Webpages tagged with «Cultural history»

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Old manuscript with calligraphy and drawings.
Published Feb. 12, 2018 12:59 PM

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

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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. 

Old books i a book shelf. Photo.
Published June 1, 2016 10:19 AM

Book History is an interdisciplinary field of research. We explore the role of the book as a material object, medium of literature and historically changing cultural artefact from theoretical, empirical and historical perspectives.

Children holding up a sign that reads quote "under personal supervision"
Published Jan. 20, 2023 2:57 PM

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?  

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Big portrait of a man and many things around like light, pictures, Dalai Lama. Photo.
Published Feb. 26, 2018 12:52 PM

A multi-disciplinary research initiative with participants from across the department, including the Study of Religion, Culture Studies and Middle East and Asia Area Studies.

Picnic by the shores.
Published June 6, 2023 12:04 PM

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.

Published Oct. 2, 2023 12:00 PM
Cultural heritage sign in a field. Photo.
Published Feb. 14, 2018 3:33 PM

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

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