The SV Faculty organised Kaleidoscope for the first time this week. A great festival day with good content at Sølvberget.
Kaleidoscope - a meeting place for UiS and the region
Kaleidoscope is a festival that aims to establish a meeting place for the university and the region. A packed festival programme from the SV faculty made the festival engaging and informative.
Explored and challenged ideas across disciplines
The University of Stavanger's most important task is to challenge the familiar and explore the unknown. This is precisely what the Faculty of Social Sciences wanted to do together with the region. Why not do it with a festival?
Kaleidoscope focussed on important events, life changes and critical perspectives. By presenting different perspectives from both academia and other active social actors, the festival helped to create and develop new ideas and possibilities.The Department of Media and Social Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, Norwegian Hotel College and Centre for Gender Studies wanted to explore, expand and challenge ideas about and with the region across the faculty's disciplines.
Wide range in the programme
Dean Turid Borgen opened the festival at 13.00. After this, the day was a blur of presentations, debates, conversations, workshops and lectures. The main focus of the festival was to establish a meeting place where the region and the university can exchange knowledge and ideas.
The programme focused on a wide range of content. This was reflected in the themes of the programme.
The programme ranged from discrimination in sports, energy poverty, therapeutic writing, transnational adoption in Norway, emotions in the workplace, energy transformation in the region and the effects of reading fiction, to name but a few. The programme illustrated the diversity of academic environments in the faculty's departments.
The evening ended with a key note by Professor Bron Taylor. He is a professor of religion and nature at the University of Florida. He went through his theories on nature religion and the future of religion about nature.
The debate continued with students, research fellow Cecilie Larsen, head of department Kolbjørn Brønnick and dean Turid Borgen. The debate was moderated by Associate Professor Liss Gøril Anda-Ågotnes.
See photos from the festival here!
The theatre band SOUND had a terrific performance. Great music and dance from the UiS students at Bjergsted.
The festival's key note was Bron Taylor. He went through his theories on nature religion and the future of religion about nature.
The day was rounded off with an informative debate with sociology students Bo Aleksander Nielsen Strømnes and Benedikte Pedersen.
Hulda Mjøll Gunnarsdottir gave an audience lecture on emotions in working life.
Jan Erik Karlsen gave a presentation on the new normal.
Kai Victor Myrnes Hansen and Magne Christensen had an interesting conversation about the effect of meals on loneliness and integration.
Lene Myong and Uma Feed had an enlightening conversation about transnational adoption in Norway.
Lilla Magyari presented the latest research findings on the effects of reading fiction.
Lilla Magyari presented the latest research findings on the effects of reading fiction. Afterwards, she discussed the topic with Atle Skaftun and Hadle Oftedal Andersen.
Siddarth Sareen presented a study on energy poverty in Western Norway with students Mathilde Degobertière, Kristjana Shkembi and Queline Muniongo.
From left: Claire Richardson-Dissel, Anna Enerstvedt, Hanne Ersdal and Trude Furunes. The panel discussed energy transformation for a sustainable future with a good turnout from businesses in the region.
The day was rounded off with an informative debate. It was steadily led by Liss Gøril Anda-Ågotnes and there was a good atmosphere in the panel.
(From left: Liss Gøril Anda-Ågotnes, Benedikte Pedersen, Bo Aleksander Nielsen Strømnes, Kollbjørn Brønnick, Turod Borgen and Cecilie Larsen).