An oven warm welcome to our second baking circle! Where we will bake a Swedish flatbread and/or sourdough and reflect, discuss the history of hunger, how to organize for a better life and what the present moment demands and hopes of us. Join us in CEMUS Library or online and bake from home!
Concept initiated and developed by Ryan Carolan with support from Daniel Mossberg.
When: May 22 at 12.15-14.00 CET
Where: CEMUS Library, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, see map here https://link.mazemap.com/gVZ978v2
Online: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/61984859923
How: Bring your own baking equipment and ingredients if you want to bake or just join the conversation, we provide an oven and good company
Registration: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/101261
Upcoming dates: NEW DATE June 5 at 13.15-15.00 CET
Background material (some in Swedish)
Skitåret 1917 – video on the hunger protest in Sweden 1917 https://urplay.se/program/199001-nationen-skitaret-1917
Global Hunger Index – the 2023 Global Hunger Index shows that while some countries have made significant headway in reducing hunger little progress has been made on a global scale since 2015: hunger remains serious or alarming in 43 countries https://www.globalhungerindex.org/
Resistance Resisters – by Derrick Jensen https://orionmagazine.org/article/resistance-resisters/
Ryan Carolan is a CEFO affiliate, PhD researcher and candidate at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, residing in Uppsala, and experienced sourdough slow-baker with focus on philosophy, education and democracy.
Daniel Mossberg is lead outreach coordinator at CEMUS with a wide range of firsthand experience of student-led education and processes, experienced facilitator and organizer of conversations on existential issues, big and small, and lifelong amateur baker steeped in the Swedish bread traditions.
Concept and background by Ryan
And yet, as research is now confirming, words are rarely enough to process traumatic experiences, since these experiences are stored deep within structure of the body, ‘exiled to the various subterranean worlds of consciousness’, as Stephen Cope puts it.
How can we respond to this reality?
With the enormity of global crises facing humanity symbolised by the ecological crisis and the brutal fact that humanity is failing to respond effectively, this is an extremely important question. The obvious danger is that, under the shadow of this enormous challenge that is largely beyond comprehension, the powers that be responds in an Orwellian way by calling night day, further disconnecting us from our embodied experience and our deepest feelings.
Following the passing of my son from a rare genetic disease on the 30th of December 2022, sourdough has become a way for me to cultivate life that I was otherwise denied. It has become a metaphor of life and a way of channeling my pain into an ancient practice that brings joy.
Bread and circuses and… is an attempt to create a space where the incomprehensible may be glimpsed, if only for a moment, through making bread and circuses. Fundamentally, it is premised on the assumption that only by reconnecting with our deepest feeling can we come to terms with what it means to be human in an age of impending ecological and social collapse. With this knowledge, it may be possible to respond more effectively to violent and traumatic events, and, possibly, break the conditions and cycles reproducing them.