PRESS RELEASE CREATIVE CLIMATE LEADERSHIP OPEN PROGRAM

VENUE: SIGTUNASTIFTELSEN SWEDEN / ONLINE

WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2022

Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) is a growing network of climate justice leaders, artists, policy-makers, scientists and youth activists working in the arts and culture sector to strengthen creative climate mobilisation.

On the last day of the CCL summit in Sigtuna Sweden November 2, organisers Julie’s Bicycle, Lucsus at Lund University, Sigtunastiftelsen and Postkodstiftelsen invite media, members of the public and the arts and cultural community to an inspiring afternoon of talks and performance focussed on arts, creativity, and climate justice.  The event features speakers from Julie’s Bicycle, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Moderna Museet, Live Green Festivals, Fridays For Future and the Arts of Councils of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Artists Kristin Amparo, Anders Paulsson and Marte Wulff (Norway) will perform at the event.

As the climate emergency unfolds, strengthening our support for communities has never been more urgent. Convened as the COP27 international climate negotiations approach, this event will explore how the arts and culture sector can be at the heart of the climate conversation and transformative action.

Program November 2

14.00 Welcome and introduction

Music: Kristin Amparo

14.10 Climate justice and the role of the arts
Speakers: Julie’s Bicycle, Lucsus Lund University, Sámi Council, Fridays for Future, Stockholm Resilience Centre.

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 The creative sector in flux
Speakers: Louise Lindén, Live Green Festivals; Jacob Teglgaard Baeredyktig Scenekunst NU, Denmark; Niklas Jonsson; Sustainable Punk, Sweden; Ylva Hellström Moderna Museet.

Music: Anders Paulsson

16.15 – 17.00 Policy dialogue and action agenda
Speakers: policy dialogue with policy actors from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Music: Marte Wulff

Registration to event

The Creative Climate Leadership programme
Between 2021 and 2022 two leadership programmes took place with pioneering arts and cultural practitioners at the forefront of climate action. Centred around climate justice, 50 of Scandinavia´s creative change-makers came together to explore leadership, justice and sustainable practice in the context of a rapidly diminishing opportunity to keep temperatures below 1.5 degrees of warming. At the event in Sigtuna, Creative Climate Leadership will further explore what needs to change so culture can help meet Scandinavian regions commitment to a safe, just world as set out in the IPCC 6^th assessment report. The event is hosted with support from Svenska Postkodstiftelsen, Julie’s Bicycle, Lucsus at Lunds University, Nordisk Kulturfond and Sigtunastiftelsen.
Creative Climate Leadership

Julie’s Bicycle
Julie’s Bicycle is a pioneering not-for-profit organisation mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate and ecological crisis. Founded by the music industry in 2007 and now working across the arts and culture JB has partnered with over 2000 organisations in the UK and internationally. Combining cultural and environmental expertise, Julie’s Bicycle focuses on high-impact programmes and policy change to meet the climate crisis head-on. We exist at the heart of a thriving informal network of people who share our vision, supporting others on their journey, and helping to catalyse new projects at the intersection of culture and climate. www.juliesbicycle.com

The Sigtuna Foundation
The Sigtuna Foundation is a private cultural foundation with a principle aim is to inspire human thought and reflection. Today the Sigtuna Foundation operate as a center for education and research, and also for various kinds of cultural programs and retreats. The Sigtuna Foundation is also a reputable hotel and conference center open to anyone who wish to combine modern and atmospheric facilities in peaceful and scenic surroundings. www.sigtunastiftelsen.se

Press Contact
Sofia af Geijerstam, The Sigtuna Foundation

sofia.af.geijerstam@sigtunastiftelsen.se 073 593 55 68

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FREE WILL PROJECT

Announcement of a postdoc in computational neuroscience

The Agora for Biosystems (Agora) invites applications for a post-doctoral position in computational neuroscience, as part of the research team of Director, Prof. Hans Liljenström. Agora is an interdisciplinary research center at the Sigtuna Foundation in Sigtuna, Sweden, with close connections to universities and institutes in nearby cities Stockholm and Uppsala, notably the Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The aim of the Agora is to serve as a center for interaction between experimentalists and theoreticians in the life sciences, in particular neuroscience, and to promote a dialogue between science and the humanities, where the Sigtuna Foundation has played a central role in the Swedish society for over a century.

