{"id":21,"date":"2025-08-11T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:02:00","slug":"nordic-summer-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/nordic-summer-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Our work within the Nordic Summer University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last 75 years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsuweb.org\/\">Nordic Summer University<\/a> has made a habit of gathering in what one might consider \u201cremote\u201d places.[1] Though this is not often described as central to the mission of the organisation, the Nordic Summer University\u2019s spaces of gathering \u2013 folk high schools, aged hotels, and summer camps \u2013 are nonetheless necessary to the Nordic Summer University\u2019s multidisciplinary exchange and non-traditional research practices. Even the nomadicism of the Nordic Summer University symposia, the travel of the organisation&#8217;s events around the Nordic and Baltic regions, serves to tie together a vast territory with diverse communities and separated by national borders. Why does the Nordic Summer University practice this serial engagement with remote places? As a study circle organised within the Nordic Summer University, <em>Studies in Remoteness<\/em> begins with the context of the organisation itself \u2013 aiming to address its unique tactics of engagement with remoteness over the course of three years with the study circle&#8217;s wider theoretical and conceptual investigation of remoteness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the Nordic Summer University\u2019s long tradition of engaging with peripheral knowledges, places and individuals, the <em>Studies in Remoteness<\/em> aims to continue to reflect on remoteness and periphery. The topics central to the study circle started to emerge during the study circle 2022-2025<em> Praxis of Social Imaginaries<\/em>. The project further engages with many current orientations within other study circles at the Nordic Summer University, including on questions of anti-colonial research practices, place-making, and community-based research practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Studies in Remoteness<\/em> is resolutely interdisciplinary, dedicated to non-hierarchical and democratic decision-making practices, and committed to building meaningful relationships between scholars, artists, and cultural workers. The project also aims to make contributions to research on the value of art and culture to democracies. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our strategies to meet the goals of the Nordic Summer University are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A.&nbsp;&nbsp; To engage with scholars, artists, and others pursuing long-term research projects relevant to the topic of remoteness, and to provide a context for research networking within this new interdisciplinary field.<\/li><li>B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To widen research publication production in the field of remoteness studies. <\/li><li>C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To increase the reach of circumpolar studies by identifying goals and struggles that are shared between circumpolar communities and other communities that experience \u201cremoteness\u201d or are externally identified as such. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] A list of past summer sessions can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsuweb.org\/organisation\/history\/past-summer-sessions\/\">https:\/\/www.nsuweb.org\/organisation\/history\/past-summer-sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 75 years, the Nordic Summer University has made a habit of gathering in what one might consider \u201cremote\u201d places.[1] Though this is not often described as central to the mission of the organisation, the Nordic Summer University\u2019s spaces of gathering \u2013 folk high schools, aged hotels, and summer camps \u2013 are nonetheless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/nordic-summer-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our work within the Nordic Summer University<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5248,"featured_media":100,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/remoteness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}