ClimateExistence

If you written something, a story, summary or just a collection of photos you want to share with us and have published here, please send an email to daniel.mossberg@cemus.uu.se or send a message to CEMUS in social media. Here’s what we have gathered and published so for, thank you all again for ClimateExistence 2023!

This page will be updated with more recordings, photos and texts as we get them ready and sent to us.

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To Craft a Gift out of the Breaking of Our Hearts

Art at the End of the World Exhibition

Mattias Bäcklin – Månkryss – exhibition

Juni Sinkkonen and Henri Jumppanen – Forest doesn’t answer – photo exhibition

Sanctuary of Hope: An open space for stillness, meditation and prayer

Art at the End of the World club [CEMUS – Sweden]

A gathering for anyone who wants to creatively explore themes around humans, nature, and the entangled ties between us. With an ecological theme to guide the sessions, we create and share art of any medium (visual, poetry, film, music etc), and any level of experience is welcome. We aim to cultivate a supportive and emotionally open space where it is possible for people to express eco-grief and anxiety through creativity, while leaving room for hope. Despite the title, your work does not have to be about the end of the world!

http://www.cemus.uu.se/art-club/

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Jenny Björklund [Professor, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Jenny Björklund is a literary scholar and professor of gender studies. Her main research interests are motherhood and family studies, queer theory, cultural studies, and 20th and 21st century literature.

www.katalog.uu.se

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Anna Björkman [Co-founder a school called HOME, strategist and analyst – Sweden]

Anna Björkman is co-founder of a school called HOME. She currently works as a strategist and analyst with local government in Sweden. Her earlier career has taken her from connecting cultural foundations around Europe, to setting up children’s libraries across the Middle East and supporting grassroots women’s organisations in Israel and Palestine.

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Ylva Björnberg [Future forecaster, storyteller and pathfinder – Sweden]

Ylva Björnberg is a future forecaster, storyteller and pathfinder who enables organisations describe who they are (existential identity work) and what path to embark on (strategy) through combining intellectual and intuitive methodologies. Her client work includes representatives of cross-disciplinary constellations such as nations, The Council for the Promotion of Sweden, regional bodies, municipalities, membership organisations such as the employer organisation for the service sector Almega and the Swedish national health service. After years of service, Ylva is currently in the process of “coming out” as a deep civilisation critic, from a conviction that our earth systems crises are symptoms of a disjointed mindset which needs a turnaround into a relational perception. She is now pioneering practical, experiential solutions to hold “radically inclusive stakeholder dialogues” together with clients. These dialogues are founded on a posthumanist approach and take place between natural persons, legal persons and those of us who are not humans – for example lakes, birds, forests, mountains as well as wider bioregions. Ylva has an academic background in law, anthropology, pedagogy, arts, language and communication.

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Maja Bodin [Midwife and Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Maja Bodin is a midwife and PhD in reproductive health. Her main area of expertise is reproductive decision-making, which she studies from an interdisciplinary perspective (medicine, gender, sociology, history of ideas).

www.katalog.uu.se

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Jan van Boeckel [Professor Art & Sustainability, Research Centre Art & Sustainability, Hanze UAS, Artist and Filmmaker – The Netherlands]

Jan van Boeckel is professor Art & Sustainability at Research Centre Art & Society of Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands. He started his career as a cultural anthropologist. With the passing of time, Jan increasingly focused his attention on both his own developing artistic practice and on the teaching of art – two orientations that eventually converged into the role of artist-educator. Jan has initiated and taken part in several research projects on the interfaces of where art and sustainability meet. Specializing himself in the new field of arts-based environmental education, he received his degree as Doctor of Arts in arts education at Aalto University, Helsinki, in 2013. In the past years he has worked in several Northern countries – among which Iceland, Sweden, Estonia and Finland. Each autumn, At the invitation of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Jan teaches the intensive course ‘Art and Sustainability Education’ in Lahemaa National Park. He regularly facilitates wildpainting courses across Europe, that aim to inspire participants to connect to nature through art making activities. As part of Tim Ingold’s “Knowing from the Inside” research project, Jan explored how a regenerative pedagogy would look if it would encourage teachers to be attentive to the participants’ “light in the eyes.” At Hanze UAS, Jan’s primary research interest is in how art can help us face the great challenges of our time, of which the ecological crisis in its many dimensions is the most pressing.

www.janvanboeckel.com
www.wildpainting.org
www.hanze.nl/nld/onderzoek/profielen/lectoren/jan-boeckel

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Kerstin Bragby [Actress/Performance artist, Educative pilgrim and Doctor Philosophy, Applied Theatre and Drama – Sweden]

Kerstin Bragby has an ongoing background as a theatre and cultural worker. Thirteen years in the internationally composed theatre group Earth Circus in the 80-to 90s that produced out- and indoor theatre for children, young and grown-ups, on their own stage in Stockholm and on tour in Sweden, the Nordic countries and Europe. On a national level Earth Circus was one of the initiators in arranging the first bigger performing art festivals in Stockholm. Cultural projects in urban areas and in schools, non-violent training and activism was part of a methodology for social and societal change. She also produces solo performances through conscious art experiments on themes of women identity, existential questions, culture, ecology (She holds a master’s degree in biology in her back-back).

As an educator she is since year 2000 active within as well as beyond the academy, with experience-based learning processes for individual, group and organisation inspired by the repertoire of the ensemble actor and co-creating devised processes in performing arts. In courses like “Creative retreats” and “Living life as an art”, the professional background in performing art, art-based research and education coincide with 20 years of initiated experience and teaching of Native American practises, and 10 years in a tantric tradition, ceremonial, meditative, personal developmental and yogic, know-how.

She develops hybrid forms of knowledge, in forms as poetic reports and aesthetic responses. Together with Ida Lod in Ki -Kompani she cultivates poetical improvisational- and performance practices collaborating with many different contexts.

