagora Pre-Symposium included training sessions led by Professor Pilvi Porkola (University of the Arts Helsinki). Porkola introduced methods of performance arts in research and offered presentation training.