Nature Philosophy in the land of Ice and Fire - Ole Martin Sandberg

Nature Philosophy in the land of Ice and Fire: Process thinking in an Icelandic context

 

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In this month’s ROCS lecture series talk, Dr Ole Martin Sandberg, environmental philosopher at the University of Iceland who is working on a project on climate change and biodiversity with the Icelandic Museum of Natural history, discusses how process philosophy can be instrumental in understanding Iceland as a constant entanglement of interacting difference.

More about the lecture: In his lecture Dr Sandberg argues that process philosophy is necessary to understand Iceland. I claim that Iceland is not an island, it is a constantly becoming entanglement of interacting difference. The tourist slogan "the land of ice and fire" is apt at a more fundamental level: The nature of Iceland is contrast and difference, which means it is always changing because it is in the interstices between different phenomena that new things can happen. Iceland is a process, but a process that is connected to other processes and thus cannot be defined by borders on a map.

Ole Martin Sandberg is an environmental philosopher at the University of Iceland working on climate change and biodiversity in partnership with biologists at the Icelandic Museum of Natural History.

The event is an hour long. We begin with a lecture after which we welcome questions and discussions from the audience.

 

The ROCS lecture series invite leading scholars across disciplines to discuss research on diverse topics involving ocean, climate, and society. The aim of the series is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for multiple layers of similar concerns and explore the interconnections that emerge when topics on ocean, climate, and society are brought into critical proximity with one another.

 

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