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Åsa Callmer [Postdoctoral researcher, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University – Sweden]

Åsa Callmer is a researcher in environmental sociology. In her ongoing research project, she explores the different ways in which social relations may facilitate and/or hinder reduced consumption and sustainable lifestyle choices. Her main research interests are (un)sustainable lifestyles and planning for sustainable transformations. She is especially interested in social norms, wellbeing and justice within planetary boundaries, and sociocultural dimensions of humans’ relationship with Nature. Her PhD thesis Making sense of sufficiency: Entries, practices and politics deals with the idea, practices, and politics of sufficiency in an affluent consumerist society.

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Alexander Crawford [Analyst, facilitator and commentator, former – Sweden]

Alexander Crawford is a Stockholm-based analyst, facilitator and commentator. Trained as an economist, he has taken part in the sustainability conversation in Sweden and globally for over two decades, as consultant, scenario planner and designer and facilitator of numerous seminars, conferences and change processes (including as research director and lead program designer of the Tällberg Forum (2005-2013), CEO of the think tank Global Utmaning, and program manager at the Swedish Institute working with leadership development for sustainable business in developing countries).

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Eléonore Fauré [Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University – Sweden]

Eléonore Fauré is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Lund University, where she is part of the multidisciplinary Climaginaries network, exploring in creative ways how a post-fossil world might look like. Her research interests are about just and sustainable transformations and how we can embrace multiple perspectives and knowledges in speculations on what kind of society we want to live in. Her PhD thesis ‘Sharing the doughnut, exploring sustainable and just futures’ was part of the Beyond GDP Growth Project led by KTH, Royal Institute of Technology.

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Anita Goldman [Author, writer och publicist – Sweden]

Anita Goldman is a Swedish writer och publicist. She has published almost twenty books — fiction and non-fiction. She is presently working on a big book: Det vilda hoppets geografi (“The Geography of Wild Hope”) which is a very broad investigation into our(Western) civilization’s relationship to Nature. Goldman also contributes larger opinion-pieces to the foremost Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter. She is one of the few voices in mainstream media and culture that offers a thorough civilisatory critic of our society, focusing on the nuclear war culture and energy, on the threats to the very earth we stand on and live from, on the absurd way we manufacture food etc, but also on the healing that comes from being in touch with Nature and growing and the importance of awe and a spiritual grounding. Goldman is an impatient but avid grower of vegetables and perennials at her house at the south easternmost tip of Sweden, Österlen.

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Johan Gärdebo [Historian and Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Johan Gärdebo studies climate knowledge and decarbonisation policies as these interplay in local, national, and transnational settings, from late 1800s to the present. He is currently a Research Fellow at Clare Hall (2022–2025), associated with the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics and the Department of History of Science.

www.katalog.uu.se

Dougald Hine [Social thinker, Writer and Speaker, a school called HOME – Sweden]

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he has gone on to co-found a series of organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. Together with Paul Kingsnorth, he is the author of Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto (2009). His latest book, At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies is published by Chelsea Green in February 2023.

He has given keynotes and talks on numerous platforms – from the European Commission and TEDx events to the back rooms of pubs and squatted social centres – and is a regular guest lecturer at universities, art and architecture schools across Europe. In 2012, Google invited him to São Paulo and Buenos Aires to speak at its Think Infinite! events, his work was featured as a case study in the EU’s Team Culture report on ‘the role of culture in a time of crisis’ and he was named by NESTA/The Observer in their inaugural list of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.

In 2015-16 he served as leader of artistic development at Riksteatern, Sweden’s national theatre, bringing together a year-long artistic workshop on ‘the role(s) of art under the shadow of climate change’. In collaboration with three Swedish playwrights, he wrote Medan klockan ticker (‘While the Clock is Ticking’), a play commissioned by the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, based on interviews with climate scientists about ‘what it’s like when the Anthropocene is your day job’. He is an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and sits on the advisory board for the Penn State University Press series, Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives.

Many of his books have been collaborations with visual artists, ranging from COMMONSense (2009) with Anne-Marie Culhane and Access Space to The Crossing of Two Lines (2013) with the Stockholm-based artist duo Performing Pictures. For Walking in the Void (2021), a collaboration with the glass artists Baldwin & Guggisberg, he contributed an essay in twelve parts, ’THE ASTEROID: An Anthropocene Whodunnit’.
After ten years as a director of the Dark Mountain Project, he handed on his responsibilities in 2019. His recent projects include Notes From Underground, a ten-part essay series for Bella Caledonia exploring the deep roots of the new climate movements, and The Great Humbling, a podcast which he presents with the futurist and ‘recovering sustainability consultant’ Ed Gillespie.

Originally from the northeast of England, Dougald is now settled in the small Swedish town of Östervåla where he and Anna Björkman are creating a school called HOME, ‘a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture’. His latest writing is published on his Substack, Writing Home.

https://dougald.nu/

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Janna Holmstedt, Malin Lobell and Karin Wegsjö [(p)Art of the Biomass – Sweden]

(p)Art of the Biomass is an art platform that collaborates across disciplines in different projects that explore multispecies relations as well as modes of environmental care and attention. Their context sensitive and processual work could be seen as (more-than-human) social sculptures that develop over time, through material manifestations, stories, walks, invitations, and proposals. 
The three artists are also part of the art and research project Humus economicus at National Historical museums in Sweden, focused on human-soil relations.

www.partofthebiomass.se
www.humuseconomicus.se

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Ida Idaida [Artist – Sweden]

Ida Idaida is a Master of fine arts since her exam 2018 from The Royal Academy of Art, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm.

https://idaidaida.com/

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Enki Inkpen [Musician, poet, student Global Environmental History at Uppsala University, and course coordinator CEMUS – Sweden]

Enki Inkpen is a musician and poet, student of global environmental history at Uppsala University, and course coordinator at CEMUS. With CEMUS they have worked on four courses, including Perspectives on Climate Change: Ecopsychology, Art and Narratives, and they co-founded Art at the End of the World club. They are interested in the emotional disconnect between humans and their local nature, and how that relationship could be healed through engaged art, spirituality, and rewilding time with sound. They are hoping to do a PhD to further explore these topics, but in the meantime they can be found jumping in lakes and frolicking in forests.

