2021
Promised World, Earthly Hearings: Liberal Imaginaries, Sustainable Development, and Fugitive Democracy
What happens when people bring their environmental complaints to a body gathered in the name of the world? In this lecture Dr. Cheryl Lousley, professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University, Canada, discusses the World Commission on Environment and Development's public hearings.
Time and place: Dec. 9, 2021 4:00 PM–5:30 PM, CET. Register for webinar on Zoom.
Sharing research on the public hearing and testimony archives of the World Commission on Environment and Development, whose 1987 report Our Common Future launched sustainable development, this talk attends to fugitive politics and sticky materialities at dramatic scenes where bursts of political-ecological struggle and desire were provisionally gathered around the promise and procedures of liberal internationalism. At the hearings, fugitive claims to the resources and potency of the world exposed fractures in the commission’s liberal imaginary and exceeded what could or would be contained by the idea of sustainable development. Their political and historical significance lies in this excess: in the democratic audacity to make claims on the institutions through which ecological conditions for living a good life were to be managed and distributed.
About the presenter
Dr. Cheryl Lousley, Associate Professor in English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University (Canada), works on contemporary environmental justice writing and cultural studies. Her essays appears in the Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, and Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context, among other places. Her latest essay appears in a special "Neoliberal Environments" issue of Studies in Canadian Literature. Dr. Lousley has held a Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an Environmental Humanities Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, and a Carson Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich. She is past president of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada and the founding series editor of the Environmental Humanities book series, published with Wilfrid Laurier University Press since 2007.
HYBRID: Do Whales Judge Us: Interspecies History and Ethics with Dr. Bathsheba R. Demuth
Bowhead whales have been known to three groups along the Bering Strait over the past two centuries: Indigenous Yupik and Inupiaq whalers, capitalist commercial whalers, and communist industrial whalers. This talk by Dr. Bathsheba R. Demuth, explores how each of these groups imagined different normative relationships with whales and how these ideas shaped interactions between human hunters and whales, and the whales’ own adaptions.
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2021 3:00 PM–5:00 PM, CET. Hybrid format - Physical at Henrik Wergelands hus 210; digitally on Zoom
About the speaker
Dr. Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon. For over two years, she mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, tracked bears, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. In the years since, she has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in the how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect.
About the collaboratory
The Fluid Dynamics collaboratory explores the unique making, unmaking, and fluctuation of boundaries in marine spaces. Inspired by case studies such as marine sovereignty claims based on albatross excrement deposits, the territorial range changes of arctic seals with sea ice break up, and the impacts of sea level rise on small island states we will examine the history of marine territorialization and place-making from a diverse set of perspectives to ask a question about the present-future: what is happening to fluid marine boundaries as the global ocean ecosystem destabilizes?
WEBINAR: Capturing life and loss in multispecies relationships: Reflections on filming practices
What kind of careful attention to the meaningful lives of other species does film making engender? What sort of perspectives may it open up and/or foreclose? In this talk, filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad and historian of science Ageliki Lefkaditou, draw on three of their documentary projects on climate change and biodiversity loss to discuss how filming may convey the complex relationships that such processes provoke and threaten.
Time and place: Nov. 4, 2021 10:15 AM–11:30 AM, CET. Register for webinar on Zoom
“Get the camera to see!” said Asgeir when we first started working together. What might that mean? In this talk, we draw on three of our documentary projects on climate change and biodiversity loss to discuss how filming may convey the complex relationships that such processes provoke and threaten. Our reflections draw on the insights and challenges emerging from recent ecocinema studies that foreground affect and emotion as inherently embodied, socially and culturally situated responses that enable agencing, correspondence with and answering to the world. We will show excerpts from our previous and ongoing work and invite to a conversation on curiosity, passion and care for multispecies relations. Here, we would like to explore filmmaking and photographing as “practiced forms of careful attention to the ways of life of other species,” in the words of Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirskey and Ursula Münster (2016), as well as what is enacted within us either as filmmakers or researchers when constantly reckoning with love and loss.
Bios:
Asgeir Helgestad is a multi-award winning nature filmmaker and founder of the independent film production company Artic Light based in Norway. His passion and love for wildlife is the driving force behind his work, and his narratives draw on a deep connection with nature. Helgestad´s latest film, “Queen without Land” (2018), explores climate crisis on Svalbard through the intimate encounter with a polar bear mother struggling to survive in a collapsing ecosystem. He now works with two new film projects focusing on climate and nature crisis on Svalbard and mainland Norway.
