About the group
We are an interdisciplinary research group interested in climate, environment, and energy from a (pre-)historical perspective. The group is open to all researchers with an interest in past environments.
Amid rapidly increasing climate change and ecological turmoil, interest in, and engagement with, environmental humanities are booming.
The purpose of this group is to address and contextualise current challenges through a (pre-)historical perspective: How did we get into this crisis? How can the rich repertoire of earlier experiences inform current responses?
We explore the past developments of human-nature-interactions from early societies and the Little Ice Age, to contemporary petro-cultures and environmental movements.
Our group consists of researchers in all career stages with backgrounds in history, archaeology, literary studies, museology and conservation.
Together we address climate, environment and energy through a range of emerging perspectives, such as novel timespaces, transdisciplinary scopes and more-than-human approaches.
Current events
- May 23-24: International conference: Nordic Climate History. Learning From Past Experience (organiser: CLIMCULT)
- June 5: Isak Winkel Holm (University of Copenhagen): Aesthetics of Care: Art between Private and Planetary oikos
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Join us as Erasmus+ student
We are open to host Erasmus+ trainee students. A description of fields you could work with can be found here. If you are interested, please contact: helene.neumann@iakh.uio.no
Cooperation
- Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH)
- Heritage Experience Initiative (HEI)
- ClimateCultures: Socionatural entanglements in Little Ice Age Norway, 1500-1800
- Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North
- Nordic Climate History - Thematic Research Group (TRG)
Academic programmes and courses
Bachelor
- ARK2140 The Archaeology of Migration and Mobility
- HIS2170 Climate & History – from the Little Ice Age to Global Warming
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HIS2176/HIS4176 – Nature's Mirror: Histories of Early Modern Environmental Knowledge