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Stephen Jenkinson [Author, Master of Ceremony, Culture Activist, Storyteller, Off-grid small-scale Farmer, Carver, Keeper of the Great Hall – Canada]

Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School. For years, after apprenticing to a master storyteller as a young man, acquiring a master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity school and another in social work from the University of Toronto, Stephen Jenkinson led the palliative care department in a major Canadian hospital and was assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He has worked extensively with caregivers, dying people and their families. Whilst sitting at the deathbeds of over a thousand people, he encountered again and again what he called a “wretched anxiety.” Rather than any one individual’s personal issue with dying, Jenkinson understood this as symptomatic of a cultural absence, a death phobia, a grief illiteracy. These experiences served to distil a number of questions: Has it always been this hard to die? When do we really begin to die, and what are we supposed to do then? How is it that grief is a skill, something to be learned and practised? Those questions and more spawned several books. He is the subject of the National Film Board of Canada feature length film documentary, Griefwalker (Dir.T. Wilson).

He is the author of Reckoning, co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson (2022), and A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015 and translated into Hebrew and Turkish), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007). Lost Nation Road (Dir.I.MacKenzie) is a glimpse behind-the-scenes of a soulful mystery train. His Nights of Grief and Mystery world tours, with fellow Canadian singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins, are odes to wonder, love letters for the willingness to know endings. 2023 World Tour Dates: August 14, 2023 – Nights of Grief & Mystery 2023 Tour: Malmö, Sweden, and August 17, 2023 – Nights of Grief & Mystery 2023 Tour: Stockholm, Sweden.

https://orphanwisdom.com/

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Henri Jumppanen [Photographer, journalist and poet – Finland]

Henri Jumppanen is a professional photographer and journalist who also writes poetry. Based in Joensuu, Eastern Finland.

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Mikael Kurkiala [Author and Researcher, the Swedish Church, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University – Sweden]

Mikael Kurkiala is associate professor of Cultural anthropology at Uppsala University and researcher at the Church Office. He is the author of, among other titles, In every drum beat the earth’s pulse: about the fear of differences of our time (Ordfront 2005) and When the Soul Goes into Exile: Modernity, Technology & the Sacred (Verbum 2019). He has also participated in several anthologies about the place of existential issues in contemporary society and is the editor of an annual anthology – Tidens tecken – (“Signs of the times”) published by Artos.

www.svenskakyrkan.se/forskning/publikationer/tidens-tecken

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Alf Linderman [Associate Professor, Sociology of Religion, Uppsala University and Former Executive Director, Sigtuna Foundation – Sweden]

Alf Linderman is an Associate Professor in the sociology of religion at Uppsala University and has just ended his position as the Executive Director of the Sigtuna Foundation, a position he has held for more than 20 years. As a researcher, Linderman is specialized on research at the nexus of media, religion, and culture. During his long worktime at the Sigtuna Foundation, Linderman has been intensively involved in various interdisciplinary dialogues ranging from climate and sustainability issues to the analysis of the human condition and the exploration of human consciousness and free will.

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Ida Lod [Musician, Performer and Educator – Sweden]

Ida Lod is a musician, performer and educator who primarily works in interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary settings. Through song, words, violin, movement and various ways of interaction with her surroundings she explores the connection between inner and outer worlds and between the body of the human being and the body of the earth. Ida collaborates on a regular bases with performance-artist and educator Kerstin Bragby. Together they explore different themes through the concepts of Poetic responses and Improvised Poetic Performance.

Songs of the In-between is another on going collaboration with musician/composer David Heikkinen where music, performance and community-art are interwoven. Owl Woman, Ofelia Reversed and Dadaistic Diva are examples of her solo- productions where masking and demasking of the feminine are continuous explorations. As an educator and holistic voice therapist Ida focuses on guiding people to connect with their own creative voice through embodied voice-practices. Ida lives in Stockholm and was educated at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.

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Patricia Lorenzoni [Author, Cultural Critic, Historian, and Research fellow, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Patricia Lorenzoni holds a Ph.D. in History of Ideas and is a research fellow at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University. Her research focuses questions of violence, suffering and loss in relation to colonial extractivism and migration. She is also an author and cultural critic, her publications including both cultural essays and poetry.

http://www.patricia-lorenzoni.com/

Isabella Lövin [Author, co-chair Friends of Ocean Action and former Minister of Climate and Environment, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Deputy Prime Minister – Sweden]

Isabella Lövin is an author of Tyst hav – Jakten på den sista matfisken (“Silent Sea – The Hunt for the Last Fish”) (2007) and Oceankänslan (“The Ocean Feel”) (2022), co-chair of Friends of Ocean Action, regularly featured as columnist in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri, former Minister of Climate and Environment, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Deputy Prime Minister. Former EU-parliamentarian and journalist. Honorary doctor at SLU and World Maritime University.

www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action

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Lars Noväng [Artist – Sweden]

Lars Noväng’s artistic practice is characterized by a longstanding exploration of the agency of art, particularly in change processes. His most recent work, Ars Moriendi, investigates and treats two interrelated phenomena in our contemporary society; the widespread death phobia, and our tendency to become codependent with dysfunctional institutions and belief systems. By means of interacting with society as a Farewell Bureau/Parting Undertaker, this work is artistically exploring how farewell rituals can help people and organizations emancipate from their codependency with cultural artifacts, structures and thought patterns that stand in the way of societal change.

https://avskedsbyran.se
https://larsnovang.com

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Henrik Ohlsson [Researcher and lecturer, Study of religion, Södertörn University – Sweden]

Henrik Ohlsson is a researcher and lecturer in the study of religion at Södertörn University in Sweden. He is interested in human-nature relations from historical, ethnographic and phenomenological perspectives, with a focus on the spiritual or existential dimensions of those relations. For his PhD thesis, he conducted field research in the Nordic countries among people engaged in organized practice for a deepened connection with nature. His thesis is connected to a larger project studying nature relations and secularity in the Baltic Sea region and includes researchers in Sweden, Estonia and Denmark. His earlier academic interests include issues concerning secularization in general and a particular focus on state policies towards religion in post-Soviet Central Asia.

