Local and Historical Knowledge: Keys for Rethinking Contemporary Planetary Issues

How can local and historical knowledge contribute to rethinking current, planetary issues?At this event, four excellent young scholars from the Nordic countries are invited to reflect upon how the local knowledge they have encountered and the different geographical and historical spaces that they have conducted research within may inspire critical and ethico-politico approaches to tackle some of the great planetary problems we face in our time.
PROGRAMME
Opening remarks
Eco-Dependent: The Bible on Humans and Nature
by Associate Professor Frederik Poulsen, University of Copenhagen
To Travel or Not to Travel? Ancient Perspectives on Human Mobility
by Professor Elisa Uusimäki, University of Aarhus
Lessons from Historical and Local Arctic Indigenous Perspectives
by Assistant Professor Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann, Ilisimatusarfik, Grønlands Universitet, Nuuk
A Humanist Perspective on the Anthropocene: How Fiction Might Inform our Attitude Towards Climate Change
by Associate professor Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, University of Aarhus
Panel discussion with the speakers and Q&A
The event is chaired by Professor Dorthe Staunæs, University of Aarhus