Practicalities

Programme explanation:

4 days of lectures, discussions, student seminars and science slams.
– Lectures: à 60 minutes.
– Discussions: à 60 minutes
– Student presentations (you can choose between two formats):

Student seminars: à 120 minutes
Students will be divided into smaller groups (three papers per seminar).
Every student has 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.
A PowerPoint/Keynote/Prezi slide programme is required for presentation.
Students sharing a seminar are expected to previously study each other’s abstracts.
At least two lecturers per group will attend and comment the papers.

Students’ science slams: à 120 minutes
Every student has 5-10 minutes to explain his/her research project in an understandable, entertaining and concise way. All kinds of experimental, creative, visual presentations are encouraged. The slams will be presented to all participants of the Winter School and will be discussed and judged by an expert-jury and the public.

1 day of student workshops.
– Practically oriented workshops lead by Estonian and/or guest lecturers.
– Requires previous registration. Workshops have a quota of participants!
– Required reading assignments for each workshop will be available on the web.

Students’ science slam:

The science slam, moderated by Dr. Carlo Cubero, will take place on Wednesday at 18:15–20:15 in Nova Building’s free area (Narva road 27). The expert jury will attend the slam, in addition the public will also vote. At the end of the session we will elect the best slam(s) and award the winner(s) with a little prize.

6 rules of science slam at the winter school:

The presentation shall not be longer than 5 minutes! We will interrupt you brutally and give the floor to the next participant or the jury.
To make your slam a success, concentrate on just one story/example! Make your ideas simple and present them in an understandable, entertaining and concise way. Do not even think about going into the depth of your theses – this will be a disaster!
If possible, connect your story to the general topic of the winter school.
All kinds of experimental, creative, visual presentations are encouraged! If you choose to use power point/keynote/prezi, sent the files to doris.feldmann@tlu.ee at least 1 hour before the science slam starts!
We encourage you to structure your presentation around some item you can bring along with you.
The science slam should be fun for all of us! Don’t be too serious about it, but use your time in the best possible way, entertain us in an intelligent way!

For further inspiration look here: http://nelson.wisc.edu/che/anthroslam/index.php

Timetable of the science slam:

Wednesday, 25 January

18:15–20:15

Nova Building’s free area (Narva road 27)

Moderator: Dr. Carlo Cubero

Jury: Prof. Harriet Hawkins, Prof. Gregg Mitman, Dr. Carlo Cubero

1. Terje Toomistu	The Spaces of embodied world-making
2. Andres Kimber	Studying prehistoric landscapes in Northern Estonia: a multidisciplinary approach
3. Mārcis Kalniņš	Flintknapping in the Neolithic East Baltic: technological, social and cultural aspects.
4.Sergei Versinin	“Marxism” and environment
5.Hanna Vikström	Is there a supply crisis? The quest for scarce metals 1870-2015
6. Ole Kallelid	Nature discourse in political debate in Scandinavia in the 1960s and the 1970s
7.Hirohisa Koike	Photography always arrives late: Considering delay and desire in Seiichi Furuya’s photo-book series Mémoires
8. Lidong Zhu	Chronotope and autocommunication of Japanese Rock Garden (Karesansui) at Ryoanji Temple
9.Timothy Anderson	Displacing nations: Identities and narratives of asylum-seekers in Vao, Estonia

Student seminars: schedule

20 minutes (presentation) + 20 minutes (discussion) per paper

Monday, 13:30–15:30

Discussants: Prof. Harriet Hawkins & Prof. Patrick Laviolette

13:30–14.10: Franceca Pegorer

From wasteland, to edgeland, to sacred land: nature and the city in a Berlin neighborhood

14:10–14.50:

Oleksandr Karasov

Informational approach to assessment of landscape visual values

14.50–15.30:

Dāvis Valters Immurs

Waterfronts without Development: Values and Uses of Urban Wilderness

Tuesday, 13:00–15:00

Discussants: Prof. Krista Kodres & Dr. Timothy LeCain

13:00–13.40:

Baiba Tetere

The Emergence of Photographic Collecting as Knowledge Accumulation: ‘Latvian Types’ by Jānis Krēsliņš (1865 – ?)

13:40–14.20:

Bart Pushaw

Painterly Ecologies: Konrad Mägi and the Microscope

14.20–15.00:

Indra Purs

Airscape in Paintings of Latvian Impressionists

Wednesday, 13:00–15:00:

Discussants: Dr. Jamie Lorimer & Prof. Kate Soper

13:00–13.40:

Kristiina Varrone

Unsustainable development: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book

13:40–14.20:

Anda Baklāne

Weather in Latvian poetry: Does it ever stop raining?

14.20–15.00:

Helle Kaasik

Culture and psychology of ayahuasca users in Estonia

Friday, 13:00–15:00

Discussants: Dr. Dolly Jørgensen & Dr. Bronislaw Szerszynski

13:00–13.40:

Siim Tuksam

Al Baroque: architecture man and nature interwoven

13:40–14.20:

Agris Dzilna

Principles of web graphic design and their interaction with information technology

Students are expected to:
– Participate in lectures and discussions (total 8+8);
– Present their research at the student seminar or science slam and study the abstracts of other participants of their seminar for discussion (abstracts will be available on the web);
– Participate in a student workshop.

Upon full participation in the study programme and a presentation in the seminar or slam, a participant will be awarded 6 ECTS points (4 ECTS without the presentation).

A course fee is not required but there will be no reimbursement for accommodation or travel costs except for the students enrolled in the GSCSA programme.

Participants who are members of GSCSA and discover they are not able to take part after registration are required to inform the organisers immediately. Otherwise the participant will be invoiced for accommodation, transport and lunches.

Registration to workshops:

Here are Doodle links to each workshop. Please choose only one workshop. Number of participants per workshop is 16.

Workshop 1:

http://doodle.com/poll/f8bef9q3fpxrg4mq

Workshop 2 (NB! cancelled):

http://doodle.com/poll/qdmxe7dng4cv64xe

Workshop 3:

http://doodle.com/poll/pk7b9nyz3be74ggb

Workshop 4:

http://doodle.com/poll/cfxq6x6edfwybr5b

Workshop 5:

http://doodle.com/poll/c2t35e8sbr6q7g4n

Workshop 6:

http://doodle.com/poll/whsvfph8e53wzmh2