Past Retreats

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.

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.

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.

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 – 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 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?