Ageliki Lefkaditou is a nature documentary producer, historian of science and an award-winning science curator. She envisions to work at the intersection of filmmaking, environmental and social justice activism, and critical humanities. Lefkaditou completed her first PhD on philosophy of ecology – with an emphasis on modeling strategies and the holism reductionism debate – in Greece. In her second PhD, at the University of Leeds, she looks at the history of racial anthropology. Her recent research focuses on the history and contemporary aspects of race science, including nationalism and colonialism. She will soon embark on a research project at the University of Oslo examining the history of intelligence testing.
WEBINAR: Zoo-futurism: A philosophical and artistic exploration of ego-ecologies
How may we grasp meaning beyond the boundaries of biological species? In this talk philosopher Dr. Dominique Lestel, will explore ‘zoo-futurism’ as setting up the basis of an ego-ecology – to incarnate and to feel biodiversity not from the point of view of the first person, but from the point of view of a first person; to feel its richness and importance from a personal point of view.
Time and place: June 18, 2021 10:00 AM–11:30 AM, CET. Register for webinar on Zoom
WEBINAR: Webs of Meaning Revisited; Conservation, Cultivation and Dispossession in the North
How might attention to worlds of meaning extend beyond the human, and how may this matter for conservation? In this lecture, Dr. Marianne Lien, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, explores how worlds, such as specific landscapes, are sustained through reciprocal and ongoing practices and affordances.
Time and place: May 20, 2021 10:00 AM–11:00 AM, CET. Register for webinar on Zoom
Zoo-futurism is a philosophical and artistic perspective that opens the path of a kind of “species anarchism”. It finds its legitimacy partly in the fact that the notion of species is conceptually not so clear in biology and that it is not so simple to rigorously draw convincing frontiers between species. Therefore: why stay in one’s own species? Yearning to go and explore other species (a recurring yearning in the History of Humanity that is anchored within a phylogenetic tendency that is already mobilized by many nonhuman species) is not only a legitimate desire but one that many emerging technologies could allow us to satisfy more and more (Lestel, 2020). To go and explore the giraffe or to go and visit the sea crab has to be thought not as a sterile fantasy but as an existential program that has to be taken (almost) literally. Such a program is of great complexity and has many stakes. In my short talk, I’ll restrain myself to the ecological dimension of such a program. Indeed, Zoo-futurism sets up the basis of an ego-ecology – to incarnate and to feel biodiversity not from the point of view of the first person, but from the point of view of a first person; to feel its richness and importance from a personal point of view.
In the early 1970’s the anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously wrote that ‘man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun’. His concern with cultural meaning shaped anthropology for decades to come, but largely ignored that spinning is a more-than-human practice, involving not only women, but other-than-human animals too. I take this invitation as an opportunity to explore how attention to meaning might extend beyond the human, and how this matters for conservation. I am particularly interested in how worlds, such as specific landscapes, are sustained through reciprocal and ongoing practices and affordances, as captured by the Sámi word meahcci. Drawing on long-term ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Finnmark North-Norway, I describe how cultivating people and cultivating land went hand in hand as part of the colonizing efforts of the Norwegian nation state. In this context, questions of conservation quickly become questions of dispossession, while ‘webs of significance’ are fragmented, multilayered and steeped in colonial legacies.
Bio
Marianne Lien is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She did her first fieldwork on eating habits in Finnmark, North Norway in the 1980’s, and has now returned to the region with a focus on domestication, colonization, reindeer herding and agricultural cultivation. Her interest in domestication was sparked by her research on farmed salmon, and she has done fieldwork on aquaculture in Tasmania and in Norway. Lien is inspired by STS, and has explored the interface of STS and anthropology with John Law and Marisol de la Cadena. She has been the director of a research group at the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, called ‘Arctic Domestication in the era of the Anthropocene’. Her recent books include Domestication gone wild; Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations, co-edited with Heather Swanson and Gro Ween (Duke University Press 2018), and Becoming Salmon, Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (University California Press 2015).
Bio:
Dr. Dominique Lestel teaches contemporary philosophy at Ecole normale supérieure de Paris. In 2017, he was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, and in 2018-2019 he was a Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He has published many papers in international journals and his last two books are: Nous sommes les autres animaux (2019, Fayard) and Machines Insurrectionnelles. Une théorie postbiologique du vivant (2021, Fayard).
2020
WEBINAR: Erich Hörl: Where There is No World and No Epoch: Bernard Stiegler's Thinking of the Entropocene
In this lecture, Dr. Erich Hörl, University of Leuphana, Lüneburg, discusses Bernard Stiegler's reflections on the time of suspension or "being-in-disruption" that define life in the Entropocene, understood as an un-time without world or epoch.
