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What is an artistic intervention in environmental humanities? What can art offer as a site for exploration? In this panel, performative artists, museologists and film makers discuss uses of art, objects, and the making of an issue.

This panel will address long-term aspects of interactions between ecological and material foundations of societies, forms of biological and cultural coexistence, and the interdependence of people and the non-human world, specifically in the shores and oceans of the world, through the lens of the arts and the humanities, aiming at pluralizing and un-disciplining the established paradigms of marine science and conservation.

This panel explores how transdisciplinary artistic practice, history and theory can contribute to the environmental humanities through aesthetic modes of visualization of planetary information. What is the visual art’s role and contribution to new perspectives for the environmental humanities?

Plants co-shape the places in which they dwell, and the lives and desires of those dependent upon them. This panel discusses literary explorations of cultural, material, and spiritual human-plant relations in localities within Japan, Scandinavia, and Australia.

In this panel, six doctoral scholars from varied disciplines present their research and discuss how generating oceanic knowledge for action requires transdisciplinary engagement.

In this session, we invite participants working across environmental humanities and other disciplines to reflect on their experiences of ‘soiling’ different areas of research. What happens when soils are brought into the research arena as agential, as consequential? How can healthy soil become not only a metaphor but a driver for transdisciplinary action for social change?

In this panel we ask, how to read science through fiction, and can such readings provide us a way to understand the relationship between literature and environment?

Academics are looking for possible combinations of methodological interventions which could be helpful in devising solutions and strategies for survival and healing in the global environmental crisis. In this panel the researchers will share their paths towards combining, extending and shifting their research methods. Through the discussion, the presenters of the panel are looking for new methodological possibilities for facing the unknown known.

This panel brings together junior researchers working in different parts of the globe and on diverse maritime issues, with the aim to discuss new interactions and underappreciated entanglements between humans and non-human inhabitants of the ocean.

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.

What are some of the potentials and pitfalls of transdisciplinary research? In this keynote lecture Kate Rigby will be drawing on her own more recent experience of the kinds of synergies, surprises and snags that might be encountered along the way, and the sorts of virtues that need to be cultivated to facilitate positive outcomes.

Join us for our final OSEH event where we explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, but also diverse ways of opening up environmental problems and possibilities in the academy and beyond. We are joined by acclaimed poet and nature writer Camille Dungy and prominent scholars in the environmental humanities, and there will be upcycled music, celebration and food.

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.

This lecture has unfortunately been cancelled. 

What would it mean to tell the stories of trees? How can we represent them in ways that do not rely on problematic forms of ventriloquism, which reinscribe inequalities, and which do not rely on various forms of empathy or sympathy? This talk by Dalia Nassar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, aims to outline a theory of representation that aims to respond to these questions in relation to trees.

In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.

Join us online for the Bionic Natures x Digital Ecologies workshop on Friday April 21st!

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.

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Franziska von Verschuer as a visiting scholar! She is currently working towards her PhD thesis on the cosmopolitics of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.

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.

The EcoLit Research Group and the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) invite you to an International Symposium to illustrate how literary and cultural studies can make important contributions and interventions in relation to environmental problems and aspirations. Join us for this exciting line-up of lectures, a roundtable discussion, and more. 

In the fourth and last Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Dr. Stephanie Roe, a WWF’s Global Climate & Energy Lead Scientist, will discuss the technical, economic, political, and social approaches for mitigating climate change and other key challenges of the Anthropocene.