Nettsider med emneord «Environmental Humanities» - Side 7
“From Dust They Came: Human Erosion and the Problem of Sanitation in New Deal California,” Jonathan H. Ebel, Professor of Religion, University of Illinois, Oct 5, 14:15-15:30, NT hus møterom 718
On 2 April, the students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) walked along Akerselva and participated in a soundwalk along the river as part of the second excursion this semester.
With spring in full bloom, the fourth excursion for the students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) took the students to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to learn more about the importance of the bumblebees and citizen science
An airscape is an intangible presence in our daily life. Seemingly invisible and transparent, air, wind, and light form airscapes that have been overlooked as a cohesive totality with its own cultural history. Airscapes are spaces of injustice, transportation, and perception. This seminar aims to understand airscapes as more than just a passive receptacle of human activity but rather a presence that shapes us and our way of relating to the world.
Register here! Please register by April 19th for physical or digital attendance.
Get an overview of the programme for the symposium “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” on 6 and 7 September 2023 here. The programme might be subject to change.
Various events for environmentally interested staff, Postdocs, Researchers, PhDs, graduate students and visiting scholars, who would like to connect across disciplines, time and space.
In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?
In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?
In September, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) organised a PhD Course and a Symposium as part of the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) to celebrate innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers.