Our goal
We aim to connect across sections and disciplines at IKOS, while also being open to interested and committed people from other fields, departments and faculties. Through a series of regular gatherings, we strive to work against silos, create a community across the department, including PhDs, Postdocs, students, and staff.
The Miljøsalon provides a space for PhDs, Postdocs, and visiting scholars people to present their work, to connect them with experimental teaching in the Environmental Humanities, and to further develop thinking around Environmental Humanities concepts.
Activities
Gatherings take a variety of formats ranging from seminars and community building excursions to fireside chats and mushroom foraging.
The Miljøsalon welcomes creative and experimental suggestions for topical foci and meeting formats. Suggestions can be sent to Sonja Åman, who organises all the events.
Next event
Miljøsalon Julegløgg
Monday December 18th from 15:00 onwards, Room 454, P. A. Munchs hus, Blindern.
To close out the autumn semester, you are all invited for an OSEH julegløgg on Monday December 18. We will be in PAM454 from 3pm onwards. There will be some (non-alcoholic) gløgg and holiday treats. Hopefully this will be a cosy way for us to catch up at the end of the semester and to hear about everyone’s plans for next year.
As always, all are welcome and we hope to see many of you to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year!
Previous events
2023
Events organized by Sonja Åman.
Knowing Natures Eco-Slam
When: Friday November 3rd
Where: Sophus Bugges hus, Blindern
Miljøsalon Outdoors – A Fireside Chat about Environmental Humanities
When: Tuesday October 3rd from 15:00
Where: Sognsvann
Eating Ecologies: Preface to a Picnic
When: May 31
Where: Seminar room 3, Sophus Bugges hus
With: L .Sasha Gora
Clothing Swap
When: April 3
Where: 12th floor, Niels Treschows hus
With: Sonja Åman
Concepts in environmental humanities + "Ascension"
When: January 31
Where: P. A. Munchs hus and Zoom
With: Sonja Åman and Lu Chen
Worlding + Svalbard Global Seed Vault
When: March 15
Where: P. A. Munchs hus and Zoom
With: Franziska von Verschuer
2022
These events were organized by Ursula Münster and Pierre Louis du Plessis
Miljøsalon Outdoors – A Fireside Chat about Environmental Humanities Courses
When: February 27
Where: Sognsvann
Environmental Humanities Concepts - nonhuman, more-than-human, or other-than-human? And what’s the difference?
When: March 24
Research in Progress: “Thinking With and About Species in the Anthropocene”
When: May 23
With: Oliver Hartman Davies and Lena Pfeifer
Miljøsalon Welcome Picnic
When: September 1
Writing in Progress
When: October 21
What: Workshop
With: Lesley Green
Inaugural Miljøsalon
When: November 25
2021
Organiser
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities Miljøsalon is organized by the Miljøhumaniora faggruppe (section) at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS).