Friday 10th March 14:30 (Norwegian/Swedish time) on Zoom
Cooling is more than ephemeral and sensory experiences – it is highly cultural. In the forthcoming thematic section of Kulturella Perspektiv (vol. 32) we suggest that it is possible to talk about cooling cultures, different ways of living with cooling culturally, which can be traced through history, society and in social relations. By bringing attention to the cultural aspects of cooling and freezing, the aim of this thematic collection of articles is to explore the many ways that cooling and freezing is part of how people think about the world, how they go about in their everyday lives, and how relations are established and managed. How does cooling matter and how does it become matter? How is the culture of cooling and refrigeration affected and negotiated in a time of global warming?
Welcome to join us, the authors and guest editors, for a cool digital “ice breaking” event (release party) and hear more about cultural analytical and cultural historical perspectives on ice cubes, the ice trade, collective freezer lockers and freezers full of gold.
Contributors: Eyvind Bagle (Norwegian Maritime Museum), Flora Mary Bartlett (the Nordic Museum), Helene Brembeck (Gothenburg University), Inger Johanne Lyngø (Oslo Metropolitan University) and Matilda Marshall (Umeå University).
We encourage you to bring a glass containing ice cubes and a beverage of your own preference.
For zoom-link/more information, please contact Matilda Marshall, matilda.marshall (a) umu.se
The articles will be published open-access at: https://publicera.kb.se/kp/index