Programme
- Arne Næss fanfare by Maiken Mathisen Schau, composed by Lasse Thoresen
- Greetings by Nina Witoszek, Director of The Arne Næss Programme at SUM
- Opening of the Symposium by UiO’s Rector, Svein Stølen
- Arne Næss Lecture: Capitalism, ecological breakdown, and class struggle in the 21st century by Jason Hickel
- Senior Researchers’ challenge, by Per Espen Stoknes
- Junior Researchers’ challenge, by M. Seppola Simonsen and Tyler Barrott
- Reply to challenge by Jason Hickel
- Questions and comments from the audience
The symposium is chaired by Nina Witoszek.
Video from the seminar
A video recording of the seminar can be found here.
About the symposium
The 2023 Arne Næss symposium features professor Jason Hickel – a visionary thinker, writer and academic who is internationally known for his ground-breaking work on global inequality, imperialism and ecological economics. His most recent book is "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" (Penguin Books 2021).
Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, he writes regularly for The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Current Affairs and other outlets.
– After enjoying such diverse and acclaimed thinkers, activists and writers as James Lovelock, Anthony Giddens, and, recently, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, Olga Tokarczuk, we took the temperature of the students and invited to SUM their preferred candidate. Jason Hickel – the 2023 Arne Næss professor – is a bold and influential thinker who talks about degrowth without fear of being controversial or even utopian. But maybe it is time to revisit the rebellious 1968ers and their motto: Be realist, demand the impossible?, says the director of The Arne Næss Programme, Nina Witoszek.
The Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment
We draw on, and critically develop, the intellectual legacy after Norway’s greatest ecophilosopher, researcher and environmental activist, Arne Næss.
Our overall aim is to bring together young researchers, leading international thinkers, and practitioners from diverse fields to stimulate novel solutions to socio-environmental challenges of our time.
Read more about The Arne Næss Programme here