Webpages tagged with «Cultural history»

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Sasha Gora as a visiting scholar! Sasha is a cultural historian and a writer with a focus on the intersections between food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. During her time in Oslo, she will be following cod’s cultural and culinary, economic and environmental traces.

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?  

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. 

Many appealing stories have their roots in folklore, but are constantly adapted to current situations, political and environmental concerns and interests.

The interdisciplinary research group brings together a number of scholars working on early modern literature, broadly defined as the centuries between 1300 and 1700.