Webpages tagged with «Anthropocene»

Image of the book's front page.
Published Oct. 17, 2023 10:17 AM

How can we respond to the Anthropocene and the associated ecological challenges? In this volume, fifteen scholars from a dozen different academic disciplines offer critical insight into their research and provides tools to better grasp the multifaseted phenomenon of the Anthropocene.

Published Aug. 3, 2023 3:37 PM
Landscape with dry fields in the foreground
Published Mar. 27, 2023 3:46 PM

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Chiara Lanza as a visiting scholar! She is currently working towards her PhD at the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia, Italy. While she is here she will participate in the Anthropogenic Soils team.

Published Mar. 15, 2023 3:15 PM
Drone view of a dead and young forest.
Published Mar. 14, 2023 9:44 AM

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.

Dry soil and blue sky
Published Nov. 21, 2022 10:22 AM

We congratulate Ursula Münster, director of OSEH and her team on being one of the two multidisciplinary research projects at the Faculty of Humanities to recieve financing from the Research Council of Norway (Fellesløftet)!

Two Macaws sitting in a tree
Published Nov. 10, 2022 11:01 AM

Welcome to an exhibition with presentations, installations and performances by students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate!

Portrait of Laura Op de Beke
Published Nov. 2, 2022 12:05 PM

Through the Collaboratory Playing with Deep Time, Laura Op de Beke has explored how playful and collaborative storytelling can promote thinking in deep time, reveal stakes and concerns people hold regarding the future and provide a more embodied understanding of extinction and transformation.

Old book with handwriting laying open.
Published Oct. 13, 2022 4:15 PM

The notion of care is a buzzword in environmental humanities, and probably for a good reason. It is not very present, however, in historical reflection. In this talk, historian of culture Ada Arendt discusses what early modern agencies and relationships of care tell us about more than human entanglements of the early Anthropocene.

Backhoe moves trash in a landfill site, pollution
Published Oct. 10, 2022 10:45 AM

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

Mushrooms cropping up between two pieces of wood.
Published Sep. 28, 2022 2:34 PM

How do we maintain or restore the diverse functions and processes in soil that foster soil resilience and provide a buffer against climate-change induced changes? In this highly interactive and sensory workshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Dr. Alison Pouliot, provide an overview of the vital significance of fungi in soils.

Mushrooms cropping up between pieces of wood.
Published Sep. 28, 2022 2:33 PM

Many of a forest's vital processes happen beneath the soil, out of sight. However, their are clues to the clandestine collaborations between fungi and plants and animals. In this walkshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot, takes us deep into the forest to discover its diversity, explore ideas and rethink fungus-forest lives.

Fungy spreading its threads
Published Sep. 26, 2022 9:11 PM

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

A portrait of enviornmental historian Libby Robin.
Published Aug. 24, 2022 11:17 AM

We are very happy to announce that environmental historian Libby Robin has joined the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities as a visiting scholar! While she is here, she will participate at the workshop on Antarctica and Rights of Nature as a commentator, and hold the inaugural lecture for the Anthropogenic SOILS project.

A group of people in front of a yellow wooden building.
Published June 30, 2022 2:49 PM

At the start of June, OSEH hosted the PhD Researcher School "Situated Research - Exploring Place and Time Through the Environmental Humanities". The researcher school was a part of the NoRS-EH module "Theories and Methods in Environmental Humanities". 

A close up of a brick wall house with a small café table in the front.
Published May 13, 2022 3:06 PM

Various events for environmentally interested staff, Postdocs, Researchers, PhDs, graduate students and visiting scholars, who would like to connect across disciplines, time and space.

Big museum hall with a massive ice block in the middle. A crack runs through the ice so that people can enter the ice.
Published Apr. 26, 2022 12:09 PM

What roles can museums and collections play, in the growing need to convey polyphonic narrations on climate change? In this presentation, Lotten Gustafsson Reinius discusses the multi-disciplinary dialogues and other co-curations as a tentacular weaving across differing knowledge regimes, scales and temporalities. 

OSEH logo on a marine green colored background of skies and forest.
Published Feb. 2, 2022 10:15 AM

On the 30th of November 2021, the University of Oslo held the annual Conference of Education where OSEH Director, Ursula Münster, was the Keynote speaker. 

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Aerial photo of a mineral extraction area at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Published Jan. 19, 2021 1:22 PM

How has the notion of the Anthropocene changed our disciplines, research practice and theories? 

 
Published Sep. 9, 2020 3:55 PM