Venus

To close ABOAGORA 2025, we will toast all the epiphanies that were had during the three-day event as well as new collaborations brewing, accompanied by hopeful tunes played by pianist Sallamari Keinänen.

The annual cultural event Aboagora will be organised in Turku on September 10–12. The program includes a speech by Natalia Djandjgava, Country Manager of the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, CMI. The keynote (AGORA) sessions are free and open to all, and students have free admission to all sessions.

There is never only one story, but countless stories of lives that a war has interrupted.

This session explores the theme of ABOAGORA 2025 from the viewpoint of planetary boundaries.

Exploring sites for practicing peace

Wednesday evening session offers an invitation to the explorations into the realm of Venus. First, Ida-Marie Corell gives an audiovisual performance of her work on Venus, and after artists Pia Palme, Satu Hakamäki and Elie Halonen will share their 30-minute performative ecology. It all will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat is a practice-based transdisciplinary artistic research project around animated Sámi landscapes. It is an act of decolonisation in a hybrid form, composed of…

Transcribing transitional justice data between remembrance and erasure

Communicating Dialogue and Inclusion through Lived Experience

In my remarks on The Role of History in War and Peace, I will seek to examine the role of history and historians as both instigators of war and how they can be used to prevent and defuse conflict.