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Previous events

Time and place: , CEST, Auditorium 3, Sophus Bugges hus or Zoom

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of the year will be given by Professor Britt Kramvig and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarja Salmela at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.

Time and place: , National Library of Norway, Oslo

What does the digital shift mean for historians? This workshop explores some of the key methodological questions historians encounter when we start using digital tools to answer historical questions. It will also provide training in using digital source materials.

Time and place: , HF-12, Niels Treschows hus

This PhD course grabs the bull by the horns and challenges participants to seriously engage with theory (ideas/principles to explain a practice or account for a situation) and method (planned procedure to pursue knowledge), and highlights the connections between them. We also discuss ethical problems in historical research. This is a 5 ECTS course.

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus

The Cultural Heritage Day is a day for dialogue and inspiration for everyone who studies and works with cultural heritage. 

Time and place: , Gamle festsal, Domus Academica

Master Isak Roalkvam at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Computational modelling of the coastal Mesolithic in south-eastern Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Gamle festsal, Domus Academica

Master Hallvard Nikolai Bruvoll at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistory: Application of Fractal Analysis on Archaeological Settlement Plans for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Auditorium 2, Sophus Bugges hus

Master Rahmat Hashemi at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation No Peace in Sight?: The United States and the Complex Case of Afghanistan,
1978-2020
for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Gamle festsal, Domus Academica

Master Ingeborg Fossestøl at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation The Press and the Reading Public: Literary Cultures in Late Ottoman Istanbul for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows Hus

A talk by Elena Kochetkova, Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the University of Bergen. 

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, Seminar Room 4

Are we post-truth? If so, what does it mean, and how did it happen? What is the complicity of the humanities in bringing us to this point? What are our epistemic responsibilities now?

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, Seminar Room 4

Advanced course in Research Ethics: This doctoral course explores the complex legal and ethical challenges related to academic freedom, personal dignity and the right to privacy that arise when studying and writing about the lives of people. Throughout this course, doctoral fellows and faculty in the humanities will share their own research experiences, shedding light on the various problems they encounter and the solutions they chose when disseminating their findings.

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges Hus
Welcome to an exhibition with project displays, and an guided art walk by students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate!
Time and place: , Foredragssalen, Historisk museum, Frederiksgate 2

We are pleased to announce Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, as the speaker for the fourth Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series with the lecture "What does theory bring to our understanding of the prehistoric household/house?".

Time and place: , Auditorium 5, Eilert Sundts hus

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?

 
Time and place: , Gamle festsal, Domus Academica

Master Astrid Tvedte Kristoffersen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Rock and Heavy Metal: Mining and Metallurgy in Eastern Norway in the Middle Ages, AD 1030–1537 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Zoom (digital)

This workshop, organized by the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, will address the role of historians in debating and taking part in contested memorialization processes. The workshop includes a plenary lecture and a panel debate, as well as group work on marginalized groups in memorialization processes and the role of historians in confronting “contested pasts”. Participanting and completion of this workshop grants 1 ECTS. 

Time and place: , Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus (5th Floor)

Alexander Hartley (Harvard University) presents The copyright world system: Modernism, colonial copyright, and literary authorship. Daniel Raff  (the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) presents Radical Agency and Business History.

Time and place: , 'Foredragssalen', Historical Museum

Welcome to HEI's annual International Student Conference! This conference unites early career researchers in both formal and informal settings, providing a platform to explore the latest developments in the field of heritage studies.

Time and place: , Zoom (digital)

The autumn 2023 Advanced Research Courses offered by the Norwegian Research School in History focus on conflicting and contested pasts, memory wars, and transnational history between states and regions in various parts of the globe, from Oceania and Eurasia to Europe and the USA. The course will take place on Zoom.

Time and place: , SALT

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.

Time and place: , Professorboligen

The text development seminars are designed to be an integral part of the educational component, aimed at enhancing the writing skills of all candidates and ultimately producing high-quality dissertations. 

Time and place: , Please register to attend on Zoom

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?

Time and place: , Seminarrom 2, P.A. Munch Hus / Zoom

Land holds an “ecological memory”, the patterns in the landscape that are maintained by creative fires. This seminar will discuss the importance and challenges of using fire to shape landscapes in Australia, Italy and Norway. 

Register here!

Time and place: , Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus

The Department for Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH) cordially invites you to its first Digital Humanities Day, which will take place on 14 September 2023. This event will bring together a range of experts in the Digital Humanities to discuss the possibilities of using digital tools for historical research. Registration below.

Time and place: , Room 3, Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern campus

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?