This event is co-organised with The Seminar of Aesthetics.
Time and place: Dec. 10, 2020 2:00 PM–3:30 PM, On Zoom
The lecture outlines the thinking of suspension that characterizes the work of the Bernard Stiegler, who died earlier this year. On the one hand, it lays out the problem of the “objective epokhé [epokhé objective]” and of “epokhal doubling [redoublement épokhal]” Stiegler develops as part of a phenomenology of disorientation. On this basis, on the other hand, it presents Stiegler’s reflections on being-in-disruption that define our present, the Entropocene, as an un-time without world or epoch. The core thesis of the talk is that what is breaking through in Stiegler’s thinking of suspension is a new sense of sense, a trans-formative sense that, given the urgent new “Great Transformation” of which we have seen merely the beginning, may be of great philosophical and political relevance.
About Erich Hörl
Erich Hörl is a philosopher and a professor of media studies at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media of the University of Leuphana (Lüneburg, Germany). A student of Friedrich Kittler, he is specialist on Gilbert Simondon and the history of cybernetics. He works on the question of the “technological condition” of man, and on the development of a new ecological paradigm, challenging the conceptual, political and institutional consequences of contemporary media theory.
Recent publications include General Ecology. The New Ecological Paradigm (Bloomsbury, 2017), Sacred Channels. The Archaic Illusion of Communication (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). “Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method,” in Grain, Vapor, Ray. Textures of the Anthropocene, Vol. III, eds Katrin Klingan et. al. (MIT Press, 2015), “A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology,” in The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, eds. Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke (Sternberg Press, 2013), and “The Technological Condition,” in Parrhesia: Journal of Critical Philosophy (Issue 22, 2015). He is also the contributing editor of Die technologische Bedingung, (Suhrkamp, 2011).
WEBINAR: The Mutant Project: Posthuman Possibilities. Environmental Humanities Lecture.'
In this talk, anthropologist Dr. Eben Kirksey, Associate Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne, visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species?
Time and place: Oct. 22, 2020 2:15 PM–3:15 PM, Register for webinar on Zoom
"That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner."
—Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna
At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies—twin girls named Lulu and Nana—sending shockwaves around the world. A year later, a Chinese court sentenced Dr. He to three years in prison for "illegal medical practice."
As scientists elsewhere start to catch up with China’s vast genetic research program, gene editing is fueling an innovation economy that threatens to widen racial and economic inequality. Fundamental questions about science, health, and social justice are at stake: Who gets access to gene editing technologies? As countries loosen regulations around the globe, from the U.S. to Indonesia, can we shape research agendas to promote an ethical and fair society?
Eben Kirksey takes us on a groundbreaking journey to meet the key scientists, lobbyists, and entrepreneurs who are bringing cutting-edge genetic engineering tools like CRISPR to your local clinic. He also ventures beyond the scientific echo chamber, talking to disabled scholars, doctors, hackers, chronically-ill patients, and activists who have alternative visions of a genetically modified future for humanity.
The Mutant Project empowers us to ask the right questions, uncover the truth, and navigate this brave new world.
About Eben Kirksey
In academic settings, Eben is perhaps best known for his work on multispecies ethnography—a field that uses innovative approaches to study human interactions with animals, microbes, fungi, and plants. His teaching repertoire includes popular lecture courses like “Environment, Development, and Sustainability”, as well as advanced seminars on “Human Nature.” His interdisciplinary offerings include “Environmental Art,” “Medical Anthropology,” as well as “Science and Society. Currently Eben supervises four PhD students at Deakin University and holds a major Discovery Project grant to study the Promise of Multispecies Justice.
WEBINAR: Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics. Environmental Humanities Lecture
How does attention to and stewardship of soils point to alternative frameworks for living and dying? Kristina Lyons, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the way life strives to flourish in the face of violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.
Time and place: Oct. 8, 2020 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, Register for webinar in Zoom
In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt to care for forests and grow non-illicit crops. In Vital Decomposition Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations. She follows state soil scientists and small farmers across labs, greenhouses, forests, and farms and attends to the struggles and collaborations between campesinos, agrarian movements, state officials, and scientists over the meanings of peace, productivity, rural development, and sustainability in Colombia. In particular, Lyons examines the practices and philosophies of rural farmers who value the decomposing layers of leaves, which make the soils that sustain life in the Amazon, and shows how the study and stewardship of the soil point to alternative frameworks for living and dying. In outlining the life-making processes that compose and decompose into soil, Lyons theorizes how life can thrive in the face of the violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.