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Mattias Olsson [Filmmaker and Founder of Campfire Stories – Sweden]

Filmmaker Mattias Olsson is the founder of Campfire Stories, which is a film platform that aims to inspire change towards a future of ecological balance and human sanity. His background is that of a still photographer, which was his profession during the 13 years he lived in New York. Since he moved back to Sweden in 2007 he’s produced five films for Swedish television (SVT) and 14 films for Campfire Stories. He’s also a podcast producer and a lecturer. And an enthusiastic hobby-farmer, with a particular love for growing tomatoes and chilies.

campfire-stories.org

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Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri [Transdisciplinary researcher at Brussels Health Gardens – Lithuania, Belgium, Sweden]

Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri is a pharmacist and transdisciplinary researcher. She studies how relationships with plants, nature medicine, nature-based health practices and traditional local knowledge contribute to human connectedness with nature and regeneration of health.

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Francis Rogers [Activist, writer, ethnographer, educator and filmmaker – Sweden]

Francis Rogers is an Uppsala-based environmental activist, writer, ethnographer, educator and filmmaker working to protect forests in Uppsala and Sápmi. As a beginner animal tracker, forager and tree climber, they are learning to love forests as much as mountains. After completing their Master’s thesis narrating their journey along the German Danish border fence, they hope to contribute to ecosystem restoration and write a novel about a time-travelling greenhouse.

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Juni Sinkkonen [Eco-psychologist, environmental activist, writer and facilitator – Finland]

Juni Sinkkonen is an eco-psychologist and environmental activist who writes, gives lectures and facilitates workshops on environmental emotions and deep ecological worldview. Based in Joensuu, Eastern Finland.

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Jacek Smolicki [Artist, researcher, designer and educator – Sweden]

Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His work brings historical, critical and existential dimensions to listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts. Besides working with historical archives, media, and heritage, Smolicki develops other modes of sensing, recording, and mediating stories and signals from specific sites, scales, and temporalities. His work is manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, diverse forms of writing, site-responsive performances, and audiovisual installations (e.g. Young Art Biennial, Moscow, In-Sonora, Madrid, Ars Electronica, Linz, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Holden Chapel, Harvard University, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver). He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Malmö University and has recently completed a postdoc position at Linköping University. He has also been a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Simon Fraser University, and 2022/2023 Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. In 2019 he co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound, a transdisciplinary event focusing on the creative and critical potential of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. Smolicki is the editor of “Soundwalking. Through Time, Space, and Technologies,” published in 2023 via Routledge.

www.smolicki.com

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Isak Stoddard [PhD Researcher, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Isak Stoddard is pursuing a PhD in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. In his current research he studies the imaginaries and temporalities underpinning regional climate and energy transitions within Sweden. His educational background is in engineering physics and over the past two decades he’s spent much of his time developing and supporting transdisciplinary approaches to higher education at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS).

www.katalog.uu.se

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Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp [PhD Candidate, Environmental Communication, SLU – Sweden]

Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Communication at SLU. His research concerns climate change adaptation. Specifically, how our response to the changing climate is shaped on the one hand by our collective imaginaries of the future, and on the other practical consciousness and routines in everyday life.

Currently, his research focuses on how civil servants, at different levels in the public sector, reflect on and work with adaptation, with a special interest in meaning making processes, power dynamics and the values underpinning visions of the future.

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Pella Thiel [Author, Activist and Educator – Sweden]

Pella Thiel is a maverick ecologist, activist and author who works with relational, systemic activism, change processes and leadership för a society in harmony with nature. She is a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and co-founder of swedish hubs of international networks like the Swedish Transition Network and End Ecocide Sweden. She also teaches ecopsychology and is a part of the eco-psychology/art/activist NGO Lodyn.

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Third task [Sweden]

Third task is a project with the goal of engaging students in the implementation of outreach responsibilities of universities written in the Swedish law (third task, i.e. tredje uppgiften). We aim to stimulate student involvement in the third task. As there are many students involved in the climate issue and because they are believed to be able to communicate climate research in an easy-to-understand way, their engagement generates a greater spread of the message.

https://klimatstudenterna.se/third-task

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Aaron Tuckey [Spoken Word Artist – Sweden]

Aaron holds degrees in political science and sustainability science, and half a degree in classical music composition. He has been writing poetry for 10 years in parallel to his career in climate and sustainability within academia and the public sector. During recent years, his writing has focused on the multiple sustainability crises humanity currently faces, both to raise public awareness on stage and as an outlet for his own frustration and concern.

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Ceciel Verheij [Anthropologist and Translator – The Netherlands]

Ceciel has a background in Social Anthropology and she currently works as a translator of literature. Ceciel also occasionally facilitates artistic processes with groups, in which embodied experience, presence and awareness is foregrounded.

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Malin Zimm [Architect, Researcher and Writer – Sweden]

Malin Zimm is an architect PhD, researcher and writer. Zimm has been a free-lance writer, researcher and architecture critic since 2000, contributing to numerous Swedish and international publications in the fields of architecture, art and urbanism. She was the Chief Editor of the architecture magazine Arkitektur from 2019 until 2022 as well as Chief Editor of Rum magazine between 2007 and 2009. Zimm was Director of Research, manager of ARQ research fund and Research strategist at White Arkitekter from 2014 until 2019. She worked as Senior Advisor in Architecture at ArkDes 2010-2014. Zimm presented her PhD dissertation at KTH School of Architecture in 2005, with the title “Losing the Plot – Architecture and Narrativity in Fin-de-Siècle Media Cultures”, discussing the concept of virtuality, not primarily as a technology but as a cognitive ability. Together with Mattias Bäcklin she is running the mobile art and architecture gallery Zimm Hall since 2015.

https://zimmhall.com/

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May-Britt Öhman [Associate Professor, Researcher, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, Uppsala University – Sweden]

May-Britt Öhman is Associate Professor in Environmental History, PhD in History of Technology, researcher and leader of the research group “Dálkke: Indigenous Climate Change Studies”, at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, Uppsala University, and also leads the Sámeednama friddja universitehta– Sámi Land Free University – initiative. She is Lule/Forest Sámi from Lule River/Julevädno, with heritage also from the Torne river valley on the colonial border between Sweden and Finland. Dr. Öhman was in 2023 appointed as expert to the Swedish government Committee on Reindeer Lands – Renmarkskommittén.

