Multispecies Landscapes Lab - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History

Multispecies Landscapes Lab

How have humans historically cultivated practices of co-existence with other species? How have these interactions shaped the landscapes where humans have built, worked, lived, migrated, and wandered?

Eight women lie in a row, covered in mud. Around them stand several nurses. Black and white photo.

Bathing in microbially rich healing muds, drawn from a nearby salt lake, in the Saki sanatorium, Evpatoriia, USSR, 1920s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Johanna Conterio University of Oslo Head of group

About the group

The Multispecies Landscapes Lab unites humanities scholars to re-conceptualise landscapes as historically situated, more-than-human assemblages, requiring an interdisciplinary approach.

The lab combines insights from environmental and medical history, philosophy, literature, anthropology, archaeology, religious studies, and cultural history.

Its goal is to develop a new understanding of landscapes, emphasising the processes, interdependencies, and practices that shape how landscapes are known, built, conserved, and inhabited by humans alongside other species.

The research group is part of the strategic research initiative Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH).

Please get in touch if you would like to get involved!