Bio
Kristina Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania. She also holds affiliations with the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at UPenn. Kristina’s current research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts, transitional justice, community-based forms of reconciliation, and science studies in Colombia.
Discussant:
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK.
WEBINAR: Military Snails: Conservation and Colonization in Hawai‘i. Environmental Humanities Lecture
What happens when actors with different interests claims access to the same natural and cultural site? OSEH professor II Thom van Dooren explores some of the complexities of conservation in the context of deep histories and ongoing realities of colonization and militarization.
Time and place: Aug. 13, 2020 10:00 AM–11:00 AM, Register for webinar in Zoom
Mākua Valley on the island of O‘ahu is a place in which snail conservation, the US Army, and Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) claims to access land and cultural sites are brought into dynamic tension. Over roughly the past 100 years, the Army have used this valley for live-fire and other exercises, excluding people while also blowing up and burning the habitat of critically endangered land snails and other species. Snails and local people are drawn together here into a powerful multispecies solidarity centered on efforts to conserve the biological and cultural heritage of this place. Importantly, these efforts have also rippled out beyond the valley, through the Army’s subsequent investment in snail conservation in Hawai'i, but also through its ongoing activities in other parts of the Pacific region that continue to threaten snails and their peoples, while also fostering their own dynamic forms of solidarity and resistance.
This lecture will explore some of the complexities and compromises of conservation in the context of deep histories and ongoing realities of both colonization and militarization.
Thom van Dooren
Thom van Dooren is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, and Professor II in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo. His research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (2019), and co-editor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (2017), all published by Columbia University Press. www.thomvandooren.org
Competing Knowledges about the Environment. Environmental Humanities Lecture
How to address the double bind between growth and sustainability? In this talk, anthropologist Dr. Thomas Hylland Eriksen engages with the climate crisis in Queensland, Australia. He asks how different knowledge regimes identify and interpret facts differently, and how this creates conflicting depictions of the world and solutions to humanity's problems.
Time and place: Feb. 20, 2020 3:15 PM–4:45 PM, 2531 Stort møterom, Georg Sverdrups hus
Abstract
In Gladstone, Central Queensland, even the sunset is sponsored by the fossil fuel industry. To watch the sun setting in the west, you must also simultaneously stare at the three tall, symmetrical columns of Gladstone Power Station. The largest in Queensland, the power station feeds on black coal from the interior of the state and, doubtless by coincidence, it was placed in the exact spot where the sun sets.
Gladstone is the undisputed industrial hub of the region. A stagnant billabong for decades, the city has since the 1960s increasingly placed itself at the epicentre of contemporary industrialism, with its large-scale electricity production, alumina refineries, aluminium smelter, cement factory and expanding coal port. At the same time, it is located just inside the severely damaged Great Barrier Reef, a symbol of the effects of anthropogenic climate change, a canary in the coalmine.
In my research, a main topic was the double bind between growth and sustainability as a fundamental contradiction of the present era. I studied this dilemma through an analysis of the conflicting knowledge regimes depicting the world, and the solution to humanity's problems, in very different ways.
During fieldwork in Gladstone, I was sometimes asked who paid for my research. Had I responded that it was funded by a mining company, or the powerful Ports Corporation, I would have lost credibility in their eyes. Some of my informants even pointed out that although they still trusted science, they no longer trusted scientists. Most of the local conflicts in Gladstone concern the relationship between residents and powerful economic agents.
In the era of ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’ and widespread revolt against the elites (including the intellectual elites), the Australian material speaks to wider issues including the validity of truth claims and the basic relationship between knowledge and power. My examples focus mainly on the destructive side-effects of industrialisation, and the lecture shows how people representing different knowledge regimes identify and interpret facts differently.
A broader explanatatory framework may take into account the acceleration and intensification of global processes, which has led to “overheating” across the world, in the sense that change now takes place faster and with more wide-ranging consequences than before. Changes are often interpreted through the decentralised electronic media, and as a result, it is increasingly difficult to navigate the jungle of information and to know whose knowledge to trust and to act upon. In confronting climate change, understanding the relationship between knowledge and agency is a matter of greater priority now than getting the scientific facts right: This knowledge has been available for a long time without palpable effects in politics or everyday life, and therefore a focus on the knowledge production itself and its relationship to experience and agency should be high on the research agenda.
About the lecturer
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. His research in Australia has been published in articles and book chapters and notably in the monograph Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast (London: Pluto 2018).
2019
Toxic Bios: Dismantling the Toxic Narratives of the Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities Lecture
How does the Anthropocene manifest in the organosphere? Dr. Marco Armiero presents the Guerrilla Narrative project Toxic Bios, a counter-hegemonic exercise aiming to dismantle the Toxic Narratives of the Anthropocene while prefiguring alternative socio-ecological politics.