As leader of “Dálkke: Indigenous Climate Change Studies” research group, funded by FORMAS within the National programme on Climate, at CEMFOR, Uppsala University, she leads supradisciplinary national and international collaboration to:
– promote Indigenous as well as Western environmentally friendly sociotechnical innovations,
– analyze how technical design and shape of energy systems relate to efforts to reduced consumption,
– analyze consequences of climate change for Indigenous communities
– analyze CO2 emissions and climate change impact from technical designs such as wind power, nuclear power, hydropower, solar cells
– analyze how technical designs claimed to be environmentally friendly affect Indigenous communities already under hard pressure from colonization,
– analyze how more-than-humans, forests, lands and waters are affected by colonial expansions.
– document and analyze racism, discrimination, land grabbing and settler colonial practices within climate change policies and actions
– contribute the establishment of the field Indigenous Climate Change Studies.

Dr. Öhman leads the FORMAS financed research project “Living without oil?! Rethinking relations with lands and waters with Indigenous Land Based Expertise for a transition towards a fossil free welfare society” which amongst other aims at developing the understanding of Indigenous Land Based expertise, and the transfer of this knowledge as well as understanding into higher education. Dr. Öhman has since more than a decade been active in several Sámi associations; board member of Silbonah Sámesijdda 2011-2021, member of board of the Swedish National Saami Association, SSR, 2011-2015, deputy member of the Sámi Parliament 2013-2017. Öhman is one of the founders of UPPSAM – the association and network for Sámi related research in Uppsala.

Dr. Öhman’s research focus is on large technical systems, hydropower, water resources, energy production/consumption, mines, environment, risk and safety, decolonisation and healing from colonial traumas, Feminist Technoscience and Indigenous Methodologies/Theories. Geographical focus is on Sábme, the Arctic and comparative studies with other Indigenous territories around the world.

www.katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N8-902
www.cemfor.uu.se/research-projects/dalkke–indigenous-climate-change-studies
www.samelandsfriauniversitet.com/omabout
www.maybrittohman.com

Sofia Ahlberg [Vice Dean, Faculty of Languages and Associate Professor, Literature and Pedagogy, Department of English, Uppsala University – Sweden]

I am the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden, with responsibility for education and collaboration, and Associate Professor in Literature and Pedagogy at the Department of English, also at Uppsala University. I teach and research on contemporary literature, pedagogy, and ecocriticism. My most recent book Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis (Routledge, 2021) has just been published. My other publications include another monograph Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction (Palgrave, 2016) as well as numerous chapters and articles in edited collections and journals, most recently in The Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science (Palgrave, 2020) and Teaching the Literature of Climate Change (MLA, forthcoming). I contributed to a highly original edited collection called Loanwords to Live With: An Ecotopian Lexicon (Minnesota UP, 2019) and my essay on the Swedish word “fotminne” can be read about in “Parlör for ett vettigare sätt att tala om klimatet” (SvD, 2020) as well as in “The Search for New Words to Make us Care about the Climate Crisis” in The New Yorker, 2020.

https://katalog.uu.se

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Stefania Barca [Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala University – Italy, Portugal & Sweden]

I am a scholar in Environmental Humanities, with a strong commitment to environmental and climate justice. I develop my research and teaching at the intersection between academia and social movements – particularly those engaged in a Just Transition. For the past 12 years I have been investigating the environmental agency of labor and community organizations in Italy and internationally, taking into account both waged industrial work and unwaged care work. My latest book, Forces of Reproduction. Notes for a counterhegemonic Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press), released in November 2020, reflects the results of this research pathway. The book claims that the roots of the planetary crisis lay in the deep structural inequalities and injustice that govern human societies from local to global scale, producing a systematic degradation of life systems, and the widespread violation of both human and nonhuman rights. Taking an historical approach, it sees the climate crisis as a result of intersecting patterns of colonialism, heteropatriarchy, exploitation of labor and human supremacy over the web of life – all converging towards a master model of modernity, which devalues and depletes reproduction and care. Feminist political ecologists call this “white/m-Anthropocene”. Consequently, my book calls attention towards the labour of caring for both humans and their biophysical environment, and suggests that this labour is what is keeping the world alive – so it is truly vital to recognize and support it.

https://katalog.uu.se/profile?id=N21-267[/su_expand]

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Nora Bateson [Filmmaker, Writer, Educator, Lecturer, President of the International Bateson Institute – Sweden & USA]

Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson.

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Jan van Boeckel [Professor Art & Sustainability, Centre Art & Sustainability, Hanze UAS, Artist and Film-maker – The Netherlands]

As of June 2020, dr Jan van Boeckel took up his position as professor Art & Sustainability at the Research Centre Art & Sustainability of Hanze UAS. He started his career as a cultural anthropologist. With the passing of time, Jan increasingly focused his attention on both his own developing artistic practice and on the teaching of art; two orientations that eventually converged into the role of artist-educator. Jan also has ample experience in performing research projects on the cutting edge of art and sustainability. Specializing himself in the new field of arts-based environmental education, he received his degree as Doctor of Arts in arts education at Aalto University, Helsinki, in 2013. In the past years he has worked in several Northern countries – among which Iceland, Sweden, Estonia and Finland. Now, at Hanze UAS at Groningen, Jan’s primary research interest is in how art can help us face the great challenges of our time, of which the ecological crisis arguably is the most pressing.

www.hanze.nl/janvanboeckel

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Alexander Crawford [Educator and Consultant – Sweden]

Alexander Crawford is a Stockholm-based educator and analyst, working as independent consultant and learning process designer. He works in global projects that explore interdependencies and complexity, in Sweden, Europe and China. For over ten years, he was research director and project director at the Tällberg Foundation, where he was lead program designer and project leader for the yearly global multi-stakeholder and cross-disciplinary Tällberg Forum (2005-2013). He is also an experienced analyst of economic, social and political trends, exploring the causes and consequences of global developments. Alexander is also involved in several non-profits and start-ups.

His session Listening to (outer and inner) nature at 7.45 on Saturday August 14 will feature an early morning nature walk with dialogue exercizes and reflection.

