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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: , 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: , Georg Sverdups hus, Auditorium 2

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, Auditorium 5

This lecture has unfortunately been cancelled. 

What would it mean to tell the stories of trees? How can we represent them in ways that do not rely on problematic forms of ventriloquism, which reinscribe inequalities, and which do not rely on various forms of empathy or sympathy? This talk by Dalia Nassar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, aims to outline a theory of representation that aims to respond to these questions in relation to trees.

Time and place: , Seminar room 2, P. A. Munchs Hus

In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.

Time and place: , CEST, on Zoom

In the fourth and last Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Dr. Stephanie Roe, a WWF’s Global Climate & Energy Lead Scientist, will discuss the technical, economic, political, and social approaches for mitigating climate change and other key challenges of the Anthropocene.

Time and place: , Niels Treschows hus, 12th floor, room 1224 (Møte- og konferanserom)

This talk by Alessandro Iandolo examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. 

Time and place: , Auditorium 5, Eilert Sundts hus

In this talk, professor of philosophy, Alejandra Mancilla, asks who should be the political representatives in a place with no human inhabitants, namely, Antarctica. While the Antarctic Treaty has been celebrated as a successful legal instrument for the protection of the continent, some have criticized its elitist nature and demanded a more democratic system of governance. But, should only humans be part of this arrangement? Why not penguins and maybe icebergs too?

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

The third Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be given by Jason Allen-Paisant, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, and will address the challenge of a just ecological transition by exploring how ideas and praxes of ‘cultivation’ might foster an awareness of deep time in mainstream political consciousness.

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

In the second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Matthew Chrulew, a writer and researcher from Boorloo/Perth, will talk about behavioural and cultural change among animals exposed to human activity.

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

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

The whale is held to have great symbolic meaning, as an environmental emblem, as food, as tourist attraction, and more. In Andenes, Vesterålen, two anthropologists, Britt Kramvig and Sadie Hale talk about their search for different kinds of whales and the particular ways that the whale-as-symbol is contested in this place.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Time and place: , Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts hus

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

Time and place: , Linken, Georg Sverdrups hus

In this lecture, the Medical Humanities and the Environmental Humanities meet. Associate Professor Eben Kirksey from the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia, will introduce us to the "virosphere".

Time and place: , Zoom

We have the pleasure of inviting you to a digital talk with Rodney Harrison, Professor of Heritage Studies at UCL, on Wednesday September 8th.

Time and place: , Blindernveien 11, Seminarrom 2

Friday seminar with Associate Professor Þóra Pétursdóttir, IAKH, UiO