Re-patterning our seasonal cultures: A symposium
As the CALENDARS project comes to an end in early 2024, we organised a two-day public symposium at the Arboretum to discuss the findings of the project.
Main content
What role do seasonal cultures play in contemporary societes, in different parts of the world? How are cultures evolving with shifting seasonal patterns, and influencing our daily lives and actvites? What happens when different seasonal frameworks come into contact, clash, or coordinate? And how can we re-pattern our seasonal cultures so that they serve as repertoires for adapting to the intersecting societal challenges we face?
These questions have been driving the CALENDARS research project, and as the project comes to an end in early 2024, we organised a two-day public symposium at the Arboretum and Fana Folkehøgskule on 11-12 September 2023 to discuss the findings. The symposium featured:
- Four sessions of talks on how seasons change for communities, and how they adapt
- A book launch for the edited popular science volume 'Changing Seasonality', comprising 35 chapters from authors worldwide
- A tour of an art exhibition on the theme of seasonality, opening 8 September at the Arboretum, titled: 'A path is a thought stretched out in time and space'
- A premiere of documentary 'The seasons' by film-maker James Muir
- Two workshops on the use of film and virtual reality in research on climatic change
Symposium speakers
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Programme
All sessions took place at the Auditorium at Fana Folkehøgskule
| Monday 11 September | Tuesday 12 September |
09.00: Bus departs from platform P (bus station) 09.40: Welcome by Scott Bremer 10.00: Session 1 11.00: Coffee 11.15: Session 2 12.15: Lunch at Blondehuset 13.00: Tour of the art exhibition 14.30: Book launch with bubbles 15.15: Bus departs from Arboretet to city centre 16.00: Bus arrives in the city centre | 09.00: Bus departs from platform P (bus station) 09.40: Documentary: 'The Seasons' by film-maker James Muir 11.20: Coffee 11.30: Workshops 12.40: Lunch at Blondehuset 13.20: Session 3 14.20: Coffee 14.30: Session 4 15.15: Bus departs from Arboretet to city centre 16.00: Bus arrives in the city centre |
Art exhibition on the theme of seasonality
In the art exhibition En sti er en tanke strekt ut i tid og rom (A path is a thought stretched out in time and space), inspired by CALENDARS, six contemporary artists gave the public a new and different experience of the Arboretum - from a virtual recreation of the garden to getting to experience smells and tastes from the Arboretum's flora.
During the symposium, there was a tour of the exhibition, but it was also possible to experienc the exhibition on opening day 9 September at noon.
CALENDARS project
CALENDARS (Co-production of seasonal representations for adaptive institutions) has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), ERC Starting Grant.
Framework programme:
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Grant Agreement:
Project duration:
2019-2024
Principal investigator:
Scott Bremer, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen