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Andé Dutra [Course Coordinator CEMUS – Sweden & Brazil]

André is a Bachelor’s in International Relations, a Specialist in Public Administration and Master in Sustainable Development (Cemus/UU). He is currently in the second year of the Master’s degree in Sociology of Education (UU).
He moved to Sweden since 2016 and works as a Course Coordinator at CEMUS/Uppsala University, for different courses, since 2017. There he co-created the course “Sustainability and Development in Latin America – past, present, future”. He has been politically active in Brazil and a candidate for the local parliament in the capital city of Brasília, both in 2010 and 2014 and was member of the board of a political party and President of its Youth for several years. He worked as a permanent official of the Government of Brasilia for 11 years, in various institutions, aiming especially issues such as youth, labor and mobility/public transport. He continues to be active as a political activist in the field of environment and sustainability and movements for democracy and education in Brazil and Sweden. He is on the board of a youth television program run by the Brazilian Congress “Câmara Ligada” and member in the Brazilian Network for Sustainability Policy Action (Rede de Ação Política pela Sustentabilidade – RAPS Brasil). Finally, in 2021 he was elected to be in the board of Latinamerikagrupperna Sverige.

https://katalog.uu.se/profile/

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Åsa Elmstam [Artist – Sweden]

Åsa Elmstam, is an artist and a climate activist. She works with visualizing the climate crises and our over-consumption in exhibition form since 2007. Her background is a blend of silversmithing, jewelery art (Konstfack – Ädellab), art, crafts and studies In sustainable development in design (Sustanible Projects – University Tokyo Zokei, in Japan) etc. She is based at Södermalm in Stockholm.

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Maud M.L. Eriksen [Senior lecturer, Department of Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Lecturer in Theological ethics at Uppsala University and organic gardener. In her teaching and research (at Uppsala university since 2005), Maud Eriksen has had a particular focus on virtue ethics and relational ethics. She has primarily worked in intersections between literature/film (often Science Fiction), theology and philosophy. She wrote her PhD dissertation (Oslo, 2005) on the literature and philosophy of Iris Murdoch, read through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur and Mikhail Bakhtin.

Taking a break from academia during the years 2017-2019, she trained as an organic gardener and has practiced in a garden centre as well as running a Community garden in the multi cultural area where she lives (Flemingsberg south of Stockholm). Regenerative agriculture and permaculture are particular interests as a gardener – but they tie well into her professional work as an ethicsist.

The combination of ethics and gardening has initiated a passionate interest for current and future research in environmental ethics, as well as sustainability issues with regard to individual, social and natural dimensions.

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Eylem Ertürk [Researcher, artist and curator – Austria & Turkey]

Eylem Ertürk is a researcher, artist and curator living and working in Vienna and Istanbul. She has a background in social design, fine arts photography and cultural management. Since 2005 she has led/initiated/worked in several projects and art institutions in Istanbul as a researcher, editor, curator or manager. She taught at Istanbul Bilgi University Arts and Cultural Management Programme and edited the Local Cultural Policies Handbook (2011). In her work at Anadolu Kültür (2010-2017), she focused on contemporary art and cultural dialogue and curated BAK: Revealing the City through Memory project, publications and exhibitions. She is the co-curator of the Memory and Arts in Turkey project (2018-2021) and co-editor of the book Talks on Memory and Arts 2020. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a focus on social memory, politics of the image and representation in public space. She is the founding member of the Shared Walks initiative that creates social encounters and critical spaces by walking in cities. Her current work investigates possibilities of artistic research on social issues and creative platforms for urban participation.

www.sharedwalks.com

Anita Goldman [Journalist and Author – Sweden]

Anita Goldman is a well known Swedish writer of cultural criticism to some of the major Swedish daily newspapers. Her writing focuses on a critical investigation into some of Western cultures basic premises: whether it concerns the use and abuse of Nature (as in the case of the atomic bomb), the ostracism of the female voice in cultural history and the fear of female bodies and desires or the materialistic focus that precludes a spiritual knowledge and awe in relating to the world. Anita Goldman is an ardent vegetable gardener in her house in southern Sweden, where she also leads writing workshops.

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Martin Hedberg [Meteorologist and Change agent – Sweden]

Meteorologist. Change agent with special interests in scenarios, Complex adaptive systems and storytelling. Board member of Transition Network Sweden (Omställningsnätverket). Keynote speaker Climate change and extreme events. Self employed. Former Schibsted, National TV (SVT) and Swedish Air Force. Publications: The book “Extremt väder“, also in German “Extremes Wetter”.

https://martinhedberg.se/

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Martin Hultman [Associate professor in science, technology and environmental studies at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University pf Technology – Sweden]

Why don’t we act when we have known the existential danger of climate change for over thirty years? Such are the questions Assoc. Prof. Martin Hultman deal with in his research, praxes and every day life. Hultman is widely published in energy and climate issues especially notable are the articles ‘The Making of an Environmental Hero: A History of Ecomodern Masculinity, Fuel Cells and Arnold Schwarzenegger’ and ‘A green fatwā? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity’ then the books Discourses of Global Climate Change, Ecological Masculinities and Contending with the (m)Anthropocene. As part of his academic work he publish chronicles in a wide range of newspapers, give public lectures on contemporary politics and advice NGO:s as well as governmental agencies. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘gender and energy’, ‘ecopreneurship in circular economies’ and ‘climate change denial’ at Chalmers University of Technology. He is currently writing on a book with the preliminary title Co-Creating Earth Peace. The Paths of Ecopedagogy, Ecological Masculinities and Rights of Nature.

https://www.chalmers.se/en/Staff/Pages/Martin-Hultman.aspx

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Dan Jönsson [Author, Critic, and Essayist – Sweden]

Dan Jönsson is an author, critic, and essayist. Jönsson’s latest book Paradisgenen. Fyra utopiska horisonter (The Paradise Gene. Four Utopian Horizons), published by 20TAL Bok in 2020, is a stand-alone sequel to the 2014 book Kontinentaldrift – om de nya murarnas Europa efter finanskrisen (Continental Drift – On the New Walls of Europe After the Financial Crisis). In The Paradise Gene Jönsson leaves his idyllic life in Örtofta, south of Sweden, in search of the dying spark of the utopian dream. His travels take him to the exploitative building projects of Dubai, Guangzhou and the remains of communist China, the forgotten utopian societies of Los Angeles, and the remnants of Soviet Russia. In an age of neoliberal global exploitation, is the dream of a socially just and environmentally sustainable civilization still possible?

