Welcome to this Forest of Thought live podcast event with anthropologist and author Mikael Kurkiala! Free admission.
When: December 4 at 17.00-18.30
Where: Mallas sal, Stadsbiblioteket (City Library) Uppsala, Svartbäcksgatan 17
For those of you who can’t make it: The talk will be recorded and later released as an episode on the podcast. But hope to see you there in person!
In collaboration with the Forest of Thought podcast and Stadsbiblioteket Uppsala
Is humanity a promise waiting to be fulfilled? Many cultures maintain that we are not bornhuman but that we may become fully human through cultivation and care. Could it be that our destructive tendencies are not because of our human-ness, but rather due to a lack of it? If so: where and how can we cultivate our humanity? All species play their part in the living web – what role might we humans have to play in this unfolding drama?
Mikael Kurkiala is a cultural anthropologist and author. He spent many years living and working with the Oglala Lakota people of South Dakota, and is currently a researcher at the Church of Sweden Office. His most recent books are When the Soul Goes into Exile: Modernity, Technology & the Sacred and Where the Pendulum has its Base: On the Eternal in Humans.
Forest of Thought is a podcast that explores the ideas we live by, re-examining the familiar and catching glimpses of the new. Hosted by Ingrid Rieser.
This gathering is part of a series of events during 2023-2024 under the theme of “Life-force: deepening conversations on desire, ecology and consciousness” hosted by Forest of Thought Podcast, made possible with funding from the Viriditas Foundation.