The postdoc research will be part of a large international project on the neurophilosophy of free will, where some 20 neuroscientists and philosophers will collaborate to explore the neural basis of volition, using experimental, theoretical and computational approaches. This position is primarily for neuro-computational modeling of neural structures and processes involved in decision-making, linking to EEG, fMRI and other data produced within the project.

Applicants, with a PhD or equivalent, are expected to have a solid background in one or more of the following domains: computational models of neural dynamics underlying perceptual or cognitive processes, machine learning, signal processing. You should be interested in reading and working with experimental (neural) data and good at communicating and/or collaborating with experimental colleagues. Experience of research in experimental/clinical neuroscience, cognitive science or psychology is a merit. An interest in volition, decision making, and brain-mind relation is essential. The working language is English or Swedish.

Applicants should send a CV, letter of motivation (max 2 pages), and a list of three references via e-mail to hans.liljenstrom@slu.se before 15 May 2019. The initial appointment will be for two years and is potentially renewable, starting as soon as possible after a thorough reviewing process, which will take not only academic merits in consideration.

More information about the position can be given by

Hans Liljenström, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Energy and Technology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden, and Director of Agora for Biosystems, Sigtuna Foundation

Email: hans.liljenstrom@slu.se, Phone: +46-18-671728. https://www.slu.se/cv/hans-liljenstrom2/

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The newly-minted Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Science (The Brain Institute) at Chapman University, with Dr. Uri Maoz as project leader, is the recipient of a total of $7.04 million to study how the human brain enables conscious control of decisions and actions. The John Templeton Foundation funded $5.34 million; the Fetzer Institute funded $1.55 million; and the remaining $150,000 comes from the Fetzer Memorial Trust. This is Chapman’s largest non-federal research grant to date. With the Chapman Brain Institute serving as the central hub, this grant supports research efforts at 17 universities spanning four continents: including Charité Berlin (Germany), Dartmouth, Duke, Florida State University, Harvard, Indiana UniversityBloomington, NIH, Monash University (Australia), NYU, The Sigtuna Foundation (Sweden), Tel Aviv University (Israel), University College London (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK), UCLA, and Yale.

Alf Linderman, Associate professor of religious sociology and executive director at the Sigtuna Foundation and Hans Liljenström Professor of Biometrics and leader of the research center Agora for Biosystems will participate in the international research conference Neuroscience and Free Will March 14 -18 at the Chapman University Brain Institute, a continuation of the conference held at the Sigtuna Foundation in June 2017.

– Hans Liljenström will present a model on how cognition, feeling and intention affect conscious decisions when we also take into account the social dimension. The idea that we have a free will is complex and there is every reason to problematize it both from a scientific, philosophical and religious perspective, says Alf Linderman

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The 37th ecumenical meeting of bishops, friends of the Focolare Movement will take place at the Sigtuna Foundation, Sweden from 6 to 9 November 2018. It will focus on listening to the voice of the Spirit in a world that faces ecumenical and present-day challenges. The participants attending this meeting belong to 12 Christian Churches and come from 18 different countries. Participants from Sweden are among others, Archbishop Antje Jackelén, Cardinal Anders Arborelius, Bishop Åke Bonnier and Alf Linderman, Executive Director of the Sigtuna Foundation.

– In times when hate and distrust prevails, and political leaders can speak about and act against their opponents in ways almost unheard of in modern times, it is important that the Christian churches and their leaders despite their differences can stand up for unity and mutual respect. That will also make it possible for Churches to support a more positive development of our societies, says Alf Linderman, Executive Director of the Sigtuna Foundation.

Pressrelease about the meeting

A film from the conference

More about the Focolare Movement

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In May 2018 the Sigtuna Foundation and CEMUS, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, came together to host the Climate Existence conference. Artists, scholars and actors from a variety of fields inspired one another to a transdisciplinary and reflective conversation that challenged how we talk, think and act as human beings in an era of climate change and ecological unravelling. This film was made at the conference and we are happy to share it with you.

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