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Helena Fornstedt [PhD candidate, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University and CEFO affiliate – Sweden]

Helena Fornstedt is a PhD candidate at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at Uppsala University and an affiliated member of the Cemus Research Forum, CEFO. She has a background in civil engineering and business economics, and her research focus is mainly on innovation and resistance to innovation. In her research she explores the tendency in contemporary narratives to always frame innovation as part of the solution – never part of the problem. Helena is interested in exploring different ways to make research reach beyond the ivory tower of academia. She has a monthly column in the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allahanda where she writes about transition, sustainability, innovation, science and technology. She is also part of the climate comic project (climatecomic.com), aiming to present climate-related research from multiple academic disciplines in a comic book.

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Rickard Fornstedt [Illustrator, Designer and Graphic Storyteller – Sweden]

Rickard Fornstedt is a freelance illustrator, designer and graphic storyteller with a university degree in Graphic Storytelling and Sequential Arts from the University of Gävle. He is interested in communicating scientific research through illustrated narratives, and currently, he is involved in several projects in that area. One of them is the Climate Comic Project (climatecomic.com) that aims to present a narrative about climate change and transition away from fossil dependence in a comic book based on scientific research. His work has, among other things, received honorable mentions by the Swedish Comics Association and the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews. On an unrelated note, he is an incurable fantasy geek and likes to revel in “nerd culture”.

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Mariam Carlsson Kanyama [International environmental law and earth jurisprudence – Sweden]

Mariam Carlsson Kanyama, with a background in international environmental law and earth jurisprudence (legal aspects of rights of Nature and Earth centered law) decoloniality and intersectional climate justice. She recently participated in the work on the rights of Lake Vättern as one of the members of the lake Vättern case team and legal advisor to the European tribunal in defense of aquatic ecosystems, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. www.therightsofnature.org/lake-vattern-case.

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Kieli [Musical artist – Sweden & Finland]

Sylvan and sincere, Kieli’s music is made with love for old and acoustic instruments, and is rooted in the Nordics and Karelian minority culture. Her cinematic and heartfelt indie-folk invites the listener to a soundscape that breaks barriers — between human and animal, nature and culture, past and present — and offers a liberating space that emboldens personal expression and rest, whilst raising societal questions and challenging the status quo.

Kieli has released music in Swedish, English, Finnish and Karelian, and her songs have reached an international audience. Behind the stage name Kieli is Swedish-Finnish-Karelian singer, multi-instrumentalist and performer Elin Pöllänen. Elin’s songwriting and artistic expression draw much inspiration from Karelian traditions such as lamentation, and embody her background in animal advocacy and public health, as well as her work as a transdisciplinary researcher within the field of human-animal relations, post-anthropocentric governance, equity and sustainability.

Spotify-link

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Mikael Kurkiala [Author and Researcher, the Swedish Church, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University – Sweden]

Mikael Kurkiala is associate professor of Cultural anthropology at Uppsala University and researcher at the Church Office. He is the author of, among other titles, In every drum beat the earth’s pulse: the fear of differences of our times (Ordfront 2005) and When the Soul Goes into Exile: Modernity, Technology & the Sacred (Verbum 2019). He has also participated in several anthologies about the place of existential issues in contemporary society.

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Ida Lod [Musician, Performer and Educator – Sweden]

Ida Lod is a musician, performer and educator who primarily works in interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary settings. Through song, words, violin, movement and various ways of interaction with her surroundings she explores the connection between inner and outer worlds. Dadaistic Diva, Food of Love, Ofelia Reversed and Owl Woman are examples of some of her own productions where masking and demaskering are continuous explorations. As an educator Ida focuses on inspiring people to find their own creative voice through embodied voice-practices. Ida lives in Stockholm and was educated at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.

www.idalod.com

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Ayşem Mert [Associate professor and director, IMPRESS Program on Environmental Social Science, Stockholm University – Sweden & Turkey]

Ayşem Mert is associate professor and director of the IMPRESS Program on Environmental Social Science at Stockholm University, and an active member of Shadow Places and Earth System Governance Networks. Currently she is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (GCR), where she investigates how the future world order and particularly environmental governance is being differently imagined after the COVID-19 pandemic. Thematically, she has been working increasingly on climate related political emotions such as urgency, loss, and fear, the fantasies these emotions produce regarding the future of human and more-than-human societies, and the ways in which practices and institutions are affected by them. She regularly collaborates with artists and non-scientific contributors to communal life and public debate in projects pertaining to climate change and environmental politics. Ayşem also has a personal history of environmental activism and progressive politics in Turkey.

Martin Modéus [Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping, Church of Sweden and Theologian – Sweden]

Martin Modéus (born 1962) is a Swedish theologian and bishop of the Diocese of Linköping in the evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden.

Since many years, the Diocese has worked very actively for the environment and for sustainability which has resulted in a climate strategy with highly set goals. In the autumn of 2019, the bishops of the Church of Sweden jointly published an open letter, A Bishops’ Letter About the Climate, a piece of writing that highlights the spiritual and existential challenges – and possibilities – inherent in the climate crisis.

Texter och föredrag som biskop Martin Modéus skrivit

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Maria Niwa [Singer-songswriter – Sweden]

Maria Niwa is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Stockholm. Working with live-sampling instruments and using field recordings, her music spotlights both process and presence.

In the live-sampling performance, the audience is able to trace the growth of the arrangement as it develops, resulting in a mindful listening to all its details. Accidents and errors, inevitable and human, turn into improvisations that become part of the composition.

