Mapping out Remoteness: Overview of the activities of the circle

Studies in Remoteness is formulated around a series of research projects of a mix of early career, PhD, and artistic researchers, and aims to support these projects over the course of three years. The project will also support a limited number (1-2) of excellent MA thesis projects. The project aims to support long-term research stays and a twice-yearly colloquium setting in which researchers, before and after residencies, can develop their projects, receive feedback, and engage in forms of dialogue and experimentation.

While winter symposia bring participants of the study circle into intimate research explorations and co-working, summer sessions bridge the project into relation with other study circles of the Nordic Summer University, and will be structured into a more pedagogical mode, including a research colloquium and study sessions focused on critical engagement with current research of remoteness.

General Topics

The below descriptions of the general topics of investigation for each study circle meeting will be in the next months sharped, clarified, and made more focused on particular regions, communities, and historical topics.

March 2026 – Winter Symposium: Berlin
Topic: Duplicity, Betweenness, Epistemic alterity

 July 2026 – Summer School: Latvia (NSU Summer Session)
Topic: Intimate engagement with historical remoteness

 March 2027 – Winter Symposium: Stockholm, Sweden
Topic: Circumpolar Remoteness

 July 2027 – Summer School: Nordics (NSU Summer Session)
Topic: Infrastructures of Remoteness

 (early) April 2028 – Winter Symposium: TBA
Topic: Sacredness and protection

 July 2028 – Summer School: Baltics (NSU Summer Session)
Topic: Sacredness and protection