The seminar is free to attend. Please sign up in advance:
https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2025/nature-multidisciplinary-dialogues-between-research-and-art/
How do we understand nature? How do we approach it? How do we write about it, what do we write about it, or how do we express it? How do we relate to nature and how is it present in our work as researchers and artists?
This seminar brings together scholars from across academic disciplines and artists from visual arts, literature, and related fields to explore nature as a shared site of inquiry and habitation. The aim is to foster dialogue across disciplinary and aesthetic boundaries, and to investigate how nature is conceptualized, engaged with, and represented in diverse practices.
In response to ecological challenges and cultural shifts, the seminar seeks to move beyond binary understandings of nature and culture, subject and object, human and non-human. Instead, it invites participants to develop new relational and multidisciplinary approaches, where nature is not merely a resource or backdrop, but an active participant in knowledge-making and artistic expression.
Through presentations, conversations, and collaborative exploration, the seminar seeks to cultivate the imagination, the intuition, new ways of thinking, sensing and co-creating with nature. The goal is to generate transformative insights that can advance both research and cultural production – toward more inclusive, dynamic, and sustainable futures.
The seminar will facilitate various forms of conversation, including papers, roundtables, artistic performances and shared experiences.
The event is free and open for all. Please sign up through our website:
https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2025/nature-multidisciplinary-dialogues-between-research-and-art/
PROGRAM:
10:00–10:15
Welcome, Coffee/Tea
Music by In finem, a spark in the water
10:15–10:20
Opening remarks: Nature – Multidisciplinary Dialogues Between Research and Art
Tim Rudbøg
10:20–10:45
Haunted Landscapes: Re-Enchantment and a Living Nature
Kasper Opstrup
10:45–10:55
Symbolic Displacement #2
Andrius Kisbye Hofmann-Lagunaviciuss
10:55–11:25
Neural performance of embodied telepresence in the cosmos
Jo Verwohlt and Pieter Steyaert
11:25– 11:50
Dialogue break Unity-in-diversity. A framework for aesthetic appreciation in addressing global challenges within and beyond art education
Samanta Viziale
11:50–12:15
tide (the delicate balance of circumstances)
Frauke Materlik
12:15–13:00
Lunch break
(CApE does not provide lunch for participants, so feel free to bring your own or go out for lunch)
13:00–13:35
Reclaiming Time: what structures do we force/fit onto natural processes?
Clara Ferreira Cores
13:35–14:00
Approaching nature and the non-human in Theosophy – between science, spirituality and art
Tim Rudbøg
14:00 – 14:25
Nature: Our relation to the Universe
Jens Hjorth
14:25–14:50
The Force in Nature
Sascha Engel
14:50–15:20
Coffee/tea break
dialogue break
15:20–15:45
Art, Climate Science, and Beyond: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Integration of Practices and Methods
Johanna Paschen
15:45 – 16:05
In Communion with the Natural World: Approaches to Nature and Science in the History of Esotericism
Aaron French
16:05–16:30
Rhetorical Volcanology: Unearthing the Repressed Threat of Volcanic Eruptions in Politics and Popular Culture
Frederik Appel Olsen
16:30–17:00
Dialogue, reflections and discussions
Kocku von Stuckrad
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