With this mix of organic and digital, she creates ethereal sonic landscapes as well as activist anthems for change and community, for imagination as well as rooting down into the present.

https://soundcloud.com/marianiwa

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Mattias Olsson [Filmmaker and Founder of Campfire Stories – Sweden]

Filmmaker Mattias Olsson is the founder of Campfire Stories, which is a film platform that aims to inspire change towards a future of ecological balance and human sanity. His background is that of a still photographer, which was his profession during the 13 years he lived in New York. Since he moved back to Sweden in 2007 he’s produced five films for Swedish television (SVT) and 14 films for Campfire Stories. He’s also a podcast producer and a lecturer. And an enthusiastic hobby-farmer, with a particular love for growing tomatoes and chilies.

campfire-stories.org

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Sohanur Raman [Youth activist and Chief Executive, Bangladesh Model Youth Parliament – Bangladesh]

Youth activist Sohanur Raman, Bangladesh, is the Chief Executive of a Youth-led organization titled Bangladesh Model Youth Parliament (Protiki Jubo Sangsad). He is one of the country’s key young climate advocates and he coordinates the largest youth network YouthNet for Climate Justice and founding member of the global youth movement Fridays for Future Bangladesh country chapter. He is also a changemaker of the SRHR for All Project implemented by the Global MenEngage Alliance.

Sohanur see Patriarchal structures and masculinity norms as important root causes to the climate crisis and to how the most poluting countries (rich countries in the global North) exploit the worlds most affected people and areas (MAPAs) such as Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh YouthNet for Climate Justice managed to stop establishment of several coal plants in Bangladesh.
The youth in the most affected areas in the world are not voiceless they are just not heard. Now more and more start to listen to them. We are proud and humble to have Sohanur as a contributor in the workshop Men, Masculinities and Climate Justice. Is changing masculine norms and behaviour an important key to end fossil fueled Patriarchy?

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Ingrid M. Rieser [Host Forest of Though Podcast – Sweden & Norway]

Ingrid M. Rieser works with communication in audio, film and writing, and is the host of the Forest of Thought podcast. In her podcast and work Ingrid is interested in exploring how we can open up the possibilities for different modes of thinking and being in the world – modes that might help us live well together on planet Earth. Her background is in economics, sustainability, education and filmmaking. Her latest hobby obsession is bookbinding.

https://forestofthought.com/

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Pia Skoglund [Lecturer and Writer Ecophilosophy Karlstad University – Sweden]

Pia Skoglund has been teaching and writing from an Eco philosophic perspective for many years – mainly at Karlstad University but also in other fora. Her focus seems to circle around humans understood as diverse, manifold beings and the possibility for – and relevance of – meaningful emancipating action in relation to an evolutionary/ complex/active world. In that process, it seems that many of the philosophical questions that we thought already decided, must be re- investigated and concepts we have held for true since long, needs new consideration. And in the present crisis there is no time for quick philosophical or existential answers!
We can and need to talk and think about all this. If possible without being too sure about the quality and shape of our relation to the world. Experience is a great source of information in that process. For me that means forest and fishing, grandchildren and music, philosophy and dance, critical analysis – and synthesis, teaching, gardening, writing and cooking. As Emma Goldman might have said today: If all that´s not possible – it´s not my (r)-evolution!

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Isak Stoddard [PhD Researcher, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Uppsala University – Sweden]

Isak Stoddard is a PhD researcher in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development with a particular focus on regional climate and energy transformations. Over the past decade he has worked in various capacities at the student-initiated Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at the University of Uppsala and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. At CEMUS, his worked mainly focused on developing transformative and transdisciplinary approaches to higher education as a response to global environmental and societal challenges. Isak was also involved in the creation of a 10-year research-initiative on climate change leadership, centred around a series of visiting professorships at Uppsala University made possible by a donation from Zennström Philanthropies. He has an educational background in engineering physics and energy systems. A dual citizen of Sweden and the United States, he is now based in Uppsala, but enjoys frequent adventures to the Scandinavian mountains for skiing, wandering and climbing.

https://katalog.uu.se

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Pella Thiel [Educator and Activist – Sweden]

Pella Thiel is a maverick ecologist and activist who works with relational, systemic activism, change processes and leadership för a society in harmony with nature. She is a co-founder of the Swedish Transition Network, End Ecocide Sweden, Save the Rainforest Sweden and the swedish Network for Rights of Nature. She also teaches ecopsychology and is a part of the eco-psychology/art/activist NGO Lodyn. Pella coordinated the first three Rights of Nature Conferences in Sweden, is a part of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and advisory board of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Pella has an MSc in Ecology from Stockholm University with the thesis on rainforest restoration in Ecuador. She enjoys pigs, having her hands in the soil at the smallholding in the archipelago of Stockholm where she lives, whiskey and playing with people who truly love what they are doing.

http://pellathiel.se

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Ceciel Verheij [Anthropologist and Translator – The Netherlands]

Ceciel Verheij has a background in Social Anthropology and currently work as a translator (fiction/non-fiction).

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Vidar Vetterfalk [Psychologist and Project Manager, Masculinites and the Climate Crisis at MÄN, Men for Gender Equality – Sweden]

Vidar Vetterfalk is Certified Psychologist, International Project Manager and expert in Masculinites and the Climate Crisis at MÄN, Men for Gender Equality, Sweden He has been active in the feminist organisation MÄN since its inception in 1993, working with engaging boys and men for gender equality and ending men’s violence. For Vidar, as for MÄN, holding men accountable through close cooperation with women’s movements is central to the holistic work with primary violence prevention, the support to women survivors and the work with perpetrators. Vidar grew up on a biodynamic farm and he is passionate about the interlinkages between gender equality, the environment, the climate crisis, and how to engage more men to care together with others.

Organizational website: www.mfj.se/en and On work with Men, Masculinities and the Climate Crisis: https://mfj.se/en/resources

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May-Britt Öhman [Researcher, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, Uppsala University – Sweden]

May-Britt Öhman is PhD, researcher and project leader of “Dálkke: Indigenous Climate Change Studies”, at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, Uppsala University, guest researcher at History, Luleå University of Technology, and leader of the Sámeednama friddja universitehta– Sámi Land Free University – initiative.

May-Britt Öhman is PhD in History of Technology, 2007, and Lule/Forest Sámi from Lule River/Julevädno, with ancestry also from the Torne river valley on the colonial border between Sweden and Finland.