Webpages tagged with «Environmental Humanities» - Page 2

The sun shining through clouds
Published June 8, 2023 9:41 AM

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.

Portrait of Radhika Govindrajan and Nayanika Mathur
Published Oct. 17, 2023 10:26 AM

In this Environmental Humanities Lecture, anthropologists Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle,  present their research on human-animal relationships, climate change, and religious ecology in India. What form might the environmental humanities take if considered from the place of the Indian Himalaya?

 
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Published Aug. 11, 2023 12:25 PM

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.

Published Aug. 15, 2023 4:31 PM

Do you want to better understand the environmental and climatic crisis, work accross diciplines, experience Place-Based Learning and communicate environmental research to a broader audience?

An image of orange seaweed and kelp.
Published Mar. 30, 2022 12:52 PM

Agential Matter is an artistic research project which examines performativity of algae, objects and bodies in instances of observation in scientific research, industrial production and artistic encounter. This talk by artist Sabine Popp is seen as an opportunity to (re)turn to a small shed at a landing station for harvested kelp as one of several places of hybrid coexistence.

A sculpture of a fish-man walking. The background is a cityscape.
Published Mar. 30, 2022 2:51 PM

In this talk, writer and diver, Ting. J. Yiu discusses her ecocritical creative practice through an aquatic lens. Centering diasporic displacement, she discusses how aquatic narratives and interspecies encounters are radical sites to subvert notions of citizenship, (re)negotiating identities, and contesting hegemonic environmental narratives.

Picture of dolphins underwater.
Published June 1, 2021 2:35 PM

The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is currently hosting ten Collaboratories – interdisciplinary research groups led by humanities scholars to ask new questions and develop innovative approaches for studying the Anthropocene.

A woman is listening to music on her earphones in a greenhouse.
Published Sep. 13, 2022 10:04 PM

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

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)!

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Published Sep. 13, 2023 3:06 PM

What can the medium of photography contribute to our understanding of industrial whaling’s first oil age, and maybe to our relationship to our present mineral age? Espen Ytreberg, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, will give a talk based on his recent research on Norwegian whaling.

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Published Aug. 13, 2023 2:41 PM

These papers explore examples of environmental storytelling, and asks what environmental storytelling can do. How does such initiatives tap into our imaginaries, or offer re-imaginations?

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Published Aug. 13, 2023 2:45 PM

This panel approaches interdisciplinarity from a broad range of perspectives, including environmental governance,  climate politics, botanics, cybernetics, and science history. Are there commonalities in how we engage interdisciplinarity, and how do we consider its methodological challenges?

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Published Aug. 13, 2023 1:36 PM

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.

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Published Aug. 13, 2023 1:32 PM

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.

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Published Aug. 13, 2023 2:16 PM

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.

Insect on soil with baby worms. The centipede is darker brown and mesh with the dark soil, whilst its baby worms are cream white.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 11:44 AM

For this session of the SOILS Reading Group, we are delighted that Associate Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa will join us. 

calcified rock formations in didfferent shades of grey. Circular shapes, with some green mossy growths at the top of the picture.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 12:26 PM

Welcome to our first SOILS Reading Group Session! We are very happy that Professor Alexandra (Alex) Toland will be our first guest.

Picture of a pen against a rocky surface. The pen is black on one end, and metallic on the other.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 12:34 PM

SOILS is thrilled to welcome Associate Professor David Ribes from the University of Washington for this session.

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Published Feb. 1, 2022 10:00 AM

In 2021, OSEH continued its work to strengthen interdisciplinary research, teaching and discussions on climate change and the environment. Due to Covid-19, OSEH had to adapt to a "new normal" and postponed some of its planned activity while moving other activities to the virtual space.

Image contains cattle in a small compound of grass. Palmtrees in the back.
Published Jan. 22, 2021 3:20 PM

Morris' project Communing with Others: Multispecies Entanglements in Mexican Ecovillages focuses on the emergent ecovillage movement in Mexico, exploring how people imagine, construct, and inhabit intentional, ecologically-oriented communities.

Picture of a woman on the icy fjord with a larger sound instrument
Published Sep. 5, 2021 12:05 PM

On the 28th of August, Honours Certificate students from the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences participated in a sound workshop with Signe Lidén. The goal of the exercise was to learn how to build microphones and explore how listening in different ways can contribute to place-based learning.

Vultures, Mountain, Rocks, Sky
Published May 7, 2020 1:27 PM

LiVE is a research project providing a historically informed comparative ethnography of contemporary vulture conservation in changing European landscapes. The project has been granted funding from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowships.

A landscape photograph portraying hills and forests. In the distance clouds are gathering.
Published Jan. 12, 2022 6:01 PM

In this talk, anthropologist Anselmo Matusse introduces how the Mozambican state establishes extractivism in the country and its pernicious effects on people and landscapes on the ground.

Cardboard boxes are piled on top of each other. Words such as "chloropfyll" and "plants" are written all over the boxes.
Published Jan. 28, 2022 3:37 PM
If—on our present horizon—design appears as environmental humanities gone live, education must be a key player in hatching and cultivating the awareness of this possibility. In this talk, anthropologist Theodor Barth shares his perspectives.