The Tenth Anniversary ('Jubileum') of the Arne Naess Symposium on Global Justice and the Environment

Midlene som det søkes om fra NFR går til formidling av Arne Næss Symposium, "Imagining Ecomodernity" 15 september 2016 i Gamle Festsal, UiO (se vedlagt beskrivelse av 2016 AN symposium). Formidlingen vil i hovedsak være TV produksjon for Kunnskapskanalen NR2 i samarbeid med Unimedia - et program som når bredt publikum (rund 130.000 i 2015). I tillegg kommer visningen på nett på UiOs nettside og NRKs nettspiller.

Arne Næss Chair and Symposium on Global Justice and the Environment is designed to critically continue and develop the intellectual legacy of Arne Naess and the Norwegian tradition of sustainability and environmentalism. Its focus is on Norwegian and international scholars who promote cutting edge insights into research on development and the environment and who explore burning issues related to the environmental crisis, social and environmental responsibility, social justice, climate challenge, as well as environmental philosophy and ethics. The 2017 Symposium is a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Arne Naess Project. In the last ten years the Symposium has been a "visiting card" for the University of Oslo in promoting research on global justice, peace and the environment. The Symposium is usually transmitted by NRK2 (Kunnskapskanalen)and has a broad media coverage in the national press. The theme of the 2017 Arne Næss Symposium is "Doing the Impossible". Its aim is to explore innovative - and seemingly impossible - environmental and developmental projects that take off in spite of the odds and create a blueprint for a sustainable thought and action. The Symposium will invite innovative Norwegian and international thinkers to brainstorm rethinking environmental philosophy and sustainability by bringing it closer to concrete initiatives on the ground.