Time and place: Oct. 31, 2019 4:15 PM–5:30 PM, 12 etg. P. A. Munchs Hus
Abstract
Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all of them in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment?
Strata of toxics have sedimented into the human (and more than human) body, arriving, according to the most recent studies in epigenetics, to be inscribed into the genetic memory. Perhaps, looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover the Wasteocene, the Age of Waste. One might say that the Wasteocene is the true face of the neutral and universal Anthropocene because it reveals the unequal relationships and violence inscribed in the making of the new era. The Wasteocene is about the production of wasted people and places rather than about the production of waste per se. The imposition of wasting relationships on subaltern human and more-than-human communities implies the construction of a toxic ecology made of contaminating substances and narratives. Necrocapitalist wasting relationships are so pervasive because they come together with a hegemonic narrative which does not even allow to see the contamination or speak about it.
But while official accounts have systematically erased any trace of those wasting relationships, another kind of narratives has been written in flesh, blood, and cells. The body becomes the archive of stories without a history, where clues are embedded under the skin. Those bodily stories are connected beyond the individual body, linking humans and more-than-humans in one toxic narrative. As a sophisticated portable device, the body registers what remains invisible in the making of the Wasteocene, but as with every narrative, this bodily one does not only compile symptoms and tropes but it also has a performative character.
The lecture is hosted by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities and is open for all.
Place by Design: Industry, Colony and Environmental Disobedience. Environmental Humanities Lecture
How is knowledge produced from art, pedagogy and civic engagement in the Environmental Humanities? Dr. Hanna Musiol lectures on the need to create spaces for participatory and transmedia collaborations among scholars, artists, students, designers, and community actors.
Time and place: Oct. 3, 2019 2:15 PM–4:00 PM, 2531 Stort Møterom, Georg Sverdrups hus.
What are the biosocial environmental conditions under which environmental humanities work—research, art, pedagogy, civic engagement—comes into being in the academic knowledge factory, in our culture industry? What is the role of the humanities and art in the legitimization of “prospective” environmental research at the moment of Nordic high extractivism?
Using examples from NTNU ARTEC environmental art projects and initiatives—Current and Resist as Forest public interventions in the Trondheim interactive cyberpark, — Musiol will talk about the need to create models of and spaces for participatory and transmedia collaborations among scholars, artists, students, designers, and community actors.
The lecture is hosted by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities and is open for all.
About the lecturer
Hanna Musiol is Associate Professor of English and a core member of NTNU ARTEC at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include transnational American literature, transmedia storytelling, cultural studies, theory, and critical pedagogy, with emphasis on migration, human rights, and political ecology. She publishes frequently on literary and visual aesthetics and justice, including environmental justice.
Her work has appeared in Journal of American Studies, College Literature, Journal of Labor and Society, Oil Culture, Human Rights and Literature, Discursive Framing of Human Rights, and Writing Beyond the State, and she also associate-edited Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Musiol was the creator of the (Im)Migrant Experience Initiative (IEI), a digital archive of narratives of migration and displacement at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and she has organized numerous curatorial, public humanities, and global classroom initiatives across Europe and the US (Futurescapes, Just Fiction, Spectral Landscapes, and, most recently, Mobilized Humanities, Art, Technology).
The Undisciplined Environmental Humanities. Guest lecture by Martin Hultman
Society urgently request knowledge from the environmental humanities that can help us understand the challenges of our times. This talk presents some examples of co-creation between academia and civil society, exploring collaborative attempts to make a difference.
Time and place: Oct. 2, 2019 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, PAM 489
Funding bodies, journalists and civil society urgently request knowledge from the environmental humanities that can help us understand the challenges of our times. Concepts and practices such as "rights of nature," "ecological masculinities" or "ecopreneurship" seem to be vehicles for change, appreciated by society at large—but is this enough? This talk presents some examples of co-creation between academia and civil society, exploring collaborative attempts to make a difference and to stop, or at least limit, the ongoing ecocide—and opening up a discussion about how to keep expanding the possible influence of our matters of concern.
The lecture is hosted by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities and is open for all.
About the lecturer
Martin Hultman is Associate Professor at Chalmers University, Gothenburg. He has published widely on issues of energy, climate and the environment, including the books "Discourses of Global Climate Change", "Ecological Masculinities" and "Naturens rättigheter" (Swedish). Hultman is currently leading three long-term research groups that analyze, respectively, masculinities and energy, ecopreneurship in circular economies and climate change denial.