Webpages tagged with «Environmental Humanities» - Page 4

Published Apr. 18, 2023 1:42 PM

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

Poster with information on the event "Monsters of the Anthropocene" over an image of a box full of toys.
Published Oct. 13, 2021 1:55 PM

What do the futures of monster theory hold? And what stories can we tell about its origins? ‘Unruly Origins, Strange Futures’ explores the pasts and futures of thinking with monsters through art, politics, storytelling and scholarship.

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. 

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Published May 2, 2022 12:31 PM
From 7 to 10 June, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities cordially invites you to an "Environmental Humanities Week". With a series of events, we will celebrate the exciting work happening in the field, here at UiO, and beyond.
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Published May 20, 2022 5:21 PM

What do we mean when we say and think "after oil"? In this talk Graeme Macdonald, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick (UK), will examine a range of literary and artistic examples constituting a significant expression of petroculture: the post-oil imaginary.

Green leaves and brown soil. Photo.
Published Sep. 18, 2023 11:00 AM

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Associate Professor of Anthropology Kristina Lyons as the presenter for the reading group.

Two hands filled with black soil. Photo
Published Sep. 18, 2023 11:01 AM

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Researcher Lisa Sigl and Associate Professor Max Fochler as the presenters for the reading group. 

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Published Nov. 19, 2020 8:12 AM

This environmental humanities collaboratory encourages trans-disciplinary conversations to understand and imagine how attention to overlapping worlds of meaning - crafted by diverse humans and other living beings - may create new possibilities not just for survival but for genuine multispecies coexistence in the Sixth Extinction.

 

Published Oct. 17, 2023 2:46 PM

We invite to a conversation on the role of education in creating alternative environmental futures. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) will hold a public lecture at Kulturhuset on "Reason and Response-ability", followed by a panel discussion with Mette Halskov Hansen (UiO), Britt Kramvig (UiT), Felix Riede (Aarhus University) and Heather Swanson (Aarhus University). Moderated by Gro Birgit Birgit Ween (Museum of Cultural History, UiO).

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.

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Published July 27, 2021 9:51 PM

The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities sends its most sincere congratulations to Thom van Dooren for being awarded the 2021 Fleck Prize for his book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press 2019).

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Published Oct. 30, 2023 1:57 PM

The project, which emerged from the OSEH collaboratory Restorations: Mending Heritage Landscapes and Biodiversity, has been granted funding from the Norwegian Research Council. 

Published Nov. 11, 2019 10:22 AM
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Published Jan. 27, 2023 9:38 AM

Come and join us on 6 & 7 September for a NoRS-EH Symposium on "Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities"! 

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.

Illustration of landscape marked by fire
Published Sep. 11, 2023 12:50 PM

Land holds an “ecological memory”, the patterns in the landscape that are maintained by creative fires. This seminar will discuss the importance and challenges of using fire to shape landscapes in Australia, Italy and Norway. 

Register here!

Published Aug. 21, 2020 9:20 AM
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Published Nov. 17, 2023 9:37 PM

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Tommaso Trevisani, Associate Professor of Societies and Cultures of Central Asia at the L’Orientale University of Naples, as the presenter for the reading group.

Parkinglot at Scvalbard with mountains in the distance.
Published Apr. 12, 2023 8:33 AM

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.

roots, soil, tree
Published Feb. 20, 2024 4:16 PM

This month we'll be joined by the research associate professor at the University of Grenoble Alps Céline Granjou to discuss her research on the politics and science of soil.

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Published Aug. 21, 2020 2:27 PM

What is the cultural impact of petroleum, and how might the aesthetics of oil be a factor holding back progress on a transition to alternative energy? Scholars of literature, media, rhetoric, musicology, theology, and political science are looking for answers to these questions.

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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". 

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Published Sep. 21, 2021 10:16 AM