Dear CRC Colleagues,

Next Friday 2 December from 12:00 noon to 18:00, the Biodiverse Anthropocenes scientific research programme will be putting on Getting ANTSY: Biodiverse Anthropocenes Vision for the Future, a launch event to mark the beginning of Phase Two of our university-wide goals. Biodiverse Anthropocenes is an active community of researchers and doctoral researchers across Oulu faculties which supports transdisciplinary research on humans, society and environment.

All CRC researchers are very welcome to join us in this celebratory, engaged event, to be held in room LO124. The afternoon’s schedule is below, and the event will be catered with snacks and festive drinks. There are limited seats so please register your attendance in advance (by Monday 28 November at the latest) here: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/E13B2965A75C4992

Please do join us for this fun and engaged afternoon with colleagues and friends, past, present and future!

Warm regards, Roger Norum and the Biodiverse Anthropocenes team

Schedule of Afternoon 12:00-12:15 Opening words, Vice Rector Taina Pihlajaniemi

12:15-1:45 Presentations on future research and collaborations from our new tenure-track hires (Alberto Amore, Thora Herrmann, Anna Krzywoszynska, and Stefan Prost)

1:45-2:30 Catered snacks

2:30-3:30 Transdisciplinary collaboration in practice, a roundtable (Janne Alahuhta, Philip Downing, Veera Kinnunen, and Anna Vladimirova; discussion led by Pauliina Rautio)

3:30-4:45 Scales of relations: Profiling the cornerstones of Biodiverse Anthropocenes (audience engagement event)

4:45-5:00 Closing Words, Marko Mutanen and Roger Norum

5:00-6:00 Drinks (glögi, wine and more!)

For more information about Biodiverse Anthropocenes, please visit https://www.oulu.fi/en/research/arctic-interactions-resilience-and-global-ch....

– – – – – – – Roger Norum

Academy Research Fellow Cultural Anthropology University of Oulu, Finland