ContoursTalks

ContoursTalks is our project’s mobile, transdisciplinary lecture and discussion series. This series consists of short, 20-30 minute presentations by CONTOURS team members and invited speakers, and seeks to encourage conversations on pressing topics concerning the practices, processes and representations of e.g., nature, conservation, land-use, sustainable development, and tourism in remote corners of the world. Speakers are invited to engage small audiences, in person and online, in scientific discussion addressing the multiple challenges faced by communities currently undergoing rapid environmental and social change. 

 

ContoursTalks will be held throughout 2022 and 2023 at the various partner institutions, and will be streamed online when possible. Each talk is followed by a question-and-answer session, lasting 30-45 minutes. All talks are completely free and open to the public.

  • March 29, 2022 - Helen Vaaks

    The struggles of saving a mussel: unglamorous conservation

    4-6pm (CET), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Join us online via Zoom here

  • June 1, 2022 - Roger Norum and Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

    Sounding voice: participation, empathy and immersivity in an Arctic National Park

    4-6pm (CEST), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

  • June 30, 2022 - Tobias Marschall

    From Trade Corridor to Dead End? Walking Paths of Conflict and Integration in Eastern Afghanistan

    4-6pm (CEST), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Join us online via Zoom here

  • October 17, 2022 - Julia Lajus

    Construction and consumption of historical narratives and material objects in the areas of nature tourism along the White Sea coasts

    4-6pm (CEST), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

  • November 21, 2022 - Jutta Kister

    Sustainability as strategy to govern Alpine Club mountain huts

    4-6pm (CET), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Join us online via Zoom here

  • February 14,2023 - Tim Burger

    Between Land and Landscape:
    Islandness and Tourism on the Azorean Archipelago, Portugal

    4-6pm (CET), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Join us online via Zoom here.

  • March 20 - Anna-Maria Walter and Jasmine Zhang (two lectures)

    Talk 1
    A struggle for remoteness - Skitouring in the Bavarian Alps

    Talk 2
    Imaginaries of Svalbard, interdisciplinary research, and fieldwork: Where emergent knowledge surges

    2-4pm (EET) University of Oulu
    Join us online via Zoom here.